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FRESHMAN ELECTION—Two unidentified freshman women are shown voting at 11 this morning in Fraser Hall in the freshman primary elections. A total of 107 freshmen had voted by the time the picture was taken: in Fraser, 10; Bailey, 7; Strong, 73, and Marvin, 17. General freshman class elections will be next Wednesday.
Murphy Declines Comment on Statute
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy had no comment today concerning the Kansas statute which the All Student Council Housing Committee brought into the Sunnyside controversy yesterday.
Dr. Murphy repeated his statement of last week that if it had not been for the use of Sunnyside rentals to help pay for the Stouffer Place units the University would still have "only the firetrap slums and no expansion in housing for the married students."
"The University will continue in its efforts to replace the slum housing of Sunnyside with modern, modest and fireproof housing of the type of Stouffer Place.
The chancellor's statement:
Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1958
"I can only repeat that if it had not been for Sunnyside, there would be no Stouffer Place. We would today have only the fire-trap slums and no expansion in housing for the married students."
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year, No. 29
ASC Seeks to Open Sunnyside Files
A Kansas statute that may force open the Housing Office's Sunnyside financial records was discovered by the All Student Council Housing Committee.
The statute is number 45-201,
article 2—"Records Open to Public."
Sue Chapman, Lawrence senior and committee chairman said the committee understands the statute to mean all official public records are open to inspection by any citizen.
Unless it is demonstrated that the University falls under the exceptions listed in the statute, she said, it appears that Sunnyside financial records should be open for inspection.
The committee may need a court order to get the files open.
Court Order Needed?
M. C. Slough, dean of the School of Law, said many records are not covered by the statute. "I have found that one has to take record inspection at face value," he said.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy refused Thursday to release Sunny-side financial records to a delegation from the Housing Committee.
The committee is attempting to inspect the records as part of action to investigate complaints received from Sunnyside residents alleging excessive rent prices. The residents say that rent for similar type housing at other state schools is lower than that for Sunnyside.
Gilbert Cuthbertson, Leavenworth senior and committee secretary, read a letter to the gathering from A. Thornton Edwards, housing director at Kansas State College.
Mr. Edwards said rent for housing similar to Sunnyside at Kansas State is $24 and $28 for one and two-bedroom apartments plus a $1 month utility charge for each major appliance. Sunnyside rent is $55 a month plus a $1 a month utility charge for each major appliance. Sunnyside residents claim facilities at both schools are about equal.
Rentals Not Related
When J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, was asked Sept. 24 about the difference between Kansas State and KU rent, he said he did not know the amount of rent charged by Kansas State for its student housing. He said there is no connection between the two schools as far as housing is concerned.
Several persons at last night's meeting expressed worry over the availability of Stouffer Place apartments when they and their families will be forced to evacuate Sunnyside. Bob Macy, Hutchinson senior, married student representative to the ASC, said Mr. Wilson has told him that already more people are waiting for apartments in Stouffer Place than can be accommodated when the new addition is finished in January.
Cuthbertson said the committee will attempt to get priority for displaced Sunnyside residents who wish to move to Stouffer Place. He explained that since Sunnyside will not be evacuated until June 30, and the new addition will be finished in January, the only available apartments in Stouffer Place will be those resulting from normal turnover.
Reduced Rent Considered
The committee was asked by Sunnyside residents if there is a possibility of a reduction in Sunny-side rent when Stouffer Place is completed.
Cuthbertson said the committee is considering asking for such a reduction. A proposal for Sunnyside residents to receive a 30 per cent reduction on Stouffier Place rent if they wish to move there is also under consideration by the committee. he said.
Many Sunnyside residents said they might be able to afford Stouffer Place rent, but they cannot afford to store their furniture.
Weather
Fair tonight and Thursday. Not so cool northwest tonight. Warmer over state Thursday. Low tonight 32 northwest to 45 southeast. High Thursday 70s.
Dog Pays College Expenses
A greyhound owned by Joyce Viola, Abilene freshman is working Miss Viola's way through college.
Perfect Zip, pictured below with Miss Viola, has won $3,000 since he started racing 15 months ago.
W. D. Viola, Miss Viola's father, who has raised and trained greyhounds for 27 years, gave her the dog as a puppy nearly two years ago. The family agreed that all of his earnings would go toward Joyce's college education at KU.
Knowledge of Culture Needed in Art Study
Miss Viola started training the
Perfect Zip began his series of prize winning races a year ago last August when he ran second in the Mile High Kennel Club Sapling Stake in Denver, Colo.
A more complete understanding of Oriental culture would help western nations understand and more fully appreciate oriental art.
Miss Viola said her family has raised many greyhounds which have made the finals of the derbies, but Perfect Zip is the only dog that has been able to win a derby for them.
Winning the All Florida Derby made him eligible for the World-Wide International race where he proved to be the third fastest dog in the world for 1958.
This is the opinion of Laurence C. S. Sickman, director of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and the Atkins Museum of Fine Arts in Kansas City, Mo., who gave the first Humanities Lecture of the year last night.
Family organization in China is a complex social system, he said. Even Chinese houses and temples are built in relation to it.
Last February he won the Sara-
sota Kennel Club Inaugural in
Speaking primarily on Chinese art as seen by the western world, Mr. Sickman said, "China has long unbroken traditions. Its culture developed along lines different from any other. This makes comparison and contrast difficult. We have to understand the forces that produce it in order to appreciate the art."
He said the two important cultural foundations of Chinese art are the family system and the Chinese attitude toward nature.
Index
"The present Communist govern-
New York campaign p. 2
Condition of team p. 5
Hair styles p. 6
Reed's speech p. 8
dog at the age of four months by turning a rabbit loose in his pen. Later, he was sprinted daily and given a rabbit in a large field twice a week. During the last two months of his training he was walked four miles a day and given daily rub-downs.
Florida and in April he won the All Florida Derby at the Biscayne Kennel Club in Miami.
The spiritual and symbolic unit of the culture is ancestor worship, he explained. Offering vessels of iron and bronze contributed much of the art, he said.
ment is attacking the system of architecture in China and it wants to make multiled dwellings of the family units." Mr. Sickman said.
Since the 10th century the emphasis in Chinese art has been on nature. Sickman said the theme for landscape painting arose from the fact that China is primarily a farming country. Every Oriental considers his true home to be in the country, he said.
Police Investigate Broken Parking Gate
The arm on the automatic parking gate at the Kansas Union parking lot was broken off last night. Campus police are investigating to see if it was done by accident or was the work of vandals.
The damage was reported by campus police at 11:05 last night. A new arm was put on the gate and it was back in operation this morning.