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57th Year, No. 148
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, May 23.1960
The Nation Waits
Ike Will Report On Summit Failure
WASHINGTON — (UPI) President Eisenhower will report to the nation on all radio and TV networks Wednesday night on the collapse of the Summit Conference and the free world's future aims and goals, the White House announced today.
White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the speech will originate from the President's White House office. It will be carried from 6 to 6:30 (Lawrence time).
Two television networks (ABC and CBS) will carry the speech live at that time. Hagerty said. The third (NBC) will carry a delayed telecast of the report at 8 p.m. (Lawrence time).
Asked to provide a title for the speech, Hagerty said it will be "a report to the American people on the events at Paris and the future aims and goals of the United States and, indeed, of its allies in the free world."
Hagerty said the delayed telecast was arranged "specifically at the request of the White House" so as to provide two telecasts of the address and "give people across the country a chance, if they miss one."
Hagerty had no comment as to whether the President might go to New York for a United Nations address. He noted that he did not want his silence on the question to indicate that such a speech is planned.
Declines Comment
Hagerty also declined comment on whether the President might make an address to a joint session of Congress. He said that he was not prepared to answer such questions for the present.
Shortly before details of the speech were announced, Eisenhower conferred with Secretary of State Christian A. Herter on the post-summit situation and the President's report to the nation.
Swastika Painted On Strong Sunday
A red swastika about a yard wide greeted KU police officers Sunday morning. The swastika was painted about six and a half feet above the center entrance to Strong Hall and was discovered at 8:05 a.m.
Chief of Police Joe Skillman said his department is checking the type of paint used to determine where it came from. The paint was not some of that being used by workmen in the area.
"We don't know how the person got there," Chief Skillman said. "It is almost certain he came out one of the windows on the third floor of Strong Hall, and walked the ledge around to the front. We checked the roof hatch and it was locked."
Although believed to be simply a prank, officials refused to comment on its meaning.
Weather
The U.S. Weather Bureau issued three severe weather forecasts today for a large area of the midwest and southwest.
The forecast for western Missouri, northeast Kansas and extreme southern Nebraska said large hail and damaging surface winds can be expected in an area along and 60 miles either side of a line from Butler, Mo., to Beatrice, Neb.
ASC Reviews Role Of KU Student Court
(Editor's note: This is the first of a series of articles on the Student Court.)
By Pat Sheley
The recent announcement by the All Student Council that it will conduct a study of the disciplinary procedure at the University has focused attention on the Student Court. This is one of the organizations the ASC feels should hear disciplinary cases
The Student Court is set up to hear several types of cases but it has handled only cases involving traffic violations. This is due in part to the large number of traffic cases which take up most of the court's time and in part to the lack of clarification of the court's jurisdiction.
Vague to Students
In spite of the obvious importance of the Student Court, only one out of every ten students recently interviewed had the vague idea about the court and its functions. Six out of every ten students interviewed had heard of the Student Court but were misinformed as to its functions.
Some of the students said that they believed the Student Court is made up of law students who hear cases for a fee and that it has no official connection with the University. Other students said that they feel the Student Court is a "waste of time."
The truth of the matter is that the Student Court was originated by the same administrative body that started the ASC. It was felt that there was a need for a student body with
the power to hear cases involving students' traffic cases and other violations.
A bill which defined the function and selection of members of the Student Court was adopted by the ASC in 1946. Article Seven, which further defined the functions of the court, was added to the ASC constitution in 1947.
Article seven of the ASC constitution gave the "original judicial powers of the Associated Students of the University of Kansas" to the Student Court and the disciplinary committee. There has always been some confusion as to which body should hear what cases. The ASC will try to make a clearer definition of this matter in its study should it find that it is necessary to do so.
The Student Court is to be made up of not fewer than five and not more than seven student justices the article states. The Student Court is presently made up of seven justices but only three justices sit at one hearing.
Article Seven Says . . .
Terry Fiske, Lawrence third-year law student and present chief justice of the Student Court, said that the reason for having only three justices sit at one hearing is to prevent the development of a set personality of the ruling body.
Jamison Named Miss Lawrence
Fiske said that the justices are rotated so that only one of the three justices sitting at a hearing had sat
Judith R. Jamison
Judith Jamison, Ottawa freshman, was named Miss Lawrence for 1960 on Friday.
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Miss Jamison was awarded a $200 Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. scholarship in addition to the title.
Sharon O'Neal, Kansas City freshman and Miss Kansas of 1960, presided at the crowning ceremony.
MISS JAMISON, a violinist, played "Stardust" and "Hot Canary" for her talent skit selections.
The seven Miss Lawrence finalists (six KU co-eds and one representative of Kansas State University) were judged first on poise in evening formal attire; second on talent shown in three-minute sketches.
Runners-up were Constance Hunter. Hutchinson freshman and Susan Neil. Abilene freshman.
Beauty in a bathing suit was the next category of judging while intelligence in answering questions comprised the final judging.
The finalists, selected in preliminaries on May 5 included Patricia Huffman, Paola sophomore; Carolyn Braun, Pittsburg junior; Marsha Cox, Mound City freshman; Suzanne Bird, Topeka sophomore; Michele Shultz, Lawrence sophomore at Kansas State University; Miss Jamison, Miss Neal, and Miss Hunter.
Miss Jamison is now eligible to participate in the Miss Kansas contest at Pratt in June.
THE STATE WINNER, besides winning part of $2,000 in scholarships and the right to participate in the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City in September, will automatically receive the title of Miss Kansas Centennial and will reign during the celebration.
$13 Million Needed
Space Shortage Threatens KU
(Editor's note: This is the first of two articles on the shortage of academic building space at KU.)
By Lynn Cheatum
Here are the building needs KU officials anticipate in a $13,100,000 building program to meet the expected population increase in the next decade:
The 1961 legislature will face the same problem next year it faces each year: How to provide funds to meet the anticipated enrollment explosion at KU.
Engineering building $1,900,000
Watson Library addition $1,800,000
Social Science building $1,300,000
Fraser Hall (remodel or
replace) $1,300,000
Natural History Museum $ 800,000
Watkins Hospital addition $ 500,000
Blake Hall (remodel) $ 700,000
Haworth Hall (remodel) $ 700,000
Lindley Hall (finish) $1,300,000
Malott Hall addition $ 600,000
Science laboratory research
building                 $ 500,000
KU Extension building     $ 500,000
hard work                $ 500,000
A creative and arts
building      $1,000,000
Storage building    $ 200,000
Storage building
$18,100,000
$13,100,000
American to Be First Into Space
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — U. S. scientists said today prospects that an American will be the first human to rocket into space and return to earth safely have risen because of last week's misbehavior of a giant Soviet test satellite.
The 4-1/2 ton Red space ship, which the Soviets said had only a "dummy" figure aboard, came a cropper this weekend when Russian scientists admitted that it failed to perform as they had hoped.
American officials interpreted this as a set-back for the Russians in the race for scientific prestige that would go to the nation which sends the first man into space.
They expressed belief the Russians now will be compelled to test at least one more robot flight this year and will not attempt manned space flight during 1960.
This would open the way for the United States to achieve the first human break-through. Preparations are being made to send one of this country's seven specially-trained astronauts aloft sometime this year, possibly in November.
Raymond F. Nichols, executive secretary of the University pointed out that the 13.1 million dollars does not include funds for:
The 1960 legislature appropriated $995,000 for buildings at KU, leaving about $12,000,000 future legislatures must appropriate.
1. Enlarging the power plant needed to heat the growing campus.
2. Enlarging the quarters of the building and grounds department.
4. Remodeling the Electrical Engineering laboratories for the mechanical engineering department after EE goes into the new engineering building.
3. Remodeling Marvin Hall for use of the architecture department until the architecture and arts building is completed.
5. Adding to Snow Hall. The $870,000 enlargement now under construction will soon be inadequate.
6. General improvements on other buildings at KU.
7. Expanding of the book stacks at Green Hall.
The Board of Regents recognizes the needs, and no one has challenged the needs as stated. Getting the money, however, is another matter.
The money that is used for construction of new buildings comes from a state property tax of $1 per $1,000 of valuation. The tax is 3/4 mill for academic buildings and 1/4 mill for dormitories. The tax proceeds go into the state Educational Building Fund (EBF), of which KU usually gets about one million dollars a year.
Funds Inadequate
Mr. Nichols said that the one million dollars a year from the EBF could not possibly finance this building program in the next 10 years.
An attempt was made in the last legislature to get additional funds for construction of the new engineering building outside the EBF. The bill would have provided 3.9 million dollars a year for three state schools out of the surplus of 29-25 million dollars in the state treasury.
But Gov. George Docking vetod the bill.
The legislature appropriated $450,000 the Board of Regents had requested for the new engineering building. The regents presumably will ask for the $1,450,000 balance needed to construct the building in 1961.
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Griffin Sees Totalitarian U.S.
If the United States survives, it is doomed to reach a totalitarian state.
This was the opinion expressed Friday by Clifford S. Griffin, assistant professor of history, at the Current Events Forum. Prof. Griffin was one of two faculty members who discussed the question, "Is America Becoming Totalitarian?" The other speaker was J. Eldon Fields, professor of political science who said that as long as there are marks of a democracy in a society, it is not totalitarian.
"I cannot conceive of a people who are not destined to totalitarianism," Prof. Griffin said.
He said modern warfare will lead to totalitarianism because of the necessity to impose "immoral" restrictions on people for security's sake.
He defined totalitarianism as "a condition in which nothing is allowed to have value except a particular predetermined cause and the
ideas which support that cause."
Prof. Griffin said totalitarianism is coming to the United States and that we characteristically will describe it as freedom.
PROF. GRIFFIN said that no matter what type of government practices the United States shall adopt it will always be described as freedom. He said that there are many kinds of freedom but that they all rest upon political freedom.
"The state is considered the ultimate means by which freedom should be promised and kept," Prof. Griffin said.
"I AM NOT willing to accept the inevitability of the answer given by Prof. Griffin" Prof. Fields said.
He said that the State may do anything to maintain freedom. He said that it may lessen freedom to protect political freedom. He said that the individual's freedom may be sacrificed in order to maintain more freedom for the State.
Prof. Fields said that he believes a society can prevent becoming totalitarian if it has the desire.
"The state for its own preservation can compel me to kill and to pay taxes . . . The state can compel us to death without what I call the due process of law. . . . The state never reveals most of what it is doing. . . . The state can increase its own efficiency without hindrance from the public. . . . The state has the power to commit atrocities of the mind upon its citizens.
"In times of war, the main object is to stay alive. . . And to stay alive, we do what we're told and believe what we're told," he said.
He said we are living in an antihumanistic society and the problem is whether we want to save the state or to save ourselves
or to save ourselves
He said we can save ourselves by refusing mental assent to everything.
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