Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year, No.11
Friday, Sept. 26, 1958
DEBATERS—These five faculty members discussed the student's moral values. From left are Jack Steele, associate professor of business administration; E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, moderator; Peter J. Caws, visiting professor of
philosophy; L. Worth Seagondollar, associate professor of physics, and Francis Heller, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The undecided sign designates rows of seats for open minded members of the audience.
Audience Agrees College Affects Moral Judgment
Two debaters who believed a college education affects moral values of students convinced nearly half of about 200 persons at the fourth annual English style debate last night they should change their seats.
The audience was not trying to hear better, but just participating in the debate by showing their response to the arguments on the issue, Resolved: That college education today fails, generally, to affect the moral values of students.
In an English style debate, seats for the audience are divided into three sections, affirmative, negative and undecided. When a person becomes convinced that his previous opinion is incorrect, he moves to another section.
Peter Caws, visiting assistant professor of philosophy, and Jack Steele, associate professor of business administration, took the affirmative position.
Francis Heller, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and L. Worth Seagondollar, associate professor of physics, took the negative position.
Two-Thirds Oppose Resolution
Only one-fourth of the audience was opposed to the resolution at the beginning of the debate, but before it was over about two-thirds opposed it.
"The values the student gets in college now involve his adjustment to a system of society," Prof. Caws said in opening the debate. "If the system were to fail, the values would be worthless. Thus, they are not lasting values."
"The student is provided with too many ready-made values to pursue any of a lasting nature," he said.
Little Rock Proof of Failure
Prof. Steele said he does not think educational systems have ever succeeded in giving students moral values. He cited the integration crisis in Little Rock, Ark., as an example of this.
"It seems to me that many colleges tend to lead to knowledge for knowledge's sake. Another danger is that some of them are too vocational in naure. Neither of these will help students develop a sense of values." Prof. Steele said.
Architect, Artist Show Work Sunday in Museum
Students and faculty will have an opportunity to see a double-barrelled display of art Sunday when examples of work of Frank Lloyd Wright, noted architect, and Lt. Col. D. Ashari, Indonesian painter, go on exhibit in the Museum of Art.
A reception will be held on the main floor of the museum from 3 to 5 p.m. and refreshments will be served to the public. The two exhibitions will remain until October 25.
Nineteen projects are on display, including drawings of churches, auditoriums, and the cultural center in Baghdad. An enlargement of his original sketch for the controversial "mile-high skyscraper" in Chicago, which promises the use
The only parts of the exhibit material that were not a personal loan of Wright were the preliminary sketches, of a house, loaned my Mr. and Mrs. Rrank Bott of Kansas City, and the Wichita University sketches, loaned by Dean Jackson O. Powell of that school.
Kansas Buildings Shown Several Kansas buildings are on display, including plans for the Henry J. Allen house in Wichita and the School of Education at the University of Wichita.
of atomic-powered elevators, may be seen.
Kansas Buildings Shown
Dean Heller said students should seek to retain an open mind. He said it is not a matter of a neat assortment of academic requirements that helps a student in this respect.
All Departments Get Chance
"The Wright display is part of the Museum's role in collaborating with all departments of the University in putting on educational exhibitions," said Edward Maser, museum director.
"What a college has to do is provide a challenge for the student," Dean Heller said. "That is all we can do. We can't put a student in one end of a machine and at the other end get a package of lasting values."
The paintings of D. Ashari, a
Prof. Seagondollar said it is not the purpose of education to provide the student with a set of values.
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"Education provides the student with the thinking equipment and materials with which he can arrive at his own evaluations. The amount of good this does is up to the student," he said.
Murphy Distressed At Discrimination
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy told The Daily Kansan today that he is "personally distressed" that any racial discrimination continues to exist in Lawrence.
"I hope that this remaining small amount of discrimination can be eradicated by all thoughtful but effective means," he said.
Mixed Races Eat In 10 Cafes Only'
Of the forty restaurants in Lawrence, about 10 will serve mixed groups at all times. Only a few will serve Negroes alone.
This statement was received by The Daily Kansan today from Linda Bodle, Plattsburg, Mo., senior, and coordinator of the Group for the Improvement of Human Relations.
Students with last names beginning with S-Z will pay fees Saturday, and those with last names starting A-F will pay fees Monday.
The group started an active campaign about a year and a hlf ago. It tested the policies of restaurants, and at the same time brought peaceful pressure on them by visiting restauranturs in mixed groups.
Students must pick up fee cards from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. in the west basement of Strong Hall and ID cards in east basement before paying fees at the business office in Strong Hall.
She said:
"We have interviewed the owners to learn their attitudes and to give them a chance to reflect on the fairness of their policies.
"We have used this technique of gentle pressure because we, like the secretary-manager of the Chamber of Commerce, have felt that "rushing this thing isn't going to do any good.
"We have been peaceful in our methods, and have gained small victories. However, with the support of the whole student body, it might be possible to gain something complete—a policy of no discrimination on the basis of color in all restaurants.
Two Days Left For Fee Payment
Weather
Generally partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Cooler tonight and over central portion tomorrow. Low tonight 40 northwest to 50s southeast. High tomorrow 65 to 75.
He made no direct comment on yesterday's statement from E. R. Zook, secretary-manager of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
Zook said yesterday that if the members of the Allied Greek Independent campus political party would go to Chancellor Murphy, "they would find out that rushing this thing isn't going to do any good."
Several businessmen were interviewed yesterday after the Allied Greek Independent campus political party called on the All Student Council to study the discrimination issue, pledging their support to a drive to eliminate discrimination.
"Provinciat and Prejudiced"
A theater manager said that KU students seem to take a "very liberal" stand on the discrimination issue, but the townspeople are "provincial and prejudiced."
One restaurant owner who caters almost exclusively to students said Negroes have always been served there.
Refuses Because of Attitude
Another restaurant owner who refuses service to Negroes said it was because of the attitude of his customers and not his own personal feeling.
Dennis Montee, manager of the Granada and Varsity theaters, said the theater chain was integrated when he took over its operation a year ago.
"We've never had any complaints that I know of," he said. He blamed Lawrence citizens, not the students, for racial discrimination.
Here is the Chancellor's statement:
"I have no comment on Mr. Zook's observation. I am grateful for the support which Mr. Zook, the Chamber of Commerce and other enlightened citizens of Lawrence have given us over the past years in the progressive elimination of the residual discrimination in Lawrence.
"I am personally distressed that any discrimination continues to exist, since it is inconsistent with the basic principles by which Americans purport to live. I hope that this remaining small amount of discrimination in Lawrence can be eradicated as soon as possible by all thoughtful but effective means."
STATE CAPITOL—Curtis Besinger, assistant professor of architecture, left, and Leslie Monroe, Lyons junior, look over one of Frank Lloyd
Wright's designs that will be displayed Sunday in the Museum of Art. The design is of the proposed state capitol building of Arizona.