Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Kansan photo by Ken Coy
HIGH STEPERS--This chorus line from North College hall runs over the fine points of their dance routine in preparation for the YMCA-sponsored Rock Chalk revue to be presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Dancers, left to right, are Patricia Mackey, Wanda King, Margaret Allen, Joann Pope, Sue Summerville, Margaret Donnelley, Peggy Honfer, and Kav Wasson.
Wednesday, March 11, 1953
50th Year, No. 103
Closed Primary Set for April 1
Campus political parties will hold closed primary elections, April 1, setting their own qualifications as to who may vote, the All Student Council decided last night.
William Adams, graduate student,
and William Nulton, college senior,
said they felt the ASC should take
the steps necessary for making the
primary sign-ups legal since too
much time and money had been
used in the procedure for the Council
to let it drop.
Weather
The ASC adopted this method of conducting the spring primaries this year after the Student Court declared invalid the registration for primaries which took place in the spring enrollment line.
Light rain and drizzle fell over most of southern and eastern sections
of Kansas during Tuesday nigh t and the weather bureau indicated a continuation of cloudy, misty conditions for today a nd Thursday. Tempera tures Tuesday w ere mild for the most oar t, averaging generally in the 50s. The forecas'
At the end of the court session, Chief Justice Alan Shearer, second year law, said the court might later find the registrations valid if the Council would clarify the language in the ASC constitution which prescribes the manner in which the registrations are to take place.
COLDER
calls for cloudy skies and some drizzle this afternoon and tonight. Colder weather is expected to move into the northwest tonight and spread over most of the state Thursday.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Rock Chalk Revue Sets Dress Rehearsal Tonight
The first full-dress rehearsal of the fourth annual YMCA-sponsored Rock Chalk Revue will be held tonight in Hoch auditorium.
All eight skits slated to be part of the Revue will be presented Friday evening and again Saturday evening. The trophies for the best women's houses will be awarded at the close of Saturday's performance.
Women's houses participating are North College hall and Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, and Pi Beta Phi sororities. The four fraternities whose skits were accepted are Acacia, Alpha Tau Omega, Phi Delta Theta, and Phi Kappa.
As a rule, authors of Rock Chalk skits attempt to tie the theme of their productions to some aspects of campus life. The subjects of this year's skits range from a pantie raid as it might have been at the close of the 19th century to a parody on the operetta "Student Prince," with the happy folk doing their carousing with steins of milk.
Kansas City, Mo.—(U.P.)T o ppriced tickets were gone today for the NCAA finals to be played in Kansas City March 17-18, but some $2 tickets still were to be bad.
Last year's winners were Delta Gamma sorority and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Some Tickets Left For NCAA Finals
Sale of the tickets has been by mail. R. E. Peters, a member of the 1953 NCAA basketball tournament committee, said that "there still is time to order two-dollar tickets by mail," but the $4 and $5 tickets were sold out for both nights.
Tickets were available also for the NCAA western regionals at Manhattan Friday and Saturday, where Oklahoma A&M will meet Texas Christian and Kansas will battle Oklahoma City university.
Lodge Hits Russia On Atrocity Claim
--prosecution, and counsel for the defense may take place in advance of the trial to work out any procedural difficulties which can be foreseen.
United Nations, N.Y. — (U.P.)—Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., told Russia today that the American army it claims committed "atrocities" in Korea is "the same Army which helped the Soviet army defeat Hitler."
Meanwhile the United Nations Security Council began its search for a successor to Trygve Lie as secretary-general.
The General Assembly, which yesterday heard Mr. Lie reaffirm his determination to quit the UN's $55,-000-a-year top post, also met to end the inconclusive two-week debate of its political committee on the Korean war.
Approximately 300 students attended a rally in front of Green hall Tuesday afternoon to greet Kansas' Big Seven basketball champions upon their return from Columbia, Mo., where they cinched the title by defeating the University of Missouri Monday.
Students Rally for Champs
Libel Charge Filed Today
FACTS party today was charged by the special prosecutors of the student court with having violated an ASC constitutional statute about Libel by political parties.
Specifically, the statute forbids a political party's publishing in party literature any defamation directed at any other party.
FACTS is alleged to have printed in its party newspaper certain "untrue, defamatory, and calumnious" cartoons and a defamatory statement about Pachacacamac party.
A short time ago, Pach asked the student court to try FACTS for violation of the ASC statute. Inasmuch as FACTS is said to have violated the ASC statute, the prosecution is being carried on by the "associated students of the University" instead of Pach alone.
The trial is to take place next Wednesday. Three-man teams are appearing for both the prosecution and the defense.
FACTS counsellors are three third year law students, Dan Hopson, Dick Stavely, and Don Giffin.
Ordinarily prosecutions in student court are handled by Bernie Borst, third year law and regular court prosecutor. Borst has removed himself from this case because of the "burden of work" involved that he feels he couldn't manage alone.
At his request and with his help, chief justice Kent Shearer, second year law, has appointed Gene Ballou, second year law, as 'special prosecutor' allowing Ballou to enlist Bob Walker, second year law, and James Gurley, college senior and law student, as "assistant prosecutors."
Shearer explained that the legality of Ballou's appointment rests on an ASC constitutional provision allowing the court to appoint whatever officers it feels it needs to conduct business.
The document filed today by the prosecution said "The obvious innuendo . . . is that student government under Pachacamac was administered with a policy of excluding independent students of the organization of Pachacamac itself excludes and avoids independent students."
The cartoons were published early this year. The statement cited by the prosecution in its complaint was published early last semester.
The allegedly defamatory statement reads "FACTS party was first organized . . . to oppose the corruption of five years of machine rule by Pachacamac and . . . to replace the petty do-nothingism of the Pach regime."
Should FACTS be found guilty, a fine of from $50 to $100 must be paid by the party to the ASC treasury before the party can file official party candidates in any University election.
A special hearing of the court,
Famed Soprano To Appear Here
Maria Kurenko, internationally known soprano will be guest artist at the University Thursday and Friday. March 26-27.
Madam Kurenko will present a recital of Russian art songs, and she will conduct a song workshop for students majoring in voice.
Madam Kurenko's visit is a continuation of the program instituted by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy of giving students campus contacts with outstanding figures in the arts.
Is This Libelous?
MACHINE CONTROL
BETTER STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Debaters Frolic Over Left-wing
The need for a strong left-wing party was debated in a light-hearted but serious manner this morning before a convocation of about 800 students in Hoch auditorium.
Two members of the Cambridge, England, University debate team, Peter John Mansfield and Alistair Sampson, said America needed two parties for a better democracy.
"Some people" they said, "like to think of the American political party system as two empty bottles with different labels. . . America is heading to a form of one-party government that could turn militaristic—and even fascist."
Two KU debaters, Kent Shearer, second year law, and Guy Goodwin, third year law, asserted that the presence of a strong left-wing party in America would leave the nation wide-open to a series of full-scale changes in government everytime one of the radically-opposed parties "took control of 51 per cent of the electorate."
E. C. Buchler, professor of speech,
was master of ceremonies. The University Symphony orchestra opened the program with Roman carnival overture, Berlioz, directed by Russell L. Wiley.
Ballet Slated for March 19
The University Concert course will present the Ballet theater Thursday, March 19, in Hoch auditorium. Tickets are on sale at the fine arts office and Bell Music company. Students will be admitted free by presenting ID cards.
Included in the company of 100 will be such artists as Alicia Alonso, Igor Youskevitch, John Kriza, and Mary Ellen Moylan.
The Ballet theater is responsible for the rebirth of ballet in America, according to eastern critics. The organization began its operations at the Center
theater in Rockefeller Center in January 1940
This organization is the oldest American ballet company operating today. It makes full use of American choreographers, composers, and designers. However, they have a representative repertoire of established classical works as well as contemporary ones.
The Ballet's repertoire includes such well-known works as "Swan Lake," "Les Sylphides," "Giselle," and "La Fille Mal Gardee."