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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, April 21, 1960
57th Year, No.126
John Beaufort, a drama critic for the Christian Science Monitor, will be one of four judges at KU's drama symposium which begins at 8 tonight in the University Theatre. Public performances will also be given at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Play Critic Here For Symposium
The symposium will feature "While Penelope Spins" by William L. Weber tonight, "Tiger Born" by Carroll Cole Friday, and "The Rite of Spring" by William J. Sollner, Jr. Saturday.
Mr. Beaufort will discuss dramatic criticism with journalism and theater students at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Swarthout Recital Hall. He will give a lecture and critical evaluation following the drama performance Saturday night.
Mr. Beaufort was a war correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor during World War II.
He has written about New York theater for the London Times and the press service of the United States Information Agency.
Other judges for the performances are Allen Crafton, professor of speech, John Meixner, professor of English and Peggy Green, a Topeka Capital feature writer.
Frosh Speech Best
Harvey Martin, Salina freshman, won the intramural informative speaking contest last night.
The contest was the second in a series of three which compose the 13th annual Intramural Speaking Contest.
Martin, who represented Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, gave a speech on pseudo-neurosis.
Six women and twelve men representing eight Greek houses and one dormitory entered the contest. The eighteen informative speeches ranged in subject matter from discussion of a woman's mind to discussion of dog racing.
Beginning Times For Relay Events
Beginning times for key events of the KU Relays are as follows:
Friday:
9 a.m. Track and field meet.
10 a.m. Engineering Exposition,
Marvin Hall and annexes.
evin Hall and annexes. Saturday:
9 a.m. Track and field meet.
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Engineering Exposition, Marvin Hall and annexes.
10 a.m. Relays Parade, downtown Lawrence.
Zone 'D' Closed for Relays
2:25 p.m. Relays Queens presentation, KU Stadium.
Parking zone "D" will be closed for parking Friday and Saturday due to the Engineering Exposition. Holders of zone "D" permits may park in any other zone.
Proposed Gift Requires Payment for 35 Years
The Class of '60 may present the University the largest gift ever $500,000. And the members of the class still may be paying for it 35 years from now.
By John Peterson
But first the class must approve a proposed insurance program as its gift at the senior coffee Wednesday. The plan and three other suggestions are to be voted on.
The insurance gift calls for each graduating senior to take out an individual $500 policy. No physical examination would be required and the insurance company, Rushmore Mutual of Rapid City, S. D., would accept everyone who applied.
For 35 Years
Ideally, the plan calls for the 1,400 seniors who will graduate this spring to continue the policies for 35 years until they are paid up. This means that each student will be paying the University more than $300 over that period of time.
Senior class dues will cover part of the first quarterly payment and leave the graduate with approximately $8 to pay within a year after he leaves KU. Then for the next 34 years the individual will pay yearly premiums
"Arms Races End in War"
"I am convinced that at the time being we simply have to stay so strong that the enemy will not dare attack us," he said.
Last Lecture Stresses Defense
The United States must keep its guard up constantly while the great nations of the world are sparring for global supremacy, an associate professor of physics said last night.
Speaking on the subject of the influence of nuclear power today and tomorrow, L. Worth Seagendollar told a Last Lecture audience that the United States must never neglect its defenses while waiting for a solution to the world's problems.
The speaker told the audience that the world is in an arms race,
and that every previous arms race has ended in a war. He added that the situation has changed with the destructive capabilities of today's weapons.
"It seems to me that our best chance is to buy time by staying strong and hope that some durable solution can be worked out."
He said the most hopeful possibility to lessen tension lies in the ability of an international organization to supervise the uses of nuclear power.
"We'll Get Along Eventually"
As a second alternative to the solution of world fears, Prof. Seagondollar said:
"Perhaps the natural political evolution of societies on both sides of the Iron Curtain will be such
that eventually we can get along with each other."
In his talk Prof. Seagondollar traced the development of nuclear energy starting with the discovery of the neutron in England. He said
wear ridiculous costumes to dinner last night in conjunction with a scholarship banquet to raise money for the AWS Memorial Scholarship Fund. The girls paid for their dinner according to their grade average.
ALL FOR AWS—Sigma Kappas, Ruth Stewart, Hutchinson; Judy Bock, Topeka; Linda Horton, Joplin, Mo.; Barbara Wade, Mayfield, all sophomores; Mary Sue Childers, Merriam senior; (seated) Sally Nixon, Wichita, and Donna Evans, Overland Park, both sophomores, were forced to
L. Worth Seagondollar
that in the years during World War II there was a great fear in this country that the Germans would develop an atomic bomb.
As he spoke he toyed with a souvenir of the first atomic explosion he saw at Almagordo, N. M. It was natural glass that had been created from the silicon in the sand by the heat of the blast.
"The atomic bomb was a quick and brutal way to end the war and save an invasion of Japan," he said.
No Charge For Relays Dance
The annual KU Relays Dance this year has a new twist—it's free.
In past years, big name bands have been brought to the campus for the Relays and the Relays committee usually has lost money on the dance. Last year Les Brown played at the dance.
Laird Patterson, Larned freshman, said that this year the committee decided to get a well-known band in this area which would not be so expensive.
Jay McShann, a Kansas City band, will play at the dance from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday.
Patterson said the dance will be informal this year. It has been semi-formal in previous years.
of about $10, depending on his age at graduation.
Hall said:
Ted Hall, Garden City senior and gift committee chairman, said the idea was picked up from other schools which have used it successfully. He said that 36 schools have tried the insurance plan.
Agent Calls
"At first the insurance idea was just something vague in our minds. We had said something about it to the administration and they liked the idea.
"Then we got a phone call from John Conover, local agent for Rushmore Mutual Insurance of Rapid City, S. D. He explained the program to us and presented a solid plan. We like it," Hall said.
Hall said Conover is the only insurance agent that the gift committee has talked to, but he said that the company had been closely checked and other companies looked into.
"Even in the event of a large drop out the amount would far exceed anything that we could raise by another method.
"This company will lean over backward to help us." Hall said. "It is even absorbing some of the expense of mailing explanatory letters to the entire class this weekend."
Policy Could Lapse
For the first five years after the policy is taken out, the individual may name any beneficiary he chooses, his wife, parents, etc., but after this period, the University becomes the irrevocable beneficiary.
The insurance proposal would have each individual's first quarterly payment come from his class dues. From that point it would be up to the individual as to whether he wishes to continue the policy.
Hall said that the proposal has some strong points in addition to the large amount of return which is possible.
If the individual drops the policy before two yearly payments have been completed, the policy lapses and neither the University nor the student realizes any benefit. Thus, before the University realizes a penny, a student must pay at least $16 or more in premium payments.
If after two years the student discontinues payment, the policy will become the University's and could be either cashed in or held as a paid up policy for approximately the total amount of money the person had paid in.
Considered in Donations
Hall said the class would decide at its tenth reunion what to do with the money.
Hall said that the justification for asking seniors to contribute to the University on the policy for such a length of time was that the Alumni Assn. would take the policy into account when asking alumni for donations.
Hall added that it might set a precedent for following classes and thus provide the University with an even greater source of revenue.
The other gift proposals the class will vote on are an electric scoreboard and dugouts for Quigley Field, an entrance marker to the University on Naismith Road similar to the marker at the entrance to the Campanile Drive, and the decoration of a room in the new Union addition with seals cast in metal of the schools of the University.
Weather
Fair this afternoon, partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Scattered thundershowers developing mostly east portion tonight. Warmer this afternoon and central and east portions tonight. Low tonight 60 to 65, high tomorrow 70 to 80.