Daily Hansan
56th Year, No. 108
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Monday, March 16, 1959
GREEK WEEK ROYALTY—The three finalists for Greek Week Queen are, standing, left, Mary Gay Dillingham, Salina sophomore, Pi Beta Phi,
and Pat Swanson, Newton senior, Chi Omega, and seated, Nancy Varney, Leawood sophomore, Kappa Alpha Theta.
Greek Week Events Begin
Greek Week activities began yesterday with Religious Observance Day and will end with the crowning of a queen at the Greek Week dance Saturday night.
The queen will be one of three finalists named last night. Mary Gay Dillingham, Salina sophomore, Pi Beta Pi; Pat Swanson, Newton senior, Chi Omega; and Nancy Varney, Kansas City sophomore, Kappa Alpha Theta, are the three finalists.
Panel discussions will be held today by the fraternities to discuss scholarship and pledge training.
Tomorrow the sorority pledges will be announced following a
hectic period of rushing. The sororities will hold a coffee for their new pledge classes.
On Wednesday, Greek organizations will invite Lawrence businessmen and their wives to dinner. The Inter-Fraternity sing will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union ballroom.
On Thursday night, a scholarship banquet will be held with the president, scholarship chairman and honor initiate of each sorority and fraternity pledge class attending.
Two Inter-Fraternity Council scholarships will be awarded, and Franklyn C. Nelick, associate professor of English, will be the guest speaker.
Saturday will be the big day in the Greek Week activity. Fraternities will initiate a cleanup campaign at the Douglas County 4-H building and sororities will conduct a drive for multiple sclerosis.
Chariot races on Jayhawk Boulevard will be held in the afternoon and the Greek Week Dance will round out the activities Saturday night.
The dance is open to any person who would like to attend. The Sauter-Finegan orchestra will furnish the music.
Murphy Slams Greeks' Bias
Racial and religious clauses in national charters of Greek letter organizations are "inexcusable," Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said Friday in a Kansan press conference. "Each sorority or fraternity should be able to decide who can be a member of that living group," he said.
If a student derives no more from
Dr. Murphy spoke to a group of student journalists at a regional Student Editorial Affairs conference in the Kansas Union. The conference Saturday and Sunday was attended by delegates from ten Kansas and Missouri schools.
'Complacency Is Greatest Threat'
"You people should leave your institutions trained in depth. You must develop basic tools—objectivity, curiosity, and intuition. But the most important thing is to become cultivated, educated human beings," he said.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said Saturday the most important role of the journalist today is awakening the people of the United States from complacency.
"If we can't do this, in 50 years the U.S. will be a second-rate power and totalitarianism will be the rule rather than the exception," he said.
his education by being in a Greek organization that organization is an obstacle rather than an aid, he said.
Chancellor Murphy voiced his ap-
proposal of proposed change in the
College of curriculum
"The curriculum changes will make a better University program and will take into cognizance the reality of the 20th century," he said.
The chancellor made these observations regarding the effect of the changes on incoming freshmen:
"Nothing in this curriculum will do harm to a high school graduate. The change is not too great a jump. It has nothing in it to do violence to a high school graduate.
"It is essential to have motivated and gifted students and experienced teachers," he said. "The curriculum doesn't make any difference if you have these two things," he commented.
Chancellor Murphy also gave his approval of the Kansan's recent check on housing lists given Negro and white students.
"Students should not take the word of the administration," he said.
"For this reason the check was justified," he commented.
When asked whether the recent budget dispute in the Kansas legislature helped or hurt the University, Chancellor Murphy said:
"The dispute has pulled the University family closer together. The student body, which as a whole tends to take the institution for granted, has been forced to ask 'How important is the University to us?' "
Wilson Fellowships Go To 12 Top Scholars
Twelve KU seniors were awarded Woodrow Wilson Fellowships for a year's graduate study next fall.
Chosen as Wilson Fellows are Donald R. Bowen and Steward R. Horejsi, both of Salina; James W. Cederger, Herndon; Gilbert M. Cuthbertson, Leavenworth; Carolyn H. Davis, Kansas City, Mo.
Gretchen Engler, Hutchinson; Joseph F. Hanna, Dighton; Richard A. Kraus and James C. Pool, both of Lawrence; Leonard F. Parkinson, Scott City; Laurian Seeber, Irving-on-Hudson, N. Y., and Robert L. Yaple Jr., St. Joseph, Mo.
Each will receive a $1,500 living allowance, full cost of tuition and fees. Married students will receive additional stipends.
The Wilson Foundation, supported by a $25 million Ford grant, recruits and supports promising scholars in an effort to supply future college teachers.
Twelve hundred American and Canadian students were chosen for the Wilson awards from 7,000 candidates from undergraduate colleges and universities.
Weather
Clear to partly cloudy with a warming trend through tomorrow. Low tonight 20 to 30. High tomorrow in 60s.
For the five-day period Tuesday through Saturday temperatures will average five to 10 degrees above normal.
Fugitive Captured After Zone X Chase
The leader and only member of a campus ring was captured Friday by campus police after a wild chase around Zone X parking lot.
Captured was Norman (Baby-face) Bell, six years old, who had been opening the toll gate of the parking lot with a piece of a popcorn box and letting drivers in free.
Joe Skillman, campus police chief, said today that the gate has been reset to accept only regular Zone X cards.
A number of auxiliary cards had been issued to persons attending conventions in the Kansas Union over the weekend. The gate was then set so that it would accept the new cards as well as the cards of the regular customers. But campus policemen did not realize that the new setting would allow any piece of cardboard to open the gate.
In an exclusive interview with Daily Kansan reporters, Norman said that Friday was the first day he had tried working the toll gate with his popcorn-box card.
"I saw people putting cards in so I tried it with my own card," he said.
Norman was suspicious of the photographer who took his picture during the interview. When Norman was told that his picture would be in the paper he refused to believe it.
"Aw, you guys are kidding. I'm not really going to be in the paper," the skeptical captive kept repeating.
Norman finally was convinced that his picture would be in the Kansan, and then wanted to know, "Will I get any money for being in the paper?"
He interrupted the interview whenever a car drove up to the gate. He would wait until the driver had a coin or card ready to put in the machine. Then he would push his popcorn-box card into the slot and the gate would go up as Norman gleefully watched the startled driver edge his car into the parking lot.
One lady was so surprised she raked the side of her car on a post as she drove through the gate while staring at Norman, who sat on top of the machine with a triumphant smile on his face.
"I'm going to do this every day after I get out of school." he said.
At about that time the interview was halted when campus police appeared. Norman leaped from his perch and tore off across the parking lot.
After Norman had been captured the campus police officers took him home to his parents and told them to keep him off the Hill.
The case of the Popcorn-Box Kid was thereby closed, and Norman became an outlaw from the KU campus.
THE KID STRIKES AGAIN—Norman Bell, six, uses his popcorn-box card to open the gate of Zone X parking lot Friday.