Daily Hansan
54th Year, No.13
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Sept. 28, 1956
ASC To Study Student Service At Retreat
How to serve students better will be the thread running through the discussions of the All Student Council at a retreat Saturday and Sunday at Lone Star Lake.
The ASC program, constitution, relationships and responsibilities will be discussed.
Talks will be given by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy on "An Administration Looks at Student Government," by William H. Alaway, general secretary of the KU-Y (YMCA-YWCA), on group dynamics, and by Miss Emily Taylor, dean of women, on the philosophy of student government.
The retreat will open with a picnic supper followed by Miss Taylor's talk. Then a discussion period will begin.
Ralph Varnum, Kansas City, Mo. junior, will lead a discussion about the structure of KU's student government and how the parts fit together. The discussion on the relationship of other organizations to the Student Council will be lead by George Sheldon, Salina junior.
A discussion of individual responsibilities of members to the Council and to the students will be led by Tom Griffith. Pratt senior. The history and background of the Council will be discussed, and the constitution will be studied with Varnum leading.
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Bill Jackson, Florence senior, will organize recreation at 10.15 p.m.
After breakfast Sunday devotions will be led by Bill Wilson, Colby junior and chaplain. Mr. Allaway and Chancellor Murphy will speak. ASC President Jim Schultz Salina senior, will close the retreat. Sandra James, Wichita junior and ASC vice president, is in charge.
Memorial Service Set For Graduate
Memorial services for Robert L. Ziesenis, 1952 graduate killed in a mid-air collision of two jet training planes near Laredo, Tex. Wednesday, will be held in Danforth Chapel at 3 p.m. Sunday. Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, will conduct the service.
Mr. Ziesenis, who graduated from Southeast High School in Kansas City, Mo. and had attended the junior college there for one year, enlisted in the Air Force upon graduation from KU and had recently re-enlisted.
While at the University he was a member of University Player and received an award from the Quill Club for a short story.
Marine Officer To Visit
Capt. William Drumwright, Marine Corps procurement officer from Oklahoma City, will visit the campus Wednesday and Thursday to confer with students interested in platoon leader and officer candidate schools. Appointments can be made by calling Maj. W. N. Christopher at KU-341.
Industrial Editors Hear Beth
Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, sooke in Kansas City, Mo., Thursday evening to 60 members of the Kansas City Industrial Editors Assn. His lecture dealt with the legal right of privacy and its effect upon the editing of trade journals and company publications.
CARTOON KING—E. B. Thompson of King Features Syndicate is being interviewed by Tom Sawyer, Topeka junior and University Daily Kansan reporter.
100 Million Read Comics Daily' And He Should Know
"Comic strips are read by 100,000,000 people every day because the American public is looking for relief from reading depressing news of wars, deaths, accidents, and other tragic events," E. B. Thompson said in an interview today.
Ex-Student Dies In Plane Crash
Capt. Milburn G. Apt, pilot of the Bell X-2 rocket-powered plane which crashed into the desert near Edwards, Calif., Thursday was a student at the University in 1946-49. He majored in mechanical engineering.
Capt. Apt was from Buffalo, Kan. He was killed during his first flight in the needle-nosed plane.
The X-2 is credited as being America's fastest aircraft. It has flown at speeds of nearly 2,000 m.p.h. and is reported to have climbed to an altitude of 126,000 feet, both of which, if official, would be world's records.
The plane, the only one of its kind, was built to explore the heat barrier—the point at which friction resulting from high speeds starts to weaken metals.
"The appearance of a preliminary directory is a service to major campus organizations, dormitories, organized houses, and offices," said Registrar James K. Hitt.
First Directory Is Special Service
Mr. Hitt explained that the directory is temporary, that it is inaccurate and incomplete, and has been published in a limited edition. It came into being. Mr. Hitt said, by photographing IBM tabulator lists and reducing them 50 per cent.
The permanent directory will contain student and faculty home addresses and a list of organized houses. It should be out about Nov. 1. he said.
Students who find errors in the preliminary directory should report them to the registrar's office, Mr. Hitt said.
Late Fee Penalty Beains
A penalty of $2 a day will begin today for students who failed to pay their fees Thursday. Students who have not paid by Monday will have their enrollment cancelled.
Mr. Thompson is director of editor-newpaper relations for the King Features Syndicate. He is a speaker for the fourth annual Newspaper Circulation Managers School being held today and Saturday in the Student Union.
Snoke Today
He spoke on "How Syndicated Features Can Help Sell Your Paper" this afternoon.
Features such as comics, columns, and human interest stories are more important today because of the great competition for the reader's time." Mr. Thompson said in the interview.
This morning Mr. Thompson and Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, led a discussion on features in the Newpaper Administration class in Flint Hall.
"They are the bonus and habit forming section of the paper and editors must select features as carefully as a housewife selects groceries. A good newspaper is not merely paper and ink, but is alive It is a good friend to those readers who know they can turn immediately to their favorite comic or feature." he added.
King Features is the largest syndicate of its kind. It is circulated in more than 100 countries and specific sections are translated into 30 foreign languages.
King Largest Syndicate
Mr. Thompson began work on his father's Dennison Texas Herald as a small boy and has since worked on nine newspapers, one news service, and two syndicates in nearly all of the 48 states. He is former managing editor of the New York Morning Telegraph.
Observatory To Have Open House Today
The public will have another opportunity to view the planet Mars through the KU observatory telescope at two more open houses at the observatory from 8 to 11 p.m. today and Saturday.
N. W. Storer, associate professor of astronomy, said that over 150 persons attended the open house at the observatory in Lindley Hall Monday evening. Mr. Storer said that he observevity will not be open either night if the skies are cloudy.
Football Festival Here We Go Again
By DONA SEACAT
By DONA SEACAT
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
A football game, colorful halftime ceremonies, and a post game dance will be highlighting activities this weekend when KU clashes for the first time with a hot College of the Pacific team.
Kickoff time Saturday is 1:30 p.m. The Jayhawks, clad in suits of white pants, red jerseys, and blue helmets, will charge onto to avidiron, run through their calishtentics, and prepare for the kick- off.
Political Emphasis Program Set
The political emphasis program will begin at 4 p.m. Wednesday with a coffee in the Music Room of the Student Union.
The program at the coffee will consist of an informative talk by Harold C. Fisher, Lawrence city clerk, to persons who are registering and voting for the first time in the coming general election.
Other coffees will be held at 4 p.m. on Wednesday afternoons during October. Grassroots politics will be dealt with at these coffees.
The purpose of this program is to make voting age students aware of the responsibility of voting and to acquaint them with the issues in the election.
An all-student convocation will be held Oct. 12. Roswell Perkins, assistant secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, will give the Republican side in a short debate with Rep. Richard Bolling, from the 5th District of Missouri, who will present the Democratic side.
Other activities tentatively scheduled for the program are a debate between representatives of the KU Young Democrats and Young Republicans to be held Thursday, Oct 25, at a meeting of the KU-Y (YMCA-YWCA).
An election night party is also being planned for the Student Union ballroom. Plans are to have several television sets and direct wires into the ballroom. It is possible that closig hours will be extended for party goers.
A postmortem will be held at a Faculty Forum luncheon on Nov. 7, with Ethan Allen, professor of political science, as discussion leader.
Young Democrats Hear Stevenson
Approximately 25 Young Democrats from the University attended a speech by Adalai Stevenson, Democratic candidate for president, in Kansas City, Kan., Thursday.
In his speech, which was televised, Mr. Stevenson said that Democratic presidents have tended toward the theory of a strong presidency, whereas Republicans have tended toward limiting the powers of the president.
Weather
Partly cloudy and quite warm and windy this afternoon with blowing dust mostly central sections of state. Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Cooler northwest and north-central tonight. Low tonight lower 50s northwest to 60s southeast. High Saturday 80s northwest to 90s elsewhere.
On the sidelines, 10 cheerleaders will flay the air with their arms, and fill it with their shouts to arouse the students and the team to greater excitement.
During halftime, 52 high school bands from all over the state will surge onto the field, brilliant splottes of color on the green and brown grass. With brisk precision and accurate timing they will march into a formation that will spell BAND DAY, KU, 1956.
Filming Rv Air
The combined bands will then play two sprightly marches while a plane above them records the event on film.
By this time, the school boys and girls—about 3,000 of them, according to Prof. Russell L. Wiley—will be ready to collapse in the grandstand for the last half of the game, for their day will have started with a parade down Massachusetts Street at 9:30 Saturday morning a tour in buses through the campus, and a picnic at Potter Lake, followed by a mass rehearsal for their part of the ceremonies.
With the firing of the gun that ends the game, students and spectators will begin the seeming endless swarm out of Memorial Stadium. Coffee and doughnuts will await them at various organized houses, or perhaps a gay buffet supper.
Then The Dance
After the sun has gone down, men will begin to pour out of their homes, smelling of shaving lotion and cigarette smoke.
Their dates will apply the last dab of powder, the extra touch of perfume, and fasten the pearl choker at the neck of their pullover sweater.
Then it's off for an evening of dancing to the music of John Carlos in the Student Union. A hamburger and a cup of coffee along about midnight will complete a typical football festival day.
Church Group To Study Hinduism
A film-strip and discussion on Hinduism will be the United Student Fellowship program at 5:30 p.m. Sunday in the parish hall of Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St. Supper will be served.
Meena Tyagarajan and Janardan Nerurkar, graduate students from India, and Mrs. Nerurkar will be discussion leaders; Theodore Schweitzer, third-year law student from Wichita, moderator, and Betty Naaf, Liberty, Nebr., freshman, script reader.
The program is the first in a series of five on world religions. Programs on Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism, Islam, and Judaism will follow.
Fine Arts Dept. Begins Moving Plans
Preliminary planning for moving the departments of fine arts and dramatic arts into their new building has started, George B. Smith, dean of the University, said today.
It is not known what departments or units will move into the space vacated, Dean Smith said. The move is expected to take place either in September 1957, or during Christmas vacation, 1957.