Daily Hansan
57th Year, No. 148
Thursday, May 19, 1960
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Community Feeling Urged in Lecture
A university should have a community atmosphere.
infinity and infinity. This was the contention of Franklyn Nelick, associate professor of English, who spoke last night at the season's final lecture in the "Last Lecture Series."
Prof. Nelick said:
Pron. merely is a collection of scholars who have gathered together to educate, not merely to instruct. That's why we're all together and
Franklyn Nelick
don't go our separate ways. A university should be a community, not just a place from which you take something."
Prof. Nelick said he opposes the "drive-in" university which he said is the type of higher education institution which is non-residential.
He said if he were giving his last lecture he would urge the students to enter into the life of the university and to acquire a type of knowledge which has no end other than in itself.
He said the liberal arts can exist only in a residence university.
He distinguished between the liberal arts and the servile arts by saying that the liberal arts are those which the student can serve and the servile arts are those which can serve the student.
"The college of liberal arts and sciences is the heart of any university. The education of the undergraduates who attend it is the whole heart of the success of the university." Prof. Nelick said.
"Knowledge is its own end. . . It is its own record. . . The mind of the honest student rests content in scholarship, like it does not in any other way," he said.
He commented that the student cannot make the liberal arts relative to his perception of them.
Prof. Nelick said the Phi Beta Kappa key, the grade, the use to which the student may put the knowledge are all incidental.
knowledge are the marks of the
he said one of the marks of the
historically educated mind is to
understand that in all times different
answers have satisfied the minds
of man.
or "Whenever existence is reduced to the mode by which it is known we are reduced to a parcel of barbarians," he said.
When talking about the recent emphasis on science in the educational system, Prof. Nelick said, "Science offers only one mode of knowledge. There are other great modes of knowledge, history, philosophy, some of the social sciences, and literature."
Murphy Bows Out At Commencement
The 88th annual Commencement Exercises of the University will be held June 6. This will be the last time Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy officiates at the exercises, ending his nine year reign at KU.
More than 1,100 members of the Class of '60 will be graduated by the University at 7 p.m. in Memorial Stadium. The exercises will be held in Allen Field House in case of bad weather.
CHANCELLOR MURPHY and Harry Valentine, member of the Board of Regents from Clay Center, will speak and Ray Evans, chairman of the Board of Regents from Prairie Village. will present the degrees.
Village. Dr. Murphy leaves June 30, to become chancellor of UCLA. He will be succeeded by Dean W. Clarke Wescoe of the School of Medicine in Kansas City.
Five distinguished service citations to outstanding alumni will be included in the exercises. These citations are similar to honorary degrees which KU does not give.
Theodore S. Burnett, '28, president of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., Los Angeles; Dr. Carl O. Dunbar, '14, emeritus professor of paleontology and director of the Peabody Museum at Yale University; Frank L. Gilmore, '98, Mexico City, pioneer developer of the Mexican electric power industry.
They are:
RJICHARD L. HARKNESS, '28. Washington, D. C., radio and television news analyst, and Dr. Norman D. Newwell, '30. Leonia, N. J., curator of historical geology and fossil invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Chancellor Murphy will give the "State of the University" talk at the Commencement supper at 4:45 p.m June 5, and at that time Dean and Mrs. W. Clarke Wescoe will be officially introduced as the Murphy's successors at KU.
4 p.m. formal dedication of the Arthur D. Weaver fountain court at the KU Art Museum.
6:30 p.m.-Class of '10 reminiscence dinner in the Kansas Union; 36 Glee Club reunion dinner at Mall Park; 45 Mumford and party Dine-A-Mite; Class of '35 Law reunion in Eldridge Hotel; Class of '50 dinner and party in Eldridge Hotel, and welcoming with Allen Crafton, professor of speech, and Richard Harkness, radio-TV analyst.
Noon—Class of '50 reunion and official reunion luncheon in the Union. 1 p.m.-Kappa alumni reunion, Kansas Union.
5 p.m. Mortar Board dinner and reception Kansas Union
Saturday, June 4's schedule:
I am...Alumni registration Kansas
Union
2. 30 p.m. — Design department open house. Strong Hall.
Sunday, June 5's 8:
Noon-Reunion at the Class of '10. 20.
"Bring your Medal to the Gold Medal Club."
3:30 p.m.-Annual Alumni Association meeting, Kansas Union.
cert. Museum of Natural History.
7:30 - 9:15 Mccalaureate services, Mem-
ium Stadium.
Sunday, June 5's schedule:
Nixon, Kennedy Top UDK Political Poll
Monday, June 6's schedule
8 am—Class of '60 breakfast, Kansas
University
meeting
KU—KU Commencement Band concert
Museum of Natural History
11 a.m.-ROTC commissioning ceremonies. Hoch Auditorium Karen annual
Monday, June 6's schedule:
KU political science students deadlocked Richard Nixon and John Kennedy for the presidency in the Kansan's political poll.
meeting, Kansas Union.
3-4 p.m.-Reception for seniors, Kansas Union.
7 p.m.—Commencement exercises
monies, Hoch Beta Kappa annual meeting, Kansas Union
An article in today's Kansan shows the results of the poll and some of the reasons students voted as they did. The article is on page 8.
Senator Favors Nonrecognition Of Russia, Cuba
TOPEKA—(UPI)—U. S. Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona) said today the United States should withdraw diplomatic recognition of Russia and Cuba.
"I have favored for some time out withdrawing recognition of Russia and I now would include Cuba and other countries similarly disposed."
"I don't care whether you call it a cold war or a medium-cold war or a hot war—Russia is our enemy in the world today," Goldwater said.
Goldwater, here for two speeches said he feels that such a move on the part of the United States would strengthen, rather than weaken, its position in the eyes of the world.
"I think if we take a strong position such as calling our ambassador home from Russia, we shall see India and those other border countries flocking to our side," he said.
Goldwater also said he believes Nikita Khrushchev's behavior at the Summit Conference and his series of irades against the United States indicates that the Russian premier is in deep trouble at home.
"He sounds like a man who has been caught with his hands in the cookie jar and can't get them out," Goldwater said.
He said he feels Khrushechev's difficulties were caused by the U-2 incident.
"He's been bragging to the world about Russia's invulnerability at home. He lulled his people into a sense of false security and all at once their leader was made out a liar. The Russian border was penetrated, and deeply.
"It wouldn't surprise me a bit to see a change at the top level of the Russian government."
World Awaits Berlin Move
BERLIN — (UPI) — Waving his right hand like a victorious boxer, Nikita Khrushchev flew into Communist East Berlin today from Paris to tell the world whether he intends to force the Berlin issue to the explosion point.
Khrushchev already had threatened to sign a separate peace treaty with Communist East Germany—a move aimed at forcing the Western allies out of West Berlin, isolating the city and splitting Germany forever.
He is expected to state his intentions tomorrow in another of his fiery speeches before a hate Eisenhower rally being prepared by the satellite nation. Today the Reds greeted him with denunciations of Eisenhower and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
Khrushchev Gets Kisses
German Communist leaders ran forward and greeted the Soviet leader with kisses on both his chubby cheeks.
Khrushchev stood at attention while a military band played the East German anthem. Then he walked forward, his arms bent at the elbows and swinging like a man marching into a fist fight, toward the honor guard of goose-stepping soldiers.
Most of the prominent leaders of East Germany, except ailing President Wilhelm Pieck were on hand for Khrushchev's arrival.
Unlike his news conference appearance yesterday there were no boos for Khrushechev today — just smiles, flowers and kisses. The crowd was carefully chosen to avoid such an occurrence.
crowd was carefully chosen. After trooping the line of the honor guard but before meeting the top East German leaders, Khrushchev accepted a large bouquet of flowers from a girl member of a Communist youth organization.
Khrushchev Accepts Bouquet
Khrushchev grinned broadly, accepted the bouquet, then ran his left hand over the girl's black hair and patted her back while the girl glanced left and right with embarrassment.
Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky, towering above his rotund leader, walked behind Khrushchev shaking hands with East Germans as he went.
Meanwhile in Paris, the 15-nation NATO alliance unanimously condemned Khrushchev for torpedoing the summit conference and pledged complete solidarity in the dangerous days ahead.
The declaration was contained in a communique issued after the permanent council met with the Big Three Western foreign ministers who reported on the collapse of Summit hopes in three grim days.
President Eisenhower was in anti-communist Portugal where he received a roaring welcome.
Eisenhower Issues Statement
Before he left, Eisenhower issued a statement in which he expressed confidence that the collapse of the summit conference had welded the Western alliance even closer together in the quest for a joint peace. The NATO council backed this up.
Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, Foreign Minister Maurice Couve De Murville and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd briefed the NATO ambassadors on Khrushchev's apparent return to the ways of Stalin and the big four leaders' immediate reaction.
Opportunity Knocks for Seniors
The future was never brighter, starting salaries never higher and opportunities in all fields never better than for the 1960 KU graduating class.
These "rosy years ahead" have been predicted in a "Newsweek magazine report. The report is the result of surveys and studies from college placement offices across the nation.
According to the report, firms are looking for 19 per cent more graduates this June than a year ago, and the average salary offer is up from last year's $447 to $458 per month.
Engineering and science majors still lead in commanding the largest starting salaries, but the trend is definitely toward industry and business grabbing up more nonscience graduates.
"If an engineer can walk, he can get $7,000 a year," the report quoted a Department of Labor spokesman as saying. "Anybody who has a definite career choice can get a job," he added.
Colleges from coast to coast reported an increasing number of
jobs for liberal arts graduates in production, food distribution, hotel and restaurant management, teaching, advertising, journalism, and government service.
Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
According to the Labor Department, "the problem is that these fields just aren't glamorous enough for the top students, and the starting salaries are too low. Actually, this is the short view. Salaries in all these fields eventually are higher than in the more glamorous occupations, such as science and engineering."
Weather
The "Newsweek" report indicated a "frenzied effort to get people for banks, finance companies, insurance, retail sales, and merchandising."
The forecast calls for cloudy to partly cloudy this afternoon through tomorrow. Thunderstorms southeast and extreme east this afternoon and evening and occasional drizzle or light rain northwest this afternoon.
The State Highway Department reports that 8 to 9 inches of rain fell last night in the Wilburton and Clayton areas. Water is subsiding today and no families were evacuated. Many state roads are closed.