Daily hansan
Tuesday, March 26, 1957
54th Year, No.113
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Lawyers To Cut Up On Their Day May 2
A banquet, picnic, crowning of the Law Queen, tug of war with the engineering students, and satirical skits poking fun at members of the law faculty will be featured on Law Day Thursday, May 2.
Peter Martin, Olathe second-year law student and chairman of Law Day, said that alumni, area lawyers, and judges will attend the activities along with KU law students. He said that the law students are especially looking forward to the yearly dunking of the engineers in Potter lake in the renewal of the tug-of-war feud.
Chairmen of the committees are: Kenneth Fligg, Kansas City, Mo. third-year law, banquet; Sally Taylor, Goddard second-year law, food and hall; Darrrell McNeil, Peabody third-year law, programs; Gary Davis, Chanute third-year law, invitations; Henry Herrman, Hays third-year law, picnic; Thomas Helms, Mission third-year law, skirts; Keith Moore, Kansas City, Mo. second-year law, tug of war; Thomas Morton, Wichita second-year law, queen contest, and John Kite, St. Francis third-year law, tickets and finance.
Delmas Hill, federal judge from Wichita, will be the featured speaker at the banquet. The queen, "Miss Res Ipspe Loequirt" is to be chosen by the law students. Her title means "the thing speaks for itself."
Sociologists To Meeting
Four KU faculty members of the sociology-anthropology department and a graduate student will take part in a meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society in Des Moines, Iowa, April 4-6.
E. Jackson Baur, associate professor of sociology, will present his research paper on "An Index of Urbanization in the West North Central Region." E. Gordon Erickson, associate professor of sociology, will read his paper on population control and the hypothesis of social choice. John T. Gullahorn, visiting assistant professor of business administration and sociology, will present his paper on "American Students Abroad: A French Viewpoint."
Daniel Kubat, Lawrence graduate student, will read a paper in the social theory section on "The Oxford Movement: A Sociological Analysis."
Gifted Students Granted $36,500
A 3-year grant from the Carnegie Foundation totaling $36,500 will enable the University to enlarge its program for providing a challenging curriculum for gifted undergraduate students.
The KU program has honors sections in basic subjects for approximately the upper 10 per cent of the freshman class, with particular attention being given the upper 1 or 2 per cent. Thirty undergraduate teaching and research assistantships for gifted students will be created, with stipends of $300 a year.
Dean George R. Waggoner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which enrolls a majority of KU's freshmen and sophomores, has developed the program for gifted students and will guide the enlarged activities made possible by the Carnegie grant.
Dean Waggoner said it is hope that the junior-senior level gifted students can be given additional challenges through an interdepartmental honors seminar and increased emphasis on departmental honors programs. These involve independent study and research.
"Most state universities are neglecting the gifted student in contrast to what is being done for the marginal student in the form of remedial work and counseling," Dean Waggoner said.
An excellent scholarship program has brought to the KU campus a large number of highly gifted students, Dean Waggoner said. Of the Kansas 1956 high school seniors who won certificates of merit in the National Merit Scholarship competition, 43 per cent enrolled at KU last fall.
Dean Waggoner explained that in the fall of 1955, 32 gifted students in the freshman class, and 40 in the fall of 1956, were assigned to honors sections or special laboratory groups in English, mathematics, Western Civilization, zoology, chemistry, physics and German.
Theta Sigs To Honor Editor
Members of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary professional fraternity for women in journalism, will honor an outstanding Kansas woman journalist at their annual Matrix Table dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Student Union.
Student teachers who have returned to KU after the third quarter of practice teaching are holding a 3-day conference. The meetings began Monday and will last through Wednesday.
Mrs. Marie Engleman, editor and publisher of The Hill City Times, will receive the award for her excellence in the field of community service. She is also the area correspondent for The Kansas City Star and reporter for the Associated Press. The speaker is Mrs. Mary Brook
Student Teachers Hold Conferences
The speaker is Mrs. Mary Brooks
In addition to lectures given in general session by faculty members, the students are discussing problems met while teaching and conferring individually with faculty advisers.
The cast for "Wating for Godot," the Studio Theater's final presentation of the season has been announced by Allen Crafton, professor of speech. The play will be given April 17-20.
Studio Theater Chooses Cast
Picken of New York, the author of about 100 books on sewing, embroidery, and fashion. Mrs. Picken, a Theta Sigma Phi, will speak on "Education and Earning A Living."
The cast includes Dan A. Palmquist, an employee of Centron Motion Picture Co.; Dale Bellerose, sophomore and Glenn Q. Pierce Jr., graduate student; John Wiebe, a Lawrence junior high school student, and Rupert Murrill, assistant professor of sociology. All are from Lawrence.
Senate Gives KU $75,000 For Landscaping
The Senate appropriated $75. 000 Monday for the University to be used for landscaping, access roads, sidewalks and grading around the new music and fine arts building.
The appropriation is to take the place of the $100,000 deleted from a request made earlier for the same items plus an organ for the building.
Tryouts for the play were open to students, faculty members and townspeople
The roads include a surface drive to the building and an extension of the blacktop road running from behind Flint Hall to Naismith Road.
Another road will lead to the elevator entrance of the building and one to the stage entrance, both to be used for unloading.
The Senate also appropriated $20,000 for an underground corridor at the Medical Center, to connect the main plant with the continuation center, a post graduate medical center.
"This is needed to connect the power facilities so as to reduce costs and to provide a passageway to be used in bad weather," said Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University.
Actors' Workshop Tryouts Wednesday
Tryouts for the Actors' Workshop May 1 will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in Green Theater.
IFC Changes Six Rush Week Rules
Six changes which will give future fraternity rush weeks a new look were adopted by the Inter-fraternity Council Monday night in a special meeting.
The changes will be tried for the first time at rush week this coming fall.
ASC To Vote On Seat Saving
The All Student Council will meet at 7:30 tonight in 305 Student Union.
A final vote will be held on an amendment to a plan to eliminate seat-saving at football games. The amendment is to enforce the stand taken in a referendum Dec. 12 in which students voted for no seat saving in Memorial Stadium.
Mike Arnold, Illinois-Indiana regional chairman of the National Student Assn., will speak on various aspects of the NSA activities.
The Council will also vote on recent appointments to the Student Court.
The Membership Committee will report on possible changes to promote better attendance at and interest in ASC meetings.
A report will be given concerning the feasibility of selling the Student Directory, rather than including it in the activity fee. This action is contemplated because of heavy losses the directory has suffered in the past.
Yearbooks To Be Delivered
The third issue of the Jayhawker, yearbook, will be delivered to organized houses today and will be on sale on campus Wednesday.
-(Daily Kansan photo)
BUT I THOUGHT SPRING WAS HERE—Obviously as confused as most weather forecasters were about the sudden cold weather and snow, this robin posed for the photographer Monday as he ruffled his feathers in an effort to keep warm.
"The changes are designed to eliminate pledging during the early part of rush week. We hope they will better prepare the boy for pledging and make him more confident in his choice of fraternities," said Bruce Rider, Wichita junior, and IFC rush chairman.
One of the main objectives as outlined by Gordon Ewy, Hill City senior, and IFC president, is to prevent pledging on train dates. He said another of the aims is to eventually form a system of rushing comparable to the present one used by KU sororities.
The new rush rules are;
2. A man must go through six different houses the first six dates. Failure to do so will result in his loss of pledging rights.
1. Each rush date will be shortened from the present four hours to two and one-half hours. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. the first day and there will be six dates during the first day.
3. If a man fails to show up at one of these dates both fraternities involved will lose the right to pledge the man.
4. Pledging will begin after the sixth date. Pledge lists will be handed out to fraternity rush chairmen at this time.
5. The rushee must sign up for all four of the dates on the second day. He may pledge during these four dates but he must go through all four. He may attend the same house twice but not on successive dates.
6. Re-registration will be held Saturday for those men who do not pledge and for late arrivals.
Rider said the new rules were not to cut down on the time spent during rush week but to attain better fraternity men and strengthen the fraternity system at KU.
The council also adopted a change in the constitution cutting the number of weeks from 16 to six before a once-pledged man may pledge again.
Under the new system a rushee may pledge a fraternity during rush week, depledge within a few days, and then pledge another fraternity aftr a six-week duration.
Crash Causes $350 Loss
A collision between two cars driven by students caused an estimated $350 worth of damage at 8:45 this morning. No one was injured.
The cars were driven by Carolee Collins, Wichita freshman, who was driving north on Louisiana Street, and Robert A. Volk, Cherryvale junior, driving west on 12th Street.
This intersection has been the scene of two other accidents this year.
Police said both drivers were going about 10 to 15 m.p.h. and could not see each other because parked cars obstructed their view.
Weather
Fair east partly cloudy west with a few light showers or snow flurries by evening. Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Occasional light rain or snow southwest or south central portion tonight and occasional light rain southeast Wednesday morning. A little warmer this afternoon and southwest portion tonight. Little temperature change Wednesday. Low tonight 25-30. High Wednesday in 40s.