Homecoming Edition
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
58th Year, No. 41
Friday, Nov. 11, 1960
Homecoming '60 Rocks KU
Decorations Up After Cold Night
QUEEN JANICE—Janice Guyot, Arkansas City junior, Homecoming Queen 1960, will reign over the festivities this weekend. Queen Janice's attendants are Sharon O'Neal, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, and Sherryl Duckworth, Fredonia sophomore.
The grueling chore of putting up homecoming decorations came to a climax today.
Organized houses were scenes of confusion as would-be artists wielded paint brushes with deft strokes across acres of cardboard. Optimistic engineers quickly, if not solidly, constructed frames for the mountains of tissue that would relate the folklore theme to the homecoming game.
THE LESS HARDY individuals, or perhaps those with the space for their decorations, moved indoors to wait for a break in the cold for their project's debut.
Others, with hammers and coffee in hand, faced the elements bravely, disdaining the comforts of steam heat in the hectic rush to beat the deadline.
In the home-stretch of the last two days, it came to a struggle against cold weather and fleeting time.
The mad scurrying to "get 'em up" was appropriately shown by the reply of a harried student to the innocent question of "How are you coming along?"
ALL THESE harried efforts have a 2 p.m. deadline today.
"Listen, bud," he said. "You ever try to build a shapely Jayhawk out of three two-by-fours and a few feet of chicken wire?"
Late tonight or early tomorrow morning telephones will jangle in eight Greek houses and five residence halls.
The voice will be that of Dower Dykes, assistant professor of design and chairman of the house decorations committee for homecoming. He will be calling to announce the winning houses or halls.
Secrecy will be urged until 1:10 p.m. when the awards will be made in the stadium.
In his calls, Prof. Dykes will not reveal the exact awards. He will merely request that a representative be on hand just before the Colorado-Kansas game to accept the trophy on behalf of the house or residence hall.
Phi Beta Kappa Elects 9 Seniors
Nine seniors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe have been elected to membership in the KU chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic society.
Paul W. Gilles, professor of chemistry and president of the campus chapter, said that Dr. Wescoe was elected to an honorary membership in the society.
Charles D. Aldrich, Osborne Robert E. Barnhill, Lawrence; John E. Brown, Lawrence; Nancy L Craven, Hillsdale; Theresa Davis, Pocatello, Idaho; Barbara K. Foley, Lawrence; John H. Jewell, Garden City; John D. Moyer, Hamlin; and Cheryl Ann Payer, El Dorado.
The honorees are:
Weather
Initiation will be Dec. 5 in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
The weatherman predicts cloudy skies for tomorrow's homecoming festivities.
The festivities are not expected to be dampened by rain or snow, but spirits will be chilled in the low 60's.
ASC Withholds Campus Vote Tally
The ASC elections commissioner last night refused to release the official number of votes received by individual candidates in the primary elections.
By Byron Klapper
"I decided if you wanted the figures you will have to get them from the party presidents, because the elections were closed primaries.
In a telephone interview Kirk Cottingham, Newton senior and election commissioner, told a Daily Kansan reporter:
Furthermore, an inspection of the figures released to the Daily Kansan Wednesday by Cottingham indicated that there are 275 votes unaccounted for.
When told that Vox or UP figures were not considered official because they were vague, Cottingham still flatly refused to produce the election results in question.
Votes Missing
He said 1,648 students voted in the primaries. A sum of the total returns shows 1,373 votes. The elections chairman indicated 710 votes for UP and 663 votes for Vox.
At a Vox meeting in the Kansas Union earlier in the evening, Jack Roberts, Kansas City, Kan., junior and president of Vox presented a different set of results to the Vox General. Assembly
Paul P. Cacioppo, Overland Park senior and Greek co-chairman of the UP said later that his results indicated 730 votes for the UP and 662 for Vox.
Roberts said the totals for the primaries were 729 votes for UP and 661 votes for Vox.
Robert's figures indicated 20 more votes for the UP fraternity living district than Cottingham released. Cottingham said there were 184 votes and Roberts said there were 204 votes.
Figures Differ
There were also minor differences for other Vox districts.
Roberts then proceeded to show that if this were the general election instead of the primaries, Vox would have seated twice as many representatives in the ASC than UP even though UP won the popular vote.
Vox, 6-3?
According to Robert's calculations Vox would have won six seats in the ASC to UP's three.
Roberts brought his individual candidate election figures to the Daily Kansan but preferred to check with Cottingham before releasing them for publication. He did not indicate that they were official figures.
Roberts said he felt Cottingham refused to release the figures in question for publication because it might hurt the feelings of those candidates who received only a few votes.
"I don't know why he (Cottingham) did not release the figures but it does seem kind of strange," Caciopo said.
Cacioppo said that the elections committee is subject to the same rules as other committees in the ASC and that their records should be made available as public information.
"There were shenanigans going on but I don't intend to make an issue out of them," he said.
Procedings Strange
Law Alumni Lunch Set for Tomorrow
The annual Law school alumni homecoming luncheon will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow in the Green Hall Library reading room.
Play, Basketball Game Initiate Gala Activities
By John Peterson
Homecoming 1960, flavored by Kansas centennial and folklore tradition, bursts into full swing this weekend.
Alumni registration starts at 4 p.m. today in the Kansas Union and wil continue through tomorrow morning.
The 49 houses competing in the house decoration contests are emphasizing folklore this year. House decorations vary from "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" to Carrie Nation and Uncle Remus as their inspiration.
ALUMNI RETURNING for the first time in recent years will see a number of changes on the campus. The Hall Mammalian Genetics Laboratory was finished last fall, the Nuclear Reactor Building is under construction as is another addition to Snow Hall. Summerfield Hall is a recent addition to KU and Strong Hall has been redecorated extensively.
More than 33,000 Jayhawker fans are expected to watch the KU-Colorado football game tomorrow.
The Varsity-Freshman basketball game, homecoming decorations at organized houses and a special University Theatre performance of "The Most Happy Fella" highlight tonight's activities.
THE VARSITY will be highly favored in the annual basketball game which starts at 7:30 p.m. in Allen Field House. Only in Wilt Chamberlain's freshman year did the Freshman team upset the Varsity.
The special production in University Theatre will follow the basketball game at 9:30 tonight.
Janice Guyot, Arkansas City junior, will be presented as Homecoming Queen at the game tomorrow. She will walk through a corridor of more than 100 ROTC students. The Angel Flight, AFROTC women's auxiliary, Jay James and the Froshawks will help form the corridor.
RECEPTIONS will be held in the Kansas Union Main Lounge from 9 to 11 a.m. At the same time, the fifth annual Engineering alumni reception will be held simultaneously in the Music and Browsing Room of the Union.
The seventh annual Kansas Designer-Craftsmen Show is on display in the North Browsing Room of the Union. Sight-seeing buses will leave the Union for free campus tours during those hours.
The School of Law will entertain alumni with an open house and buffet luncheon at Green Hall from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the home economics department will hold open house at Fraser Hall from 9 to 11 a.m.
Alumni may have luncheon with the 1960 homecoming queen and her attendants at a special homecoming buffet in the Union Ballroom from 11 to 1 p.m.
They will pin mums to their lapels in time for the KU-Colorado football game at 1:30.
MISS GUYOT will be crowned at half-time with her attendants, Sherryl Duckworth, Fredonia sophomore, and Sharon Grace O'Neal, Kansas City sophomore. Mrs. Joy Godbehere Bates, the 1945 KU homecoming queen will also be presented on the field, representing queens of past years.
"The Most Happy Fella" will be presented again tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. and Count Basie's Orchestra will play for the homecoming dance from 9 to 1 a.m. in the Union Ballroom.
Image of 'Martyr Castro' Creation of N.Y. Times Writer
The image of Fidel Castro as a patriotic martyr was actually the creation of the Latin American correspondent of the New York Times newspaper. And the whole revolution, rather than being the huge bloodletting as it was publicized, was actually a victory by default.
So said Irving P. Pflaum, a specialist on Cuba for the American Universities Field Staff, at a join meeting of Theta Sigma Phi journalism sorority, and Sigma Delta Ch journalism fraternity, last night a Flint Hall.
"At the time Batista (former dictator of Cuba) was proclaiming Castro's death for propaganda purposes, Herbert Mathews, of the New York Times arranged a meeting with the rebel leader in the foothills of Oriente province," he said.
MR. FFLAUM made his second address of his nine-day visit to KU on "The Press and Cuba."
Mathews wrote the story but it was not until Bastista called Mathews a liar that Castro got the big play in the U.S. Press.
Mathews then produced a picture of himself and Castro, Mr. Plaum said, and this moved the story from page 14 to the front page.
"Mathews then developed diarrhea of the typewriter and wrote 17 more stories . . . these created the program for the revolution, for I do not think Castro had one of his own."