Only 27 KU Athletes Hold Academic Awards
(Editors' Note: This is the second in a series of four articles on scholarship at KU. The other articles will deal with departmental awards and scholarship halls.)
By Jim Trotter
A study of scholarships at the University reveals that of the 157 athletes holding athletic scholarships, only 17 per cent have scholastic awards.
Recently two famous educators spoke out against athletic scholarships. The remarks of A. Whitney Griswold, president of Yale University, have been quoted a number of times.
"The athletic scholarship program of American colleges and universities is one of the greatest educational swindles ever perpetrated on American youth." Dr. Griswold said.
Just last week, Robert Hutchins, president of the Fund for the Republic and former chancellor of the University of Chicago labeled athletic scholarships "ridiculous phenomena" during a speech in Denver.
"There are even some people who say that if we destroyed athletics in our schools, we would destroy the country's entire educational system," Dr. Hutchins stated.
Of the 157 KU athletics holding scholarships, only 27 have a scholastic award. These 27 have Stansbury scholarships. The amount given to each scholar is determined by the Big Eight conference.
The Stansbury scholarship includes money for all fees, books, room and board, and incidentals. The scholars must maintain a 1.76 grade point average to keep their scholarships.
The remaining 130 students on athletic scholarships at the University are supported by grants from the John Q. Outland Fund.
Stansbury scholars and the Outland award-holders receive the same stipends.
Out-of-state athletes receive $396 for tuition and Kansas athletes receive $206. All receive $55 for books. $450 for board, $180 for room and $135 for incidentals per year.
This amounts to a yearly total of $1.216 for out-of-state athletes and
$1,026 for Kansas athletes on full scholarship.
Athletes on partial scholarships receive either a combination of two divisions or get only one. For example, one athlete may receive an allowance for books only while another may get only his fees paid.
A breakdown of the number of scholarships awarded in each sport shows that the football department controls over half the total varsity scholarships.
Sport-by-sport, the scholarship lineup looks like this;
Football 81
Track 32
Basketball 23
Swimming 9
Baseball 7
Golf 3
Tennis 2
Total ... 157
Athletic scholarships are awarded by the Committee on Aids and Awards. The coaches only recommend certain athletes, listing the amount of money they would like to see the boy have.
The committee checks all recommendations for Big Eight eligibility and then makes its decision.
"We have lost very few people on athletic scholarships the past few years because of bad grades. The percentage of flunk-outs is very low," Spencer Martin, director of Aids and Awards, said.
Every penny spent on athletic scholarships is on file in the office of Aids and Awards, he said.
The U. S. Coast Guard cutter Storis is standing off Ider Point at Unalaska Island today, awaiting rendezvous with a Russian vessel to aid a Soviet fisherman with "broken arms and legs."
Noon Primary Daily hansan Vote Is 253 56th Year, No.120 LAWRENCE, KANSAS
At noon today 253 students had voted in the primary election. Of these, 165 voted in the Vox ticket and 80 voted the AGI ballots. Eight students did not vote in a party primary.
Dave Wilson, Kansas City Mo., senior and chairman of the ASC elections committee, predicted a very light vote in the primary.
"I'd be well pleased if we'd get anywhere near 1,000 voters" he said.
"I expect the primary vote to be very light since the voting is all in one area and some people are not aware of this yet. Also, both parties are running nearly a closed primary and there are primaries for only three class offices," he said.
The decision to run by the 83-year-old West German leader means he will have to give up the powerful post of Chancellor he has held for the past 10 years for one with little more than symbolic worth.
Science Makes Atomic Energy Into Electricity
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By United Press International The first conversion of atomic energy to electric power was announced today by Los Alamos N. M., scientists.
The experiment may mean a "revolution in the design of future fission reactors and the ultimate use of atomic energy," a spokesman said. The project was carried out by the University of California for the Atomic Energy Commission
Also in the science field is a report of a successful 5,000 mile test flight by the first combat-type intercontinental Snark.
The swept-wing Snark, launched at Cape Canaveral, Fla., followed the prescribed flight plan on an eight hour hop to Asscension Island, halfway between Brazil and Africa
The president of the lower house of Parliament said Adenauer was nominated unanimously by a 60-member party committee this morning.
In Bonn, Germany, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has accepted the nomination of his Christian Democratic Union for the presidency of West Germany.
The weapon could strike deep into Russia from the Presque Isle site, a spokesman said.
Wilson said the voting under the new IBM system is going smoothly.
"When we get some heavy voting we can find where the kinks are and work them out," he said.
Wilson said the elections committee wrote the National Student Assn. for information about schools that use an IBM voting system.
"The only other school they know of that uses this system is Southern California. As far as we know we are the first school in the midwest and the second school in the country to adopt this system," he said.
"I also think it will go a little slower because all polls are in the same building. When everyone gets used to the system it will be a lot better," he said.
A pollworker, Charles Burin, Imperial, Pa., freshman, said he thinks voting is going a little slower because of the newness of the system.
The polls will close today at 5 p.m. and open tomorrow at 8 a.m.
"We were encouraged to keep our groups smaller and to revise our pledge training programs into what he termed 'twentieth century' programs. He said he thought all fraternities should do away with any form of hazing and give the pledges more time for study." Jones said.
Murphy Cites Greek Policy
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy told members of the Inter-Fraternity Council last night that the University is trying to strengthen sororities and fraternities.
Dick Jones, McPherson senior and president of the IFC, said that Chancellor Murphy called a news story which appeared in the Daily Kansan March 16 headlined "Murphy Slams Greeks' Bias," misleading.
Jones said the chancellor emphasized the right of fraternities to select the people with whom they wished to live but added that since they were selective groups they should strive to be especially outstanding.
Considerable cloudiness through Wednesday, scattered showers and thunderstorms southeast portion. Occasional light rain elsewhere east and south portions this afternoon and most of state tonight. Rain occasionally mixed with snow extreme west tonight and southwest Wednesday.
"Chancellor Murphy stressed that the University is not trying to force fraternities and sororities off the campus.
Weather
the students handling the IBM cards are ASC election officials, Dave Wilson, Kansas City, Mo., Mary Sue Taylor, Kansas City, Kan., and Jim Disque, Lawrence, all seniors.
THE VOTERS—Two students, John Stoskoph, Great Bend freshman, and Harold Archer, Ola the junior, pick up their IBM ballots at one of the polls in Strong Hall. Overseeing the work of
Concerts, Speakers Head Symposium
The second part of the four day Mid-American Symposium of Contemporary Music will continue today with concerts, a forum, and guest speakers.
The first day of the symposium was very successful, John W. Pozdro, symposium chairman said.
"We have really launched something here and we are all very excited about it. The works performed Monday were of highest quality, and the faculty and students did a remarkable job of interpreting the music," he commented.
Ronald Barnes, instructor of music history and KU carillonneur, will give a recital of 20th century carillon music at 7 p.m. today. A premiere piece, "Sonata, The Duke of Argyle," by Roy Hamlin Johnson, assistant professor of piano, will be played, "Landscape," by Prof. Pozdzro, will be included.
A forum on "Dissonance, Slave or Master," will be held at 4 p.m. today in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
The University concert choir will present its annual spring concert at 8 p.m. today under the direction of Clayton Krehbiel.
Four premiere pieces, "Autumn"
and "Balleto" (Henry Campbell)
"The Wonder of the Starry Night"
(Maurice Weed); and "The Eagle
That is Forgotten" (Joseph Luke-
witz) will be sung. "Hymn to St Cecilia" (Nermian Dello Joio), which was commissioned by KU and first presented Feb. 26 at the Music Teacher's National Convention in Kansas City, will also be sung.
Tomorrow's program includes a performance at 10 a.m. by the Fine Arts String Quartet. Burrell Phillips, guest composer, will address the Symposium at 2 p.m. Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will address the group at a banquet later that night.
Boys Raiding Roof; Pig Patrolling Lawn
Boys on the roof and pigs in the yard were cause for complaints from two sororities early this morning.
Mrs. Ralph Rosebrough, Kappa Alpha Theta housemother, called the campus police at 4:40 a.m. to report "six or seven" boys on the sorority roof. Police were unable to locate the prowlers.
About two hours later the Douglas County Humane Society was summoned by the Gamma Phi Beta sorority to pick up a pig deposited on the lawn.
The committee reported that discrimination in the state was principally directed against Negroes and Mexican-Americans, but that Jews, Catholics and some Protestant groups also ran into prejudice situations because of their beliefs.
Kansas Bias Reported
TOPEKA —(UPI)— Kansas was pictured today as a state whose lawmakers draw legislation against discrimination while its citizens block progress of minority groups through passive resistance and "understandings."
The picture was painted by the Kansas Advisory Committee of the Commission on Civil Rights.
The sharpest discrimination is practiced in the area of housing, the committee said, but it also exists in public accommodations, employment, education, and against migratory workers.
There is no prejudice in the area of justice, the committee said.
KU to Tournament
The KU debate team of Ray Nichols, Lawrence junior, and Don Bowen, Salina senior, won the right to compete in the national West Point Debate Tournament April 22-25. The team won the honor by placing second in the district tournament in Lincoln, Neb., last weekend, said Kim Giffen, debate coach, after the team returned today.