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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, Sept. 22, 1959
57th Year. No.3
NO AIRPLANES NEEDED—Living on Templin's seventh floor has its advantages, one of which is the picturesque view of the campus. Richard Bell, Kansas City, Mo., junior, standing,
and Mark Levitt, Prairie Village senior, put the new dormitory's wide windows to practical use by watching the KU football team work out.
Vox Leader Sees AGI Problems
Vox Populi campus political party will hold its regular bi-weekly meetings beginning Thursday George Schluter, vice president, said today.
Schluter said Vox would continue to "represent the students as a whole."
When asked about the future of the Allied Greek Independent party, Schluter said he assumed the party had folded because of lack of offices in student government.
There has been no official announcement of AGI disbandment, but Schluter noted that AGI has made no move in the freshmen elections and it did not have a booth at the Student Union Activities Carnival.
Local Fuel Plant Work Continued
A decision to maintain the Callery Chemical Co. in Muskogee, Okla. on a "stand by" basis is not expected to affect operations at the Lawrence Callery plant.
Blaine Kincaid, personnel manager here, said today he has received no notice of changes in local production.
The Muskogee plant was built to produce high-energy fuels from boron under defense department contract. It will be kept in stand by status until at least next June, in the event that a decision not to produce the fuels is reversed.
The Lawrence plant is now doing research and development for future production of the fuel at Muskogee.
The plant here began production of the fuel in 1958 but halted the manufacture last summer when the defense contract was cancelled.
Kincaid said the Lawrence plant was always intended to be used for manufacture of commercial chemicals. however,
"The fuel production was to be carried on here only until the Muskogee plant was completed," he said.
The number of employees at the Lawrence plant was cut this summer from 180 to 80.
George Ryan, president of Vox,
was not available for comment.
Directory Club List Deadline is Sept. 29
Organizations who want listing in the student directory are asked to notify the dean of men's office of their president's name by Sept. 29.
The directory will be published late in October or early in November the dean's office announced today.
Sofa Cushions Stolen From Union Lounge
"It is regrettable that nine sofa
Nine black leatherette sofa cushions valued at a total of $225 were taken from the Kansas Union over the weekend.
Frank Burge, director of the union, said today that the cushions began disappearing last Thursday. They were taken from sofas in the activities lounge and on the balcony of the ballroom near the south stairway.
The incident was reported to campus police yesterday. Capt. Willard Anderson said that an investigation is underway.
"Of course, there is the possibility that the value and function of these cushions were not immediately obvious to the person who took them. We hope that they will be returned and that such incidents will not re-occur."
cushions valued at $25 each and made to fit the union sofas would disappear in this educational institution," Burge said.
Burge said that the replacement of the cushions is an absolute necessity. The cost of $225 must be treated as
Religion Topic of English Debate
Three University professors and a Lawrence minister will match wits Wednesday evening on a topic that has been discussed since the beginning of Christianity.
"Resolved: That Religion is Based on Superstition—That it is the Opiate of the People" is the question chosen for the fifth annual English Style Debate. It will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk room of the Kansas Union.
Members of the affirmative team are Dr. M. Erik Wright, professor of clinical psychology; and Dr. Charles Warriner, associate professor of sociology.
Supporting the negative will be Dr. Frank C. Nelick, associate professor of English, and Dr. Allen L. Bramble, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Lawrence.
Dr. E. C. Buchler, professor of speech, will return this year as moderator. This is also Dr. Nelick's second appearance in the debate.
The debate will consist of two ten-minute constructive speeches and a summary by each team. Discussion from the floor is proper both during and after the debate.
In years past the floor has been divided into three sections: negative, affirmative and undecided. In traditional English fashion the members of the audience were permitted to move from section to section as the debate progressed and their opinions were swayed.
This year Ken Gray, Lawrence senior and KU-Y program chairman, has announced that moving will be eliminated to reduce confusion during the course of the debate. However, Dr. Buehler will take audience polls throughout the debate.
Lawrence Police Investigate Shot
Bruce Beard, St. Louis, Mo.
sophomore, said he would not prefer
charges. "Whoever did it probably
just lost his head, and it really
did not hurt me much," Beard said.
The victim of a shotgun blast prefers to forgive and forget his unknown assailant.
Beard suffered wounds from four shotgun pellets in the back and one pellet in the forearm.
He was shot about 2:30 a.m. Sunday while standing by the tennis court behind the Sigma Chi fraternity house. Lance Johnson, Wymore, Neb., senior, president of Sigma Chi, said he had heard loud noises about 12:30 a.m. Sunday but had not been disturbed by the noises which attracted Beard to the scene later.
"We have a standing rule that all firearms the men bring to the house must be locked in a closet," Johnson stated. "The guns were all in the closet, and none had been taken from it."
Johnson said only he and the fraternity's house manager have keys for the gun closet.
Beard stated in his official police report Sunday afternoon that he
Watkins Head Seeks Addition
Watkins Hospital is drastically in need of more space—but there are no immediate plans for any addition to the hospital.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, Director of the KU Health Service, made a plea for building appropriations today. He said there is an immediate necessity for more rooms for clinical practice, laboratories, a medical library, more space for giving shots and an improved operating room.
A recommendations committee set up by the All Student Council last spring stated the need for an addition to the hospital, but Dr. Canutone said that was the last mention of enlargement facilities. The same
committee recommended that expansion programs for the School of Engineering, and Watson Library be completed before any addition to the hospital be started.
"Watkins Hospital is able to bed only 62 students now, and it should be able to take care of at least 100 students." Dr. Canuteson said.
"Fourteen clinical practice rooms are needed instead of the seven now used at the hospital. Three rooms for giving shots are needed instead of the one that is available now. At least 230 more square feet of laboratory space should be obtained."
"The operating room is small and must be entered from a very heavily-traveled hall. It should be
enlarged and in a place apart from the bustling activity of the rest of the hospital. Dr. Canuteson said.
"Medical journals and books are kept in several corners of the building now. The hospital needs library space for these books," he said.
Plans for an addition costing $250,000 are being held in Watkins Hospital. This new addition, if built, would increase the hospital's capacity by one third.
"The hospital staff is hoping that the plans will not be held much longer. Records show that the hospital is being used more by an increasing number of students each year, and there will soon be a saturation point," he said.
MU Seeks Court OK For Silence
had been standing with his back to the Sigma Chi house when he was shot. Last night Beard said, "I don't remember which way I was facing. All I wanted to do was to get out of there as fast as I could."
The Lawrence Police Dept. is investigating the case. It contacted Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, who had nothing to report about the case although he had talked to Beard.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — (UPI)— Elmer Ellis, president of the University of Missouri, said today the university's Board of Curators will seek a writ of prohibition in the State Supreme Court against a lower court's ruling that the university's records in disciplinary cases are subject to subpoena as evidence.
The situation arose after several students were charged with robbing and beating three Columbians last February. The students made statements to the dean of students.
A Columbia court ruled last week that the statements were neither state secrets nor were they confidential and therefore they could be used as evidence in the mens' trials.
President Ellis said the university does not seek to shield the men accused from punishment for wrong doing, but he contended that the information obtained by the university should not be used "merely because that information exists."
Weather
Scattered thunderstorms late this afternoon and tonight. Partly cloudy Wednesday. Cooler tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 60 to 65. High Wednesday in the 80s.