Daily hansan
57th Year, No. 102
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Dartmouth Takes Tourney Crown
Dartmouth College defeated San Diego State College in the finals of the fourth annual Heart of America debate tourney here this weekend.
A KU team composed of Larry Ehrlich of Russell and William Haught of Alamosa, Colo., both juniors, was defeated by a Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia team in the octafinals.
The final round pitted Wilburn Sims and Anthony Roisman, Dartmouth seniors, against John Raser and Robert Arnhym, San Diego State College seniors.
THE WINNING TEAM upheld the negative side of the question: Resolved that, Congress should have the power to reverse Supreme Court decisions.
Dartmouth entered the finals after defeating the University of Miami team composed of Stephen Kogan and Bruce Feld, both juniors.
San Diego State entered the finals after defeating the University of Kansas City team composed of Richard Replogle, senior, and Paul Black, sophomore.
SIMS OF Dartmouth has had four years of collegiate debate. He is president of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, an English honors student and a member of a participating team in the West Point quarter-finals in 1959.
Dartmouth's Roisman also has had four years of debate. He is freshman debate coach at Dartmouth, and was 10th speaker and quarter finalist in the West Point tournament in 1959.
The coach of the Dartmouth team is Herbert James.
THE COACH of the San Diego State College team is John Ackley, Prof. Ackley did not attend the tourney because of illness, said Kim Giffin, KU associate professor of speech.
Prof. Giffin said the top five debaters in the tournament were:
Dennis Hunt. Northwestern University junior; George Schell, Baylor University junior; Richard Smith, Augustana College of Rock Island, Ill., junior; John Roberts, Northwestern University junior; and Harold Lawson, Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia sophomore.
Monday, March 14, 1960
Each school was asked to supply one judge. Some of them supplied two. Prof. Giffin added.
The top five speakers were chosen by the judges on the basis of accumulated speaker points. The points ranged from 0 to 15.
Last year's tournament was won by a West Point negative team who defeated a West Point affirmative team in the all-West Point finals.
ALL THE JUDGING was done by coaches who are actively participating in coaching debate, Prof. Giffin said.
This year's West Point debaters were eliminated in the quarter finals by a team from the University of Kansas City.
Not down, not out and not even weakening. That's Old Man Winter as he charged out of his corner for another round with snow-ebattled Mount Oread today before Spring officially arrives March 21.
Spring Nears; Winter Stays
Snow was falling at five this morning at all weather stations in Kansas except in the extreme southeast corner. Predictions call for eight inches to fall on Mount Oread by late this evening. Temperatures will average 15 to 20 degress below normal during the next five days.
Spring seems to be neither just around the corner nor in any corner. As Old Man Winter continued his onslaught today, he was punching in his corner, KU's corner and the neutral corners.
Forecasts do not tell when this round will be finished.
Turn ASC, Officer Papers in Tomorrow
Petitions for All Student Council and class officers elections must be turned in by 5 p.m. tomorrow in the dean of men's office.
The petition forms may be obtained from the dean of men's office. (See related editorial on page) 2, "Where Are They."
Burglar Rifles 3 Fraternities
By Ray Miller
Watchdogs continue to sleep as the second "cat" burglary of the year struck KU fraternity houses yesterday.
The latest creeping burglar stole away with a total of $237 early yesterday morning as members of three fraternity houses slept blithely on.
Campus police reports said the burglaries occurred between 3:30 and 7:30 a.m. yesterday at the Delta
Upsilon, Pi Kappa and Delta Chi fraternity houses.
Other Cats Got $280
Police said that the "cat" crept into the majority of the rooms in the houses taking money from billfolds located in trouser pockets and on dresser tops. Nothing else in the rooms was touched.
Lewis Says 'Scoop' Replaced by Analysis
Mr. Lewis said he felt the issue of secrecy in government and the complaint by newspapermen of the refusal of Washington officials to release pertinent news to the public is greatly over-played.
"I know that if there is anything I am interested in and want to know the answer, I can always find the answer," he said.
The reporter said he was against "carte blanche" opening of defense department documents such as defense pacts. He said he does not think it is necessary or beneficial.
A Pulitzer prize-winning correspondent says that the day of foreign intrigue and cynicism in reporting is past.
Mr. Lewis spent most of his time straightening out misconceptions of Washington. He said he didn't agree that the press should be a "fourth Estate" as it was described in Douglass Cater's book.
Mr. Lewis was on campus for the annual Heart of America Debate Tourney which was completed in the Kansas Union Saturday. He was invited as an authority on a question being debated concerning the Supreme Court.
Anthony Lewis, New York Times Supreme Court reporter, told journalism and political science students Friday afternoon that "the scoop is an overrated achievement. It is relatively less important than intelligent news analysis today."
In October, $280 was stolen from the Delta Chi fraternity under the same circumstances. In this instance the "cat" went through rooms on the second floor of the house while fraternity members slept on the third floor.
"When newspapers become so powerful, they often express views and cause politicians to change their opinions, which is against my conception of the press' responsibility.
"It is a question of ethics as to how far newspapermen can become involved in the course of law and legislation," Mr. Lewis said.
The Supreme Court reporter said it was "astonishing how easy it is to get to see important men in Washington. They all like to see their name in the newspapers."
Mr. Lewis said the fundamental characteristic of Washington reporting currently is that the process toward a decision is often more interesting than the final results.
"The importance of news today is the way in which a bill shapes up in Congress, for example. It is the process in which this happens, the compromises, opinions and attitudes, that is the top news," Mr. Lewis said.
The New York Times writer said that the Times is a difficult paper for a relatively inexperienced reporter to break in on.
"The Times today is emphasizing national and international news while it still has a large city news staff of 150 reporters from the days it specialized in New York news.
"Now a lot of these reporters spend a lot of free time sitting in the office and playing bridge," he said.
Dick Haitbrink, Salina freshman, member of Delta Upsilon, said that every room in the house was entered and at least one occupant of each room was robbed.
"Approximately 30 men lost some money in the raid," he said.
"No one saw any strangers in or around the house before going to bed...there's no idea who it was."
No Clues
Joe Skillman, chief of Campus Police, stated that as yet "there are no clues or leads as to who did it. We can't say that all the robberies were done by the same person or persons but they certainly follow the same pattern and happened at about the same time."
Chief Skillman continued;
"We're going to talk to a lot of people in the houses to try to get some clues, but as yet we have nothing to go on. The Lawrence Police Department and Sheriffs Office are working with us on this."
The amounts stolen were: Delta Upsilon, $106; Delta Chi, $25, and Pi Kappa Alpha, $106.
Anderson to Meet With Educators
Dean Kenneth Anderson of the School of Education and William York, assistant professor of education, will meet with three central Kansas superintendents and boards of education this week.
They will discuss methods of upgrading the local systems.
They will meet with Superintendent Edwin Butterfield of Herington tomorrow afternoon and with the Great Bend Board of Education represented by Superintendent D. V. Swartz tomorrow night.
Two Say No One Agrees Where Answers Lie
Prof. Roy Laird
The world does have a dilemma, but it has not agreed whether the physical social sciences hold the answer to the dilemma, say two University faculty members.
Remarks made at a Current Events Forum two weeks ago by Roy Laird, assistant professor of political science, led to a discussion at Friday's Current Events Forum.
Arnold Strassenburg, assistant professor of physics, and Prof. Laird debated the topic, "Who Holds the Answer to the World's Dilemma?"
Two weeks ago Prof. Laird said many people are kidding themselves into believing that the necessary steps are being taken to avert the catastrophe of an atomic war. He asserted that the two most misleading myths in this regard were the belief in the "magic of sovereignty and scientism."
Friday he said that what disturbs him most is the growing evidence that we have invested our hopes for preventing a nuclear war in the belief that the only source of truth is through the application of mathematical formula to the "human equation."
Prof. Laird contended that a great bulk of the men in the natural sciences exhibit a belief that the only satisfactory approach to human problems is the adoption of the Newtonian or mechanistic approach.
"A mechanistic approach . . . has been and will continue to be of great worth. However, and this is important, the rigid rules imposed by mathematics is by definition absolute, indeed tyrannical in its implication. This rules out all consideration of value when applied to humanistic studies."
"It is one thing in the laboratories to insist that your work conform to a specific approach that can be expressed mathematically, but it is quite another to insist that men and women conform to rigid patterns," he said.
"Viewing our present dilemma, I am not optimistic about avoiding the prophecy of Nevil Shute in his work "On the Beach!" I refuse to give up, but I am afraid it may too late. However, I am quite
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Prof. Arnold Strassenburg
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