AGI Will Fight for Racial Study Group
The Allied Greek-Independent party will fight efforts to kill the committee for the investigation of racial discrimination at KU and in Lawrence.
Gerald T. Elliott, Ft. Scott junior, who was elected AGI president at a party meeting last night, said that his party will actively oppose the resolution introduced at the All Student Council meeting last Tuesday which proposes to nullify the Committee.
"I have no comment on the fact that the Committee on Committees has not staffed the discrimination committee in the five weeks since it was established by the ASC," Elliott said. He continued:
"I won't say anything until I find out if the committee's chairman (John Husar, Chicago senior) had a legitimate reason for holding it up."
But Rex Doherty, Dellvale junior, whom Elliott replaced as AGI
president, did criticize Husar for not appointing committee members. He said:
"It points out the inefficiency on the part of Husar as chairman of the Committee on Committees. He has held up the progress of work given to him by the ASC."
Elliott said the fact that the Committee on Committees has not established the discrimination committee would seem to make it more difficult for the ASC to pass a resolution killing the committee.
He said AGI has thought the need for the committee important enough to include it as a part of the party's platform for this year. No resolution passed by the ASC will alter his party's stand on the matter, Elliott said.
This morning Husar answered the charges made by the AGI members with this statement:
"Working on such a touchy subject, I felt we must exercise the greatest caution before jumping into the matter, knowing that the GHIR
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Phi Beta Kappa Elects 8
Daily hansan
Phi Beta Kappa, honorary liberal arts fraternity, elected eight seniors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences vested day.
Those elected are Mary Helen Clark, Kansas City, Mo; James W. Cederberg, Herndon; Gilbert M. Cuthbertson, Leavenworth; Joseph F. Hanna, Dighton; Ester Anne Lasater, Wichita; David Ontjes, Hutchison; James C. Pool, Wellsville, and Ralph L. Wright, Paola.
Election to the fraternity is on the basis of students maintaining for six semesters grades which are nearly all "A".
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Friday, Nov. 14, 1958
56th Year, No. 46
Chancellor Outlines $15 Million Expansion
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy outlined yesterday at a Daily Kansasan press conference a building program for the next 10 years to cost a minimum of 15 million dollars.
K-State Closes Today During Bomb Scare
MANHATTAN — Kansas State College was closed this morning after an anonymous phone call notified authorities there were two bombs in university buildings set to go off at 11:30 a.m.
The mysterious caller said the bombs were in Seaton and Eisenhower halls, but authorities could not find any evidence of bombs. Classes were resumed in the afternoon.
Following the queen's selection, the Homecoming game was played. Jim Trombold, first-year medical student from Wichita, threw two touchdown passes to spark the victors.
James B. Smith, professor of law, presented the queen with a trophy after a halftime speech.
HANDS OF APPROVAL — The age-old custom of KU coeds passing in review before the future lawyers at Green Hall took on a new aspect yesterday. Here Law Homecoming Queen
Alpha Chi Named Law Queen
Colinda Austin, Salina sophomore who was selected Law School Homecoming queen yesterday watched her electors go down to defeat before the School of Medicine football team 14-2.
candidate Julie Casterman, Pittsburg sophomore, gets one lawyer's clap of approval. Kermit Beal. Lawrence third-year law student, helps move proceedings along.
Miss Austin, a member of Alpha Chi Omega, was elected from 18 candidates who paraded in front of law students at Green Hall. The budding barristers clapped loudly for their choice of a queen.
Long lines of onlookers stood along the curb facing the steps of Green Hall amusing themselves with the reaction of the law students to the parade of coeds.
Dan Hopson Jr., assistant professor of law and assistant dean of the Law School, and Paul Wilson, associate professor of law, acted as judges and measured the students' reactions.
Colinda Austin
Included in the building program are a one and one half million dollar addition to Watson Library and a nearly two million dollar building at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
"Following these two major projects the University will attempt to expand other facilities to allow for the rise in enrollment and the replacement of some old buildings," the chancellor said.
In connection with the expansion of the University and the large amounts of money needed, the chancellor was asked if he foresaw an increase in tuition.
"There will be a great deal of pressure on the coming Legislature to raise the tuition," he said, "but I oppose any attempt to raise the tuition and I will argue with all my breath against such a raise."
Lists Six Points
1. An addition to Lindley Hall.
The chancellor listed six building projects which will follow up the work on the medical building and the library addition. He said the order of the plans is not necessarily the order of priority.
addition to Lindsay
2. More clinical space for Watkins
Hospital
3. Addition research and teaching space at the Museum of Natural History.
4. Major remodeling or replacement of Fraser Hall, the oldest
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City Traffic Group to Ask For Ban on Parking
The Lawrence Traffic Commission will present recommendations next week to the City Commission to do away with parking on the west side of Mississippi Street from 9th Street south to the campus.
Another recommendation to be offered will be to eliminate parking on both sides of 11th Street east one block from Mississippi to Indiana Street.
The intersection at 11th and Indiana has the Varsity House and the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity located across from each other.
"There has been a high frequency of accidents along this street (11th Street)," said C. R. Shaffer, chairman of the Traffic Commission.
"To stop these accidents and to get away from the bottle neck on the main street to the University (Mississippi) is the reason for these
"The houses in the area all have driveways." he explained.
The Traffic Commission will meet next Wednesday with the City Commission to discuss the recommendations and other traffic ideas.
Mr. Shaffer said that elimination of parking along the west side of Mississippi would not create a serious problem for the cars which park there now.
There might be a problem created along 11th Street, but traffic safety and efficiency take precedence over parking, he added.
'Cafe Boycott Is No Racial Cure'
The Traffic Commission is composed of a committee of nine members appointed by the City Commission to study traffic problems.
E. R. Zook, secretary-manager of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said last night a boycott on segregated restaurants is not the answer to the racial problem in Lawrence.
Mr. Zook met with the Group for Improvement of Human Relations to discuss views of Lawrence restaurant owners on segregation.
"Streets are paid for to move traffic, not to provide private parking places," Mr. Shaffer continued, "and we should try to get traffic to move rapidly and safely."
recommendations," Mr. Shaffer said. "Traffic should take precedence over parking.
"As a business community we must sit down and discuss the problem," he said.
"Lawrence has made its only progress by doing it this way," he added.
To publish the names of restaurant owners that refuse to serve Negroes, as an attempt to create a boycott, "may even drive some integrated restaurant owners back to segregation." Mr. Zook asserted.
"I am not clear in my own mind
Weather
Cloudy skies and unsettled conditions expected to prevail through tomorrow. Turning colder tomorrow. Overnight low at Lawrence was 62.
as to whether boycott has a place in our society," he said.
"The solution to the problem is a constant educational program with some insistence but not 'dateline' insistence," he said.
"The restaurants are privately owned. They are not public property.
"Some efforts had been made to solve this problem before I came to Lawrence in 1948.
"The Chamber of Commerce has no official power to force anybody to do anything" Mr. Zook said. "We are a completely voluntary group."
Several members of the Chamber are Negroes and we are proud of it, he added.
Zook said numerous meetings have been held in the past to discuss racial problems with Lawrence businessmen and that considerable progress has been made in regard to overnight lodging, employment and theaters.
The GIHR voted their approval of the ASC committee appointed to study racial problems and decided to submit a letter to the ASC endorsing its assistance in the racial study.
a bill to abolish the ASC committee was introduced at the ASC meeting earlier this week.