ASC Keeps Maternity Drug Coverage in Plan
The All Student Council voted unanimously last night to continue maternity coverage and 100 per cent drug coverage in the Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance plan.
The council also approved an increase in rates for these benefits. The Student Health committee had recommended that maternity coverage be eliminated from the plan and drug coverage reduced to 60 per cent.
The ASC voted to accept the following program modifications made by the Student Health committee: $25 deductible per admission in hospitals other than Watkins Hospital; reduce days covered from 365 to 120; eliminate supplemental accident coverage, and restrict diagnostic X-ray to Watkins Hospital only.
Costs of the Plan
The family rates including maternity and 100 per cent drug coverage will be $140.80 and the individual student rates will be $23.10. The Student Health committee had proposed rates for the family at $55.10 excluding maternity and 100 per cent drug coverage. The proposed rate for individual students without full drug coverage was $21.40
Paul Medlock, Atchison sophomore and married student representative, said a poll was conducted and the married students definitely favored keeping maternity coverage.
Council members and students have expressed the opinion that full drug coverage was a definite benefit of the program. They also felt that this attracted many students to the program.
Richard Meidinger, Hiawatha junior and chairman of the Student Health committee, said many students abuse the program by not buying drugs at Watkins. One of the intentions of the committee was to encourage students to use Watkins more.
Students Can Save 50 Per Cent
Students Can Save 50 Per Cent. He said students should approximately pay for if they purchase drugs at Watkins rather than at downtown pharmacies.
The company is losing approximately $1,500 a month. Original figures were based on costs at Watkins and many students have been going to other hospitals, Meidinger said.
Other business conducted at the meeting was that the University Party was recognized as an active campus political party. Kirk Cottingham, Newton junior and new elections committee chairman, said that all names on the petitions were found valid by the committee.
Other new elections committee members are Roy Gallagher, Overland Park junior; Mary Beth Hornback, Parsons junior; Robert Covey, Ames, Iowa, junior; Elizabeth Gray,
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Connie Smith Is Jayhawker Queen
Connie J. Smith, Topeka sophmore and a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority, is the 1960 Jayhawker Queen.
Craig Stevens, TV's famed "Peter Gunn" selected the Queen from among five finalists.
The Jayhawker Princesses are Fatric Goldberg, Kansas City, Mo.
Connie J. Smith
junior; Nancy Ellyson, Georgetown,
Tex., senior; Constance Hunter,
Hutchinson freshman, and Judith
Regier, Buhler senior.
The Queen and Princesses were presented on TV in Topeka this morning and will appear Sunday on WDAF-FTV, Kansas City.
Rain and thunderstorms developing west portion this afternoon, across state this evening and tonight, continuing east and central portions tomorrow.
Wednesday, May 18, 1960
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57th Year, No. 145
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Khrushchev Rages Under Booing of Paris Crowd
By United Press International
By United Press International Nikita Khrushchev, almost incoherent with rage at repeated booing, told a press conference in Paris today that further American spy flights over Russia would lead inevitably to war.
He compared President Eisenhower to "a thief caught red-handed in his theft."
precedented treatment of a head of state. Khrushchev responded with a fist pounding display of fireworks in which he reminded the crowd he was head of the powerful Soviet Union.
The booing and jeering among 1,500 to 2,000 persons at Khrushchev's farewell news conference was unit was assumed that, as a group, they would most accurately reflect competent political opinions within the student body.
In a rapid series of angry statements and threats, Khrushchev renewed all of his insults of Eisenhower and the United States, threatened to renew nuclear bomb tests, to end the general disarmament talks, and to reopen the Berlin crisis at a time of his own choosing.
3 Political Scientists Analyze Summit Meet
Three members of the political science department agreed today that the blame for the collapse of the recent summit conference cannot be placed with any nation's leader but with the general diplomatic policies of the nations involved.
Lack of government coordination in diplomacy was mentioned as a chief flaw. James W. Drury, associate professor of political science referred to Bertrand Russell in explaining world difficulties:
"I AM PERSUADED that there is absolutely no limit to the absurdities that can, by government action, come to be generally believed."
Prof. Drury added, "This applies not only to the Soviet but to the West as well. Many people are to blame for the collapse of the summit conferences. Placing specific blame is impossible."
Roy D. Laird, assistant professor of political science, commented:
"The success of any summit conference, depends upon the preparatory work accomplished by the full-time diplomats. Therefore, the failure of the present meeting must be placed equally upon the heads of all states involved for they are the ones who led the world to believe that they might be able to achieve something useful and lasting without doing their homework."
The three professors discussed the importance of the U-2 incident to the summit conference.
ROBERT D. TOMASEK, assistant professor of political science, used the U-2 plane incident in an illustration of lack of government unity in diplomacy-particularly, United States unity.
... military intelligence needs should always be weighed against the possible loss of moral leadership in the world." he said.
Prof. Tomasek continued, "The United States blundered by not discontinuing their aerial flights before the conference, and immediately after the incident the United States should have apologized and announced the immediate discontinuance of flights."
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He reached his most threatening vein today when he spoke of the U-2 incident and his decision to write a separate peace treaty with Communist East Germany—a treaty that might divide Germany forever and cut off western lifelines to West Berlin.
Russia has reached the end of its patience on Germany, he said.
Then he turned to his Camp David talks last fall with Eisenhower and said 'I almost opened my mouth' to speak of U.S. intelligence flights over Russia.
"I was on the point of speaking about it, but the atmosphere was so convivial with President Eisenhower telling me to call him 'my friend' in English and using the same word to me in Russian and I thought: Why raise this matter with this friend then?
"Then I thought there was something rather fishy about this friend of mine and it turned out I was right.
"When we caught the thief redhanded and said 'you are a thief' the thief replied 'no, I am not a thief. I have a thief-like policy, that's all."
At the same time Khrushchev was reaffirming Russian charges, counter charges of spying were leveled against Russia.
In Syracuse, N.Y., today Vice President Richard M. Nixon said that two Soviet spies were found searching out U.S. secrets in Massachusetts last fall while Khrushchev was talking peace in the United States.
In Washington, it was learned two Soviet agents had been spotted — but not arrested — in the area of Springfield, Mass., site of a federal arsenal, a half dozen major defense plants and a few miles from Westover Air Force Base, headquarters of the Eighth Air Force.
Sources said the fact the spies were not arrested is in accordance with frequent counter - espionage practice. Federal authorities often prefer to keep them under surveillance, in the hopes they will lead to detection of their contacts or other espionage agents.
He said there had been other Rus-
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GOP Edges Demos in Kansan Presidential Poll
(Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles on the voting preferences of KU students and the factors behind these preferences.)
By Bill Blundell
How would you vote if you had to cast your ballot today in the 1960 presidential election?
Last week 462 KU students were asked this question in a Daily Kansas poll. Student characteristics also were analyzed in terms of college year, membership in social organizations, sex, marital status, age and home town.
The students polled all were taking one or more political science courses. Questionnaires were given to students in class, and answers were coded and tabulated on IBM machines.
Striking differences in the students' attitudes toward the major parties were noted in many of these groups.
Students enrolled in political science courses were selected because
Of the students polled 51.7 per cent said they preferred a Republican, while 47.4 per cent chose a Democrat. No choice was indicated by .9 per cent.
In the 1956 landslide, President Eisenhower garnered 57.4 per cent of the popular vote and picked up 457 electoral votes. His opponent, Adlai Stevenson, polled 41.9 per cent but was able to win only 73 electoral votes. Other candidates polled .7 per cent.
"If the 1960 presidential election were being held today, you would probably choose as the next president a: (1) Democrat (2) Republican."
Student Party Preference
In the KU poll, the female vote was responsible for the entire Republican majority as 59 of 79 women
They were asked:
Age Democratic Republican Total
Under 21 98 (43.2%) 129 (56.8%) 227
Over 21 121 (52.4%) 110 (47.6%) 231
Total party vote 219 (47.4%) 239 (51.7%) 458*
(* Four students indicated no party choice. These would have brought the total to 462. They account for .9 per cent of the party vote.)
About half the students are or will be old enough to vote in November. Within this group, 52.4 per cent favored a Democratic president, while 47.6 per cent chose a Republican. This gave the Democrats more actual power at the polls.
Although a majority of the total responding said they would prefer a Republican president in 1960, those students old enough to vote favored a Democrat in the White House.
Strong Democratic tendencies were shown by other student groupings.
The female vote has been courteed avidly by leaders in both major parties since the government gave women equal voting rights with the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920.
polled chose the GOP. The male vote was deadlocked at 160-160. Four students did not indicate their sex.
However, the Democratic margin in this group was wiped out and exceeded by those students too young to vote. The Republicans rolled up a 56.8 to 43.2 per cent lead in this group.
United States citizens must be 21 in order to vote, except in Georgia and Kentucky (18), Alaska (19) and Hawaii (20). Only about 60 per cent of all the eligible voters in the United States cast ballots in 1956.
The poll showed a progressive march toward the Democratic side
as the college years of the student advanced, with the freshmen and sophomores solidly Republican and graduate students even more markedly Democratic in their sympathies.
Of 223 freshmen and sophomores polled, 55.5 per cent indicated a Republican choice. Juniors and seniors totaling 202 wound up in a dead heat, with Republicans and Democrats each registering 101. Of the 33 graduate students, 63.6 per cent said they wanted a Democratic president. Again four students failed to give their college year.
Sharp differences in party sympathies became apparent when the questionnaires were analyzed for student membership in fraternities or sororities. Those who belonged to these organizations were heavily in favor of a Republican president, while independent students leaned toward a Democrat.
Of the 247 Greeks polled, 60.4 per cent gave a Republican response. Independent students swung to the other side, with 56.7 per cent of 208 allying themselves with a Democrat. Seven students failed to answer the question.
Of the 70 married students 55.7 per cent chose a Democrat, but 53.7 per cent of the 387 single students chose a Republican.
Student responses also were analyzed for attitude differences in Kansas residents and out-of-state residents. The E1 out-of-state residents went Democratic, with 60.3 per cent favoring that party.
But of 331 Kansas students, 57.2 per cent chose a Republican.
The students also made a preferential choice of candidates. Tomorrow there will be a report on candidate popularity, the religious issue and minority voting trends.
Married students showed approval for a Democratic president, but were outweighed by single students' preference for a Republican.
Student Party Preference By College Year
Year By College Year Democratic Republican Total Freshman — Sophomore 97 (44.5%) 126 (55.5%) 223 Junior-senior 101 (50%) 101 (50%) 202 Graduate 21 (63.6%) 12 (36.4%) 33 Total party vote 219 (47.4%) 239 (51.7%) 458* (*Four students failed to indicate their college year.)
(* Four students failed to indicate their college year.)