Maintenance Employes Seeking 40-Hour Week
Maintenance men asked Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy for a 40-hour work week Saturday.
Representatives from the various maintenance departments met with the chancellor for an explanation of the present work-week wage.
E. W. King, representing the electricians, said the Chancellor agreed to meet with a representative from each department individually.
"There were no decisions reached. It was simply a discussion and information meeting," Chancellor Murphy said.
The chancellor explained that because of emergencies, some departments could not work a 40-hour week, and it would not be practical to put on a second shift.
Chancellor Murphy said he explained the prevailing rates and the civil service scales to the men.
The present civil service monthly wage rate is broken down to an hourly rate, based on a 200-hour month.
"Since we work only a fraction over 190 hours each month, we get penalized about nine and one-third hours." King said.
Weather
Cooler tonight with clearing skies spreading southward over state by evening. Moderately strong northerly winds 25 to 40 miles an hour diminishing tonight. Mostly fair tonight and tomorrow. A little warmer tomorrow. Low tonight 25 to 30. High tomorrow in 50s.
R. C. Cooper, representing the carpenters, said the chancellor explained the legal steps necessary before any wage increase can be given.
Good Seats Left for Friday's Rock Chalk
There are still good seats available for the Friday night presentation of the 1959 Rock Chalk Revue.
Dailu Hansan
There are 1,100 tickets left for Fridays performance and 500 scattered seats for Saturday's performance. These tickets are available at the Information booth in front of Flint Hall.
Chancellor's Yard Damaged by Fire
There are only a few single tickets left at the Kansas Union ticket center.
The southwest portion of Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy's yard caught fire yesterday morning, resulting in damage to approximately 15 shrubs and five trees.
The Lawrence Fire Dept. extinguished the blaze.
Chancellor Murphy's daughter said that as the fire was burning a young boy asked her for a bucket of water. She said when she tol the boy she would call the fire department, he yelled "don't do that" and ran away.
Dr. Sokal Will Study In London Next Year
Robert R. Sokal, associate professor of entomology, has been granted a senior post-doctoral fellowship by the National Science Foundation for the 1959-60 school year.
He will use the fellowship for research in biometry and biological mathematics at the Galton Laboratory of the University of London.
The award is the highest level fellowship given by the NSF. It is made to scientists who have demonstrated ability and special aptitude for advanced training and have achieved stature in their fields.
The fellowship will provide Prof. Sokal with travel expenses and a stipend equivalent to his salary at KU.
the biological fields where the application of new mathematical and statistical methods is essential. In recent years he has received several large research grants for fundamental studies of hereditary resistance factors of flies to insecticides.
Dr. Robert E. Beer, acting head of the KU entomology department, said that Prof. Sokal's appointment was additional confirmation of the consistently high international reputation of the department under the leadership of Dr. Charles D. Michener. Dr. Michener was recently appointed the Elizabeth M. Watkins Distinguished Professor.
Prof. Sokal has done research in
The KU entomology department is believed to have had the largest number of NSF pre-doctoral fellowships of any in the nation.
Monday, March 2, 1959
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year, No.98
Colodny, Laird Blast U.S. Foreign Policy
Two faculty members severely criticized President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles Friday for the manner in which they conduct our foreign affairs.
Roy D. Laird, assistant professor of political science, and Robert G. Colodny, visiting assistant professor of history, spoke before the Current Events Forum in the Kansas Union.
Prof. Colodny said he believes that the American people are unaware of the direction in which the world is drifting.
"A new world, born in blood, sweat and tears, is emerging," he said.
"We are in the same position as the followers of Metternich in the 1820s. The result then was the explosion of 1848," he said.
"If we become champions of counter-revolution, we will be isolated in an angry sea. We have surrendered our most powerful weapon—our fight for anti-colonialism and championship of the common man.
"To end this drift, we must return to faithfulness in the older values of our country. We must again champion the oppressed and make our internal life an example to other countries," he said.
He pointed to the trouble in
Russia Agrees to Ministers' Meeting
By United Press International
New Soviet notes to the West today urged an April summit conference but accepted proposals for foreign ministers' talks if the West "is not ready yet" for the summit.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev withdrew his rejection of foreign ministers' talks on the Berlin crisis after insistent pleas from British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
ENTERTAINING RUSHEES—Members of Sigma Kappa social sorority, Anita Grist, Independence, Mo., Sandra Powell, Wichita, and Jane Thoe, Kansas City, Kan., all sophomores, present "Frontierland," before rushees Sunday. A series of Disneyland skits will be given by the sorority at the three sets of rush parties this spring.
The only flat condition imposed by the Russians in the notes was that Czechoslovakia and Poland must be invited to give the East numerical equality with the West at the conference table.
Geneva or Vienna would be the best sites for the conferences, the Russian notes said, and April would be the best time to start.
The notes stipulated that the conferences must be limited to "a term of not more than two or three months."
The suggestion that talks begin in April meant agreement in principle to negotiate before the scheduled handover of sovereign rights in Berlin to East Germany, now due May 27.
At the same time Russia delivered a note to the East German envoy in Moscow on a possible Soviet-East German peace treaty that would seal the division of Germany. Observers in Moscow said it showed Russia was going ahead with plans to turn West Berlin controls over to the communists on May 27 as threatened.
Contents of the Soviet notes delivered to the American, British and French envoyes remained secret pending today's final conversations between Macmillan and Khrushchev.
But diplomatic sources indicated Russia might have agreed to quick foreign ministers' talks on Berlin if these talks are to lead to the "summit" talks demanded by Khruschev.
The Berlin time bomb is set to go off on May 27 when Russia has threatened to turn over control of the city to the Communist East German regime. Negotiations would have to move fast.
The reported Soviet move opening a faint ray of hope followed Macmillan's stern warning in Leningrad last night—his second of the week:
"I say such discussions must lie ahead because I firmly believe that the dangerous situation with which we may be faced cannot be resolved without negotiations."
Little Rock and what he described as our "ostrich-like" policy toward Red China as marks against the U.S.
"Our switch in policy begins at home and in the classroom. One more mistake may be fatal," he added.
Prof. Laird said that though most people in the State Department consider Dulles the most brilliant man in the department, the Secretary does not always act wisely and with leadership.
"One of the most severe criticisms that can be made of him is that he carries everything around in his hat," said Prof. Laird. "No one knows what is going on in our foreign affairs until told by Dulles. He should confer with Washington experts before making decisions. He has cost the United States much."
Eisenhower Blamed
"Fifty-one per cent of the blame must go to the current President as he is responsible for foreign policy. Any secretary of state has no more and no less power than given to him by the President," said Prof. Laird.
The political scientist believes that Dulles' religious background influences his thinking.
"He has looked at the Soviet Union as one would look at evil," said Prof. Laird.
Prof. Colodny said that diplomacy is directed toward winning friends and influencing people.
"I would say that we don't have any friends now," he said.
"The American elite has had a misconception for over 40 years of the way the world is turning." said Prof. Coldyny. "Foreign policy based on false premises can lead to war."
Prof. Colodny said that it seems we have been believing in Communism as an ogre.
New Society Born
"Forty years ago a new society was born in direct competition to ours—and with opposite principles," he said. "In three decades it proved that a technological country could be built without the use of private capital."
Prof. Colodny said we should re-examine the past generation to determine the drift of the globe and see if it is detrimental to our foreign policy.
He said that a nation that is uninformed cannot exercise any control on its president and secretary of state.
"Foreign policy begins at home," he said.
Wind-whipped Skirts Go With March Scene
March came in like a menagerie today and yesterday.
Although forecasters have predicted warm weather for most of the month, a cold front is moving across Kansas today. And today's weather, in advance of the cold front, was described as typical of March.
After one day of sunny "lamb" weather, March showed its true colors with blustering winds and cloud layers that blocked off the sun.
The drop in temperature will not be severe, weatherermen said, but the early spring weather has ended for at least a few days.
That means picnic plans, suntans, short shorts, and fishing trips will be postponed for more favorable weather. It may mean the groundhog did see his shadow a month ago, and winter will last two more weeks.
And it means a workout for the quick-change wardrobe, with overcoats one day and Bermudas the next.
But the immediate forecast is for weather once described this wav:
"High winds, followed by high skirts, followed by men."