Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
52nd Year, No.129
Thursday, April 21, 1955
Betas, ADPi's Win Division Speech Honors
Beta Theta Pi and Alpha Delta Pi were winners last night in the first division of the intramural speaking contest sponsored by the Forensic league.
Individual winners in each division will receive trophies. Two trophies, one for men and one for women, will be awarded the houses, groups, or organizations in each division accumulating the most points in the three contests.
Donald Johnston, business junior,
of Beta Theta Pi won the men's
division with his speech "The Great
American Bullfrog." Patricia Campbell,
education junior, won the
women's division with "How Jazz Got Cool."
Two more divisions of the contest will be held-demonstration speaking Wednesday, April 27, and entertainment speaking Wednesday, May 4.
Jack Dusay, college sophomore, and John Ball, college freshman, of Alpha Tau Omega, took second and third respectively in the men's division. Jayne Callahan, college sophomore, of Gamma Phi Beta won second in the women's division. Lois Edwards, college sophomore, of Delta Delta Delta placed third.
Junior Wins Radio Award
James Robert Squires, engineering junior, won the seventh annual John A. Costelow student paper competition of the Institute of Radio Engineers last night at the University of Kansas City.
Squires won a $75 cash prize, a membership in the national IRE, and travel expenses to and from the contest. The title of his paper was "The Application of Electronics to the Study of Artificially Induced Atherosclerosis."
Squires won the right to represent KU in national competition this summer.
Sheldon Wins ASC Election; Honor System Fails 11 to 1
The proposed UVO honor system was voted down 11 to 1 in the general student election yesterday. The proposal for the ASC to propose another honor system lost by 1,481 to 932..
Two-hundred one more student
Two-hundred one more students voted on the honor system than on the ASC offices.
Totals:
1. That the UVO honor system be adopted;
George Sheldon and Beverly Jackson, AG-I candidates, won the president and vice-president posts respectively of the ASC in the general student election yesterday. A total of 2,367 votes were cast for president. Sheldon got 1,214 of them.
For the proposition—2 $ ^{n \alpha} $
Against the proposition—2,258.
Ballots not marked—102.
2. That an ASC committee be set up to study honor systems and propose another one if the UVO system fails:
For the proposition—932.
Against the proposition-1,481.
Ballots not marked-145.
—Kansan photo by Pete Ford
The UVO originated the honor system idea and set up a committee on it early this semester. Copies of the proposed system, based on the honor system at the University of Virginia, were circulated to all organized houses. The system was discussed at numerous student forum meetings organized by the UVO committee, and presented to the ASC.
The ASC voted to put honor systems to a student vote March 29. Two proposals were presented so that if a majority of the voting students wanted some kind of honor system, but failed to pass the UVO one, a new system could be proposed at the next student election. Since both proposals failed, no action will be taken by the ASC.
"Mystery, structure, vividness, and form can be found in African art." James Johnson Sweeney. Humanities lecturer, told a large audience yesterday in the Spooner lecture room, Museum of Art. His topic was "African Negro Art."
Mr. Sweeney said African art, which is primarily religious, was first recognized in European art circles by the sophisticated artists in 1905.
African Art Forms Told by Sweeney
CONGRATULATIONS, PRESIDENT!—Forrest Hoglund (right) engineering junior and POGO candidate for ASC president, congratulates George Sheldon, college sophomore, the AG-I candidate, after he was
elected the new president of the ASC yesterday
Students Caught Off-Guard
Serambling into their uniforms while rushing to the Community building, 32 University students answered the alert with about 68 Lawrence National Guardsmen last night. The unit assembled at the building within an hour and a half after the alert was sounded at 6 p.m.
The men were notified by radio, TV, and chain of command. Capt. Karl H. Reber, company comman-
er, said Lawrence men who were out of town reported to their closest armories. He said the alert was very successful in Lawrence and the men's reactions were superior and their spirit good.
The surprise "Operation Minute-man" involved an estimated 400 thousand men in all the 48 states and Alaska in the nation's first peacetime test of its national guard strength.
- POGO won a margin of 13-12 in the Senate, and AG-I will hold an 11-7 majority in the House.
Allen Frame was elected senior class president.
The tally at the poll at Fraser was off 87 votes, but the election committee validated the election. ASC President Robert Kennedy said this morning that the elections committee would recommend that the election be investigated by the ASC, but that the results were completely valid.
Winning ASC candidates are: Senate
Business—Richard Billings, AG-I;
Joe Steinbacher. POGO.
Engineering—Scott Hayden, AG-I;
Norman Scott, POGO; David
Whalen, POGO; Dale Trott, AG-I;
Jack Abercrombie, POGO.
Education—Ralph Moody, POGO; Fredrica Voiland, non-partisan; Bev Warner, AG-I.
College—Jack Brown, POGO; Bill Dye, POGO; James B. Muller, AG-I; Ralph Varnum, AG-I; Sandra James, AG-I; Mary Michener, AG-I
Social fraternities — James M. Miller, AG-I; Jim Schultz, AG-I; Gene Coombs, POGO; Warren George, POGO; Ray Kraenhubul, POGO; Crandall Melia, POGO; Jerry Whitehead, POGO.
Social sororities—Judy Tiderman, AG-I; Jan Hartell, AG-I; Mary Ellen Lewis, POGO.
Jack Hogland
Fine Arts—John Nangle, POGO;
Jane Hewitt, AG-I; Graduate school—Bob Pope, AG-I; J Sherwood,
POGO; Journalism—Janis Johanson,
AG-I; Law—Herb Horowitz,
POGO; Pharmacy—Hank Wittenberg,
POGO; Senator-at-large—Forrest Hoglund, POGO.
House of Representatives
Men's dorms—Roy Gridley, AG-I; Women's dorms—Wanda Wellever, AG-I; Freshman women's dorms—Pat Sterrett, AG-I; professional fraternities and co-ops—Benny An-
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PULL MEN—PULL—Lawyers get advice from the sidelines, but to no avail. After this photograph was taken the rope broke, and neither the lawyers nor the engineers could claim victory. Even after 40 men from each side of the rope had
-Kansan photo by Pete Ford
been removed, the rope broke two more times. The lawyers, who challenged the engineers to the tug of war are thinking about renewing the rope-feud in the near future—as soon as stronger rope can be secured.
a stronger rope can be secured.
-Kansan Photo by Don Studley
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ONE SPECTATOR GOT WET—Much to the disappointment of the photographers, only one spectator at the engineer-lawyer event got his feet wet. And guess who that was? None other than our friend Sarge.