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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1951
Election Plan Divides Offices Proportionately
In the campus election Wednesday, the Hare system of proportional representation, adopted at K.U. in 1934, will be used in counting the votes.
Under this system, many ballots are thrown away because the voter has failed to follow instructions. Even more students vote without having knowledge of the details involved in the process.
The purpose of the Hare system is to distribute the votes in such a manner that elected candidates are divided between the parties in proportion to their voting strength.
Instead of marking an "X" for the candidates to be elected, the voter uses numbers, placing a 1 for the first choice, 2 for the second choice, or as many numbers as there are candidates to be elected. It is important to vote for as many as is required, because second and third choices may determine the election.
In counting the ballots defective ballots are discarded and the good ones are totaled. This total is divided by a number one higher than the number of persons to be elected. The quotient is increased to the nearest whole number if there is a fraction.
The number obtained is called the quota, or the number of votes each person must get to be elected. When the first place votes are counted, everyone with at least the prescribed quota is declared elected.
If a candidate has more votes than are necessary, the excess votes are distributed to the second choices.
After all surplus votes have been distributed and still all positions have not been filled, the person receiving the lowest first place votes is declared defeated. His votes are then distributed. If there are still vacancies, the votes for the lowest vote-getter remaining are distributed. This process continues until the necessary number of candidates is elected.
SUA Will Send 5 To April Convention
Three students, and two Union staff members will attend the annual convention of the National Association of College unions Wednesday, Saturday, April 28, at Michigan State college in East Lansing, Mich.
James Burgoyne, Student Union activities director, will participate in a panel discussion at the convention.
Students attending the conference will be Paul Arrowood, S.U.A.president; Damon Simpson, vice-president; and Janice Horn, secretary. The second staff member to attend has not been named.
PAUL ARROWOOD
Arrowwood Is SUA Head
Paul Arrowwood, business junior, has been selected as the president of Student Union activities for the 1951-52 school year.
Other new officers are Damon Simpson, engineering junior, vicepresident; Janice Horn, engineering senior, secretary, and Frank Norris, College sophomore, treasurer. The officers were elected by the S.U.A. operating committee April 4.
The board members will be selected by the newly elected S.U.A. officers and an advisory committee from the operating committee.
Applications for positions on the board of directors are now being accepted. Students wishing to apply should do so at the S.U.A. office in the Union before Friday, April 13.
The operating committee is the policy determining body of the Union and is composed of students and faculty members.
X-Ray Technicians To Hold Meeting
The Kansas Society of X-Ray Technicians will hold its state meeting and a refresher course Friday and Saturday at the University. An examination for qualification as a registered technician will be given to new technicians.
A guest consultant, Dr. Russell Rabold, technician at Miami Valley hospital in Dayton, and an expert on X-rays will lecture both days.
Dr. H. H. Dunham of Kansas City will lecture on the anatomy of the skull. Dr. Leon Beller of Topeka will conduct a conference on the injurious effects to personnel from A-bomb radiation.
Boston (U.P.)—During the past half century the yield of the New England fisheries has varied from 400- 000,000 pounds to nearly 700,000,000 pounds annually.
New England Fish Story
Fifth Sociology Broadcast Aired
There is a feeling of personal acquaintance between a teacher and a corresponding student, Mrs. Helen Roofe, special instructor in sociology, said Sunday in a sociology broadcast.
The broadcast, fifth in a series being presented by the department of sociology, was a discussion presented by Carroll D. Clark, chairman of the department, and Mrs. Roofe, who is with the bureau of correspondence of University Extension.
"I think correspondence is a part of a university that is often neglected." Dr. Clark said. "In one sense a theory is only a practice made conscious of itself and given the most general and universal statement. But the practice which fairly tests a theory is always a set of limited conditions. No theory of the way an event will happen can ignore these limiting conditions... but I will agree that quite often the problems of human relations are so complex that it is to defy analysis in the present state of our knowledge."
"Correspondence teachers handled more than 31,060 papers last year." Mrs. Roofe pointed out. "There were 1,361 courses completed by students and a total of 5,517 students enrolled last year. Courses leading the list were English, economies, education and mathematics. Political science, sociology and foreign languages rated about the same number."
The acquainted feeling between teacher and student comes about through the questions that are asked on the material or about a delay in lesson preparation. Mrs. Roofe explained that students are asked as part of their assignment to make a drawing of their city or town to locate economic establishments, transportation facilities, and economic institutions.
Pershing Rifles Society Pledges Fifteen
Fifteen army and air force R.O.T.C. cadets were pledged to the Pershing Rifles recently.
Pledged to the honorary organization were Paul Fotopoulos, College junior; William Chaney and Paul Walter; College sophomores; Dick Higgins, College and Law sophomore; Bob Ogle, engineering sophomore; V. J. Johnson, Don Mabrey, John Musser, Hugh Ness, John Newton, Charles Schroff, John Stevens, College freshmen; George Claunch, Gene Rogers, Norman Stout, and Leland Tatum, engineering freshmen.
Classes in the remedial reading program begin today and Tuesday Dr. H. P. Smith, associate professor of education, has announced.
Reading Class Starts Today;
Enrollment Until Thursday
Students may enroll in the classes as late as Thursday. Additional information may be obtained in room 18 Fraser hall, between 3 and 5 p.m.
Blakely Tells Of Spread Of McCarthyism' In US
Most newspapers have aided the spread of "McCarthyism" through an uncritical presentation, Robert J. Blakely said in delivering the Don R. Mellett Memorial lecture in Strong auditorium April 6.
The St. Louis Star-Times chief editorial writer gave the lecture honoring the martyred, crusading editor before 200 persons. The lecture was sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
Blakely said that the murder of Mellett for his crusade against crime and corruption for the Canton (Ohio) Daily News could happen elsewhere. He said that a newspaper is obligated to wage a constant crusade.
Referring to Joseph P. McCarthy, senator from Wisconsin, he cautioned that the poison of McCarthyism is spreading throughout the United States. Most newspapers have participated through an uncritical presentation of McCarthyism.
"Prisoners are not penitent because of the capriciousness of written laws and interpretation, lack of honesty and fairness in the police department, and the respectability of the white collar criminal," Blakely contended.
"A newspaper should strive to be independent," he urged. "Complete independence is improbable. If it were possible, it would not be desirable."
Blakely said that a newspaper should not be a party organ. He called such a newspaper a "compromise paper." He urged that loyalty be only to the reader. In this way, it is working for equality of men in the eyes of the law—a basis of our democracy.
"The concept of equality of opportunity is expanded." Blakely explained. "Because of specialization, the individual has surrendered his self-sufficiency to society. How equal are the opportunities of two candidates for a job if one is of a racially dominant group and the other is not?"
"Ideally each person should be independent. In an industrial society, however, the individual has surrendered to the community the right to do things for him. He has a vital interest in the community, therefore. This is essentially democratic. The translation of this doctrine into action is the responsibility of the American press. It involves scores of crusades."
Speaking of American democracy, Blakely contended that fascism had jolted our confidence. He called communism a greater threat because of its hypocritical approach. Loyalty to our country, however, cannot be compelled. It would be like requiring a wife to declare her loyalty to her husband daily.
Some people who are harming others in attempting to compel loyalty "know exactly what they are doing." Our basic rights are "under the most stringent attack in centuries." Lauding the principles of Jefferson's generation, he insisted that we should not judge them to
be "naive and our own to be sophisticated." The men who venerate Jefferson are not fools.
"Freedom is not a luxury like cake and champaigne, but rather a necessity like meat and milk.
"The ghost of isolationism walked at the beginning of the Korean war," he said. "It became necessary to expose the myth of continents again, to calculate the industrial potentiality of Europe. We have done a woefully inadequate educational job of explaining one world.
"The basis of the world's problems is food rather than communism. Three-fourths of the human race is in abject misery and want."
Blakely asked that we adopt a bold new program if the world of 2000 is to be one of hope. He said that although the American people are not ready to launch such a program, the desire to give our grandchildren the advantages of our grandparents is part of the American dream.
If newspapers wage a constant crusade for reason and intelligence, communism will follow through to the "nightmare of George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.'"
"If constant reason and morality will not present an answer to man's problems, nothing else will."
Poets'Contest Deadline Set
The William Herbert Carruth Memorial poetry contest has been extended to noon Monday, April 16, John E. Hankins, professor of English, said.
The number of poems which may be submitted by each individual is from one to three. Three typewritten copies of each poem, signed by an assumed or pen name, must be handed in to the chancellor's office before the deadline.
A sealed envelope containing the real name and address of the author must accompany the poem. On the outside of this envelope must be written the assumed name of the contestant and the exact title of the poem.
A preliminary committee will select one of the poems from each person and submit it to the final committee. The preliminary committee consists of: Dorothy Van Ghent, Thomas G. Sturgeon, and John E. Hankins, all of the English department.
According to the rules, the final committee must consist of a member of the English department, one alumnus of the University, and a man-of-letters not connected with the University.
Four Profs Declare Proposed New Song Not Suitable
By ANNE SNYDER
You may have heard the traditional University Alma Mater for the last time.
The strains of "Crimson and the Blue" will not echo in the football stadium next fall if students vote Wednesday to substitute "Onward, Spirit of Kansas" as the Alma Mater song.
The composer of the words to 'Onward, Spirit of Kansas,' Allen Crafton, professor of speech, said. "I like the piece as a stirring song, but neither the tune nor the words are quite in line for what should be the most treasured song of the University.
"I think a new Alma Mater should be written, but it should be more hymn-like than 'Onward, Spirit of Kansas.'"
Four University professors of speech, band, piano, and voice who were asked their opinion of the proposed change replied unanimously that they did not think "Onward, Spirit of Kansas" would make a suitable Alma Mater.
Prof. Russell L. Wiley, director of the University band, said: "Onward, Spirit of Kansas' is one of the finest school marching songs I have ever played. But I do not believe it is the type of song we want for our Alma Mater. Schools like Nebraska that have a marching song for an Alma Mater play it for everything. At KU. we have kept our Alma Mater out of the regular garden variety of tunes.
"If we change Alma Maters, we should choose a song as dignified as the one we have now. I don't think it is necessary to change. I feel we'll have great difficulty in making a change because of the deep roots
involved in a song that has been used as an Alma Mater for as long as 'Crimson and the Blue' has beer used at K.U."
D. M. Swarthout, professor of piano and past dean of the School of Fine Arts, said, "I would be very sorry to see 'Crimson and the Blue' changed. Regardless of the fact that We don't have monopoly on the tune, I think it has dignity and the real Alma Mater Spirit. 'Onward, Spirit of Kansas,' while a splendid addition to K.U.'s repertoire, doesn't have the atmosphere I feel the Alma Mater song should have."
Joseph Wilkins, chairman of the department of voice, said, "The Alma Mater we have now is much better suited to mass singing than the proposed song. 'Crimson and the Blue' lies in a better range and is not so complicated as 'Onward, Spirit of Kansas,' which is too difficult for the average untrained
chorus. I think 'Onward, Spirit of Kansas' is the finest school song I know, but it is better suited to a trained group of singers.
"Onward, Spirit of Kansas' is relatively as difficult as the 'Star-Stangled Banner', which is much too difficult for mass singing."
The official school song dates back to 1892, when George Barlow Penny, first dean of fine arts, wrote the words and arranged the music for the Men's Glee Club.
The song was printed in the 1893 K.U. annual as "Yellow and the
Dean Penny had come to K. U. from Cornell university, where in 1872 two students had written Cornell's Alma Mater, "Far Above Cayuga's Waters," to the tune of "Annie Lisle," an old English folk song. The dean needed a closing piece for the Men's Glee club program to be a tour of Kansas, and adopted Cornell's Alma Mater to fit K.U.'s "sweet"
Blue." When the University colors were changed, the words were changed and the title became "Crimson and the Blue."
"Onward, Spirit of Kansas" was written in 1939 by Jack Laffer, a student at the University, and Professor Crafton. Laffer composed the song for a musical review, "Cum Laude," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of the University. Professor Crafton was director of the show.
"Laffer, who was in the show came to me and said he had written a drinking song for the musical" Professor Crafton said. "When he played it for me, I thought the tune was so good that we made it the main song in the show."
A bass drummer in the University band, Bill Ward, made the present band arrangement of the piece, said Professor Wiley.