Dailu hansan Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1959 LAWRENCE, KANSAS 56th Year, No. 90 Housing Bias Unintentional Woodruff Says L. C. Woodruff, dean of students, said today that any apparent discrimination in issuing housing lists is entirely unintentional and contrary to the general feeling of the University. Furthermore, he said, separate lists of any sort for Negro and white students will no longer be maintained. Dean Woodruff said in a prepared statement that administrative officers agree that in all areas of university operation, every effort will be made to serve students without bias. The question of discrimination in the housing of students arose when two Negro students said that they had been given partial or separate listings in the university housing office. "I feel that Mrs. Ruth Nash, housing secretary, was only trying to save the students trouble, time, and embarrassment by giving out the partial lists," Dean Woodruff said. Only Two Limitations The dean said that in University controlled housing, no discrimination is made for any reason other than the limitation of sex and type of hall which may be restricted by academic classification. "We cannot dictate, however, the requests of landlords who make their homes available to students," he said. Dean Woodruff stressed the point that if the housing office has been put in the position of seemingly questionable procedure, discrimination was not intended. Housing is Service "The housing office is a service organization whose primary purpose is to assist any student in finding suitable and comfortable quarters. "No separate list of any sort will be maintained, even though all manner of stipulations are made by the landlords and by the students. "True, any personnel officer, through suggestions and entirely in the spirit of assistance to the student, may note not only differences in facilities and landlords, but also the desires of the student," Dean Woodruff said. Complete lists of currently vacant quarters will be made available to all inquirers, he said. Ten Per Cent Now on Scholastic Probation By Dick Crocker and Carolyn Frailey At least 984 students are on probation for the spring semester, according to figures compiled by the Daily Kansan from six schools of the University. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which has the highest enrollment of all schools in the University, has the highest number of students-593 on probation. Here is a breakdown of students on probation and dropped: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — 593 probation; 236 departmental School of Engineering — 257 probation; 143 dropped. College Raises Grade Average The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty voted yesterday to raise the minimum scholarship requirements for the College. Effective the fall semester of 1959, a freshman or sophomore must make at least a .8 each semester to remain in good standing. At the present time a .7 is required. Juniors and seniors are required to make a 10 grade average. Francis Heller, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the new regulation is not likely to affect more than 15 or 20 students. "The regulation will have the beneficial effect of placing the two largest schools of the University (the College and the School of Engineering) on essentially the same scholastic standards" he said. The School of Engineering is already on the 8 standard. Beginning next fall, any College student who does not make a 8 will automatically be placed on probation. Any student below a 0 grade average will be dropped for poor scholarship. Mostly cloudy and colder tonight. Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight near 20. High near 30. Low tomorrow middle 20's. Weather School of Business - 86 probation: 14 dropped. School of Fine Arts - No official figures. School of Education - 29 probation; 2 dropped. School of Pharmacy — 11 probation; no record of those dropped. School of Journalism - 8 probation. The College dropped 296 students at the end of last semester and reinstated 112 by petition. The percentage of students on probation in the College this semester is 20.8. During the spring semester of 1958 there were 569 students on probation and 275 students dropped for poor scholarship. Of the 275 dropped, 80 were reinstated. The percentage of students on probation for that semester was 21.8. Francis Heller, associate dean of the College, said there are always more students on probation in the spring than in the fall because of the tendency of poor students to drop out between academic years rather than between semesters. Of the 593 students on probation, 63 were admitted to the College by transfer from other universities or with advanced standing. Six were former students-returning on probation. Three-hundred eight students who were in scholastic trouble at the end of the fall semester did not enroll for the spring semester. Of the 308 who did not return 184 were dropped for poor scholarship, 4 had previously been reinstated on probation, 33 had been continued on probation and 87 had been automatically placed on probation because of low grades. The number of students dropped for poor scholarship in the College at the end of last semester was 5.9 per cent of the total enrollment, while a year ago it was 6.3 per cent. (Continued on Page 3) Proficiency Scores Lower for Transfers Students who took all of their English at KU did better on the English Proficiency Examination than students who completed all or part of their English requirements at other schools. Statistics prepared by the English department show that 73.4 per cent of the students who took all of their English at KU passed the proficiency examination last semester. Only 57.7 per cent of the transfer students, who took all their English elsewhere, passed and only 63.9 per cent of the transfer students who took some, but not all, of their English elsewhere, passed the examination. The School of Journalism ranked highest among the schools as 91 per cent of the journalism students passed. Here is a table showing the number of students who took the examination, the number who passed or failed and the percentage of those passing the test. No. taking examination
Not taking examinationPassFail% Passing
Journalism2119291.5%
Education1831236067.9%
College3072189967.8%
Fine Arts78473160.3%
Nursing42250.0%
KU Fosters Its Own Brand of Beatniks By Dick Crocker The "Beatniks" are now emerging from their dimly-lit basement and garret apartments on San Francisco's North Beach and heading cross-country toward the promised land of Greenwich Village where they know they will find "their kind of people." Exactly what are their kind of people? They are the bohemians and pseudo-bohemians of the jeans, sneaker, and sweatshirt school. The biggest threat the organization man has ever encountered is now sweeping across the country at a rapid rate. They brood through life accompanied by the jumbled writing of such prophets as Ginsberg, Kerouac, Rexroth and Ferlinghetti. Man, What's New . . They're addicted to cool jazz and wild poetry, sin and suffering, and have even been known to dabble in the monkey-on-the-back kick. They're opposed to everything American such as motherhood, Christianity, suburbia, manual or any kind of labor. comfort and respectability. While the University has not escaped the beat philosophy, at least it has been tempered. The local colony seems to be composed mostly of the pseudo-bohemians who suffer while at school and live during vacations. The female of the species can be seen walking unsmilingly across the campus (public displays of emotion are taboo) clad in the beatnik uniform of a black leotard, sneakers, a bulky sweater and skirt, and if the day is cloudy, sunglasses. She wears no make-up and doesn't comb her hair because such things are "middle-class" and to be avoided like the plague. Her male counterparts can be studied at almost any dark bar where they will be seen staring moodily into space and undulating to the strains of "cool man, cool" jazz. They wear beards and seem to have lost any comb they had months before. Their costume consists of faded levis or wrinkled chinos, a sweatshirt or sweater, and the inevitable dirty sneakers. Well, as is always the case, each campus minority group must have its queen. It seems that if the beatniks can organize long enough to vote they will have one too. First prize? Why, an autographed icon of Jack Kerouac and a one-way ticket to San Francisco. What more could any red-blooded American girl ask for? 6 Students Go To Topeka for Budget Support Six KU students left today to represent the student body at the Senate Ways and Means Committee hearings in Topeka. The All Student Council last night unanimously adopted a resolution to back the proposed higher education budget in the state legislature and appointed the student representatives. They are John Husar, Chicago; Bob Macy, Hutchinson; Patricie Little, Wichita, and Terry Davis, Frontenac, seniors; John Downing, Kansas City, Mo., student body president, and Jann Cameron, Topeka, both juniors. Macy presented the resolution and said the proposal would let the legislature know that the "ASC is concerned with the University budget. We must have everyone's support in swaying the legislators." Campus Chest Total $4,323 Downing announced the Campus Chest drive total was $4,323 last semester. The Kingston Trio concert made $2,313, and $2,400.57 came from living group donations. The contributions are divided into various funds. The World University Service received the largest total. Downing said the money was allocated this year for student fund needs instead of going to national charities as in previous years. Invitations have been sent to 80 organized houses and organizations to attend the Student Leadership Training Council conference Friday and Saturday in Mvers Hall. No Money Hinders Book Members of the ASC were told that non-appropriation of funds is No Money Hinders Book (Continued on Page 3) Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy this morning told the Senate Ways and Means Committee he cannot believe Kansas is willing to admit it has fallen out of higher educational competition with other states. Murphy Pleads School's Case He said the matter has become symbolic, "for if this Legislature, representing all of our people, states by its actions that Kansas cannot at least strike for an average position in higher education in these complex times, much of the enthusiasm and faith on which we must rely to keep our gifted faculty will disappear, and quickly. He said at an open budget hearing the issue is "whether or not this state is prepared to admit, publicly and in a way which will be heard and understood all over the country, that it has declined to meet competition today." This would be tragic for the University of Karisas, which today is poised to move forward in a truly significant and effective fashion. "If the Regent's requests, minimal to begin with, are not implemented, the losers will not be the faculty of our state schools, many of whom would be welcomed in other institutions, but the young people of Kansas and indirectly their parents, their relatives and their friends." Chancellor Murphy said that beyond this, the industrial and agricultural development of our state, with its "enormous dependence upon the vitality of research and training in our institutions of higher learning, will be significantly damaged."