English Proficiency Figures Are Veiled
By Tom Turner
For the first time since 1938, the English Proficiency Committee has refused to release the number of students who took the English Proficiency Examination.
Based on a figure released earlier by the committee, the passing percentage is 60.3. This means about two of every five who took the test failed it.
DAVID BYKSTRA, assistant professor of English and chairman of the committee, gave no reason for the sudden secrecy.
On March 3 of this year, the day of the spring semester proficiency examination, Prof. Dykstra told the Daily Kansan that 688 students were taking the test.
But this morning he stated: "The figure presented in the Kansan was incorrect.
"WE ARE NOT releasing the number who have taken the test or the percentages."
When asked why, Prof. Dykstra replied:
When asked why, Iron Dykstra replied. "The examination is not something you can readily sit down and study a book for."
W. P. ALBRECHT, professor of English and chairman of the English department, said:
"I do not know what the percentage is. Departmental policy is not to release such information because it is not a departmental examination, but is given by a College committee. It is up to the committee to release results."
THE LIST OF those passing as presented to the Kansan this morning gave about 415 names.
Using 688 as a base figure, the failing percentage would be 39.7.
If the number taking the examination were smaller, the failing percentage would be higher. However, using 688 as the base, the passing percentage would be 60.3 - 3.2 lower than the fall semester percentage.
(The list of those who passed the examination is published on page 3.) (Continued on page 3)
Anti-Sit-In Idea Also Unpopular At Okla State
Oklahoma State University's student senate last week adopted a resolution stating its disapproval of the anti-sit-in resolution passed by the Big Eight student body presidents.
The Oklahoma school is the third of the Big Eight schools to criticize the action of the presidents' conference, Colorado students were calling for their president's resignation last week. Kansas was the first school to react to the sit-in resolution.
THE OSU SENATE'S main point was that the Big Eight presidents did not have the authority to take a stand.
Meanwhile, Colorado student body president Hank Browning moved into even more troubled times. Randall Jones, Big Eight Student Body Association President, said in Lawrence, on the way to Kansas State University, that he changed the resolution's wording for the CU president.
Jones said:
"Browning said he interpreted the resolution differently than our original release to the press. He called me up and asked me if he could use the resolution the way he understood it. I said that he could."
There are now two resolutions being used at Big Eight schools—the one used here at KU and six other schools and the one at Colorado.
THE MAIN DIFFERENCE between the two resolutions is that the CU one tones down the section which "does not condone the sit-ins" by saying it "does not condone certain methods of sit-ins."
Jones released a statement stating the reason for the resolution:
"Our purpose in stating our own personal beliefs was that we felt that sit down strike methods were in themselves a violation of equal opportunity. The conference believes that there are many people in the South who are alienated by the sit-down strikes in that these methods appear to be forcing integration upon them too rapidly.
"SUCH SOCIAL BELIEFS have been growing for hundreds of years. We cannot expect to change such deep rooted beliefs overnight.
Bomb Scare Hits Sorority
The Lawrence Police Department received an anonymous phone call at 12:50 a.m. Sunday saying that a bomb had been planted in the Delta Gamma sorority, 1001 West Hills.
Investigation by both campus and city police proved the report to be a hoax. The caller, a woman, had refused to give her name.
He said: "Although the girls were cooperative and calm, a thing of this sort, through panic, can cause serious injury.
Joe Skillman, chief of campus police, spoke strongly of the dangers of this kind of prank.
"Besides of the possible injury, this sort of thing is a violation of state and federal laws. It certainly is not considered a prank by law enforcement officials and if we apprehend the person who did this she will be fully prosecuted."
Daily hansan
57th Year, No. 143
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, May 16, 1960
Mr. K. Cancels Ike's Invitation
Ike Says Khrushchev 'Sabotaqing' Summit
PARIS — (UPI) — Premier Nikita Khrushchev today withdrew his invitation to President Eisenhower to visit Russia, and in an ensuing bitter exchange over U.S. spy flights was accused by Eisenhower of coming all the way from Moscow just to sabotage the summit talks.
The crisis was so acute that British prime minister Harold Macmillan issued a public statement calling on Eisenhower and Khrushchev to let the summit talks continue.
THE BIG FOUR conference teetered on the verge of immediate collapse after Khrushchev delivered what western sources called an "insulting" attack on Eisenhower and the United States. The Soviet Premier threatened at the opening three-hour session to walk out of the summit meeting unless the United States halted its spy flights over Russia and punished those responsible.
Eisenhower issued a statement af-
Speaker Sam Rayburn said:
Congressmen Hit Red Summit Price
Speaker Sam Haybourn says:
"I never was too hopeful about what might come out of this conference. It looks now that nothing will come out of it — and that will be to the great regret of everybody
Johnson's remarks reflected the air of grave concern which hung over Capitol Hill in the wake of developments at the summit meeting in Paris.
Johnson told the Senate that "his price for negotiating at all is one that is obviously unacceptable to the United States." Khrushchev, he said, "is not going to discuss the issues upon which there might be some possibility of agreement unless issues are first discussed upon which there is no possibility of agreement."
WASHINGTON—(UPI) — Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) said today that Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev "seems determined to destroy the summit conference even before it starts."
who wants peace, world accord and world understanding.
"I am afraid we are all going to have to acknowledge failure of this summit conference."
In what may have been an effort to stem any kind of oratory on the issue, Rayburn declined "for reasons of his own" to recognize House members at the opening of today's session for the usual one-minute speeches.
The personality of Vice President Richard M. Nixon was the biggest issue in the Current Events Forum Friday.
Senate leader Johnson said "As it stands now in the minds of men and women everywhere, the question is whether the Soviet Union actually wants a world of peace or whether it prefers constant tension which must end in disaster."
Democratic whip Mike Mansfield (Mont), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, followed Johnson with a warning that "This is a time not to give vent to our emotions but to remain calm in the face of the danger which confronts us."
Nixon Assailed, Praised
Hal B. Krehbiel, Wichita senior and Robert M. Thomas Jr., Marysville sophomore, forum speakers, agreed that Nixon was the only candidate to be considered for the presidential nomination on the Republican ticket.
But they did not agree in their appraisals of Nixon's integrity and ability.
KREIBIEL assailed Nixon's ethics in the 1952 presidential campaign
during which an $18,000 campaign fund was criticized by the Democrats. Nixon had been accused of using some of this money, which was contributed by businessmen for operation of his office, not for campaigning.
Krehbiel said:
Thomas held that "no appeal was made to God and Mother, but Country came to his (Nixon's) aid and he vindicated himself. He said that Nixon was not a rich man and could not afford to carry out the duties of a senator with only the pay he received for that office.
"His television speech was a real TV soap opera performance, with an appeal for God, Mother and Country."
Hal B. Krehbiel
IN REPLY to one of Krehbiel's contentions, Thomas said that Nixon voted 91 per cent with the Republican Party in 1952, not especially for the business interests which contributed heavily to his campaign fund.
The forum speakers agreed that there is no "new Nixon."
Krehbiel contended that Nixon has not really changed, but persists in mistakes. Thomas argued that the vice president has stuck by the things he has believed in and would be a better president than Eisenhower.
"He has a more driving personality. He has a positive personality comparable to FDR. He is liberal on many issues and is not for the status quo," said Thomas.
KREHBIEL, quoted criticisms of Nixon by columnist Walter Lippmann, the late Sen. Robert Taft (R-Ohio) and Nehru of India. Krehbil said Nehru called Nixon "an unprincipled cad."
Nixon's trip to Poland against the wishes of the State Department was described by Krehbiel as an attempt to influence the vote of ethnic groups.
Thomas repudiated the charge that the overall military institution of the United States is inadequate. He pointed out that the U.S. had a record of four years' successful spying which was discovered only last week
Robert M. Thomas Jr.
ter today's angry and abortive opening session in which he said intelligence flights already had been suspended since the U-2 incident and asserted they will not be resumed
Eisenhower then offered to negotiate directly with the Russians on such flights.
THE SHARP AND EITTER public statements by the two leaders threw the world into a new siege of crisis and gloom.
Khrushchev also insulted Eisenhower in a different way—he suggested any summit talks be postponed for six to eight months, or until the United States has elected a new president to take Eisenhower's place.
Western diplomatic sources said Khrushchev's statement had virtually wrecked hopes the summit conference could actually get started. He lambasted Eisenhower over the U-2 spy plane incident and repeated his threats of retaliation against the United States and its allies who provide bases.
Eisenbower made it clear he is prepared to stay in Paris and continue the summit talks even though he refused to bow to the Soviet leader's ultimatum or to make a public apology as demanded by Khrushchev.
EISENHOWER, in a statement read later by presidential press secretary James Hagerty, was far more conciliatory although he was visibly angered at the morning session and answered Khrushchev with heatedly firm remarks of his own.
The summit meeting was almost written off before it could get started, but the western foreign ministers called a meeting this afternoon to try to save it. No time has been set for another big four session.
Khrushchev's statement suggested that if the Big Four meeting collapsed right now it should not be resumed until after Eisenhower has left office.
He made it clear he was unwilling to sit down at the conference table with Eisenhower or receive him as a guest in Russia unless Eisenhower made a public apology and punished those responsible for the spy flights.
Khrushchev said American statements on the spy plane were those normally made only by a nation in a state of war and that they doomed the summit in advance. He said the United States was "crudely flouting" international law and had violated the United Nations charter.
Eisenhower's statement showed he was in no mood to accept Khrushchev's apology ultimatum.
"The only conclusion that can be drawn from his behaviour this morning was that he came all the way from Moscow to Paris with the sole intention of sabotaging this meeting on which so much of the hopes of the world have rested," the President said.
Then, in a final effort to rescue the talks, Eisenhower added in a statement after the Big Four session:
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