Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year, No. 116
Wednesday, April 1, 1959
APRIL FOOL
HE'S NO FOOL—Apparently Arlen T. Mueller, Hoisington junior, fooled around on April Fools' Day once too often. The uninhibited woman seen here shows Mueller she's no fool, and it was
learned later that Mueller exclaimed, "What a fool I am." What tomoolery caused this altercation? None, sorry. April Fool. See feature story on the 1st of April on page 3.
Candidates Named For Class Offices
Candidates for class offices were released today by Dave Wilson. Kansas City, Mo., senior and chairman of the All Student Council Elections committee.
Only candidates for senior class president and secretary, and sophomore class treasurer will appear on the primary ballot. No more than three candidates filed for other offices.
Candidates are:
Senior Class
President—Richard Barnes, Seneca; Robert Lueck, Ottawa; Frank A Coombs, Arlington, Va., and Janet Baker, Leawood.
vice president — Roger Stanton Marysville, and John Jeffrey, Bartlesville, Okla.
Secretary—Nancy Scott, Emporia; Karen Johnson, Topeka; Gwendolyn Gray, Coffeyville; Jann Cameron Topeka, and Kathy Hupp, Wichita.
Treasurer--Sharon Hoover, Wichita; Melinda Williams, Kansas City, Mo., and Sandra Owens, Kansas City, Kan.
Junior Class
President — Lynn Anderson, Atwood, and Thomas Coe, Salina.
Vice president — Paul Hensleigh, Winchester, and Terry Kiser, Omaha, Neb.
Secretary—Beverly Bagley, Brentwood, Mo.; Monta Kay Epps, Fort Scott, and Virginia Lee Smith, Washington, D.C.
Treasurer—Deana Grimm, Omaha,
Neb.; Lora K. Reiter, Simpson, and
Weather
Clearing southeast and central tonight, otherwise mostly fair through tomorrow. Cooler east and south central tonight. Warmer northwest tonight and over state tomorrow. Low tonight 35 to 40.
Dorothy D. Bickley, Kansas City, Kan.
Sophomore Class
President — Fred King, Kansas City, Mo.; Warren H. Sapp, Neodesha, and Gary Vail, Wellington.
Vice president—Paul Stone, Ottawa, and Thomas N. Turner, Kansas City, Mo.
Secretary — Connie Kay Bovd, Plains; Sally Colladay, Hutchinson, and Sharon Tillman. Clay Center.
Treasurer — Charlotte Dohrmann, Kansas City, Mo.; Rovanna Thomas, Louisburg; Susan Wendt, Kirksswood, Mo., and Roger Wiley, Harisburg, Ill.
Harvard Political Scientist to Visit
V. O. Key, chairman of the political science department at Harvard; will visit the University tomorrow and Friday.
Dr. Key, immediate past president of the American Political Science Assn. will arrive tonight.
He will meet with classes in political science 55 and 65 and consult with members of the Governmental Research Center on research projects.
He is the author of "Politics Parties and Pressure Groups" which is used as a text in several political science courses here.
Dr. Key will speak on "Party Realignment" at an open meeting of the Political Science Club at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union. The room for the meeting has not been set.
College OK's B.A. Program
Faculty Voices Tentative Yes for Broader Education
By Dick Crocker and Nancy Whalen
The faculty of the College on Liberal Arts and Sciences yesterday tentatively approved the new requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree from the College.
The B. A. requirements were approved by a "decisive" voice vote after an hour and a half of discussion at a meeting in Bailey Auditorium. The faculty had begun discussion on the proposals at a meeting March 17.
Most of the discussion at yesterday's meeting was concerned with the proposed language requirement for the B.A. degree. The proposed requirement would require the student to pass a language proficiency examination or offer 16 hours of credit in one foreign language in lieu of the examination.
The faculty discussed whether the proposed requirement was too stringent. It also discussed whether
Student Dies After Surgery
A 47-year-old graduate woman student collapsed shortly after undergoing surgery recently for a cerebral condition and died two days later, The Daily Kansan learned today.
Mrs. Carolyn Elizabeth Griffin, Franklin, Neb., student studying English, died in Watkins Hospital March 22 of cerebral embolism (clotting of a blood vessel) due to unknown causes.
A Lawrence physician attending Mrs. Griffin said the operation was a relatively simple one, but due to what he described as a "cerebral accident" she could not recover after collapsing.
The doctor said Mrs. Griffin had suffered a temporary paralysis earlier due to the cerebral condition.
Mrs. Griffin had been living in a rooming house in Lawrence, while her husband, Harry Griffin, had been working in Nebraska. The only other survivors are her parents.
Funeral services were held last week in Franklin.
Seniors Must Order Announcements Now
Today is the last opportunity for seniors to order their graduation announcements. About 500 seniors have ordered them from the Kansas Union Bookstore.
The announcements are expected to be back from the printer by May 15.
the language requirement should go into effect when the rest of the program does or four years later as the mathematics requirement would.
It was pointed out that about two-thirds of Kansas high schools offer no foreign language and that about 45 per cent of the entering freshmen have had no high school foreign language.
No amendments concerning the language requirement were passed. However, it is possible that the requirement could be amended when the faculty considers the whole package.
B. A. Requirements
The requirements for the B. A. degree would require the student to have a major of at least 20 hours, a minor of at least 15 hours in a department other than the major, to have completed college level algebra, and to pass a proficiency examination in a foreign language or offer 16 hours of one language in lieu of the examination.
The student would also have to pass the English proficiency examination, unless exempt, and the western civilization examination.
The College administration emphasized that the requirements for the B.A. will go into effect only if the entire curriculum revision program is approved by the faculty.
The faculty will meet at 4 p.m., April 14, in Bailey Auditorium to begin discussion of the entire program.
First Phase in May
The first phase of the curriculum revision program was tentatively approved in May 1957. It involved the adoption of a series of common underclass requirements.
The second phase was tentatively approved in May 1958. This phase involved the adoption of an initial list of 55 "principal" courses.
The third phase, tentatively approved yesterday, involved the adoption of a series of common requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree.
Henkle Says Sine Die To '59 Legislature
TOPEKA—(UPI)—The 1959 Kansas Legislature officially came to a close today—April Fools' Day—at 11:17 a.m. when Lt. Gov. Joseph Henkle ranged the Senate gavel and said "I now declare the 1959 session adjourned sine die."
A small, faithful group of state- house officials and a few newsmen were present to witness the death of the session.
Gov. George Docking signed the final bill passed by the Legislature, a $1.8 million omnibus appropriation bill, permitting a skeleton force of lawmakers to receive the final governor's message and bring the work of the Legislature to an official end.
Don't Knock Spring; It's a Cure, Dad
Bv Al Jones
You don't dig Spring? Man,
there's news for you. Let me lay
one on you. Like, what happened
to me would have everyone
makin' the Greensville bit.
I was hung over, and making it down to Hawksville for some juice, like, footsie through the Marvin woods, when this long-eared cat gives me the halt bit.
"Hawk's Nest, man," I gave him. "^ah—like what' there, Charlie?"
"Skin me, daddy, where to?" he says.
"I got the whips and jingles, dad. so I'm doin' the caffeine routine."
"So you're hung?" Dad, I got the cure-follow me."
And with that, he cuts out for
the top of the hill. So I follow him, figuring there's lots of bread in a talking rabbit if I can get the contract. Well, he hops over the hill, me hot behind, and makes it to the lake. And there he stops.
What's the scene, Jack? I ask.
"Daddy, Jack's my big cousin,
but I dig you. Just part it, right here until I pull the MacArthur hit."
So I sit down and wait, with my head oversize and a tongue like you see in a delicatessen. And after a while, when the short-tail don't make it back, I whip off the shades and start eyeballin' the scenery.
And all over, like I hadn't noticed before, there's all this grass, and some yellow leaf buds, and nice warm air breeze' in me. Well, to make it short, I
"I got whips and jingles."
pad out right there, in the middle of the day.
And when I come out of it, there's the rabbit, eatin' grass like it was barbecued ribs.
"Where's your cure dad?" I ask.
"Where's your cure, dad?" I ask. "Where's your hangover?" he answered. And by Dizzy, it was long gone. The only noise in my ears was some bird carvin' Bud Shank, and it was almost sun-down. And there I was, no hang-over.
So man, like I said, don't knock the Spring bit.
But you know, when I started talking contract with that rabbit, he clammed up. He said:
"Man, you know rabbits can't talk. You been taken' dope, like?" And he went back to his grass and never said another word.