'Brain Over Brawn' In Tua-Of-War
Retiring Dean Frederick J. Moreau of the School of Law will be honored, the Law Day queen will be crowned and Delmas C. Hill, federal district judge from Wichita, will give the main address at the Law Day banquet at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom.
The four finalists for the "Miss Res Ipsa Loquitur" title are Carol Sue Hall, Wichita, Delta Delta Delta; Sandra Smith, Lawrence, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Joan Stafford, St. Joseph, Mo., Alpha Delta Pi, sophomores; and Jo Le Potucek, Wellington, Gamma Phi Beta, junior.
They were selected from a group of 14 candidates in an assembly this morning in Green Hall Auditorium. The assembly also featured satirical skits poking fun at the idiosyncrasies of the members of the Law School faculty.
To Present Moreau Portrait
Dean Moreau will be presented a portrait of himself which he in turn will give to the school for the law library. Awards to law students for outstanding work this year will also be given at the banquet.
"It was truly a triumph of brain over brawn," Keith Moore, Kansas City, Mo., second-year law student and chairman of the tug-of-war, said as he caught his breath after the contest.
In the traditional tug-of-war with the engineers held at noon today, the lawyers took just eight minutes to drag their disorganized foes to defeat.
The lawyers pulled together, had a large crowd of supporters cheering them on, and most important of all, they all brought gloves which
To Televise Big 7 Games
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UP) -- Big Seven Conference football games will be telecast over a regional network of TV stations in the Middle West for the first time during 1957, Don Davis, president of KMBC Broadcasting Co., announced today Davis said KMBC-TV, Kansas City, will be the originating station for the network in the 6-state area.
Representatives of the broadcasting company completed negotiations this week with the Big Seven Conference Television Committee. The committee is composed of Reaves Peters, conference executive secretary; Arthur (Dutch) Lonborg, athletic director, and Sam Shirkey of the University of Missouri.
The regional dates for the Big Seven telecasts, at which time the NCAA national telecast will be blacked out in the area, are Oct. 12 and 26, and Nov. 9 and 23. States to be covered include Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa and Colorado.
enabled them to get a good grip on the steel cable used.
The engineers started strong, but after two minutes of indecisive short gains, the lawyers rallied and steadily pulled their way to victory. Many of the engineers didn't have gloves and they were thus unable to get a good grip on the cable.
Law Picnic Planned
Following the tug-of-war, the Law Day participants went to the farm home of Charles H. Oldfather Jr. associate professor of law, for a picnic.
The Red Peppers, freshman women's pep club, will hold an informal dance from 8:30-11:30 p.m. Friday in the Student Union Ballroom. "Lilac Time" has been chosen as the theme for the evening. The Booker T. Washington band from Kansas City, Mo. will furnish the music.
Pep Club Dance Set For Friday
The dance is open to the public. There will be no admission charge.
2 Posts Filled For Directory
The two major positions on the 1957-58 Student Directory staff have been filled.
Robert Davies, Dodge City junior is editor, and Bob Downey, Kansas City, Mo., junior, business manager.
Gene Paris, Kansas City, Mo. junior, chairman of the All Student Council Publications Committee said the directory will probably sell for 25 cents next fall.
The editor and business manager will choose the remaining positions of assistant editor, advertising manager and distribution manager, which are still open.
Weather
Cloudy this afternoon with occasional rain south and east and scattered thunderstorms mostly east portion. Tonight partly cloudy northwest, cloudy elsewhere with occasional rain southeast portion. Friday partly cloudy west, cloudy east. No important temperature change. Low tonight 45 northwest to 65 southeast. High Friday 70s.
Daily hansan
Thursday, May 2, 1957
54th Year, No. 134
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Billings Wins By 598; AGI Sweeps 18 Seats
By BOB LYLE and BOB HARTLEY
(Of The Daily Kansas Staff)
Showing unexpected strength in voting districts which have traditionally turned out majorities for the opposition, the Allied Greek-Independent party captured the most secure party grip
on student politics in recent years as Bob Billings, Russell sophomore, was elected student body president by 598 votes. AGI swept 18 of the 24 seats in the reorganized All Student Council which is now under the unicameral system.
Election Results:
Student Body president and vice president-Bob Billings, Russell sophomore and Creta Carter, Jennings sophomore.
Living districts:
Social fraternities—Dick Patterson, Kansas City, Mo. junior; Dick Harris, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore; John Downing, Kansas City, Mo. junior, and Dale Waller, Kansas City, Mo. junior.
Social sororities-Judy Anthony, Kansas City, Mo. junior; Carolyn Bailey, Scranton junior, and Betty Alexander, Onawa, Iowa sophomore.
Men's University dormitories—Wendell Wallace, Omaha, Neb. junior, and Wayne Woodruff, Cedar Vale sophomore.
Women's University dormitories—Carol Plumm, Overland Park sophomore.
Freshman women's dormitories—Jane Dean, Kansas City, Mo. and Kay Cronkite, St. Joseph, Mo.
Unmarried unorganized—Edward Prelock, Cleveland, Ohio junior, and Dale Brethower, Nevis, Minn. sophomore.
School districts
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences—Dale Vermillion, Goodland junior, and Susie Stout. Wichita sophomore.
School of Engineering—Jack Davis, Ottawa junior.
Graduate School—Brooks Becker, Emporia graduate student. School of Education—Shirley Stout, Lombard, Ill. junior School of Fine Arts—Zoe Ann Kelley, Pratt junior.
School of Fine Arts—Zoe Ann Kelley, Pratt junior.
School of Business—Shawn Wickie, sophomore.
School of Business—Sharon Dye, Wichita sophomore.
School of Law-Jay Ott, Lawrence senior.
School of Pharmacy—Dan Schrepel, Pratt junior.
Class officers:
Senior class—Bob Boyer, Wichita junior, president; Dale Flanagan, Columbus junior, vice president; Janetha Schmalzried, Dighton junior, secretary, and Warren George, Merriam junior, treasuer.
Junior class—Gary Shields, Great Bend, president; Joy Benjes, Kansas City, Mo., vice president; Barbara Barnes, Mission, secretary, and Jayne Allen, Topeka, treasurer.
Sophomore class—Jim Austin, Topeka, president; Bob Luce, Ottawa, vice president; Annett Willis, Wichita, secretary, and Ron Oldham, Kansas City, Kan., treasurer.
Billings and his running mate, Creta Carter, Jennings sophomore, polled 1,530 votes while Party of Greek Organizations candidate Dave Whalen, Overland Park and Bill Wilson, Colby, both juniors, received 932.
193 Ballots Discarded
During the course of the election vigil which lasted until 3:45 a.m., 193 POGO ballots for Whalen were thrown out by the ASC Election Committee, the winning party speculated on possible appointments, and POGO hinted that it must reorganize or completely lose a voice in student government.
Aided by a heavy independent vote, AGI won eight of the nine school district seats, which most election observers had given to POGO, and outnumbered POGO 10 to 5 in living district representation.
After his defeat, Whalen said Billings' victory proved the independent students could get the vote out.
"This is probably the end of the name of POGO, as the independents have shown they are ready to take over and do the job." Whalen said. "Billings had a lot of work and deserved to be elected."
Sunsort Patterson
Thor Bogren, Scarson senior, and president of AGI, said his party would probably support Dick Patterson, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, representative-elect from the fraternity living district, for ASC chairman.
Billings' sizable majority came in the wake of voting irregularities at the Fraser and Student Union polls. A total of 608 POGO ballots, including the 193 figure for Whalen were invalidated by the committee headed by Tom Griffith, Pratt senior.
Griffith closed the Fraser poll and impounded all ballots cast there by 12:45 after receiving a phone call from Bogren, who said unusual proceedings at the polling places had been reported. Max Fuller, Ellis junior, said he saw an unusual number of ballots being clipped and placed in the ballot box by poll workers. The poll workers said later they had fallen behind in their tallying and may have been observed placing a large
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TO THE VICTORS—A jubilant group of AGI officials discuss their party's victory. At the far right, from left, Thor Bogren, Ted Barnes, Jim Schultz, Dick Patterson and president-elect Bob Billings, seated. In the photo at left, Bill Jackson,
(Daily Kansan photo by John Eaton and Jim Sledd)
POGO president, takes issue with Barnes over the election committee's ruling that ballot boxes were stuffed. Dave Whalen, who was defeated by Billings, also makes a point about the disputed ballots.