Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
The Big Top Goes Amid Advice,Scoffs
By CLARKE KEYS and TOM STEWART
"Tenting tonight, tenting tonight, tenting on the old camp ground . . ."
We never realized how many people were available with wise cracks—and advice—about anything until we got ready to pitch our tent on the Journalism lawn today. Everybody's agreed that the idea verges on lunacy, but at the same time everybody's just full of good advice.
Born Won't Appear In East-West Game
Born is the sixth man scheduled to see action who will not play tonight. Previously Cliff Hagen, Frank Ramsay, and Lou Tsioropoulous of Kentucky; Ed Kalafat of Minnesota, and John Kerr of Illinois had been declared ineligible in an exhibition game against the Minneapolis Lakers earlier this month.
--the chariot race Sat-
Harvey Krahenbuhl,
sophomore; Robert
B. H. Born, KU co-captain wh was to have played in the East-West basketball game in Kansas City tonight, will not play due to a severely sprained ankle suffered Saturday. It was the same ankle which he had injured during the regular season.
Alumni Debaters Defeat Varsity
The audience judged the alumni debaters best in discussing the upholishment of congressional investigations of subversive activities yesterday in two alumni-varsity debates in the Student Union.
Alumni debaters Ed Stollenweerk and Steve Mills gained audience-reaction victories in an afternoon debate from Letty Lemon, journalism junior, and Kenneth Dam, business senior, while taking the affirmative on the question, "Resolved: That Congressional Investigations of Subversive Activities Should be Abolished."
The two visitors won audience favor in an evening debate on the negative side of the same resolution, beating William Crews, business senior, and Richard Sheldon, college senior.
In the afternoon debate, the alumni insisted that the real issue was the growth of McCarthyism. "Senate investigations have ceased to be fact-seeking, but have become a policing," they said.
Miss Lemon countered with the fact that 80,000 Communists in the U.S. today "constitute a real threat which must be met by effective legislation. The only way that Congress can ensure wise legal action by investigation," she said, adding that "because McCarthy is bad does not give us a reason for saying congressional investigation is bad."
Alumni debaters won their point by saying that congressional investigations, as they now stand, are losing the services of competent government personnel, and that the "only effective legislation which has been of any use in catching subversives is the Smith act passed in the early 1940s."
Taking the opposite side in the evening debate, the alumni won a less decisive majority of audience opinion with the negative viewpoint.
Mr. Mills and Mr. Stollenwerck said that just because an office is abused, this constitutes no reason for abolishing the office.
Five ways in which Crews and Sheldon said the congressional subversive investigations were misused were (1) the creation and exploitation of mass hysteria, (2) the use of committees as political weapons, (3) the use of such committees as instruments to further personal ambitions, (4) the violation of personal rights, and (5) the unjust defamation of character.
Another plug should be inserted for Rusty's and Cole's Food Centers, at the south and north ends of town, respectively. We went out and saw Rusty himself (there is such a person, hidden up in a loft office at the back of his store). The result of our conversation was a "shoot the works" offered by Rusty and his co-advertiser, Mr. Cole.
And just to have something to wash all those steaks and things down with, we dropped in the Lawrence Sanitary dairy, and scored again. Two quarts a day will be dropped at the bale of hay which will serve as our doorstep. .We haven't pressed the issue, but this deal might even include ice cream and cottage cheese.
- From "Boy, are you guys crazy," to "You'll never make it"—that's the way the comments have gone. It's hard to remember when residents of Kansas have been so certain that the state is going to get lots of rain.
Which brings up a point. Any ex-Boy Scout knows the first rule of tenting is to dig a drainage ditch around the tent. Even we know this. However, we won't have any such ditch, because we have an iron-bound promise not to harm so much as a crumb of the dirt in the fire pit. Our knowledge of it come sympathy on this matter, but want everyone to know that it's not our own idea to do without a ditch.
So, if it doesn't rain, we should be living the life of Riley. Come to think of it, maybe we'll nudge Riley clear out of things. Riley'd probably like to live the life of Keys and Stewart.
A comparison of student wages at KU to those at six other universities will be made by the All Student Council labor committee to the University Budget committee in a hearing Thursday.
One place we have it all over the old-timers is in the matter of supplies. Rather than haggle with the nearest trading post, we made a trip through downtown Lawrence, mercenary to sit at the village merchant help us at. With everything no sweat at all, we got everything we could think of.
For instance, our chic green pup tent and our all-purpose mess-kits are on loan from the Surplus Stores, headquarters for which are situated across the street from Weaver's on Massachusetts street.
The labor committee received reports from all the Big Seven schools on the amount of money paid students in different types of work.
Members of the committee are Roger Youmans, college junior, chairman; Lola Helm, college junior; Ralph Jones, engineering sophomore; Wilma Morton, education junior; Dave Leslie, college freshman, and Jack Byrd, business senior.
These figures were compared with the wages paid here for the same type of work. Besides student wages, most students live living costs at the various schools.
AWS House Elects Officers
ASC Committee Compares Wages
Pat Pierson, college sophomore, will head the Associated Women Students House of Representatives for the coming year. LaRue Sibley, college freshman, is the vice president, and Edith Jochims, college sophomore, the secretary. The treasurer is Wanda Sammons, college junior, and the representative to the Senate is Frances Hanna, college junior. The officers were elected yesterday in the regular AWS House meeting.
Daily Hansan
51st Year, No. 112
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, March 22, 1954
IT TAKES PULL—Several entrants in Saturday's chariot race, a feature of Greek Week, stand at the starting line moments before the start of their heat. The course extended from a point in front of Strong hall, west to Chi Omega circle, around the loop, and back to Strong hall.
Kansan photo by Jim Baird
Acacia Wins Chariot Race
Judges of urday were engineering
A "horse" named Ralph Moody, education sophomore and football halfback, brought the Ben Hur honors to Acacia fraternity at the Greek Week chariot race Saturday.
Moody trotted in six-tenths of a second ahead of Max Mardick, engineering sophomore, who pulled the chariot of Tau Kappa Epsilon. Acacia won the race in 1 minute and 32 seconds.
SUE SCHMIEDERFR
Greek Week queen Sue Schmieder, college sophomore, was unable to attend the ceremonies. Her traditional duties of "bussing the horse" and presenting the trophy were handled by queen attendant Donna Jean Lindsey, college sophomore. The other queen attendant, Jill Gilbert, college sophomore, also was present at the ceremonies.
Worcester, engineering junior and William McEachen, college senior.
Miss Schmiederer was chosen queen by three University deans by comparison of photographs. She is a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Miss Lindsey is a member of Pi Beta Phi, and Miss Gilbert is a member of Alpha Chi Omega.
The queen reigned over the finale of Greek Week, a dance in the Lawrence Community building Saturday night. The Varsity Crew band played at the semi-formal affair.
In the first heat of the race, Tau Kappa Epsilon took a starting-post
lead and staved ahead all the way to win three lengths ahead of the second place Delta Ussion charter.
The second heat sew race winners Acacia pulling away at the turn on the circle at the end of Jay-hawk drive to breeze in five lengths ahead of second-place Kappa Sigma.
Phi Kappa Psi won the third heat of the Ben Hur festivities in a minute and 43.9 seconds, leading second-place Phi Kenya Sigma.
Phi Delta Theta won the fourth heat of the race, finishing in a minute and 41.7 seconds.
Most of the day's races were runaways with the first place fraternity far outspacing second placers. Fourth place fraternities usually didn't bother to finish, finding it convenient to hide some place among the crowd of about 600 persons. One exception was the Theta Chi entry who steamed in from the second heat approximately two minutes after the winner had crossed the finish line.
Banquet Tickets Go on Sale
Tickets for the International Banquet set for Saturday, can be purchased in organized houses tonight, in the Collegiate Council of United Nations office this week, and from any CCUN member. The price of the dinner is $1.60.
Freshman Chosen For ROTC 'Colonel'
Grace Marie Rose, college freshman, was honorary colonel of the Army ROTC spring dance in the Union ballroom Saturday night.
Ruby Elaine Schaulis, fine arts sophomore, was honorary Lieutenant-Colonel at the dance and Donna Lindsey, college sophomore, and Mazelle Neville, education junior, were honorary majors.
Weather
A minor cold front moved southeastward through Kansas today Weatherman Tom Arnold said it
COLDER
m a y produce a few afternoon or evening showers in the southeast and there might be some light snow furries in northwest. Temperature drops caused by the frontal passage will be moderate, Mr. Arnold said. I wo w o tonight
likely will range from the 20s in northwest Kansas to around 30 in the Southeast. Highs will climb into the 50s tomorrow.
High School Students See Exhibits, Science Building
Tours through the new Science building highlighted High School Science day for 350 students, accompanied by about 60 teachers Saturday.
They were the first group to tour the building since its completion. of High School So
The purpose of High School Science day was to develop interest in high school students for a scientific spelling competition by University Extension in cooperation with the science departments.
Dr. Paul Rooef, professor of anatomy, was the dinner speaker. Dr. S. W. Cram, Emporia State college; and Persey Caruthers, Lincoln High school Kansas City, Mo., also spoke. All three lectures were designed to introduce the high school students to the work of scientists in various fields and the things they study.
Students saw exhibits and demonstrations in Bailey chemistry laboratories, Snow, Lindley, Haworth,
Blake, and Frank Strong halls.
"Attendance was so large this year and the students were so enthusiastic about coming that another science day will be planned for next year," Robert Casad of University Extension said today.
Students saw demonstrations of liquid air being made, rates of chemical change, map reading, electro- encephalograms, audiograms, cardiograms, a molecule cracker, and a cryostat and Van de Graaf atom smasher.
On display were plastic models of body sections, a blood laboratory, geological survey exhibits, and the astronomy observatory and telescopes.
Freshman Hurt in Accident
Helen Laddie Martin, college was admitted to Watkins hospital last night suffering from a minor brain concussion after a car in which she was a passenger rolled over near Lone Star lake.