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Graduation Events Set Beginning June 3rd
The busy commencement schedule for this year will begin with alumni registration at 10 a.m. on June 3 in the lounge of the Kansas Union.
Included in the first day's activities are bus tours of the campus and various class reunions and dinners. A welcoming dinner for those not in special group parties will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
An all university commencement dinner, featuring Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's first "State of the University" address, will highlight the activities for June 4. The supper will be held at 4:45 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
Commencement day, June 5, will
begin with senior breakfast at 8 a.m. in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union. Following the breakfast, Army, Navy and Air Force commissioning ceremonies will be held at 11 a.m. in Murphy Hall. A University reception for seniors and their parents will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Lounge of the Kansas Union, with Gov. and Mrs. John Anderson, Chancellor and Mrs. W. Clarke Wescoe and the Regents receiving.
Formal commencement exercises will be held at 7 p.m. in Memorial Stadium, with welcoming speeches by Gov. Anderson, Chancellor Wescoe and Whitley Austin, chairman of the Board of Regents. In the event of bad weather, the exercises will be held in Allen Field House.
Controversy Has Surrounded CRC Chairman This Year
By Fred Zimmerman
Even so, "we haven't been beaten down at all," Baratz said recently.
As chairman of the Civil Rights Council, Stephen S. Baratz, Lawrence graduate student, has been embroiled in controversy throughout the semester.
"This semester we have picked up supporters we've never seen before. People are writing letters to the UDK in favor of the Council, and' have no idea who they are.
Under his leadership, however, the Civil Rights Council has grown, and Baratz believes its sphere of influence has greatly increased.
AT TIMES this semester Baratz has severely criticized the chancellor and the administration for their position on civil rights. In turn, Baratz himself has been criticized.
"This is quite encouraging."
A graduate student for four years here, Baratz plans to finish his work for a Ph.D. degree in psychology next semester.
"I suspect I'll have to retreat a little in the fall from civil rights work. But I'll still be a member of the CRC," he said.
ALTHOUGH the magazine rack in his basement apartment is filled with the liberal magazines he subscribes
38 Seniors Named
The appointment of 38 additional high school seniors as honor scholars for the coming year at the University of Kansas was announced today by Robert G. Billings, director of aids and awards.
The scholars are in addition to 45 high school students picked as honor scholars earlier this year.
The Honor Scholarship at KU is solely a recognition of merit, Billings explained. The amount of each award depends upon the financial need of the individual student.
Funds for the program are provided the University and the KU Endowment Association from private gifts. Some of the honor scholars will receive already existing "named scholarships." The stipends may also include a place in one of KU's nine scholarship halls. Billings added.
The seniors are picked for highly superior academic achievement in their high school work and in the various testing programs.
"Our sources of student aid are being coordinated so that none of the 83 scholars will be deprived of the opportunity of enrollment for financial reasons," Billings said.
Communication Barrier
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NEW YORK — (UPI) — Giant
electronic 'brains' are having trouble
akin to marital difficulties. They
can't figure out how to talk to each
other.
For example, one brand of thinking machine can't understand the language used by another brand of machine. Improved and standardized translating devices may provide the answer, according to Dr. Joseph Barker, consultant to the Office Equipment Manufacturers Institute.
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to, such as The Progressive. The New Republic, and the Reporter, Baratz says his views are actually rather conservative.
"I suppose that in Kansas I would be classified as a sort of 'Angry Young Man.' But in New York—where I come from—my views are considered very trite."
BARATZ is fully aware of the touchiness involved in working to improve civil rights, and he says he always tries to understand the motivations of the people whose attitudes he is working to change.
He says he greatly admires Martin Luther King, "as a man who has made a courageous stand for civil rights in the South."
EL PASO, Tex. — (UPI) — Public hangings in El Paso some 100 years ago weren't "official" until a notice was posted on the side of a big cottonwood tree in the settlement's market place.
Hanging — Texas Style
Wednesday, May 24, 1961 University Daily Kansan
Marriages, births and more normal deaths also were displayed on a plank nailed to the "Notice Tree" which served as the area's first news medium. Eventually the "Notice Tree" was replaced by newspapers, and rumor has it that the cottonwood was chopped into firewood. But today another tree stands in the same spot in Pioneer Plaza as a historic marker.
South African Police Arrest Former African Council Group
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — (UPI) Police rounded up scores of non-white South Africans today in a dawn sweep designed to prevent trouble at next week's Republic Day ceremonies.
It was a major move against Africans and other non-whites believed organizing a three day strike to coincide with the proclamation of the South African Republic May 31.
At least 11 persons were arrested
in the Johannesburg area alone, 6 of them former officers of the now-outlawed African national congress. Raids were also staged in Capetown, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, Bloemfontein and other major cities.
A senior police officer said the drive was "part of a massive effort we are making against the organizers of the strike and against others."
— ANNOUNCEMENT —
Crises and decisions are not solely the concern of the man occupying the White House. Problems are constantly arising that require an informed citizenry as well as qualified statesmanship. To further the end of creating an informed and thoughtful body of Kansas University students, with an additional goal of building tomorrow's leaders, the Presidential Forum is founded. Membership will be opened at enrollment for the Fall semester.
The Presidential Forum is a bi-partisan organization designed to study and discuss problems confronting our present administration. Beginning in September, meetings will be held once monthly, and 90 minutes will be devoted at each meeting to discussion of two previously agreed-on topics. First on the agenda, and more greatly emphasized, will
be a particular question of foreign policy. After a coffee break the second half of the meeting will deal with a domestic issue.
The Presidential Forum will have no committees or elaborate organizational hierarchy. The only requirement to join is to have an interest in the functioning of responsible government. Speaking, whether in praise or in criticism, will simply require good manners, not eloquence.
The Presidential Forum hopes to attract students who are developing moderate and rational approaches to the problems of our time. It is open to those who wish to listen as well as to those who wish to speak. Dues for the year 1961-62 will be $1.00.
Pete Aylward
Dr. O. P. Backus
(faculty adviser)
Diane Coen
Max Eberhart
Ron Gallagher
Mark Horsky
The Presidential Forum's supporters are:
Tu Jarvis
Denis Kennedy
Kise Krueger
Jim Lawing
Don Lill
Carol McMillen
Larry Moore
Dr. Vaclav Mudroch
Carolyn Parkinson
Karl Pfuetze
Alan Reed
Mel Saferstein
Franklin Theis
Bob Thomas
Franz Von Sauer
Jane Wiles
Bruce Wright
Rick Wurtz