Daily Hansan
54th Year, No.17
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Thursday, Oct. 4, 1956
Foreign Student Enrollment Hits All-Time High
A total of 184 foreign students an all-time high—are enrolled in the University this semester.
The breakdown by William R. Butler, assistant dean of men, was released Wednesday afternoon.
The total for 1955-56 was 170, and for 1954-55 it was 150.
A total of 51 different nations are represented on the campus. Four nations are represented for the first time-Australia, Czechoslovakia, the Gold Coast of Africa, and Kenya.
Countries who sent more than 10 students are India with 16, Korea 14, Germany 11, and Canada 10. Students from Asia number 65, Europe 54, the Americas 44, and Africa 9.
Dean Butler, who is foreign student adviser, said the University ranked sixth among the universities and colleges of the nation for the number of IIE-affiliated students last year. IIE stands for Internation Institute for Education, under which most students come to study from foreign countries to the United States.
Not all the foreign students are ILE-affiliated. The University itself offers a number of scholarships, along with oil companies, church organizations and service groups such as the Rotary Club, Mr. Butler said. During 1955-56 37,000 foreign students studied in the United States. Big institutions like California, Columbia, Illinois and Michigan have between 500 to 1,000 foreign students.
Clinic Discusses Absentee Voting
"Why can't KU students vote in Lawrence in the November election?" was the discussion topic at the first voters' clinic Wednesday in the Student Union.
Harold Fisher, Lawrence city clerk, who conducted the clinic, said that if all KU students voted in Douglas County they would swing the county's election. Students must register and vote in their own county.
"Why you should participate in part-time politics," is next in the series of political coffees, sponsored by the KU-Y (YMCA-YWCA), Student Union Activities, and the Citizenship Clearing House. It will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, in the music and browsing room in the Student Union. The speaker has not been selected.
A Voice Speaks Out Against Sir William
One single voice was raised in dissent to a point made by Sir William John Haley, editor of the London Times, during his talk Wednesday morning in Bailey auditorium.
The dissenter, a young man dressed in a red checked shirt and blue jeans, exploded in a protest that sounded like "Aaahh!" Some members of the audience sitting close to him insisted it indicated approval, not dissent.
The heckler, about 10 months old, contentedly sucked on his bottle during the rest of the talk.
Sir William stopped, smiled, and remarked:
—(Daily Kansan photo)
"A VERY young student."
LOVE THIS WEATHER—Marilyn Moyer, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore takes advantage of the spring-like sun to do some sketching. The picture was taken in front of Flint Hall.
Views Differ On Egypt's NationalizationOfSuez
Interest in the Suez problem was apparent Wednesday night when more than 300 persons attended a panel discussion given by the Collegiate Council for the United Nations in the Student Union.
On the panel were Col. John Winchester, British Liaison Officer at Fort Leavenworth, Mohamed Kazem, Cairo, Egypt graduate student, and Zvi Henry Luft, Tel Aviv, Israel, senior. Clifford P. Ketztl, assistant professor of political science, coordinated the discussion.
Kazem defended the nationalization of Suez Canal by the Egyptian Government. "While Egypt legally nationalized the canal, and the canal is under normal operation," he said.
"An internationally important waterway such as the Suez cannot be under the control of any single country, large or small," Col. Winchester replied. "Besides, Egypt did not do prompt compensation for taking over the Suez Canal Company as she should under the international law." he said.
Luft said that Egypt illegally blocked the canal against shipping of non-strategic materials to Israel. He accused President Nasser of Egypt of taking over the canal, not for the interest of the Egyptian people but for himself.
Fair this afternoon, tonight, and Friday. Cooler this afternoon and in East tonight. Warmer extreme Northwest tonight and over state Friday.
Weather
Services Held For KU Alumnus
Mrs. Francis L. Gants, a former student of the University, was buried Wednesday in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D.C., following funeral services held at the Walter Reed Memorial Chapel.
Mrs. Gants died Saturday after a long illness at Walter Reed Army Hospital, where her husband is chief of the surgical service. Her husband, Col. Robert T. Gants, also a fromer KU student, was one of the doctors who operated on President Eisenhower during his June 9 illness.
She was the sister of Mrs. John H. Nelson, wife of the dean of the Graduate School. She was born in Oberlin in 1905, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. William S. Langmade.
Rally at 10:45 Tomorrow
A pep rally will be held at 10:45 a.m. tomorrow in front of the east end of Strong Hall. Dick Piskoty, assistant football coach, and Jim Hull, senior tackle from Wichita, will speak from the sound truck which will be set up for the rally.
Bailey Dedication To Start Friday
Engine Looms In Dry River
Over 1,000 public school and college educators from 10 states will attend the dedication of the School of Education's Bailey Hall Friday and Saturday, said Oscar Haugh, professor of education.
TOFEKA—(UP) — One of the odd effects of Kansas' five-year drought today came with the appearance of a mud-clogged steam locomotive protruding like a giant sea fossil from the bed of the drouth-strangled Kaw river here.
Spokes of the steel wheels began to appear from a mud and sand bar, graveyard of the locomotive since the disastrous 1951 flood of the same river.
The steam engine, submerged for about five years, plunged into the swollen stream in the July, 1951 flood when a railroad bridge was swept away. The Santa Fe Co. had placed the locomotive on a span in an attempt to anchor a threatened bridge, which eventually collapsed.
The big Kaw river has subsided from its flood peak to an all-time historical low today—down to a trickle of about one foot on the gauges.
City water officials said enough flow remained in the stream to provide adequate water supply for this capital city, but the level was getting dangerously low.
Home owners in Kansas City 70 miles to the east have reported extensive damage due to houses settling or sinking when sub soil moisture dries out.
Huge cracks have developed in walls and damages extend anywhere from a few dollars in plaster work to thousands of dollars in repairs, in an estimated 6 out of 10 homes.
Waterless Osage City south of Topeka showed settling troubles, while big cracks appeared in the dehydrated soil in some sections of the town.
Rain Postpones World Series Game
BROOKLYN — (UP) — Today's World Series game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees was postponed because of rain. The game will be played Friday, starting at 11 a.m. (CST).
Managers Casey Stengel and Walter Alston indicated they would go along with their original pitching selections—Don Larsen and Don Newcombe—in Friday's game.
TV,The Series,And Class Cuts
The television plague arrived on the campus at 11 a. m. Wednesday, and the severe epidemic is not expected to abate until Monday or Tuesday, depending upon the relative success of the New Yorks or the Brooklyns.
At 11 a.m. Tuesday the first beginnings of the plague arrived, as a few students cut classes, others who didn't have classes gathered in the Student Union, and the pedestrians began to notice. The Daily Kansan's score board out by the information booth.
No Competition
By noon, the plague had reached serious proportions. Students wandered home from class, glanced at the TV set, and suddenly became aware of the magnitude of the event which was confronting them.
Yes, the World Series has begun
Cynical seniors who spend 360 days of the year telling freshmen about the stupidity of sports suddenly turn into rabid baseball fans, offering terse advice to "the Mick." "The Duke, "Sandy," or "Yogi."
And as it progresses, almost all phases of campus life become subordinate to this earth-shaking spectacle.
These selfsame freshmen, who spent the entire summer following the fortunes of their flannel-clad heroes, are crowded into the back seats, where they must suffer through the idiotic comments of their peers.
And there's no use fighting it. Just everyone watches the World Series. Students will continue to cut classes. In other cases, teachers will dismiss classes, on the poor pretense of letting the students
watch the games. These benevolent professors are the men you see in the front row in the Student Union.
For Money, Too
There's even gambling, if you don't tell the policemen, and good friends become mortal enemies for the duration of the week as the fervor of the struggle mounts.
But it's all in fun, and everyone loves it. Even the girls, most of whom hardly realize that there are other big league teams besides the Kansas City Athletics, usually make at least a pretense of being interested. They even talk about baseball.
This overwhelming interest was exemplified by a casual remark overheard in the Student Union Wednesday. As the Yankees came to bat in the top of the ninth, one coed muttered tensely to her female companion:
"Gee. I wish Charley would get a razor like that."
A dedication address, a luncheon an open house, discussion groups and a dedication banquet Friday and a buffet luncheon Saturday are on the program.
Leading speakers are Dr. Harold R. W. Benjamin of George Peabody College, Nashville, Teun., Dr. Dora V. Smith of the University of Minnesota and Dr. Harl R. Douglass of the University of Colorado.
Dr. Benjamin is a former dean of the college of educations Colorado and Maryland universities and has been professor of education and chairman of the social foundations of education at George Peabody.
Dr. Smith is a sister of George B, Smith, dean of the University. She has recently returned from a round-the-world tour on which she studied children's literature in various countries. Dr. Smith is director of the curriculum commission of the National Council of Teachers of English.
Dr. Douglas has been director of the College of Education at the University of Colorado since 1940.
Dedication Address
The dedication address by Dr. Benjamin will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Fraser Theater. Following the address will be a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Student Union. Speakers will be Adel F. Throckmorton, state superintendent of public instruction, C. O. Wright, executive secretary of the Kansas State Teachers Assn., and Wendell Godwin, Topeka superintendent of schools.
Improvement of instructional processes, the readiness of high school seniors for college, what constitutes democratic administration, and the question of character education will be the topics of four panel discussions from 2 to 3 p. m. and from 3:15 to 4 p.m. Friday in Bailey Hall.
Dr. Smith will speak at the dedication banquet at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom. The University Chorale will sing and Cancellor Franklin D. Murphy will speak for the University.
Saturday Dr. Douglass will talk at 11:15 a.m. at a buffet luncheon in the Kansas Room of the Student Union.
Open house tours will be conducted both days by students in the School of Education, particularly elementary education majors and members of Phi Delta Kappa and Pi Lambda Theta, professional education fraternities.
Open House Tours
Marvin Talks In Galveston
Dean Burton W. Marvin of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information lead a public relations problem case discussion at a Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. management seminar in Galveston, Tex., Wednesday,
This was one of a services attended by executives of Bell Telephone.
ID Exchange Void For Saturday Game
Students cannot exchange identification cards for tickets admitting high school students to Saturday's Kansas - Colorado football clash, A. C. (Dutch) Lonberg, director of athletics, has announced.
He explained that the student section will probably be crowded because of the Parents Day crowd.