University Daily Kansas
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Mowlay, Nov. 2, 1952
Blast from 'Big Toot' Brings Grins, Defiance
By JERRY KNUDSON
Someone once wrote a short story in which time was suspended for a few minutes, a murder was committed, and the murderer had a perfect alibi because apparently he was with several people all the time.
On the campus—at least around the east end—much the same thing occurs when the Big Toot lets go with a blast, signaling the end of one class, another coming up.
For all of 6 or 8 seconds, instructors who are slightly late in closing their classes and the students themselves hang in a void while the whistle unleashes its pent-up fury.
"Tomorrow we shall take up—"
The whistle bellows and everyone freezes while time is suspended. The whistle ceases." —chapter four and five. Reports are also due. Class dismissed."
Now there's the smart instructor; the one who just lets his jaw drop while the mele is going on. But others try to compete with the Big Toot in a last-minute splurgue to wind
the period up. These shout and gesture and scream—but the students just stare blankly back; they can hear nothing.
Some professors are frankly embarrassed by the whole thing. With a thought hanging in mid-air they grin sheepishly at their classes, look out the window, or fiddle with the papers on their desk.
Now, on the other end of the campus—say, down at Lindley—it's another story. Instructors either continuously worry around with a pocket—or wrist watch on the desk before them, or keep one ear cocked for a faint disturbance of the atmosphere on the east end of the campus.
"Has the whistle blown yet? Has it?
Has it? Was that it?" intersperse
The services of University debaters are worth about $50 per team, if calculations by Texas university is an indication of their financial worth.
Texas Sets KU Debaters' Worth
Several weeks ago Texas U. asked a KU debate team to stage an exhibition debate before Austin, Tex., high school students. KU declined the invitation, although the two schools have a long history of rivalry in debate.
A second invitation was recently offered, and this one included a $50 stipulation as an added inducement.
"We decided to accept the offer," said Dr. Kim Giffin, debate coach. "If they want KU debaters that much, we can't refuse."
William Crews, business senior and Dick Sheldon, college senior have been selected to appear in the exhibition debate against Texas university.
the final minutes of lectures on rock formations or geography of the Pacific.
And if they disregard the Big Toot entirely and talk for five minutes more, they're . . . well, we won't save it.
Dean Prepares Plan To Break Korean Stall
Panmunjom, Korea-(U.P)]United Nations Envoy Arthur H. Dean was prepared today to compromise with the Communists on admission of neutral nations to the Korean Peace conference but a Red spokesman predicted the offer would be rejected.
Mr. Dean personal representative
Mr. Dean, personal representative of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, said he might attempt to break the deadlocked preliminary talks by proposing that "certain neutral nations" attend the full-dress conference.
The Reds have stymied the preconference discussions by insisting that neutral countries, in addition to participants in the Korcan war, be admitted.
Communist correspondent Alan Winnington, who usually reflects official Red thinking, said he considered Mr. Dean's compromise "even worse" than other Allied ideas on the conference.
"It is my view that our side will never accept it," Mr. Winnington said.
He protested the Allied insistence that a time and place for the conference be decided on first.
"How can you talk about time and place without first deciding who should attend?" the London Daily Worker correspondent said.
A high UN source said Mr. Dean had not decided whether to officially present his compromise plan to Red negotiators this week. The eighth session of the preliminary talks was set for today.
The source said "it will depend on how things go" at today's meeting whether Mr. Dean would formally propose the idea first mentioned to newsmen as a "trial balloon" to test Communist reaction.
Mr. Dean told newsman after a fruitless one hour and 33 minute session yesterday that the Reds were stalling the preliminary talks.
He said their "inflexible attitude leaves doubt in our minds that you really want a political conference."