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Seats on Sale Despite 2,500 Protests
Reserved seats for the 1961 football season went on sale today despite opposition from over 2,500 petitioners who voiced dislike for the new student reserved seating plan.
REPRESENTATIVES FROM living groups who signed the petition against the All Student Council bill, were among those lining up for first choice of seats.
Lines for the tickets started forming at 8 a.m. Sunday.
THE TICKETS are being sold for $1.50 apiece. Seniors, graduate, law and medical students get first choice. Future juniors and sophomores will buy their tickets Wednesday through Saturday.
"Sure, I was against the idea," said one. "But it looks like it's going to go into effect anyhow, and I'm not going to be left out."
Graham Moore, Huston, Tex., junior, who helped initiate the referendum petition calling for a student vote on the issue said, "Although the tickets are on sale, we can still legally challenge the
They also serve who only sit and wait.
action. Over 20 per cent of the students have voiced their opposition to it.
"The plan does not have the best interests of the student in mind," he continued.
BY 11:30 THIS MORNING, 1.150 tickets had been sold and only a dozen people were still waiting in line.
James Gunn, administrative assistant to the Chancellor, said the process went smoothly with no more than 50 to 100 students waiting in line at any one time.
"There were relatively few students waiting to buy tickets in comparison with the thousands waiting to get into football games," he pointed out.
SEVERAL STUDENTS bought more than one or two tickets, and some said they were buying them in "blocks." These blocs are made up of living districts which voluntarily went together to make purchasing the tickets easier.
"We also felt it would be easier to trade around within the same section if a number of students bought them at the same time," said the representative of one bloc.
Daily hansan
58 Year, No. 146
Wescoe Asks New Approach to Sports
By John Peterson
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, May 22, 1961
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe believes the reputation and integrity of the nation's universities are being endangered by the present situation in intercollegiate athletics.
Dr. Wescoe said in an interview that he feels university presidents should take the initiative in placing adequate curbs and controls on today's athletic setup.
"A NEW APPROACH is called for," the chancellor said.
"It is difficult under present circumstances and with the present organization to govern the more than 500 universities and colleges participating in intercollegiate athletics."
Conduct of intercollegiate athletics is governed chiefly by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) which has one full-time employee, Walter Byers, executive secretary, and a threemember, part time investigative committee to exercise all of the organization's disciplinary power.
James E. Gunn, administrative assistant to the chancellor, said the fact seems to be that dishonesty is not automatically punished. Punishment often comes only through denunciation by other institutions or through certain public occurrences such as the recruiting of a star athlete, he said.
THE CHANCELLOR apparently referred to the fact that a small group of men (NCAA), with limited funds and personnel available, can only deal with dishonesty in a hit and miss, capricious manner.
THE INTEGRITY of intercollegiate athletics was severely jolted recently by the admissions of players from seven universities on the East Coast that they had taken bribes from gamblers to fix games.
The interview with the chancellor was prompted by a speech Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, former basketball coach at Kansas, made in Emporia last week.
Mr. Allen said that the University presidents should take control of the NCAA and establish a czar with the power to adequately govern intercollegiate athletics.
WESCOE SAID he agrees in part with the former basketball coach
that action is needed by the university presidents.
He added that he intends to discuss the matter with the other presidents of the Big Eight.
Mr. Gunn said the University has made four changes in order to remove any inconsistencies and to assure the coaches, alumni and other supporters of KU's athletic teams that "all the resources of the University are behind them to do the job in complete honesty."
"Difficulties may arise where a clear understanding is not shared
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4th Honors Edition In Today's Kansan
Featured in today's University Daily Kansan is the fourth annual Honors section. The section was prepared for the Kansan by Tom Yoe, director of KU public relations.
The Honors section was initiated as a mode of universal recognition for KU's outstanding people.
Clearing and cooler tonight. Tuesday will be fair. Highs today will range from mid to upper 60s. Lows tonight 50 to 55. Highs Tuesday will hit the 70s.
Additional copies of the section may be obtained from the Public Relations office, 231 Strong.
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Shaw Lauds Cuba At Minority Forum
A Castro supporter added controversial fuel to the Cuban issue at a Minority Opinion Forum Friday.
Myriads of questions came from the more than 250 students during the hour and a half discussion. However, the speaker, Edward Shaw, had to be reminded several times by Clifford P. Ketzel, assistant professor of political science and moderator of the forum, to answer the questions fully.
MR. SHAW IS Mid-West representative for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. He told the crowd the
committee did not necessarily support Castro but functioned "to correct the atrocities and false reports of the distorted American press."
Silent Generation Speaks Up Loudly
(Chancellor Wescoe stated last week that Mr. Shaw "does not appear in any official capacity. The University officially and I personally," he continued, "disclaim his viewpoint on the Cuban situation.")
(Editor's Note—This is the first of a series of articles on awareness among students in general—American college and political issues of the day.)
By Fred Zimmerman
The silence is over. College students, for a decade called The Silent Generation, are being heard again.
They hold sit-ins. They sign petitions. They volunteer to teach English in Africa. And endlessly they protest.
In the last year American collegegians have demonstrated against mandatory military training, rules against drinking beer, the invasion of Cuba, and the issuing of diplomas in English instead of Latin.
COLLEGE STUDENTS in the South have carried the civil rights movement on their shoulders, campaigning for the desegregation of lunch counters, public libraries, theaters, and bus terminals.
In San Francisco last May students demonstrated against the House Committee on Un-American Activities, detonating an explosion that is echoing still.
STUDENTS OF THE SIXTIES have found a cause—many causes, in fact—and they are being heard.
At the University of Kentucky, students were arrested a few weeks ago after stand-in demonstrations at downtown theaters.
A newsman, back from conversations with adult Negroes in the South, wrote:
"Everywhere I went I heard comments like, 'the young people will not take what we took.'"
ABOUT 1,200 persons at the University of Minnesota attended a rally last month of the Fair Play For Cuba Committee. Student speakers who asserted that the United States financed the invasion of Cuba were pelted with snowballs and interrupted by catcalls from fellow students.
At a university in Ohio hundreds of students recently walked out of classes and proclaimed a boycott. They said they were protesting rules against drinking beer and the censorship of the university newspaper.
The students immediately issued their analysis of the film, and as Milton Mayer states, "The leaders of the student movement — who might otherwise have gone back to their books — (have thrown) themselves full force into the nationwide crusade against the Committee."
THE CALIFORNIA STUDENTS who demonstrated against the House Committee on Un-American Activities were called "Communist dupes" by the doctored HUAC film, "Operation Abolition."
Mayer concludes his article, "The Found Generation," in a recent issue of The Progressive, by saying:
"... THERE IS beginning to
rise on the campuses a generation of young men and women who will not accept the inch-at-a-time — forward or backward — respectability that offers them good jobs, a lifetime of futile letters to their Congressmen, and a constitutionality under which the HUAC is constitutional.
"There were a good five thousand of them—not counting Archie Brown and Merle Brotsky—picketing the City Hall the day after the "riot" in San Francisco... These students will be doing something somewhere in America. They are, by and large, the best students on these campuses. The future is (as F.D.R. would say) iffy. But there may be a found generation."
Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative club, founded last fall, now has more than 21,000 members on 115 campuses. The YAF is organizing at KU. "The Conscience of a Conservative," a book by Sen. Barry Goldwater, is a reported bestseller at 200 college town books stores.
APPARENTLY AS a reaction to the liberal movement among students, there suddenly is a wave of conservatism on campuses.
"ON THE FAR RIGHT." Time says, "is a small fringe of shouting, demonstrating fanatics who admire
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Time Magazine divides the campus conservatives into three groups.
The speaker stressed that "the vast majority of the Cuban people completely support the Castro regime."
HE EMPHASIZED THAT the revolution satisfied the economic need of the small worker, but not the business man. Then, gesturing and raising his voice, he added, "the people who lost a lot of wealth in Cuba, happen to be influential in the newspaper business."
Mr. Shaw said definitely that his concern was for "the ideological safety of the nation" (the nation being the U.S.) and added that he was paid $30 less than he had received as an engineer, or $87 weekly for making his speeches.
"I AM NOT TRYING to justify the revolution," he said, "but I may accidently do so by presenting the facts. We should all make up our minds on the basis of the facts, not what is printed in the newspapers."
Asked whether he was presenting "the facts," Mr. Shaw replied that he was, and had additional "inside routes" into the situation. But a few minutes later in the discussion, he said, "all of you have access to the same information I have, if you read it.
"The overall government operation is not too different than it was with Batista," he commented. "The government has done only what they've been forced or had to do under the circumstances."
ONE STUDENT ASKED why the Communist party was the only functioning party in Cuba. Mr. Shaw replied that it was "simply because the Communists are the only ones who support the regime," but hastened to add that "Castro was no more communist than we are. He is a socialist."