Forum Date Stops Press, Tires Prof.
Three wrongs don't make a right
A correction isn't necessarily correct.
These maxims were endorsed by Daily Kansan staff members after a comedy of errors in the newsroom yesterday failed to produce the correct version of the simplest of news stories.
It all started with a phone call to the public relations office Monday morning by George Worth, assistant professor of English.
Simple Request
"I'd like to place an item in the Official Bulletin for the first week after Christmas vacation," he told the young woman.
"John A. Meixner, instructor of English, will speak on "The Saddest Story": Ford's 'The Good Soldier' at a Humanities Forum at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 5, in the Oread Room of the Union."
The Bulletin was sent to the Kansas for publication Monday. Included was a notice of the Humanities Forum meeting "tomorrow" (Tuesdev. Dec. 15).
After the Kansan came out Monday afternoon, several persons called the newsroom and several reporters took down several versions of a correction of the announcement in the Bulletin.
Stop The Press!
But the version which found its way into Tuesday's Kansan was still wrong.
A Kansan staffer glancing through one of the first copies off the press saw the correction and knew it was incorrect. He shouted "Stop the press," and ran to telephone the English department for a correction of the correction.
No one in the English office knew anything about the Humanities Forum. But the reporter had seen a
Language Classes To Depict Nativity
An old German nativity play, Die heilige Nacht, will be presented to the public at 8 tonight in Fraser Theater.
More than 100 language students will take part in the presentation. Dialogue and music will be spoken in German by a choir composed of students enrolled in the German classes.
Russian and Swedish choirs are also included in the program.
The play is directed by Dr. Eletra Cureti, of the German department, and Mrs. Helga Vigliano, instructor of German, and is produced by the staff of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages. Musical direction is by Robert Kahle, instructor of English.
correction which stated that the meeting was Jan. 4.
He wrote another correction. It was inserted in the page form and the press began to roll again.
The papers hit the streets and students and faculty members read about the Humanities Forum. But the story was still wrong.
Final Correction
A weary Prof. Worth stopped by the Kansan office yesterday afternoon to correct the corrections and right the wrongs.
He typed out the right set of facts, then picked up his briefcase and started to leave.
"I hope that closes the case," he said with a laugh as he trudged out the door.
The forum is Jan. 5. At least we think it is.
Senators Flay Docking Budget
TOPEKA — (UPI)— The Senate Ways and Means Committee met briefly, as required by statute, and adjourned yesterday after one of its members sharply criticized Gov. George Docking.
Purpose of the meeting was to allow the committee to go over all the budget proposals completed so far by the governor for the 1960 budget session of the Legislature.
They had only two budgets to consider, both minor ones.
Sen. August W. Lauterbach (R-Colby), committee chairman, said it would be "a waste of time to go over those budgets."
"It's a shame the governor doesn't have enough here for us to work on." Sen. Don Hults (R-Lawrence) said.
William Salome, state administration director, said that technically the governor does not have to release his budget recommendations until two days after the session starts.
"If he doesn't deliver it until that time the legislature will be sitting around here at the state expense until we can get this lined out," Hults said.
Lauterbach said he will ask the committee to meet again after the first of the year, probably about Jan. 4 or 5. The budget session starts Jan. 12.
Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight, with occasional rain in the southeast portion of the state. Partly cloudy tomorrow. Low tonight 30s, high tomorow around 59.
Weather
CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD—Two foreign students describe Christmas in their respective lands to an American student at the AWS foreign student tea last night. From left
are Nancy L. Varney, Leawood junior; Jila Omidvaran, Iran special student, and Lily Lu, Formosa graduate student. (Daily Kansan photo by Tony Reed.)
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, Dec. 16, 1959
57th Year, No. 60
Budget Cut Would Hinder Library, Student Work Force
Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series on the KU budget, proposed des-
Ry Falph (Gabby) Wilson
By Rapln (Gabby) Wilson The state budget hearing committee's refusal to recommend a $25,000 increase for student help means that Watson Library was stopped from staying open an extra hour and that a source of part-time student jobs was killed.
The Board of Regents asked for $5,000 to cover the expenses of keeping the library open an extra hour a day during the school year. The Regents also asked for $20,000 to pay for student help on the Building and Grounds Staff.
Second Time Request Denied Ray Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said "Bibbs and
his committee passed over this request for the second straight year*
The major victims are the students. All $25,000 would have found its way to the students' pockets.
By not being able to keep the library open an extra hour the students are deprived of additional study time in the library and of job opportunities created by the need for additional student help.
Mr. Nichols said: "The library would have been able to stay open until 11 p.m., six nights a week, instead of only until 10 p.m."
This request was probably made because many students feel that they need to use the library later than they are now allowed to.
Mr. Nichols said that the rest of the request, $20,000, would have gone
to student help on the building and grounds crews.
"When the Buildings and Grounds Department went on a 40 hour week last year, it caused a 10 per cent time loss. It used to be on a 44 hour week," he said.
25 Student Jobs Cut Out
He said that the gap that this shortened week creates would be large enough that between 20 and 25 half-time student jobs would be made if this part of the budget is passed. Students would be able to work as electricians, janitors and on various other crews. At the present the bigget need is for janitors.
The governor's views on this part of the budget will not be known until he sends his formal budget proposal to the legislature.
Judy's In a Flurry, But Not Over Christmas
TOO BUSY FOR CHRISTMAS—Juuy Miller, Fort Scott senior, packs clothes and books into a trunk as she prepares for her trip to Spain in February to be married.
By Carol Heller
Christmastime bustle is being shunned this year by Judy Miller, Ft. Scott senior.
Instead of rushing about knee-deep in tinsel, wrapping Christmas gifts, and addressing Christmas cards, she is rushing about ordering a passport, taking shots and making steamship reservations.
Judy will sail to Spain in February to be married —to a Spaniard.
"It probably all started because my older sister married an Englishman," mused Judy. "Ever since then I've been interested in people from other countries, and I have belonged to KU's International Club since I was a freshman.
"One night a year ago last fall I went to an International Club party—one of my Spanish friends had promised me there would be a bullfighter from Seville at the party.
Not A Bullfighter
"But the bullfighter turned out to be Julian—and he doesn't even play a guitar or castanets, let alone fight bulls." she said with a laugh.
The "Julian" to which Judy referred is her fiance, Julian deCabo from Madrid.
DeCabo is a graduate of a Spanish medical school. Last June he completed his residency in psychiatry at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka.
He is now taking his psychoanalyst training in
Spain and in January he will begin working at the American Hospital in Madrid.
Judy will be graduated in January with degrees in Spanish and English. She will sail for Spain Feb. 14 from either New Orleans, La., or Houston, Texas, and will dock Feb. 24 in Barcelona.
"I will be an English tutor until next fall, and then I hope to be a teacher and work part-time on my master's degree in Spanish at the University of Madrid."
"Julian and I will be married at Easter in the Monserrat, an ancient Spanish monastery high in the mountains north of Barcelona." Judy said.
But all of these plans seem far away to Judy. She is in the midst of packing summer clothing and books and writing a term paper before Christmas vacation starts.
"I've had all my shots—smallpox, typhoid, tetanus and polio," Judy reiterated. "but I'm having trouble getting my yellow fever shot."
Smallpox Shot Elusive
"The only time I can get one around here is at 3 p.m. on a Tuesday at the Kansas City Airport—and that is an impossible time," she lamented.
Judy's exciting plans for the future may make life suddenly seem a bit dull, but right now she is in the same boat with all KU students.
"I have just got to get down to some serious study before finals so I can pass my courses," Judy resolved.