Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
54th Year, No. 104
Wednesday, March 13, 1957
AUFS Speaker To Stress Africa In Campus Visit
Dr. Edwin S. Munger, the third of four professors from the American Universities Field Staff, who will visit KU this year, will begin an eight day visit to the campus Monday. Dr. Munger will be here until Tuesday, March 26.
—(Daily Kansan photo)
Dr. Munger
Mr. Munger
recently returned from his fifth year-long period in Africa since 1947, where he has studied the social, economic, and political problems of Afrika, south of the Sahara desert.
He is the third member of the field staff to visit KU this year.
Another will visit early in May. Hold, Fulbright, Grant.
Dr. Munger was the first Fulbright scholar to be sent to Africa and was an Associate of the Institute of Current World Affairs before joining the field staff. He has taught at Makerere College in East Africa, the University of Chicago, and at Stennelbosch University in South Africa.
Each of the eleven members of the staff tour 10 colleges and universities in the nation which are participants in the program. Each member spends two years in a foreign country and then tours the schools for one year.
SUCCESS AT LAST—Singers and dancers in the Alpha Chi Omega sorority Rock Chalk Revue skit, "Inductees' Blues," rehearse the final number in which they vaporize Ugly Uncle and save the University from regimenta-
While at KU Dr. Munger will have a full schedule of speaking engagements, including dinners, campus organizations and classes. Dr. Munger will use the office of Prof. Francis Heller of the political science department as his headquarters.
tion. Left to right are Nancy Milligan, Baxter Springs junior; Peggy Garrison, Phillipsburg sophomore; Jane Ross, St. Joseph, Mo., and Molly Congdon, Baxter Springs, juniors.
Dr. Munger has written articles for several magazines and periodicals including the Encyclopedia Britannica Atlas, the University of Chicago Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, and the bulletin of the Institute of International Education. As part of his duties in Africa, he must also write numerous field reports which are printed and distributed to member schools of the AUFS.
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Debate Meet Begins Today
An English style debate between a KU team and a team from West Point at 8 p.m. today in the Pine Room of the Student Union will start a series of debate activities for the first annual Heart of America debate conference.
The first rounds of debate will be held Thursday, with teams from 18 schools in 13 states participating. After the conference banquet Thursday evening the validity of arguments and evidence used will be discussed in an open forum by three authorities invited to listen to the debates.
On Friday, preliminary rounds will be finished and the results announced. The semifinals and finals will be held Saturday, to be followed by the presentation of awards in the Pine Room.
Campus Political Leaders Hint At Possible ASC Action
The presidents of KU's two political parties threw out some personal and party views Tuesday on forthcoming All-Student Council legislation which will effect organization of the ASC and seating at football games.
Thor Bogren, Scranton senior, president of Allied-Greek Independents and Bill Jackson, Florence junior, president of the Party of Political Organizations spoke on the legislation in separate interviews.
Resting in a committee of the ASC are proposals for changing the ASC constitution. One is abolishing the present two-house legislature in favor of a unicameral system. Another major change proposed is dividing the present student body president office into two separate offices. Under this plan the student body would elect a president who would perform public relations jobs, attend meetings and other functions outside the ASC. The student body would also elect the legislature which would then elect a student council president to preside at meetings.
"POGO will support the division of the student council president's powers," Jackson said. He said he believed that many of the president's duties should be delegated to the vice president.
"Creating a new position for extra-presidential jobs would be a fine job for some BMOC, and would be of value to someone who likes public relations work," he said.
Neither president would commit his party on the seating problem, but each expressed his personal views.
Bogren said AGI has not taken a positive stand on any of the constitution changes.
"The vice president hasn't done a thing." Jackson said.
Another bill pending committee action concerns the saving of seats at football games.
"The ASC hasn't been strong enough to enforce anything yet, and this probole should be settled by the ASC and not by administration," Bogren said.
WIBW Plans Dallas Telecast
Final approval by the NCAA basketball tournament committee yesterday afternoon, assured TV viewers in this area of the opportunity to see the Jayhawkers play SMU in the regional tournament at 9:30 p.m. Friday.
The committee, headed by Arthur C. (Dutch) Lonborg, KU athletic director, held a meeting by telephone and approved the application of six Texas stations and WIBW, Channel 13, Topeka to telecast the contest.
Station WFAA-TV, Dallas, will originate the audio portion of the telecast with the other stations supplying their own announcers. Dev Nelson will do the play-by-play for the Topeka station.
Hilton Hodges, salesmanager of WIBW-TV pointed out that the game was being co-sponsored by the Jay Watchers and several Good-year Tire dealers in the Topeka area. Mr. Hodges said there is a possibility the Saturday game could be televised if sponsors are obtained.
Five distributors for the Goodyear Co., including the Hatfield-Jackson Oil Co., Lawrence. have contributed $1,500 toward televising the game.
He said this is the first time WIBW-TV has ever televised any basketball games not originating from the national network.
KANSAS CITY—(UP) —Charles D. Nethaway, manager of the United Press bureau in Kansas City, died Tuesday night of a stroke. Mr. Nethawav joined the United Press as a staff member in the Dallas bureau in 1945. He was manager of the New Orleans bureau when he transferred to Kansas City in 1948.
K.C. United Press Chief Dies Of Stroke
In recent years Mr. Nethaway covered several KU athletic events for the United Press.
Play Opens At 8 Tonight
The University Theatre's contribution to International Theatre Month, "Thieves' Carnival," will open at 8 p.m. today in Fraser Theater. The play closes Saturday.
A feature of the play will be Tom Downs, Lawrence businessman, and his clarinet. Most of the play action is accompanied by Downs who plays a basic theme song.
Directed by Virgil Godfrey, assistant professor of speech and drama, the play is a farce comedy. Three thieves, adept at masquerading, impose on a British noble family for two weeks, passing themselves off as old friends.
The family, Lady Hurf and Lord Edgard, played by Lee MacMorris, Hutchinson senior, and John P. Husar, Chicago sophomore, and their two nieces are vacationing at a French resort. They are bored and go along with the thieves' pretense although they are not fooled. Love affairs develop between two of the thieves and the nieces.
Shoemaker Named To Illinois Staff
William H. Shoemaker, chairman of the department of Romance languages and literatures, has been named head of the Spanish and Italian department at the University of Illinois. His new duties will begin Sept. 1.
Prof. Shoemaker came to KU in 1938 after serving on the staff $ ^{a+} $
Princeton University for 11 years. He holds three degrees from Princeton, having received his A. B. in 1924, M. A. in 1928, and Ph. D. in 1933.
Prof. Shoemaker
Prof. Shoemaker expressed regret at having to leave KU. He said it was not an easy
The new position will increase his salary from $9,300 at KU to about $12,000 at Illinois.
In 1942 Prof. Shoemaker was elected president of the Kansas Modern Language Assm. for a 2-year term. Five years later he received an associate editorship of comparative literature for the magazine, Symposium, published by Syracuse University.
"There are opportunities, both professional and financial, for personal research and the research of my associates and students in the department."
decision to make, but the opportunities seemed much greater at Illinois.
In 1949 Prof. Shoenmaker was elected for a 2-year term to the executive council of the American Assn. of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. In 1950 he was elected president of the same organization. The group has a membership of approximately 5,000 Spanish and Portuguese teachers.
Prof. Shoemaker has also been the editor of several Spanish tests distributed on a national basis by the Educational Testing service and author of several studies on Spanish literature.
Weather
Strong southwesterly winds with blowing dust central and east this afternoon with winds reaching 40 to 50 m.p.h. extreme east. Partly cloudy this afternoon through Thursday turning colder west this afternoon and over state tonight.
Plans Laid To Make Relays Among Best In Nation
In an effort to expand to the fullest capabilities and provide a spring homecoming for alumni, the management of the Kansas Relays has been reorganized, according to Dolph Simons Jr., '51, of the Lawrence Journal-World and chairman of the Relays committee, said today.
Formerly the Relays were run by Bill Easton, track coach, and E. L Elbel, professor of physical education, with practically all details being handled by a student committee.
A 25-member Greater University Track and Relays committee composed of alumni from the entire state and University officials decided to expand the program.
"The Kansas Relays is one of the four big track relays in the country," Mr. Simons said. "We felt we not taking advantage of the
wonderful opportunities provided by the Relays"
Committees Chosen
The Greater University Track and Relays committee chose a Relays committee to take charge of the event. It consists of Mr. Simons chairman, Prof. Elbel, Bob Elliot, Wichita, and Robert M. Hanna, Winfield, both seniors.
Other committee assignments are: Wayne Replogle, assistant football coach, housing; Clayton Krebhiel, associate professor of music education and Bill LaRue, Columbus senior, queen; Shipman Winters Jr., Lawrence and Jay Dee Ochs, Wichita senior parade; Keith Lawton, administrative assistant for operations, headquarters and host, and William A. Conboy, associate professor of speech and dramatics, banquet.