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Mortar Board, Sachem Will Hold One-Day Conference to Discuss University Educational Problems
An experiment in student-faculty relations will be sponsored by Mortar Board and Sachem in a one-day conference at the Lawrence Country Club tomorrow.
Sixty faculty members and students have been asked to attend the meeting, which will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Discussions will be planned to further understanding between those who operate the University and those who are here to learn.
A tentative program has been based on the question, "How can we add to the effectiveness of our university's educational program so that its end
citizens capable of doing a more efficient job of living?"
After a panel discussion, four topics will be presented and discussed by student groups. At the conclusion of the meeting each delegate will state the two or three points which he feels have been most important.
Besides members of Mortar Board and Sachem, those who will attend include:
Chancellor Deane W. Malot, Dean Henry Werner, Dr. H. B. Pepinsky, Mrs. Rachel VanderWerf, Miss Kathleen Doering, Dr. Edwin Price, Prof. Hilden Gibson, Miss Martha Peterson, Fred Ellsworth, Dr. N. P. Sherwood, Elizabeth Meguiar, Dean J. O. Jones, Miss Esther Twente, Leslie Waters, Dr. J. H. Nelson, and Gilbert Ulmer.
Elizabeth Bixby, Anna Young,
Rosalie Erwin, Mary Jo Cox, Mary
Morrill, Marjorie Free, Joan Burch,
Francis Janes, Dixie Gilland, Julia
Casad, Charlotte Price, Mary Breed,
Shirley Wellborn, Joanne Riny,
Anne Scott, Betty J O'Neal, Elene
O'Connor, Mariette Bennett, Donna
Jean Morris, and Eugenia Hepworth.
Members of Sachem that will att
tend the conference are:
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Neal Woodruff, Robert Lee, Richard Hollingsworth, Frank Brosius, Keith Condgon, William Jensen, Keth Beunnel, James Conard, Kenneth Nohe, Domnild Ong, Lloyd Cunningham, and John Wilden.
C.V.C. Sells Stamps For 7th Bond Drive
The Coed Volunteer Corps will sell war bonds and stamps in cooperation with the Seventh War Loan drive, Beverly Waters, lieutenant general in charge of the sale, said today.
Booth will be set up in Fraser and Frank Strong halls to conduct the sales next week. They will be open from 8:15 a.m. to 12 noon, and from 1:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Sororities and organized houses have been contacted to help with the sales. Miss Waters said.
Moe, Zweifel Chosen I.S.A. Representatives
Miss Waters added that students purchasing bonds should make out checks to the Postmaster, Lawrence, Kansas.
Alberta Lena Moe, College freshman, and Samuel Zweifel, College junior, were elected representatives to the L.S.A. council next year at a meeting of the council last night.
Lorraine Carpenter, Fine Arts freshman, was appointed publicity chairman by the council.
Moe will represent the sophomores, replacing Barbara Jury, and Zweifel will be the navy representative, replacing Richard Hartzell.
Capture of Naha Expected Soon
Naha, capital of embattled Okinawa and largest city in the archipelago appeared destined today to become the first Jap city to be captured.
International News Service
American marines were officially revealed to have smashed their way across the Asato river, securing a small bridgehead on the southern bank of the stream inside Naha. Previously U.S. troops returned from a patrol among the ruins of the capital and described it as a city of the dead with hundreds of slain Japs strewn through the ruins of the once modern metropolis.
While the marines of the 6th expanded their bridgehead inside Naha others leathernecks to the east captured Sugarloaf hill which lies northeast of Naha.
Make Local Giving Neer Naha
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
Make Local Gains Near Naha
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You Can't Win! Times Change In Half Century
If you're planning, for any reason, to sue the University of Kansas, forget it.
It is impossible to sue the University, according to Dr. W. L. Burdick, former School of Law head, in answer to a reporter's query. He went on to explain that since the University is not a corporation, it can neither sue nor be sued.
The Board of Regents, however, does constitute a body corporate and therefore can be sued, but, according to the supreme court, "the Board's liability to be sued is very limited, and only in a few matters could a suit be maintained against it."
It can't be done.
The Board of Regents possesses the highest authority in University affairs but it has only that authority delegated by the state statutes, expressed or implied. It too, can overstep its authority and according to the courts, it has, several times.
According to Dr. Burdick, one such case occurred about 50 years ago. At that time a $5 fee was charged to each student for the support of the library. One student refused to pay. He refused on the grounds that the Kansas constitution guaranteed free education. The court agreed with him and he won his case!
But wait a minute.
That was 50 years ago. Since then the statutes have been changed and students can now be assessed for usage of books, labs, and for breakage of such things as test tubes.
David Hinshaw of New York, former Emporian, was named chairman of an executive committee of sponsors now engaged in raising a memorial fund to be used in fostering the broad aspects of journalism, in addition to the regular courses taught by the University. It is anticipated that the W.A. White Foundation fund will reach at least $200,-000. More than $40,00 already is in the treasury.
So that incidental fee you pay is legal after all.
Martin Fruhman of Dallas, Texas,
attended the board meeting and outlined a plan for interesting various industries in the purposes of the William Allen White Foundation. President Allen and Chancellor Deane W. Malett reported on their
White Foundation to Purchase $30,000 of Federal Bonds
Ya' can't win!
Hinshaw Named Chairman
The finance committee of the William Allen White Foundation, inc., was directed yesterday to purchase $20,000 worth of government bonds to be deposited in a Lawrence bank, as will the additional money to be raised for use in connection with the already-established William Allen White School of Journalism. This was the first investment of the Foundation, coming from funds subscribed to memorialize the famous Emporia editor who died last year.
At a meeting in Topeka yesterday the incorporators, acting in the capacity of trustees, elected W. C. Simons of the Lawrence Journal-World, vice-president. Karl Klooz, business manager of the University was named secretary-treasurer. Henry J. Allen of Wichita is president of the Foundation.
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Mary Jo Cox, Independent-P.S.G.L. candidate, was elected president of the All-Student Council yesterday with 672 votes to 518 cast for Eugenia Hepworth, W.I.G.S.-Pachacamac candidate.
Cox is Elected to A.S.C. Presidency By 672-518 Vote
The Independents and P.S.G.L., which are affiliated parties, will have eight representatives on the council, to seven for the affiliated parties of W.I.G.S. and Pachacamac. P.W.C.L. won one seat.
Carrier U.S.S. Franklin Limps Back to U.S. With a Heroic Story of Fight for Life
"I'm expecting this to be the best program of any band at the Univer-
The University band, directed by Russell Wiley, will present its annual spring concert in Hoch auditorium May 28 at 8 p.m.
The highlight of the evening will be "Concertino" by Weber, which will be played by eight solo clarinetists in unison with full band accompaniment.
Eugene Arnold, V-12 cornet soloist, will play "Bride of the Waves" by Clark, "Cubana," a South American rhapsody, will be featured by Doris Turney, senior violin major. "Cubana" is the first violin solo to ever be written for band accompaniment.
Five Seats to Independents
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Waldo G. Bowman Tq Describe Work of War Engineers
Miss Hepworth will serve as representative-at-large to the council.
K.U. Band to Present Annual Spring Concert on May 28
Waldo G. Bowman, editor of Engineering News Record and co-author of "Bulldozers Come First" will speak on engineering operations in the European War theater at 4 p.m. Monday in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall.
Slides will be used to show the contribution of the engineer to the winning of the European war. The public has been invited.
Mr. Bowman was graduated in 1923 from the School of Engineering and Architecture. His mother lives in Lawrence.
Crew Fought Flames Vallantly
e Independents, women's party, wone five seats on the 'o four for the W.I.G.S. women, and one for P.W.C.L.
Washington, (INS)—The charred and battered hulk of the USS Franklin, 27,000 ton恩斯 type carrier, afloat at Brooklyn navy yard, today defiantly threw the lie at Tokyo claims that she had been bombed to a watery grave 60 miles off Kyushu last March.
As a member of Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's carrier task force striking at Nipon's battle-shy navy in the sacred inner sea, a dive bomber left her a roaring inferno and a geyser of explosions.
The story of how her gallant and valiant crew beat back the flames is one of the most thrilling to come out of the war. It came the morning of March 9. The task force was pressing
The navy told the story of her gallant fight for life and the loss of more than 1,000 of her complement 2,500 men.
Japanese Plane Attacks Carrier
into the attack. Westward 60 miles lay the dim coastline of Honshu and beyond the Kure. Japanese Places Attached.
Bomb racks had been loaded, and gasoline tanks were in the process of being filled. Suddenly out of the mist dived a Japanese bombing plane. There had been no warning and it was too late to stop its spray of bombs.
Scenes of indescribable horror took place. Men were blown off the flight deck into the sea, burned to a crisp in a searing white-hot flash of flames that swept the hangar deck, and others were trapped in compartments below and sufficated by smoke.
Rescue work was started by the USS Santa Fe which picked up men from the water and removed others from the deck when the Franklin threatened to overturn.
Pachacamac and P.S.G.L.,men's parties,each elected three men to the council.
Exactly 1,190 votes were cast for president of the council, as compared to 1206 last year. Individual records for total votes of men's and women's districts are not available.
Although exact totals for the council election were not announced by the elections committee, Mary Breed, elections committee chairman, submitted the names of the candidates in the order in which they were elected, according to the proportional representation system. Gilliland Court.
Gilliland Gets Largest Vote
Dixie Gilland, W.I.G.S., received the largest number of votes in District I, the College, and Sarah Marks, W.I.G.S., received the second largest total. Other representatives from District I, in order of their election, are Mary Margaret Gaynor, F.W.C.L.; Lois Thompson, Independent; Jean McIntire, Independent; Betty Ball, W.I.G.S.; and Anna Marie Stevens, Independent.
Charles Moffett, Pachacamac and Wendell Nickell, V-12, P.S.G.L. were chosen men representatives from the College.
Men elected in District II, the School of Engineering and Architecture, and Schools of Fine Art. Business, Education, and Pharmacy, are Leonard Brown, Pachacamac; Ceeil Langford, Pachacamac; and Dean Corder, P.S.G.L., all navy trainees.
Caroline Morris, W.I.G.S.; Helen Howe, Independent; and Jean Templeton, Independent; were elected
Marjorie Free was elected Women's Athletic association president and committees were chosen yesterday for the annual W.A.A. picnic June 7.
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Charlotte Price was elected vicepresident, Violet Conard, secretary; Barbara Prier, treasurer; Betty Nichols, business manager; and Lucy Smith, point system manager.
Marge Free Elected W.A.A. President
The sports managers elected were maxine Gunselly, hockey; Lucile Land, volleyball; Joan Lippelmann, Basketball; Billie Simmons, minor sports; and Marjorie Fadler for softball.
The picnic will be in Clinton park,
4:30 p.m., June 7. Committee chairmen are Marjorie Free, program committee; Kathryn O'Leary, food committee; and Lucy Smith, equipment committee.
New officers will be installed at the picnic. Initiation of new members, W.A.A. awards of blazers and letters, and the highest senor award will be given.
The booklet, "Sports Girl" sponsored each year by W.A.A. and written by the sports managers, will be distributed. The booklet covers the W.A.A. news for the year, names members of the varsity teams, and discusses each sport.