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"NOW LET ME EXPLAIN"—Betty Bumgarner, Tulsa, Okla. senior, told the All Student Council last night of the activities of the ASC social committee. (See other photos on page 10).
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1959
57th Year. No. 44
Daily hansan
Two Men Sentenced for Assault of KU Students
Police later received a call from Jackson reporting that he had been assailed by two boys as he walked past the Campanile.
Dan Fair, Sterling freshman, and Michael Jackson, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore suffered severe facial lacerations when they were attacked and beaten on the KU campus last night.
Fair was walking past a parked car on Campanile Drive when one of the occupants said. "What did you say to me?"
Culp Calls Cops
Fair answered that he had said nothing, when a boy jumped from the car and began beating him.
Don Culp, Mission senior, called campus police when Fair returned to the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house.
Black and Yellow Car The victims described the car
ASC Attempts to Discover Exact Function of Committees
Social and disciplinary committee actions evoked an All Student Council discussion and probe of committee functions last night.
ASC members demanded clarification of committee functions.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Frank Naylor, Kansas City, Kan.. junior, asked for the establishment of definite policies within these committees.
Secrecy Surrounds Committees Navlor said:
"Due to the secrecy surrounding some of the committees, they are highly criticized after they have taken actions on what is actually correct."
Non-registration or late-registration of any social function; non-registration or late-registration of chaperones; failure to uphold the accepted standards of social conduct, and failure to comply with a decision of the social committee.
She said there could be no established rule for punishment because, "each case is different."
In a written report submitted to the council, Miss Bumgarner listed the violations that come before the ASC social committee as:
Betty Bumgarner, Tulsa, Okla. senior, and council representative to the ASC social committee, said the actions of the social committee are against organizations, not individuals.
"There have been no 'Letters to the Editor.' It seems to show a lack of interest." he said.
Austin Raps Student Apathy Jim Austin, Lawrence senior and student body president criticized student apathy concerning the problem.
Austin expressed hope that clarification of committees and interest on the part of the student body would increase. He encouraged the council to discuss the function of the disciplinary and social committee in their various schools and living districts.
"Maybe the only group that cares is the Daily Kansan."
Terry Davis, Frontenac senior added:
Austin Raps Student Apathy
Austin said there was a new plan for discipline and social problems being studied and formed by Gene Anderson, Belleville second year law, which may be presented to the council.
Edward McMullen, Long Beach,
N. Y. junior, asked:
Committee Action Questioned
Several council members questioned Miss Bumearner about the right of the committee to punish a group for an individual's actions.
"Do you mean that if a man from Joseph R. Pearson dormitory took a woman to his room the whole dormitory would be put on probation?"
Miss Eumgarner said, "This has not happened. has it?"
Budget Figures to Be Released Tomorrow
Budget recommendations made by James Bibb, state budget director and head of the governors budget hearing committee, will not be made public until tomorrow's hearing.
The current budget being sought
by the regents is for approximately
$13,158,000. Of this figure salaries
total $9,816,768, with a seven per
cent increase over the current year's
allocation.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the university, said this morning that he did not feel at liberty to reveal the figures.
During the governor's budget hearing held last December, Eibb's committee recommended that the budget being sought for KU be reduced by $850,073. The State Board of Regents sought an original figure of $12,648,067.
"We are still trying to interpret them. I have never seen a budget recommendation offered in this form before." he said.
The cut slashed nearly every increase from the proposed operating budget for the University for 1959-60.
Mr. Bibb's secretary said today "These figures will not be released."
The figures resulting from tomorrow's hearing between the Ebb's committee and the regents will be subject to review by the governor.
Fair and warmer tonight and tomorrow with rapidly rising temperatures today. High today 55-60. Low tonight in the 30s.
Weather
driven by their assailants as a 1958 Chevrolet convertible, black over yellow.
McMullen said, "I have heard it might."
Committee Concerned With Groups Miss Bumgarner explained that the social committee is concerned with group actions and told McMullen if the incident happened during a registered function, the group would be punished.
Campus police stopped a car answering that description minutes later. They took the three occupants to the Lawrence Police Department for questioning.
She said individual infractions were handled through the disciplinary committee.
The two admitting the offense were Charles C. Hendrix and Melvin Glen Hedgepath, Perry, Kansas Neither are KU students.
Deny Beatings
All three at first denied the beatings, confessing after additional interrogation.
Harvard, Yale Don't Want Federal Loans
Hendrix has been employed by the University since Aug. 1 as a laborer on the grounds crew.
CAMERIDGE, Mass. - (UPI) Harvard and Yale Universities announced last night they were withdrawing from the federal student loan program because of the loyalty oath required of participating students.
Both Hendrix and Hedgepath were charged with simple assault by Lawrence police. They were each sentenced in police court to 15 days in jail and a $100 fine.
Fair was positive in his indentification of Hedgepath, but Jackson could not be sure.
Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey, who called the required affidavit of disbelief "misguided," said the university was relinquishing $357,873 allocated by the federal government for needy students attending Harvard.
Hendrix and Hedgepath told police they came to Lawrence to meet a girl, but they gave conflicting stories as to where and when the meeting was to have taken place.
Yale President A. Whitney Grisswold, who termed the loyalty oath a "negative attitude," said he had ordered all University offices dealing in allocation of such federal funds to "make no further commitments to students for loans from funds allocated to Yale for 1959-60."
Both Hendrix and Hedgepath claimed that the third boy in the car was not a part of the attacks.
Classes Shortened For Convocation
Classes will be shortened to tomorrow morning for the convocation speech by Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn).
The class schedule will be as follows:
11 o'clock classes—11:20-11:50 a.m.
5 o'clock Classes 9-10:40 a.m.
Convocation : 9:20-10:30 a.m.
Sen. Humphrey, a likely contender for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, will speak on "New Goals for Democracy."
8 o'clock classes—8-8:30 a.m.
10 o'clock c l a s s e s—10:40-11:10
a.m.
9 o'clock classes - 8:40-9:10 a.m.
Conversation - *20*-10:30 a.m.
LOST IN THOUGHT—Theodore (Ted) Hall, Garden City senior and vice-chairman of the All Student Council, ponders the subject being
discussed by Rudy Vondracek, rear, at the ASC meeting last night. Vondracek, Timken senior, is ASC chairman.