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University Daily Kansan
Monday. Dec. 7, 1953
Segregation Battle Reaches Climax Today
Washington—(U.P.)The long legal battle over racial segregation in public schools headed for a dramatic climax today at a Supreme Court hearing that confronts Chief Justice Earl Warren with his first great challenge as a jurist.
The long-awaited oral arguments on one of the most bitterly disputed constitutional issues of our times drew an overflow crowd of attorneys, reporters, and spectators to the big white marble court chamber long before the nine justices took their places at noon.
The question before the high tribunal was whether the 14th amendment, guaranteeing "equal rights" to Negroes, forbids states to segregate Negro and white children in public schools. It was raised in five test cases brought by Negro parents against the segregated school systems of South Carolina, Virginia, Kansas, Delaware, and the District of Columbia.
The court's decision, which may not come until next spring, will affect not only those areas but all of the 21 states in which an estimated 10 million white and 2 million colored children now attend separate schools.
Urging the court to strike down the dual school system was Thurgood Marshall, 45, attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Foremost in the imposing array of legal talent representing the states was white-haired John W. Davis, a former Democratic presidential candidate who last year won a Supreme court ruling that President Truman's seizure of the steel industry was unconstitutional.
The same two protagonists faced each other in like circumstances a year ago when the court considered the same five cases. After retaining them under advisement for many weeks, the court posed a series of questions on constitutional history and law which it said should be emphasized in renewed arguments this fall.
The pecan is the state tree of Texas
CCUN to Elect Wednesday Nite
Election of officers is on the agenda at a meeting of the Collegiate Council of the United Nations at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Oread room of the Student Union.
Nominations may be made from the floor. A slate of candidates has been drawn up by an executive nominating committee. They are Lawrence Loftus, college junior, president; William Witers, college junior, vice president; Joan McKee, college junior, recording secretary; Ann Wallace, college junior, corresponding secretary, and Louis Petrie, college senior, treasurer.
A report will be made on the World Affairs conference held in Topeka last weekend. University students who attended are Withers, Miss Wallace, Loftus and Sandra Dunlop, Maria Griffith, Jane Murdock, and Herbert Horowitz, all college juniors.
'Better Than Ever,' — Eh?
Calcutta, India — (U.P.) - Members of the legislature of Sikkim state in the remote Himalayas were invited to see a film in the first movie theater ever opened in Gangtok, the capital. They promptly introduced a resolution in the legislature calling for the theater to be closed for 10 years as a "menace to innocent Himalayan youth."
Student Exchange
Experiments have shown when a dairy cow is not allowed to have a dry period, her production is reduced by about 1,650 pounds of milk.
Student exchange programs between the U.S. and foreign countries usually operate on a 50-50 basis, with the number of American students studying abroad matched by an approximately equal number of students who came here for study.
Program Offers Foreign Study
Such was not the case in the example set by Ernest Rieger, second year medical student at the KU medical center, and Karin Larsson, now Mrs. Rieger and a graduate student at the University.
In this instance it was a case of Sweden losing a daughter and America gaining a wife.
And so it happened that Mrs. Rieger had a marriage certificate as well as an exchange scholarship when she came to the U.S. last summer with her husband.
Rieger, studying in Sweden under a direct exchange student program between the KU Graduate school and the University of Lund, met his future wife as she was applying for the same grant to come to KU.
Don Glasco, a sophomore in the KU School of Medicine last year, is now studying medicine in Switzerland.
The Graduate school has an exchange program with the Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.
In the direct exchange system, the University has exchanged six students with Switzerland and four with Sweden in the past four years. said J. A. Burzle, professor of German and foreign student adviser.
Also in the past four years, 30 University students have studied abroad under the Fulbright scholarship plan, an educational exchange established by an act of Congress.
Nine faculty members also have studied abroad after receiving Fulbright scholarships that enabled them either to do research or lecture in foreign countries.
Fulbright scholarships have been awarded for study in Germany, Australia, Denmark, England, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Belgium, Egypt, India, Scotland, an Austria.
Three former KU students now are in Germany on Fulbright scholarships. Julia Bolas is studying German language and history, Alice Schwartz is studying crafts, and Harold Terrill is studying German language.
Anne Longsworth is studying chemistry and biology, and Richard Mazzara is studying literature in France.
Rose Coughlin is studying history in England under a Fulbright scholarship, Edward Huycke is studying physiology and pharmacy in Denmark, and Orvid Johnson is studying music in Belgium. William Oldham is doing work in choral music in the Netherlands.
Prof. Burzle said 42 students, including 22 graduates and 20 graduating seniors, have applied for Fulbright grants for 1954-55.
Three others have applied for the new Buenos Aires award, a Fulbright grant for study in South America.
Six different types of exchange grants are available under educun-
tional exchanges. They include teaching, study, lecturing, research, observation and consultation, and in-service training reserved only for foreign students.
Group Offers $100 Gift
Gamma Phi Beta, social sorority,
is offering a $100 Christmas Gift
scholarship to any woman student
who is working, in financial need,
and has a good academic and personal record.
Applications may be picked up in the dean of women's office now and are due Monday, Dec. 14.
and are due Monday.
This is the seventh year that the annual scholarship has been awarded.
The first submarine that actually sank another vessel was the Confederate Humley built during the Civil war. The Union frigate Husatonic, on blockade station in Charleston harbor, was the victim.
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