CLEBRITY TEA—Dolores Michaels, Hollywood starlet entertains her hostesses, the women of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Pictured here, from left, are Miss Michaels, Betty Thomas, Mission senior, Mrs. Shirley Goldman, who is travel-
ng with Miss Michaels, and three Kappa women; Barbara Callahan, Los Angeles, Calif., sophomore; Barbara Sample, Lawrence senior, and Jan Rodgers, Paradise junior. Miss Michaels was to go to Topeka this afternoon.
Daily hansan
56th Year, No. 126
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Wednesday, April 15, 1959
Vote Count Reaches 1,891; Polling Errors Wait Action
Polls Close at 5:15
At 11:30 today, 1.891 students had voted in the first day and a half of general election balloting.
Of these, 1,331 voted yesterday. and 560 voted this morning. The polls will close today at 5:15 p.m.
By 11:30 a.m. today 552 students had voted for senior class officers, 455 for junior class officers, and 518 for sophomore class officers.
In the school districts, 889 have voted in the College, 373 in the School of Engineering, 51 in the Graduate School, 216 in the School of Education, 105 in the School of Fine Arts, 118 in the School of Business, 56 in the School of Law, 34 in the School of Pharmacy and 37 in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
In the living districts, 565 have voted in the fraternity district, 503 in the sorority district, 251 in the men's dormitory district, 197 in the women's dormitory district, 35 in the co-op and professional fraternity district, 227 in the unmarried-unorganized independent district, and 94 in the married district.
Weather
Cloudy tonight and tomorrow.
Showers and thunderstorms north-
west tonight, warmer east and
south-central.
Correction
The Daily Kansan was in error when it reported yesterday that the identification card of Allan Weis, Freeport, N.Y., freshman, was impounded for electioneering within 50 feet of the polls. Election authorities say that Weis was not arrested but that his name merely was taken for handling out an election pamphlet. Weis told The Daily Kansan he simply passed on the pamphlet to a friend.
AGI Pamphlet Attacks Kansan's Reporting
The Allied Greek-Independent party issued a supplement edition to its "Speaking Frankly" pamphlet today as the last day of campus elections got under way.
"It is because AGI has more to say than the University Daily Kansas wishes to publish that we have deemed it necessary to present to the 'uninformed' issues relevant to the student government elections."
The supplement states:
Jewelry Prize Won
Ronald Hickman, Lawrence graduate student and instructor in silversmithing and design, has won second prize of $50 for a sterling pendant in the jewelry division of the Decorative Arts and Ceramics Exhibition in Wichita.
6 Charges Claimed
No action has yet been taken by Student Court on the six charges made against Allied-Greek Independent yesterday by the All Student Council election committees.
Larry M. Baker, Wichita second year law student and court prosecutor, said today that he had discussed the charges with Dave Wilson, Kansas City, Mo., senior and committee chairman, but that action on the case is still pending.
"It is likely that action against AGI will be taken. However, at the moment this depends on the kind of evidence available to back up the charges," Baker said.
He did not specify a time when the action would be taken.
The ASC constitution states that any parties found guilty of violating election rules can be tried before Student Court and charged a fine of not more than $150 and not less than $100 if found guilty.
One of the charges was an apparent over-expenditure of the amount of campaign funds allotted them.
A section of the ASC constitution states that no more than $270 can be spent by a political party from from the day of freshman elections through the general elections. This includes both obligations incurred and funds actually expended.
Poster Puller Reports Assault
A rip-roaring 1959 school election campaign comes to a close today with an assault reported.
The victim reporting the incident is John Frederick Stoskopf, Great Bend freshman, a member of Vox Ponuli.
Stoskopf said he was approaching the campus on the 14th Street hill about 9:15 last night when he spotted a campaign poster he thought was illegally posted.
"I took the poster down from the tree and started to fold it to put it in my pocket to take to Dave Wilson, Elections Committee chairman. I got about three or four steps up the hill when a student jumped me from behind.
He said he went to the campus police station where he made a report of the incident. From there he went to Watkins Hospital where he was treated for a black eye and bruises.
"We fought for a little bit before he decided he better get out of there before the cops came," Stoskopf said.
Wilson said he had told some of
"It's against the city ordinances and the city police have been taking down most of them. The administration has been plagued with complaints of illegal posters being displayed during this campaign," he said.
the workers from both parties to take down campaign posters they found posted off the campus.
The administration indicated it is looking into the reported assault. Stoskopf said he has not as yet filed any complaint,
Star's Status Settled; Sorority Tea Follows
Movie starlet Dolores Michaels showed up this morning and had tea with the Kappa Kappa Gammas, the sorority she was supposed to have pledged.
"I'm sorry this mixup happened, but if they had to pick a house, I'm glad they picked this one," she stated.
The tall platinum blonde smiled often at her new friends, who yesterday were perplexed by the Hollywood press agent's story about Miss Michaels' membership in their sorority. The registrar was puzzled, too. The Hollywood drum beater had Miss Michaels attending the University for a year.
Actually, she passed through KU like a breeze. She was at the University for some three weeks in 1951.
"I enjoyed talking with the Kappas. They were wonderful." She invited the sorority women to visit her in California.
With Miss Michaels was her friend, who is a Kappa sorority woman from the University of Utah. She is Mrs. Shirley Goldman, daughter of Chick Evans, publicity director of the midwest section of Twentieth Century Fox.
Mr. Evans said that the confusion about Miss Michaels' stay at KU and her status as a KKG resulted from:
"Embellishment by enthusiastic publicity men."
After the tea, Miss Michael's drove, in the traditional long limousine, to the Campanile where she posed for publicity shots.
"This campus is beautiful, I would like to come back again," she said.
She will leave the Kansas City area Sunday for the West Coast.
New Curriculum Gets Final OK
The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences yesterday approved the entire curriculum revision program that has been under discussion for the past three years.
The faculty approved the program in a short, 45 minute meeting. Only one amendment to the program passed.
The plan is effective September 1959.
Under the amendment the mathematics requirement will go into effect two years after the rest of the plan rather than in 1963.
Yesterday's action marked the first
Faculty Man Comments on Dulles Stepdown
Secretary of State Dulles has resigned. President Eisenhower, with traces of tears in his eyes and a choked-up voice, made the announcement today in the temporary White House news headquarters at the Richmond Hotel, Augusta, Ga.
"Im not surprised. Considering the nature of Dulles' illness and the accounts of his return from Florida made me feel it would just be a question of time," said Ronnie Averyt, assistant instructor of political science.
"Dulles' advice will always be there. He will be available for consultation if he recovers, and that's a big if...". Mr. Averyt added.
The official announcement of his successor will have to be soon because of the scheduled meetings in May, he said.
"I venture the guess the successor will be Christian A. Herter. It will almost have to be Herter because of the May meetings." Mr. Averyt said.
"Of course, Herter is bothered with health problems, too, (arthritis)." he added.
President Eisenhower said today he expected to name a successor to Dulles within a few days. He said there were other government experts on foreign policy who would be considered for this post.
Before he makes a final decision, the President said he would discuss the matter with Dulles.
major change in the College requirements since 1936.
An amendment to have the foreign language requirement go into effect two years after the rest of the program was defeated. The foreign language requirement will affect students entering the University next fall.
The program is divided into three parts. They are:
1. Common Underclass Requirements-The new under class requirements require the student to take more mathematics, and to fill distribution requirements from a list of "principal courses."
2. Principal Courses—The second part of the program is a list of 55 courses.
3. B.A. and B.S. Requirements—The new B.A. requires the student to have a minor of 15 hours, to have completed college level algebra, and to pass a foreign language proficiency examination or offer 16 hours of one foreign language in lieu of the examination.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy made this statement today of the new program:
"I'm delighted with the action of the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in ratifying the revisions of the College curriculum program.
"Basically this action means for the student greater opportunity, greater flexibility and the greater likelihood that he will be prepared to meet his responsibilities in this rapidly changing world.
"The students of the University of Kansas, both actual as well as potential, are deeply indebted to the faculty for this enlightened action."
George R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said:
"We hope that a number of good results will follow from the changes—more electives in the freshman and sophomore years, a new opportunity for students to elect art and music appreciation as part of their distribution requirements, greater simplicity in requirements for College degrees, and greater recognition of work done in high school particularly in mathematics and foreign language.
"The changes for B.A. candidates in the minimum requirements in language and mathematics are clearly designed to reflect the new needs of the days we live in.
"The new concept of principal courses—the student will fill all his reduced distribution requirements by a choice among some 55 fundamental courses—should also be beneficial."