Daily hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
56th Year, No.101
Thursday, March 5, 1959
Came, Saw, Liked
Wichita Editor Approves KU
Moral and ethical behavior of KU students has been investigated and approved by a Wichita Beacon editorial editor who visited here last week.
Mark Clutter, Beacon editorial page editor, visited the campus to investigate Gov. George Docking's charge that the University had "run wild for 20 years" and needed "cleaning up."
The article yesterday was the first of a series of three he wrote about his impressions of the University.
He says, in part:
"I was impressed first of all with the bearing of the students. The KU students are a well-scrubbed lot. They dress neatly and plainly. There is very little raffishness of attire.
"The students manifest that happiness which results from having a sense of purpose. They do not loiter or scuffle. They walk briskly. They
Snow Expected To End Tonight
The storm, accompanied by northerly winds of 30 to 45 miles per hour produced blinding weather conditions in Lawrence today.
A late winter snowstorm which raged through eastern Kansas and western Missouri early this morning is expected to end this evening.
Weather forecasters predict the snow will diminish over most of Kansas this evening and tonight and will end in the extreme northeast portion of the state Friday morning. Three to six inches of snow are predicted for the Lawrence area.
Friday will be partly cloudy with a predicted high of 35 in Lawrence
are, as you would expect of Kansans, friendly and polite."
"The group was hand-picked with the idea of impressing me. I was impressed. These excellent young people discussed a variety of intellectual topics in a mature and informed manner," he said.
Clutter then described a luncheon with Francis Heller, associate dean of the College, James Gunn, assistant director of public relations, and a group of students.
UNIVERSITY UNICYCLER — Donald Priddy, Stafford freshman, has a head start on Bicycle Emphasis Week. See story, Page 7.
He related the history of the University and its growth and then discussed the University's physical plant
He continued in the article:
"The University plant is of uneven quality. Some of it is good. Some of it is very bad. The sculpture department is crammed into one end of a large quonset building.
"An electronics lab is housed in a sheet metal building which was built by the scientists themselves. One wonders whether it is quite sane to force scientists to build their own buildings in this scientific era.
"KU produces good sculpture--but it does seem a shame the students do not have an adequate studio.
"Engineering is crammed into ancient buildings, new structures, quonsets, and about anything else that will do.
"For some reason, the library, which is the heart of any campus, is always the last to get necessary funds. Many of the books must be housed in other buildings.
"The night life at KU is fascinating. Somewhere, I suppose, there are the beer taverns and juke joints that seem to be a necessary adjunct to college life. They were having scant business the night I was on the campus. Building after building was lighted as students worked in laboratories.
"At 8:30, I dropped into Watson Library. The place was packed with students boning away as though the final exams were to take place tomorrow. The library closes at 10 o'clock. I was shocked to learn that there is continuous agitation for closing at midnight. What on earth is the matter with young people today?" he concluded.
Seven students who participated in the letters-to-legislators campaign were luncheon guests of legislators in Toneka yesterday.
Students Lunch With Legislators
"We are interested in the Legislature's plans for faculty retirement, merit salary increases for faculty members, and the University building program," he said.
Students who attended the luncheon in the State Office Building cafeteria are: Downing, Carol Plumb, Overland Park senior and vice president of the student body; Bill Witt, Garden City senior and president of the senior class; Richart Barnes, Seneca junior and president of Statewide Activities; Terence Davis, Frontenac; Martha Crosier, Lawrence, and David Wilson, Kansas City, Mo., all seniors.
John Downing, Kansas City, Mo. junior and president of the student body, said the meeting was another move to show student interest in the legislative program.
Legislators attending the luncheon included Sen. Paul Wunsch, president pro-tem of the Senate; Rep. Jess Taylor, Speaker of the House; Sen. August Lauterbach.
Twelve Die in Arkansas Fire; 7 Still Missing
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — (UPI) — Firemen recovered the bodies of 12 boys from the smoldering ruins of a one-story dormitory at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School swept by an early-morning fire.
Authorities said seven others were still unaccounted for and were feared to have perished. Sixty-eight boys were asleep in the barracks-like brick veneer building when the fire was discovered at 4 a.m.
Gov. Orval E. Faubus, who went immediately to the scene, said he was told that the doors to the one-story brick veneer building were locked, and there was no caretaker in the building.
The fire broke out in the room of the caretaker, who had been ill for a week and was not at the school.
Students Urged to Hear Attlee Talk
"It never does any good to make a generous gesture toward the Russians. When I dealt with the Russians I always got something in return," he said.
"For myself, I prefer to deal with a man who can say ves or no. I think that is to be preferred to dealing with a man who must carry the
He did give the impression that the United States and Britain should be firm in dealing with the Berlin crisis.
Lord Attlee felt that the summit conference would help in easing the current tensions between the world powers, but it might not be the final solution to the problem. He said:
Ray Nichols, executive secretary of the University, today urged all students to attend the All Student Convocation in Hoch Auditorium tomorrow at which Earl Clement Attlee, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, will speak.
He refused to elaborate upon the press' questions concerning British Prime Minister Macmillan's recent talks with Russian Premier Khruschev, the proposed summit conference on the German question, and Britain's present military capabilities.
"The decisions made in those years are affecting us even now."
VICTORS—These six women were elected to Associated Women Students offices in elections yesterday. On the left from the front are Alice Gould, Kansas City, Mo., junior, president; Diane Hoisington, Paradise sophomore, treasurer; Mary Gay Dillingham, Salina sophomore, All Student Council Greek representative. On the right from the front are Anne Hoopingarner, Dallas, Tex., sophomore, vice president; Sara Farmer, Pratt freshman, secretary; Carolyn Coe, McPherson junior, ASC Independent representative.
"It is a privilege and an honor to have Earl Attlee on the campus. He was one of the figures who collaborated in framing international policy near the end and immediately following World War II," he said.
Lord Attlee, who arrived by plane in Kansas City yesterday, was noncommittal on a number of subjects of international interest.
Censors Told To Allow Film
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—(UPI) The Kansas Board of Review, movie censorship agency, today was ordered by the Wyandotte County District Court to issue a permit authorizing showing in Kansas of the film "Mom and Dad."
District Judge O. Q. Claflin III ruled that the film is not obscene. He acted on petition filed by Capitol Enterprises. Inc., after the board had refused to permit showing of certain portions of the film.
Mrs. Hazel Runyan, chairman of the board, said it ordered deletions of a diagram pertaining to conception, scenes of natural and Caesarean birth, and a separate reel, not included in the film, showing effects of venereal disease.
word back to Uncle Joe and get his decision on it."
Although saying that he felt the Labor party would win the British elections which Prime Minister Macmillan may call in October, Lord Attlee still remained general on the subject of English politics and foreign policy.
Class Schedule For Convocation
Classes for tomorrow morning will follow this schedule:
8 a.m. classes will meet 8:00- 8:30
9 a.m. classes will meet 8:40- 9:10
Convocation ... 9:20-10:30
10 a.m. classes will meet 10:40-11:10
11 a.m. classes will meet 11:20-11:50
"Foreign policy is dictated by geography and history. It is not something which comes and goes according to the complexion of the government," he said.
A Socialist who turned from settlement-house work to politics, Lord Attlee has been called "the father of Great Britain's welfare state." Elected to the House of Commons in 1922, he was an international figure years before he succeeded Winston Churchill as prime minister in 1945. In that role, he led England through her post-war reconstruction.
Mr. Nichols said he hopes there will be a full house for the convocation. Other convocation speakers who have drawn large audiences are Sen. John Kennedy, Ralph Bunche, Sen. Estes Kefauver, and Harold Stassen.
Earl Attlee will arrive in Lawrence this evening by train from Kansas City. He will lunch tomorrow with former President Harry S. Truman, who will arrive in Lawrence sometime tomorrow morning.
Student Admission Poses Problems
"If the day comes when we have to use selective admission, how are we going to do it?" George B. Smith, dean of the University, asked at the Faculty Forum luncheon yesterday.
The University now must accept every state high school graduate under Kansas law.
Dean Smith outlined two methods now in use.
Dean Smith said he believes in the present system, since it gives every young Yansan a chance for a college education.
"But if selection has to come, we must start to determine how we will go about it," he said.
Entrance examinations are one Dean Smith said that in order to use this system properly, students would have to be given tests that would apply to their major field instead of having all applicants take only examination that emphasize mathematics and science.
The fallability of this, as outlined by Dean Smith, is that a low-ranking student in a large high school may be a better student than one in the upper 50 per cent of a smaller high school class.
Another common method of selection is by the high school class standing of prospective students.
Dean Smith illustrated this with the results of a survey he had computed. Two hundred and eight 1955 KU graduates would not have been admitted if the ranking system had been in effect, and 254 graduates of 1958 would have been refused admission, according to the dean's figures.
He said he has found the new student's grade average his first year at the University is a better indication of his ability than his high school standing or his work on placement examinations.
Reds May Extend Berlin Deadline
LEIPZIG, East Germany—(UPI) —Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev said today he may extend his deadline for the West to get out of Berlin beyond May 27 if "sensible negotiations" are going on then.
It could be extended to June 27 or even July 27, Khrushchev declared.
"We have no grounds to hurry but we must solve the Berlin problem," he said.
The Soviet leader spoke at a lunch for visiting members of the British parliament.