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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Mar. 4, 1960
Students Reject Theory Of Brawn Over Brain
Leaders of two Greek and two independent organized houses today disagreed with a California college president who recently said
"American youngsters are proud of their muscles, but they seen ashamed of their brains."
Dr. Lee DuBridge of the California Institute of Technology, speaking at a meeting of the National Council of Higher Education held in Portland, Ore, last week, told his audience:
"What this country needs is open, honest, intellectual competition throughout our high schools and colleges."
Leaders of four KU living units took strong exception to the educator's assertion that today's students care little for academic achievements.
They said they did not want their names or the names of their organizations made public.
The scholarship chairman of a fraternity commented that the biggest drive for inter-fraternity ranking at KU today was the drive for high grade point averages.
"I, as scholarship chairman, have just as much of a voice at fraternity executive meetings as the athletics chairman does — in fact, even a stronger voice at times," he said.
A sorority president added:
"Of course, girls are not always concerned with athletics as much as boys, but I know that a girl is proud of high grades. She just loves being able to help others—including her boy friends."
Need High Grades
Representatives of Gertrude Sellards Pearson answered:
"As freshmen, with sorority standards so high, a girl who makes high grades wants it known. And, let's face it — as upperclassmen good grades are imperative to stay in school."
Finally, a resident of Templin Hall reiterated:
"Whether a guy is an athlete or a "brain" is of no importance here. Everyone has his own activities. If he doesn't take advantage of the opportunities, that's his fault."
Negro Demonstrators Arrested in S. Carolina
SUMTER, S.C. — (UPI)— Police arrested 26 Negro lunch counter demonstrators in Sumter, S.C., today for breach of the peace and clawed them in jail.
Bond was set at $100 each for the demonstrators--students from Morris College (Negro) in Sumter. They were arrested during anti-segregation demonstrations at lunch counters at variety stores and a dime store.
Charges were filed after Sheriff I Byrd Parnell ordered nine demonstrators at a drug store — where they sat in booths reserved for whites only — to the sherriff's office for questioning. Other arrests were made at demonstrations at an S. H. Kress dime store and another drug store.
Vanderbilt University's divinity school students picketed the university's administration building today in protest against the dismissal
of a divinity school student, the Rev. James Lawson, Jr., a Negro, for his part in Nashville anti-segregation demonstrations. Lawson was conducting a "civil disobedience" campaign in Nashville, Vanderbilt officials said.
At Miami, store officials backed up by a city detective and a uniformed policeman turned away the Negroes who attempted to stage a "sitdown" demonstration against segregation at the largest department store in downtown Miami (Burdines).
The Negroes said they were members of the greater Miami Ministerial Assn. About 20 white patrons were being served in the lunch room when the Negroes arrived.
A mass meeting was scheduled tonight by Negro college students at Montgomery, Ala., to plan further anti-segregation moves.
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Mrs. Graham to Speak At Forum Today
Mrs. William Graham, wife of a prominent Wichita businessman, will speak at the Current Events Forum at 4 p.m. today in the Music and •Browsing Room of the Kansas Union on "American Capital Can Win Friends!"
The Grahams are concerned with the placement of capital toward developing a foreign country's resources as an antidote to communism. With this idea in mind, the Grahams have invested in businesses in Asia, India and South America.
Free inquiry is blocked by the idiotic certainties of ignorant men. Henry L. Mencken.
Ike's Trip Hailed As Success
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Secretary of State Christian A. Hertzer said today on his return from Latin America that Pres. Eisenhower's tour was "extraordinarily successful."
Pulling his coat around him against the extreme cold at the airport, Herter told newsmen:
Hertzer said the group encountered "an outpouring of friendship and kindness" everywhere they went. The President, he said, explained during the trip that the "tribute was not to the individual, but to the United States as a whole."
"The warmth of the greeting we received in every one of the countries we visited was extremely heart-warming to all of us. The reception of the President in every one of the capitals was reported to us as the greatest ever received by any individual," he said.
Herter said the few anti-American demonstrations on the trip were "minimal in character" and "the work of student groups."
"While they were played up into incidents of some consequence," he said, "we had the feeling they were really inconsequential."
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