Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
51st Year. No. 134
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
ASC Formulates New Voting Rules
Wednesday, April 28, 1954
New election rules, providing for a "less complicated" and more "foolproof" method of voting were incorporated into an amendment of the All Student Council elections bill which passed last night if the ASC senate and house.
The ASC election held April 20 was thrown out after discrepancies were found in the number of ballots cast as compared with the number of student voters. The ASC decided last night to call new office by the student action by the student court on the validity of the committee action.
Dick Sheldon, president of the ASC, said, "It seemed to be the feeling of the council that a new
Bacteriology Staffers to Attend Meet
Four papers will be presented by members of the Kansas group. Dr Sherwood will read a paper on work with gamma globulin. Co-authors are Prof. David Paretsky of the KU staff and G. Thomas Truffelli, graduate student. Prof. Metcalf will present a paper on experimental work with rickets, with Prof. Downs as co-author.
Four members of the University bacteriology department will attend the meeting of the Society of American Bacterologists in Pittsburgh, Pa., May 2-7.
Those making the trip are E. L.
Treece, chairman of the department;
N. P. Sherwood, professor
armeritus; Prof. Cora M. Downs,
and Prof. T. G. Metcalf.
Prof. Downs will read a paper written by herself and Max. 'D Moody, '53 graduate, on work with tularemia. A fourth paper, by Prof. Huff and D H Spaddling, '53 concerns antigen-antibody reactions.
The University delegates also will attend a meeting of the Pittsburgh alumni from KU May 4.
Funeral services were held yesterday at the Wagner funeral home for William G. Benjes, engineering junior, and a member of Triangle fraternity. He had been ill for about four months.
6 Faculty Members ToAttendMeeting
Benjes was born in Kansas City and attended Kansas City Junior college. He transferred to the University last fall.
Funeral Services Held for Student
Six members of the political science faculty will attend the twelfth meeting of the Midwest Conference of Political Scientists tomorrow through Saturday at the State University of Iowa.
Dr. Heller will present his paper on the 14th amendment Friday, and Dr. Guild, who is on the research department of the legislative council, will be on the panel of basic aspects of reaportionment.
Ethan P. Allen, professor of political science and director of government research; Kenneth Beasley, instructor of political science; Clarence Hein, assistant director for research; Fred Guild, professor of political science; Francis Heller, associate professor of political science, and Edgar Sherbenow, instructor of human relations, are to attend the conference.
election would be the fairest way to resolve the many disputes. The election of April 20 resulted in control of the senate by one party, control of the house by the other, and an indecisive result in the presidential contest. We hope this new method will be less complicated for the pollworkers and more foolproof than the old rules."
The new rules provide for cutting down the number of ballots which the pollworker will manage from 27 to 3. One ballot will contain the names of the senate candidates, one the names of the house of representative candidates, and a third the names of presidential and vice presidential candidates. Only students enrolled in a school will be able to vote for that school—and no other.
The rules also proved that any ballot whose number has not been clipped off and is otherwise valid, shall be counted.
To prevent ballot peeking, a numbered tab protruding from the upper right corner of the ballot will be used in such a manner that the ballot can be folded with the number visible.
To prevent ballot shortages the number of ballots to be printed for the next election will equal two-thirds of the school enrollment
two-thirds of the school enrollment. To prevent tampering with ballots a provision has been made for a delegation from the elections committee, including members of all parties, will pick up the finished ballots at the printer's and deliver them immediately to a deputy member of the elections committee. This faculty member will keep the ballots until the polls open in the morning. The ballots shall not be delivered to any polls unless all pollworkers are present.
In delivering the ballots to the polls, the delegation of the election committee shall record the numbers of the ballots and the poll to which they are delivered.
To prevent the scattering and loss of ballots, only the five official counters from each party, others designated by the election committee, faculty members, a reporter from the University Daily Kansan, and a reporter from radio station KDGU will be allowed in the counting room. One of the faculty members will keep the key to the room and be responsible for admitting any authorized person in or out of the room.
To provide for competent poll-workers, a briefing session, conducted by the elections committee chairman, will be held before the election. The rules and voting procedure will be explained at this session. No student can work on the polls without first attending this session.
Each pollworker at a voting place (four at each poll) will have a specific job. Pollworker No. 1 will check the student's identification card; pollworker No. 2, the student's school and residence district; pollworker No. 3, will give the student the three properly punched ballots and then punch the student's identification card, marking a cross on the back of the card with indelible ink, and pollworker No. 4 will clip the number of the marked ballot and deposit it in the ballot box.
To prevent ballot box tampering, the pollworkers will be required to seal the opening of the ballot box and sign their names on the tape. As soon as the polls have closed, two members of each party shall collect the ballot boxes.
Schine Had Easy Life At Dix, Stevens Says
Around the World—
Lecturer: Howard T. Fisher, head of an architectural firm of Chicago and New York, will lecture at 3 p.m. today in Strong auditorium and tomorrow night will speak at the annual dinner in the Union of the department of architecture. He will talk today on "Collapsible Shopping Centers," commenting on the shopping processes of the two great Indian markets in Latin America. Tonight he also will meet with the KU chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Big 3 Unite on Indochina Plans
Washington—(U.P.)—Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens said today he was told that Pvt. G. David Schine paid fellow soldiers to clean his rifle, did not wear his uniform all the time, and escaped kitchen police duties while serving as a draftee at Fort Dix, N.J.
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Mr. Stevens also testified that he received reports that Pvt. Schine had an unusual number of leaves for a drafttee.
Western diplomats at the Geneva conference united today in a move to start Indochina peace talks immediately.
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS—Pictured here on the front steps of Green hall are, from the left, William R. Arnold, college junior, Dr. Kim Griffin, debate coach and Hubert H, Bell, college junior. Arnold and Bell were the winners of the national invitational debate tournament at West Point, New York last weekend.
The Big Three get-together was
Anthony Eden, and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault lined-up their strategy on getting the Indochina cease-fire talks started without delay at a meeting at French headquarters.
The Big Three machinery was put in motion when it became apparent the conference would make no progress in the scheduled first order of business—the Korean political issue.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, British Foreign Secretary
Mr. Bidault was reported to have made excellent progress in his Indochina talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov and it was believed the negotiations would start not later than next week. The Big Three got together was
an encouraging sign of unity to Western delegates.
Many Western diplomats felt that allied strength at Geneva had been weakened greatly yesterday by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's refusal to commit Britain to intervention immediately in Indochina if such action was warranted to halt the Red threat.
IM Speeches End Tonight
Entertainment speeches, the last in the series of intramural speaking tests, will be heard at 7:30 p.m. today in Green hall.
Student speakers who have entered and the houses they represent are:
Alpha Tau Omega, John Ball and Jack Dusay, college freshman; Lambda Chi Alpha, Paul Kent, engineering freshman; Alpha Delta Pi, Patricia Dashen, college sophomore, and Jan Holwick, education junior; Delta Delta Delta, Jane Hill, pharmacy sophomore, and Carolyn Husted, education junior.
Beta Theta Pi, Don Johnston,
college sophomore; Edward Freeburg,
engineering junior, and
Thomas Hunt, college senior;
Sellards hall, Coralyn Stayton, college freshman, and 'independents—David Convis, college sophomore,
and Derek Scott, graduate.
Trophies to winning houses and individuals will be awarded tonight.
- Asked about a report that Pvt. Schine told his company commander that he had been sent to Fort Dix to "modernize and streamline" it, Mr. Stevens said he had heard something like that but not in detail.
Mr. Stevens gave the testimony under questioning by Counsel Ray H. Jenkins at the Senate investigating subcommittee's televised public hearings on the Army-McCarthy controversy over Pvt. Schine's military career which began Nov. 3. Army officials have charged that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) and his aides brought heavy pressure on the Army to get special favors for Pvt. Schine, a former McCarthy aide. Sen. McCarthy has counter-charged that the Army tried to use Schine as a "hostage" to halt his investigation of alleged Reds at Fort Monmouth, N.J.
Seniors Choose Class Present At Convocation
Seniors decided to landscape an area between the Journalism building and the new science building as the class gift at a convocation this morning.
Alternative suggestions included construction of permanent boxes for the Daily Kansan, drinking fountain in the stadium, and glass doors for the main archway of Watson library. The landscaping suggestion passed by a 2-1 margin.
In other business, the class voted $3 dues.
The 82nd annual commencement exercises will be Sunday and Monday. June 6-7.
Baccalaureate exercises will start at 7 p.m. Sunday with seniors gathering for the procession on the south side of Strong hall to march down the hill for ceremonies in Memorial stadium. The procedure will be the same for Commencement exercises the following night.
A senior breakfast at 8:30 a.m. in the Student Union ballroom will start Monday's activities. A University reception at 3 p.m. in the Student Union will be held the same day.
Tuesday, May 18, will be Senior Class day. Seniors will be excused from afternoon classes. A picnic beginning at 2 p.m., a spontaneous talent show, a turtle race, and a softball game with the Faculty Fossils, are slated as part of the day's activities.
Weather
The Kansas Weatherman. Tom "Rainmaker" Arnold, slipped—but not for long. He said there was no
precipitation  i n Kansas during the last 24 hours for the first time in a week. Then he added, "We're expecting a shower belt to move into Western Kansas late this afternoon
or tonight. It will move on over into the eastern part of the state Thursday.