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University Daily Kansan Monday. Nov. 30, 1958
Midshipmen Moan, But Still Live Alone
Many of the Navy students are very unhappy because they are being denied the right to get married.
When the student joins the NROTC program he is required to sign a contract, as are the Air Force and Army ROTC men, but the Navy contract states, "the student must remain unmarried."
Air Force and Army contracts do not deny the students the right to marry.
Several Navy men feel that the clause in the contract is unfair, and point to page 101 in the "Business Law" by Berch and Conyngton. There, under Agreements in the Restraint of Marriage, it reads:
"The law regards marriage as one of the pillars of our civilization, and accordingly any agreement designed to prevent a marriage or to break up a marriage is void."
Expelled if Married
The Navy man who does marry may be expelled from the ROTC program. He also may lose all of his college credits gained in the program, and he may not be allowed to graduate from the University because of a section in the contract which states:
"...required that each student who shall have been enrolled... shall complete that course as a pre-requisite for his graduation from the institution."
As a reminder, a letter containing this clause was sent to all sophomore regulars and all contract juniors in the Navy program. It was signed by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
Chancellor Comments
When asked if the rule was fair the chancellor said:
"I have no comment. It is the
Navy's problem not mine. Whether or not they are philosophically right or wrong, I haven't thought about it."
NROTC members say that they have been given three reasons for the non-marriage rule.
The first reason is. "The navy feels the men can not be loyal to two masters."
This refers to the family on one hand, and the Navy on the other.
Capt. John W. Newsom, professor of naval science, said the navy does not feel a midshipman can adequately carry a family and a naval training program at the same time.
"Our six weeks' summer cruise tends to upset a family, and if a man is taking our course, he probably has an overload to begin with.
The second point is that the midshipmen are on the same basis as the academy student.
Many of the Navy men feel that this is far from being true because KU generally is not considered a military academy, since very few academies are co-educational.
Capt, Newsom said the NROTC cadets are considered the same because of the midshipmen in the Naval Academy.
"We have to be fair to them. If they cannot marry, the men at KU should not be able to marry.
The third reason is that the Navy said that it would feel responsible for the wife and children of the married student.
The Navy's usual policy is to take care of dependents of men on active duty, Midshipmen are on active duty only eight weeks a year, and the Navy requires parents of the Midshipmen to sign an agreement saying that the Navy is not responsible for the student.
Capt. Newsom said that while the
Senate Payrolls Are Made Public
The Supreme Court is considering an appeal by Chessman from a state court decision that would mean death in the gas chamber. In a few weeks the court will decide whether to grant the condemned man a hearing in his prolonged legal fight.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Twenty-three professional people, including noted psychiatrist Karl A. Menninger of Topeka, filed papers in the Supreme Court today on behalf of convict-author Caryl Chessman.
Chessman's chief contention is that he still has not had a fair hearing on his challenge to the record of his trial. The shorthand reporter who made the record died and his notes were transcribed by a substitute.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The Senate lifted the secrecy lid on its payrolls today, making the data open for public inspection for the first time since 1948.
This plea was supported in the "friend of the court" papers filed today by Attorneys Nathan L. Schoeicher and Morris E. Cohn, both of Beverly Hills, and Clore Warne of Los Angeles.
Others in the group were entertainer Steve Allen, writer Aldous Huxley, and Dr. William F. Graves of Alhambra, former staff physician at San Quentin prison, where Chessman has been held in death row for $11^{1/2}$ years.
He is asking the Supreme Court for a new trial or for an order granting him complete freedom.
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Navy has no legal responsibility for the welfare and health of dependents, it still feels a moral responsibility.
"What if a midshipman's wife would get pregnant. The midshipman will worry about that and about keeping up with his overload in courses. The Navy can't take care of her in a naval hospital, and everybody gets upset. The midshipman worries about his wife, the Navy worries about the midshipman's work."
What If She Gets Pregnant?
Several Navy ROTC men refused to be quoted because, "we will probably suffer repercussions." But many said they feel the rule is ridiculous since the Air Force and Army are not bound by such a rule.
Several men cited Perry Daniels, number one man in last year's sophomore class and one of the top men on the 1959 summer cruise. Daniels got married at the end of the 1959 summer cruise and was removed from the program. He was unable to attend school this year because of finances.
plover, job titles and salaries paid was published by Senate Secretary Robert A. Brenkworth.
"The rule probably stems from Annapolis. It is unfair if it (the Navy) considers us on the same plane as the regular academy student. If anyone else can be married why can't we? Annapolis has no bearing on us."
Until the Senate adopted the resolution last session, only a generalized listing of the names of employees and the total amount of salaries paid by Senators have been made public. It did not show how much each employee was paid.
A resolution adopted in the last session in the wake of "nepotism" disclosures on Capitol Hill required the listing of individual salaries four times a year. Vance Trimble, Scripps-Howard Washington correspondent who broke the "nepotism" stories, was denied access to Senate payroll records.
Gordon H. Miller, KU graduate from Glenham, N. Y., has won the 1960 American Rocket Society-Thiokol graduate study award for his design of an atomic powered rocket.
James O. Sampson, Clayton, Mo.
second classman, said;
The data thrown open to inspection today covered the period from July 1 through Sept. 30.
Miller earned a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from KU in 1936. His award includes a gold medal and $1,000 in cash.
The House has made such information public regularly in the past. It was this information that brought to light the fact a number of House members had relatives on their government-paid office payrolls.
"Daniels told us he was going to get married. He was honest and fair. We hated to drop him, but we had to."
"Reluctantly Dropped"
Newsom said Daniels was "reluctantly dropped" from the program.
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"Reluctantly Dropped"
Former Officer Comments
Capt. Newsom pointed to a policy
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This is the idea one gets from Former Lt. (j.g.) Henry Overton, Lorraine, N.Y., sophomore:
"The Navy has deep tradition and strict rules and the highest quality officers, but why should they keep the old fashioned rules? Marriage at least should be permissible after the beginning of the senior year. That shouldn't shake the system too much."
Civilians Indignant
STOP IN TODAY
But the Navy men aren't the only ones who are indignant about their not having the right to marry. Some KU civilians think the Navy men should have the same rights to marry which they have.
**Mike Dring**, Mission junior, turned thumbs down on the rule because:
Lonnie Nagels, Topeka sophomore,
said:
"I definitely believe that Navy men should have the right to marry as do the other branches, even realizing that the Navy is making more of an investment in their men than the other branches."
in the navy rule of dropping married students from the program.
"If a kid comes in today and says he is getting married tomorrow, we drop him from the program. But if he gets married and we don't find out about it until two months or a year later, the kid has been defrauding the government by accepting money on his scholarship."
John Hutchinson, Bartlesville third classman, had this to say:
Cadets Comment
One freshman in the NROTC, who asked to have his name withheld, said:
"The rule might not be so bad if you were to make a career of the Navy. But you should still have the right to get married if you want. I guess you could try to hide it from them if you got married. It would be better to try to hide it than to get kicked out of school."
"It is your life to lead and as long as you do your job for the Navy what right have they got to kick? What right do they have to govern our private life, as long as you do your job?"
Another freshman who did not want his name used said:
"I think it is a silly and stupid rule contrary to the laws of nature."
"I think it is unconstitutional, undemocratic and goes against the grain of an institution which is the foundation of this country—the family. It is an outdated, outmoded regulation, which is completely asinine. 'Thus let there be love.'"
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