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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 13, 1959
Sociologist Sees No Rungs In Faculty Status Ladder
KU faculty members do not pursue social status as do colleagues from eastern and southern schools, said Carroll D. Clark, professor of sociology, in rebuttal to a recent magazine article.
In fact, the University students are perhaps more concerned with
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social status than the faculty, Prof Carroll asserted.
He was speaking with reference to the April 28, Look magazine article by Vance Packard, "The Pursuit of Status."
In the article, Mr. Packard wrote, "In college towns, faculty members—for all their presumed broadmind-ness—are as careful about observing rank in social matters as
the most anxious corporate executive trainee."
Prof. Clark, chairman of the sociology department since 1933, puffed placidly on his curved-stem pine and explained:
"It's easy to exaggerate. Most of the KU faculty members do not care so greatly about material possessions.
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"Of course they get a charge out of seeing their names in lists of distinguished scholars or Who's Who, and pleasure from being awarded a scholarship, but they are not after 'social' addresses, new cars, and the snobbery of position."
The chancellor will discuss the recent rulings of the Board of Regents over the political activity of KU staff members.
During the fall elections several faculty members were told to stop using the name of the University when sponsoring political goals.
The responsibilities and limitations of the member of the academic community will be the topic of a talk by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy at 8 p.m. tonight at a KU Young Democrats meeting.
The meeting will be open to the public in room 305 of the Kansas Union.
But some students are different Prof. Clark explained.
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"Many come to college motivated by the desire for enhanced social status. Some come with big cars, new clothes, large bankrolls, and a desire for social fraternization that can be frightening," he said.
and Smoke," "Winter's Tale," "Italian Straw Hat."
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Others winning awards in the theater division were:
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Alfred Rossi, Chicago, Ill., graduate student, best director in "Tea and Sympathy," "Moon is Blue," "Solid Gold Cadillac"; Phyllis Miller, Elwood graduate student, costumes in "Elves and the Shoebaker"; William Henry, Parkville Mo.; senior, scene design in "The Winter's Tale"; Richard Borgen Lawrence senior, lighting design in "Summer and Smoke," "Naked," and "Great God Brown."
(Continued from Page 1.1) man, Martha Crosier, Lawrence senior; Frank Naylor, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore; Edward McMullan, Long Beach, N.Y., sophomore, and Mary Carol Stephenson, Pittsburg sophomore.
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Lorain Clark, Lawrence sophomore, make-up in "Elves and the Shoemaker," "Italian Straw Hat," and "The King and I"; Eleanor Sue Dillman, Independence junior, and Jim Gohl, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, for service with the costume crew and scenery mo.
Recognized as the outstanding debaters of the year were Ray Nichols Jr., Lawrence junior, and Don Bowen, Salina senior. Nichols and Bowen also received the Delta Sigma Rho "Forensic Man of the Year" award. Both debaters took second place in the national West Point invitational tournament. Nichols is cometing
Elections committee—James Henderson, Wichita junior, chairman; Sharon Hagman, Pittsburgh junior; Robert Iott, Livingston, Mont., junior; Barry Ken Gray, Lyons sophomore; Martha Rowe, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; Mary Sue Childers, Merriam sophomore, and Mikel Stout, Bazaar first-year law.
Finance and Auditing committee—Lawrence Dieker, Westphalia junior, chairman; Ronald Dalby, Joplin, Mo. sophomore, and Walter Braur, Bonner Springs sophomore.
Sara (Sally) Carnahan, Topeka junior, was appointed a member of the Orientations Committee, a student-faculty committee.
now for a place on a two-man American team to debate throughout England next year.
Kala Mays, Lyons senior, was named outstanding senior in radio and television through the Speech and Drama department.
Special merit awards in radio and television went to Stamey L. (Lew) Boles, Eudora graduate student, for film production, and Fred Huff, Lawrence graduate student, for television production.
Miss Elliott and Miss Mays were also awarded the Speech and Drama department award for excellence in scholarship, which is given to outstanding seniors each year. Both students have a 2.5 grade average.
The alumni honor award for distinguished service was awarded to Martin J. Maloney, professor of radio and television at Northwestern University. Prof. Maloney was graduated from KU in 1935 and received his MA degree here.
The Sigma Alpha Eta honors awards (professional speech and hearing organization) went to Carol Ann Rossman and Kyra Ludlow, both Paola graduate students.
The KU Awards in public address were given to William D. Salter, Garden City, Keith Jochim, Lawrence, and Jerry Dickson. Newton.
"Sometimes they are surprised to find there is more at KU than just social life.
"Of all agents with a vertical mobility (climbing the class scale) in our society, public education through our universities is our most effective instrument," he claimed.
As for the faculty's social consciousness:
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"I drive a 1950 model automobile and I don't care about whether my colleagues drive bigger, costlier cars than I." Prof. Clark said.
"If most of the KU faculty members were exposed to the social regulations of the eastern schools, they would probably scratch their heads and ask, 'What the heck! Is this the Army?' " he commented.
ROTC Alumnus To Give Talk
A KU alumnus will return Saturday to speak at a banquet honoring 42 cadets awaiting commissions in the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps.
Brig. Gen. John A. Seitz, division artillery commanding general at Ft. Riley, attended KU from 1927 to 1930 and was a member of the ROTC. He is a native of Leavenworth.
The cadets to be honored at the banquet will receive commissions at the end of either this semester, the ROTC summer camp, or the summer session. The banquet will be in the Javhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Gen. Seitz served on active duty in the field artillery from 1933 to 1940. He served in the Pacific Ocean area and was with the War Department general staff in Washington, D.C. during World War II.
Church Fellowship Elects Executives
It will be a brother and sister act next fall at the Disciples Student Fellowship, Christian Church youth group.
William F. Kane, Stafford senior, was elected president for the fall term at the group's meeting last night. His sister, Virginia G. Kane, Stafford freshman, was elected vice president.
Other officers elected were: Margaret A. Pettit, Mission freshman, secretary; Gail D. Wade, Belleville graduate student, treasurer; and Cheryl A. Payer, El Dorado freshman, and Neal J. Logan, Garden City senior, Student Religious Council representatives.
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Coeds View 'Mad Man' From Fraternity Prank
Producers of the show were the Kappa Sigma pledge class members. The star was Peter Strell, Western Springs, Ill., junior, and Kappa Sigma pledge trainer.
Strell's trainees bodily spirited him from more peaceful recreation to the Kaw River sandbar where he was caged in a casket crate covered with chicken wire.
The circus was not in town last night, but the residents of Corbin-North College and Gertrude Sellars Pearson halls were treated to a side show attraction, complete with a "mad man."
The star's loyal following of earlier days had not forgotten him, though. Through the crowd of captors and admirers marched the heroic actives of the fraternity to take their member back to safety, security, and a future life of obscurity.
Humanities Lecturer Says Soviet Ideas Are Western
crate covered with chicken wire The cage was then transported by convertible to the freshman women's dormitories where the "mad man" was put on display.
The star played his part well for his admiring female audience. He climaxed his act by smashing through the rear wall of his cage.
The last Humanities lecturer of the year told a University Theatre audience last night that Russian ideas originated in the West.
Dr. Florovsky, an archpriest in the Eastern Orthodox Church and a professor of Eastern church history at Harvard Divinity School, dealt mostly with the starting points of today's Russia.
The Rt. Rev. Dr. Georges Florovsky spoke on "The Russian Idea," an interpretation of the vocation of Russia as presented by such writers as Dostoyevsky, Solovyov and Berdyaev.
"It seems that the future history of the world will depend upon the conflict or understanding between America and Russia." he said.
Dr. Florovsky backed this statement by quoting a passage from "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville.
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the world tending toward the same end. Both grew up unnoticed and placed themselves in the front lines of all nations. These two nations have continued to grow but all others have taken a back seat and growth in them has stopped."
"The growth of Russia started earlier than did that of America and was misconceived and misinterpreted but not unnoticed by the West," Dr. Florovsky said.
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