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Oldfather, Titus Blast Amendment
Two KU professors sharply criticized the proposed right to work amendment in Political Emphasis Week meetings yesterday.
Charles H. Oldfather Jr., professor of law, labelled for right to work "false, misleading and deceptive."
James Titus, assistant professor of political science, said the amendment "would be a dead letter" without legislation to enforce it.
Prof. Titus spoke at the first of three Political Emphasis Week coffee hours. The other two proposed amendments were also discussed. Prof. Oldfather spoke at the Faculty Forum at noon.
"The Eisenhower administration has gone on record as saying right to work laws will increase union crime and corruption." Prof. Oldfather said.
Prof Oldfather quoted a letter from Secretary of Labor James C. Mitchell to a Wichita housewife in which Mitchell wrote:
Prof. Oldfather said:
"Many of the major incidents of labor violence in recent years have been in states that have right to work laws."
"Many people in favor of the amendment talk about fundamental rights being denied where no right to work law exists. This question has nothing to do with fundamental rights and it has no place in the Kansas constitution. If Kansans want to prohibit the union shop they should do it by legislation and not by amendment."
The amendment would impose a hardship on the union worker and give the man who refuses to join the union a constitutional right to be a chiseler, he said.
Prof. Titus said the name of the amendment is not accurate, since it has nothing to do with finding jobs for workers, but simply makes the union shop illegal in Kansas.
Prof Titus also said right to work should come under legislation, and not be put into the constitution. He
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said most political scientists oppose right to work as an amendment to the constitution.
He explained that through employer-union agreements, the union shop still could be operated in Kansas, as the law would require the attorney general and his staff to go through the state enforcing this law.
Also at the coffee hour Thomas L. W. Johnson, Rockford, Ill., graduate student, explained the first proposed amendment which would make the election of state Supreme Court Justices non-partisan.
Legislature's Only Woman to Speak
The Political Emphasis Week program for tomorrow will feature the only woman representative in the state legislature giving a speech during a coffee hour at 4 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
Miss Beatrice Jacquard, of Santana, Kan., will speak on the role of women in politics in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
The governor would make the appointments to the court from a list of names provided by a nominating committee, and each man appointed would have to be approved by the voters at a general election.
Marvin Meade, assistant director of consultation for the Governmental Research Center, discussed the second proposed amendment.
He described it as a "patsy in comparison with the other two amendments." It would allow the state to participate in the national flood control program, he said.
The state constitution prohibits Kansas from joining in any programs of internal improvement, Meade said. This section of the constitution is a carry-over from the old Wyandotte constitution, prompted when many states went into debt in the early 1800's on programs of internal improvements.
THE VICTORS—Winners in the election for freshman officers held yesterday get together for first time. They are, from left, front row, Susan Anderson, Kansas City, Mo., and Sue Barrett, Oklahoma City, representatives to All Student Council; back row, David A. Cooley, Mission, president; Martha Rowe, Kansas City, Mo., secretary; Bernard T. Jackson, Kansas City, Kan., vice-president. Allan Hedrick, Mission, treasurer, is not pictured.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year, No. 35
Thursday, Oct. 30, 1958
AWS Leadership Day Continues As Planned
The Associated Women Students (AWS) is planning to go ahead with High School Leadership Day, Eleanor (Tudy) Youngberg, Lawrence senior and president of AWS, said today.
Miss Youngberg said she does not know how AWS will defray the cost of the project.
Earlier in the week The All Student Council cut the AWS budget by $900 eliminating funds for Leadership Day and reducing the amount for the "Wise Words for Women" booklet which is sent to women entering the University.
"The action of the ASC came as a complete surprise." Miss Youngberg said.
Leadership Day is scheduled for Nov. 15 and plans for it were begun last March. AWS had invited 96 high school seniors to come and they have been promised room and board for one evening. The estimated cost of the project is $500.
Miss Youngberg said there is no possibility of printing the booklet now.
Bill 13 of the ASC Constitution, which includes provisions for AWS, provides that student organizations can receive appropriations from only one
source. Under this bill, the AWS cannot ask for more money from the University. It is a student organization and must accept funds from the ASC only.
The ASC, by cutting the proposed budget $900, made the appropriation the same amount AWS got two years ago.
Pat Little, Wichita senior and chairman of ASC, said that there were three reasons why the budget was cut so severely.
1. High School Leadership Day is primarily a public relations function, the funds for which should come from University appropriations rather than ASC, according to Bill 13 of the ASC Constitution.
2. The ASC felt that the booklet and the leadership day did not benefit the students, particularly the men students who outnumber the women approximately 3-1.
3. The AWS budget was increased $900 last year. The ASC did not feel that AWS increased its functions and services enough to merit the increase again this year.
Picket Stops At Dorm Site
The picket of construction in front of Templin and Lewis Halls was removed last night as the company and union went into settlement talks, Glen Hendricks, superintendent of the Harmon Construction Co. said today.
The company and the union are attempting to settle the matter without the hiring of new men, Hendricks said.
The cement subcontractor, Hill Cement Co., of Oklahoma City, said the union wants more men on the job. They want the number determined by the amount of concrete poured.
The picket, Nels Stone, Toneka, was in front of the construction project yesterday. Work was halted when other workers observed the picket line.
3 Americans Get Nobel Prize for Medicine
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—(UPI)—Three American scientists won the 1958 Nobel Prize for Medicine today for their pioneer work in genetics—studies that could lead the way to a cure for cancer.
One-half of the $41,250 award went to George Wells Beadle, of the Kerckhoff biology laboratories at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and Edward Lawrie Tatum, of the Rockefeller Institute, New York, for their discovery "that genes act by regulating definite chemical events."
The other half of the prize went to Joshua Lederberg, of the University of Wisconsin, for his discoveries concerning "genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria."
The awards were made by the
staff of Sweden's medical research center, the Karolinska Institute, which said the American discoveries would have a strong influence on the search for a cure for cancer.
The discovery gave science its first clue as to how genes—which transmit heredity in plant and animal reproduction—actually work. Their work now forms part of the foundation of modern Genetics.
The importance of Lederberg's discovery lies in that it revealed sexual fertilization is not the only way for bacteria to be recombined.
The Nobel Peace Prize, if one is awarded this year, will be announced later in Oslo, Norway.
Freshmen Elect Cooley; Amendment Approved
David A. Cooley, Mission freshman, received 451 of 768 votes cast for freshman class president to win that office in yesterday's election.
The student body also voted approval of the proposed amendment to change the eligibility requirements for candidates for student body president and vice-president.
Freshman students elected Susan Anderson, Kansas City, Mo., and Sue Barrett, Oklahoma City, Okla., as freshman representative to the All Student Council.
Other class officers elected by freshman students were Bernard T. Jackson, Kansas City, Kan., vicepresident; Martha Rowe, Kansas City, Mo., secretary, and Allan Hedrick, Mission, treasurer.
The amendment changes the Associated Students' Constitution to require that each candidate for president or vice-president of the student body must have served one full semester on the ASC.
It further provides, any candidate
who does not fulfill this requirement,
must attend all regular ASC meetings,
beginning not later than Dec.
1, until the last meeting before the
filing deadline for the spring primary election. At that time, the candidate will be declared automatically eligible for nomination for one of the two high offices.
The two new representatives to the ASC, Miss Anderson and Miss Barrett, are members of Vox Populi political party. They replace the incumbents, AGI representative Judith S. Gaskins, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, and Vox Populi representative, Mary Olson, Wichita sophomore. The change gives Vox Populi 25 of the 31 seats on the council.
Howard J. Elfeldt, Kansas City, Mo., senior and chairman of the Elections Committee, said that yesterday's election had the largest turnout of any fall election he has ever witnessed. There were 789 ballots cast for freshman officers, 356 cast for freshman representative from women's dormitories, and 1,325 votes cast on the amendment.
"It also was one of the cleanest and most efficiently run elections
in recent years," Elfeldt said. "There were 789 ballots cast for freshman officers, 356 cast for freshman representative from women's dormitories, and 1,325 votes cast on the amendment.
"It also was one of the cleanest and most efficiently run elections in recent years," Ellfeldt said. "There was no confusion. Everyone knew his job."
President — Cooley, 451; James Brooks, Wichita, 174; William Cozine, Wichita, 143.
Voting break-down for freshman class officers was:
Vice-president — Jackson, 320;
Stephen Reed, Mission, 306; Linda
Penny Wheat. Overland Park. 138.
Secretary — Rowe, 380; Gary Vail, Wellington, 339; William Goetze, Kansas City, Kan., 141.
Treasurer — Hedrick, 372; Henry Luebbert, Prairie Village, 211; Thad Billingsley, Wichita, 183.
Index
AWS, ASC controversy ... p. 2
CU-OU game ... p. 5
Student health ... p. 8