Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, March 31, 1960
57th Year, No. 115
BACK TO BACK AND...Two typical spring-starved KU students, Pat Sheley, Bonner Springs junior (left), and Valerie Ring, Hays
sophomore, take advantage of a new 10-degree temperature rise in Mt. Oread's current on-again-off-again spring season.
Election 'Misunderstanding' Voids 300 Primary Ballots
Seventy-five per cent of the ballots cast by students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the two day campus primaries were voided by the All Student Council Elections Committee last night.
Robert Iott, McPherson senior and Elections Committee chairman, said the votes were void due to a misunderstanding by the voters.
He said students from the College were apparently confused over who they were allowed to vote for. They were to vote for only a male or female representative, but both candidates were voted for on the void ballots. Iott said.
Iott said the poll workers attempted to explain the situation to the voters before they voted. He also said the situation will be made clear on the general election ticket.
"Makes No Difference'
The voided ballots did not make any difference in the primaries because there was no one opposing the two Vox candidates running from the College. The ballots would have been thrown out in the general election. Iott said.
Both of the College candidates were on the same ballot in the primaries. In the general elections next week the male and female candidates will be on separate ballots, he said.
A total of 404 ballots were cast in the College.
Iott said another discrepancy was discovered when two candidates were unintentionally left off the ballots by the printer. The candidates were written on the ballots by the Elections Committee before the elections. The two candidates were Karen Schull, Kansas City, Mo., junior and Vox candidate from the women's dormitories, and Nancy Noyes, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, who is a candidate for sophomore class secretary.
900 Vote
Exactly 900 students voted in the primaries. One change will be made in the ballots for the general elections. Mike Clem, Lawrence sophomore, received enough write-in votes for junior class president in the primaries to enable his name to appear on the general election ballot.
Vox Populi, KU's political party,
got 654 party members out to the
polls. The other votes came from
students voting only for class of-
ficers.
A primary election usually serves the purpose of eliminating candidates from the party slate. However,
none were eliminated this time because Vox was unopposed. The primaries also indicate the party's strength in the voting districts.
The number of people who voted Tuesday and yesterday according to districts was:
Vote totals:
Student body president and vice president, 654; fraternity living district, 292; sorority living district, 232; men's dormitories, 28; women's dormitories, 84; co-op and professional fraternities, 2; unmarried-unorganized. 25, and married. 2.
School of Engineering, 101; Graduate School, 1; School of Education, 65; School of Fine Arts, 42; School of Business, 43; School of Law, 0; School of Pharmacy, 4, and School of Journalism. 9.
The number voting for class officers were sophomore, 263; junior. 324, and senior, 250.
Class Times Altered
Friday classes will meet as follows:
8:00 classes will meet 8-8:30
8:00 classes will meet 8:8-10
9:00 classes will meet 8:40-9:10
Convocation: 9:20-10:30
10:00 classes will meet 10:40-11:10
10:00 classes will meet 10:40-11:10
10:00 classes will meet 11:20-11:50
Munger Sees African Trend
One party democracies are expected to develop in the new nations of Africa, an expert in African affairs said yesterday.
Mr. Munger said that the existence of some one party governments in many of the new principalities of Africa is an indirect cause of recent inter-tribal struggles there. Last week tribes in the Cameroons fought bloody skirmishes.
Edward S. Munger, a member of the American Universities Field Staff and a specialist in the affairs or Africa south of the Sahara, spoke at the Faculty Forum.
This year there have been more uprisings in Afrcia than in any of the past ten years, he explained.
Groups Hit Sore Spots
"Minority groups pick on tribal differences and sore spots of the past to try to get a foot into the government where there is only one party in power."
The African authority said one of the most important and interesting political developments in some of the new nations of Africa has been the rise of single party democracies. He mentioned Ghana
Munger to Discuss Africa Tomorrow
as an example of a nation with this type of government.
Edwin Munger, American University Field Staff correspondent, will discuss "African Headlines" from 4 to 5 p.m. Friday at the Current Events Forum. The forum will be in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
Although there is but one party that makes up the government in some of these countries, this party
represents the wishes of the majority in most cases," he said.
Mr. Munger said that the Africans naturally look up to the one-party native governments in which they have a voice rather than a colonial form of government that represented only the interests of the mother countries.
Native Rule Popular
Mr. Munger said some of the Ghanans say that when the British were here, the Africans had no self government, but many personal liberties. Now that the British are gone, these Ghanans say they have self government with few personal liberties.
"In simple terms, defeating the leaders of these new parties would be like defeating George Washington," he said.
"One party democracies are natural developments because of popularity of native rule.
At this point he commented on what he called a bleak outlook which "The Reader's Digest" recently painted of Ghana.
Ghana Expectations High
Ghana's emergence as an independent nation had been praised as the beginning stroke of a new portrait of Africa. Three months ago the Reader's Digest printed an article that painted Ghana a minor dictatorship, Mr. Munger said.
"Americans expected Ghana to come a long way in a very short time. They were disappointed when Ghana did not proceed that quickly."
He said that this slowness was natural with one party government there.
Truman to Talk Here Tomorrow
By Bill Blundell
Former President Harry S. Truman will open KU's Model U.N. Convention with a convocation speech at 9:20 a.m. tomorrow in Hoch Auditorium.
Many of these ghosts will be familiar to the former president. They were formed or taking shape when he addressed the first meeting of delegates who had signed the U.N. charter in 1945 at San Francisco.
The ghosts of past global crises will be on the platform with Mr. Truman when he addresses the all-student convocation.
The spectre of Red Chinese entry into the United Nations first arose during his administration when a Russian U.N. resolution demanded that Nationalist China be unseated and replaced with Communist China.
A resolution proposing full membership for Red China will come to a vote in the model U.N. tomorrow. In New York, diplomats are still discussing the issue.
China Resolution Up Again
Mr. Truman was in the White House in 1950, when nationalist feelings ran high in the British empire. That year, India was proclaimed an independent republic.
Today, the question of Algerian independence is being debated on the floor of the General Assembly. At KU, student delegates will consider a resolution cutting the bonds between France and this part of her colonial empire.
Ordered Bomb's Use
In 1945, Mr. Truman ordered the use of the atomic bomb in the final stages of the war with Japan. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first cities to disappear under the mushroom cloud.
rive years later, he authorized the Atomic Energy Commission to produce the hydrogen bomb. In 1952, the United States reported its first detonation of a thermonuclear (hydrogen) weapon at Eniwetok atoll.
Today, the question of a worldwide nuclear test ban is under debate throughout the world. At KU, the model U.N. will propose a resolution calling for a halt to nuclear testing.
The model United Nations steering committee has announced changes in the convention schedule for tomorrow and Saturday. The revised schedule is:
New Schedule Set for 'U.N.'
Friday
9:30 to 10:20—Convocation at Hoch Auditorium, with former President Harry S. Trumman as speaker
Truman as speaker.
10. 50 to 12.30 -General Assembly at
1:30 to 5:45—General Assembly at
Saturday
9:00 to 10:15—Group discussion, Kansas Union Ballroom 10:30 to 12:00—General Assembly,
The General Assembly in Allen Field House will be open to the public, however only students actively participating in the convention will be permitted on the convention floor.
Harry S. Truman
Red China last night charged the model U. N. steering committee with bias and duplicity in what it called the committee's failure to recognize Red China's status.
Reds Yell Bias In Model U.N.
The charges were leveled by Rip-daman Panesar, Kampala, Uganda, graduate student and chairman of the Red Chinese delegation. He said that his delegation was given status as an accredited observer nation at the U.N. convention by the steering committee while the model U.N. was taking shape. Later, he added, the committee took away the accreditation.
"We were the only nation challenged by the steering committee. We thought it was unfair to admit delegations from West Germany and South Korea without challenge unless we had the same privilege," he said.
Four Observers
Germany and Korea, along with Monaco and Switzerland, are the nations having observer status at the convention. This means they may debate on resolutions and amendments, but have no vote. These four nations are also accredited non-member observer nations at the U.N. in New York.
"The steering committee is biased
The steering committee is biased (Continued on page 8)
Bronze Casters Meet
The nation's first Bronze Casting Conference began this morning in the Kansas Union with the premier showing of the film "Bronze Casting."
The three-day conference was organized by Elden C. Teft, associate professor of design as an interchange of information in what he termed a "relatively rare field."
The film produced by Prof. Tefft, was completed this week after three year's work.
Prof. Tefft said that about 50 sculptors and instructors from coast to coast have come to Lawrence for the convention. They will hear panels by technical experts from industry and other schools.
The conferees are here as a result of questionnaires sent six months ago to determine the level of student and
instructor interest in bronze casting throughout the nation.
"The results are good," said Prof. Tefft. "We have so many people we can't take care of them."
The conference is open to the public. Much of it will be conducted in the Bailey and Bailey Annex sculpture rooms where examples of bronze casting are on exhibit.
the bronze Jayhawk in the lobby of the Kansas Union is an example of casting done at KU.
Weather
Scattered brief showers west, increasing cloudiness east this afternoon. Tonight scattered light showers west, scattered showers and thunderstorms and warmer east portion. Tomorrow scattered showers ending east forenoon.