Daily hansan
57th Year, No. 119
Wednesday, April 6, 1960
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
ASC's Review Day Action Goes To Final Process
The All Student Council's review day proposal was referred to the calendar and advisory committees of the University Senate yesterday.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said this morning that the committees have the authority to make final rulings on the proposal which calls for a day of grace between classes and the start of final examinations.
The review day proposal has gained momentum since the ASC passed its resolution. Members of the college faculty and Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy have added their approval to the idea.
The members of the calendar committee which will meet tomorrow are James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions, chairman; Florence Black, associate professor of math; Jack Shelton, assistant instructor of aeronautical engineering; Verner Smith, associate professor of architecture; Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The three students on the committee are Janet Clark, Wichita junior, Carol McMillan, Coldwater sophomore, and Gerald Saunders, Bonner Springs sophomore.
The Senate advisory committee is composed of the following faculty members: E. Gordon Collister, director of the guidance bureau and professor of education; Robert Beer, associate professor of entomology; Arthur W. Davidson, professor of chemistry; Harold L. Kipp, professor of mechanical engineering; Ambrose Saricks, associate professor of history, and W. P. Smith, professor of electrical engineering.
Student Election Balloting is Slim
Of these, 899 voted yesterday and 360 voted this morning.
Only 1,259 students had voted by 11:15 am. today in the first day and a half of general election balloting for student body president and vice president, All Student Council representatives and class officers.
The 360 students voting this morning indicate a slight increase over the 345 students that had voted at the same time yesterday.
Robert Iott, McPherson senior and Elections Committee chairman, said the turnout at the polls this morning was disappointing. He said they had expected over 1,000 students voting today.
There has been speculation among campus leaders that the reason for the poor turnout may be due to lack opposition. Vox Populi is the only political party on the ballot.
At this time last year 1,891 students had voted on the first day and a half of the elections. Last year there was a big turnout at the polls on the last afternoon of the elections.
Today 417 had voted in the fraternity district, 313 in the sorority district, 135 in the men's dormitory district, 138 in the women's dormitry district, 28 in the co-op and professional district, 120 in the unmarried-unorganized district and 82 in the married district.
In the school districts 620 students had voted in the College, 178 in the Engineering School, 67 in the Graduate School, 78 in the Fine Arts School, 129 in the Education School, 64 in the Business School, 51 in the Law School, 25 in the Pharmacy School and 25 in the Journalism School.
Aldous Huxley
. . . waits in the wings
Overflow Audience Hears Huxley Talk
By Bill Blundell
Buried deep within each man's mind a supernormal power slumbers, awaiting a stimulus to awaken it.
When prodded, this power sometimes erupts into the consciousness, lifting man into another world utterly alien to him — the world of the unknown, bathed in celestial light and peopleled with strange visions.
This is how Aldous Huxley explained the operation of what he called the visionary experience at last night's Humanities lecture.
Spectators packed the University Theatre to hear the British author and scholar. Students sat in the aisles and late arrivals stood in the doorways, straining to see and hear Mr. Huxley. Others sat in the wings to listen to his description of the other world which he said has unfolded itself to some men.
"The mind is an enormous universe ... What this area of the mind (the visionary function) presents is the unknowable. It is as if the conscious mind sat back and watched, for what it sees in this other world is outside its experience.
He explained that people who have this visionary experience often see much the same things: strange landscapes glowing with unearthly light, structures clothed in dazzling gems and great figures almost angelic in appearance.
"This world is a world of brighter color and intensified light. It has a gemlike, glowing quality," said Mr. Huxlev.
Squinting at a sheet of yellow notepaper held up close to his face. Mr. Huxley read some of the poetry of Blake and Wordsworth which he said was indicative of a visionary experience. He said Blake was one of the rare individuals who could come and go to the other world.
The tall, angular scholar borrowed from the theory of the psychologist Jung to explain the uniformity of some of these experiences.
"The things these people see are archetypal mental figures that are symbols of mankind's enduring dreams," he said, restating Jung's theory of the Collective Subconscious.
The visionary experience takes many forms, said Mr. Huxley. He said the range varies from fantasy and memory to the ultimate mystical experience, exemplified by the conversion of St. Paul and the vision of
Mohammed. Both experienced a vision of overpowering light, which he said was a common occurrence in the higher forms of visionary experience.
"The higher the experience, the purer the light," he added.
But some of the visions can be negative as well as positive, said Mr. Huxley. He cited the Dutch impressionist painter Van Gogh as a man whose work clearly showed the influence of the other world.
"But in Van Gogh's later years, when his insanity is upon him, the visions are infernal — an appalling sort of electric glare that emerges from a machinelike world," continued Mr. Huxley.
He said that the use of stained glass and the growth of fireworks as a display illustrate the use of visionary materials in an unconscious attempt by man to reach the other world.
"In our modern world, where such visions are not creditable, people keep their mouths shut about these things. In the past, they had a good chance of attaining sainthood; today
Society has restricted its visionaries in recent years, said Mr. Huxlev.
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Fate of Relays Up to Students
By Susanne Shaw
KU students are being called upon to save the Kansas Relays. Bill Easten, track coach, told the ASC that the KU Relays will die if a means for financing it is not provided. He said support from the students is needed.
As a result of his plea, the ASC voted to support a recommendation by the relays committee to charge faculty and students 50 cents a day to attend the nationally known track and field meet, April 22-23. Previously students have been admitted to the Relays on ID cards.
KU's Relays rank with those at Texas and Drake in national prestige and only the Olympics rate higher. Earl Falkenstein, athletic department business manager, said KU averages 12,000 spectators per day. Friday the Texas Relays attracted more than 75,000.
Presently no budget is set up to provide finances for the Relays. All the money is appropriated from the University Athletic Fund.
Bill Neider, former KU track great who became the first man to put the 16-pound shot past the 65-foot mark (last weekend at the Texas Relays), features the list of outstanding performers to be at the Relays.
The resolution proposed by Ronald Dalby, Jolin Plin, Mo, junior was:
ard Dalby, Joplin, Mo., junior was: "That the ASC fully endorse the policy of the KU Relays Committee to charge the students and faculty 50 cents per day to observe the Relays; further, that we encourage all students to attend and promote this event in order to provide better public relations for the University."
Coach Easton, when informed of the action taken by the ASC last night, told the Daily Kansan:
"I am extremely pleased and delighted to learn that the ASC has endorsed our Kansas Relays Committee proposal and it will be a means of keeping the Kansas Relays a definite part of our spring homecoming activities."
Coach Easton said the Kansas Relays Committee will now take the necessary action to put the proposal into effect.
General admission tickets for outsiders will be $1.50 for each day of the 35th annual Relays. There are no reserved seats.
"We have had to fight to keep the Relaws alive on our own campus," he referred to the Relays as now being a losing organization. He said everything has been done to work out a solution.
Coach Easton, who has been at KU for 13 years, said this idea was not
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Kennedy Rides Big City Vote to Victory
MILWAUKEE, Wis—(UPI)—Sen. John F. Kennedy rode a tide of big city votes to victory in Wisconsin's weathervane primary election.
The engaging Massachusetts Senator gained momentum in his drive for the Democratic presidential nomination by capturing 6 out of 10 congressional districts, a big majority of the state's convention delegates and a fat plurality of a record popular vote.
Kennedy's edge in the popular vote was about 100,000 over Sen. Hubert Humphrey. He took about 39 per cent of the total vote cast, while Humphrey got an estimated 31 and Vice President Nixon 30.
The part Wisconsin's large Catholic population played in Kennedy's victory is likely never to be known
for certain. The Catholic vote was heavy for Kennedy but wasn't the sole reason for his victory over Humphrey, a protestant.
Humphrey gained early strength from rural areas as the vote count began. But Kennedy forged into the lead on the strength of big majorities in the larger cities, including Milwaukee and Kenosha.
With 3,420 of Wisconsin's 3,455 precincts reporting, Kennedy had 467,389 votes. Humphrey 364,175 and Nixon 336,575.
Gaige Roberts, the state election commissioner, announced today that the total number of state precincts —3.455— was on the basis of his own recount, made after press associations, newspapers and television and radio sources had carried conflicting figures during the night.
ASC to Study Discipline Issue
The All Student Council decided last night to investigate the present disciplinary procedure on the campus.
The resolution proposed by Lynn Anderson, Atwood junior, reads:
Council members felt a clear cut policy should be provided for students so they will know where they can take their problems when they get in trouble.
"The issue concerning disciplinary procedure has evolved into a problem of sufficient magnitude to merit an investigation by a committee, to be appointed by the president of the student body. The investigation would:
"1. Clarify disciplinary rules.
"2. Determine if any inadequacies exist within the present system."
Ronald Dalby, Joplin, Mo., junior, and Vox Populi's candidate for president of the student body, said he felt some kind of booklet or pamphlet should be published for all students so it will be clear as to what channels they have available for disciplinary issues.
Members of the committee have not been chosen.
Dalby also said the committee should consult other colleges and universities to learn how they handle their disciplinary problems.
In other action taken at the meeting, a constitutional amendment proposing that the foreign students possess a separate electoral district was defeated. Ten members voted against the amendment and four favored it.
Now a foreign student votes according to the district he lives in. If this amendment had been passed, foreign students would be in a separate district.
A foreign student now is elected by the International Club to represent the foreign students on the ASC. He has no voting privileges.
Students Organize Out of State Clubs
The statewide activities organization has launched a new effort to organize out of state clubs.
"The KU students from Texas have already met and are planning a state meeting soon somewhere in Texas," Marytey McDuffie, Overland Park senior and chairman of the new plan, said.
Other states actively participating in this new effort are Oklahoma, California, New York and Missouri.
"The plan will not only publicize KU in other states, but will make greater units possible among out of state students," Miss McDuffie said.
Weather
The Topeka weather bureau reports a new cold front carrying temperature drops of as much as 10 degrees and from 15 to 25 mile-per-hour gusts moving into the Lawrence area.
Today's low reading was checked at 46 degrees at 6 a.m. by the KU weather observer. Humidity is 90 per cent with no traces of precipitation.