9,1947
University Daily Kansan
45th Year No.60
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 1947
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Student Court Rounds Up Six Violators
If you're summoned before the Student court because of traffic violations, it'll pay you to show up.
Six students, charged with 50 traffic violations, appealed their cases before the court Tuesday and went home only $13 poorer. Six others, charged with 21 infringements, failed to make the session and were fined $28.
Only three of those who appeared came out short any cash, although all were found guilty of one or more violations. All who didn't show up were automatically found guilty as charged and fined accordingly.
Norman Bigham, College sophmore, and Betty Jean Sauder, College junior, were the only defendants represented by attorneys. Edward A. Metcalf, second-year law student represented Bigham and Tom Seed, third-year law student, defended Miss Sauber.
Charged with 25 violations, Bigham was found guilty on six charges and fined $6. He claimed that a campus policeman had told him to disregard violation tickets. Bigham stated that he had a physical disability which prevented him from walking up hills and that he had a job, obtained through the University, which required that he have his car available on the campus.
Byron Shutz, College junior, Ray H. Tomberlin, College sophomore, and Herbert E. Taylor, engineering freshman, were each found guilty of charges but were not fined.
Tomberlin and Taylor were not fined because it was their first violations and Shutz's fine was suspended if no further violations are committed. As defense he plead that he was on Bitter Bird business when he received the tickets.
Max Bush, acting chief justice, announced that Miss Sauder's case would be reconsidered after her attorney questioned the court's decision. She was found guilty on five of nine charges and fined $2.
Charles B. Taylor, College sophomore, was the only other defendant present who was fined.
Three Are Not Fined
Fifteen men were pledged Tuesday into Scarab, professional architectural fraternity. A mock initiation was also held for three pledges who will be formally initiated at 5 p.m. today in 205 Marvin hall.
Those who didn't appear were fined as follows: Daniel R. Anthony, andDaniel J.Westerman,$11 each William C.C. Orr, George F.Schulling and Donald G. Weimer,$1 each Charles R.Roter,$3.
15 Architects Pledge Scarab
The new pledges are Kenneth V. Brown, Bruce E. Coffin, John W. Cole, Arthur Dekker, Paul N. Ericson, Charles Freeburg, William W. Gaw, Dwight C. Horner, S. Duane Lintecum, Samuel R. McCamant, John W. Staats, Harold E. Stewart, Harley L. Tracey, and Arthur T. Woodman.
13 Shopping Days Til Christmas
The formal initiation of Ralph E. Kiene, Joseph W. McCoskie, and John C. Monroe will be followed by a dinner at the Castle. Profs. V. F. Smith and J. M. Kellogg of the architectural engineering department will welcome the new initiates into the fraternity.
21,246 Enrolled In State Schools
Total fall enrollment at Kansas state schools was listed by the board of regents today as 21,246, almost 1,500 more than enrollment at this time last year. However, there was a decline in the number of freshmen students at the schools and fewer veterans enrolled for the first time compared with the 1946 enrollment.
Enrollment at the University of Kansas was announced by regents secretary Hubert Brighton as 9,486, of which 5,653 are veterans. Kansas State college fall enrollment totaled 7,143, he said, with 4,336 of that number ex-service personnel.
Law Alumni To Honor Burdick
A campaign to raise $35,000 for a memorial to the late Dr. D. L. Burdick, former dean of the University school of law, was announced today by Dean F. J. Moreau.
he proposed memorial will be the building of fire-proof book stacks for the law library. The new addition will be on the north side of Green hall. An opening leading to the stacks will be made from the present library room. A large portrait of Dr. Burdick will be hung in the reading room which will be named the William L. Burdick Memorial library.
Died Last Year
Dr. Burdick died June 11, 1946,
it the age of 86.
The University of Kansas William Livesey Burdick Memorial association has been formed by K.U. law school alumni to conduct the campaign. Officers are Nona E. Snyder, Kansas City, president; and Dean Moreau, secretary-treasurer.
Alumni met during the Home-
coming celebration last month and
decided upon the memorial. More
than $1,100 was subscribed at that
ime.
A Great Scholar
Other incorporators are: F. C Bannon, Leavenworth; L. J. Bond; El Dorado; V. J. Bowersock, Columbus; William S. Bowers, Ottawa; H. W. Buck, Kansas City, Mo.; Claude Chalfant, Hutchinson; David H. Fisher, Topeka; Harold H. Harding, Kansas City; Howard Immel, Iola Basil Gelsey, Osetta; J. H. Lehman, Abilene; J. B. McKay, El Dorado; J. C. Morrow, Kansas City, Mo.
The proposed memorial will be the was approved because it would be permanent, reflect the life of Dr. Burdick, who was a great scholar, and be enjoyed by the maximum number of law students.
Ray S. Pierson, Burlington; Carl V. Rice, Kansas City; Jay Sullivan, Emporia; Milton Sultillant, Paola; Frank Terrell, Kansas City, Mo.; Justice Walter G. Thiele, Topeka; Lawrence Walker, Pittsburg; Justice Hugo T. Wedell; and Carl I. Winsor, Wichita.
1913 Alumnus Heads Safety Council
Thomas Roy Jones, University graduate and a leading industrialist, has been appointed the first president of the recently organized New Jersey State Safety council.
Mr. Jones was graduated from the University in 1913 with the degree of bachelor of science in civil and mechanical engineering.
He is president of the A.T.F., incorporated, Elizabeth, N.J., parent organization of a group of concerns which includes the American Type Founders company, manufacturers of printing presses and the Daystrom corporation, manufacturer of plastic kitchen and dinette furniture.
Sunflower Has Book Advantage
Students living at Sunflower have an advantage over other students in the use of reserve books at the village branch of the University library, Ray Janeway, assistant director of the library, said.
The Sunflower extension is supervised by Maxine Fisher. It is open Monday night through Thursday night of each week. After the Christmas vacation it will also be open every Sunday night from 7 to 10 p.m. The library will be closed during Christmas vacation.
"Reserve books can be checked out of the Sunflower branch for almost 24 hours instead of just over-night," he said. "They can be checked out from 10 p.m. until 7 p.m. the next night."
576 Ring Bell Add To Fund
The library is situated in the grade school building. The same rules prevail at the Sunflower branch as at Watkins library. Activity books are needed to check out books and the regular fine schedule is in effect.
Five hundred seventy six persons have given $100 or more for the World War II memorial tower. Nineteen have recently become "bellringers" or donors of $100 or more.
They are Dr. A. Haydon, Maurice M. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McKay, Richard F. Allen of Eldorado; Frank A. Oyster, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Spalding, Donald C. Allen of Wichita.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wiles, St John; Mr. and Mrs. J. J. McShane, Rock Island, Ill.; Percival J. Parrot, Geneva, N. Y.; Henry Maloy, Eureka; Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Harris, Chanute.
Chemists Will Hear Kennedy
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kreech,
Hoisington; Mrs. Earl J. Richey,
Cimarron; J. H. Bauerlein, Burlington.
Mrs. Charles A. Lee, Salina; Harry M. Nielson, Midland, Texas; Lester B. Pollom, Topeka; J. Wharton Bartholow, Dallas, Texas.
Joseph W. Kennedy, chairman of the department of chemistry at Washington university, will address members of the chemistry staff, graduate students, and members of related departments at 4 p.m. Thursday in Bailey chemical laboratories. He will speak on "The Chemistry and Production of the Trans-Uranic Elements."
He will be the guest of honor at a luncheon sponsored by the department of chemistry. Members of the staffs of the physics and chemical engineering departments have been invited.
Dr. Kennedy received his master's degree in chemistry at the University and his Ph.D. at the University of California. Shortly after the beginning of the war, he went to Los Alamos as director of chemistry research for that branch of the atomic energy project. He was one of the men who saw the first atomic explosion in the New Mexico desert.
WEATHER
Kansas—Generally fair today, tonight and tomorrow. A little warmer today and slightly colder east tonight. High today 30. Low tonight 10 west to 20 east.
Dr. Kennedy is the third speaker in a series sponsored by the chemistry department.
ASC Seeks To Ban Bibler Calendar
Also Proposes Kansan Investigation; Mediates Impending 'Battle of Bands'
A move to stop the sale of the Bibler calendar today, a conflict of schedules for the appearance of two "name bands" on the campus in January, a proposed investigation of the University Daily Kansan, and a continuation of the Bitter Bird controversy highlighted the busy meeting of the All Student Council Tuesday.
Kansan Gives Facts For ASC Members
William J. Dill, promotion manager of the University Daily Kansan, said today that the sale of the Bibler book had been delayed five days to allow the University calendar to go on sale without competition.
Dill also said that the manager of a Lawrence drug store had told him that distributors of the University calendar had asked the manager not to sell Billier books.
A. J. Stewart, chairman of the Kansan board, said that the books of the University Daily Kansan are audited by the division of auditing and accounting, department of the budget, state of Kansas.
The Executive council of the Y.M.C.A. has dropped two committees and formed five new ones.
YMCA Council Makes Change
The council dropped the race relations committee because the Committee on Racial Equality can handle the race issue better. In place of the race relations committee, a social responsibilities commission was formed, with John Eberhardt, College sophomore, as chairman.
Duplication of work also caused the discontinuation of another group, the growth of persons commission. Replacing it are five fellowship intramurals, student-faculty relations, tions, and the married couple's club.
Wibur Noble, College junior, said that the Y.M.C.A. will attempt to keep committees from overlapping.
The Y.M.C.A. executive council will distribute copies of the "Y.M Jayhawk," a newspaper edited by James Morton Newell, College junior, and Donald Owen, Engineering junior. It will be distributed before the Christmas vacation.
AWS Will Index Women's Groups
Cards for classifying all women students according to their various activities were distributed at the Associated Women Student's meeting Tuesday afternoon.
Representatives of all organized houses will distribute the cards. The remaining unorganized independents will be divided into precincts of 50 women each, and one representative will be assigned to handle the classifications of each precinct.
The A. W. S. will use this new card filing system to place women students in activities of their interest, to measure the activities of the various organizations, and to experiment with a point system for activities.
A joint committee meeting was held to discuss the conference sponsored by A. W. S. on Feb. 24, 25, and 26, 1948.
The article of operations was approved and passed. To be added to the new A.W.S. constitution, the article lists rules pertaining to meetings, membership, and absences.
The legality of the sale of the Bibler calendar was questioned by Robert Wehe, chairman of the auditing committee. "The Bibler calendar being brought out in competition with the University calendar sponsored by the A.S.C. could probably be prohibited by provisions of the A.S.C. constitution," Wehe said.
Betsey Sheidley, chairman of the publications committee, said it was "against University policy to approve publications issued for the profit of private individuals" and asked where the money from the sale of the Bibler calendar was to go.
The Council decided that the publication of the Bibler calendar had not been officially cleared through the A. S. C. On the grounds that it is the function of the auditing committee to know how student money is being used, the Council voted to adopt a resolution introduced by Betty van der Smissen, chairman of the social committee, to hold up the sale of the Bibler calendar until it had been approved by the auditing committee.
Just how this was to be done in view of the fact that the calendar was scheduled to go on sale at 8 the following morning was not decided by the Council. To Investigate Kenyan
Another resolution by Miss van der Smissen adopted by the Council called for an investigation of the books of the University Daily Kansan to determine "the reason for so much advertising in the paper instead of news, and where the money from the sale of advertising space is spent."
Turning from these problems the Council tackled the prospect of the University having its own "battle of the bands." The Duke Ellington concert, sponsored by the American Veterans committee on Jan. 19, was found to be scheduled too close to the Freshman Frolic's billing of Count Basie's band Jan. 16 to allow either group to make a profit on their ticket sales.
According to Wehe, a contract with Duke Ellington for $2,000 had already been signed with the veterans' group. Wehe said that he had requested Charles Johnson, dance manager, to hold up the signing of a contract with Basie until some solution could be found. A resolution was then passed calling a meeting of the social committee and freshman class officers for 4 p. m. today to see if the freshman officers will not change their plans for a dance to some other type of entertainment.
'Bitter Bird' Again
'Bitter Bird' Again
Continuing his report of the auditing committee, Wehe told the Council that he had met with L. C. Woodruff, dean of men, and F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, to discuss what should be done about the "Bitter Bird" debts contracted by Terry Herriot, former editor of the magazine. At the meeting it was decided that Herriot's claim that he owned the copyright to the name "Bitter Bird" might be a valid one Wehe said that he planned to write a letter to the patent office to find out if there had been a copyright infringement.
The Council granted $370 to campus organizations. They are International Relations club, $125; Forensic league, $30; Federal union, $15, and Quill club, $200.