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University Dailu kansan
46th Year No. 122
Wednesday, April 6, 1949
Lawrence, Kansas
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWSAPER
Independents Announce ASC Election Slate
Robert F. Bennett, College junior, will be the Independent candidate for All-Student Council president in the spring election April 20, it was announced at a joint meeting of the Independent Men's party and Independent Women's senate Monday.
a short acceptance speech. Bennett outlined the seven-point Independent platform for the election.
"While making this platform, we are, of course, interested in getting votes," said Bennett, "but or primary interest should be to help all of the students and not just members of our party."
The seven-points program is
2. A system whereby students grade the faculty.
3. Student movies at the University.
The seven-points program is:
Lettermen are seating at concert and plays.
4. An all-inclusive campus chest from which donations to the separate drives will be apportioned
6. A foreign student seat on the AS C
7. Pressure for student dormitories, enrollment by mail for students living at Sunflower live and a student honor system
5. An investigation and classification of housing and eating facilities in Lawrence designed to aid new students.
Senior class officer candidates are; Ed Stolenwerck, president, and Arthur G. Petersen, vice-president, both College juniors; Mary F. Hercules, business junior, secretary; and Anne E. Hunter, College junior, treasurer.
Junior class officer candidates are: Esther A. McKinney, education sophomore, president; Wilson E O'Connell, vice-president; Roy E O'Couch, secretary; and Evelyn M White, treasurer; all College sophomores.
Sophomore officers candidates are John F. Leslie, president, and Carol J. Prichard, vice-president, both College freshman; Betty E. Brown, fine arts freshman, secretary; and James K. Valentine, education freshman, treasurer.
Candidates for A.S.C. representatives from District I are: Harrison E. Madden and Ruth Keller, journalism junior; Vernal H. Scheuerman and Glenn E. Varenhorst, College junior; and Wilma L. Shore, Verla J. Achey and Donald W. Giffen,lege sophomores.
Candidates for A.S.C. representative from District III are: Dorthea M. Crawford, business junior; Roger L. Davis, College sophomore; Barbara E. Glover, fine arts junior; and Robert D. Judy, graduate student.
Candidates for A.S.C. representatives from District II, the engineering school, are: Edward J. Bray, senior; George E. Crawford, freshman; Charles N. Penny, junior; and Warren E. Arnspiger, sophomore.
$1250 Geology Fellowship
Goes To William Green, Jr
John H. Stanfield, graduate, is the candidate for A.S.C. representative from District IV.
William Greer Jr., College senior, has been awarded a $1,250 fellowship in geology by the University. He will do research work on the mapping and lithologic study of the Five-Mile pass quadrangle near Eureka, Utah.
The fellowship was given to the University the past month by the California company of New Orleans.
Publisher To Speak At Last ASC Talk
"What an Executive Looks for in a Graduating Senior" will be the subject of a talk by Oscar Stauffer, publisher of the Topeka State Journal, in the Pine room of the Union at 4 p.m. tomorrow. The speech will be the last of a series presented by the A.S.C. for all senior and junior students. Mr. Stauffer is a member of the board of regents.
The 29th annual contest for Kansas high school newspapers will be conducted here by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information this month.
Young 'Newsmen' In Annual Contest
Any high school in the state publishing a printed, lithographed, or mimeographed newspaper, or conducting a page or department of school news in the local newspaper is eligible to compete.
Announcement of the winners will be made by the judges, May 7.
Kansan Dinner To Fete Staff
The Kansas board dinner, annual affair honoring workers on the University Daily Kansan, will be held Wednesday, May 11 at the Eldridge hotel, Don Tennant, chairman of the board, said today.
Winners of awards and citations for outstanding achievement through the year by journalism students will be announced at the dinner.
The Henry Schott Memorial prize of from $60 to $90 goes to the junior man who has shown "the most outstanding ability and achievement," and who "gives most promise for future achievement."
The annual citation from the school will go to the two outstanding seniors, a man and a woman, for achievement during the year.
ASC Approves Change To Student Constitution
Writers and composers of the best editorials, features, news stories, and retail advertisements printed in the University Daily Kansan this year will also be cited.
The All Student Council approved the following constitution amendment Tuesday. Students will vote upon the amendment Wednesday, April 20.
Constitutional Amendment:
Section 1. (Delegation of Powers). The original judicial powers of the Association Court and a Disciplinary Committee, as hereafter set forth,
Article VI—Judiciary
Section 2. (Court). The Student Court shall consist of not fewer than five nor more than seven student justices. Candidates for positions on the Student Court shall be nominated by the president of the All Student Council in consultation with the Chair of the Court. The chief justice shall be selected as hereafter provided by bill.
Section 3. (Provisions for Membership on Court). No justice shall be a member of the Council. Both men and women shall be represented on the court at all times. Justices shall serve for a term of two years, half of the Court positions being filled each year.
Section 4. (Disciplinary Committee). The Disciplinary Committee shall consist of five students sitting with the Dean of Women or her assistant and the Dean of Men or his assistant. Student members shall be nominated and selected as here-after provided by bill.
Section 5. (Provisions for Membership on Disciplinary Committee). Both men and women should be represented on an official Committee at all times. Students shall not be represented on any committee of more than 10 students.
Section 6. (Jurisdiction). The Student Court sitting with the Faculty Advisory Committee shall have final decision in all matters of interpretation of legislation of the All Student Council. The Student Court sitting alone shall have jurisdiction over parking violations, smoking violations, disputes between students and or student groups, and shall sit in closed session in such cases as are designated by the Disciplinary Board. The Student Court shall have jurisdiction over all other cases, controversies, or disputes arising in violation of the Constitution or Bills of the All Student Council or of other university rules and regulations.
Students Need 'ID' For ASC Election
The All Student Council Tuesday decided that students voting in the spring election must present their identification cards to the judges. Students who have been issued substitute cards by the registrar's office will vote in a special voting booth.
YM-YWCA Offer Summer Jobs
A summer service project in St. Louis will be sponsored by the Rocky Mountain region student Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A.
Elizabeth Webster, business senior, proposed that students without
The project offers every student thirty hours work a week for eight weeks on the staff of a settlement, church, neighborhood, or other social agency. Students will be placed in an agency before going to St. Louis by a project director. The work should help students develop skill in working with groups of people.
The project also offers a study program. The student spends 20 to 25 hours in a seminar group to observe and study social forces at work in the community.
Two University students, Charles O'Connor and Ruth Clayton, are among the 12 winners of the "Week In St. Louis" award being received at the city Hall Monday by Mayor Aloys P. Kaufman. The award is presented annually by the Advertising Club of St. Louis.
The deadline for receiving applications for the St. Louis summer service project is Wednesday, April 20. If interested, students should see Ned D. Linegar, executive secretary of the University Y.M.C.A. or write to Miss Ruth L. Packard, 1269 Topeka avenue, Topeka.
Celebrates 38 Years With UDK
They are (left to right): Mayor Kaufman; Frederick Stines, State University of Iowa; Mary Patrick, University of Illinois; Jack Vaniman, University of Illinois; Marjorie Schmidt, State University of Iowa; Francis Zundel, St. Louis university; Suzanne Siegel, Washington university, St. Louis; O'Connor and Miss Clayton; Robert McIntyre, Susan Bassford, University of Missouri; David Barnes, Washington university; and John Wright, St. Louis university. (Edward H. Goldberger photo, St. Louis).
Guy Pennock, composing room foreman for the University Daily Kansan, is celebrating 38 years of service by throwing a coke party for the students and faculty of the School of Journalism this afternoon.
As Mr. Pennock puts it he is giving the party for "the good people who have put up with me all these years." Dean Burton W. Marvin said it should be just the other way around.
*regular "ID" cards not not be al-
regular LD cards not not be allowed to vote. A motion was made to prevent students from voting more than once.
The motion was overruled, by a proposal from Ernest Friesen, College junior, to allow "ID" cards or substitute cards as qualifications for "substitute" as the red identification cards accepted by the library.
A request from the Independent Students' association for $250 was approved. Friesen questioned the request, "We shouldn't establish a precedent by furnishing entertainment for one group," and added that the L.S.A. is partisan.
Mable Conderman, business junior,
answered the charge. She said
all students are allowed to attend
I.S.A. functions.
Thiessen reminded the Council to consider future requests. "A.S.C. does not have money just to give away," he said.
By Ann Allen
Dorothy Scroggy, College senior, also approved the appropriation. She said college should consider the direction ISSA in compliance students not in organized houses.
Bennett pointed out the Council had given money to smaller organizations and "therefore," he said, "the one is more worthy than the others."
A request from the tumbling team for $675 to send a team to the Southwestern American Athletic Union gymnastic contest was denied because the team is not an organization. John Cress, Jr., graduate student, represented the team.
The council tabled a request from the homecoming committee for $75. Bennett was instructed to obtain a detailed report for investigation.
Bennett asked the Council to consider establishment of a scholarship fund with money remaining in the Council treasury.
An amendment to Article VI of the constitution setting a disciplinary committee of five students, the dean of women, the dean of men, or their assistants, was approved by the council.
A program of piano and voice selections will be presented by seven students in a recital at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Frank Strong auditorium. The program will include:
7 To Give Voice Piano Recital
Piano: "Air from the Holberg Suite" (Grieg), "Minuet" from L-Arlesienne Suite" (Bizet-Rachman-inoff) by Betty Brown, fine arts freshman; "Preludes, Op. 28, Nos. 1, 3, 10, 2, 13, 18" (Chopin) by Barbara Glover, fine arts junior.
Voice: "O mio babbino caro" (Puccini) by Patricia Glotzbach, fine arts freshman; "Ah, twine no blossoms" (Gliere); "Be ye in love with April-tide" (Ward-Stephens) by Jacqueline Baum, College sophomore; "Air des Bijoux" from Faust, (Gounod) by Anne Ellis, fine arts sophomore; "Ein Schwan" (Greig), "Meine Liebe ist grun" (Brahms) by Barry McDaniel, College freshman; "Echo Song" (arranged by Bishop) by Martha Weed, education junior; accompanied by Marsha Baker, fine arts senior.
WEATHER
Kansas—Fair to occasionally partly cloudy today, tonight and Thursday. /Slightly warmer East and North today. Not quite so warm Thursday. High today 70-75. Low tonight in 40's.
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