ASC IN ACTION—Shown above are members night in their regular meeting room, the Pine of the All Student Council in their meeting last Room of the Kansas Union.
Daily hansan
56th Year, No.14
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 1958
Students 'Left Cold' By Mercury Dip
It was just downright cold this morning.
The KU Weather Bureau reported the temperature dipped to a chilling 35 degrees overnight. Local radio station KLWN reported 30 degrees was recorded in the low-lying areas around the campus.
All around the campus, the pace quickened as students grabbed for more blankets, motorists reached for anti-freeze, and Sarge, the perpetual campus canine, lapped up a cup of coffee in Strong Hall basement.
Local service stations said many students were checking automobile radiators and putting in anti-freeze today as a reaction to the near-freezing weather.
"They should get it in right away," one station operator said. "It doesn't cost any more now than it will later. It's safest to do it now."
C. G. Bayles, buildings and grounds superintendent, said the cold snap did not create any problems in his department.
"The furnaces have been going for two days now," he said. "So we didn't have any trouble keeping things warm." Low temperatures did not do any damage to plants in buildings or on the campus, he said.
Watkins Hospital officials reported no unusual number of students wanting flu shots. The shots are given free to any KU student.
"It would be advisable for them to come in and get the shots," a nurse said.
Keith Lawton, director of physical plant operations, said the construction activity on campus would not be slowed down unless the weather gets really cold.
"It would have to get down to 15 degrees for several days before we would have any trouble," he said. "Things will go on as scheduled right now."
Some students interviewed today liked the cold; many, however, said they suffered slightly because they were unprepared. Most discomfort came to those who went to bed with insufficient blankets.
Here are some students' comments on the coldest sleeping night this semester:
Tony Morrow, Kansas City, Mo., junior—"It forced me to steal blankets from my fraternity brothers."
Sue Bagg, Kansas City, Kan., junior—"I liked it—it was just right for sleeping."
Joanne Novak, Minneapolis, Minn., junior—"I don't know how the sleeping was. I was too busy studying to go to bed."
Judy Hearn, Kansas City, Kan., junior—"I was a little cold, but I was so tired it didn't bother me."
Del Funk, Lawrence senior—"I thought it was just right for sleeping—not too cold at all."
Terry Merriweather, Lawrence senior—"It looks as though parka weather has finally arrived."
Bill Cohn, Topeka senior—"It's too cold for my two blankets. I'll have to get another one somewhere."
Reed to Speak No Answer Yet From Docking
Clyde M. Reed, Republican candidate for governor, plans to speak at the Political Emphasis Week Campus Forum Oct. 30 in the Kansas Union Ballroom. His address is tentatively scheduled for 8 p.m.
Rex Doherty, Dellvale junior and president of AGI, said Monday that Governor George Docking may be here on the same day. Final word on his visit is not expected until Friday.
Three KU students went to the Democratic and Republican party headquarters in Topeka last week to extend invitations to Governor Docking and Mr. Reed.
They were told at Republican party headquarters that Mr. Reed previously had planned to be in Lawrence Oct. 30 and would be able to speak at the forum. A democratic party spokesman said he was fairly certain the Governor could attend, but that he would have to consult the schedule before he said definitely.
The Lawrence City Commission yesterday heard the first reading of an ordinance which, if passed on its second reading, will rezone a zone A neighborhood and let the Phi Kappa Phi fraternity and the Pi Beta Phi sorority build houses there.
Zone Bill Read To Commission
The end of this phase of the long fight over rezoning the Ben Barteldes and Odd Williams land on the north side of West 15th Street will come Tuesday. The Commission will vote to accept or reject the ordinance. The 5-man Commission must give it a 4-1 majority for it to pass.
Most of the property owners west of the campus are against rezoning the land to allow construction of Greek houses.
The property owners argued before the Commission at the Sept. 23 meeting that rezoning will depreciate their property values.
ASCSanctions Racial Study
Proposal of a committee to investigate racial discrimination provoked a vigorous discussion before it was approved at last night's All Student Council meeting.
Jan Cameron, Topeka junior introduced a resolution establishing a special committee to investigate racial discrimination in the KU area and to promote the work of any organization concerned with racial discrimination The Group for the Improvement of Human Relations was mentioned as such an organization.
A sea of hands went up following Miss Cameron's reading of the resolution. John Husar, Chicago, Ill., senior and ASC vice-chairman was given the floor.
"In regard to working quietly on this thing," Becker said, "I'm sure the committee wouldn't go downtown with banners flying and attack the townspeople with flaming swords."
Brooks Becker, Emporia graduate student, agreed that politics should be kept out of such a committee, but it still was important to investigate the discrimination situation.
"An organization like the Group for the Improvement of Human Relations should be allowed to work quietly and independently," Husar said. "Let's keep politics out of this kind of thing."
Husar said resentment would be the result of the committee.
"The Negro students would be put in the limelight again," Husar said. "and they wouldn't like that."
Terry Davis, Frontenac senior, said he was not certain what such a committee could accomplish. He said he was afraid publicity would be the only result, and that it would deter the progress of the Group for the Improvement of Human Relations.
Apprehensions that the committee would become a political tool were voiced by Bob Macy, Hutchinson senior. He asked if the council members appointed to the committee would be those who are really interested in improving the discrimination situation or people interested in the political effects of membership in the committee.
Richard Lewis, Kansas City, Kan.
senior, said he considered it a "sad
situation when members of the ASC,
supposedly the cream of the students,
will not take a stand on the
basic equality of the human race."
Becker moved that the resolution be voted upon. It was passed 10 to 9.
The ASC also voted approval of the amendment concerning the eligibility requirements for student body presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
The amendment reduces the ASC membership requirement for candidates from one school year to the equivalent of one semester and limits to one the number of ASC meetings the potential candidates can miss.
A resolution to establish a newsletter to be distributed to the students in which all business transacted at an ASC meeting would be recorded was introduced to the ASC by Edgar Dittemore, McClouth senior.
The newsletter would improve communications between the students and the ASC, Dittemore said, and promote interest in the functions of the ASC.
Other new business taken up by ASC was a proposed amendment submitted by Husar which would add a preamble to the ASC constitution. Also, a resolution was introduced to established a special committee to investigate a proposed bill concerning the use of an IBM in campus elections.
An amendment introduced at the last ASC meeting concerning representation of student voting districts was defeated. A provision of the amendment would have made it possible for a student living or school district to be represented in the ASC so long as one valid ballot was cast in an election from that district. A similar amendment has been defeated by student vote in previous elections.
Husar, chairman of the Committee on Committees, said his committee considered the bill unworkable. He suggested that if the same bill is defeated by a student vote several times, it is time to offer something new.
ASC Group OK If Members Free of Politics
Miss Bodie is co-chairman of the Group for the Improvement of Human Relations.
An All Student Council committee to investigate racial discrimination at KU and in Lawrence will work if the right people are on the committee and members keep out of politics, Linda Bodle, Plattsburg, Mo. senior, said today.
"The ASC resolution was rather weak in that it should have made more specific the duties of this committee," Miss Bodle said, "I also think this committee should work in areas theGIHR is not concerned in."
Miss Bodle said the ASC committee would give more students the chance to learn about the discrimination problem on the campus and in downtown Lawrence and would be "more of a help than a hindrance" to the GIHR efforts.
"I think the resolution will tend toward politics. The GHR is determined to keep out of any politics." Miss Bodle said, "We just hope that anyone really sincere about wanting to help on this problem will check with us to see what can be done."
She said the GIHR is making progress and pointed out the value of the ASC committee would depend on what the committee members do about the present situation.
Missing Man Is in Nevada
Roy Routh, missing Baldwin freshman, has wired a Baldwin bank from Reno, Nev., for money.
Routh left the KU campus Thursday afternoon, attended a football game at Baldwin that night and has not been heard from since.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Routh, Baldwin, said he visited them before attending the football game and did not appear to be ill or unhappy.
The Rouths received a postcard from Roy which was mailed Friday from Lawrence. It said "don't worry."
The only other report of Routh's whereabouts came from Clarence Gordon, superintendent of Baldwin schools. Mr. Gordon received a call Friday from the Ellsworth high school principal, who told him a boy named Roy Routh had tried to enroll there.
Routh worked part time at a cafe here. He did not take any personal belongings with him.
Routh's mother said he had a car and has money in the bank.
Weather
Crisp, cool weather and the first general frost of the season last night brought the first day of Oct-
Goodland reported the overnight low of 28.
The mercury was expected to rise to the 60s in the northwest tomorrow, and range to the mid-70s in the east and south.