Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, November 12, 1959
57th Year, No. 40
LAST OF THE TICKETS—Only 30 "Brigadoon" tickets were left to go on sale today. The tickets have been selling at the rate of about 1,500 a day since Monday. An audience of 4,100 persons is
expected to see the musical, which will run Nov. 16-21 at University Theatre. The box office will be open until 5 p.m. today. (Daily Kansan Photo by Harry Ritter.)
Social Committee Wants No Publicity
The right to withhold information of its disciplinary actions from KU students was claimed by the All-Student Council social committee yesterday.
The committee's weekly meeting was closed to the Daily Kansas. Reporters were admitted later by appointment for a conference.
Committee members criticized the Daily Kansan for a story Tuesday which stated that Delta Tau Delta social fraternity had been placed on social probation for an undisclosed reason.
Secrecy Promised
Secrecy of the action was promised to the fraternity by the ASC social committee.
"We considered publication of the action unnecessary," agreed the committee members, "and it was detrimental to the people involved."
"The Delta Tau Deltas will probably get a bad reputation because of that story," added one member.
"Publication by word of mouth is enough," asserted another member.
Probation Sufficient Punishment
The committee felt the disciplinary action against the fraternity was sufficient punishment without publicizing the action on campus.
The committee explained the ASC appeal system:
"If a house or student organization is dissatisfied with a punitive measure taken against it, appeals may be made first to the disciplinary committee and then to the administration."
The social committee is in charge of group discipline and the discipline committee handles individual cases.
Appeal System Explained
"The appeal system was explained to Delta Tau Delta fraternity and it was given the opportunity to appeal, just as any group which appears before us for disciplinary reasons," said a committee member.
The committee maintained it does not need to revise its regulations.
"We are not a police force," declared the members.
"The committee has set up a guide to help KU houses and organizations establish a high social standard, but the responsibility of achieving this standard is left up to the house officers or individual groups," the committee said.
Regulation Insures Planning The_members contended that the regulation which requires all University social functions to be registered in advance with the names of supervising chaperones insures proper planning of an event.
Regulation Insures Planning
"There is no set of rules or a guide which will answer all questions," said Dean Donald K. Alderson, committee adviser. "The social committee rules are as adequate as can be expected."
Student Directories On Sale Today
Sen. Humphrey Here Thursday
the new student directories are on sale today.
For the next two weeks the directories may be purchased at 30 cents a copy at Strong Hall, Summerfield Hall, the information booth across from Bailey Hall, and at all organized campus houses.
Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn), a likely contender for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, will be on the KU campus next week.
Sen. Humphrey is expected to speak Thursday at a convocation in Hoch Auditorium, but definite plans have not been announced.
Sen. Humphrey is the man who said earlier this month:
"I intend to have enough votes to be a serious contender for the Democratic nomination."
He said he was already a favorite son candidate.
He is expected to make a declaration by Jan. 1 on whether he will run.
Other Democrats who have visited this campus this fall have not considered Sen. Humphrey a strong contender.
Newell A. George, Kansas Second District representative, said he favored Sen. John Kennedy of Massachusetts. Robert Brock, president of the Kansas Young Democrats, favored Adlai Stevenson, a two-time loser.
However, Douglass Cater, Washington correspondent for the Reporter magazine who spoke here recently, said Sen. Humphrey was the best man for the job.
Sen. Humphrey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was prominent in the news in December when he visited Moscow. While there he talked with Nikita
Khrushchev for what Newsweek magazine termed "an unprecedented eight hours."
He began his political career in 1945 when he was elected mayor of Minneapolis.
He emerged on the national scene at the Democratic National Convention in 1948 when he supported a strong plank on civil rights. His speech on civil rights caused the Dixiecrats to walk out of convention hall.
Sen. Hubert Humphrey
'Spectrum' Editors Chosen by ASC
"Spectrum," the official literary and academic magazine of the University of Kansas, began to take shape last night when the All Student Council publications committee selected the members of the editorial board.
The board members are: Doug Yocom, Lawrence; Fred Ritter, Junction City; Ray Miller, Lawrence; Robert Chaney, Great Bend, all seniors; John Peterson, Topeka junior, and Craig Nelson, Mankato sophomore.
The governing board of "Spectrum." is formed by the two committees mentioned above. The editorial board and two University staff members selected by the governing board will elect the editor-in-chief, copy editor and the business manager later.
Sigma Delta Chi Sponsors
The ASC constitution also provides that Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, be the technical sponsor of the magazine and three members of the editorial board be from that fraternity.
The editorial board members who are Sigma Delta Chi members are Yocom, Miller and Peterson.
Brown Exhibit Draws Few Students
John Brown's body, which once lay a' mouldering in the grave, has been exhumed for literary purposes.
Magazines abound with articles on John Brown, often merely recognizing the anniversary rather than celebrating it.
"Glory, glory, hallelujah" seems to be the theme song of the 100th anniversary of the hanging of Brown.
Yet few of the students here are taking advantage of the John Brown collection which is on exhibit in Watson Library. The exhibit is in commemoration of the centennial of Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and his execution.
Brown, who was a prominent figure in the era of "Bleeding Kansas," was hanged Dec. 2, 1859. He found
The exhibit, which is located near the main entrance of the library, contains photographs, sketches, guns, manuscripts, early publications, a pike and his funeral bill. There also are a few letters he wrote shortly before he was hanged.
his warrant against slavery in the Bible, where its defenders found their warrant for it.
He first hated slavery when he saw a young Negro boy beaten. He pledged his life to the abolition of slavery.
As a boy, Brown disapproved of wars and as a man he paid annual fines rather than perform military duty.
In Pennsylvania in 1834 he devised an association of abolitionist families
to educate the colored youth. He thought this would force the South into a speedy emancipation. He moved to Ohio in 1835 and to Massachusetts in 1836, seeking support for this plan.
In 1850, after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, he went to Springfield. Mass., and formed a League of Gileadites.
By 1854 Kansas had become the decisive battleground of the two systems. Five of Brown's sons moved to within a few miles of Osawatomie, and Brown joined them in October 1855.
The dramatic incidents of Brown's career included the retaliatory murder of five pro-slavery men at Potatowatomie Creek May 24, 1856.
He attacked the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry to obtain arms. This was open war against the nation. He seized the armory and the village with 18 men.
But Col. Robert E. Lee was sent from Washington with a company of Marines and cornered Brown and his six remaining men in an engine house. After two of his sons were killed he surrendered.
Heavy snow warnings northern Kansas. Snow and blowing snow on increasing Northerly winds 20 to 35 miles per hour and turning sharply colder northwest by evening.
Weather
Prior to his political career, Sen. Humphrey earned numerous degrees in political science and law. He also was a professor of political science at Macalaster College.
Pachacamac's $25 Is Deposited
Pachacamac, a campus political party until 1954, made its existence known again today.
A letter accompanied by $25 was received by the Daily Kansas this morning signed the "Society of Pachacamac."
"Will you please deliver the enclosed check to the Campus Chest Drive?"
A check was not enclosed, instead there was a $20 bill and a $5 bill.
The letter requested:
The Kansas has deposited the money and mailed a check to the Campus Chest.
During its existence the Pachacamac political party won 22 out of 28 elections. Pach was on campus when election candidates were first listed by political parties in 1926.
Pach Was a Winner
The last time Pachacamac members appeared openly as an organization was in 1955 when they were photographed in black hoods for the Javhawker.
The Jayhawker summary of the organization said it was no longer a political party, but a secret political society.
Will Pach Live Again?
The question now is whether this organization plans to remain a secret press agency for the Campus Chest.
If it plans to come forward as a political party, there will be three political parties on this campus. Vox Populi is presently the only active party, but the Student Directory, which went on sale today, listed a second, the Better Government League.
This party has remained behind the scenes, but in existence, since 1958 when it supported John Downing and Carol Plumb for student body president and vice-president.