Daily hansan
56th Year, No.105
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, March 11, 1959
College May Stiffen Course
Ambassador to Talk- Yugoslav Diplomat To Visit in April
Marko Nibezic, Yugoslavian ambassador to the United States, will visit the campus April 9 and 10.
The 37 year old diplomat will make several appearances before student and faculty groups and will give a major address in Swarthout Recital Hall of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building on April 10.
He will speak on the role of Yugoslavia in relation to the Warsaw and NATO paests.
Mr. Nibeziic will also appear before classes of Walter Kollmorgen, professor of geography, and Cliffore Ketzel, assistant professor of political science. He will be the guest of honor at a luncheon and a dinner with faculty groups.
The visit has been arranged not only to get Mr. Nibezie's views on world problems, but also to allow him to see this region of the Midwest.
Retirement Still Same for Faculty
TOPEKA—Faculty members will continue on their present retirement plan.
The Kansas Senate accepted an amendment to exclude more than 5,700 state employees at colleges and other institutions from a public employee retirement plan tentatively approved yesterday.
Sen. Don Hults (R-Lawrence), who proposed the amendment, said some school employees and faculty would receive less retirement benefits under the bill than they would get under their present plan under the Board of Regents.
School employees and faculty members with 25 or more years of service may now retire at a maximum of $3,004 a year. They do not contribute toward their retirement plan.
The amendment cut the genera retirement bill about 800,000 to 1 million dollars a year.
Employees would contribute four per cent of their salaries under the bill, which will go to the House for its OK.
Before the amendment, the general retirement bill would have covered approximately 17,000 employees and cost between 2 million and 2.7 million dollars a year.
Freshman Dance Set for Saturday
The first freshman dance of the year will be 9-12 p.m. Saturday in the Kansas Union Ballroom to the music of Warren Durrett's band of Kansas City.
"Sweaters and skirts, slacks and shirts are to match the St. Patrick's Day theme," said David A. Cooley, Mission freshman, president.
"If the dance is as big a success as we're planning, we intend to sponsor a street dance and a 'primer' in the spring," he added.
Weather
Generally fair tonight and toorrow. Warmer over state toorrow. Low tonight 25 to 35. High tomorrow 45 to 55.
A similar invitation was extended to the Russian ambassador to the United States, but it was learned such a trip could not be made because of State Department restrictions.
Debate Opens H.A.Tourney
An English-style debate between KU and Princeton University tonight will kick off the 1959 Heart of America Debate Conference.
The audience participation debate will be held at 8 in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room.
The debate will not be part of the tournament.
The topic for tonight's debate will be "Resolved: that the further extension of the socialist concept of government can only be at the expense of individual liberty."
"We are using this English-style debate to give the tournament a fast start and to give the public a chance to hear two of the teams in action," Joseph C. Rhea, instructor of speech and assistant debate coach, said.
All tournament debates will be held during the day.
Hatchet Falls on'Puds'
Frosh, Soph Needs
James G. Middleton, house director, said that any new building was likely to have some trouble with equipment, and, while students can and will misuse equipment, he wasn't sure that was the case.
"The students beat the panel buttons with their fists. Every time a button is pushed, eight or ten relays are thrown into operation upstairs. This doesn't necessarily hurt the relays, but it keeps them in continuous operation," he said.
The new underclass requirements would be:
Speech—Speech 1 required to obtain junior standing.
The Anderson-Pierce Elevator Co. has elevators in hospitals, factories, clothing stores, insurance and office buildings, and
Mr. Foster scolded the student and reported him to the desk.
Mathematics—The student must be eligible to take college level algebra (mathematics 2a, 2c, or 2d) as the next course in sequence.
Laboratory Science—One five-hour or two three-hour laboratory science courses chosen from a list of "principal" courses under the heading Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
Foreign Language—To obtain junior standing the student has to complete a first college course in a foreign language sequence or equivalent placement or two years of high school credit in one language.
Distribution Requirement—To obtain junior standing the student has to complete 14 hours of principal courses, with three hours in three major areas: the Humanities, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and the Social Sciences.
A.B. Requirements
The new requirements for the A.B. degree would be
Minor-A minor of at least 15 hours in a department other than the student's major department. Six of these hours to be junior-senior credit.
Mathematics—The student shall complete college level algebra and be eligible to take calculus or statistics, effective 1963 at the earliest.
Foreign Language—Proficiency in one foreign language to be determined by a proficiency examination or 16 hours of college level credit in one foreign language or the equivalent.
Distribution Requirement-In addition to underclass requirements, an additional principal course in each of four departments is required. Two of the four courses to be in two areas outside the student's major field.
Elevator Vandalism Accused
By Thomas Hough
An elevator repairman said last night, while repairing the Joseph R. Pearson elevators for over a dozen times, one reason for the elevator failure was vandalism.
"I rode up and down on one elevator during the supper hour," he continued. "One student barely made it to the elevator before the door closed. He hit it with his arm two or three times, then kicked it."
"We've had more trouble with the elevators in this dormitory than any other in our entire area of operations," said Nathan Foster, representative for the Anderson-Fierce Elevator Co. of Topeka.
"We generally have two or three calls a year for most of our elevators, but we've been called here at least twelve or more times since the beginning of the second semester. One of the reasons must be student vandalism," he said.
apartment houses throughout Kansas and Missouri.
wouldn't close on the elevator while the student was in the basement getting refreshments from the vending machines, Mr. Foster said.
"We had two fuses blown here last Saturday, and I couldn't find what caused it. I found a contact on the interlock of an outside door bent out of shape for no apparent reason." Mr. Foster said.
"It's more to the students' advantage that these elevators keep running. We don't have to walk up and down the stairs, and they do," Mr. Foster concluded.
One student plugged up the electric eve mechanism so the door
2015/07/18
DISCOVERY—Elevator repairman Nathan Foster of Topeka removes a piece of paper plugging an electric eye of a Joseph Pearson dormitory elevator, causing the door to remain open.
By Dick Crocker and Nancy Whalen
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty will discuss on Tuesday far-reaching proposals to change the curriculum of the College.
The new proposals would require the student to fill distribution requirements by taking "principal courses" rather than easier courses commonly known as "puds." They would also require the student to take more mathematics and foreign language courses.
If the entire program, which has been under study since 1956, is adopted the new regulations would probably apply to students entering the College as freshmen this fall.
The faculty will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Bailey Auditorium to discuss the proposals.
Would Reduce Complexity
"There were several things we had in mind. We wanted to reduce the total number of requirements in the freshman-sophomore years and at the same time to make sure the things the student had to choose from were of primary value to his education," he explained.
"The faculty of the College began actively in the academic year of 1956-57 to embark upon a comprehensive re-examination of its requirements." Francis Heller, associate dean of the College, said today.
"There was also some feeling that it might be possible to simplify the system, to provide some reduction of the complexity," he added.
Dean Heller said most discussions took place in the college administrative committee composed of six faculty members elected by the faculty of the College for overlapping three-year terms.
"In 1956 and 1957 this group arranged for discussions with every department in the College and the interested professional schools," he said.
Dean Heller said the College faculty agreed that it would follow a three-step procedure.
"It would work its way through each of the three steps and then take a look at the full package," he said.
At the meeting Tuesday the facul-
ulty will consider the third step.
"It is not anticipated there will be a vote at this meeting. The next meeting is set for March 31 and there may be a vote then," he said,
The first step, adopted by the faculty in May, 1957, involved the setting down of a series of common underclass requirements.
"These requirements would be applicable to all freshmen and sophomores in the College, no matter where they plan to graduate. Since these requirements concern them, the other professional schools also voted on this," Dean Heller explained.
The underclass requirements are:
Speech — Speech 1 would be required to obtain junior standing.
At the present time speech 1 is a graduation requirement.
"Nothing is more incongruous than a graduating senior in a speech 1 class." Dean Heller said.
Mathematics - The requirement would be changed to require the student to have achievement in mathematics sufficient to be eligible to take college level algebra (Math-
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