Daily hansan
56th Year, No.88
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Monday, Feb. 16. 1959
WHAT'S NEXT—Looking over the AWS rules at Saturday's convention are, from left, Emily Taylor, dean of women; Eleanor Hadley, Kansas
City, Mo., junior; JoAnn Swenson, Rossville junior, and Creta Carter, Jennings senior. See page 4 for more pictures of the convention.
AWS Seeks Rules Change
One major change was proposed by the Associated Women Students' regulations convention Saturday.
The convention passed a motion extending women's closing hours during final week to midnight. Previously, final week closing hours were the same as weekly closing hours. The AWS Senate will meet tomorrow afternoon to ratify or reject the motions passed by the convention.
Other motions passed by the convention were:
1. Weekly closing hours — 10:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; 11 p.m. Wednesday and Sunday, and 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
2. Vacation closing hours — midnight the night before vacation if it is on a week night; otherwise, 1 a.m.
3. Closing hours during Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter vacations, between semesters and orientation week — midnight Sunday through Thursday and 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
4. Closing hours the night vacations end — midnight.
5. Men's calling hours at women's
6. Women's calling hours at men's houses - will be left to decision by the AWS Senate.
houses — noon to closing Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to closing Sunday. This regulation is subject to change by individual houses.
7. Quit hours — must be passed by individual houses and are subject to approval by the AWS Board of Standards.
8. Individual late permission — the first two may be given by the house director for special events or occasions; others are made through the Dean of Women.
In a later meeting the AWS Senate will consider the areas of legislation not covered.
Kala Mays, Lyons senior, chairman of the AWS Board of Standards, presided at the convention. The keynote address was given by Dr. Emily Taylor dean of women.
"There must be regulations for all concerned." Dean Taylor said. "There is a necessity for some type of government to give form to relationships between people who live together in a community."
Budget Hearings Set for This Week in Topeka
University officials and members of the State Board of Regents will appear this week before the Senate Ways and Means Committee to present their case for more state school money.
The Board of Regents has asked for $48,296,812 to operate the state's colleges and the University. Gov. George Docking has cut the operating budgets back to $45,886,579.
The Docking cuts were mainly for faculty salary merit increases. He also deleted funds for a "crash" building program, which the Regents had not spelled out in detail.
She said that change in the present rules was not absolutely necessary if women students were satisfied to live within the rules.
The Ways and Means Committee is composed of the same members who gave the faculty a 10 per cent salary increase in 1957 and another 5 per cent increase in the 1958 budget session.
Docking allowed everything requested for the property tax, but he cut $335,135 for improvements from the general fund.
Russian and Slavic and Latin American studies; $25,000 for more library books in humanities and social science, and about $100,000 for increased general research.
Starting tomorrow the $2 a day late payment fee will be in effect. The enrollment of a student will be canceled if he has not paid his fees by Friday.
If you have not paid your fees yet, it will cost you an extra $2 a day this week.
Late Fee Payment Will Cost $2 a Day
Pirandello's 'Naked' Commences Tonight
Deletions for the University included $24,586 for new faculty positions to care for higher enrollment; $7,317 for janitors in the new building; $37,538 for centers for study of
A student whose enrollment has been canceled may re-enroll upon payment of $5 for late enrollment and $6 for late fee payment in addition to the amount of his fees.
Luigi Pirandello's "Naked," one of the best plays by the modern Italian playwright, opens at 8 tonight in the Experimental Theatre.
The play will be presented every night this week. Reserved seat tickets are on sale at the Kansas Union ticket office and the University Theatre box office. Regular price is $1.50. Students pay 50 cents.
A Negro student charged Friday that the housing office has been following a policy of discrimination against Negro students.
Housing Office Bias Charged
Shirley Harvey, Pratt senior, said at the Current Events Forum that two separate lists of graduate women's housing were kept-one for whites, the other for Negroes.
J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, said in an interview Saturday that he knows of no separate lists.
"No attempt is made to have any separate lists, as such, for any one particular group of students," he said.
Baur Predicts Slow Integration
E. Jackson Baur, associate professor of sociology and human relations, said Friday it will probably be 15 or 20 years before there is complete integration in southern schools.
He explained that segregation laws continue to exist because they serve a human purpose.
Prof. Baur, who taught for two years at Dillard University in New Orleans, a Negro University, said at the SUA Current Events Forum that legal integration throughout the South will come soon but that complete integration will be much farther in the future.
"First, they enable the dominant white caste to exploit the Negro caste. Secondly, they serve a psychological purpose. No matter how low a white man falls he always feels superior to the black man. It gives him something to fall back on." said Prof. Baur.
"Segregation laws were an attempt to approximate the conditions of slavery and to restore that social system. More laws were added as Southern whites found it necessary to shore up the system," Prof. Baur said.
Tracing the origins of segregation. Professor Baur said legal segregation dates from the 1880's.
Prof. Baur said segregation can be eliminated since it has no biological roots and it can be changed by human action such as a legal action.
"Desegregation will continue at an accelerated rate and will penetrate other spheres such as housing
"Mrs. Nash gave me a list with only two listings on it. I knew at the time both families were Negro and they weren't the type of places I wanted. I asked Mrs. Nash if the two were the only listings for graduate women she had and she replied they were." Miss Harvey said.
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About an hour later Miss Harvey sent a white girl into the office to ask for a list of graduate women's housing, and the girl came back with about 20 listings.
Miss Harvey said when she was looking for a place to live last September she went to the housing office and asked Mrs. Ruth Nash, housing secretary, for a list of housing for graduate women.
"I spoke to Dean Taylor (Miss Emily Taylor, dean of women), who said she had not been aware of such a policy. She explained the official policy of the University to me."
"I think Mrs. Nash was trying to save her any embarrassment in the situation."
"It was just a separate list," Miss Harvey said,
Dean Taylor said, when shown Miss Harvey's statement, "I expect this is about what happened. I think Shirley is right and has the right to go to any landlord she wants to ask for a room.
Dean Taylor said she does not receive talked to Mrs. Nash on the matter.
Mr. Wilson said:
"I would be glad to. However, I don't want to interfere with the graduate housing," she said.
"We will work with any student to assist him in finding quarters to meet his needs. We will be happy to meet with Miss Harvey at any time at her convenience to discuss any housing problem she might have."
Mrs. Nash, who said she recalled the incident, said: "I gave the girl two listings because it was all I had for her."
Asked if she had told Miss Harvey the listings were the only ones she had for graduate women, Mrs. Nash said: "I imagine that is true."
"We do want to help every student. We give them access to the entire listings and we try to advise them." Mrs. Nash concluded.
Weather
Considerable cloudiness through Tuesday, Colder tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 20's in the north and 30's in the south. High Tuesday in the 30's.
Case of the Cell Block 7 Confounds Pep Clubbers
Leaders of KU's pep club could have a prize-winning ulcer from distraught nerves over huring a band to play at Saturday's dance they sponsored.
After hours of time-consuming and costly phone calls, the leader of the Cell Block 7 band finally was reached last week to confirm the band's engagement here.
Saturday, four hours before the dance, the musicians wired and said they couldn't make it, thus kicking off another round of phone calls—also costly—to get a band to stand in.
In the best tradition, the show went on and exactly on schedule. Keith Gay's 5-piece band provided dance music for over 200 couples.
The relentlessness of the pep club leaders in pursuit of a band could rival the epic Stanley-Livingston manhunt in Africa.
The Message Arrives
Just as the final decorations were going up in the Kansas Union Ballroom Saturday, Chuck Henning, Ottawa senior and president of the KuKus, received a telegram from the wife of Rusty Brown, leader of Cell Block 7.
Mr. Brown had just suffered an abdominal attack at the Dallas airport and was being rushed to the hospital, Mrs. Brown said.
Just a few days before, the pep clubs learned that Allied Artists of America, which held a $350
Members of the pep clubs made the telephone wires sing with inquiring messages as to the whereabouts of their band. Mr. Brown was found in Texas and reassured members that he and his band would be in Lawrence on time.
downpayment for the dance band, had gone out of business.
So it was not much of a surprise when the sponsors of the dance brought their hands to their heads Saturday and moaned together, "Oh, no, not again."
The telephone wires sang again at 5 p.m. Saturday, this time with pleas for a band. Pep clubbers called the local musicians' union but were told no bands were available.
Last Resort Succeeds
Kansas City, Wichita and Manhattan were called but no one could raise even a tuba player. Finally, in Topeka the local union said there might be a chance of getting a band.
Due to the closing of one of the city's clubs there was a band available that night. So Mr. Gay got his crew together, hurried over to Lawrence, and struck an opening chord promptly at 8 o'clock.
Dancers danced on, and musicians played on, but the pep club members gave a long sigh, figuring it easier to yell their lungs out than arrange for such a "simple" little thing as a dance band engagement.