Daily hansan
57th Year, No. 77
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, Feb. 8, 1960
Docking Receives Bill for KU Engineering Building
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Colleges and universities still were an item of controversy today as the Kansas legislature started the final week of its 1960 budget session.
The legislature last week approved a bill granting $3.9 million for an accelerated building program at three schools.
It would provide $1,430,000 for a unit of an engineering building at the University of Kansas, $1,460,000 for a dairy plant and poultry building at Kansas State University, and $1,000,000 for a speech and music center at Ft. Havys State.
Gov. George Docking was scheduled to get the measure today. It was delayed en route to the governor's office Saturday when the state printing department made an error in printing the bill.
J-School Lists Honor Roll
The names of three juniors and four seniors who made the Fall Semester scholastic honor roll of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information were announced today by Dean Burton W. Marvin.
They comprise the top 10 per cent of the school's student body in grade point averages achieved during the fall semester. Their averages ranged from 2.33 to 2.80, with 3.00 representing a straight A average.
Seniors on the honor roll are Martha Crosier of Lawrence, now a reporter on The Topeka State Journal; Jack G. Harrison of Hays, managing editor of The University Daily Kansan during the Fall Semester and now co-editorial editor; Joanne M. Novak of Minneapolis, Minn.; and John L. Patten of Kansas City, Kansas.
Juniors are William D. Goodwin of Independence, Kansas; Carl John Peterson of Topeka; and Alan W. Wuthnow of Hope, who is sales manager of KUOK, the student radio station.
Tickets for 'Crucible' Available, Going Fast
Tickets for "The Crucible," Arthur Miller's drama of the Salem, Mass. witch trials of 1692, are on sale at the University Theatre box office, Kansas Union ticket office and the Bell Music Co., 925 Massachusetts St.
The production, a part of the major series of the University Theatre, opens tomorrow, with other performances on Thursday. Friday and Saturday. All shows begin at 8 p.m.
Students may exchange their ID cards for reserve seat tickets. Temporary ID cards will also be honored for new students this semester.
Persons with no ID cards will pay
$1.50 a ticket.
The University Theatre box office will be open for ticket sales 1-5 every afternoon, today through Friday.
Gordon Beck, director of "The Crucible" and instructor of speech, said, "There are plenty of good seats still available, but they are moving fast. Those wanting to be sure of seeing the production here should get their tickets at the first of this week."
Weather
Mostly cloudy through Tuesday. Light rain northwest late Tuesday, Warmer east portion this afternoon. Low tonight 32 to 40. High Tuesday upper 40s northeast to mid-50s southwest.
Warm temperatures during the weekend melted most of the snow that fell last week. Snow remained only in the northwest section of the state.
High temperatures yesterday were 59 at Garden City and 44 at Wichita and Chanute. Yesterday's lows were 35 at Goodland and Chanute and 40 at Salina and Concordia.
Gov. Docking could pocket veto the measure by holding it until after the legislature adjourns on Wednesday. The law allows him to hold it for three days.
The governor had on his desk for possible action today a bill that would appropriate an extra $7.5 million in sales tax residue to counties for one year. They regularly get $12.5 million.
Gov. Docking last week signed a bill that contained $1.5 million more than he recommended for operation of the state's universities and colleges.
It allowed 7 per cent "merit raises" for faculty and administrators at the schools. Docking had recommended 3 per cent raises for the faculty and none for the administrators.
the governor allowed four important measures to become law without his signature and vetoed three others.
Those which automatically were enacted after he held them three days:
- Appropriated $900,000 in raises for personnel at state institutions.
- Increased state emergency aid to schools from $6 per pupil to $15.
- Allowed $500,000 for two-year continuation of a brucellosis control program.
- Appropriated $100,000 more than he had recommended for the Kansas industrial development commission.
He veted measures that would have suspended the 1.75-mill state property tax for new construction at state schools and institutions.
The bill would have given the schools their fiscal 1961 money from state funds and they would have had it nearly a year early. The House of Representatives could not override his veto.
He also turned down a bill that would have added more than $500,000 to the state emergency fund, raising it to a total of $1 million, and the House could not override that veto either.
As the week closed, Republicans turned to the state income tax for a possible reduction.
The House defeated a move to raise the per-dependent exemption from $600 to $750, but meanwhile, a bill was introduced in the Senate for a straight 20 per cent reduction in each individual's income tax. The reduction would be effective for one year.
Dubois to Speak To Spanish Club
Jules Dubois, Chicago Tribune Latin American correspondent and the William Allen White lecturer, will lead an open discussion on Latin America at the El Ateneo, Spanish Club, meeting at 4 p.m. tomorrow in 11 Fraser Hall. The public is invited.
William Inge Returns to KU To Lecture on Play Writing
Mr, Inge will assist Allen Crafton, professor of speech, in teaching a class in play writing.
He is scheduled to arrive here in about two weeks. He was expected to arrive this weekend but had to postpone his arrival.
Willian Inge, a Pulitzer prizewinning playwright and a KU graduate, will return to the University this semester as a guest lecturer.
In 1953, Mr. Inge was awarded the Pulitzer prize in drama for "Picnic," a play whose setting is a small Kansas town. His other plays are "Come Back Little Sheba," "Bus Stop." "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs," and "A Loss of Roses," which appeared on Broadway this season.
"Picnic," "Bus Stop," and "Come Back Little Sheba" have been made into movies. "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" is in the process of being transferred to film.
William Inge
Moreau Is Named Acting Law Dean
Frederick J. Moreau, professor of law, today became acting dean of the Law School due to the resignation of Dean M. C. Slough.
Dean Slough's resignation was announced last week. Dean Slough said he had decided to resign earlier but the resignation did not become formal until the end of the semester.
According to the chancellor's office, the former dean is stepping down from the administrative level in order to do research and writing. Dean Slough will be on the faculty as a professor.
James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions, said 7,851 persons had registered on the Lawrence campus and 711 at the K.U. Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. These figures are 199 and 33 larger than a year ago.
EnrollmentUp 2.8 Per Cent
The 251 new students are 11 less than in 1959, while the 7,600 former students enrolled here are 210 more.
Mr. Hitt said there are some indications that the-University's "holding power" on its fall semester student body was somewhat greater than in the previous two years, even though there is a numerical shift of 685 students from the fall semester.
Spring semester enrollment at the University of Kansas is up 232 or 2.8 per cent over 1959 and with late enrollments is expected to reach 8,750.
Kansas University will receive $1,300,000 for housing if Congress accepts a request from the American Council on Education.
ACE Appeals For Loans
The Council has appealed to Congress for a continuation of the College Housing Loan Program. It has also asked for an increase in authorized funds of $250 million.
Action of the Council was prompted after President Eisenhower's declaration in his budget message that the program be terminated.
Other state schools that will be affected are Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia, Kansas State Teachers College at Fort Hays, Kansas State University of Agriculture and Applied Science - and Kansas State College at Pittsburg.
It Didn't Help Italy Either
DERBY, England—(UPI)—A British railway spokesman admitted today that passengers have been complaining because a new campaign has made trains run on time. It seems commuters had been accustomed to late trains and are now missing them.
Prof. Slough this morning said he would not be teaching this semester because as a dean he had a light teaching load scheduled in the spring semester. However, he expects to teach in the future.
Prof. Slough said:
Prof. Slough joined the law faculty in 1946 and succeeded Dean Moreau as dean in 1957. Dean Moreau resigned in 1957 to devote more time to research and teaching. He had been dean of the law school for 20 years.
"My move is not due to any internal disorder or disagreement. I'll continue to stay on the hill. In fact, I do not dare leave because I have got too much work to do."
Prof. Slough said this semester his time would be devoted to research, writing law reviews and writing a case book.
Dean Moreau opened all law
Dean Carl M. Slough
courses for graduate study. He also has taught specialized law courses in other schools in the University.
Prof. Slough's education includes an A.B. degree from Columbia University and a LLB. degree from Indiana University's School of Law. Prof. Slough also practiced law in Indianapolis.
Dean Moreau has a Ph.D. and an A.B. degree from Wisconsin University.
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The Kansas House of Representatives today defeated a Democratic move to force one of Gov. George Docking's budget policies to the floor for a vote.
The Ways and Means Committee had recommended that a bill to combine the sales tax and general funds and delay distribution of the sales tax residue not be passed.
Republicans Stymie Sales Tax Proposal
Rep. Alvin Bauman (D-Sabeth) moved that the bill be placed on the calendar notwithstanding the adverse committee report. The motion lost. 60 to 51.
KU Whistle Signals End of Ease
By George DeBord
The ring of the alarm clock and the first blast of the KU whistle made it official: My seven days of grace ended abruptly this morning after one of the most peaceful weeks a college student is given.
This last is what I had intended to devote most of the week to. I had planned all year to catch up on some reading I had neglected and to write a couple of papers for a second semester class.
One word is symbolic of what I accomplished between the end of finals and the resumption of classes—Nothing. I slept a little, played a bit and got a few things in order for the second semester.
But my reading fell somewhat short of the mark. After devouring three sports pages, two copies of Playboy and the latest Peanuts book all in the same day, my eyes began to hurt. This was more reading than
I had done in all of 1959. So I gave up.
When it looked like "European Civilization" was doomed to gather dust on the bookshelf with the rest of my text references, I decided to sell it to the book store.
However the price quoted to me wasn't what I thought the book was worth. I mean, who would trade a valuable history for the price of a beer?
Well, I figured as long as I was on the Hill. I might as well enroll and you all know what a mess that was. I'm not saying that my new schedule is messed up or anything like that, but I did have to change my major in order to stay in school.
I always like the lines during the enrollment scramble. I've never stood in one of them yet without having some stranger stagger up behind me mumbling something about it being "just like the Army." Ive always wondered why it couldn't be
I had to spend most of the day in the Union because the guy I was with had to pay off a couple of traffic tickets before he could enroll. But he didn't complain. He said this was the only place in the country where a man can get an education just by giving the local cops a few dollars.
just like the Girl Scouts or something.
I got my grades and they weren't too bad. I got a break here and the knife there so everything balanced out. I figure I was lucky to get a C from one professor. I didn't think he knew the alphabet.
After enrollment, we stopped in the city for a little amusement. I failed to break a hundred in three games at the bowling alley and lost half a dozen games of snooker without dropping a ball. But I thought there was some consolation in the fact that I am not on an atheltic scholarship.
I watched several late movies on television during the week. I couldn't seem to get to sleep knowing I didn't have to get up in the morning. All the shows were educational. From the movies themselves I learned how people dressed in the twenties and the commercials taught me how the plumbing in my stomach works.
I tried to get my notebook cleaned out for the spring semester, but after spending all fall and half the winter filling it up with notes and pictures, the idea seemed wasteful. So I bought a new one and put the old one in the closet thinking that some day I will find a use for a drawing of the circulatory system of a beetle.
But it had to end and I made it to my first class on time this morning without too much difficulty. It's like the guy at the next desk says—after a week of doing nothing it's a little early to think about cutting.