University Dailu Kansan 46th Year No.144
Friday, May 13, 1949
lawrence Kansas
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
Kansas Lawyers Here Today To Discuss Law
About 50 lawyers and udges from all over Kansas are attending the Law Institute here today and tomorrow. The institute is sponsored by the University School of Law and Kansas State Bar association committee on legal institutes.
F. J. Moreau, dean of the law school, welcomed the guests in the opening session in Fraser theater. T. M. Lillard, president of the Kansas State Bar association, presided over the morning meeting.
Richard A. Barber, Lawrence attorney, spoke on the preparation of pleadings at 10 a.m. today.
The afternoon session held in the Union opened with M. C. Slough, professor of law, speaking on the "Competency of Witnesses" Charles L. Carr, Kansas City, Mo., lawyer, spoke on "Special Problems of Prequipitions and Hearsay" G. I. Litowich, former president of the Kansas State Bar association, presided at the 1:30 p.m. meeting.
Dolph Simons, publisher of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World, will talk about his world travels at the law dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Union.
Dallas Knapp of Coffeyville, will preside at the 9:30 am session tomorrow to the Union. Edward M. Boddington, Kansas City, Kan. attorney, will speak on "Motions and Pleadings After Vernuct."
"Perfecting an Appeal" will be discussed by John Eberhardt, Wichita attorney. Leonard A. Thomas, Kansas City, Kan. attorney, will speak about "Finality of Action by the Supreme Court".
At the afternoon meeting in the Union, F. C. Bannon, Leavenworth, will preside. "Problems in Administrative Law" will be discussed by Dr. James B. Smith, professor of law. Jay Kyle, Topeka judge, will talk on "Jurisdiction and Procedure of Administrative Tribunals".
Stag Week Costs 'Pat' Ames' Notes
Patricia Ames, College sophomore, is minus a notebook and $25 as a result of a "Stag Week" prank.
Miss Ames left her notebook containing the money on the front porch of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority house. When she returned to get it, the notebook had disappeared.
It's not the $25 that concerns Miss Ames as much as the loss of all her class notes.
"How in the world will I ever be able to study for finals?" she asked.
Dean's Portrait Starts 'Day'
Presentation of a painting of Frank T. Stockton, former dean of the School of Business, by Richard Yaple, business senior, officially opened celebration of Business day at 9:30 this morning.
Leonard Axe, present dean, accepted the painting for the school and promised "to see personally that it is hung in a suitable place." In the acceptance speech he read three letters from alumni paying tribute to Dean Stockton, including one from a graduate of the school's first class.
Dean Stockton thanked the students, alumni, faculty, and others responsible for the honor, but said the School of Business is not the creation of one man or a few. "I personally pay pribute to all who have made the school what it is now."
Yaple, president of the school officers, reminded the seniors of the program for the day, and predicted a victory of the seniors over the faculty in a baseball game this afternoon. He said the date would be the reason.
Business school classes were dismissed at 9:20 this morning.
Richard Yaple, president of the Business School association presented this portrait of Frank T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business from its beginning in 1924 until 1947, to the School at a convocation today.
A Kansan Editorial
Ain't We Got Fun
Yes sir! We sure do have fun at college. Naturally, a few persons get hurt in the process, but we've got a good hospital, and health fees take care of most of the expense. Oh, a little property damaged now and then, too, but it doesn't amount to anything. Just windows, furniture, pianos, and other incidentals.
Who worries about a few casualities, anyway? Look at all the attention and publicity the school gets. Stories in all the newspapers in the area, and the wire services sent reports all over the country. Some of them even wanted pictures to go with the story. Too bad we couldn't give them one of a gray-haired housemother being struck in the face with water.
Why spend money to send the band throughout the state? Good advertising stunt, sure, but not as good as the ones we pull right here on the campus. The football team doesn't have to play in a "bowl" game to bring fame to K.U. We'll carve our niche in glory with "traditions."
We showed those Lawrence policemen a thing or two while we were at it, didn't we? It would have been a lot of fun to upset the police car. Too bad no one thought of it. The police were only trying to protect students and their property.
We're probably the envy of every college student in the United States. After all, it isn't every day a group of students get to send several of their number to the hospital.
Think of all the potential K.U. students. Parents all over the state can rest assured that it isn't "all work and no play" at K.U. Their children can relax after a hard day of classes. The fact that they may do their relaxing in a hospital bed doesn't detract anything from the selling point, does it?
Parents will be glad to know they can send their daughters to the University of Kansas with the full assurance that organized houses provide a safe, pleasant "home away from home." As an added precaution, Watkins Memorial hospital provides treatment 24 hours a day.
Some "fogies" will probably say we acted like an unruly mob, or, worse yet, like a "bunch of darn fool college kids." Don't pay any attention to them. The University is THE seat of culture and learning in Kansas. We have an eight million dollar appropriation from the 1949 state legislature to prove it. And we, the students, make up the University.
When are people going to realize that college students are mature, sensible adult citizens? After all, we are among those who will control the destinies of the State of Kansas and of the nation, aren't we?
By the way, why doesn't some organization revive gold fish swallowing or grasshopper eating? We don't want to let K.U. drop out of the public eye, do we? —John E. Riley.
Need For Energy Release Caused 'Stag Week' Crowds
If the students involved had had an organized method of releasing pent-up energy, the recent instance of crowd action resulting in the destruction of property and student injury might well have been avoided, Dr. Marston M. McCluggage, associate professor of sociology, believes.
Trends On Sale May 16
Trend magazine will go on sale Monday, May 16, Marian Ripetteau, editor-in-chief, announced today.
"The background of such a case is very complex and cannot be diag-
"The background of such a case nosed at once," he said. "However, every instance of this sort has its background in some sort of mental or emotional strain."
It is doubtful whether those who jeered the loudest at men who associated with college women during "Stag Week" had a very satisfactory relationship with their fellow students, women students in particular, Dr. McCluggage commented.
"Toward the end of the semester, tensions are built up in the students as a result of increased work and approaching exams," he said. In the fall and winter, such tensions can be released at football and basketball games or intramural sports. In the spring, there is no organized activity of that type."
In any university of this size, there are always a number of dissatisfied individuals who welcome any chance for diversion of any type. In the process of crowd formation, each person is stimulated by the other's excitement. There are no recognized social controls. As tension is built up, it finds release in ways which often result in serious damage to property or persons, Dr. McCluggage explained.
Math Club Installs Heads
Eight new members were initiated and new officers were installed into Pi Mu Epsilon, national mathematics honorary society, at their annual banquet Wednesday in the Kansas room of the Union.
The relation of the sciences of mathematics and astronomy was presented by Dr. N. W. Storer, associate professor of astronomy, in his talk, "Consider the Converse."
The officers installed were: Otho M. Rasmussen, director; Mrs. Martha Wagner, vice-director; Frances L. Wolfe, recording secretary; Wealthy Babcock, corresponding secretary; Gilbert Ulmer, librarian.
Those initiated into the society were Lolafaye Coyne, graduate student; Leone Fisher, R. L. Jewell, Jr.; Christine Mann, College seniors; Robert E. Heaton, Sidney L. Lida, Patricia -ummer, College juniors; William Rinner, education senior.
WEATHER
Kansas: Fair and warmer; high today in middle 80's.
Dance Salvaged From Stag Week Activities Ban
The dance which was to climax the ill-fated "Stag Week" today from 3 to 5 p.m. on the terrace of the Union will still be held.
There were no serious injuries and x-rays revealed no fractures, Dr. Canuteson said. Two men who received lacerations when they were tossed into the water also gave anti-toxin shots as a precaution against tetanus infection.
"All students admitted to Watkins hospital for treatment of 'Stag Week' injuries have been released." Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the health service said today.
The health service director said that if Potter lake is to continue as a dunking spot, it should be cleaned out. He said that every student thrown into the lake who received any kind of a laceration should be given a tetanus shot.
"Stag Week," which was to have run from Wednesday morning to Friday night, was called off in the early hours of Thursday morning after a disturbance of near-roit proportions in which several sororities and fraternites exchanged barrages of water from buckets and water pistols.
The riot is believed to have been the outgrowth of an attempt at retaliation by the sorority women who appeared at fraternity houses Wednesday night to serve dinner and, generally, to cause the men to speak. In some cases the women sat down to dinner with the men, causing much confusion.
Louise Lambert, College junior and president of Jay James, the women's pep club, said: "I was very much in favor of it and thought it would be a lot of fun, but I think it turned out terribly."
The women were apparently seeking vengeance from the men who had boycotted them and had threatened to throw into Potter lake any male student seen with a woman student during this period. Several male students were dunked.
Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of men, today commented:
"It appears now to have been nothing more than a large-scale water fight with about 40 or 50 actual participants."
"It is the result of instability and immaturity."
Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, described it:
At the Alpha Delta Pi house, where damage was first estimated to be $100, the only damage was broken window panes. Rugs that were soaked will not have to be cleaned. A piano tuner, called in to determine the extent of water damage to a grand piano, stated that there was no damage because water had not gotten inside the piano.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said: "There was no point in contacting the chancellor. He could do nothing about the demonstration." Chancellor Deane W. Malott is in St. Louis this week.
Ballplayer Suffers Fractured Skull
Emmett M. Duncan, business senior; suffered a fractured skull Thursday when he collided with another player during a softball game on the intramural field. It was not a regularly scheduled intramural contest.
Hospital authorities said the injured student was in satisfactory condition this morning. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Duncan, came here from St. Joseph when informed of the accident.