Dalby Says Court May Expand Vox Sweeps 23 Council Seats
Ronald Dalby, Joplin. Mo., junior and newly elected student body president, said last night that the Student Court may be called upon by the All Student Council to take a more important part in student disciplinary problems.
The court's authority is one phase of the disciplinary system that will be studied by an ASC investigation committee which was set up Tuesday night.
Dalby said that the committee, made up of five students, will study the present disciplinary system in an attempt to straighten out conflicting student and administrative views on how disciplinary matters should be handled.
The committee will investigate the Student Court's reaction to its taking on more disciplinary powers. Dalby said that if the committee finds that court members would like to have more disciplinary authority the council will try to give it to them.
The committee report, scheduled to be released next fall, will be "complete and thorough," Dalby said. He added that rather than relate information to the students a little at a time, the committee will make a formal report to the council when a complete study has been made.
"There are so many different places where
disciplinary action is taken that there is a mis-understanding by many as to what type of situation is handled by what line of authority." Dalby said.
There is a possibility that the council will prepare a booklet explaining the various channels that may be taken by students involved in disciplinary action. Dalby said that the booklet would be distributed to all University students.
Dalby said that the one thing the council does not want is a definite system outlining certain punishments for certain situations.
"A judicial system of any kind has to be flexible and workable so that it can be adapted to the various situations that arise," he said.
"if any inadequacies are found in the present system," Dalby said, "the committee will make recommendations to the council as to how these 'hazy points' should be cleared up."
He defined two "hazy points" as (1) which cases should be tried by what authority and (2) where disciplinary cases can be appealed.
"As far as I know," he said, "there may be no other inadequacies than misunderstanding. Most inadequacies in the system probably are due to poor communications between the students and the disciplinary bodies."
Daily hansan
Thursday, April 7, 1960
57th Year, No.120
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
IBM IN ACTION—Few people were needed last night to count the 2,033 ballots cast in the general elections under the IBM election system. Shown counting are (left to right) Fred Thornton, IBM Tabulator Operator, Robert Iott, elections committee chairman, Betty Bumgarner, Tulsa, Okla., senior and Barry K. Gray, Lyons junior.
Prison Official Praises KU
By Bill Blundell
A federal prison official yesterday praised KU for bringing college opportunities to convicts—and then told his faculty audience they were partially responsible for the "educational bankruptcy" of these same men.
Robert Kaiser, associate warden of the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, told faculty members at the faculty forum that KU has spearheaded attempts to teach college level courses to convicts.
Classes Within Walls
"KU has played a vital role. The extension division of the University has been the pioneer in bringing college into the penitentiary. Ours is the only institution I know of where professors are holding organized classes within the prison walls," he said.
Mr. Kaiser said that 200 to 300 inmates at Leavenworth are presently enrolled in college extension courses many of them reaching the two-year level. He said about 200 of the inmates were rated above 120 in I.Q
"They're not stupid. They're just educationally bankrupt. Most of them are about two or three years behind the average in education.
He said most convicts have not
been graduated from high school and characterized them as maladjusted people who shun social contacts because they dread the competition it fosters.
He explained that these "slightly off-center" people are led down the path to juvenile delinquency and, eventually, major crime by poor handling at home and in school. He said that ignorance of the problems of the maladjusted person only reinforces his tendency to rebel against society.
"This is partially your fault because you spend most of your time teaching your people to deal with the average kid, and in this way you ignore the oddballs, the maladjusted youngsters who really need help."
In discussing the below-average educational background of these men, Mr. Kaiser said:
Pleads for 'Oddballs'
In a plea to his audience, Mr. Kaiser said:
"If you people have any influence over teachers, please tell them to pay more attention to the oddball, the fellow who's a little off-the-track. If the problems of these fellows were on the teachers' lists more, their names might stay off J. Edgar Hoover's 'Most Wanted' list."
He said that colleges and universities can be selective about the people they admit, but a federal penitentiary has no such alternative.
"We have to take him as he (the convict) comes to us. From the time he steps inside our gates, he is our client."
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Vox Populi, KU's only political party, swept to an easy victory in the campus general elections to capture 23 of 24 seats on the All Student Council and the student body presidency and vice presidency. The two-day election also saw 12 class officers elected.
This makes the third Vox victory in the last three elections. In the last election Vox took 20 of 26 seats on the ASC.
Ronald Dalby, Joplin, Mo. junior, and Edward McMullan, Long Beach, N. Y. junior, polled 1,799 uncontested votes for the top positions of student body president and vice president.
The total number of students voting was 2,033, compared with last year's 2,926. Vox, the only party on the ballot, lost one seat to write-in candidate Fred Morrison, Colby senior. He will occupy the only non-Vox seat on the council for the unmarried-unorganized independent district.
Review Day Bill Before Senate Calendar Group
"Review Day" moves one step nearer reality today when it goes before the University Senate calendar committee in its long trail through administrative procedures
The proposal, first forwarded by the All Student Council, calls for a day of grace between the end of classes and the start of final examinations.
The University Senate agreed Tuesday that the entire Senate need not grapple with the proposal. It was handed to the advisory committee to make the final decision based upon the recommendation from the calendar committee, James Hitt, director of admissions and chairman of the committee, said yesterday.
"The calendar committee can only make suggestions to the advisory committee," Mr. Hitt said. "If the advisory committee disapproves of our proposal, we will start all over again."
Mr. Hitt was asked last night what action the calendar committee will take. He said:
"We are going to meet tomorrow!" He was then asked what he personally thought of the review day proposal. He answered:
"We are going to meet tomorrow!" It was explained to Mr. Hitt that it was his personal opinion on the question which was desired, not the stand of the committee.
He again replied, "We are going to meet tomorrow!"
E. Gordon Collister, professor of education and chairman of the advisory committee, said he would be out of town next week and doubted if the advisory committee could meet to act on the calendar committee's proposal within the next 10 days.
Action on the proposal was first started in an ASC committee last semester. It so far has gained the approval of the ASC, the college faculty, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and has been handed down from the University Senate to the Senate's advisory committee for final action
Robert Iott, McPherson senior and Elections Committee chairman, termed the vote total pretty good considering the fact that there was only one political party.
Included in the total vote were several write-ins and void ballots. Candidates were written in for almost all the 16 different districts, Iott said.
Itt said many ballots were voided because they were blank. He said this may have been caused because there was only one choice on the ballot.
All of the nine schools of the University will have a voting seat on the ASC. All the schools got a minimum total of 75 ballots cast or the total ballots cast by the students in that school equaled or exceeded 50
Teachers and Pet Campus Vote-Getters
Some of the names of write-in candidates in two - day general elections include:
Jack Mitchell, Gov. George Docking, Harry S. Truman, Chancellor Franklin Murphy, Sarge, Chancellor-elect Clarke Wescoe and Charlie Brown.
Bob Hope and Eing Crosby were written in for student body president and vice president respectively.
per cent of their enrollment.
Mix-up Occurs
The representative from the Coops and Professional fraternities district will not have voting privileges on the ASC since only 69 votes were cast in that group. The representative needed six more votes to have obtained voting privileges.
A voting mix-up occurred when three of the professional fraternities were listed on the dean's permit cards as being from other districts. As a result some of the students from the co-op and fraternity district received the wrong ballot. The pollworkers caught some of the voters before they went into the polls and gave them the correct ballot.
Iott said apparently some students who voted from this district were voting blindly and did not recognize that they had been given the wrong ballot.
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Weather
Partly cloudy through tomorrow with scattered brief showers west and central portions this afternoon and tonight. Showers and thunderstorms spreading from west to east across state tomorrow. Low tonight 40s. High tomorrow 69 to 70.
City Corrals Campus Canine Corps
The little panel truck of the Lawrence Humane Society entered the campus area yesterday—and left with seven of the campus canine mascots.
The car chasing, coffee drinking, forever sun-bathing campus versions of man's best friend will watch the end of spring and the passing of summer from the ends of leashes or from behind the chicken-wire barricades of the Humane Society kennels.
A city ordinance, written for the benefit of all local flower-lovers and amateur green thumbs, states that all licensed dogs must be bled up between April 1 and September
1 to prevent free-romp through the city flower beds.
"Sarge", the Strong Hall haunt, is apparently an old master at evading the "cops" and is "holed up" in his hiding place at the Sigma Nu fraternity house.
"Rummy", the Tau Kappa Epsilon Collie mascot, sits in the front lawn of the fraternity house at the end of a rope. He is taken for a constitutional walk three times a day by one of his masters.
"Sig", the forever - sleeping (usually in front of campus doorways) Sigma Chi St. Bernard mascot, is still roaming. Apparently Human officials couldn't find a panel truck quite big enough to hold "Sig's" 90-pound hulk.
The seven dogs picked up by the local catine-catcher were a Beagle, an Airdale, an Irish Setter, two Boxers and two Collies.
The Douglas County Humane Society, where the dogs are being held, is located on east 19th Street. The telephone number is VI3-6835.