Kansas State Historical Society
Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Monday. March 31, 1952
UP FOR THE BALL—Three players are caught with their feet off the floor as they fight for the ball in the first round of the Olympic trials in Kansas City Saturday. Kansas topped Southwest Missouri, NAIB titlist, 92-65, to advance to the semi-finals in New York tonight. Fighting for the ball, left to right, are Jerry Anderson (43), Bill Lienhard (11), Bill Thomas (36), and Charlie Hoag (5).—Kansan photo by Maurice Prather.
By BOB STEWART
4 Declare Candidacies For ASC Presidency
Four students have declared their candidacies for the position of All Student Council president.
Representing the two campus political parties, FACTS and Pachacamas, the four will have their names on the ballots Wednesday when FACTS and Pachacamac-NOW members are to vote in the primary elections.
Candidates for FACTS are William Nulton and Donald Dirks, college juniors. Pachacamac candidates are William Wilson, engineering junior, and Frank Norris, business junior.
Dirks: "As president of the ASC I would work to break down the "Greek-independent split" and carry out every plank on the FACTS party platform."
Each of the candidates has definite ideas for a program if elected to office:
A complete list of candidates from each party will appear in Tuesday's Kansan.
Dirks has been on the ASC for two years, and has been elections chairman for this year. He was chairman of the orientation week committee, a varsity debater and member of the YMCA cabinet during 1950-51. He is president of FACTS party, a member of the KuKu's and Independent Student association. He is at the University on a NROTC scholarship.
At the party primaries one candidate will be eliminated from each party. All four candidates are now members of the ASC.
Nulton: "I would favor the ASC taking unto itself powers both within and without its constitution sufficient to make it an organization truly representative of the best interests of every student, regardless of race or residence."
Norris was the producer of the 1952 Rock Chalk revue. He is treasurer of Student Union activities, and on the executive council of Pachacamac and Inter-fraternity council. He is also a member of Owl society.
Norris; "If elected ASC president, I hope to develop and utilize the powers of the ASC as given by the constitution. I am of the opinion they haven't been used properly. In addition, I would support the Pachacamac platform."
Nulton is vice-president of
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Kansas, LaSalle Into Semifinals
Smashing the Southwest Missouri State Teachers college Bears 92 to 65 in the first phase of the Olympic playoffs Saturday night, the Kansas Jayhawkers boarded a plane at 9 a.m. Sunday for the flight to New York City and the playoff semifinals.
Debate Freedom Not Slander Tool Chafee Declares
The privilege of freedom of debate by Congress was designed to enable senators and representatives to carry on government more efficiently. It is not a privilege of unlimited slander.
Zechariah Chafee Jr., Harvard professor of law, at an all-student convocation in Hoch auditorium today added that the right was originally designed to protect legislators from interference by executors to private citizens who are victims of vitiation.
"No new remedy is necessary to stop abuses of freedom of debate." Professor Chafee said. "The remedy has been right there in the Constitution since 1787. A senator or representative can be punished or expelled by his own house," he said.
"The real issue before Congress is whether it regards itself as a club with no concern for private citizens who are injured by gross injustice," he said.
The freedom of debate clause was put into the Constitution because it was commonly accepted, Professor Chafee said. It came down through the Articles of Federation and the English Bill of Rights.
Professor Chafe outlined the development of the right of freedom of debate in assembly from the time of the Magna Carta through the reigns of Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I, and James II. The struggle for liberty in debate reached a climax on Jan. 4, 1642 when Charles I, discovering that the House of Commons intended to impeach the queen, entered that house to mark the first time that an English monarch had come to the common people.
The only possible limitation ever suggested by the supreme court is that members of Congress might not be immune if they initiated the long parliament by executing the chief magistrate, Professor Chafee said.
"Freedom of debate operates in every way which will enable congress to do its work, not merely to guard it against the kind of interferences which hindered English parliaments before the Bill of Rights." Professor Chafee said.
The right was gained only through the imprisonment and death of many English leaders during a span of centuries. Professor Chafee said.
"Never, no matter how great the abuses are, should the privilege itself be impaired." he said.
The KU Alumni club of New York City has reserved a block of tickets so that University alumni may see Kansas play today at Madison Square Garden, according to Fred Ellsworth alumni secretary.
WEATHER
New York City Alumni Club Reserves Tickets For Game
Mr. Ellsworth said that the club will get seats for the April 1 game if Kansas plays. The game will be preceded by a reception at the Paramont hotel.
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight, with showers and thunderstorms southeast and extreme east this evening. Tuesday partly cloudy and cooler in southwest and extreme east. Lows tonight 30' northwest, 40' southeast.
SMALL SHOWERS
But the team did not leave until Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen had received word that there would be a western official at the playoffs in New York.
Following the game with the Springfield Teachers college Saturday, Coach Allen said he would not take the team to New York unless there would be a western official. He said Kansas was entitled to such representation.
Since La Salle college defeated St. John's of Brooklyn 71-62, the Jayhawkers will meet La Salle in the semifinals of the playoffs Monday night. The game will be carried by the KU Sports network at 8:30 p.m. (CST).
If Kansas gets by La Salle, it will meet the winner of the Peoria Caterpillars-Phillips 66 Oilers game. The winners of the college and AAU ranks will slug it out in Olympic finals Tuesday night.
The first place college team will send seven players to the Olympic games in Helsinki. The first place AAU team will send five players, and two AAU players will be selected at large.
The Kansas-Springfield Teachers game turned into a rooters' battle. The Kansas and Springfield bands were seated opposite each other in Kansas City Municipal auditorium, and each tried to out play the other.
The Springfield Teachers got 1,200 tickets to the game, and a special train brought more than 400 rooters to Kansas City. Since it was not known until late Wednesday that Kansas would be in the Olympic playoffs in Kansas City, tickets could not be obtained for sale on the campus. Still a busload of Jay Janes and KuKu's attended the game.
The Bears' fans hung a banner reading "National Intercollegiate Basketball Championship" on the ledge on the first balcony of the auditorium. The pep clubs brought the 60-foot banner, "NCAA Champs, On to Helsinki" which had been over the intersection at Seventh and Massachusetts street during the welcome rally, and hung it opposite the Springfield banner.
Many spectators began filing out of the auditorium with four minutes to play when the score was 83-57 for Kansas.
With three minutes of playing time left, the pep section took down the "On to Helsinki" sign. As the team came off the floor, it was met by the pep club members carrying the sign.
The band formed outside the auditorium, and led by the cheerleaders with the banner, marched to the Muehlebach hotel where a short rally was held.
On the bus back from Kansas City, the pep clubs members rallied and sang through every town. The chant of the evening was, "It's hell, it's hell, it's Helsinki or bust."
No official representatives of the Jay James and KuKu's will be sent to the Olympic playoff in New York because of the costs and the amount of school which would be missed. "We contacted alumni and representatives of airlines, but since they had contributed heavily for the team and since we had so little time, we could not make the arrangements," Donald Horttor, president of the KuKu club, said.
Queen Selection Highlights Law School Day Wednesday
Selection of a queen, a student-faculty softball game, a banquet, and a speech by Zechariah Chafee, Harvard professor, will highlight the annual Law School day Wednesday.
"This is the traditional program for Law School day." Ralph Brock, president of the third year law class, said. He is directing plans for the day and will preside at the 6:15 banquet in the Community, building.
The queen, Miss Res Ipsa Loquitur" which means "the thing speaks for itself," will be chosen at a contest at H am. in Green theater, will be secretary of the hawk club, will introduce the candidates.
A picnic at 12:30 p.m. will feature a softball game between the law students and faculty in South park.
Dr. Boas To Give Humanities Talk
Dr. George Boas of John Hopkins university will deliver the fourth Humanities lecture of this season at 8 p.m. Tuesday, in Fraser theater. His subject will be "The Problem of the Arts."
His first public lecture here will be a discussion of art at 4 p.m. today in the Museum of Art.
He has held the chair of professor of the history of philosophy at Johns Hopkins since 1933.
Professor Chafee will speak on "The Freedom of Movement" following the banquet. His lecture will be the third in a series on "Three Human Rights in the Original Constitution."
Over 350 students, faculty, and alumni are expected for the banquet.
DR. GEORGE BOAS