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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE KANSAS
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY. 18, 1951
New Parties Are Old Story At KU
Recent interest in the formation of an new campus political party is nothing new at the University.
Since the first election of student body officers on May 6, 1909, no less than a dozen political parties have been organized. There have been combines at times and various coalitions have been formed from these parties.
In 1909 a constitution was granted to the Men's Student council, which was the first organization to start a student-controlled governing body. There were 389 votes cast in this first election. That same year, the Women's Self-governing association was organized. In 1912, Pachacamac, Greek political party, was started.
From this meager beginning, in interest in student politics grew, until in 1934 Governor Alf Landon was asked to send the national guard to watch the voting booths. That year he brought back chacamac and formed a coalition. Their houses were rotten-egged and their cars were forced off the streets.
In 1921, a group called the Black Mask tried to form a party, but ran into trouble when they failed to notify candidates of their nominations. They published the names of influential students as candidates, only to have the "candidates" indignantly withdraw their names. The Black Mask party changed its name to the Common Sense party the following year, but still failed to get votes.
The ultimate in party confusion was reached in 1931. Two political parties entered the race. The Oread party, organized in the fall of 1930, entered candidates in the 1931 election opposing the Pachacamaca party.
After the race started the Kayahawkers entered the campaign. The Kayahawkers had been a mens' club interested in social and intramural achievements. One month later they joined the Oreads and the Oread-Kayahawk or the O.K. party was formed. Then the two sides settled down to serious campaigning.
The smouldering fires of the political embers at the University were
stirred by the surprise entrance of a fourth party, the Progressives. They were described as "the first non-fraternity party on the hill" by their president. The Pachacamac party succeeded in filling 24 of the 32 positions that year.
In 1935 the Kayhawkers gave up
That year the W.S.G.A. ran into an excessive amount of criticism and were called puppets for the M.S. C. A little later the N.O.W. was organized and formed a coalition with Pachacamac. N.O.W. was the sorority equivalent of Pachacamac.
politics and went back to social and intramural pursuits.
In 1947, the Progressive Student Governing league was dissolved after being the ruling campus political party for 12 years. Since that time, Pachacamac candidates have held a majority of the political positions at the University.
Photographic Bureau: Rob Ros
WALTER J. BROWN, College senior, and James K. Logan, business junior, watch as Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of men, inspects the constitution of F.A.C.T.S., new campus political party. Logan and Brown presented the constitution to Dean Woodruff Wednesday. Logan is president of the new party.
Dance Set For Saturday
The Sweetheart Swing will be held from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday, not tonight as announced in The Daily Kansan Thursday. The dance will be in the Union ballroom.
Six members of the Hui-o-Hawaiiana club will give a 15-minute show during the intermission. Madison Murray, College sophomore, and the Tri-Delt quartet will sing. The quartet consists of Marilyn Barr, fine arts junior; Lynette Oberg, fine arts senior; Marilyn Lind, education junior; and Clara James, fine arts senior.
Paul Arrowood will be master of ceremonies. Danny Orton and his band will play for the dance.
Admission tickets, $1 a couple will be sold at the door.
General Electric To Interview
John Hall, representative of the General Electric company in Richland, Wash., will interview engineering students on Monday. Feb. 19, and Tuesday. Feb. 20.
Mr. Hall will be interested in candidates for the bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering, chemistry, and physical metallurgy. Students must sign application blanks and a schedule in the office of Dean Carr of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
Malott Is Speaker At Aggie Inaugural
Chancellor Dean W. Malot spoke at a luncheon today at Kansas State college. He was the speaker representing Kansas colleges at the inauguration of James A. McCain, as new president of Kansas State.
Representatives from most Kansas colleges and universities are attending the ceremonies which started Thursday with a reception and inaugural ball.
Navy Wants Their Canteen Returned
Taxpayers can take heart. Some effort is being made by the armed forces to avoid costly waste.
The N.R.O.T.C. unit at the University has received a sample of Caribbean sea water from the 10th naval district. With the water came a request for the prompt return of the canteen in which it came.
A navy spokesman here said the price of a new canteen is about $2, while postage will be only 10 cents. It will be sent back promptly, he said.
The water is one of the samples from the 17 naval districts to be used in the navy ring dance Friday, March 2.
Ruth Bryan Rohde Begins Lectures
In 1922 she became the first woman ever to serve on the congressional foreign affairs committee. She was also our first woman diplomat as minister to Denmark from 1933-76. In the U.N. she is chairman of the speakers' research committee.
Ruth Bryan Rohde, "first lady of the platform," begins a six week speaking tour of various cities throughout Kansas for the bureau of lectures and concerts Sunday, Guy V. Keeler, director, announced today.
She will be the "talk-of-the-month" club speaker in several cities. These clubs, organized and copyrighted by the lecture bureau in 1938, sponsor a prominent speaker each month. Admission to lectures is granted to members only. Present membership numbers more than 300 persons.
Miss Rhode, daughter of William Jennings Bryan, will speak on topics of world peace. Numerous colleges are included in the tour.
In 1947, Miss Rohde toured Europe and spoke in Denmark on the same program with King Frederik IX. She holds honorary doctor of humanities and doctor of laws degrees in several colleges. The San Francisco Call-Bulletin described her as an "aristocrat of intellectual."
Regents Name New Committee
Five men were named Thursday by the board of regents to serve on a sub-committee to recommend candidates for the position of chancellor.
Walter S. Fees of Iola, Kan., was named chairman. Other committee members are: Drew McLaughlin, Paola; Willis N. Kelley, Hutchinson; Oscar S. Stauffer, Topeka; and Dr. L. B. Spake, Kansas City, Kan.
Lester McCoy, Garden City chairman of the board, will serve as ex-officio member of the committee.
Chancellor Malott's resignation was formally accepted at the Thursday meeting.
The regents also requested appointment of two other committees to make recommendations and suggestions for nominations. Chancel Deane Malott will name a faculty committee, the Delphi Simons, president of the Alumni association, has been asked to name a committee of alumni.
Mr. Simons said today that the selection of a committee must be given "considerable thought and study." Names of members of the alumni committee will probably be announced within a few days he said.
Indications are that it may be several months before the list of prospective candidates can be reduced to those being given serious consideration.
Pat Bowers To Run In New York Meet
Pat Bowers, former K. U. track star and now a graduate student in fine arts, will run in Saturday night's 1000-yard run in the National A.A.U. indoor track meet to be held in New York's Madison Square garden.
KuKu Picture Scheduled Thursday
Bowers left at 1:15 this afternoon by train for Chicago where he will board a plane for New York tonight.
The Kuku club picture for the Jayhawk will be taken at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22. Members are to wear official uniform sweaters, white shirts, and light colored trousers.
The annual KuKu-Jay Jane "Vice Versa" dance will be held Friday, March 2 in the Union ballroom.
Students Eat By Candlelight
Hundreds of University students and faculty members ate dinner by candlelight Thursday night when the power was cut in the southwest section of town.
A Kansas Power and Light company official explained today that electricity went off after a cable broke near the 19th street sub-station.
Officials of the Kansas Power and Light company are investigating to determine if the cable might have been damaged by someone firing a shot into it. C. G. Bayles, superintendent of buildings and grounds, said the University was not prepared to pick up the load Thursday, but today the power plant is furnishing the full load for University power.
The lights were out for over an hour.
C. J. Posey, professor emeritus of geography, said that two inches of snow have fallen within the past two days.
According to the United Press, Kansas' mid-February snow storm is over after having caused one death and deposited up to 9 inches of snow.
Findley Wins Beauty Vote
Barbara Findley, College sophomore, was chosen to represent the University of Kansas chapter of Delta Sigma Pi, international professional business fraternity, in its annual beauty contest.
Miss Findley, a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, was selected by a board of judges at a special meeting Wednesday evening. Photographs from organized houses were judged
Jerre Mueller, College freshman from Delaware Gamma sorority, who wrote this review.
A picture of the winner will be entered in the national contest, which will be judged by a nationally known person. The judge will not be announced until the winner is announced. Betty Grable was the judge last year.
The winner's picture will be published in the May issue of Deltasig, fraternity mazagine, Loyd Osheim, president of Delta Sigma Pi said.
University Men In City Politics
Two University employees have filed for Lawrence city offices, one on the city commission and the other on the school board, to be voted on in the primary Tuesday March 20.
Fred E. Johnson, employed for 30 years by the physiology department as laboratory worker, filed Thursday for one of the five posts on the city commission.
The second candidate to announce was Irvin E. Youngberg, K.U. Endowment association secretary. He has filed for one of three places vacant on the city school board.
Miss Lohr To Washington
Miss Helen Lohr, associate professor of home economics, will leave today for Washington, D.C. to attend a week's national conference on home economies education
Miss Lohr is one of eight persons on the national planning committee for the conference. She will serve as chairman for one session.
Fire Will Slow Cancer Research At Med Center
Nuclear physics experiments in treatment of cancer at the University of Kansas Medical center, Kansas City, Kan., will be delayed four to six weeks as a result of a fire in the laboratory Thursday.
Dr. William Harsha, who was working there, said that a spark from an electric motor probably ignited ether fumes, causing the fire. He suffered burns on his hands in an attempt to save a geiger counter, heavy radio-isolette containers and other equipment.
Dr. Harsha said that damage to the $15,000 worth of equipment could not be estimated. Two firemen, Roy L. Morgan and Fay Duffing, were overcome by fumes and given oxygen at the medical center.
22 Graduates Pass Bar Exams
Twenty-two School of Law mid-year graduates were admitted to the Kansas bar Wednesday following successful completion of two-day examinations.
The new members are: Thomas J. Alexander, Russel N. Barrett, Robert L. Brock, Willard A. Burton, Jr., Robert A. Coldsnow, Anthony T. Dealy, James D. Frisbie, Charles D. Johnson, Roy U. Jordon, George D. McCarthy, Marvin J. Martin, Grant E. Miller.
Douglas B. Myers, Carl S. Nelson,
Wilbur G. Ostrum, Loyd H. Phillips,
John E. Pyles, Ruell E. Reddock
Russell B. Taylor, Patrick H. Thiens,
Loren A. Watson, and Howard C.
C. Wilson, Jr.
70 At Open House In Women's Lounge
Approximately 70 women students attended the open house for the new women's lounge in Strong hall Wednesday afternoon. The lounge is located directly across the hall from the alumni office.
Ann Wagner, Associated Women Students' representative in charge of the party, said that many women who attended indicated they didn't realize there "was such a place."
Women students may study or relax between classes in the new lounge. Magazines are provided for those who want them.
If a women's group wants to hold a meeting in the lounge, they must register for a date not previously taken on the bulletinboard calendar in the lounge.
Student-faculty coffees will be held in the lounge, although only one has been given there thus far
Anytime that the lounge is not open, a student may ask the secretary in the Dean of Women's office to open it.
Dohnanyi Adds New Touch To Recitals
When Ernst von Dohnanyi, guest professor in the School of Fine Arts, began his piano recital Thursday afternoon in Strong auditorium, he probably didn't plan to do something new and different in recitals.
Dr. Dohnanyi was playing Beet-
hoven's "Sonata, opus 110" when the
electricity went off and a
auditorium was left in darkness.
He finished the three movements
of the sonata without being able to
see the keyboard. He had begun
playing his own "filapsody in F
sharp minor" when the power came
back on.
Other elections on the program included "Tairy-Two Variations," by Beechoven, and another of Dr. Dohnanyi's compositions, "Rhapsody in C major."