Daily hansan
Tuesday, Oct. 7, 1958
The KU Weather Bureau reported 1.94 inches of rain to 8 o'clock this morning after showers moved into Eastern Kansas about midnight Monday. Showers were forecast again for tonight.
Rainy Weather Fails To Stop KU Students
BLACK TUESDAY—An umbrella-covered KU coed points on the calendar to the third Tuesday on which rain has drenched the campus.
Rain was still coming down at 9:30 this morning on the University of Kansas campus, but if a fast sampling of students in Strong Hall is an indication, University of Kansas students do not let rain stop the wheels of education.
Joseph Hanna, Dighton senior,
claims to have followed a complicated route in order to make all of his classes. He said, "In order to get to Strong.Annex for my 9 o'clock, I ducked in and out of buildings. I came through Fraser, Bailey and Strong on the way to miss the rain.
Tracey West, Healy sophomore, said, "It was wet, but I made all my classes—unfortunately. I didn't get into much rain."
Janice Jensen, Kansas City, Mo. freshman, said, "I had a 9 o'clock in Strong, but I just made it before it started raining."
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Curtis Brewer, LaGrange, Ill,
freshman, said, "I had an 8 and
9 o'clock class and made both of them.
They were both in Strong Annex.
Scattered thunderstorms that were locally severe fell Monday afternoon and evening in Central Kansas. Stafford received between two and one-half and three inches of rain, accompanied by a 60-mile wind and hail the size of marbles.
William Sheldon, Salina junior, said he braved the rain to make a 9 o'clock class in Strong Annex.
and it wasn't raining at eight when I came in."
Hutchinson received a heavy rain with a 56-mile wind and hail.
56th Year. No.18
1,800 Expected For 7th Science Math Day
Approximately 1.800 junior high and high school students are expected to be on campus for the seventh annual Science and Mathematics Day Saturday.
Dr. L. R. C. Agnew, chairman of the department of history of medicine, KU Medical Center, will speak on "The Impact of Darwinism on Present Day Biology."
The Science and Math Day program is sponsored by 12 departments in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, School of Education and University Extension.
Dr. Raymond C. Moore, professor of geology, will greet the students Saturday morning in Hoch Auditorium. After a noon luncheon in the Kansas Union Ballroom the science and mathematics departments will display the latest scientific developments and have faculty members available to explain them.
Vox Populi, campus political party, has elected three of its executive officers and will elect others at 8:15 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union Pine Room.
In the afternoon, Dr. Robert W. Baxter, associate professor of botany and director of the KU Science and Mathematics Summer Camp, will speak on "The Science Camp Program of Future Scientists."
Dr. Ronald McGregor, associate professor of botany, is coordinator of the program.
Those elected were George Ryan, Kansas City, Kan., junior, vicepresident; Nancy Kibler, Topeka junior, secretary; Mary C. Stephenson, Pittsburgh sophomore, treasurer.
Vox Populi Elects New Party Officers
U.S. Resolves Not To Provoke Reds
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—The United States was resolved today to do or say nothing that would provoke the Chinese Communists to resume their bombardment of Quemoy.
American officials said the United States—without formally announcing it—was complying already with the cease-fire terms laid down by Red China.
The Chinese Communists stopped firing at Quemoy Sunday. They said their cease-fire would continue for one week if the United States stopped escorting Nationalist Chinese convvoys from Formosa to its outpost.
"You can bet there'll be no more U.S. escorts until or unless the bombardment resumes," one American official said.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was due back later today from a five-day vacation at his Duck Island retreat in Lake Ontario. He has issued no statements on the Chinese cease-fire and may be wary of saying much at present in view of the delicate situation.
Sen. Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa) said last night the latest developments "Justify the hope that the American people are winning their fight for peace in the Far East." In a
speech at Landsdown, Pa., he credited Democratic protests and said it was "important for all citizens to continue these protests in order to hold President Eisenhower to the conciliatory approach" he took last week.
Adm. Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, said, however, that withdrawal of U.S. support from the Chinese Nationalists defending Quemoy Island would be "abject submission to the Communist use of force."
Officials, cautiously hopeful the cease-fire may continue beyond a week or perhaps become permanent, were anxious to say nothing that would rock the boat in the Formosa Strait.
The State Department carefully refrained from characterizing Red China's surprise move as a sign of weakness in the face of the U.S. warning that it would not give ground under fire.
Hugh Walpole to Lecture
Hugh Walpole, author and educator, will give a University Lecture on semantics at 8 p.m. Friday in Fraser Theater.
His appearance is in connection with a conference on "Composition and Literature in High School and College." It also is part of the University Lecture Series. He will speak on "Semantics and the Language Community."
Mr. Walpole has been examiner and lecturer at the University of Chicago since 1946. He was born
and educated in England, and received his M.A. degree in 1932 from Cambridge University.
He is the author of "Stories from France," "Semantics," "Fundamentos del Ingles," and "Foundations of English for Foreign Students."
W. P. Albrecht, chairman of the English department, will preside at a banquet for conference members Friday night. Miss. Frances Ingemann, director of KU's linguistics program, is the main speaker for the banquet.
'Poetry, Jazz Background Popular With Public'
Author Langston Hughes says that reading poetry to jazz seems to make poetry more popular with the public.
"Anything that makes poetry more popular is good," Mr. Hughes said. "It is stylish now to read to a jazz accompaniment, and I hope it will be used more on radio and television."
Mr. Hughes will read selections from his poetry with a background provided by the KU Jazz Club at 4 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Mr. Hughes said that portraying the Negro's position in American society has been the motivation of most of his novels and poems.
Mr. Hughes—A Social Writer
"I suppose I am what you would call a social writer, although I don't limit myself to racial themes. Negro authors should write about other people and other things, just as any author does."
"Vachel Lindsay, a poet who has written about KU in his poetry, was in part responsible for my success," Mr. Hughes said.
Mr. Hughes said that it is always pleasant to come back to Lawrence where he spent his childhood.
"I was a busboy in a restaurant in Washington, D. C.," Mr. Hughes said. "Lindsay read some of my poetry and liked it. He arranged interviews for me with newspapers and had me on his radio program. That was the first attention that I received as a poet. It was a great help."
From Busboy to Poetry
His next book scheduled for publication is a novel for teenagers, Mr. Hughes said. He also is under contract to write another children's book and a play he wrote based on the novel, "Tamborine to Glory." is making the rounds of New York producers
Mr. Hughes said that no aspiring young poet should expect security from poetry—not even a living. He said that a poet has to work in other fields as well, and work on poetry in his spare time.
"Newspaper work can be very helpful to creative writers because it gives them discipline and exposes them to different fields of experience," Mr. Hughes said. "Of course the ideal situation is not to work at all, whether you're a poet or not."
POEMS SET TO JAZZ — Poetry undergoes a with the Don Conard jazz quartet which will new treatment as Langston Hughes rehearses accompany him today in the Kansas Union.