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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
50th Year, No.129
Thursday, April 23, 1953
Murphy Lauds Free Enterprise, Cites 'Anti-Intellectual Attitude'
By TOM SHANNON
"There must be free enterprise in our intellectual life as well as in our economic life," Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy told an honor initiate dinner audience Wednesy.
In past years there has been an "anti-intellectual attitude" arising in this country, Chancellor Murphy said, adding that this feeling has contributed to poor government. There has been a reaction against educated men participating in government, he said.
People faced insecurity in other years and were led astray by such demagogues as Huey Long and Adolf Hitler who made "glittering promises," he said. "There is a latter-day comparison in that our younger generation also faces insecurity and an uncertain future." he said.
The dinner was given by the Interfraternity council for honor initiates of each fraternity as part of the activities of Greek week.
Chancellor Murphy said that fraternities can help combat ant-intellectualism by making sure that new students coming to the University have contact with great minds. "Over the years, the only progress made has been by great thoughts and great thinkers," he said.
"The University must provide intellectual elbow room," he said, "for will become a trade school unless thinkers are developed instead of students who take in facts one day and regurgitate them the next."
"Society demands a well-rounded person," he said, "for success is not exclusively related to academic attainment. The most effective yardstick is shown when a person disciplines and applies his talents upon entering the competitive arena," he said. "Fraternities can encourage and influence students to become well-rounded persons." he said.
Master-of-ceremonies Walter Rickel, pharmacy senior, presented the scholarship improvement trophy to Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. Beta Theta Pi fraternity was presented with two trophies, one for the highest combined grade average and the other for the highest class scholarship. The trophies were awarded for the 1951-52 school year.
school year.
In a scholarship panel, led by Richard Verbrugge, engineering senior, reasons for and solutions of low grade point averages were discussed.
Solutions for the problem were awards for scholarship improvement; taking high school records into consideration in selecting pledges; encouraging use of guidance bureau and reading clinic; periodic checks of pledge and active grades; limiting active and pledge activities, and seeing faculty advisors when difficulties arise.
Weather
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was were forecast for late today and tonight.
Lt. Col. Justice Neale To Command AROTC
Lt. Col. Justice R. Neale will be the new commander of the Army ROTC unit, it was announced today. He replaces Col. Edward F. Kumpe, who leaves for a new assignment this summer.
Lt. Col. Neale, a native of Herington, received a degree in chemical engineering here in 1937.
A reserve officer in the Corps of Engineers, Lt. Col. Neale has a distinguished combat record in Europe and Korea. He first went on active duty in 1941 as a first lieutenant, and was sent to Europe in 1944 as a lieutenant colonel commanding the 324th Engineering Combat battalion.
During one of his campaigns, popularly called the "battle of the bulge," he used his engineer battalion as infantry in stopping the German drive, for which he received the Bronze Star, the Silver Star for gallantry in action, and the Purple Heart for wounds received in the action. His unit was awarded the Belgian Fourragere for its heroic achievements.
Lt. Col. and Mrs. Neale will reside at 1104 Tennessee st. with their three children, Justice Wilson, 13; Pamela Joyce, 9, and Elizabeth Marie, 2.
Keys, Ball Named Relays Chairmen
Robert Ball, college junior, and Clarke Keys, journalism junior, were named senior managers of the 1954 Kansas Relays at a dinner honoring the 1553 Relays student committee last night in the Union building.
The 19 members of the 1953 committee received their awards from meet manager Dr. E. B. R. Elibel and meet director M. E. B "Eason".
In thinking this year's committee for its work, Dr. Elbel pointed out that it is not only the top committee on the campus in accomplishment, but has one of the highest scholastic averages. As examples, he cited senior managers Jerry Brownlee, college senior, and Ed Taylor, business senior, plus the three junior members of the committee.
Ball served as chairman of the Relays parade this year while Keys worked on publicity for the meet besides both handling their regular Relays duties. Both have been on the committee for three years, in selection in skiffskings and straight straight in the committee will be beaded by co-chairmen.
LT. COL. JUSTICE NEALE
Court Declares ASC Bill Invalid
The Student Court last night declared unconstitutional an AllStudent Council amendment defining how much campus political parties may spend for elections.
On grounds that the rule—section 5 of bill No. 2, chapter 3—was too ambiguous to be interpreted and enforced properly, the Court voted it down 4 to 1. The section states that each party may spend as much as the fees of a returning resident student in the College for each election, or a total of about $150 each year.
Since each scene requires a different set, the stage and production staff have been busy designing and constructing appropriate backdrops. Gayle Orrick, fine arts freshman, designed the original set and costumes.
Difficulty in interpreting the rule comes in defining election expense, Chief Justice Kent Shearer, second year law student, said. The court agreed it is almost impossible the way the section was worded to draw a clear line between direct and indirect election expense and to enforce the rule.
College Daze Presents Comedy Sketch Series
Set changes were made by Robert Homery, former KU student now stationed at Forbes Air Force base, Topeka. The stage crew includes Gladys Henry, journalism junior, Susanne Berry, college junior, and Joanne Child, fine arts junior, Carol
In other action Fat Reynolds, graduate student, was found guilty of parking in a restricted zone without a permit.
The 1953 College Daze departs from the norm tomorrow night by presenting a series of 11 sketches instead of the usual three-hour musical comedy.
All the sets have a non-realistic design to add to the show's comedy. The thing to be represented is merely suggested by general sweeps of the paint brush.
Van Dyke, fine arts freshman, made most of the costumes.
Individual seats are not reserved tomorrow or Friday night, but organized groups may obtain blocks of reserved seats by calling Robert Elliott Jr., college sophomore, phone 565. Tickets are being sold for 75 cents at the information booth.
Sheldon Named Prexy; Greeks Control Houses
Bv TOM STEWART
FACTS candidates Dick Sheldon, college junior, and Gene Rogers, engineering junior, were named to head of two Pachacamac-NOW-FOR dominated All Student Council houses as a result of yesterday's general election.
The total vote cast for president and vice president was 2,245, far below the record balloting set two years ago when FACTS smashed to its first Council majority in a 3,233 vote election.
Sheldon, new ASC president, and Rogers, vice president, outran the Pachacamac-NOW-FOR candidates, Dean Glasco, engineering junior, and Joe Woods, pharmacy junior, by a count of 1312 to 1113.
Sheldon, who is to preside over the ASC Senate, will be leading a house with 13 Pach seats, nine held by FACTS, and two belonging to unaffiliated senators from the schools of Business and Journalism.
In the House of Representatives, to be headed by Rogers, there is the narrowest of Pach margins, nine to eight.
Glasco and Woods, as losing candidates, will serve in the Senate and House, respectively, as delegates at large.
Pach took all the House seats elected from the fraternity and sorority districts. Similarly, FACTS swept the districts composed of unorganized students, co-ops, and professional fraternities, university women's dorms, and university men's dorms.
FACTS also took the one candidate elected from the freshman women's dorms. It was expected that if Pach were to make a strong showing anywhere outside the fraternities and sororites, it would be among the freshmen women.
The largest single residence group to be represented in the House of Representatives will be Pach's six from fraternities. The four FACTS-backed unorganized students will be the second largest body of representatives from any one specific residence body.
Neither of the presidential candidates were present during the counting of ballots last night. In the absence of Sheldon, Dennis Henderson, college junior and FACTS president, made a statement.
"FACTS has confidence in Dick Sheldon and Gene Rogers to lead the new Student Council in spite of a slight party minority in both houses. We know these men will serve unselfishly without regard to petty partisanship. Therefore we are very happy with the students' choices," he said.
Pach campaign manager Norman Capps, college sophomore, congratulated both the FACTS presidential and vice presidential candidates. He also complimented the work done by the FACTS campaign manager. Loy Bilderback, college junior.
Capps said, "I think that with both houses being split so evenly between Pach and FACTS nothing will be accomplished unless the parties work together as one.
"We (Pach) will try not to play politics, but will work with FACTS as one body for the benefit of the students." he said.
Bob Worcester, ASC elections chairman, said that he and Rogers, now a member of Worcester's committee, have both agreed that revision should be made of the ASC elections bill.
"There's just a lot of little things in the bill that should be clarified, expanded, or removed," Rogers commented, "because as it stands now some of the provisions of that bill don't make sense and can't be followed properly."
In listing candidates involved in the election, no totals will be included. This is because the ballots were counted by a system of proportional representation and a system of shifting surplus ballots often gave a candidate several procedure counts during the procedure.
Richard Sheldon, college junior Gene Rogers, engineering junior FACTS.
ASC PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT
RICHARD SHELDON
GENE ROGERS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES District 1 - Social Fraternities
Fred Heath, college freshman,
Pach; Robert Worcester, engineering
sophomore, Pach; Fred Rice, college
sophomore, Pach; Jack Byrd, busi-
ness junior, Pach; Norman Capps,
college sophomore, Pach, and Dar-
rell Fanestil, college sophomore,
Pach.
District 2—Social Sororities Betty Lu Gard, college sophomore, Pach; Althea Rexroad, college sophomore, Pach.
District 3—Men's Dormitories Dennis Henderson, college junior, FACTS.
District 4—Women's Dormitories Margaret Smith, college freshman FACTS.
District 5—Freshman Women's Dormitories
Jocelyn Dougherty, college freshman, FACTS.
District 6 - Co-ops and Professional Fraternities
Jack Fuller, college freshman,
FACTS.
District 7—Unorganized Students
District - Unorganized Subur-
Frank, Nebly, college junior
Frank, Donnelly, William college
freshman, FACTS; William Arnold,
college sophomore, FACTS;
James Baird, journalism junior,
FACTS.
SENATE
SENATE Pharmacy School
Diane Foltz, pharmacy junior,
Pach.
School of Fine Arts (Women)
Kaye Siegfried, fine arts sophomore. Pach.
School of Fine Arts (Men)
Richard Gruen, fine arts freshman, FACTS.
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