Daily hansan
57th Year, No.64
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1960
OUCH—A KU student soothes the ankle after taking a tumble on Potter Lake during an ice skating session.
NAL Plane Crash in N. Carolina Kills 34
BOLIVIA, N.C. —(UPI)— Thirty-four persons died early today when a National Airlines plane carrying vacationers from New York to Florida crashed with explosive violence in a coastal swamp.
A witness said "there were bodies scattered all over the field."
Rose to Peru on Fulbright Grant
Prof, Rose will go to Peru in June
Kenneth E. Rose, professor of mining and metallurgical engineering and department chairman, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to lecture in Peru.
Prof. Kenneth E. Rose
to lecture on metallurgical engineering in the School of Mining at the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru.
He will reach Peru in time for the second half of the South American academic year and will return to KU in January of 1961.
Selection for the U.S. educational exchange grant is recommended by the Conference Board of Associated Research Councils, a private organization under contract with the U.S. State Department.
Mrs. Rose and their two children will accompany Prof. Rose on the trip.
Some of the victims were wearing life jackets, indicating they may have had last second warning of a possible ocean crash. A partly-inflated life raft was found near the wreckage.
At least 17 bodies had been found by mid-morning.
Twist of Fate
The 29 passengers died by a flip of fate's coin. They were among 105 booked on a jet airliner. But crewmen found a crack in the jet's windshield and it was ordered out of service.
The 105 passengers were divided between two smaller, propeller-driven, planes on a first-come, first-served basis at two different airport gates. One plane flew to the Florida sunshine without incident. The other carried its charges to instant death.
A tent was set up at the crash scene under orders of the surgeon general of the Federal Aviation Agency who was on his way to the crash scene. The bodies were to be left in the temporary quarters until the surgeon general arrived on the scene.
Two FBI fingerprint experts and a top-ranking FBI official were flown to the scene from Washington.
Alderson Says Apathy Hindered Rush Program
Dean of men Donald Alderson has termed apathy on the part of some fraternity men one reason why fraternities rush was down last fall.
In a Daily Kansan interview,
Go Ahead — Eat That Cake
By Carol Heller
No more dessert, stop smoking, quit drinking, go to bed early, smile more often, study harder...
Countless KU students resolved to start the New Year anew.
Countless KU students cast furtive glances about them as they reached for chocolate cake and lit cigarettes and forgot their resolutions.
But the students needn't have felt guilty, a KU psychologist said today.
"People who break New Year's resolutions are not unique - most people do break them," ventured William A. Binns of the Mental Health Clinic.
"It is possible to make a change in your life, but I doubt if most people take New Year's resolutions that seriously," said Mr. Binns.
"The resolutions are more of a joke, or a seasonal topic for daily conversation like football or the weather."
Mr. Binns said New Year's resolutions and "turn over a new leaf" goals usually fail because of a lack of serious planning and hard work.
Prof. Brady to Direct Language Institute
The psychologist said it is no worse to make no resolutions at all than it is to make them and break them, so you're safe all the way around.
Go ahead and eat the chocolate cake. You're normal.
The University will conduct a 1960 summer institute for 55 teachers of elementary school Spanish and German June 20-Aug. 12.
Agnes M. Brady, professor of Romance languages, will be director of the institute which will be financed by a $79,000 contract from the U. S. Department of Education under terms of the National Defense Education Act.
Thirty-five teachers of Spanish and 20 of German will receive stipends of $75 a week plus allowances for dependents. Ten teachers from private schools will be admitted to the institute without stipends but will receive fee scholarships.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said the institute goals will be to provide the teachers with a mastery of the spoken language, to train them in the newest methods of teaching a foreign language to children and to orient them on 20th century civ-
The institute staff will have nine full-time faculty members. There will be two part-time lecturers, three part-time consultants, six tutors and a visiting lecturer.
Dr. George W. Kreye, associate professor, will be assistant institute director for the German section and Domingo Ricart, associate professor will be assistant director of Spanish
ization in the German and Spanish speaking countries.
The institute members will speak Spanish or German all the time while on campus. Joseph R. Pearson Hall will be the official "Language House" where all meals will be served and morning classes conducted.
Miss Brady, the director, is one of the nation's pioneers in introducing foreign language instruction in elementary schools. She is author or co-author of 18 books and manuals dealing with the teaching of Spanish.
Dean Alderson called on KU fraternity men to use planning, work, dedication and group spirit to advance the social fraternity.
Last fall 502 men went through rush and 439 pledged while in the fall of 1958 573 were rushed and 517 pledged.
More Imagination Needed
More Imagination Needed "I don't know that this apathy is the result of any one person or group of officers, but I look for KU fraternity members to work with imagination and efficiency in planning for rushing in the fall of 1960, Dean Alderson said.
"Until recently it has been pretty easy for Greek groups to obtain their members.
"To remain competitive and up to date in our society an institution or business must anticipate the needs and desires of its customers. The days of simply offering students rooms in fraternity houses is past.
"Now, more than ever before, the Greek living group's program of year-long orientation must be meaningful, flexible, and geared to the student's reason for being at KU—to get a good, well-rounded education," he said.
Activities a Part of Education Dean Alderson said participation
in some extra-curricular and social activities should be a part of the education of men, but fraternities should guard against making such heavy demands in these activities that scholarship of members or pledges suffers.
Dean Alderson gave other reasons for last fall's decline in men rushees and pledges:
- A growing trend on college campuses across the nation for a lower percentage of students to enter social fraternities.
- Fewer entering freshmen men last fall than were expected.
- The initial occupancy of Joseph R. Pearson and Templin Halls.
The dean pointed to trends for a lower percentage of men entering fraternities and freshmen men in the University. This may cause Greek living groups to examine themselves to discover their strong and weak points and to work to improve the weak ones, he said. Fraternity members should re-examine their house scholarship standing, pledge training programs and extra-curricular demands upon members, he added.
Dean Alderson said if this hap- pens the trends will have long rang values. He said:
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Laird Named to Research Position
Dr. Roy Laird, assistant professor of political science and a specialist on the Soviet Union, has been appointed consultant to American University in Washington, D.C. for a research project on the Soviet system.
American University is under contract with the U. S. government for a program to evaluate the strength and weaknesses of the Soviet system.
The appointment was made with consideration for Dr. Laird's specialization in Soviet political affairs and his particular knowledge of the Soviet collective farm program. His book, "Collective Farming in Russia: A Political Study of the Soviet Kolkhozy," was published last year.
Dr. Laird joined the KU faculty in 1957. He attended the Soviet Studies Institute of Glasgow University in Scotland, and in 1956-57 was a research analyst for the U. S. government. He is the author of numerous articles published in journals here and abroad.
De Gaulle to Visit U.S. Beginning April 22
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The White House today announced plans for a state visit by French President Charles de Gaulle to the United States beginning April 22.
De Gaulle originally had expected to visit Washington beginning April 19, but with the delay in the East-West summit meeting until mid-May, his visit will begin a few days later.
Weather
The French president will first visit in Canada, then go to Washington where he will remain until April 25.
Mostly fair this afternoon and tonight. Increasing cloudiness toorrow with light rain or snow extreme northwest. Warmer this afternoon over east and north tonight and east and south-central portions tomorrow. Turning cooler west tomorrow. Low tonight 15 southwest to 20s elsewhere. High tomorrow generally 40s.
Dr. Laird will continue teaching courses in Soviet politics at KU while he is consultant for American University.
Prot. Roy D. Laird
Congress Begins Second Session
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— The 86th Congress, from whose ranks could come the next president of the United States, reconvened for its second session today to grapple with election-year problems and politics.
The opening day sessions of both House and Senate were largely routine and ceremonial. No formal business was planned in either body this week.
Leaders of the top-heavy Democratic majority, frustrated last year by President Eisenhower's effective use of the veto, postponed any maneuvering until after the chief executive delivers his State of the Union message to a joint session tomorrow.