TV Fixing Called Failure of Morals
Two KU professors said Friday that the fixing of television quiz shows is an example of the moral flabbiness of the U.S. people.
Peter Caws, assistant professor of philosophy; and Kenneth Beasley, assistant professor of political science, were speakers at the Current Events Forum in the Kansas Union.
In pursuing the moral issue, a question was asked:
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Today: until 10 p.m.
Tomorrow: 7:45 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Saturday, 8 a.m.-12 noon.
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Vegh Quartet Plays Tonight
A Hungarian quartet whose members have played together for 19 years will play at KU tonight.
The Vegh Quartet concert will be at 8 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall. It is sponsored by the KU Chamber Music Series.
The concert will include the Haydn Quartet in G Minor, Op. 20.
No. 3; the Samuel Barber Quartet, Op. 11; and the Schubert Quartet in G Major, Op. 161, No. 15.
Tickets are available at the Fine Arts office and the Union Ticket Center at $1.79 each. ID cards will not admit students to the performance.
Prof. Caws referred to a public opinion poll in which nine out of ten persons, when asked about the TV fix and Charles Van Doren, said, "Good for Charlie."
Monday, Nov. 23, 1959
"The normal function of an English teacher is to be truthful. The lack of public feelings against him shows weak moral standards, if there are any, in this field," Prof. Caws said.
Prof. Beasley mentioned the Federal Communications Commission.
"The FCC has every legal right to intervene, but to what extent should they control the industry? I advocate strong control of TV by the FCC."
Prof. Beasley added that if there is too much government control a more careful watch must be kept for corruption in government. He said that a society can not exist without regulation.
Careful Control Urged
"The low standards of TV are due to a new-found field of people—those who can't read," Prof. Beasley explained.
Prof. Caws said the industry needs guidance and a rebuilding of its moral approach to communication.
"They are going to have to start this new industry on a standard of values, and then they will have to build by trial and error." Prof. Caws explained.
Hospital Releases Injured Student
Robert G. Walter, Hutchinson sophomore, was released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital this morning after treatment for injuries suffered in a three-car accident yesterday.
Walter suffered bruises to his right leg and ankle when he attempted to jump onto the hood of one of the automobiles to avoid being struck.
Clear to partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Warmer West this afternoon. Cooler extreme Southeast tonight and over state Tuesday. Low tonight generally upper 20s. High Tuesdays 45 to 55.
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57th Year. No. 47
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Nichols Says Budget Committee Is Unrealistic
Raymond F. Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said this morning that the state budget division's recommendations made Thursday have reversed the forward trend of education in Kansas.
"Instead of moving forward we (KU) are moving backward in regard to other Big Eight schools.
"In days of continuing inflation and increasing enrollments the recommendations of the budget division are totally unrealistic," Mr. Nichols said.
Salary increases for unclassified staff members, which include research staff, faculty, administrators, and the library staff, were not approved. The regents had asked for a 7 per cent increase, $330,325 over this year's budget.
Mr. Nichols said;
The budget reduction is unfair to the young people of Kansas because it means a lower quality of service.
"The regents were trying to be competitive with other schools in
The Budget at a Glance
Not Recommended
The governor's budget committee did not recommend the following items for the fiscal year 1961 budget:
1. Salary increases for classified staff (research staff, faculty, administrators, library staff) $ \neg $8330,325.
2. Additional student help----$45,000
3. Increased benefits for staff retired before Social Security, -88779
4. Four additional faculty members to handle increased enrollments—$24,500
5. Expansion of General Research Program—$95,159
7. Seasonal help for physical plant—$23,000
6. Language Culture Centers in fields of East Asia, Latin America and East Europe and Russia—$60,000
8. Current appropriations for other operating expenses (minor construction, repairs, improvements and remodeling done by the physical plant staff reduced $105,000—from $165,000 to $60,000
9. Increases for the unclassified KU Medical Center staff— $79.701
10. Additional student help at the KU Medical Center— $15,404
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regard to salaries. They were trying to reduce the gap. Instead our competitive position has been lowered, he said.
"This will mean replacements of a lower caliber." Mr. Nichols said.
Mr. Nichols explained that University classes already are large. Without faculty salary increases, the University will not be able to hold its faculty members in competition with other schools.
The regents had also asked for $24,500 in order to hire four additional faculty members to handle increased enrollment.
The request was not granted by the budget division.
"The budget proposed by the regents was minimal to start with. Our requests (the administration's) were screened and pruned by the Board of Regents. The Regents' request was minimal but forward looking. It was a minimal proposal to keep up with the needs of the 20th century." Mr. Nichols explained.
Mr. Nichols criticized a $105,000 reduction in operating expenses. The regents had asked for $165,000 to provide for day-to-day maintenance of the physical plant. The budget division recommended $60,000.
"It is impossible to predict the future. Needs cannot be anticipated. But the state budget division's reduction means that some maintenance will not be done. Sixty thousand dollars will not go far for remodeling and repairs.
"On the basis of experience we need at leat $160,000. Now we are going to have some costly deferred maintenance. We'll have to postpone maintenance. Rising costs will make this expensive in the future," Mr. Nichols said.
Thanksgiving Turkey's Goose Is Cooked
MORRIS JOHNSON
bastes Jolliffe Hall's Thanksgiving turkey with butter . . .
By Carol Heller
Three KU men cooked their first turkey yesterday.
And they did it without a bit of the scurrying flurry and short tempers characteristic of women cooking holiday meals.
The cooks were Morris Johnson, Caldwell senior; Merle Wulcoen, Bloom, and Paul Whipple, Kansas City, Mo. both juniors.
Early Sunday morning they were in the kitchen of Jolliffe Hall starting a Thanksgiving dinner while their housemates slept off homecoming party exhaustion.
"We had a little trouble getting Merle up so early, though," chuckled Johnson. "He was up until 3 a.m. getting the turkey ready."
Menu Includes Cranberries
Menu Includes CrackerBread
the cooks and the Jolliffe housemother, Mrs. Cleo Wood,
scanned the menu: turkey and dressing, mashed potatoes and
gravy, candied sweet potatoes,
broccoli, cranberry sauce, salad and pumpkin pie.
"Cranberry sauce! Mother Wood, you're poisoning the boys," teased Whipple.
"Never mind, I'll eat it, too," promised the housemother with a grin.
Wilcoxen diced bread and chopped celery for the dressing while Whipple and Johnson peeled 18 pounds of potatoes.
Johnson and Wilcoxen were stumped on how to make glazing for the sweet potatoes. Out came a battered cookbook.
Johnson, Wilcoxen and Whipple comprise one of the three dinner-cook shifts at Jolliffe, one of the residence halls where men students do their own cooking and cleaning.
"This is the scholarship hall Bible for the kitchen crews," said Johnson as he flipped through the pages for a recipe.
All three men learned to cook on the shift and agreed they probably would have starved to death had they tried to cook their own meals before living at Jolliffe.
They have few disasters, injuries or disagreements in the kitchen.
"The porkchops were a little rare one night and once we overcooked some scalloped potatoes, but we don't have too many flops," said Johnson. "The boys seem to eat everything no matter how terrible it is."
No Dissatisfaction Yet
"It's the tradition at Jolliffe to sing 'Happy Birthday' to the cooks when we put out a sorry meal." added Whipple. "They haven't sung to us vet this year."
Whipple had a bandaged hand. He had chopped his finger in the process of chopping lettuce for a salad.
"We don't have many injuries—usually the worst comes when somebody scrapes some skin off on the vegetable grater," said Wilcoxen.
Whipple likes highly-seasoned foods and Wilcoxen like mildly-seasoned food, but they seldom come to blows about it.
"Johnson is head cook and he settles all disputes and chases people out of the kitchen if necessary," explained Whipple.
The cook's main trouble is the kitchen stove, which they describe as the most ancient stove on campus.
The housmother grimmaced.
"Its doors fall open and the handles come off and it is impossible to regulate its heat," she said. "The boys are excellent cooks to cope with it—I could never bake in it."