Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
54th Year, No. 124
Thursday, April 18, 1957
Petroleum Engineers To Try For 3rd Award
The petroleum engineering department will be trying for its third consecutive award and permanent possession of the Sigma Tau traveling trophy in the 37th annual Engineering Exposition Friday and Saturday. Their exhibit is a 4-stage model of oil production from the field to the consumer.
The trophy will be awarded Saturday morning by John Dealy, Topeka junior, in the office of Dean DeWitt Carr of the School of Engineering and Architecture, 111 Marvin Hall.
Docking To Open Exhibitions
The Exposition will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Gov. George Docking will officially open the Exposition Friday at 4 p.m. Mrs. Docking will cut the ribbon which will symbolize the opening.
The architecture exhibit will be entitled "The Inside Story of Architecture Environments for Future Living." Chairmen of the exhibit are Charles Winter, Kansas City, Kan., junior, and Ray Gross, Levasy, Mo., senior.
In the architecture exhibit the process of designing a house from start to finish will be shown. The exhibit will also emphasize that this is the centennial year of the Architecture Institute of America.
All the engineering departments except applied mechanics are entering exhibits. The applied mechanics department will open its laboratory in Marvin and the hydraulics laboratory in back of Marvin for inspection and demonstrations.
The hyperbolic paraboloid which the department of architecture planned to use as part of its exhibit collapsed Tuesday while a weight
test of the structure was being taken.
Archway For Exposition
The "Golden Gate to Success," the 72-foot model suspension bridge constructed by Theta Tau, professional engineering fraternity, will serve as the archway for the Exposition.
The bridge rests on two 18-foot towers supported by the foundations of "perseverance, determination and desire."
Gov. and Mrs. Docking and the official party consisting of Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, Dean Carr, Barbara Jane Everley, Eudora sophomore, Engineering Exposition Queen; Judy Anthony, Wichita junior, and Charlene Anthony, Nebraska University, Rejays Queens, and their attendants will then tour the Exposition.
Tommy Griffiths, Pratt senior president of the Engineering Council; Kenneth Vaughn, Yates Center senior, Exposition chairman, and William E. Benson, Gorham junior, publicity chairman, will conduct the official party.
Foreign Exam Deadline May 1
May 1 is the deadline for applications for the foreign service examination to be given June 28 in Kansas City, Kan. and 60 other cities. Anyone interested in taking the examination should see Clifford P. Ketzel, assistant professor of political science, in Strong Annex B.
Ex-Acting Engineering Dean Frank Russell Dies At 77
A former acting dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, Frank A. Russell, 77, died at his home Wednesday. He had been in ill health for several months.
Mr. Russell came to the University in 1922 as professor of railway engineering and engineering drawing. He was acting dean from 1936-37 and professor and chairman of the department of engineering drawing from 1937 to 1945.
From 1945 to 1950 Mr. Russell was professor and chairman emeritus. He was a consultant for the buildings and grounds department from 1950 to 1952, when he retired. Supervised Hospital Construction
Sunervised Hospital Construction
He was engineer and superintendent of construction for the Watkins Hospital built in 1930-31 and supervisor for the Lawrence Memorial Hospital built in 1928.
He was a member of the City Council for 15 years as chairman of the water committee.
He is survived by his wife, Minnie, of the home; two sons, Robert Russell, class of 1937, and Laurie R. Russell, class of 1943, both of Mission; two daughters. Mrs. C. H. Mullen, class of 1839, of Kalamazoo, Mich, and Mrs. Robert Killeen, class of 1845, of Birmingham, Mich.; two brothers, Clyde Russell, Witchita and Charles Russell, Herington, and a sister, Mrs. Louise Unphu, Femporia.
Mr. Russell's four children are all graduates of the University.
Funeral Services Saturday
Funeral services will be at 3:30 p. m. Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church, Lawrence with burial at Sexton Oak Hill Cemetery.
"The University community has suffered a great loss in the passing of Prof. Russell." George B. Smith, dean of the University, said. He has exemplified the significant combination of personalities, so rarely attained, of teacher, administrator and friend to colleges and students at KU and civic and professional leader in Lawrence and in his professional field.
FRANK RUSSELL
"His contributions to the personal and academic affairs of the University will long be remembered."
Merit Increase Not Automatic Dean Smith Says
(Related story, "In Tribute . . .," Page 2).
Weather
BY DICK BROWN (Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
Mostly cloudy this afternoon through Friday. Scattered showers and thunderstorms west and south this afternoon and over most of state tonight and Friday. Thunderstorms possibly severe, extreme southwest this evening and southwest and south central tonight. Warmer this afternoon and tonight. Turning cooler west Friday. Low tonight 50-60. High Friday 60 extreme west to 70 east.
The only University personnel sharing in the 10 per cent salary merit raise will be the non-civil service employees, mainly the teaching faculty, George B. Smith, dean of the University, said Wednesday.
"Who will get raises depends strictly upon individual performance or merit." "There are no automatic raises and the 10 percent raise figure is merely symbolic."
Some faculty members will get more than the 10 per cent raise. To make this possible, other members will get less than that figure.
Actually the University is getting a 10 per cent increase in the total amount of money to distribute to faculty members.
How Raises Are Decided
Raises are generally recommended by department heads and deans to the University Budget Committee. The committee then makes its recommendations to Chancellor Murphy who passes them on to the Board of Regents for final approval, Dean Smith said.
If the Board approves the recommendations, the raises for the 12-month employees of the University, such as the dean, registrar, bursar, superintendent of buildings and grounds, and others will go into effect July 1.
Raises for faculty members working on a 9-month schedule will become effective Sept.1.
Merit Raises Not New
"The merit raises are nothing new as we have gotten them every year since 1941. The only thing different about this one is that it is a little higher than usual.
"This raise does not set up a salary scale at the University. We have never had a salary scale here and the salary commanded by a person depends strictly upon his ability.
"With the pay increase, we will not only be able to keep more of our top faculty members, but will have more to offer for new positions that will probably open as our enrollment continues to climb," he said.
10% Of Students Vote ASC Revision
By JOHN EATON (Daily Kansan Picture Editor)
With slightly more than 10 per cent of the students voting, the proposed All Student Council constitution revision was passed Wednesday in a referendum.
A total of 782 students cast ballots at the four campus polling places. There were 511 votes for the proposed change and 271 against
Voting during the morning was rather light. During the afternoon it picked up and there was a noticeable trend favoring the wasa
The part of the amendment that seemed to appeal to the majority of the students was the establishment of a unicameral ASC.
Several students interviewed said that the unicameral Council would do away with much of the campus politics and that ASC legislation would be easier.
The amendment will call for the following five major changes:
Establishment of a unicameral Council.
Division of the executive powers of the ASC between a student body president and vice president and the ASC.
Council representation according to proportional representation from the various residence groups.
A total of at least 75 votes to be cast in each school or living district before that district or school can have a representative. If the enrollment of a school is below 75, two-thirds of the enrollment of the school will be sufficient.
The two youths arrested were found siphoning gasoline from parked cars behind Oread Hall when the police checked a prowling report.
The four teen-agers are to appear in the Lawrence Police Court Monday.
2 Youths Arrested For Prowling
Living District 8, which will consist of married students living in unorganized houses, will be added to the present list of living districts.
Two 16-year-old Lawrence youths were arrested Wednesday night by campus police, taken to the Lawrence police station, and charged with prowling. Two others turned themselves into the Lawrence police today.
Varnum, Carter To Run For Student Offices
Ralph Varnum, Kansas City, Mo. junior, and Creta Carter, Jennings sophomore, became the first primary candidates for the newly created offices of president and vice president of the student body. Varnum and Miss Carter will run under the Allied-Greek Independent banner.
Varnum has been a member of the All Student Council for the past two years, beginning as a senator
Carter
Varnum
from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This year he was elected as representative from the fraternity living district. He was
elected chairman of committees by the ASC.
Miss Carter was elected to the ASC for the first time this year as a representative from the women's dormitories. She was then elected secretary of the House of Representatives by the Council.
Varnum and Miss Carter have issued a list of basic principles on how the student government should be conducted.
1. Determine the wants and needs in housing for married students, traffic and parking and student athletic seating.
3 Establish bi-partisan departments as an advisory cabinet.
2. Make certain that the best interests of the students is represented to the administration.
4. Work with representatives on the All Student Council for legislation to satisfy student needs.
He Laughed, Almost Cried, Recoiled
By TOM SAWYER
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
We laughed. We almost cried. We recoiled. In short, we were human—sometimes alone, sometimes together. For we were all "Waiting For Godot" in Green Theater Wednesday.
He never came, but during the interim the theater's peculiar art sounded the very base-string of humility. Five excellent actors held "the mirror up to nature." They made us look at our world and at ourselves, at "what" and "why" we are in it.
"Waiting For Godot," as an enigma, defies description. The play must be seen. Mechanically, it is an allegorical vignette of the buoyancy of man's spirit when faced with little hope. There is no plot. It is a study of people for what they are, not what they do.
They "wait for Godot"
The play discovers two tramps sitting forlornly in a ditch "waiting for Godot." Their boredom is relieved by the appearance of a tyrannical man of means who drives a slave before him. The first act ends as a boy brings the news that Godot is not coming. The second and final act is the same. At the end
we are left with two tramps, a ditch and forlorn looks again.
Perfect Foils For Each Other
Whether Godot is salvation or oblivion is for subsequent audiences to decide. No two observers could possibly have the same conceptions. Whichever he is, one feels he should ultimately appear to either justify or end the insignificance of the two hoboes. If not, then they should shake off their complacency and go looking for him.
Author Samuel Beckett has based his bitter but brilliant tragic comedy on profound pessimism. However, he refuses to ignore the reality of faith altogether.
Rupert Murriell, assistant professor of sociology, ranged from bumptiousness to near-pathos as the slave driver. His greedy bully was authoritative yet his later whimper-
As the two hoboes, Dan Palmquist, Centron Motion Picture Co., and Dale Bellerose, Lawrence sophomore, were perfect foils for each other. Mr. Palmquist's comic timing was above reproach, indeed, the entire pacing of the play depended upon it. Bellerose displayed great versatility in a singularly repetitive role. He did admirably in treading the invisible line dividing comedy and tragedy.
ings were not unsympathetic. Also outstanding was Glenn Pierce, Lawrence graduate student, as the slave. His deft characterization was concentrated in one 10-minute oration of double-talk that was more than merely a stream of consciousness. John Wiebe, Lawrence Junior High School student, as the boy harbinger, handled his smaller assignment creditably.
The technical ingredients of lighting, setting, costuming and makeup were negligible. In fact, they were not needed. This is a powerful drama about the human animal. It could be performed in Memorial Stadium and lose nothing.
Return of Crafton
"Waiting For Godot" marked the welcome return of Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, as a theatrical director. Mr. Crafton is a pioneer. He fathered the University Theatre, and now he has erected another milestone with this first college production of a controversial play.
Mr. Crafton's direction of a superlative company in a most difficult vehicle has reflected all his years of experience, his taste, and his master's touch.
It may or may not be his finest achievement. One thing is certain—it will never be forgotten.