Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
58th Year, No. 44
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 1960
CAMPUS CHEST REPORT—Glenda Price, Topeka senior, gives a report on the Campus Chest to the ASC at their meeting last night. Two ASC members, Sally Colladay, Hutchinson junior, and Bob Covey, Ames, Iowa, senior, look on.
NSA Coordinator Reports On Regional Meeting at ASC
Carol McMillan, Coldwater junior and National Student Association coordinator, reported to All Student Council members the results of the NSA regional conference held last weekend at the University of Missouri.
Miss McMillan said the highlight of the conference was the withdrawal of Colorado from NSA.
Colorado at the present time is re-considering its withdrawal, Miss McMillan said.
THE PROBLEM of NSA on campuses like KU is that they do not receive NSA benefits like smaller colleges. Smaller schools get many speakers from NSA sources." Miss McMillan said.
She also said NSA could help a school to prepare for a mock United Nations.
The Council approved the ten appointments to the NSA committee
"That the appropriate agencies of student governments of universities in the Missouri-Kansas region may, and have the responsibility to, discuss intelligently national and international affairs which affect students in their roles as students and enlightened citizens of the United States."
Miss McMillan said the regional conference passed the following resolution:
GLENDA PRICE. Topeka senior, reported on the Campus Chest committee. The Campus Chest Drive will be from Feb. 25 to March 3. The goal this year is $5,500. Miss Price said the committee plans to have 200 people working on the drive. A personal solicitation is planned for the Nebraska-KU basketball game. A special concert has been tentatively set for March. The drive will begin with a kickoff breakfast on Feb. 25.
George Schluter, Prairie Village senior and chairman of the ASC Public Relations Committee explained the lighting situation on campus.
In Schluter's interview with Harold E. Horn, Lawrence city manager, it was brought out that the area from the Union to the freshmen dormitories is presently lighted to a greater extent than any other residential area. The city took this action voluntarily and at the expense of the Lawrence taxpayers, not the students or the University, he said.
INQUIRIES AS TO inadequately lighted areas were sent to 22 women's houses. Only nine replied: Several areas on the main campus were mentioned as unsafe. The route to
West Hills was deemed as improperly lighted.
Keith Lawton, physical plant director, said that unnecessary publicity might cause more trouble by accenting the route and number of girls that travel these routes.
Joe Skillman, Chief of Campus Police, said that there was no growing trend in the past ten years in the number of molestations on campus. He stressed that whenever something like this does occur, it should be reported to the campus police.
Election Brings Large Turnout
The general election for ASC representatives may result in the largest turnout in years.
The official tally sheets at the close of the polls yesterday indicated 1,340 voted in the first day of the elections, the election commissioner reported.
Kirk J. Cottingham, Newton senior and election commissioner, said he was pleased with the student turnout for the elections.
Cottingham attributed the large turnout to the fact that there are so many more students on campus this year than in the past.
Almost half of the votes came from freshman voters, he said.
As of last night the following totals were received for living districts:
Fraternity ... 503
Security ... 298
o-ops and professional fraternities 11
Sorority 208
Large Men's Dormitories 142
Small Men's Dormitories 83
Large Women's Dormitories 39
Small Women's Dormitories 53
Freshman Women's Dorm-
mitories 238
Unmarried - unorganized 45
Married 18
Cottingham said that a breakdown of individual party totals will not be available until the official counting tonight.
At the primary elections last week the referendum was passed to divide dormitory living districts into large and small districts.
"The poll workers had to adapt to the change that occurred with the two dormitory living districts instead of one, but there was relatively little confusion as a result of the change," he said.
Campus Chest Campaign Has Hopes for Success
By Byron Klapper
To many new students the name "Campus Chest" doesn't have any particular significance. This will change as workers in Campus Chest and Douglas L. Mayor, Kansas City junior, co-chairman of the organization, will show that students have
Mothers Riot At New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS —(UPI)— More than 5,000 mothers and teen-agers, urged to "civil disobedience" by segregation leaders, ran screaming through the streets of New Orleans today and police turned fire hoses on them.
Fire trucks were lined up in front of the offices after the crowd broke away from encircling motorcycle police.
"On with the water, on with the water," the mob screamed as it advanced on the offices of the Orleans Parish School Board, which opened two integrated elementary schools for the third straight day.
The firemen turned on the hoses and the crowd surged into the water and kept going. The crowd advanced into the full flow of the water and stood there waving confederate flags and shrieking "two, four, six, eight, we don't wanna integrate."
Every time firemen turned down the water pressure the crowd surged forward again.
Police threw heavy guards around two newly integrated schools and rushed fire trucks to McDonogh 19, where a bomb hoax was reported.
"They're berserk," groaned one officer as he shoved two students against a wall to search them.
Weather
Temperatures for the next five days will average from four to seven degrees above seasonal normals.
Tonight's lows are to be in the middle 30's, followed by temperatures in the high 50's tomorrow.
a special stake in the success of this fund-raising campaign.
WITHIN THE NEXT few months the organization that solicited over $1,500 to aid Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956 and each year contributes to the major and national world health campaigns will begin its drive with a goal set at $5,500.
In the first meeting of the entire KU Campus Chest executive council last night Peter Leppmann, regional executive of the World University Service, explained how that service aids students.
THE WORLD UNIVERSITY SERVICE receives 40 per cent of the total funds collected from the Campus fund drive. It has become the one agency to which the international student community can turn in time of crisis, Mr. Leppmann said.
"It was orinigated at the end of World War I to help rebuild and re-organize the universities and colleges in Europe. Since that time
the World University Service has come to the aid of students all over the world who needed assistance," he said.
Mr. Leppmann is traveling to colleges and universities throughout the Southwest and Rocky Mountain regions to aid student Campus Chest organizations in planning and executing their campaigns.
IN PAST YEARS the funds that KU students contributed to the Campus Chest were distributed to CARE, the heart fund, cancer, polio, tuberculosis and multiple sclerosis funds, in addition to the World University Service.
There are presently these five members of the Campus Chest executive council;
Douglas L. Mayor, Glenda Sue Price, Topeka senior, co-chairman; Jerry R. Palmer, El Dorado junior, special events; Gordon J. Kauffman, Lawrence, solicitations; and Robert L. Covey, Ames, Iowa, publicity chairman, seniors.
JOSHING JESTERS—Bill Goodwin, Independence, and Mike McCarthy, Prairie Village, both seniors, are already practicing jokes after being selected last night as emcees for the 1961 KU-Y Rock Chalk Revue.
Beauty in Every Creation- Weiss
The nature of beauty is the excellence achieved by the successful completion of a work of art, Paul Weiss, professor of philosophy at Yale University, said at the Humanities Lecture last night.
"Excellence is approaching an object from a standard not determined by the object itself." Prof. Weiss said. "That is, an artist receives a rich experience by creating his own beauty and not copying an object."
For an example, he said that a piece of canvas does not make a picture beautiful; the artist does. The canvas as such is less beautiful than before but the paint on it creates beauty. The object, or canvas, does not determine the beautiful qualities of the picture.
"AN ARTIST is caught in a dilemma between two conflicting ideas," Prof. Weiss said. "The ideal created by society and his own creativity must be combined to produce a work of art. The actual job of an artist is to produce a work of art. The spectator starts where the artist has left off and the critic begins as a spectator and later establishes himself as a judge of the value of the work."
There is no act which is completely devoid of creativity, he said. Even people working on an assembly line show a certain amount of creativity or there would never be mechanical breakdowns. If we ignore the creativity and its relation to the structure of the object, we miss the entire meaning of the product, he added.
"Organization is also a necessary portion of every act." Prof. Weiss said. "Even those acts which are termed chaotic are considered such because the elements are unexpected. The structure of the object shows the relationship between the beginning and the end product."
HE STATED that a complete definition of the structure cannot be made because it is something general which only presents the possible outcome. The concrete acts on the part of the artist develop into the final product.
Following a brief talk Prof. Weiss asked for questions from the audience which filled Fraser Theater.
"Beauty is itself a criteria for art," he said in answer to one question. "Often an artist or a specific work may also become standards in themselves."
"Is something which is good also beautiful?" a voice shouted from the audience.
"No," Prof. Weiss answered. "The ethical good is concerned with making something better and the artistic good is concerned with the final product which may or may not be beautiful."
"BEAUTY IN nature is not long lasting and does not hold a viewer's attention for a very long time," Prof. Weiss said in answer to another question. "It takes man to reproduce the beauties of nature into something which will last. Nature does sloppily what man sometimes does very well.
"Very few artists start with an actual visual image," he said. "The most beautiful of the works of art were spontaneous. The spectator often reads much more into a picture than the artist intended."