Daily Hansan
57th Year, No.141
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, May 12, 1960
Y Officers Support Southern 'Sit-ins'
The KU-Y cabinet last night passed a resolution deploring racial segregation and giving full support to the recent sit-ins in the South.
The cabinet passed the resolution by a vote of 12-5. The purpose of the resolution was to counteract the resolution passed by the Big Eight Student Body Presidents' Conference April 30, at KU which opposed sit-in strikes.
THE RESOLUTION does not represent the entire membership of the KU-Y, only the cabinet. A poll is being taken to ascertain the feeling of the entire KU-Y membership.
The resolution reads:
"Whereas the student body president of the University of Kansas and five other student body presidents of Big Eight schools have placed themselves on record in opposition to the sit-ins occurring throughout the South.
"WHEREAS the problem of racial segregation in such areas of housing and social equality is still a problem to the students of the University of Kansas, therefore.
"Be it resolved by the cabinet of the YMCA, YWCA that.
1. We as students of the University of Kansas give our full support to the recent sit-ins in the South.
"2. WE DEPLORE the remaining areas of racial bias on the campus and in the community.
"3. We encourage the members, officers, and the staff of the KU-Y to give their full cooperation to any group seeking to end racial bigotry on the campus and in Lawrence.
Quill Date Corrected
Quill magazines will go on sale tomorrow, not today as a recent University Daily Kansan story stated. The magazine may be purchased for 35 cents in the Kansas Union, Fraser Hall, the basement of Strong Hall, the information booth on Jayhawk Blvd. or at Summerfield Hall.
Students Debate GOP Tomorrow
"This resolution is to be sent to the YMCA's and YWCA's of other Big Eight schools, to the Big Eight student body presidents and to the press."
Two students, Bob Thomas, Republican, and Hal Krehbiel, Democrat, will discuss Republican presidential candidates at the Current Events Forum at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Music Room of the Kansas Union.
Students Fight Racial Discrimination at CU
Ten University of Colorado students have formed a committee to fight racial discrimination as a direct result of the Big Eight Student Body Presidents Conference resolution opposing sit-ins.
Bill Lewis, CU basketball star, heads a committee of "Students for Human Dignity" to work against discrimination. Lewis is the only Negro on the committee. He is a former member of the Association of Students of the University of Colorado, the student council.
HANK BROWNING, the CU student body president, has been criticized since the Young Peoples' Socialist League, a campus political party, called for his resignation earlier this week for his participation in the resolution on sit-ins.
The presidents of the Big Eight schools met at KU April 30 and passed a resolution which said that the presidents do not condone sit-in strikes practiced by students in the South.
The controversy in Colorado is over the same issue that caused 65 Negro students to march in protest here at KU and that has drawn considerable editorial comment from a number of Big Eight campus newspapers.
THE CU COMMITTEE has drawn up a resolution which will be presented to the ASUC tonight. It reads:
"The Students for Human Dignity resolve to do all within their power to alter the position taken by the Big Eight student body presidents on student sit-in problems because this
action is contrary to previous policies of the students of the University of Colorado and to all concepts of democracy.
"We further resolve to work for the elimination of the discrimination on the basis of race, creed or national origin that exists in Boulder and other Big Eight cities. We request the whole-hearted support of the student community."
The committee now has 10 members. A spokesman for the committee said that it is expected that all Negro students and many white students on campus will join.
Generally fair and warmer today, tonight and tomorrow. High today 70 to 75. Low tonight 45 to 50. High tomorrow 80.
Weather
Students Meet to Alter Blue Cross
The married student representative to the All Student Council said today that a meeting of married students will be held Monday to consider proposed changes in the family Blue Cross-Blue Shield plan.
Paul Medlock, Atchison junior, said the meeting will be held in rooms 306A and B of the Kansas Union at 7:30 p.m.
"We hope to be able to gain some type of opinion on the proposed changes in the current Bule Cross-Blue Shield family plan.
"At the last ASC meeting we found out that they were planning on cutting out all the maternity benefits. As far as I know, there was no attempt to find out if the married students would be in favor of this," Medlock said.
Raymond Miller, Lawrence senior and the only other married student on the council, will assist Medlock at the Monday night meeting.
"Under the current plan, married students are paying a relatively high rate for the family plan. The rate is high because of the maternity benefits. The student-faculty committee, made the recommendation to drop the maternity benefits. They felt that married students would participate in the plan more if it were cheaper and only covered the family for the regular medical expenses.
"Paul and I are attempting to get a little valid opinion on this subject. It may be that married students will like the idea, but would hate to strike the maternity benefits without finding out." Miller said.
Medlock urged married students who cannot attend the meeting to call him at VI 3-4058.
Mr. K Hurls War Threat
MOSCOW — (UPI)—Premier Nikita Khrushchev warned the United States in an impromptu press conference yesterday that further aggression against the Soviet Union will be met "with Atom bombs in the first few minutes."
He said Secretary of State Christian A. Hertzer's statements on an American reconnaissance flight over Russia were "the kind that would be made only by a country in a state of war with another country."
"If the United States has not ex-
No Proficiency Results Yet
The names of those passing the spring English Proficiency Examination will be announced Monday.
David Dykstra, assistant professor of English and director of the examination, today gave no indications of the number of those passing.
"We had hoped to have them ready by tomorrow." Prof. Dykstra said, "but it's going to take us the weekend to get them finished up."
The examination was taken by 688
juniors and seniors on March 2.
The English Proficiency Examination is required for all students enrolled in the College in the schools of education, fine arts, journalism and nursing and in the department of architecture and architectural engineering.
Students exempt include: those who passed English 2H with the grade of a B or better; those who passed English I and 2 with an A;
"Wake Me When It's Over"
and those who passed English 1H with a B or better and English 2 with an A.
Each individual theme is graded by as many as six senior members of the English department staff passing from one instructor to the other until it was either passed twice or failed three times.
The English Proficiency Examination had its beginnings in 1938. Its purpose? The English department said in a Daily Kansan article dated May 14, 1938:
University officials are now considering an English department suggestion to abolish the English Proficiency Examination, replacing it with a uniform English 4 final examination.
"This composition was suggested for graduating students, as some are incapable of composing a well-organized, intelligent piece of writing."
Geology Picnic Sunday
The Geology Wives will have a picnic at 1 p.m. Sunday at Elks Point, Lone Star Lake. Dinner will be served at 5:30. Entertainment will be provided. All geology students are invited to attend.
Bach Humanities Topic
Jan Chiapusso, professor of piano at KU, will address the seventh Humanities Lecture tonight at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall. His topic: "Bach's Philosophy of Music."
perienced a real war on its territory, has not experienced air raids, and if it wishes to unleash a war, we shall be compelled to fire rockets which will explode on the aggressors' territory in the very first minutes of war," Khrushchev said.
Hertter said American spy flights over Russia were necessary in the interest of preventing a surprise attack and indicated they would be continued in the future. Khrushchev called this "audacious and brazen."
"Herter's statement was a threat to peace," Khrushchev said. "If there are any more such aggressions we shall strike at the aggressor.
"If they start a war we will hit them with atom bombs in the first few minutes."
Khrushchev made the remarks to newsmen at Gorki Park yesterday when wreckage of a plane said to be an American U-2 reconnaissance jet was placed on exhibition along with an alleged confession by the pilot, Francis G. Powers, 30, of Albany, Ga.
It was at this press conference that Khrushevhey indicated President Eisenhower would not be welcomed by the Russian people if he goes through with his proposed June visit to Russia. Only those remarks cleared censorship yesterday.
The Gorki Park exhibit showed an alleged confession by Powers and his "plea of guilty" but observers in Moscow discounted reports he already had been formally charged with espionage by the government.
Khrushchev conducted his on-the-spot news conference while standing atop a wicker chair in the chest hall of the public park where the plane exhibit is on display.
Under Soviet law no formal charges can be placed against Powers until the preliminary investigation is completed. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said yesterday the investigation was not over and that the appropriate decision will be taken when it is.
"They tried to probe and they were rebuffed," he said. "We are not Guatemala. We have tranquilizers for such bandits."
"We want good relations with the United States, and believe that given time we will have good relations," Khrushchev said.
Khrushchev said he did not consider the intrusion by the U-2 jet an actual act of war but "just a probing action."
"We know when to be infuriated but we also have good heads on our shoulders."
By Peggy Kallos
I waited ten minutes in front of Watson Library to get that book at the "beat" booksale, waited in one spot with the pushing, yelling crowd behind me always pushing, pushing.
I had it in sight, but it suddenly disappeared.
Book Sale Beats Buyer
I just couldn't stand that girl's pony tail in my eyes, ears, nose and throat anymore.
So I slid down to greener pastures — two feet to the left. One auctioneer picked up a book, yelling, "Lovers of Louisiana, ten cents." Then as an afterthought, "It's obviously not illustrated."
All at once a student came bounding up behind me saying to his companion. "Look what I got. A five-volume set of medical encyclopedias." His friend was destined to disappoint
him, for he just looked at him and said, "That's good! It's usually a seven-volume set."
One student peered over my shoulder saying, "I've got to find something to read in class." Fifteen minutes later the same student was wandering around muttering "I've got to find something to read in class."
The auctioneers, dressed in the attire to pass on the illusion of a "beat" booksale, were equally as choice with their comments. One brunette in tennis shoes, blue-jeans, and plaid shirt was trying very hard to sell a certain book. She held it up saying, "But it's extremely funny—it's in German!"
My time was up and I still hadn't found a book. Feeling defeated, I left the premises, hearing a small voice behind me. "I've got to find something to read in class."