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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Oct. 5, 1956
200 Newsmen Expected For Editors' Day
About 50 Kansas daily and weekly newspapers will be represented when an estimated 200 state newspapermen gather Saturday for the annual Kansas Editors' Day at the University.
The name of the 40th member to be elected to the Kansas News-paper Hall of Fame by the Kansas editors will be announced by Dean Burton W. Marvin of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information at 11 a.m. in Flint Hall.
Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the William Allen White Memorial Reading Room and Historical Center, Flint Hall.
McDill (Huck) Boyd, publisher of the Phillips County Review at Phillipsburg and president of the Kansas Press Assn., will lead a "wrangle session" at 9:45 a.m. in Flint Hall.
After a buffet luncheon for the editors and their families in the Student Union ballroom, the newsmen will be guests at the KU-Colorado football game.
Elvis Presley:'I Like The Way He Sings, But ...'
How do you feel about Elvis Presley? Does the "Hydramatic Hillbilly" send you or make you feel ill? Do you turn the volume up when one of his records begins to play or do you leave the room? When he appears on television does his movements cause your blood pressure to rise or cause you to switch channels?
Cynthia Cobbet, Kansas City,
Kan., freshman—I think he is a
very good singer. I like to listen to him."
Jim Yonally, Miltonvale junior— "I like to listen to him, but I don't like to watch him."
This controversy over Presley rages throughout the country. He causes teenage girls to gasp, scream and swoon. He causes parents to lie awake nights and wonder if their teenager is mentally sound.
Ernest Haley, Lawrence sophmore—"I have never seen him on TV, but I consider him more or less a publicity hunter like the Sinatra of the '40's."
It has been said that no one likes Presley except a few million teenagers. What about KU students? Here are the replies of nine of them, chosen at random, to the question: "How do you feel about Elvis Presley?"
Nancy Pounds, Chicago, Ill. soph-omore—"I like the way he sings. I think he is funny to watch, but definitely not repulsive."
Sandra Brady, Paola freshman-
Things Should Be Different For This Foreign Student
On Aug. 15, 1956, Augustine G. Kyei (pronounced chey) left Accra, Gold Coast, Africa, by PAA Super Six Clipper for New York. A month later, the British government announced in London that Gold Coast will be an independent nation on March 6, 1957.
Kyei received the news in his room in Oread Hall at the University of Kansas. He went to Watson Library to confirm the news and to read more about it in newspapers,
He was very happy. But he would not go back to his country right away. He is a freshman in the School of Engineering and expects to study in the United States for five years until he gets a master of architecture degree. Kyei applied for a scholarship in August to study in the United States.
"Gold Coast, even after independence, will need much development in all phases of life. I feel that our country needs more architects and I decided to study architecture and city planning," he said.
"The United States has greater potentialities and is still advancing in the particular field of my study. This country is helping us develop in various fields." Kyei said.
Arriving in New York on Aug. 17, he spent about three weeks sightseeing before he came to Lawrence. He said he was impressed by New York's skyscrapers, but even more impressed by the way Americans help foreign students.
First To KU
"We feel familiarity with American institutions, though more than 2.000 students are studying in the United Kingdom," he said. "Our Prime Minister, Kwame Nkrumah, studied at Harvard and Pennsylvania."
Kyei is the first student from Gold Coast at KU. Over 170 of his countrymen, however, are studying in the United States.
There will be a meeting of the general committee for Homecoming at 4 p.m. Tuesday in 200 Strong.
One of the most attractive features at Niagara Falls are the colored lights which shine on the Falls nightly during the summer months. The approximate schedule of the grand panorama of light is about 9 p.m. to midnight.
Kyei said he is quite sympathetic with the Negroes in America, although he himself has experienced no ill-feeling since he came to the United States. He said all the Americans he saw were very kind.
Homecoming Meet Tuesday
"Whenever we hear that people have been cheated or tormented in South Africa, we have the feeling. We have the same feeling about the incidents in the United States.
I sincerely hope that racial segregation will completely cease to take place in the near future in any quarter of the United States," he said.
"I am glad that there is no segregation on the campus."
Kyei, 24, is a Catholic and attends church every Sunday.
He was born in 1932 in Kanyasi, Ashanti, Gold Coast. The chief product and export of his country to support the population of five million is cocoa. The Board of Gold Coast Cocoa Marketing is a big, powerful organization, which safeguards the farmers against the fluctuation of cocoa prices, he explained. His scholarship is financed by the board.
Kyei is a graduate of St. Augustine's College, in the Gold Coast. After 14 years of elementary and secondary schooling, he went to the capital, Accra, and became a teacher, and later worked for the government as an auditor.
He has also worked in the advertising department of the Daily Graphic, Accra's English newspaper.
Gary Alan Kinemond, Bushton senior, has been awarded a $700 scholarship sponsored by the American Society of Tool Engineers.
Ten of these scholarships are presented annually by ASTE to outstanding students in the United States and Canada. Applicants are judged on the basis of their interest in tool engineering.
"I liked it, he said. "I also wrote a few articles in that paper."
Engineer Wins $700 Scholarship
Kinemond is working toward a degree in both mechanical and electrical engineering and plans to do graduate work in these fields.
A large cake, a replica of Bailey Hall, bearing the 47 birthday candles of the School of Education, will be one of the show pieces of the dedication banquet Friday night in the Student Union.
"I like some of his songs, but I don't like him as a person."
Warren Lutz. Garnett senior—"Some of his music has qualities which are desirable when one TGIF's. However, I can't think of Presley as mature, but rather as a juvenile delinquent with plenty of hip action."
Birthday Cake Marks Bailey's 47th
The cake will be available for "interview and picture" about 3 p.m. today in the south end of ballroom. Jim Stoner of student bookstore art department designed the cake. Bill Spears assisted him, and Cliff Bain baked it.
Doloris Alpert, Paola senior— "Sort of neutral I guess."
Jerry Haggard. Wellington sophomore—"I like his singing, but I don't like his looks or the character he tries to be."
Gayle Kinemond, Bushton sophomore—"He is great to dance to, and better to listen to than watch."
But He Wants His Vote!
DES MOINES, Iowa-(UP)—A Fort Leavenworth, Kan. soldier wrote Iowa officials asking for an absentee ballot. He said he expected to be in the guard house until sometime after the Nov. 6 elections.
But He Wants His Vote!
No More Mushroom Clouds?
No More Mushroom Clouds
OAK RIDGE, Tenn.—(UP)—The atomic Energy Commission (AEC) announced it will accept bids Oct.
16 on 500 pounds of polymonochlorotrifluoroethylene resin. The AEC prefers the kind that doesn't bubble.
Alumnus Writes On Puerto Ricans
Clarence Senior, 1927 KU Graduate, contributed the chapter on the Puerto Rican to "Understanding Minority Groups" to be published Oct. 22 by John Wiley & Sons, New York.
Mr. Senior is chief of the Migration Division, Department of Labor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in New York City, and also a lecturer in demography at Columbia University.
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