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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 28, 1959
Frosh Street Dance Saturday Is Precedent
The parking lot of Gertrude Sellards Pearson and Corbin-North Halls will be the scene of a street dance to be held from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday.
This is the first time a cooperative street dance has been held on the campus.
Betty Bumgarner, Tulsa, Okla. junior, and originator of the idea said, "I thought that the two dorms, being next door neighbors, should be closer in their social programs. I thought our big parking lot would be a good place to combine and have a big street dance."
An Old Idea
Miss Bumgarner had the idea for the dance last year, but because of illness she was forced to leave school for a semester. She said that she returned to school with the idea still in mind and that everyone has worked hard on the plans.
Patricia Patterson, assistant dean of women said, "I think it's fine for them to try it. I hope the weather cooperates."
Nancy Knauss, Garnett sophmore, said, "There has been a lot of cooperation from the house residents and the girls in the dorms. Without cooperation it sure wouldn't be a success. I hope it'll be a tradition."
Mary Sue Taylor, Kansas City, Kan., senior, said, "I have my fingers crossed for good weather. The street dance may set a precedent for novelty parties. I've gone to some at home and they're so informal. We may start a new fad."
Moreau to Go to Louisville
F. J. Moreau, professor of law,
will be the guest speaker Friday at
the University of Louisville to assist
in the oservance of National
Law Day.
Prof. Moreau's subject will be "The Rule of Law and the World."
Wit, Logic Blossom Before Audience
A battle between logic and wit was waged before a packed audience last night as American and English style debate locked horns in Bailey Auditorium.
Ray Nichols, Lawrence junior, and Don Bowen, Salina senior, engaged in the verbal jousting with E. C. Dalrymple - Alford and Fredrick Crawford, of the University of London, in the annual International Debate.
There was no decision in the debate because of the difference in the two styles of debating.
"In England we depend much more on wit and humor. American debate is logical, while ours is more comical." Crawford said.
The KU team took the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved; That Democracy is a Perverted Form of Government."
"Democratic government is perverted because it declares that all men are equal. Would a plumber be elected president?
In opening the debate, Nichols gave four points which he said caused a perverted democratic government.
"Democratic government gives every individual the right to make several choices. How can uninformed people make the proper choices necessary to run a government as large as ours?"
"When we believe in a society in which all men are free, we often neglect duty. The increase of mass democracy has made chivalry die on the vine.
"Democracy takes intellectual non-conformity from mankind and decreases the efficiency of government. Democracy supports conformity in current fads, but neglects the heritage of the past," Nichols said.
In answering Nichols' charges, Alford said:
"Democratic equality does not mean equality of position or intelligence, but equal rights in determining the leaders of the government.
"If the majority of people in a democracy should happen to make a wrong choice, they would at least be suffering from their own mistakes. This is much more tolerable than suffering from the mistakes of someone else.
"We would rather have tyranny of the masses than tyranny of an individual. At least then the people would be doing what they like and not what one selfish person wants for himself," he said.
Seniors who disagree with the senior gift committee's recommendations for the class gift will have an opportunity to write in their own choices, a gift committee spokesman said.
Crawford pointed out that the countries with low standards of living are those with demogogues and tyranny of an individual.
"Mr. Nichols says that democracies cause chivalry to die on the vine. Isn't the duty of citizens to look after the welfare of their own country? This is the duty that democracy inspires.
Write-In on Senior Gift Is Possible
The class gift will be chosen at the annual senior coffee from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday in the Trophy Room of the Kansas Union. Seniors will be excused from classes for the meeting.
The gift committee has selected three possibilities for the gift: Kansas Union furniture, trophy cases and a commissioned painting.
Feline Fable
Springtime Is Littertime
By Martha Pearse
Spring is a pregnant season bursting with possibilities.
Greek houses have entered into the spirit of the season by announcing blessed events.
Acacia fraternity takes pride in announcing the birth of four kittens. The mamma cat became attached to the Acacias shortly before she was due to bear her offspring.
Mostly fair this afternoon, tonight and Wednesday. Mild this afternoon. Warmer Wednesday. Low tonight 35 to 40 northwest, in 40s elsewhere. High Wednesday 75 to 85.
The Acacias, disturbed by this natural phenomenon, persuaded the sweet young thing to have her babies in the closet. Men are such cowards.
Members of Kappa Kappa Gamma were blessed by a similar event. Another mamma cat, litter-ally bursting with life, climbed a fire escape at the sorority house and
Weather
entered her chosen hospital through an open window.
There she brought forth her family of four. To the dismay of assisting Kappa midwives who stood by during the wee hours of the night, they discovered the feline belonged to their door neighbors, Sellards Hall. The Sellards girls, frantic with worry, were relieved to see the birth announcement from the Kappas.
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