THE VICTIMS—This is part of the crowd of students that gathered at a local pizzeria to get free pizza on a practical joker's call, but found pizza still at regular prices. However, all is not
for naught, fellows. To any person who can identify himself in this picture, come to the Daily Kansan office and you will receive a free copy of today's paper.
Students Descend On Pizza Parlor
The swinging doors of the Campus Hideaway, a local downtown pizza parlor, were kept swinging for a short spell last night by a steady flow of KU students demanding "free pizza."
Business boomed at the cafe for nearly 40 minutes as car after car pulled up in front of the establishment and unloaded groups of men students seeking to satisfy stomach pains with free pizza.
At the high point of the influx of prospective pizza eaters, the tables were filled with students, and there was standing room only. There were people waiting to get in from outside, and the telephone was ringing off the hook.
Some non-believers evidently wished to check about the free offering they were told about.
All of the student freeloaders, arriving between about 10 and 10:40 p.m. told the same story of why they were there. Their fraternity or dormitory had received a call saying the pizza was on the house, they claimed.
Bill Irvine, Lawrence senior, a cook at the establishment, said several hundred students drove up to the cafe, wandered in, and then drove away.
"When they found out the pizza wasn't free most of them left right away," Irvine said.
However, after the crowd had thinned down, two cooks were still shoveling out the pizza in a manner that would upturn the eyes of any veteran corporation investor.
Apparently, men were not the only ones called to follow the star of pizza downtown. Irvine said he took a call from a woman in a sorority.
"She wanted to know the sorority of the week," he said. I guess she thought the winning one would get free pizza."
Docking Sees Plan For Retiring Faculty
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy had no comment today on Gov George Docking's proposal for a public employee retirement plan which would include faculty members.
"Any comment on the governor's proposal will have to come from the Board of Regents," Chancellor Murphy said.
The governor said he favored putting faculty members of state colleges and universities under the same plan as other state employees
"Faculty members are not any different from other state employees," said Gov. Docking. "I don't want to create a class system in state government."
Under the retirement plan set up by the board of regents in 1941, University faculty members or employers may receive a maximum of $1,480 annual retirement pay.
Together with social security, a retired University employee can receive a maximum income of $3,004 a year under present conditions
The plan now in operation was never authorized by statute. The regents did it on their own initiative.
Gov. Docking said details of a retirement plan were not worked out yet. "I think we can use the one drafted by the league of municipalities as a guide," he said.
The league's plan did not include faculty members when it was drafted. This proposed plan is supplemental to social security benefits. An employee contributes four per cent of his salary and the state puts a sum equal to seven per cent of his salary into the retirement fund.
If the plan is adopted, retirement benefits would be computed at one per cent of an employee's final average salary times the number of years of service.
K-State Hex Dolls Are the Real McCov
MANHATTAN — (UPI) — Kansas State College students were warned today that voodoo doll heads sold on the campus last November are poisonous.
W. R. Kirk, administrator of the Riley County Hospital, said 24 of the dolls, imported from the Orient, were sold by the Young Women's Christian Association last November. Twelve dolls have been recovered. The voodoo doll heads were on top of swizzle sticks.
Gov. Docking said the estimated cost of $2.5 million a year for the state's share "might be a little high."
KU Votes for U.S.-Russian Exchange Plan
The plan was submitted yesterday by the commission of international understanding of the Association of American Colleges at the last day of its 45th annual convention in Kansas City, Mo.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said today the University was one of 349 U.S. colleges and universities to vote in favor of a plan to expand the United States-Soviet Union student exchange program.
Yesterday's poll of 750 college and universities attending showed overwhelming support for a Russian exchange program. Only 51 colleges reported they could not participate.
"If the program is worked out thoughtfully this university would accept young Russian students just as it accepts those from India and other parts of the world," said Chancellor Murphy.
Presently, there are 17 Russian students studying in universities in the United States and 22 Americans attending schools in the Soviet Union.
"In the long run the United States has a tremendous amount to gain from the exchange students because they will get an accurate appraisal of this country. At present they are not getting such an appraisal.
Some of the schools voting for the proposal were even willing to provide financial aid to visiting students
"We have more to gain than lose in such an exchange of students," said Chancellor Murphy.
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Humanities Lecturer Says Mistaken History Is 'Poison'
Friday, Jan. 9, 1959
A French historian said last night that historians must interpret history wisely lest it become a "lethal poison to the world."
Father Guillaume de Bertier de Sauvigny, professor of history at the Catholic University of Paris.
France, gave examples of mistakes made in French politics. He spoke at the third Humanities Series Lecture.
"There are two schools of thought among historians on French history" he said. "One group of
Engineering School To Drop Mining Degree
The Announcement of Courses Bulletin recently issued shows the degree in mining engineering in
Myron Bernitz, Eudora senior, will wear the last orange-tasselled mortar board signifying a bachelor of science degree in mining engineering at KU.
Myron Bernitz
solid minerals discontinued with no students accepted after June, 1950
The four-year mining engineering program was started in 1898, according to Kenneth Rose, chairman of the department of mining and metallurgical engineering.
It was separated from the geology department in 1915. During that period, Kansas had a thriving mining industry.
Since 1915, interest in solid minerals mining has declined in favor of petroleum engineering and geology.
Dean John McNown, of the School of Engineering and Architecture, said today there are two reasons for discontinuing the degree.
There are schools of mines in neighboring states that care adequately for the limited number of students interested in solid mineral engineering, he said, and secondly, metallurgical engineering is the rapidly increasing field now.
scholars portrays the people as happy under the government of kings.
Father Bertier said two handicaps in the development of France stem from the "let's-do-it-again" attitude and the "let's not make the same mistake" attitude.
He described the first as repetition of a political action which had worked in the past in a similar situation.
"They accuse Martin Luther of spreading the seeds of revolt and credit rationalists such as Voltaire and Rousseau with starting the Revolution of 1789," he stated
The other group pictures France as unhappy under the "yoke of the kings," he said. To it, revolution becomes a "sacred duty."
These two attitudes have influenced French political thinking up to modern times, he said.
"The superstitious respect for tradition was shattered by the Revolution, but it created a superstition in reverse," he said.
He explained the French people decided that all ties with the past must be repudiated in order to be "progressive."
"This is the root of the main division in French political life between the left and the right," Bertier Fertier said.
Missing Cuban Student Says She's Waiting to Leave Island
Sonia Alvarez, Cardenas, Cuba, junior, who had failed to return to school by yesterday, told her roommate over the phone from Cuba that she's ready to come back, but cannot leave.
Her roommate, Carolyn Gray, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, called Miss Alvarez last night and was told that due to transportation difficulties she couldn't leave the country yet. She had gone home for vacation.
Miss Alvarez said she had received special permission from Cuban officials to leave, but the government is prohibiting travel from Cuba.
She told her roommate that rebel leader Fidel Castro had been through her hometown and that she was happy she got to see him.
Miss Alvarez's cousin, a student in Salina, is waiting with her at her home so that they can leave together.