Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, April 26, 1960
BLOSSOMS IN THE BREEZE—Joan Kennedy, Omaha, Neb., junior, picks a blossom for her hair from a blossoming fruit tree.
57th Year, No. 129
The College Staff will discuss the procedure of reporting student absences at its meeting tomorrow morning.
The present system of reporting absences is a procedure to check a student's disappearing from the University without explanation. It is also a way of identifying students whose absences from class may be interfering with their school work.
Student Absences To Be Discussed
James K. Hitt, registrar, and director of admissions, said that what is meant by "excessive" is when a student has been absent from classes, without explanation, a consecutive number of times greater than the number of hours of credit in the course.
ALTHOUGH there is no overall University policy regarding attendance in class or the reporting of absences by the faculty, faculty members are asked to report a student when he has had a continuous run of excessive absences.
"This rule, if properly applied,
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NCAA Is Silent About KU
The NCAA's executive council completes its second of three days of hearings today in Atlanta, Ga., with no decision yet regarding the rumor that KU may go on probation for alleged football recruiting practices.
The 18-member council, which has the power to chastise misbehaving coleges, received the report of the committee on infractions from George H. Young, dean of the Wisconsin School of Law.
NEW RUMORS spread last night that the reason KU was called before the enforcement committee was the case of Wilt Chamberlain, KU's two-time All America, basketball player, and not Bert Coan, transfer football player from Texas Christian University.
The NCAA council has a ruling that no action or consideration of action will be discussed until the final findings are made public. All reports thus far are only rumors as NCAA officials have remained mum.
Walter Byers, executive director of the NCAA, said after yesterday's all-day closed session that no action has been taken as yet on any possible infractions.
ATLANTA—(UPI) A spokesman confirmed today that there are several infractions cases now before the penalty-wielding NCAA council.
Bulletin
This was the first official disclosure that penalties may be assessed against more than one school for violations of NCAA rules.
At a noon break, the spokesman disclosed the pending cases without revealing which schools are on the carpet but added that action on these cases is not expected to be made public until the council completes its annual three-day spring meeting here tomorrow afternoon.
There have been unconfirmed reports that the University of North Carolina, the University of Kansas and Louisiana State University may all be included in young's report.
Same Song, Second Verse-
IFC Again Refuses Greek Dance Refunds
The Interfraternity Council turned thumbs down on another proposal to refund money on Greek Week dance tickets last night, then decided to make a cash gift to a fraternity that equaled the amount that the fraternity had lost on tickets.
The fraternity involved is Phi Kappa Sigma.
Weather
The first motion — that which called for a ticket refund—was the second one discussed in the last two meetings. The previous motion failed by a 17-6 vote. Last night's motion was defeated by a 14-11 vote with two more houses present.
LAST NIGHTS second ruling stemmed from a complaint by a fraternity that lack of finances was causing the group to close down its
Yesterday's threat of thundershowers slightly cooled off Kansas temperatures. The weather for tomorrow is forecasted as fair and mild. Today's low is expected to be near 40 degrees with a high in the middle 60s.
A spokesman who declined to give the name of his organization said that his house had purchased 40 tickets for the Greek Week dance. The tickets, costing $2.50 apiece, were purchased by the house to be used in conjunction with a rush weekend.
According to Lance Johnson, Wymore, Neb. senior and president of the IFC, the money would come from a fund that had been set up by the council a number of years ago to help fraternities in financial distress.
The spokesman said that when they heard of the band cancellation, the group took the guests into Kansas City. The house believed the tickets would be refunded, he said.
THE IFC then voted to give the fraternity $100. This totals the exact amount the group paid for he tickets, which the spokesman claimed were never used.
house next year, and that the ticket loss was an undue strain.
Discussion of the first motion once again centered around the issue of whether or not the IFC would "lose
Byers said that during the eight years that the infractions committee has been in being there have been a total of 236 cases investigated but in only 52 of these has guilt been established and disciplinary action taken.
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He pointed out that some of these cases have involved schools which have been convicted of irregularities more than once and thus less than 50 of the NCAA's 554 members have been convicted of wrong-doing.
"There has been a considerable lessening of complaints in the past several years," Byers said. "We feel that our policing has prompted more schools to follow the rules. You aren't as likely to do wrong when there's a cop standing on the corner."
VARIOUS SOURCES have indicated that the schools which may face NCAA disciplinary action are North Carolina, Louisiana State and Kansas.
The latest guess at possible reasons for KU being called on the carpet was made by Elon Torrence of the Associated Press. Torrence quoted an alumnus of KU as saying that Chamberlain was responsible for any discussion or action which might take place.
University officials have admitted that KU has been queried about its recruiting practices, but Coach Jack Mitchell said the queries were of routine nature.
End to Rhee's Rule Imminent
By United Press International
One of history's greatest unarmed revolutions today swept President Syngman Rhee close to an end of his 12-year-old iron rule over South Korea. His resignation appeared imminent.
Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans, frustrated by years of steam roller tactics by Rhee's Liberal Party, rose up against the combined might of the ROK army and Rhee's police forces and won a conditional offer from Rhee to step down "if the people desire it."
IN TOKYO, thousands of antiAmerican Japanese students shouting "be like Korean students" attempted to storm Parliament but were beaten off by club-swinging riot police.
An estimated 350 students and 32 policemen were injured, 23 of them seriously, according to reports. Eighteen student leaders were arrested.
A mob of about 9,000 extreme leftist students demonstrating in protest against the U.S.-Japan security treaty charged police barricades thrown up around the Diet Building They were repelled by a force of 8,000 policemen.
THE KOREAN demonstrators demanded immediate resignation of Rhee. Charges of corrupt elections and police brutality brought pressure from the United States itself for a swift reorganization of Rhee's one-man rule.
Police killed at least 23 more persons and wounded 160 others in the last 24 hours of rioting. Still the student-led demonstrators pressed their demands for Rhee's unconditional resignation, taunted the police themselves and used their own blood to write slogans of "liberty or death."
THE NATIONAL Assembly yesterday passed a resolution demanding that Rhee resign immediately and that new elections be held. Even members of Rhee's ruling Liberal Party joined in the condemnation.
The announcement of Rhee's conditional offer to quit came soon afterwards and the crowds in the street shouted with joy. The wild cheers turned to shouts of rage when they realized he was still hanging on and a mob of hundreds of thousands laid siege to his presidential palace.
RHEE CAPITULATED at last and issued an historic 180-word statement in which he declared:
"I will resign from the presidency if the people desire." He offered to
call new presidential elections—and it was considered certain he again would be a candidate. Rhee is the only president South Korea has had in its 12 years.
12 Years.
In Washington, Korean ambassador You Chan Yang sent his resignation to Seoul today shortly after Korean residents here gave him a 24-hour ultimatum to quit or be ousted.
"It seems that I have made mistakes," he told United Press International. "Therefore, I am submitting my resignation to the government. I am sending a telegram now to the acting foreign minister, Mr. Huh Chung."
YANG ACKNOWLEDGED that he had received this threat. But he said he had decided independently to quit because he found that he had been wrong in charging that the wave of anti-government rioting in South Korea was communist-instigated.
Meanwhile, outgoing vice-president John M. Chang, Rhee's archpolitical enemy, hailed Rhee's decision today as a victory of democracy. It was Chang's defeat in the March 15 vice-presidential elections which touched off the uprising.
International Club Asks for ASC Vote
The International Club plans to take its All Student Council dispute to the Student Court unless the ASC grants the foreign student representative his rightful vote, says a club representative.
Denis Kennedy, Dublin, Ireland, graduate student, told the Daily Kansan that he resigned as foreign student representative to the ASC because he was not being permitted to vote in meetings.
If the ASC does not agree in tonight's meeting to let the foreign student representative vote, the International Club plans to take the dispute to the Student Court for a legal opinion. The club members contend that ASC Bill No. 2. Section 1, gives clear instructions to the ASC on its obligation to "supervise the freshman and general elections and the election of the foreign student representative."
"If there is no satisfactory reply or promise of a reply," warned Kennedy, "we will take action. This is a matter of principle. Next time it might be another group that is discriminated against. The ASC tends to try to reduce the influence of independents in other ways, taking advantage of technicalities when they can."
Cadaver Shortage May Hurt Medical Studies Next Year
This is the first of three articles dealing with a shortage of cadavers in the department of anatomy and its effects.
By Dan Felger
There is nothing more important to a doctor's studies than his college anatomy class in which he learns how the human body is put together by taking a body apart.
If a prospective doctor cannot get the proper training in his anatomy studies, his education may be impaired.
This is what may happen at KU. In the next few years there will not be enough cadavers made available to the KU anatomy department for educational dissection.
This problem is not unique to KU. Many other universities throughout the country have had shortages of cadavers for educational purposes. Others will be in this position for years to come.
A STUDY of the problem shows it to be serious. A member of KU's anatomy staff estimates that more than half the cases handled by general practitioners deal with the body as a structure. Anatomy studies also are a major part of the training of embalmers, physio-therapists, occupational therapists, nurses and professional anatomists.
At KU, dissection of the human body is used in some way by students in each of these fields.
At KU, dissection of the human body is used in some way by students in each of these fields. Paul G. Roofe, professor of anatomy and chairman of the department, said the anatomy department uses about 40 cadavers a year as part of the training of students in these fields. But the anatomy department is getting fewer cadavers each year.
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