Senate Group Offers Faculty Rais
Daily hansan
56th Year, No.95
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1959
Middies to Be Honored at Ring Dance
The traditional Naval ROTC Ring Dance will be held at 9 p.m. Saturday in the ballroom of the Kansas Union.
It will honor all junior and senior midshipmen who are receiving their Navy rings.
In the above picture, Roger Banks, Wichita, and Darrell Sligar, Kansas City, Kan., both freshmen, help construct the 10-foot model ring.
The ring ceremony which is patterned after a U.S. Naval Academy tradition, will take place during intermission. Phil Stuart, Lawrence senior, will be master of ceremonies.
Before the ceremony, the midshipman's date
wears his ring on a ribbon around her neck. During the ceremony she dips the ring in a binnacle (a box holding the ship's compass) containing water from the "seven seas" (actually three oceans and six seas) and places it on his finger.
The couple then walk to the center of the model ring, where they kiss.
If the midshipman leads his girl from the ring, they are engaged. If she goes first, they are pinned. If they leave together, they are just good friends. The Jays dance band will provide music for the dance.
Religious Speakers Explain Attitude of Sex for Mankind
Sexual relationship is part of God's plan for mankind. "Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth."
This theme was presented by the Rev. John E. Cantelon, associate secretary of the Department of Campus Christian Life, United Presbyterian Church, and the Rev. Norman A. Krebs, minister of the Colonial Presbyterian Church, Kansas City, Mo., at a Religious Emphasis Week coffee hour in the Kansas Union yesterday.
In a discussion on "What Interpretation Does Religion Give To Sex," Rev. Cantelon said there are three major insights to man's sexual relationship coming from Protestant biblical tradition.
The first involves the whole place of sex within God's creation of the universe.
Sex Is Symbolic
"In the sexual relationship you have a symbolism of man's relationship with God," the Rev. Cantelon said.
"When the Bible refers to man, it does not mean just male, but a manwoman combination. Man finds his wholeness in coming together with woman. The totality of the human relationship becomes complete then," he said.
"The sex act involves the deepest type of communication between two people—the total self-giving of the whole person and personality to another."
The word used for the sex act in the Bible is the verb "to know." This same verb is used to describe man's relationship with God.
"In sex, man most closely resembles his Creator because he too is creating in the atmosphere of love and joy," the Rev. Cantelon said.
The second insight into sex from The Bible involves the fall of man.
"The relationship of sex to sin is like the relationship of the pulse in your wrist to your heartbeat," the Rev. Cantelon said. "Sex isn't at the heart of sin, but it is in the area where sin is most abundant."
Students and staff members who have not registered their 1959 license numbers by March 10 will be issued violation tickets.
He said that the actual problem of sex is man's disregard for his Creator and for fellow man.
Tag Registration Deadline Mar.10
"The problem shows up because
Campus Police Chief Joe Skillman said the license numbers must be registered to comply with state law. Numbers should be registered at the Parking and Traffic Office in Hoch Auditorium.
Chief Skillman said the Kansas Highway Patrol will start arresting owners of vehicles not displaying 1959 tags next week.
Weather
Partly cloudy to cloudy this afternoon and otherwise clear to partly cloudy through tomorrow. Warmer northwest this afternoon. Low tonight 25 to 35. High toorrow 55 to 60.
"This is the main problem with casual sexual relations. There is not the union—the trust and performance—which God intends. This comes only in marriage," the Rev. Cantelon said.
we commit the sin of treating the partner in our sexual relationship as an 'it' instead of a 'thou.'
The redemptive aspect of the sex act in the Christian faith is the third insight.
"Man can now take a realistic view of sex. He knows that this is an area where sin most frequently crops up, but also that it is God's plan and greatest joy for the universe."
"Both sex and Christ are self-giving. Through Christ the basic sense of sex has been redeemed." he said.
"God created sex when he created man, but he is not responsible for some of the things that have been done with it," he said.
The Rev. Krebbs stressed the importance of confining sexual relations.
"Sexual relationships were intended by God for only the proper circumstances with the proper thoughts in mind."
God's main plan for sex is for the preservation and development of a family, the Rev. Krebs said.
Preservation of Family
"The world we are making for our children and our children's children is bound together by this confined sexual relationship.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee voted today to give faculty members at the five state colleges and the University merit salary increases.
Faculty Raises Committee OK's KU $339,488 Increase
"When sex is taken out of this realm, our whole civilization will crumble," he predicted.
The committee recommended a total of $946,548 for the increases.
This would amount to an increase of 4.68 per cent, according to United Press International. The Board of Regents sought an increase of 10 per cent in faculty salaries.
Faculty Remarks On Political Feud
Four KU faculty members today gave their opinions on the effect that the GOP-Docking feud in the Kansas statehouse will have on the basic functioning of the Legislature and governor.
The faculty men agreed that the conflict of political personalities of men in the state government will probably not extend into the policies and general efficiency of the Legislature and administration.
Earl A, Nehring, instructor of political science, said:
"This is just another example of the competition and sometimes antagonism that separation of powers in our government promotes."
Elmo R. Richardson, instructor of history, said the main concern in state politics today is an "unpredictable personality," which makes the conflict between the Legislature and the executive greater.
Walter E. Sandelius, professor o. political science, outlined the present controversy in a more general sense.
He pointed out that in America there has always been slam-bang politics and political situations.
"The combat of politics often seems to get out of hand, but we see also in our democracy the fact that the rough give and take was not so deeply meant after all," he said.
"We've seen conflicts in American politics over and over again that may seem to exceed the bounds of decorum. But even more, vigorous controversy that we see in Topeka at the moment has never made the American people think that the foundaions of constitutional government are being affected," he concluded.
Broken down, the committee recommended $339,488 for KU merit increases, $377,823 for Kansas State, $54,363 for Fort Hays, $65,762 for Emporia State, $69,022 for Pittsburg State and $40,000 for the KU medical center.
Sen. August W. Lauterbach (R-Colby), committee chairman, said bills carrying out the committee vote would be prepared as soon as possible.
The committee did not touch upon a "crash" building program in its vote today.
The Regents are asking for salary increases averaging about 10.6 percent, a little over $2 million, for faculty members at the four state colleges and the University.
Sen. Glee Smith (R-Larned) who headed a subcommittee that worked out the merit increase proposal, indicated the committee might turn its attention to this matter next.
The issue has been a source of bitter political charges and countercharges between Democratic Gov. Docking and a Republican-controlled Legislature.
The compromise reached by members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee would grant somewhere between 6 and 8 per cent salary hikes—less than what the Regents requested, but more than the cuts made by Gov. Docking.
School heads and Regents maintain they must have faculty pay increases to "bring us up at least to the national average."
Gov. Docking contends the "national average" is a mythical figure, hard to prove, and said in his budget message he would not grant salary raises until the Board of Regents "has established a board-administered pay plan for the unclassified ranks."
He cut, in all, $2,410,233 from spending requests of the Regents to operate the schools in fiscal 1960, the bulk of the decrease coming in the salary ranges.
The Senate committee this session is composed of the same members who granted faculty raises over Gov. Docking's objections the last two sessions.
In the 1957 regular session, the Senate committee passed out appropriation bills granting better than a 10 per cent salary raise for faculty members. In the 1958 budget session, they hiked this another 5 per cent.
Both times the measures passed Senate and House with Republican backing.
GOP Not Satisfied After Docking Quiz
TOPEKA—(UPI)一A five-man committee of indignant Republican legislators today concluded they got "very little satisfaction" from Gov. George Docking after a 40-minute conference.
The group, smarting from a stinging attack made by Gov. Docking Monday against the Republican party, showed up in the executive offices to demand that he prove charges that "Republican legislators can be bought very cheaply, sometimes for money or even social distinction."
They left 40 minutes later after sparring with the governor and concluded it was a "stand off" and nothing but a "very pleasant interview."
Sen. Vernon Stroberg (R-Newton) said "he's just backing water. He's saying the newspapers didn't print what he said in full."
Gov. Docking backed off somewhat from his quoted remarks, contending "the reporter who covered my speech apparently walked out before I finished the sentence."
Under questioning from the investigative committee, Docking said:
"I meant certain Republican legislators, not all.
"I think they overdid this .
"I was really pointing to one particular legislator.
"I think there are some very good Republican legislators.
"There have been a few (dishonest legislators), but it doesn't include very many."