1951
Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Kansan STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
Hoisting Of Flag Will Begin Senior Day Activities
Hoisting of a senior flag atop Fraser hall at 8 a.m. Tuesday, May 8 will signal the opening of Senior day. The festivities will begin with a parade at 2:50 p.m.
The parade will assemble in front of the Union at 2:30 p.m. Each school may be represented in the parade by a float carried on the shoulders of its seniors. The College, and Schools of Business, Engineering, and Fine Arts have entered floats.
To enter other floats contact Henry Zoller, engineering senior. The parade will wind across the campus to the parking lot above Potter lake.
A donkey polo game between faculty and students will be played at the parking lot following the parade. After the game the annual lawyer-engineer tug of war will be held.
At 5 p.m. a barbecue picnic will begin at the picnic grounds west of Potter lake. Entertainers will circulate among the dinners at the picnic. Tickets for the picnic will be on sale, today, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday until noon, at tables in front of the library, in Strong hall, and in Marvin hall.
The Junior-Senior class dance, featuring Tex Beneke and his orchestra will conclude the day's activities. It will be held in Hoch auditorium from 8 p.m. to 12 midnight. The dance is open to the entire student body and the public. Tickets are on sale now in the alumni office, in front of Watson library, the Union lounge, and in all organized houses.
Tickets for the informal dance are $1.50 a person, tax included, and $1 a person for spectator seats. Closing hours for women attending have been extended to 12 midnight rather than 12:30 a.m. as was previously announced.
Co-ops Observe 10th Anniversary
A banquet at 6:30 tonight in the Kansas room of the Union and open house at the University co-op houses from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday will climax the observance of Co-op week.
The banquet will mark the tenth anniversary of the K.U. Student Housing association, the official organization of the campus co-ops.
The nine co-ops which will hold open house are Henley and the Graduate girls co-op for women; the Couples co-op; Jayhawk, Twin Pines, Don Henry, Rock Chalk, Rochdale, and Hill for men.
Students To Aid Board Of Regents
Five students were appointed Thursday to assist the board of regents in selecting a new chancellor.
John Rader, third year law student; Roger Davis, first year law student; Marvin Arth, journalism scholar; and Mary Lou Fischer and Jesse Waugh, education seniors, were appointed by James Logan, All Student Council president.
Logan read a letter from the board of regents to the A.S.C. Tuesday night saying they would be "happy to have the committee," in answer to a petition by F.A.C.T.S party.
Chorus, Orchestra Concert Sunday To Begin Music Week Programs
By Helen Lou Fry
A concert by the University chorus and the Symphony orchestra at 4 p.m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium will begin the programs for Music Week. The second program will be given by Frances Magnes, violinist.
The chorus, made up of singers from the A Cappella Choir and the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs, and the Symphony Orchestra will be directed by Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts. Soloists will be Devona Doxie, mezzo-soprano;
Joseph Wilkins, tenor, and Reinhold Schmidt. bass-baritone.
The program will open with Bach's 140th cannon "Wachet Auf (Sleepers Wake).' This dramatic work is based upon the parable of the wise and foolish virgins as narrated in the 25th chapter of St. Matthew.
Two works, being heard for the first time in Lawrence, complete the program. The first will be "Nanie" by Brahms. This elegy, composed in
1880, was written shortly after the death of Brahms' friend, Feuerbach, a painter. It is based on a poem by Schiller. "The Lament for Beowulf" is by the American composer, Howard Hanson. The music follows the text of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem and dramatically describes the scene of Beowulf's burial.
The public is invited. There will be no admission charge.
Miss Magnes, playing Monday.
made her New York debut in Carnegie hall in 1946. Since that time she has fulfilled some 80 engagements in recitals with symphony orchestras throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.
Miss Magnes will present her recital in Strong auditorium at 8 p.m. Due to limited seating facilities, tickets must be obtained in the School of Fine Arts office in Strong hall before the concert. The tickets are free.
Upstream Panel Discusses Prejudice And How It May Affect Literature
Approximately sixty-two persons heard opposing views on the responsibility of a writer to society at the Upstream dinner Thursday night at the Congregational church.
The topic, "Prejudice and the Writer," was chosen as a result of letters written to the University Daily Kansan that called certain stories in Upstream prejudiced.
Mrs. Overly upheld the idea that having "an open mind" is the most effective way to combat prejudice.
A panel of four persons, Hiiden Gibson, professor of political science. Mrs. Dorothy Owlen and Sydney Schiffer, instructors in English, and Wesley Elliott, graduate student, opened the discussion, which was moderated by William Righter, graduate student.
Mr. Schifter said, "A writer is bound to deal with people with some consciousness. If he uses derogatory terms to draw a picture of a certain character, he should indicate that this character's attitude is not the writer's own.
"Art has every right to transcribe life with realistic words and expressions," she said. "There is a place for crusading but it is not in literature. It should not be a primary force in art, 'Huckleberry Finn,' for example, shows Jim as a Negro with all the stereotyped' characteristics and yet he is by far the most noble person in the book. This damns prejudice. A character well-characterized is not a stereotyped character."
"Prejudice's function is to de-humanize, to exclude a race from participation in life. Prejudice itself is allied to anti-democratic ideology, and we must reject it as that. The
"I am in sympathy with the 'no inhibitions' theory of writing, but what about printing it," he said. "Writing is both self-expression and a communication between people, and as a communication it has untold force.
"I suggest that the answer lies in not considering Negroes as Negroes, but Negroes as individuals. All people are individuals. We should not strive for racial equality, but for obliteration of the concept of race."
true freedom for a writer is to recognize that stereotyped characters are not the truth."
Opinions expressed in the general discussion varied from the view that a writer is responsible for the effect his work has, to the view that it is
Elliott said that the ultimate solution of racial prejudice is beyond literature to accomplish but that certain words and phrases used in books are a part of prejudice.
Professor Gibson said that the two views—"The writer has a moral responsibility" and "Art stands above and beyond the confines of morality"—could not be reconciled, yet they were both valid.
“Are there moral obligations in art?” he asked. “Is a writer justified in using stereotypes such as a lazy Negro, a tight Jew, a dirty Mexican, as literary 'shortcuts'? People must be recognized as ends in themselves and not as 'means' in fiction.”
the reader who commits the inju-
tice and generalizes, not the write
Milton Hughes, who under the pen name of Axel Moodie, wrote "Black Fisher," one of the stories in Upstream which brought on the controversy, said "Everyone can find himself a member of a minority group if he looks very far. Expressions of opinion in literature should not be squeaked because they are general."
Mrs. Dorothy Van Ghent, guest editor of the issue of Upstream which carried Hughes' story, said "Good art is moral art. I would not say this story is prejudiced. It is a marvelously fantastic creation of the imagination."
The writer of one of the letters attacking Hughes' story said, "All I saw was the story, and after I read it certain impressions, based on generalizations, were left with me. None of them would be used to the Negro people as a whole. The writer owes it to himself not to use these kinds of expressions."
A tape recording of the half-hour panel discussion will be broadcast over K.L.W.N. at 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
A lecture on the "Biology of Poio" will be given at 8 p.m. today in Fraser theater. Dr. David Bodian, professor of neuro-anatomy at Johns Hopkins university, will be the speaker. The public is invited.
3 p.m. Alumni registration, Union
Exhibits are on display in Bailey Chemical laboratories under the sponsorship of the Kansas Junior Academy of Science composed of junior and senior high school students. The show will be open until 5 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.
The general program for Commencement will be as follows:
Commencement Chairmen Schedule Announced
Chairmen for faculty Commencement committees were announced Thursday by Guy V. Keeler, general chairman for the University Commencement activities.
They are: Miss Marjorie Whitney, decorations; Miss Edna Hill and Miss Kathleen O'Donnell, registration; Mr. and Mrs. George Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Crosier, alumni luncheon; Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Mills and Mr. and Mrs. Leland Pritchard, alumni reception; Gerald Pearson and Jack Happy, tickets; Frank S. Owen and Harold Swartz, caps and gowns; Miss Martha Peterson and Reginald Strait, checking; Arvid Jacobson, exhibits; Henry Shenk, University marshals; Keith Lawton, campus tours; Thomas Gordon and Russell Wiley, music; Tom Yoe, publicity and printing; Miss Milred Seaman, radio; Harold Barr, ministers, and Margaret Dickinson, College senior, senior breakfast.
More than 150 research papers will be presented today and Saturday at sectional meetings of all science departments of the University.
550 Here For Kansas Science Group Meeting
By BEN HOLMAN
The science departments of the University have displays in Robinson gymnasium until 10 p.m. today. They will also be shown from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.
3:30 p.m. Meeting of board of directors, Alumni association, alumni office.
6:30 p.m. New K.U. movie, "Beyond the Towers" and varsity dance
Sunday, June 2
9 a.m. Endowment association, trustees breakfast, Union.
5 p.m. Alumni Commencement supper. Union
Co-op Flies Red Flag
8:30 a.m. Mortar Board reunion breakfast, Union
3 p.m. Alumni association meeting Fraser hall
7:30 p.m. Baccalaureate, stadium
Monday, June 4
Noon Class reunions, Union
The largest meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science continued today with more than 550 persons attending.
The fellows were lounging around one of the co-ops after dinner. It had been a pretty dull May day.
8:30 a.m. Senior breakfast, Union
2:30 p.m. Phi Beta Kappa, Kansas room of Union
3 p.m. University reception, Union
7 p.m. Commencement, stadium
Finally someone remembered an old red flag he had stored away. It wasn't long before they had hoisted it out of a second floor window and were playing workingmen's songs on records.
A heavy-set Texan leading six fraternity men soon appeared at the door.
"What's the red flag for?" they asked.
"We're having a little May day celebration. It's the annual observance of workingmen over the world."
The visiting spokesman was quick to explain that he knew all about it.
"With our boys dying over in Kraków, we hold a Communist demonstration."
"Oh, but we aren't communists. What did they say way, were you ever in the army?"
"You bet, Part of the 'Hell-on-Wheels' division which swept across Europe. And I'll be back in, come a few weeks. Now how about taking down the flag?"
There was a period of hesitation and then some visitors shouted to take down the flag.
"Hell, yes!" they replied.
This caused some dismay among the visitors and a few of them gave
At this point, one of the co-op group, a graduate student, asked the visitors if they believed in private property.
"Well, then," said the grad student, "either get off the private property you're trespassing on, or calm down and come in for some coffee."
Two hours later the visitors left with an invitation to return.
up the siege. Three or four accepted the invitation and entered the house with the red flag still displayed.
"I guess we misunderstood each other," the Texan said.
It had been a pretty exciting May day—K.U, style.
French Teachers To Meet Saturday
The American Association of Teachers of French will hold a meeting here Saturday. The French department is host to the group.
In conjuction with the meeting Robert Champigny, professor of French at the University of Indiana, will speak at 2:30 p.m. in Strong auditorium.
His lecture, which will be in French is "La Perversite de Sartre" and will deal with existentialism. Professor Champigny is from Tours, France and he came to this country the past fall after studying and working in England.
Before the lecture Mrs. Beaulale Chiapusso will present several French songs.