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CALENDAR QUEEN CANDIDATES_One of these 14 women will be chosen as the KU Calendar queen at halftime at the Oklahoma A&M game Saturday. Left to right, they are Mary Ann Deschner, education senior; Diane Wade, college senior; Janice
Manuel, college senior; Joyce Ronald, fine arts senior; Jeanne Fitzgerald, journalism senior; Martha Jane Shaw, education senior; Virginia Nalley, college senior; Connie Maws, college senior; Corla Haber, education senior; Jerry Hesse, college senior:
Grace Endacott, fine arts senior; Christine Johnson, education senior; Frances Hoyt, college senior; and Shirley Strain, college senior.-Kansan photo by Phil Newman
Kansan Sets Up Editorial Council
The Kansan board, student governing body of the University Daily Kansan, passed an amendment to its constitution yesterday which will set up an editorial committee to supervise the editorial
Ike to Map Plans For Korean Trip
Augusta, Ga. — (L.P.)—President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower will map plans for his forthcoming trip to Korea in a conference today with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who went to the Far East in 1951.
Gov. Dewey was scheduled to arrive in the early afternoon and spend several hours talking with Gen. Eisenhower before continuing on his way to a vacation in Miami, Fla.
Gov. Dewey, two-time loser for the presidency, was expected to be the last major caller Gen. Eisenhower receives at his post-election vacation headquarters before flying to Washington Tuesday for a conference with President Truman.
James A. Hagerty, press secretary to the former five-star general, said Gen. Eisenhower undoubtedly would talk first, however briefly, with his two chief liaison men to the current administration, before conferring with President Truman.
But members of the Eisenhower staff were uncertain where the President-elect would meet with his two envoys, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Mass.), and banker Joseph M. Dodge of Detroit.
While Gen. Eisenhower was saying nothing for publication, it was made clear at his headquarters here that he would approach the conference with the President with a firm intention to listen, but not be swayed.
Gen. Eisenbower wants no part of any Truman policy decisions made before the government is transferred to the new administration.
Varsity Dance Set For Union Tonight
The first Student Union Activities Varsity dance will be held from 9 p.m. to midnight today in the upper level of the Hawk's Nest.
There will be no admission charge for the dance. All students are invited to attend. Music for the dance will be furnished by a 3-piece combo.
page of the Daily Kansan.
The action was taken after widespread criticism had been leveled at the Kansan editors for their support of Gov. Adlai Stevenson for President.
Such a committee had been considered for several years, and the present controversy simply brought the matter to a head, Dean Burton W. Marvin of the School of Journalism said.
According to the amendment, "the editor may accept or reject any policy decision arrived at by the committee; and the committee shall have the power of veto, by majority vote, over any policy views that the editor may personally desire to express."
One of the committee's functions will be to give the Kansan a more consistent editorial policy from one semester to the next. It also will give more of the Kansan staff a voice in the paper's policy.
The committee will be composed of the editorial editor (editor-in-chief), the two associate editors, the managing editor, the city editor, the chairman of the Kansan board, the faculty member teaching the editorial class, and the dean of the School of Journalism. Faculty members will sit in as advisers but will not have a vote.
The editorial policy and content of the editorial page will be discussed at weekly meetings of the committee. The editorial editor will preside.
The amendment defines the policy of the editorial page. "Inasmuch as expression of opinion on controversial issues in editorial form on the editorial page is inevitably accepted as the policy of the Kansan, such expression shall not be made without the approval of the editorial committee."
Charles Burch, journalism senior who proposed the amendment, said it is "a step forward which has been needed for quite some time. While giving members of the Kansan staff more freedom, the new setup also places more responsibility on them. The amendment will initiate more planning on the editorial page and closer unity between the editorial and the news sides of the Kansan."
Bob Stewart, journalism senior, said he voted against the measure "because of principle. I believe an improvement in the editorial setup is all right, but not in a time of hysteria, under anonymous pressure," he said.
Jeanne Fitzgerald, journalism senior who voted in favor of the
Kansan to Enter Traffic Contest
The Daily Kansan will participate again this year in a traffic safety campaign and contest designed to promote safe driving by students over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday periods.
Friday, Nov. 14, 1952
Student Aid Needed In Housing: Murphy
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The contest, sponsored by the Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty company of Chicago, will select the best safety campaign from those promoted in college newspapers across the nation during early winter months.
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Murphy to Speak On Union Activity
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will address the first Student Union Activities residents' breakfast of the year at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the Union cafeteria. He will speak on the Union building and its relation to the various organizations.
The breakfasts are given three times a year for all the campus organization presidents. The events give the presidents a chance to get together and discuss their problems. Each occasion features a talk by a faculty member on some phase of campus life.
'Daniel and the Devil To Be Shown Tonight
The film, based on "The Devil and Daniel Webster," by Stephen Vincent Benet. stars Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, and Simone Simon
"Daniel and the Devil," the third of the 1952-53 film series, will be shown at 7:30 tonight in Hoch auditorium.
Two other amendments are up before the board and will be voted on at the next meeting Tuesday, Dec. 2. One amendment defines the membership of the news department and news committee of the Kansan and the other is to set up an all-student advisory board representing the entire student body to evaluate the Daily Kansan every semester. The complete bill is printed on the editorial page.
winter.
The film was produced in 1941, and was titled "All That Money Can Buy." It was included by John Gassner in his anthology, "Best Screen Plays," which appeared in 1943. It recently appeared at a New York city art theater under the title, "The Devil and Daniel Webster."
amendment, said, "In order that the Kansan might in reality be run entirely by journalism students, I feel that the faculty should be limited to advising. Therefore, I feel the faculty should not have a vote."
The Daily Kansan won second prize of $250 in the
dailies division of the 1951 contest. First place was won by the Daily Trojan, student newspaper at the University of Southern California.
In addition to the main prizes, awards will also be made for the best editorial, feature, cartoon, and photographic entry.
According to records of the National Safety council, the two-month period of November and January is the worst of the year for traffic accidents.
An informed and responsible student body can do a great deal to improve student housing, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy told about 100 persons last night at an open meeting in Fraser hall.
The chancellor suggested various courses of student action to help the administration in "resolving the problem." He suggested:
1. The formation of a responsible student committee, revolving around the All Student Council, but not composed entirely of council members.
2. That the committee request a formal hearing before the board of regents after a careful study of the problem. The committee could then state the students' case. He also urged the committee to request a hearing before the State Senate Ways and Means committee and to make the committee available to work with the Endowment association and the Alumni association.
3. That students have their parents talk over the situation with the newly elected representatives to the Kansas Legislature, and that campus women's groups take the problem to women's organizations in the state.
One thing the students should not do, the chancellor said, is to employ the "expose technique" in trying to bring this problem to public attention. Students and the administration are already aware of the problem without such methods, he said.
"The primary purpose of the University is to provide a first-class educational experience," Chancellor Murphy said. "But it also is the University's duty to provide a complete living experience including adequate recreation, a guarantee of healthful and decent meals, and adequate housing."
The University recognizes its obligation, he said, and is doing what it can to fulfill it. Figures from the office of the dean of men show that 1,225 of 3,500 undergraduate men are now living in inadequate housing. About 200 of 1,480 undergraduate women live in inadequate housing, according to the office of the dean of women.
"We have an expected objective of trying to have available by 1960 some 3,000 permanent dormitory units on the campus. This will be an addition of more than 2,000 units in the 10-year period between 1950 and 1960," he said.
"It is obvious that the men have the most compelling need," the chancellor said.
The University has added 320 dormitory units since World War II, the chancellor said, and expects to begin construction on 350 more units within this academic year.
He reminded the students that the University must also continue to provide new and better classroom and laboratory facilities. All building and renovating projects must be paid for by one of three means, the chancellor continued. He outlined the following methods:
GIVES HOUSING FACTS—Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy is shown at a special meeting in Fraser theater last night at which he reviewed facts on housing conditions at the University and outlined plans for the proposed 10-year building program. Approximately 100 students and faculty members attended the gathering.—Kansan photo by Phil Newman.
1. The state legislature has provided a $4 mill tax levy rate that provides $6 million every two years to the board of regents. The Board must split the money between 10 institutions, however. This year's general fund was committed two years ago.
2. Revenue bonds may be used to construct buildings that will return the original investment. "Architects are working on plans for 200 men's housing units to be financed in this manner," the chancellor said.
3. There are gifts. "Gifts have been the savior of the school and of University housing," he said.
"Here is where student action can probably help the most," he said. "If we can encourage friends to give $500,000, that amount can be matched by revenue bonds, and that process can go on 'forever,'" he added.