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51st Year, No.66
Monday, Jan. 4, 1954
Cartoon by Regina Lux
Drastic 1954 Changes Predicted by UDK Staff
By SAM TEAFORD
Members of the Daily Kansan staff brought out their dusty crystal ball this morning to look into the future of the University for the next 12 months.
Here's what the crystal ball revealed for KU during 1954:
The University will not hire a new football coach. Instead the school will go all-out for deemphasis and drop the sport. The practice football field will be converted to a parking lot, and Memorial stadium will be used as an outdoor theater.
In reaction to the charges by Sen. McCarthy, the Kansan editorial staff in 1954 will repudiate
Disillusioned by the policies of FACTS and Pachacamac, politically minded students will unite to form a new independent organization called "WDCHH." Officially the group will be named the "We Don't Care What Happens" political party.
WDCWH will not support or nominate any candidates in school elections. Neither will they take sides in any controversy. The new organization is expected to gain tremendous strength in the year ahead.
Before the KU-Kansas State college basketball game here Feb. 17 K-State students will pull the biggest prank of all time: they'll attempt to dynamite the campanile.
Believing that KU women are old enough to live their lives as they desire, the University will extend closing hours for all women to 4:30 a.m. every night.
The new plan will be only on a two-month trial basis. At the end of the two months, closing hours will be changed to 8:30 p.m. every night.
In 1954 University law students, long involved in wrangles with engineers and more recently with journalism students, will decide to make peace, adopting the motto, "Love Thy Neighbor." As a result, a semester of good feeling will prevail on the campus, and Uncle Jimmy Green will not appear in a new spring outfit.
San, Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) will charge that the University Daily Kansan is controlled by Communists and ask for an investigator. The Kansan in two year-end articles picked Malenkov as the man of the year and called Stalin's death the leading news story of the year.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday night, a music program supplanted the regular order of night speakers, and Thursday a film, concert, and play entertained delegates.
Russell Ames Cook of the Princeton university school of music, directed a 500-voice all-delegate choir and a 200-piece symphony orchestra, also composed of delegates who practiced together for the first time Monday, at the Thursday program. The cast of the play, "The Boy With a Cart," was also made up of delegates.
both the Republicans and Democrats to support an all-Prohibition ticket for Kansas in the state elections next fall. Their slogan: "Let's Liquidate Those Liquids."
Before further developments in 1954 could be ascertained, the crystal bail clouded over. It was carefully put away until time to pick a winner for the Kentucky Derby.
The conference, which opened Monday night through Saturday noon, was attended by delegates from every state and about 200 foreign students from 24 countries. The delegates stayed in University dormitories, residence halls,$ _{1}$ and fraternity and sorority houses, and ate in the Student Union.
2,500 Attend Methodist Session at KU
About 2.500 Methodist college students, leaders, and counselors heard some of the nation's top church leaders at the fifth quadrennial national conference of the Methodist Student Movement, held for the first time on the KU campus last week.
Each morning and night, with the exception of Wednesday and Thursday nights, church leaders addressed meetings of all delegates and leaders in Hoch auditorium.
3 Lectures Set For Spring Term Humanities Series
Three scholars in the fields of religion, classical archeology, and Russian literature, will lecture here on the Humanities series during the spring semester.
Two lecturers, Dr. Nabih Amin
Faris of the American University
of Beirut, and Prof. Allen Crafton,
chairman of the department of
speech and drama, already have
spoken this semester.
Dr. John C. Schroeder, chairman of the department of religion at Yale university, will give a Humanities lecture on February 23. He also will be a headline speaker during Religious Emphasis week.
Dr. Rhyse Carpenter, professor of classical archeology at Bryn Mawr college, will lecture on March 30. He is the author of several books, including "The Humanistic Value of Archeology."
Dr. Vladimir Nabokov, professor of Russian literature at Cornell university, will lecture about Nikolai Gogal on April 20. Dr. Nobokai's family escaped from Communist Russia in 1919; he became an American citizen in 1945. He has published eight novels in Russian, two in English, and also has written plays, verse, essays, and short stories. He writes regularly for the Atlantic Monthly and New Yorker magazines. He also is an entomologist and has published at least 18 technical papers in that field.
Each lecturer will spend three days here, lecturing to classes in related fields, conversing with faculty members and graduate students, attending luncheons and dinners with various groups. Dr. Nakovkov also will read some of his original light verse and stories at a tea.
Rebates Paid Now
By Union Bookstore
Patronage refunds of 10 per cent now are being paid at the Student Union Bookstore for Period 14, July 1 to Dec. 31, 1953. Refunds will be paid until the book rush at the beginning of second semester and will be resumed after the spring semester begins.
Safe Returns End Student Vacations
Six thousand five hundred students returned safely from the 15 day holiday vacation to attend classes, which reconvened this morning at 8 a.m.
PROF. ROBERT TAFT
Taft Addresses Historical Groups
Robert Taft, professor of chemistry, addressed the joint meeting of the American Historical association and the Mississippi Valley Historical association Dec. 28, in the ballroom of the Conrad Hilton hotel in Chicago.
Dr. Taft spoke on "History and Pictures" to the nation's two leading professional historical societies during the annual meeting of the American association .
Since publication last February of his "Artists and Illustrators of the Old West," Dr. Taft has been recognized as one of the nation's leading pictorial historians. This book grew out of a series of articles he had contributed to the Kansas Historical Quarterly and represents 20 years of spare time work.
Two persons, however, were killed in traffic accidents in Kansas during the New Year's weekend.
While University students were enjoying the vacation 2,500 Methodists from colleges and universities in 48 states and several foreign countries were attending the fifth quadrennial conference of the Methodist Student Movement on the campus.
Safety experts today gave the nation's motorists a pat on the back for sane holiday driving, even though the highway death total for the New Year's weekend approached the 300 mark.
A United Press tabulation showed at least 281 persons were killed in traffic accidents between 6 p.m. Thursday and midnight Sunday. Fires took another 31 lives, 14 died in plane crashes, and 72 in miscellaneous accidents for a total of 298.
Tragic as the new figures were, they still represented an encouraging performance in contrast to the bloody Christmas weekend which saw more than 700 persons die in accidents, 532 of them in traffic alone.
National Safety Council president Ned H. Dearborn said last night, "We believe we can be safe in saying the final figure will be well below our original estimate of 360 traffic deaths."
"We congratulate the motorists who proved us wrong." he said.
"It must have been a rare driver who didn't have safety hammered at him from some direction at Christmas," Mr. Dearborn commented.
Less long-distance travel traditionally keeps the New Year's accident toll below the Christmas figure, but Mr. Dearborn said another "major factor" was the publicity given to the appalling Christmas total.
He pointed out that the New Year's death record was almost the same as an ordinary winter weekend, which usually sees about 300 automobile deaths.
BRING ON THE SPEAKER—Delegates to the fifth quadrennial national conference of the Methodist Student Movement, held last week on the campus, wait in Hoch auditorium for the speaker at one of the nightly sessions. Delegates-2,300 from every state and 24 foreign countries—heard church leaders each night except Wednesday and Thursday when music and film programs were substituted.