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Hawks Set for 2nd Big Night
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
50th Year, No.108
Wednesday, March 18, 1953
Jayhawks, Hoosiers Clash For National Championship
Kansas and Indiana meet in the finals of the NCAA national tournament for the second time in the short history of the tourney tonight, each seeking its second national crown.
The Jayhawkers will shoot the
The Jayhawkers will shoot the works in an attempt to become the third team to win two titles in a row.
Last night Kansas blasted the University of Washington, 79-53, for the Western NCAA championship. Indiana grabbed the Eastern crown with an 80-67 victory over Louisiana State university.
LSU and Washington will play the first game tonight starting at 7:45 p.m. The KU-Hoosier clash will start at about 9:45 and will be televised by WDAF-TV.
Kansas, the "wonder team" of the 1953 basketball season, ran the Huskies into the ground in last night's fray. The lads from the Great Northwest went into the game as four-point favorites and carrying a 29-2 record. Big Bob Houbregs, 6-7, had been shattering school, conference, and NCAA records all season long, but the big boy fooled out for the first time in 58 games and the Huskies folded.
The Hoosiers won their first NCAA crown in the second tournament back in 1940. This is the second time they have been in the tournament. They swept three games in annexing the 1940 title.
That year Indiana defeated Springfield, 48-24; Duquesne, 30-30 and downed Kansas in the finals. 60-42.
40-42. Kansas has been in the tournament grind four times. In 1940 they reached the national finals before losing to Indiana. They got there by beating Rice, 50-44, and USC, 43-42. In 1942 the Kansans lost in the first round to Colorado, 46-44.
Then came 1952 when the Jayhawks swept to the national collegiate championship and the Olympic games. They beat TCU, 68-64; St. Louis, 74-55; Santa Clara, 74-55, and St. John's, 80-63.
--had Houbregs, then with four fouls,
had scored 18 of the Huskies' points
Jayhawkers to Rally In KC Hotel Tonight
Kansas fans will hold another rally in the lobby of the Hotel Muehlebach in Kansas City at 7:15 tonight. The rally will precede the Kansas-Indiana game in Kansas City's municipal auditorium for the NCAA championship.
The University 50-piece pep band will be on hand for both the rally and the game.
--had Houbregs, then with four fouls,
had scored 18 of the Huskies' points
LEONARD SCHLUNDT
The Army ROTC unit at the University will receive its annual federal inspection April 20-21, Col E. F. Kumpe, professor of military science and tactics, announced.
The inspection will be made by a team of officers from the Fifth Army headquarters. This inspection will be concurrent with the Air Force federal inspection.
Army ROTC Review Set
The main points considered by the inspection teams will be teaching procedures, adequacy of instructor facilities, effectiveness of instructors, and general military bearing of the cadet corps.
The inspection will be climaxed by a joint review of the two cadet units on the intramural fields south of the Military Science building, weather permitting.
2 RAF Jets Collide In Air Show for Tito
Cambridge, England—(U.P)—T w o British jet fighter pilots collided today and plunged to their deaths while President Tito of Yugoslavia watched horrified at an air show in his honor.
An Air Force officer said that President Tito, sensing that British airmen were putting their lives in danger for him, asked twice before the crash that the show be ended. But the flights kept on.
The Royal Air Force staged a spectacular display, including supersonic aircraft, in honor of the anti-Kremlin Yugoslav Communist leader who is on a state visit here.
Tidelands Bill To Favor States
Washington — (U.P.)—A House judiciary subcommittee approved a bill today to give coastal states full title to offshore lands out to their historic boundaries.
Just in case the courts rule later that this is illegal, the subcommittee put in provisions to give the states all rights to lease and develop the submerged lands, some of which contain a lot of oil.
Another part of the bill would claim for the federal government absolute control over underwater lands to the outer limits of the continental shelf. The shelf in some places extends as far as 150 miles out to sea.
Up to now the United States has claimed sovereignty out to only three miles, the limit established in international law.
2nd A-Blast Slated Soon
Las Vegas, Nev.—(U.P.)-Preparations were underway today at Yucca Flat in the isolated, high desert 65 miles north of here for the second atomic blast in a series of 10 detonations scheduled for this spring.
The weather was extremely bad
The 1,600 soldiers and military observers who yesterday emerged unscathed from trenches only two miles from yesterday's blast were back safe at their nearby desert rock camp today.
It seemed apparent today that it would take at least a week to prepare the atomic testing ground for the next explosion. The time is needed to recover and read the instruments used in the initial test, and to enter the two experimental houses which were heavily damaged and still too contaminated with radioactivity today for survey teams to enter and analyze.
The Future Business Leaders of America will tour the Lawrence Paper company today. Members are to meet at Strong Hall annex E at 4 p.m. Last year the organization visited the Santa Fe Rail office, Topeka, and Hall Brothers, Inc., Kansas City, Mo.
Business Group to Tour Mill
DON'T MAKE THAT SHOT—Larry Davenport of Kansas and another Jayhawker attempt to foil Steve Roake's hook shot. The Kansans rolled over the West Coast club, 79-53, to enter the NCAA finals.
—Kansan photo by Phil Newman
Six 21-inch TV Sets To Beam Tilt in Union
Women's closing hours will again be extended to one-half hour after the close of the rally. The radio broadcast of the game will be carried in other parts of the building through the Union sound system.
The ASC pep committee, cooperating with the KuKu's, Jay Janes will sponsor a post-game party in the ballroom. The Collegeians band will play for dancing until the arrival of the team when a student rally will be held in the ballroom.
At the listening party last night in the Union, about 1,000 students got an early preview of what was to come as Kansas jumped out to an early 8-0 lead.
Six 21-inch television sets will be set up in the ballroom of the Union building tonight to bring telecast of the Kansas-Indiana NCAA championship game to viewers.
Optimism was high at the half with the Javahawkers leading 45-34.
The sets will be placed back to back on a center circular platform, with chairs arranged throughout the ballroom floor and on the balcony floor. The sets have been loaned to the Union.
Houbregs got a standing ovation from the listeners when he fouled out early in the third quarter, still with 18 points. The turning point had come, and the happy listeners realized the fact.
A small car rally of about 100 cars drove around the campus and through town. Dancing in the ballroom of the Union was held until midnight.
Urging the "mighty mites" on, the listeners joined in shouts of glee as the Jayhawkers roared ahead and won 79-53. Those in the Union celebrated with a quiet cheer.
FACTS Party Votes Today
FACTS party members were to vote until 6 p.m. today at a special polling place outside the Hawk's Nest to choose two women and one man to fill vacancies on the All Student Council for the rest of the semester.
Teachers Divided in Feelings About Loyalty Investigations
By MARY BETZ
Varied answers were received from faculty members interviewed by the Daily Kansan on their feelings about the loyalty investigations of schools.
Of the nine teachers interviewed, two refused to comment or let their names be used. Three agreed that the investigation might be a good thing if they were carried out differently; one teacher didn't care; one said it was an evil "that would have to be put up with," and one flatly said he was against the investigations.
One teacher, Mrs. Patricia Laurencelle, assistant professor of design, sees the investigations as "a symptom of a general lack of confidence the public feels toward teachers, particularly at the higher levels. It is lack of confidence is inconsistent with the responsibilities that they continue to place on teachers."
Prof. Laurencelle said the investigations "are useful as a defensive measure, but it is unfortunate that teachers must be forced constantly into a defensive position."
Leland J. Pritchard, professor of finance, said, "I think the investigations are unfortunate and unnecessary, but as long as they are being conducted the faculty in each school should cooperate. Few of them have anything to hide. As long as such an inquisition is under way, they'll just have to ride it out until the McCarthys, Veldes, Jenners and others like them either die or come to their senses."
"Objecting to the investigation is like trying to cure a whole disease with one aspirin—its only used for one symptom anyway," she said.
George F. Jenks, assistant professor of geography: "I haven't any feelings one way or another. The investigations have been somewhat
over-emphasized perhaps, but I am not concerned about them."
John Ise, professor of economics, said, "the investigations will do quite a bit of damage, stirring up suspicion of communists in the schools. The way the investigators have been working, they don't try to get at the truth, but carry on a 'smear' campaign."
"When they start investigating out here, teachers will have to appear and do their best to explain that they're Democrats, which seems synonymous with communists in this country," Dr. Ise said.
"I don't know why Eisenhower doesn't step on those fellows (investigators). They're making teaching less attractive and we'll soon have inferior teachers," he added.
Don Dixon, associate professor of speech, said "Universities and teachers have nothing to fear if the investigations are carried on in a fair manner, but there has been enough innuendo and double talk by professional investigators like McCarthy to cast aspersions on the teaching profession."
"I don't think a teacher should have any fear that his academic freedom is going to be trampled on by this investigation," Prof. Dixon continued.
Charles E. Johnson, assistant professor of education, said, "I haven't any sympathy with the communists. However, I have faith in the intelligence, judgment, and ideals of our schools, and I think they are more capable of employing an intelligent and effective approach to this problem than those agencies who are less well informed as to the true identity of the enemy."
Dr. John H. Patton, professor of religion, said, "There is always the
possibility of danger in the way the disloyal, the unloyal, and the loyally indifferent are ferreted out. If it becomes a witchhunt, if it is in the hands of morally irresponsible men, an investigation becomes a vicious weapon."
"If the investigation is used as a method of producing a state which is absolutely sovereign over the individual, then we will fall into the trap of state worship, which has been the downfall of states in the history of man," he said.
"On the other hand, we've taken our loyalty as citizens entirely too lightly. We're not always ready to defend the rights which we demand for ourselves. There must be a sense of moral responsibility on the part of the individual citizen and on the part of the man or committee asking for the oath of loyalty," Dr. Patton concluded.