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DANCE TO FEATURE RING CEREMONY—One of the features of the Navy ROTC's annual Ring dance tonight will be the ring ceremony, during which couples will walk through a giant replica of the Navy class ring. The procedure goes something like this—if the couple walks through together, they are merely dating; if the woman goes through first, she is pinned; if the man is first, they are engaged, and if the couple walks through backwards, they are married. Kansas photo by Jerry Renner.
Measles Epidemic Slackens With 20 Cases Still In Watkins
The recent epidemic of measles at Watkins hospital has slackened Dr. Ralph I. Cantoness, director of health service, announced today
Lab Theater Gives 2 Plays
A startling opening began "Four on a Heath," one of the wierdest and most effective plays ever produced by the lab theater.
The play was one of two productions given Thursday night in the little theater in Green hall. It will be presented again at 8 p.m. today.
When the lights were turned out and the curtain drawn, the first-nighter audience gasped at the eerie spectacle revealed. Green lighting silhouetted three black figures dangling from gibbets.
The three were highwaymen who had been dead a week. Patrick Sullivan and Murray Trelease, college seniors, and William Dickinson, college junior, played the parts of the robbers. David Conley, engineering freshman, had the role of a lad the men had reared.
The other production, "Red Right Returning," presented an interesting emotional analysis of two persons living in a lighthouse.
Shirley Strain, college junior, played the difficult role of an expectant mother, overcome with loneliness, who wanted to return to the mainland.
John Eaton, college sophomore, acted the part of the hard-bitten, egotistical husband who couldn't understand his wife's desire to leave.
The hospital reported 20 cases today as compared with a peak of 55 on March 27. At the peak of the epidemic, Kanza hall, a former dormitory for women, was opened to provide room for 11 patients who could not be accommodated by the overcrowded hospital.
During January, 18 cases were reported with no more than two patients in the hospital on any given day. During February 24 more cases had been reported with no more than four patients in the hospital on any given day.
During the first week in March, measles cases started to report in at a rate of two or three a day. On March 24, 23 cases were admitted. By April 1, 294 cases had been admitted. Five students were allowed to go to their nearby homes since the hospital was becoming crowded.
Although the epidemic is calming down, Kanza hall is being kept on a standby basis in case of a recurrence of the outbreak, Dr. Canute-son said.
Rotarians Collect $24 For Helsinki Fund
Twenty-four dollars has been collected by the West Topeka Rotary club as a start toward the $4,000 needed to send the five Kansas university basketball squad members not on the Olympic team to see the Olympic games in Helsinki. Finland, in July.
Ray Long, club treasurer, said all Rotary clubs in Kansas will be contacted to add to the fund.
Daily Kansan Places Second In Traffic Safety Contest
The Daily Kansan received notification today that it had been awarded the $250 second prize in the 1951 college daily newspaper traffic safety contest.
Friday, April 4, 1952
The Daily Kansan entered the contest last fall, competing against college newspapers throughout the country. The contest was sponsored by the Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty company of Chicago.
The two-month safety campaign was aimed at reducing the number of driving accidents involving students. The crusade began in November and continued until the end of the fall semester. Emphasis was placed upon safety on the campus and during vacations.
Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
49th Year, No.125
Campus Politics In Uproar After Logan Election Ruling
Campus politics is in an uprora today over the declaration by James Logan, All Student Council president, that Pachacamac-NOW party primary Wednesday was "invalid"
By BOB STEWART
The two campus political parties, FACTS and Pachacamac-NOW, are running for Wednesday's general all-student election with a "business-as-usual" attitude.
FACTS candidates will appear on Wednesday's ballot as they were chosen by a closed party primary Wednesday. They will be headed by William Nulton, college junior, who captured a majority of votes from about 400 FACTS members in the primary.
is as far as the election is concerned. They know that Logans ruling instructed the ASC elections committee to leave Fach-NOW nominees off the general elections ballot.
Pachacamac-NOW candidates are not quite certain what their status is as far as the election is concerned.
Leaders of both contending parties think the issue has grown to a "mountain from a molehill."
However, they know that Pachacamac party is contesting Logan's ruling, and the power he used to make this ruling. Furthermore, they know that Mr. McCain could be made by Pachacamac to petition for places on the ballot for its winning candidates from the primary.
Fundamentally, they agree that
the mixup has arisen from the interpretation of an amendment to ASC bill 2 which was passed Nov. 6, 1851. Text of the amendment follows:
From this amendment, one consideration has thrown what was to the primaries for election for campus political parties to the turnout which resulted. It is:
"Party nominations of candidates for officers or members of the All Student Council can be made only by a closed primary election; that is, the primary of each party is closed to everyone except the party's daily qualified members."
What constitutes a "duly qualified member?"
The ASC president interpreted the ruling in this way: a duly qualified member is one who can show evidence of party membership at the polls. According to his ruling, students at the party primaries must produce this evidence in order to be eligible to vote.
William Wilson, Pachacamac candidate for the ASC presidency who won a majority of the 1,010 ballots cast in the Pach primary, thinks Logan assumed too much authority in making the interpretation.
"Last Thursday," he said, "Logan ruled that Pachacamac member identification could be done by a list of all Pach members at each poll, or by having a slip of paper signed for each Pach voter by the president of his house.
"Then Tuesday Logan ruled that voters could use a slip signed by either Pach or NOW, the house president, or even by any Paca member to show membership.
"But since Pachacemac is an all-campus political party, which does not have any idea how many members it includes, it was impossible for us to try to get membership cards to all our members."
Wilson said Logan had no power to declare the Pach-NOW primary "invalid." He quoted ASC bill 2, chapter 2, section 10:
"The certificate of nomination being filed shall be deemed to be valid unless objection thereto is duly made in writing within three days from the filing thereof. Such objections shall be considered by the elections committee of the ASC and a decision of the majority of its members shall be final."
Nulton summed up his stand on the invalidation issue by saying, "Most significantly, this interpretative ruling by the ASC president was not appealed to the Student Court by Pachaamac, a procedure legally prescribed in the Bills of the ASC. Instead, the Pach leaders chose to completely disregard the ruling, although these leaders were fully aware that such action could result only in their own party voters' choice of nominees be invalidated."
School To Teach Flower Judging
More than 30 persons are attending the Flower School which is being held at the University for three days beginning yesterday.
This school is designed to give training in basic knowledge and techniques to those interested in judging flower shows. A certificate will be issued to all those passing the examination at the end of the course.
The Flower Show school is being sponsored by the Kansas Associated Garden clubs in cooperation with the Lawrence Flower club and University Extension.
Dean Frank T. Stockton of University Extension and Mrs. F. M. Purcell State Flower show chairman, welcomed those attending the school yesterday morning.
Mrs. Maud R. Jacobs of Carrollton, Ky., presented classes and demonstrations in flower show practice-schedule making, the methods of growing exhibition flowers, conservation, and a demonstration in judging horticultural classes.
Mrs. Jacobs is the author of "Gardening Made Easy," and for ten years was garden editor of "Women's World."
Mrs. Wheeler has taught and lectured extensively throughout North America and has written more than 30 published articles on flower arrangement. She has won the American Dahlia society silver sweepstakes medal and the silver trophy of the Horticultural society of N.Y.
Mrs. Esther Wheeler of Roslyn Heights, N.Y. will conduct classes on flower arrangement today with emphasis on line, balance, and monochromatic harmonies. A demonstration in judging arrangements will also be given.
Examinations will be given over the material presented Friday which when passed will entitle the participant to be a certified judge of flower shows.
$300 In Prizes To Be Given On Student Research Day
The third annual Student Research day will be held Friday, May 9 at the University. All classes in the School of Medicine will be
Seventy-three high schools have sent 3,455 students, said Neal M Wherry, principal of Liberty Memorial High school and director of the festival.
Music Festival Starts Today
Today's program includes large ensembles and piano solos. The numbers will be presented in Hoch auditorium, Robinson gym, Fraser theater, Strong auditorium and the high school auditorium.
Saturday, instrumental and vocal solos will be given in the Museum of Art. Lindley hall, Green theater, Strong auditorium and the high school auditorium. The events are open to the public.
The District Music festival, sponsored jointly by the University and Liberty Memorial High school, will be held here today and Saturday.
Radio station KLWN of Lawrence is broadcasting from the high school today.
The judges include D. M. Swarthout, professor of piano, and Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts.
The ratings of the judges will be announced at 6 p.m. over the air both nights. No prizes will be given.
High school districts having similar festivals this weekend will have several members of the fine arts faculty as judges.
They include E. Thayer Gaston, Clayton Krehbiel and Leo Horacek, at Pratt; James Nickerson and Gerald Carney, at Dodge City; Marcus E. Hahn at Lindsborg, and Joseph F. Wilkens at Emporia. Going to Wichita are Dr. Elin K. Jorgenson, Raymond Zepp, and Miss Meribah Moore.
cancelled that day to allow students on the Kansas City and Lawrence campuses to attend.
The Russell L. Haden medal and $100 for the best original investigative work by a medical student will be awarded. The Haden medal is the highest award for research that an undergraduate medical student can receive.
Papers must be submitted by April 15. The Research Committee of the School of Medicine makes the selections for prizes. Members of this committee are Drs. Robert Bolinger, Harold Grady, Russell C. Mills, Robert L. Newman, Paul W. Shafer, Robert E. Stowell, W. Clarke Wescoe, and Herbert A. Wenner.
Alumni and physicians of Kansas as well as other friends are invited to attend the reading of papers and presentation of awards, Dr. Edward H. Heshinger, dean of the School of Medicine said.
Another prize of $100 will be awarded to the house officer doing the best original investigative work. A third prize of $100, given by the Phi Chi medical fraternity, will be awarded for the best original investigative work by a junior or senior medical student.
Tornadoes, Flood Hit Country Today
By United Press
A tornado struck the New Orleans, La., area today and Montana fought one of the worst floods in its history.
The pre-dawn tornado, accompanied by hail and driving rain, smashed through uptown New Orleans and several adjacent communities.
Two persons were killed and at least 14 injured.
At Washington, the U.S. weather bureau forecast small tornadoes in southern Alabama, extreme southwestern Georgia and the Florida ganthandle.
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Earlier, forecasters had warned of possible tornadoes in southwestern states.