SEARCH FOR WEAPONS—Men from the Sheriff's office dredge the Kaw River near the
Massachusetts Street bridge looking for weapons used in the Andrews slayings.
Daily hansan
56th Year, No. 54
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, Dec. 2, 1958
Males Use Mail, Assail UDK Editor
By George DeBord
According to the morning mail, the average KU coed is "a bright-eyed bubble-head who can make idiot talk but can not hold a conversation."
The wrath of the men of Kansas fell on the assistant society editor of The Daily Kansan. Saundra Hayn, Wichita sophomore, who yesterday called the average KU male a disappointment.
Almost without exception the letter writers presented lengthy paragraphs on the shortcomings of KU coeds in general and Miss Hayn in particular.
The letters said the women were the ones lacking in background.
R. E. Buglewicz, Overland Park
junior, said;
"Perhaps if the average KU coed was a little more stimulating in conversation herself, the 'average KU male' would not be forced into recognizing the traditional role of womankind by driving to Zone A where, for probably the first time in the evening, a language is spoken which the average KU coed understands."
Joseph J. Fee, Bellmore, N.Y.
senior struck out at KU coeds
"The nicest thing one can say about the average KU coed is that she is well fed, very well fed."
He continued by saying that Miss Average has "the kind of natural grace and carriage of a drunken elephant crossing the Alps in a blizzard."
One man with a sharpened pen lashed out at Miss Hayn with the courage of a soldier taking a hill. But he lacked the courage to sign his own name to the letter.
Men who bypassed the Sunnyside controversy and the election issues hastened to the fight when their status as date material was challenged.
And Miss Hayn can now take her place among the all time controversial figures of KU journalism. She too has her share of irate letters such as no KU journalist has received since John Husar failed to recognize the apparent brilliance of the orchestra at the "King and I."
Police Search For Fire Cause
CHICAGO — (UPI) — Police fanned out through a grief-stunned west side neighborhood today to question students in the belief one of them accidentally caused a fire which killed 87 students and three nuns in a Roman Catholic school.
Police headquarters assigned 35 officers from the Austin Police Station to the arson squad to assist in questioning boys whose job it was to carry trash to bins near a basement stairwell where the fire apparently started.
Authorities theorized that a pupil might have tossed a lighted cigarette into the trash, setting off Chicago's worst fire in 55 years. The disaster brought condolences from Pope John XXIII.
The blaze swept Our Lady of Angels Parochial School yesterday less than a half hour before classes were to be dismissed at 3 p. m.
The searing heat and suffocating smoke killed 53 girls, 34 boys and three nuns. The children ranged in age from 9 to 15. Nearly 100 others were injured.
Andrews Still Appears Calm
The uncle of accused triple-slayer Lowell Lee Andrews, KU sophomore from Bethel, said today that Andrews still does not seem upset by his deed.
W. S. Andrews, who lives just down the street from the house where the family slaying took place last Saturday, has visited his nephew several times in the Wyandotte County jail.
Rifle Trigger Found in River
Deputy Wayne Cates of the Douglas County Sheriff's office said this afternoon that Sheriff Dale Chappell recovered a trigger mechanism from a J. C. Higgins .22 caliber rifle this morning with a magnet.
The mechanism works perfectly, Cates said, and does not look as though it has been in the water more than three or four days.
However, no positive identification has been made yet. he said.
Identification will be attempted when more of the rifle is recovered.
Andrews told police he threw a .22 caliber rifle and a Luger pistol into the river.
Mr. Andrews told The Daily Kansan;
"He does not seem upset by what he did. I detected more emotion in him when he met me for the first time than he has shown to anyone else. I think the boy is beginning to recognize reality now."
Mr. Andrews said that he has not yet decided whether he will ask for
a sanity commission to study the student.
"Everything has been confused and I haven't had time to think about it," he said.
Buford E. Braly, the attorney retained by Mr. Andrews for the student, said today that either the defense or the prosecution may ask for a sanity commission. He said no decision would be made about the commission until he has conferred with the boy's uncle.
"I don't know if I will represent the boy beyond what I have already done until I talk to Mr. Andrews," Mr. Braly said.
Mr. Andrews said he had not decided whether to keep Mr. Braly as defense attorney. He said it would be several days before any decision was made.
When Judge William J. Burns asked for Andrews' plea in the Kansas City, Kan., city court yesterday, Braly replied that he did not know if Andrews was mentally competent enough to enter a plea. He asked that the defendant be shown as standing mute. The judge entered a plea of not guilty for Andrews.
Andrews was ordered held without bail until his preliminary hearing on Jan. 5 by Judge Burns, Mr. Braly challenged the action, but the judge agreed with Robert J. Foster, Wyandotte County attorney-elect that Andrews' written statement admitting the slayings was sufficient to hold the student without bail.
Andrews said but one word during the arraignment, "Yes," he replied when the judge asked him if his name was Lowell Lee Andrews.
Andrews was escorted to and from the court by a court marshal and a
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Sorority Open House Tonight and Thursday
Pan-hellenic rush open houses for freshman women will be held from 6 to 8:50 tonight in the 13 KU sororities.
Each sorority will entertain six groups of freshman women at twenty minute parties. This year refreshments will not be served nor skits given in the houses.
Another open house will be held Thursday night at the same times.
The freshman open houses are held each year as rush dates before formal rush week starts. Two open houses will be held this week to accommodate all freshman women who are interested in rush.
Since formal rushing has been changed to the spring semester, the next open house will be part of the formal rush week beginning Feb. 7. The open houses will again be divided into two days, Feb. 7 and 8.
After the spring open houses, freshman women will attend invitational parties at the sororities. Formal rush will take place at designated times over a five week period.
Team Lacks "BigMan,"Rebounds With "Big Spirit"
By Malcolm Applegate
It was a cold, wintry night on Mount Oread as the Jayhawkers opened their home basketball season against Rice last night. And, for the first time in nine years, KU was playing without the services of the "big man" that today's modern game demands of top teams.
Pre-season predictions of a dismal season for the Jayhawkers took its toll:
Instead, Allen Field House, which Wilt Chamberlain filled during his two-year stint at KU, looked bare, even at game-time. Plenty of good seating was available in the middle sections of the mammoth arena. Where people once sat high in the corners, only the bare, wooden planks were visible.
Gone was the steady stream of traffic which had filled all available parking lots around the field house. No long lines of people were standing in line to get last minute tickets. Gone was the early rush for good seats in the student seating section.
A press section which was once overflowing with reporters from papers far and near, eager to report the miraculous feats of the "one-man wonders," now had plenty of space available for anyone interested in seeing the weakened Jayhawkers play
But the absence of the many didn't dampen the spirits of the few. Approximately 6,000 fans, sitting
comfortably where capacity crowds of 17,000 once crowded together, were willing to cheer just as loud for their favorite team even when a lean year seems probable.
They saw a team, sadly lacking in height, make up that deficit in hustle. Where "giants" like Clyde Lovellette, B. H. Born and Chamberlain once roamed around the basket, two 6-foot 5-inchers, Monte Johnson and sophomore Bill Bridges, filled the vacant spot. Their feet weren't as big, their legs weren't as long, and their arms couldn't reach as high, but they could play just as hard. And they came through to beat Rice, 65-49.
Before the season is over, Kansas will almost certainly miss the ever-present rebounding strength and scoring punch of their departed "big men," but it won't dampen the spirits of the players.
Maybe the remainder of the season won't be so prosperous. Tougher opponents won't let the Jayhawkers coast to easy victories. But win or lose, the fine Kansas basketball tradition won't be broken. That high spirit still remains on the KU basketball team. Perhaps it is even higher this year due to the greater challenge.
As soon as our "fair weather" fans realize this, maybe once again all roads will lead to Lawrence for KU basketball games.
YEA, TEAM FIGHT!—Cheerleaders, Ann Underwood, Emporia senior, left, and Carol Abernathy, Kansas City, Kan., junior, were among the few but spirited fans.