ALL TUNED UP—But nothing to ring for. Enthusiastic Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity members bailed this bell out of a junkyard to ring for touchdowns. So far, it has been silent. Hoping
for better luck at the next game are J. B. Hodgson, Kansas City, Mo., senior, Lynn Anderson, Atwood sophomore, and Kent Granger, Ottawa senior.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year, No. 9
ASC Tables Bill, Proposes 2 Others
Wednesday, Sept. 24, 1958
The vote on the proposed amendment concerning the eligibility requirements for presidential and vice-presidential candidates was postponed at last night's All Student Council meeting.
Richard D. Lewis, Kansas City Kan., senior, originally offered the amendment at the Sept. 16 ASC meeting when it was sent to the Committee on Committees and Legislation for recommendation.
The amendment, which would reduce the ASC membership requirement for candidates from one school year to the equivalent of one semester, received criticism from John Husar, Chicago senior and chairman of the committee.
Husar moved to defeat the amendment beause it did not limit the number of ASC meetings the potential candidates could miss and because it was vague on specific length of service requirements.
Lewis introduced an amendment to the amendment which limited the number of absences to one and made minor changes in the wording of the service requirements. The altered amendment was tabled until next week's meeting to allow council members time to study it.
A bill was proposed allowing the ASC to hire a professional secretary, and another amendment was introduced proposing to have each student living district represented on the ASC according to the number of votes cast in the district or $ _{13} $
of the number of eligible voters in the district, whichever number is larger. Both were sent to the Committee on Committees.
The new committee members were appointed to replace George Smith. Lawrence senior, and Gerald L. Rushfelt, Lawrence, fourth-year law, who have resigned.
Frank Naylor, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore, was appointed Secretary of Student Welfare, replacing Smith. Don Bradley, Lawrence, third-year law, was appointed to the Student Court, replacing Rushfelt.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — (UPI) — An advanced test version of the Navy's Polaris missile burst apart in flight today and a huge chunk exploded in a lagoon only a few hundred yards from heavily-populated Coca Beach.
Navy Test Missile Bursts in Flight
The other half of the 25-foot-long rocket plummeted back to the cape within a few yards of its launching stand, and exploded in a huge mushroom cloud of smoke and flames.
Expert on China Will Visit KU In Late October
Robert A. Burton, expert on Chinese affairs and a member of the American Universities Field Staff, will be on the campus Oct. 20-29—the first of four AUFS men to visit KU this year.
Burton covered the Chinese civil war and politics while in that country as a news correspondent until the Communists seized Shanghai. He has traveled extensively in Asia and Europe and has lectured on China in the United States under the auspices of the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations.
He has served on the staff of the American Consulate General in Hong Kong, beginning in 1951. From 1954-58 he also served in Hong Kong as research consultant to the Far Eastern and Russian Institute of the University of Washington.
Burton joined the AUFS in 1952. He will speak to classes and various groups at KU and will be available for consultation with students and faculty.
Weather
Increasing cloudiness with scattered thunderstorms beginning north central and southwest today. Spreading eastward tonight and continuing southeast and extreme east tomorrow.
KU Minus Campus Humor Magazine
KU may not have a campus humor magazine—at least not this year. Squat, former official humor publication of the University, was rejected by the All Student Council last spring.
Applications for editor and business manager of a new humor magazine that had to be filed with the ASC publications committee by last Saturday didn't come in. Only one application for editor was received by the committee. Another student expressed an interest in cartooning.
Squat was ruled "too filthy" by
the ASC. "It was just not something you would want to show to someone from Kansas State or any other school," said one member of the ASC publications committee.
A name for the new magazine, if organized, will not be chosen until a new staff is obtained.
An appeal last spring by the ASC for persons interested in staffing the
publication brought similar results to those shown after the deadline Saturday. Only one student applied for editor then, too.
One more appeal will be made before plans for the magazine are dropped. No deadline will be put on applications this time and no formal application will be required. Persons interested in the positions as editor or business manager or in working on the magazine in other posts are asked to telephone Elinor Hadley, Kansas City, Mo., junior, at VI 3-1772.
Citizens Fight Greek Zoning
The Lawrence City Commission voted 3 to 1 yesterday to accept the Planning Commission's recommendation favoring the rezoning of the proposed Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and Pi Beta Phi sorority building sites and ordered a rezoning ordinance drawn up.
The ordinance for the 3-acre tract north-west of Allen Field House will be introduced at the next Commission meeting Tuesday and final vote on the ordinance will come a week later.
For the ordinance to pass, four of the five commissioners must vote yes. A majority of three yes votes will not carry the ordinance since 20 per cent of the property owners involved in the controversy signed petitions asking that the land not be rezoned.
Opponents of the rezoning contend the land would depreciate in value if the Greek houses were allowed to be built, and if it is rezoned so the Greek houses could not be built, the land could be used for other uses, such as a hospital or apartment house.
A majority of the property owners along West 15th Street, Crescent Drive and Westwood Road are against the rezoning. Many of these persons are University faculty or staff. Elddon J. Fields, associate professor of political science, was among those who gave lengthy arguments against the rezoning.
Ben Bartelides and Odd Williams, both of Lawrence, own the two tracts in question which are on the north side of West 15th Street, approximately 300 yards west of the Music and Dramatics Arts Building.
Home owners against the rezoning live on the south side of Wes 15th Street, across from the tract of land in question.
KU Owns Adjoining Land
KU Owns Adjoining Land The University owns the adjoining land east of the land that is desired to be re-zoneed. The University's land starts just across from the Music and Dramatic Arts Building. The proposed new engineering building is to go into part of the land.
The request to rezone this tract came before the Commission last year but it was turned down. The Commission reconsidered the proposal this year because when it came up the first time only one tract was involved. Now both Mr Williams and Mr. Barteldes are asking to have their land rezoned.
Prof. Fields Against Rezoning
Prof. Fields said, "These organizations have other places they can build new homes. There are other areas where they won't give the Commission the problem or rezoning.
"Take the most enthusiastic estimates of the future growth of the University and these two houses
will have little effect on the increased housing needs. They would, however, depreciate the value of the existing properties in the area."
Doubts If Will Ever Build
Prof. Fields said it was even problematical whether the two Greek organizations would ever build because of a number of reasons including lack of finances or a national emergency.
He pointed out that if the tracts were rezoned his property and his neighbors' on the south side of West 15th Street would become an island surrounded by University housing and land.
Would Help Housing Situation
Mr. Williams said building the new Greek houses on these sites would help the University housing situation because their former houses could be used for additional students.
"The tracts are vacant, they are adjacent and easily accessible to the campus and are located along a new gateway to the campus, West 15th Street," Mr. Williams said.
The Commission earlier in the session let an $88,000 contract for paving West 15th Street.
Mr. Barteldes told the Commission he bought his land three years ago with the intention of building a new home. Later events made it less desirable as a private home building site, he said.
"I do not think you could influence anyone to build a $25,000 home on the sites now and it would be better to have two new fraternity houses on it than for the University to condemn the land and build a big dormitory." Mr. Barteldes said.
Two Months Until First Jayhawker
The first issue of the 1958-59 Jay-
hawker, KU's magazine yearbook,
will be available to students before
Thanksgiving.
New students who bought the Jayhawker by mail should come to the Jayhawker office in the Kansas Union to pick up the cover and the subscription card now. Office hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The fall issue will contain football previews, pledge pictures, the SUA Carnival, the foreign student section and the administrative section.
FEES, FEES, FEES—Jack E. Chambers, Leavenworth sophomore, makes out a list of ways he can get enough money to pay his fees. Payment of fees begins tomorrow for students whose last names begin G-L.