Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
58th Year, No.16
Combative Kennedy Nixon on TV at 6:30
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — After much negotiation and argument between political camps and harassed network officials, the scene was set for the second "great debate" on television tonight.
And judging from their recent speeches, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy, were likely to be appreciably more combative than they were in their first encounter.
Friday, Oct. 7, 1960
Both candidates flew into town during the night and will meet over nationwide television for one hour starting at 6:30 p.m. Lawrence time. Their first debate was broadcast from Chicago Sept. 26 and two more joint appearances are to follow, Thursday and Oct. 21.
According to NBC officials, the Nixon staff objected to the use of what the industry calls "cut-away" camera shots — a close-up picture of one candidate while the other one is talking.
Tonight's debate will originate in the National Broadcasting Company's studios. It will be carried on TV simultaneously by NBC, the American Broadcasting Company and the Columbia Broadcasting system. The Mutual Broadcasting System will carry the debate on radio.
BECAUSE NIXON did not appear to his best physical advantage in the first debate, the Vice President's campaign associates approached tonight's show with utmost care and extensive preparation.
The network insisted that such shots are necessary to facilitate lens changes to vary the picture seen by home viewers. The Nixon people finally relented yesterday on the understanding that the cut-away or reaction shot would not be used "indiscriminately."
Candidates Debate Again Tonight on TV
The second Kennedy-Nixon debate will be televised in this area beginning at 6:30 tonight.
The stations carrying the debate are WIBW-TV (13). Topeka, and WDAF-TV (4). KCMO-TV (5) and KMBC-TV (9) in Kansas City.
Red China's UN Admission Fought
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—(UPI) Nationalist China fought the admission of Communist China to the United Nations today with the charge that the Peiping regime is the world's greatest menace to peace.
Ambassador Tingu F. Tsiang of Nationalist China made the charge as the Assembly prepared to vote on the perennial problem of whether to admit the Red Chinese.
"The Chinese Communist regime is dedicated to the 'historical mission' of bringing all Asia under Communist domination," Tsiang said.
Takes Quiz Despite Bullet in Stomach
A 22 CALIBER bullet accidently exploded, riccocheted off a wall, and imbedded itself in the student's stomach earlier that day.
A Brooklyn, N.Y. freshman, who requested his name and dorm be withheld, disregarded the bullet lodged in his lower abdomen and showed up for a quiz in his air science class yesterday.
The startled professor observed that there was no blood, and although he looked "a little pale and semed a bit nervous, he didn't appear to be suffering any pain.
"The student had a strong desire to take my quiz and I couldn't deny him that privilege," said Prof. Gilstran.
But—he didn't go to the hospital, at least not then.
At the end of the ten minute quiz the lad was excused for the remainder of the period to go to the hospital.
The student approached J. T. Gilstrap, assistant professor of air science and asked if he could take his exam early, to which the professor replied, "Not unless you have a good reason."
He had.
THE STUDENT went to Watkins before taking his quiz and refused treatment.
"In order to treat me, the doctor said I would have to stay over night
for observation," said the student. "I didn't want to stay overnight because my mother was flying in from New York to see me. The nurse "felt around and said she didn't think there was a bullet in me, so I didn't accept treatment and left the hospital," he said.
When asked for the names of those involved, or whose shell it was, the freshman answered:
"I WANT TO make it clear that it was an accident that could have happened to anybody because the guy who had the shell didn't know it was alive."
He refused to reveal any names for fear it would seriously implicate people on his floor.
Same Song Third Verse
Same song, same weather, third verse.
As United Press International said, "The temperature made a rapid climb back to summer today after an overnight low which fell below 40 degrees.
The same weather — cold after dark, warm during the day — is expected to continue through the weekend.
Margaret Mead:
Man Needs Common Culture
Modern man, isolated by walls of specialization he himself has built, must establish a common culture through which all peoples can communicate. If he fails, he may forfeit his heritage — the amassed knowledge of centuries.
This is the major point Margaret Mead made in this season's first Humanities Lecture last night at University Theatre in Murphy Hall. The title of her address was "Dimensions of Today's World."
SHE WALKED slowly onto the stage supported by the crutches she has used since breaking her right ankle several months ago.
She was seated at the book laden table in the center of the stage by Carlyle S. Smith, associate professor of anthropology, who introduced Dr. Mead to the capacity house.
The internationally renowned anthropologist and author began.
"Modern man is obsessed to find the answer to the universe, but his individual fragmentary knowledge makes him incapable of doing so," she said.
Dr. Mead defined fragmentary as "feeling ignorant in one field that is essential today."
"THE PRIMITIVES had a mastery of their world and thus
felt it to be a unified whole," she said. "While they had only slight empirical and no scientific knowledge, they assumed they knew everything and integrated what they had.
She said the beginning of fragmentary knowledge and its implications began with the break in the learning tradition when "science broke off and became respectable."
"Their society broke down only when they found out how fragmented ours was."
She then pointed to the inability of specialists to communicate with each other as an example of the fragmentary state of knowledge.
"The arts are split from the sciences now . . . so that we can't understand, from our poets and artists, our world today."
HER SOLUTION to return to an integrated system of learning and communication is to abstract the component parts of knowledge and put it into a common language.
"We need to make inventions to participate in the whole of man's universe that are different from just learning the order of Latin names or genus or chemical formulae," she said.
"To master a subject isn't what
we need . . . but to know about it without knowing all the details. If we were to state history, economics and the sciences simply, we would be able to phrase and relate levels of parts and put the fragments together."
DR. MEAD said that especially under the threat of nuclear warfare it is necessary to simplify civilized knowledge and put it into rudimentary form so that even the most primitive of peoples would have the basis of attaining the same degree of knowledge that now exists.
"IN THIS WAY," she said, "there will be a base through the entire world that would preserve the gains that man has made."
Carrying this one step further, she gave an alternative: Working with young children; to insure integration of knowledge from the beginning.
"By this, the simplification of knowledge) they would be able to sense the scope and evolution of the grandeur of the cosmos in which they live . . . (they) would be exposed to the full gamut of life and would achieve integration.
"The scientist would not be cut off; nor the poet who could then grasp the possible catastrophic construction of modern science."
Morrison Says NSA Valuable
By Peggy Kallos
Fred Morrison, Colby senior and a member of KU's newest political party, University Party, last night attacked Student Body President Ronald Dalby's stand on KU's membership in the National Student Assn.
When contacted last night, Morrison said he would like to schedule an informal or formal discussion between himself and Dalby concerning their positions on NSA.
Dalby said last night that "unless KU's opinions on NSA policy are given sufficient consideration, KU should consider leaving the organization."
IT WAS DALBY'S opinion that KU has not assumed a role of leadership in the organization.
Morrison said, "I feel that NSA gives representation nationally to students. I feel it would be a grave error to withdraw. I can see no positive argument in Dalby's statement supporting withdrawal.
"I also hope that he (Dalby) will bring this up at an ASC meeting soon, with adequate notice, so it can be thoroughly discussed," said Morrison.
MORRISON'S CONTENTION concerning representation in NSA was agreed with in part by Ed McMullan, Long Beach, N.Y. senior, and vice president of the student body.
In a Kansan interview, McMullan said, "When he (Dalby) said that KU is wasting time, effort and money as a member of NSA, he is saying that everyone here is not condoning NSA."
When Morrison was approached with the other questions concerning his stand on NSA, he said, "I don't want to fire all the cannons now."
Dalby was contacted last night and said he would be very willing to discuss the matter with Morrison.
In further comment on the controversy. McMullan said last night that a great many students are in favor of the manner in which NSA condoned the sit-in demonstrations last February.
DALBY ALSO SAID that he would prefer to have a designated committee investigate and study the organization of NSA and report to the ASC. He felt that in this way the subject would take up less time in regular meeting. He added that the report should also include reports of the NSA conference and the Big Eight Student Assn.
"These demonstrations were supported by NSA and carried on by a group of people to emphasize their material ideal rights. This is no reason to reject NSA," said McMullan.
DALBY TOOK the position that "Demonstrations are not the way to get things done. . . . they only show the inability of the demonstrators to deal with problems of the country as the rest of society does."
McMullan said, "These problems that the sitters-in were faced with are not the problems that are faced by the rest of society."
Women Taking Over!
A scene at Green Hall today added strength to the belief that women are taking over the men's world.
Prospective lawyers are traditionally known for whistling, singing and yelling at the girls who walk by the law building. Twenty freshman girls from the second floor of G.S.P. defied tradition by
assuming the role of the aspiring, young lawyers when they marched up the steps and whistled at bypassers.
Trying to find a way to cope with the brave women, the law students tied one of them to the statue of Jimmy Green.
In the words of Jimmy Green, "It's a trespass, an invasion of privacy."