Daily hansan
Wednesday, Sept. 19, 1956
54th Year, No. 6
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Honor Student Freshman Dies Of Pneumonia
Louis Edward (Eddie) Niemann, an 18-year-old freshman from Kansas City, Kan., died Tuesday in Watkins Memorial hospital of lobar pneumonia.
The Rumsey Funeral Home, where the body was taken, said this morning funeral arrangements are still incomplete.
The youth was stricken unexpectedly Monday morning in Carruth-O'Leary Hall. He complained to his houseparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Rohrbrough, of having a chest cold, feeling a chill and chest pains. The houseparents took him to the hospital. His condition soon became critical and he was placed in an oxygen tent. He died at 3:50 p.m.
Niemann was one of 40 top freshmen who pursue an accelerated academic program on the basis of high school scholastic performance. He was graduated cum laude from Wyandotte High School last May. He won a $50 Hi-Y scholarship, and full tuition fees to KU were granted him by the Vocational Rehabilitation commission. Niemann was a member of the National Honor society at Wyandotte.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Niemann. His mother underwent surgery Tuesday at Providence hospital, and because of her critical condition has not been notified of his death.
County Chairmen Positions Open
Students interested in working as temporary county chairmen for the Statewide Convocation and as home town correspondents should turn in applications now to Dick Wintermote in the alumni office.
Applicants selected for temporary county chairmen will preside at the county meetings until permanent chairmen are elected. Students chosen as home town correspondents will be responsible for writing articles about KU students for Kansas newspapers.
Dairy Princess's Holiday Cut Short
Classes this week cut short a dairy princess's holiday for Marcia Hall, Coffeyville sophomore. Miss Hall was recently crowned Dairy Princess at the State Fair held in Hutchinson and was to have reigned during festivities this week, but couldn't because of her classes. As princess, Miss Hall appeared in parades and on television Sunday and Monday.
Miss Hall will go to Chicago, where she will stay in the LaSalle Hotel with candidates from the other states during the national contest Oct. 5, 6, and 7.
Candidates are selected on the basis of grades, activities, personality, and poise, as well as appearance.
KuKu Club Pledges 9 At Rush Smoker
The KuKu Club, upperclassmen's pep organization, pledged nine men at their Rush Smoker Tuesday in the Student Union.
the Court the Those pledged: Bryce Pfanenstiel, Salina, Stephen Emery, Merriam, Joseph S. Bennett, St. Louis, Mo., Ed Cooper, Hinsale, Ill., and Paul Mordy, Emporia, all sophomores; Marvin Wolf, Kansas City, Kan., Glenn Bickle, Spearfish, S. D., and Wendell Castle, Emporia, all juniors, and Gerald Bennett, Kansas City, Mo. senior.
Makeup Placement Exam Dates Set
Makeup placement examinations will be given at 2 p.m. Thursday and Friday in Bailey Auditorium for all late enrolling undergraduate students
There will be no charge for students taking the exams, but after Friday, a penalty fee of $2 for the entire battery of exams will go into effect. Students who have not taken the exams by Oct. 1 will be withdrawn from all classes.
SUA Outlines Year's Program
"Student Union Activities is unique in that members must be willing to devote time and show interest in order to achieve advancement in the organization," SUA president Dean Graves, Kansas City, Kan., senior, told a capacity crowd of over 400 students Tuesday in the Student Union Ballroom.
Board members of SUA explained the duties of the committees for activities which will be sponsored by the organization this year. Frank R. Burge, director of the Student Union, outlined the recently devised system of interviewing students for committee chairman positions. The selected chairmen will work with students who have indicated by preference card the committees in which they are interested.
Activities of this year's SUA schedule include the sponsoring of Jazz at the Philharmonic. Student Union Carnival, Trail Room, Homecoming and Relay dances. A Poetry Hour and Book Review will be held regularly. Recreational and arts and crafts, programs will be sponsored throughout the year.
The officers and board members of 1956-57 are Graves; Leo LeSage, Concordia senior, vice president; Joanne Beal, Lawrence junior, secretary, and John Zoellner, Tonganoxie junior, treasurer.
Fred Allvine, Kansas City, Kan,
junior, special events; Jim Whaley,
Jefferson, Mo., junior, and Susan
Baker, Kansas City, Mo., junior;
dance; Bryce Cooke, Overland Park
senior, sportsmen; Marion Peltier,
Port Hueneme, Calif., senior, music
and forums; Marilyn Priobith, Wichita
senior, publicity; Jerry Buchanan.
Wichita junior, recreation; Sandra
Falwell, Kansas City, Kan,
sophomore, arts and crafts, and Lois
Alberg, Topeka senior, hospitality.
The Quack Club will practice at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. A second tryout is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27.
Duack Club To Practice
ASC, Court Members Named; Role Of Council Discussed
Members of the All Student Council took time out from their legislative duties Tuesday to spend more than an hour in a self-evaluation discussion on how the Council could be improved.
Jim Schultz, Salina junior and ASC president, divided the joint Senate-House meeting into five groups, which discussed critical problems which are now facing the Student Council.
The questions:
1. What is the educational community? How can a sense of community responsibility be encouraged?
2. What is the need for student government? What is its function in the educational community?
3. How has the ASC measured up to your ideas of what student government should mean?
4. What responsibilities do you have for the proper functioning of the ASC?
5. What programs do you, as ASC members, wish to carry out in 1956-57? How would they affect this educational community?
The groups reported back to the committee with various suggestions.
The most important points to come out of the discussion seemed to be a general feeling that the Council was losing touch with a portion of the student body. Suggestions to remedy the situation included more publicity for ASC events, and a better orientation week program for new students.
Another suggestion was that the Council conduct some sort of poll which would help to determine what the students want it to do, and what student-government issues the students were interested in.
Schultz, who said he got the idea for the self-evaluation program at the National Students Association convention which he recently attended, said he was pleased with the results of the discussion.
"Not only did we get some fine ideas from the discussion, but also the members got to know each other better," he said. "I think participation was very good."
The international committee of KU-Y, headed by Mollie Stamper, Hutchinson, and Roger Brown, Topeka, both junior, will accompany KU's foreign students to Saturday's football game. International committee members have been corresponding throughout the summer with the foreign students to acquaint them with KU.
Foreian Students To Game
Funds Petition Deadline Oct. 1
All organizations wanting funds from the All Student Council for the academic year must submit their petitions to Larry Gutsch, Salina junior, ASC treasurer, by Oct 1.
Petitions must say for what the money is to be used, be supported by a budget for the academic year, and be signed by the president and treasurer of the organization.
The petition and a financial statement for the previous academic year should be mailed to Gutsch at 1540 Louisiana, or the ASC office.
Payment Of Fees To Start Monday
Payment of fees will begin Monday and will continue through Thursday, Sept. 27, according to the following schedule, Mary Alice Swengres, cashier, said today.
A, B, C, D, E, F, Monday
G, H, I, J, K, L, Tuesday
M, N, O, P, Q, R, Wednesday
S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Thursday
All students must be prepared to pay fees in full at this time. A $2 penalty begins on Friday, Sept. 28 for failure to pay fees. Any student failing to pay fees will have his enrollment canceled on Monday, Oct. 1.
Fee cards will be picked up in the basement of Strong Hall. Students will surrender the temporary identification cards and be given a permanent ID card to replace the temporary one.
Students will then go to the cashier's office on the first floor of Strong Hall, east wing. Checks are to be written before the student appears at the cashier's window.
Weather
Kansas—generally fair today and tonight. Partly cloudy Thursday. A little cooler today, tonight and Thursday. High today near 90. Low tonight 55-65.
100 Young Republicans Cheer Shaw
Film Series Begins Today
More than 100 wildly cheering KU Young Republicans helped the Kansas GOP kick off its 1956 election campaign Tuesday night at a rally at the Lawrence Community building.
The KU delegation was among about 500 persons who heard state representative Warren Shaw, gubernatorial candidate, call for greater economy and service in the state. Sen. Frank Carlson, of Kansas asked voters to "return a Republican congress to help President Eisenhower continue national progress."
"Earthquake Research"and "River of Ice," the first two movies in the Bureau of Visual Instruction film series, will be presented at p.m. today in 3 Bailey Hall.
About 10 other state and local candidates were also introduced and spoke briefly.
Mr. Shaw, who promised to look into the problems of state economy "with a searchlight rather than a lantern," outlined a nine-phase program. Included in his proposals:
No state-wide property tax to provide revenue for the state's general fund.
Elimination of duplication in state services.
A labor management law fair to all segments of the population. Continued school aid
Better taxation laws.
Continued school a
Encouraging more industry in the state, but at the same time doing nothing to impair agriculture.
The rally was the first stop on a 500-mile tour planned by Republican candidates, with stops scheduled in more than 40 northeast Kansas towns.
towns. Expanding on his economy theme Mr.Shaw praised the economy of the Eisenhower administration.
"Constant propaganda caused many political leaders to believe it was unpopular to stop spending money," he said. They were not
taking into account the basic ability of the people to evaluate the worth of sound politics."
During President Eisenhower's administration the people were shown how quickly billions of dollars could be cut from their tax bills through efficiency and the loosening of the shackles on our system of free enterprise, he added.
On the controversial labor issue, a factor in his primary victory over Gov. Fred Hall, Mr. Shaw said the Republican party has pledged its full support to the enactment of legislation which will guarantee freedom of choice on joining a union to the individual.
He said the proposed legislation "will properly prohibit any employer, union, or other person from abridging this privilege."
(Related story, "Truth Petrols' GOP Rally", Page 8.)
An appointment to the Student Court and three replacements to the All Student Council were made at the first meeting of the ASC Tuesday night at the Student Union.
Grant Napier, Wichita sophomore, was appointed and approved as an associate justice for the Student Court. He is the last appointment the Council will make to the court this year.
Larry Loftus, Lenexa, Mo., second-year law; Judy Stone, Cedar Vale sophomore, and Bob Wagner, Concordia junior, were sworn into the Council. They will replace Herb Horowitz, Kansas City, Mo., law senior; Ann Compton Coombs, Lawrence junior, and Bill Witt, Colby junior who is studying in Pakistan.
A resolution was passed to give the Council's traditions committee four additional, temporary members who will help revise traditions, convocations, and orientation of new students. Bill Jackson, committee chairman, said the enlarged committee would try to work out a program aimed at developing greater spirit in new students during orientation week.
A resolution that would give the National Student Association coordinator something positive by which to work and to enlarge council activities along NSA lines was read the first time and will be discussed next week.
The council voted to admit one foreign student with voting privileges to the Senate.
There will be a get-acquainted meeting Sept. 29 for all Council members at Lone Star Lake.
The Museum of Art will hold an open house from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday in the lecture hall of the museum.
In other items of business Nan Morgan was named secretary of public relations replacing Cynthia James. An appropriation of $75 was granted to Mortar Board.
Museum Open House Thursday
A full length color film on the life of Picasso, as well as "Phantasy on a 19th Century Painting," and "Fiddle-Dee-Dee," will be shown at 7:30 and 9 p.m.
New students will be honored at the open house. Housemothers of all organized houses and secretaries of the deans and chancellor will be special guests.
The purpose of the open house is to acquaint the students with what the museum has to offer and what activities go on there.
Refreshments will be served and the public is invited.
Allen To Moderate KCMO-TV Panel
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A panel of Kansas and Missouri politicians appearing at 3:30 p.m. Saturday on KCMO-TV will be moderated by Ethan Allen, chairman of the department of political science. They will discuss, "Where does the money come from for politics?"
Panel members will be: Marvin Harder, former Kansas Democratic Committee chairman; Donald Little, chairman of the Wyandotte County Republican Committee; Chales Hibsh, Jackson County, Mo., Democratic Committee treasurer, and Oscar Nelson, a member of the Missouri State Republican Finance Committee.