Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
52nd Year, No. 143
Wednesday, May 11, 1955
Bill to Revoke ASC Parking Authority Fails
The bill to revoke the All Student Council authority on parking regulations failed unanimously in both houses of the ASC last night.
Discussion in the Senate indicated that the ASC might take some action to amend the parking rules
Norman Jack Brown, college junior, said the ASC should not give up the right of the students to appeal fines to the student court and that the ASC should have a say in establishing parking fines. He proposed that the ASC keep the parking regulations but amend them after talking with the University traffic and parking committees.
but would not drop the whole thing. George F. Sheldon, college sophomore, ASC president, said revoking the ASC rules covering parking regulations would abolish the student court.
The vote came after Keith Lawton, director of physical plant operation and chairman of the University Traffic and parking committee, spoke to a joint meeting of the House and Senate.
Mr. Lawton called the bill a "wise move."
Mr. Lawton said ASC rules do not cover all of the problems and that poor liaison is created when changes in regulations had to be cleared both through the University committee and the ASC.
He said the violations might reach the 500 mark by the end of this year and that the present fines were "not hurting enough."
Mr. Lawton said the right of appeal would have to be maintained and proposed that three members of the University traffic and parking committee serve as an appeals board.
Harvey Ray Krahenbuhl, engineering junior, said that if the power to help regulate parking were taken away from the new ASC the council would have nothing to work for.
"It would be taking away part of our power before we've had a chance to prove ourselves," he said.
In other action, the Senate passed the bill to establish a new campus humor magazine. Squat, to be published by interested students.
An amendment to the bill was proposed stating that all deficits would be the responsibility of staff members of Squat.
The bill passed the House with the provision that the ASC would not be responsible for financial deficit of the magazine.
Resolutions passed the Senate for the president to appoint a committee to investigate the possibility of the ASC joining the National Student association and an advisory committee to investigate and study policy changes in the Jayhawker for next year.
The appointment of John Williams Sayler, college sophomore, as head of the Campus Chest drive for next year was approved.
An appointment by F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, made Howard Thomas Payne, first year law, chief justice of the student court. Sheldon also appointed Kay Roberts, second year law; Robert W. Schaefer, second year law; Jerry W. Hanna, first year law; Walter B. Ash, first year law; Walter J. Kennedy, second year law, and William H. Crews, first year law, to the court.
laww. Kennedy will graduate in January next year, and Joseph T. Phoenix, college junior, will take his place.
Appointments by Sheldon to ASC committees were approved in both houses.
Intellectual Leaders Needed, Hardin Says at Convocation
Honor Groups List Members
Three University honor societies formally initiated new members this morning at the 32nd annual Honors convocation in Hoch auditorium.
The Cowl society and the Mortar Board each accepted 18 new members and the Sachem-society initiated 15 new members.
CONVOCATION SPEAKER—Clifford M. Hardin, chancellor of the University of Nebraska, delivers the address at the Honors convocation today in Hoch auditorium.
Mortar Board m e m b e r s are:
Mary Jocelyn Dougherty, Jane
Loy Henry, Julianne Keeter, and
Jon Marie Sherar, college; Margaret
Smith Arnold, Sheila Joy
Haller, Mary Jo Huyck, May Annette
Luthy, Carol Ann Mather,
Mary Emily Parsons, Patricia Ann
Pilson, Ruby Elaine Schaulis,
Suzanne Swanthes, and Peggy
Genevieve Whitney, education;
Mary Ellen Lewis, business; Marjorie
Heard, engineering, a nd
Gretchen Guinn, journalism.
The 15 men chosen for Sachem are The Thomas R. Blair, Henry W. Buck Jr., Robert D. Conn, Paul Enos, Dwight Allen Frame, and James B. Miller, college; Paul J. Adam Jr., Robert M. Crisler, Forrest E. Hoglund, and D. Dale Trott, engineering; Fred B. Heath, business, and Phil W. Coolidge, architecture.
No honor man was chosen this year. Officials said the increasing size of the University has made it almost impossible to choose one outstanding graduate.
Eighteen men elected to the Owl society on a basis of scholarship and promise of campus leadership are James Bickley, Richard Billings, Robert Bush, Grant Cookson, William Dye, Larry Gutsch, Thomas Hampton, William Hirsch, William LaRue, Garry Porter, John Rodgers, George Sheldon, and Victor Viola, college; Robert Hanna, Gale Harris, Grant McKnight, and John Parker, engineering.
Outstanding Scholars Listed by Nine Schools
The best scholars at the University were given tribute this morning at the 32nd annual Honors convocation in Hoch auditorium
There were 167 seniors, representing the upper 10 per cent. from nine schools, and 38 top upperclassmen honored at the all-student gathering.
Following are the names of the students who were honored: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Seniors;
Eleanor Adams, Barbara Anderson.
William Arnold, Walter B. Ash, Barbara
By NANCY COLLINS
Contrasting Themes Mark 'Riders to Sea,' 'Merchant'
Two entirely different types of opera were heard last night in Fraser theater in the opening performance of a three-day run of "Riders to the Sea" and "The Marriage Merchant."
The cast of "Riders to the Sea', with the aid of orchestra accompaniment and superb settings and costumes, conveys the drab, sinister atmosphere leading to the death of the last of Maurya's six sons.
Becker, Hubert Bell, Raymond Beery, Joy Brewer, William Castle, James Connelly, Cynthia Creel, Henry Curry, Elizabeth Deibert, Sandra Dunlop, End dacont, Emily Enos, Russell Ettacott, Darrell Fenestall, Mary Lou Fisk, Terry Fiske, Irene Grande, Marian House, Irine Hewald, Constance Hunce, Nancy Jo Lamison, Martha Jo Johnson, Opal Keefer, Lois McArdle.
George McCune, Winifred Meyer,
Julia Oliver, Richard Paulsen, Kara-
mench Petrikowskiw, Lloyd Pine, An-
thony Pitz, Clyde James, Johnne
Rice, Clyde Rise, Nancy Russell,
Audrey Roberts, Thomas Rythner, Wanda
Sammons, Shirley Samulson, Johna
Scott, Collette Shull, Barbara Smith,
Ruth Ann Simpson, N. Richard Smith,
Brian Smith, Nancy Gayle, Goyie
Wiley, and Roger Youmans.
School of Business Seniors:
The turbulent and treacherous sea is established by the orchestral introduction as being one of the main characters of the opera. This musical theme recurs throughout the opera.
A moving dramatic portrayal as well as a musical interpretation is given by the principal characters. Carolyn Hart, college freshman, is outstanding as the old mother, Maurya, who mourns the loss of her six sons, but is relieved that "they are all gone now, and there is nothing more the sea can do for me."
Stanley Anzieck, Robert H. Blanchard, David L. Bratton, Ramon Burnworth, Mary Ann Conklin, Richard T. Coolidge, David Hanschu, Colleen L. Helminger, Harlan Henderson, Gary J. Jeser, Jean John Kirk, John Keith Leon, Mason Edward Miller, James Perkins, and Harley J. Yoder.
School of Education Seniors;
Susan Baird, Barbara Bateman, Judith Crane, Marilyn Curtt, Jennine Dean-Prentice, Kerry Clark, Ann Duchossois, Marilyn Eyer, Wenda Gugler, Ann Hartfelt, Carol Hemphill, Carolen Hereford, Jane Heathr, Lucile Kneider, Jones, Peggy Ann Jannie Logan
"The Marriage Merchant" begins rather slowly, adds a bit of laughter when the merchant, Mill, enters the scene, and picks up when Slook, the Texan, appears. He has come to buy a wife, and Mill determines to sell him his pretty daughter, Fanny, sung by Merrilyn Coleman, fine arts sophomore. Fanny objects, and pretends to be crazy in Slook's presence.
Carleen Mears, Carol Miller, Jeanette Morris, Phillips Nehillarbear, Carolyn Philips Powers, Sandra Pulver, Althea Rexroad, Delio Fae Shade, Dorothy Ann Smith, Mary Beshy Saley, Mary Ellen Stewart, Barbara Swisher, and Patricia
School of Engineering and Architecture Seniors:
The comic climax brings the entire cast on stage in anticipation of a duel between Slook and Mill. It is called off when Mill loses his nerve, and Slook takes the opportunity to "persuade" Mill to give his consent to the marriage of Fanny and Edward.
Greeta Reetz, fine arts senior. Nan Noyes, graduate, and Jack Davison, fine arts freshman, Cathleen, Norea, and Bartley, Maurva's children, also give good performances.
The opera seems a little long, but top performances are given by Jerry Hart, fine arts junior, as the merchant, and Robert Park, fine arts senior, as Slook, two completely comic characters, who carry the opera with their lines and actions. Four attendants who leap about rearranging stage furniture, carrying gloves and shawls, and helping persons up ladders add immensely to the amusement.
Phillip Boling, James Crosby, Benjamin Dalton, George Daniel, Donald Davis, Edward A Freeburge, Philip Greene, Walter A Freberg, John Faucher, Leroy Herold, Donald Higdon, Barton Hoglund, Delbert Jones, Donald Justice.
Robert S. Kennedy, Robert Lamb.
John Martindell, Lawrence Merrigan.
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'Be Decisive, Students Told
The great challenge in the United States today is for an intellectual leadership for society, which can be obtained only if college graduates, who are in a natural position of leadership, at least stand for something.
Citing the fact that only 8 of every 100 persons in the nation complete a four-year college course, Dr. Hardin said college students have the responsibility as educated persons to stand for something.
That challenge was made this morning by the University of Nebraska chancellor, Dr. Clifford M. Hardin, at the 32nd annual Honors convocation in Hoech auditorium.
"Decision is your business," the 39-year-old chancellor told the approximately 1,000 persons in the auditorium. "So stand for something until your point is proved or your error revealed."
"One of the great dangers of your time lies in the intelligent man's desire to be fair. You can be fair without being neutral. You can be tolerant without being stagnant.
"Your duty is to stand for truth (which) is not easy because all about are voices which ask, 'What is truth?'
He said the present generation of students will have a more difficult time sticking to this duty than any other generation is history, because it will be in such demand. The demand is that there will be a smaller rise proportionately in the 21 to 34 age group by 1960 because fewer children were born during the depression, he said.
rehaps you have the right to accept or refuse the duty to yourself," he said. "But as one of the favored few who has accepted the benefit of educational opportunity you have no right to refuse the duty to be faithful to its heritage.
"Any young man or woman who accepts the opportunity of university training also accepts a little more than the average duty for keeping the American . . . idea and ideal alive.
"Yours is a special duty to see that 100 years from now there will be other honors ceremonies to recognize the accomplishments of the outstanding members of another generation."
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Class Picnic Tickets Available at Booth
Tickets for the Senior class picnic Tuesday, May 17, are being sold today and tomorrow at the Information Booth.
The tickets are 50 cents per student. They include the donkey baseball game between faculty and senior class teams at 3 p.m. on the intramural field, as well as shrimp, potato salad, and refreshments for the picnic at Holcomb's Grove.
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Weather
Kansas weather will be mostly cloudy today and tomorrow with occasional rain or drizzle in the southeast and extreme south this afternoon, spreading northward into the east central part of the state tonight. Rain will continue over the southeast and east central portions tomorrow. Temperatures will be warmer in the southwest this afternoon. The low tonight will be in the low 40s in the northwest to the upper 50s in the southeast. The high tomorrow will be near 70.