SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Tuesday, August 1, 1961
49th Year, No.14
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAKING ROOM—Evacuation equipment is currently busy behind the University power plant making room for underground tanks which will contain KU's stand-by fuel supply. The new tanks will replace the above-the-ground facilities now located at 19th and Naismith.
10 Army Training Centers To Expand in New Buildup
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— The Army will expand 10 training centers and set up two new ones to carry out its rapid buildup to 1,008,000 men under President Kennedy's West Berlin preparedness plan.
Midwest Camp May Expand; Concerts End 24th Season
The ever-growing Midwestern Music and Art Camp may add two divisions next summer and possibly two more in 1963, according to Russell Wiley, camp director.
The announcement came as the 24th annual camp came to a close. Campers presented their final orchestra and band concerts Sunday, and a ballet concert Saturday night.
Wiley said divisions in journalism and engineering may be offered in
the 25th session in 1962, and in English and foreign languages a year later. Purpose of this expansion, he said, "is to give an accelerated program to those more talented people before they get to college."
The journalism program probably would be limited to 50 students, but the engineering program would be larger. Both would be six weeks long, the same as the other sessions offered now. The only exception is
Finals End Saturday; Campus to Be Quiet
The KU campus will be virtually deserted Sunday as the August "ghost town" look sets in.
Frederick J. Moreau, emeritus Dean of the School of Law, will participate at a Conference on Personal Finance Law to be held in St, Louis Aug. 7.
Finals will be held on either the last, or next to last class session this week and will run for an hour or two hours, depending upon the instructor. The summer session officially ends at 6 p.m. Saturday.
Moreau to Attend Law Conference
Except for various workshops and institutes, plus construction activities, there won't be much going on until about the first of September. KU fraternity and sorority members will be busy with Rush Week then.
Fees will be paid from Sept. 26 to 29. A $5 fine will be charged for late enrollment.
The campus will start to return to normal Monday, Sept. 11 with orientation for freshmen and new students, followed by registration and enrollment Sept. 14 and 15. Classes will begin Monday, Sept. 18.
The usual procedures will be followed. Students whose last names end with Ka or Kn will be the first to enroll. They can show up at 8 am, on the 14th. First day enrollment is slated, according to the alphabet system, for those from Ka to Wg. Friday's session will start with Wh-Zz and end with Ia-Jz.
Moreau will act as Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of "Franklin," a mythical state created to dramatize legal problems and the talents of young lawyers.
The University should set an all-time enrollment high this fall, barring any drastic developments in the Berlin situation. Officials have said that if the freshman class is as large as they anticipate, then the population on the Lawrence campus should be around 10,500 and the total figure, including the Medical School, approximately 11,000. By 1970, KU is expected to have almost 17,000 students.
First football game this fall will be played with TCU at Ft. Worth Sept. 23. First home game is with Wyoming Sept. 30.
Election Changes Favored in Poll
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — More than 90 per cent of the political scientists questioned in a poll at 254 colleges and universities favor amending the Constitution to change presidential election procedures.
The poll did not overwhelmingly indicate support for any specific new system, Sen. Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn., reports.
Kefauver, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, sent questionaires to political science department heads all over the country. The subcommittee is studying proposed amendments to overhaul presidential election machinery.
Of 254 who replied, 230 favored and 24 opposed changing the present electoral college procedure. Only 87 favored electing the President by direct popular vote.
The Army declines to identify the sites of the two new centers but they were expected to be Ft. Carson, Colo., and Camp Chaffee near Fort Smith, Ark. Chaffee has been closed for several years.
The training facilities to be expanded are Ft. Dix, N.J., Ft. Jackson, S.C., Ft. Knox, Ky., Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., Ft. Sill, Okla., Ft. Ord, Calif., Ft. Sam Houston and Ft. Bliss, Tex., Ft. McClellan, Ala., and Ft. Gordon, Ga.
The Army said it will take over the training load previously carried by three divisions of the Strategic Army Force (STRAF) in this country. Those divisions will be brought quickly to full combat strength and readiness.
Korean War Worried KU Students But Campus Routine Changed Little
At first glance, when Kennedy announced his military buildup plan, the Army did not seem to get an increased number of combat divisions. The fact is, however, that only 11 of the total 14 Army divisions have been kept combat-ready over the last several years.
If life at KU during the 1950-51 school year is any criterion, students in 1961-62 can relax. Then, as probably will be the case now, draft boards were lenient in permitting men in good academic standing to continue their schooling uninterrupted.
Eleven years ago last month, college students throughout the nation wondered what effect the launching of the Korean War would have on their educational plans.
Now all 14 will be fully up to strength. In effect, the strategic reserve kent in this country will be doubled from three to six divisions. Eight divisions are overseas-five in Europe, one in Hawaii and two in Korea.
This didn't mean, however, that the war went unnoticed. The ROTC programs, for example, suddenly became tremendously popular. And more paid closer attention to the books, realizing that a flock of D's and F's could mean a quick trip to Ft. Riley.
The Berlin Crisis, which started in July 1961, is prompting the same question today.
Of course, some failed to escape the clutches of the military, but most returned to the campus and settled down to their normal routine.
the junior high program, which is slated to double in size next year.
As far as campus bull sessions were concerned, many comments were heard to the effect that the U.S. should either go all-out in its attempt to defeat the Communist forces, or forget the whole thing.
But otherwise, '50-51 Jayhawkers turned their attention to the usual extra-curricular activities associated with college life, such as football weekends, beer-drinking, parties, formals, etc. Sometimes this made the Daily Kansan's front page seem rather incongruous.
Comparable remarks have been heard during the last few days regarding the Western stand on Berlin.
Two big headlines in a September 1950 issue, for instance, stated: "South Koreans Advance; Americans Capture Suwon" and "Students Rally for TCU Game."
As the months went by, the war continued to drag along, until many reached the conclusion that the world would probably always be in conflict anyhow, so why worry?
The camp, which originally began operations with a handful of high school musicians, now has five divisions—art, ballet, theatre, speech and music—plus a National Science Foundation sponsored Science and Mathematics Camp.
The firing of General Douglas MacArthur that spring left the campus divided in sentiment. Some felt MacArthur had overstepped his line of authority and that his now-famous "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away" speech was corny.
Others felt he had received a raw deal from President Truman. Feelings on both sides quickly melted away however, and students once again followed their customary pursuits.
All in all, KU students accepted the Korean War for what it was worth — and acquired a higher education in the meantime.
Enrollment in the fall of 1951 dropped somewhat, but a low supply of freshmen, caused by a corresponding low birth rate during the depression, was the main reason, not armed forces calls.
And enrollment in the fall of 1952 actually increased. It has been increasing ever since.
All of the 1,000 junior and senior high school students who participated in this summer's camp are home, or on their way now. Some left last Saturday and the majority Sunday.
Meanwhile, the following students were honored as the outstanding campers in their divisions:
Music — Doris Peterson of Reading, Bill Lane of Jacksonville, Ill., Lenore Ragan of Springfield, Mo., and Bob Baruch of University City, Mo. Runners-up are Glenda Harwell of Springfield, Mo., Kathy Thompson of Salinas, Calif., and Dave Clark of Shawnee Mission. Honorable mention went to Larry Salmon of Winfield.
Ballet (intermediate) — Sandra Yeager of Tulsa, Okla., and runner-up, Lois Lynne Markley of Bennington. Advanced — Kathy Birmingham of Oklahoma City and runner-up, Laura Brown of Albuquerque, N.M.
Art — Susan Lawrence of Bartlesville, Okla., and Gordon Cathey of Fort Worth, Tex.
Speech — William Starkweather of Omaha.
Theater Jackie Palmer of Fredonia and Larry Ketchum of Nampa. Ida.
Castro Blasts Called Likely
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Cuban Premier Fidel Castro is expected to step up his anti-U.S. campaign this week in an attempt to steal the spotlight from the launching of President Kennedy's alliance for progress program.
Kennedy's plan to speed economic and social progress in Latin America will be submitted for approval to a hemisphere meeting of ministers of economy and finance opening Aug. 5 at Punta del Este, Uruguay.
The President, who regards the plan as the cornerstone of his Latin American policy, has appointed Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Assistant Secretary of State Robert Woodward to represent him at the meeting.
U. S. officials believe Castro will make every effort during the next few days to provoke Washington into a debate with him in order to draw attention from any positive achievements of the conference.
They predicted, however, that the Cuban leader would encounter the same cold restraint that marked the administration's reaction to the capture of an airplane last week by a Castro sympathizer.
To many State Department officials the incident came too close to the opening of the economic conference to be considered an isolated action by a free-lance Castro sympathizer.
Cuba's charges Saturday to the United Nations Security Council that the United States would use the airplane incident as an excuse for an armed attack was seen as part of a propaganda buildup on the eve of the meeting.
Last Kansan Today
Today's Kansan is the last of the summer session. The next issue will be published Thursday, Sept. 14.