Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Court Orders Registrations Invalid UNIVERSITY Daily hansan Bennett Instructed To Destroy Cards
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
50th Year, No. 89
See, It's Easy!
Thursday, Feb. 19, 1953
NEOCLIIS GIANAKIS, engineering freshman, tries to see just what is happening as Frances Lanig, Red Cross nurse, takes a pint of blood from him. The blood drive hopes to secure 1,000 pints of blood from students and faculty of the University. Competition for the greatest participation from organized houses has increased interest in the drive. The bloodmobile is located in the drill hall of the Military Science bldg. The Blood drive is in the second day of its three day drive, and more than 600 persons have volunteered to donate blood. The drive is being sponsored by the Arnold Air society.
--Kansan photo by Ken Cou
600 Persons Give Blood In First Day of Drive
About 600 persons were processed by the Red Cross mobile blood units in the Military Science building yesterday, according to Mrs. John H. Patton, chairman of the Red Cross special services.
"However, unless we have a lot of walk-ins, students who didn't make previous appointments, we won't be able to meet our quota," Mrs. Patton said as she pointed out that quite a few prospective donors are turned down for one reason or another. "We just about made the quota for yesterday," she said.
Mrs. Patton said the cooperation among Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC units in preparing for, and executing the drive has been excellent.
The Air Force handled the publicity, the Army did the big job of setting up the units, and will take them down at the end of the drive, and the Navy is directing the actual operation of the units while they are here.
Mrs. Patton said much credit should be given to Dick McCall, a volunteer worker, who has coordinated the majority of the campus publicity and promotion on the drive.
Two early donors in this drive were the commandants of the Army and Air Force units, Col. E. F. Kumpe and Col. L. R. Moore.
An interesting sidelight is that about 15 foreign students showed up yesterday to give their blood for the American fighting forces.
New gravel has been laid in the parking lot west of Hoch auditorium. C. G. Bayles, superintendent of buildings and grounds, refused to disclose how much gravel was used.
"It is extremely important that we meet our quota of 1,000 pints," Mrs. Patton said, "because a large part of this blood is consigned for direct shipment to Korea."
Thought for the Day "Where there is hatred, let me sow love."
Gravel Laid in Parking Lot
—St. Francis de Assisi
--had not fulfilled its duties. It is the ASC agency which handles all matters relative to elections, he said.
Student Hurt at Rally Recovering Rapidly
Marvin A. Keller, college junior, who fell from the west retaining wall of the south approach to the Kaw river bridge Tuesday night, does not have a skull fracture as was feared before X-rays were taken.
Keller received a minor fracture of the vertebrae, said Dr. R. I. Canuteson, director of the student health service, this morning.
His condition was reported to be good. He is expected to be released from the hospital in two or three days.
--had not fulfilled its duties. It is the ASC agency which handles all matters relative to elections, he said.
C. J. Ventura, chief mechanical-electrical engineer, bureau of public works, Philippine Islands, visited the State Geological survey at the University Tuesday to learn how ground-water studies are carried on in Kansas.
Philippine Engineer Visits Survey Office
Mr. Ventura also observed groundwater conditions in several Kansas localities during his visit, here.
The registration of students for party primaries as executed during the recent enrollment was declared invalid last night by a unanimous decision of the Student court.
Five of the court's six justices held the registration invalid. The sixth, Frank Lindemuth, business senior, was absent.
Further action to be taken on the registration will be the ordered action of the court's marshal, Roy Bennett, second year law, who was instructed to confiscate and destroy all evidence and records of the registration.
Bob Walker, second year law, petitioned the court to declare the registration illegal, and to order the seizure. Walker, in his appearance before the court, claimed to represent the entire student body, known to the court as "the associated students."
Walker's contention, which was borne out by the ultimate decision, was that the practice of the registration was not consistent with the language which prescribed the procedure in the ASC constitution.
The court held that, as the legislation was worded, the phrase "each student" meant every student. The rights of every student are to be equal, and equal rights were not accorded all students in the registration, the justices decided.
Those specific students who were, intentionally or not, ignored in the procedure, Walker said, were new students, graduate students, persons changing schools, and persons registering late.
In reporting the justices' opinion, chief justice Kent Shearer, second year law, said the court's decision affected only the registration—not the ASC bill which brought it about.
Bill Wilson, resigned ASC president, when questioned about the bill said he thought it "a rather weak amendment." It was, he said, "put through rather hurriedly, even if with good intent."
Although the decision of the court was directed toward the actual registration and not the legislative act behind it, the bill itself was repeatedly criticized during debate.
Vagueness and ambiguity were charges leveled at the act's wording. The justices also felt that responsibility for the registration's going awry might fall on a number of persons, so loosely was the bill worded?
Shearer said that negligence by one or both parties could defeat the purpose of the bill. Bernie Borst, second year law student, appointed by the court to answer Walker's arguments, said in a statement off the court record, "It is the parties' obligation to the students and the Student Council to maintain this act. It may be an unenforceable obligation."
The ASC's elections committee also was the subject of much unfavorable comment. Wilson stressed that he felt any blame should be placed on this group which, he felt,
Asked what, in his opinion, were the available courses for the ASC now that the registration was scrapped, Wilson said, "There'll have to be some ASC legislation, either returning to the old system of each party registering its own followers, or to provide for a special registration to take place at a designated time and place on campus."
IFC Plans Greek Week
Plans for Greek week were read and discussed at the Inter-fraternity council meeting yesterday afternoon. The statement by the executive council concerning it is as follows:
"Greek week has a prime objective; the supplanting of the old style hell week with conferences concerned with problems and programs of our campus. The ultimate objective of such a Greek week is to strengthen the position of the Greek letter system on our campus in the eyes of the public, the faculty and administration, the student body as a whole and the fraternity men themselves."
Schedule for the week is:
Wednesday, April 22—Annual honor institute dinner and presentation of scholarship awards. This will be attended by the honor initiates, presidents, senior IFC representatives, and scholarship chairmen.
Thursday, April 23—Two panels; one on scholarship and one on pledge training. Representatives from each fraternity and interested faculty members will participate after which discussion will be held.
Friday, April 24—Panels on rushing, University relations, and house management. The main speaker of the meeting to be announced later, will talk.
Saturday, April 25—The annual IFC formal dance.
Blizzard Forecast For Western Kansas
As dust from the second storm in four days settled today over Kansas wheat lands, government experts warned that a near blizzard was only hours away for the high plains country.
The regional forecasting center at Kansas City issued a special warning predicting snow will spread over northwestern and extreme western Kansas today, with strong northerly winds causing blowing and drifting snow late today and tonight.
Political Leaders Feud Over Primary Registration
By TOM STEWART
Immediate and explosive reactions were voiced by campus political figures over last night's decision by the Student court to invalidate the primary elections registration which occurred during enrollment for the spring semester.
First to be consulted on the decision was Dennis Henderson, president of the FACTS party. He said of the move, "It's not surprising in view of the lackadaisical manner in which the ASC elections committee has acted this year. This is not the first time Ron Kull, chairman of the Pach-controlled Council's elections committee has fallen down on the
The decision is explained in another article in today's Kansan.
For example, the committee is supposed to report on the expenditures of each candidate for each election. We're still waiting for a freshman election report, which makes one
wonder if this is merely incompetence or if Kull is protecting his party from an embarrassing ASC violation," Henderson said.
"The fault of the system lay in the policies and plans of FACTS, which included any of single ASC member. The elections committee chairman was simply unable to administer the measure founded on party interests," he continued.
Kull, now news editor of the Kansan, has resigned from both the ASC and Pachacamac party to concentrate on the newspaper position.
He said, "Pach will not descend to personal character attacks, but rather engaging the registration system lay in the partisan vested interests which intro- dented government in an attempt to promote personal end at the expense of student government.
Larry Loftus, Pach president, read Henderson's statement. His comment was, "Pach stands in full acceptance of and agreement with the verdict of the Student court."
He also said: "The FACTS registration
system fell down because of its inherent undemocratic nature of registering students, not being more mature in the record opinion of the Student court bears this out in full."
Kull, knowing what Henderson and Loftus had said, stated, "I find Mr. Henderson's attitude typical of that petty scandal. I'm so glad that the ASC than any other single factor. As for my supposed 'falling down', I believe-if Mr. Henderson will check his records, that both parties were notified of their duty to report election expenses.
"Their failure to carry out these orders, I believe, does not rest on my show, but the election registration, both Mr. Hitch and the registration, agreed on the infeasibility of registering new students because how can a student be expected to know how to vote will choose when he couldn't possibly be familiar with the parties' policies.
"Unfortunately, the students changing schools had to be, of necessity, included in this group, when points to the foolishish behavior and misapplicability of this FACTS sponsored bill.
"I believe if Mr. Henderson will check party member, a member of the eles
tions committee, Gene Rogers, he will be the person in charge of the actual registration.
"Contrary to Mr. Walker's assertion (In Student court), the graduate students offered the cards. Many refused because this undemocratic method of registration.
"I put him in charge of this registration because I felt that, as a member of the party sponsoring the bill, he would be more fully able to carry out its tenets and be more like dad's being in a hospita made me want to spend some of this time at home.
"As for my part, I served on the registration, fully realizing that many students signaled with this registration coercion to avoid refuse the cards—which many did.
Gene Rogers, the engineering junior cited by Kull, replied, "Ron Kull admits himself that he planned the registration with Mr. Hitt. He was also supposed to get the Pachacamac workers, over half of whom did not show up; while I have proof that the FACTS workers for whom I was responsible were there at all times."
Henderson named ASC bill No. 2, chapter 3, section 5 as part of his rebuttal of Kull's statement. It says: "All political parties shall be required to deposit their funds in the KU business office, and to carry on all financial transactions through the Student Organization service."
According to Henderson, FACTS has observed this regulation. He quoted the act further:
The "ASC committee shall check these records after each election in order to ensure that the records have been compiled with, and shall see that the records are made public by counsel that be published in the only Kannan within two weeks after each election."
The FACTS president said, "May I point out to Kull that, as stated in the ASC bill, the responsibility for checking party expenditures lies with his committee and not with the parties, as he has implied.
"Furthermore, neither Kull nor Loftus seem to realize that inasmuch as this bill passed the ASC alone unanimously it was not solely a FACTS measure."