Daily hansan
58th Year, No.145
LAWRENCE, KAN8A8
Friday, May 19, 1961
Kennedy, Khrushchev Set Summit Conference
By Merriman Smith UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON — President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev will meet in Vienna on June 3 and 4 for a general exchange of "major" U.S.-Russian differences, the White House announced today.
The White House said the conference will provide "a timely and convenient opportunity for the first personal contact" between the President and premier.
Following the Vienna meeting, Kennedy will travel to London for a brief session with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
It was emphasized that the Kennedy-Khrushchev conference will be confined to "the major issues which affect the relationships" between the United States and Russia
THE WHITE HOUSE statement said the "Big Two" will not negotiate nor try to reach agreements on cold war problems involving other countries.
The President will have his first meeting with Khrushchev immediately after his previously announced talks with French President Charles de Gaulle in Paris, May 31-June 2.
Nuclear test ban talks at Geneva
1700 Sign Petition
By Carrie Merryfield
More than 2,000 students will have signed the petition asking for a referendum on the reserved seating bill by noon today, according to an estimate by the men circulating it.
"There were over 1,700 signatures at midnight last night, so if we don't get close to 2,000, I'll be surprised," Graham Moore, Houston, Tex., junior, said.
Moore, Bob Allen, Webster Groves, Mo. junior and Jim Martin, Arkansas City sophomore, started the petition late Wednesday night. The petition is against the seating bill, charging that it was not representative of the student sentiment on the plan.
THE SEATING BILL passed provides for reserved seats to be sold on a seniority basis for $1.50 for the football season. Seniors, graduate law and medical students would have the first opportunity to purchase the tickets, with juniors and sophomores coming later.
Moore said he felt the seating problem is not great enough to necessitate the reserved seating plan at this time.
Moore said he believes the majority of the students do not like the seating plan and many of them feel it was railroaded through the ASC.
"I AM WELL AWARE of the various legal loopholes that can be used against our petition for referendum," he said, "but I also feel
that if the students speak out through their signatures, their feelings and opinions should be honored by the ASC. We (Moore, Allen and Martin) are aware that our petition asks for a referendum on the ASC seating bill when it should ask for a referendum on the amendment to ASC Bill 11. This bill allows the Seating Board to establish and enforce, with the approval of the ASC, a reserved seating plan.
Jerry Palmer, El Dorado junior and chairman of the ASC, said that the referendum would not work as it would only repeal Section 1e of the ASC bill number 11, the Student Athletic Seating Board. The seating plan is not an ASC bill, but an Athletic Board bill, therefore, according to Palmer, the referendum can not repeal the bill. If this section is repealed, Palmer said the students would have no say in student seating at all. The matter would be thrown into the hands of the administration.
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have bogged down in a stalemate. Kennedy is reported intent on convincing the Soviet premier of the seriousness with which he regards a genuine test ban agreement as the keystone of general disarmament.
THE KENNEDY - Khrushchev conference and the President's plans to meet with Macmillan were announced simultaneously in Washington, Moscow and London. It was announced in London that Kennedy will dine with Queen Elizabeth when he visits the British capital.
The White House emphasized that the Kennedy-Khrushchev talks were not designed for the purpose "of negotiating or reaching agreement on the major international problems that involve the interest of many other countries."
"THE MEETING WILL, however, afford a timely and convenient opportunity for the first personal contact between them and a general exchange of views on the major issues which affect the relationships between the two countries," the White House said.
Thus the American government made plain that Kennedy does not regard this first meeting with the Soviet leader as a so-called summit conference.
Kennedy will be accompanied to Paris, Vienna and London by his wife. The president will leave London late June 5 for the United States, but Mrs. Kennedy will remain there for a few more days with her sister and the latter's husband, Prince Raxziwill.
The Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting has been under consideration for about nine weeks, and the chief executive decided to proceed with definite plans after sounding out other Allied governments.
BULLETIN
TOPEKA—(UPI)—The Kansas State Board of Regents today approved a total budget of $47,500,000 including salary hikes for college presidents.
The Board also unanimously approved, subject to approval by the Attorney General, a resolution setting out the mechanics of a retirement plan for faculty members of the various state institutions.
See p. 8 of today's Daily Kansan for complete Regent details.
RAINY WEATHER—Neal Pinchard, freshman, and Naomi Olsen, sophomore, both from Hinsdale, Ill., joined hundreds of other KU students this morning in their retreat from threatening showers. The weatherman predicts no let up for the weekend.
Shaw Says Cubans Support Castro
By Fred Zimmerman
The Mid-West representative of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) told an audience of about 40 persons last night that the mood of the Cuban people is:
"If Fidel is a 'Communist, then so are we."
THE SPEAKER, Edward Shaw, is here for a two-day visit. He will speak at 4 p.m. today in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. He spoke and answered questions last night for two hours and 20 minutes.
"The Cuban people in the vast majority support Castro," Mr. Shaw said, as he showed color slides he has taken on his trips to Cuba.
"EVERYONE YOU meet in Cuba says he had something to do with the Castro revolution. That's not true, of course. Everyone wasn't in on it. But they all want to take credit for helping put Fidel into power." Mr. Shaw said.
One of his sides showed nothing but a slogan carved in wood and hanging on the interior wall of a Cuban home. The slogan said, "Esta Es Tu Casa, Fidel." (This is your house, Fidel.)
One student asked about a news story in the Kansas City Times yesterday saying the former secretary of the FPCC took $19,000 with him when he fled to Cuba last January
MR. SHAW answered that "our office has a receipt for the $19,000. Of course the story didn't say that, did it?" He said this failure to tell the "whole story" was characteristic of the "distorted American press."
The news story in the Times also said that student chapters of the Committee were listed at 21 American universities, including the University of Kansas.
CHANCELLOR W. CLARKE Wescoe said yesterday that Mr. Shaww "does not appear on this campus in any official capacity, and he is not an official guest of the University of Kansas.
"The University officially and I personally disclaim his viewpoint on the Cuban situation."
When asked about the chancellor's statement, Mr. Shaw said, "I think he's ill-informed."
He said that "comparatively speaking, you students are much better off" than students at the University of Tampa, whose president would not let Mr. Shaw appear at all.
Weather
High temperatures today were expected to be a little warmer, ranging generally from 65 to 70. Overnight lows were forecast in the 50s.
Exchange Program No Value Without Contact
(Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of three articles dealing with the relationship between foreign students and American students at KU.)
By Ron Gallagher
University officials, student leaders and some students believe that
American students at KU are receiving only minimum benefit from exchange of ideas with foreign students.
The 60,000 foreign students attending American colleges and universities are considered a major part of the foreign policy and aid program of the United States. Clark Coan, assistant dean of men and foreign student adviser, has termed the exchange program, "a cornerstone of American foreign policy."
CHANCELLOR W. Clarke Wescoe considers the foreign exchange plan a vital part of the program of the University as well as of the country.
"I am convinced that educational exchange is the way to international understanding and good will. When they leave, they leave a part of themselves, for which we are grateful, and take with them a part of us.
"They serve as sources of ideas and ready reference for information about conditions in their countries.
"However, the program is of no value if we do not associate with each other. Without this association we might as well conduct this exchange by correspondence."
In assessing the present program, the Chancellor said that some people at KU had benefited greatly from the exchange but the majority has not benefited at all.
The chancellor's opinion echoed the remarks of almost every American student interviewed in the survey. All reported some contact with foreign students, but most of those interviewed said that this contact is limited.
Fee Waiver Approved For Foreign Students
TOPEKA —(UPI)— The Board of Regents today approved a request from the 5 state college presidents to waive non-resident fees for foreign students. The move will save the foreign students $155.
The request was made because under state law, state funds cannot be appropriated for scholarships and because American exchange students are not required to pay non-resident fees abroad.
"We have one foreign student in the house but that is about as far as it goes," one student commented.
Another remarked:
"I only have the opportunity to meet the foreign students that are in our hall, except for the few that I might sit beside in class."
Roger Wilson, Wichita sophomore, said:
"FOREIGN STUDENTS come to America and the only people they meet are other foreign students."
The American students interviewed gave various reasons for the lack of contact between American and foreign students.
Bill Dawson, Kansas City junior, said that in many cases the American student does not know the foreign student and really does not care to meet him.
Max Eberhart, Great Bend junior and president of the student body, commented:
"Too often we take the foreign students for granted. No one has made us aware of the things we can learn from them."
One student said he thinks that the new American student also has problems when first at KU.
"It is hard, in many cases, for
Americans to meet Americans," he explained.
(Monday's article will discuss the value of the foreign exchange program and contact between American and foreign students as seen by foreign students.)