PRIDE OF THE KANSAN—UDK award winning staffers admire a William Randolph Hearst Foundation citation. They are: (left to right) Fred Zimmerman, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; Dan Felger, Mishawaka, Ind., senior, and Frank Morgan, Webster Groves, Mo., senior.
Kansan 'Best in Nation' In Writing Competition
The William Allen White School of Journalism has won first place in the William Randolph Hearst National Journalism Contest. The nation's 45 accredited journalism schools were entered in the six-month writing contest which offered awards totaling $29,800 for winning students and the schools.
FRANK MORGAN, Webster Groves, Mo., senior, won second place in the nation among individuals and will receive $1800. Fred Zimmerman, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, won seventh place in the competition and will receive $800.
KU's School of Journalism will receive $5,600-$3,000 for winning first place, and $2,600 matching Morgan's and Zimmerman's awards.
amassing the most points over the six-month period.
Morgan won first place in the newswriting division and second place in the editorial division. Zimmerman won fifth place in newswriting and placed high in feature writing. The Hearst competition was a cumulative six-month contest in which points were awarded for monthly winners. Final winners were those
John Peterson, managing editor of the University Daily Kansan and Topeka senior, said:
"The Daily Kansan is extremely proud of its writers who have won national acclaim for the School of Journalism and the University Daily Kansan. The winning entries are examples of our finest reporting and editing.
"I feel the basic reason for our superior showing is a result of the kind of newspaper the Daily Kansan is.
"THE AWARDS were for stories that investigated and reported the problems of the University — the need for a faculty retirement program and the student reasoning behind the sit-in at a local tavern.
"This superior reporting is only possible in a crusading, liberal and free press."
THE KU SCHOOL of Journalism will use the first place award to establish journalism scholarships. The award was presented to Acting Dean Calder M. Pickett by Presidential Press Secretary Pierre
Salinger at a luncheon today in Washington, D.C.
All KU entries in the competition were samples of work assigned and written by students on the staff of the UDK in the period Nov. 1, 1960-April 30, 1961.
Besides the winning entries of Morgan and Zimmerman, other entries which placed in the top 10 in monthly competitions were news stories by Byron Klapper, New York City, now working on the Leavenworth Times, an an editorial by Dan Felger, Mishawaka, Ind., senior.
RULES FOR THE contest, which included separate monthly competitions in news, editorial, sports and feature writing, were established by the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism.
Entries were judged by Roger Tatarian, managing editor of United Press International, Hubbard Keavy, chief of the Los Angeles bureau of the Associated Press and William B. Ruggles, former editorial editor of the Dallas Morning News.
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58th Year, No.141
Maloney Says Egyptian Life Needs Examination
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
The United States should find out more about the culture of Egypt, more about the way the Egyptian people think before physicists, chemists or engineers are sent to Egyptian colleges to teach, J. O. Maloney, professor of chemical engineering, said at the Faculty Club last nght.
Prof. Maloney spent three months last year advsing Egyptian universities on the educational curriculum for chemical engineering students.
THE MAIN PROBLEM at the University of Cairo, according to Prof. Maloney, is a lack of books for engineering students.
Prof. Maloney said the library is full of books for student use. When he went to the library there were no students there because the Library is only open while the students are in class.
"It is a mistake to send anyone but anthropologists, psychologists and Sociologists to Egypt," he said. "The Egyptians think differently than we do and these people should go first instead of a bunch of bumbling chemists and engineers. After they have studied the society then they can bring me in and give me case studies so that I will know what to do."
He said that negotiations were being held with the Ford Foundation to grant the university $150,000 to buy books for the students to rent. This would cost the students about $20 a year.
Prof. Maloney said the Egyptians needed to develop will and responsibility. He said that they have been under the heel of a conquerer too long. He added that they also needed to develop national spirit
He said Egyptians tend to argue over little points, not the big ones. As an example, he said that they kept insisting that they need five books for every student so the student could get more accurate information on a subject.
A graduate student wanted a copy of his transcript and it took him 30 days to get it even though he visited the registrar's office every day.
Students are passed, not according to grades or what they will do for the profession, but according to the individual and how his grades will affect him, Prof. Maloney said. The man must have a college degree to earn a decent livelihood so as long as they continue taking the tests they will be passed.
GENEVA — (UPI) — The United States agreed today to permit seating of the Communist Pathet Lao rebels as equals at the 14-nation conference on Laos. But the acting head of the Royal Laotian government delegation said his group would not attend if the Reds and the "neutralist" group from his country are admitted on an equal footing.
Students are passed, not according to grades or what they will do for the profession, but according to the individual's needs and how his grades will affect him, Prof. Maloney said. He added that the university staff feels a personal responsibility, that the student should be provided with a decent livelihood.
If a student takes examinations enough times eventually he will be graduated whether he passes them or not.
The formal opening of the parley was delayed again until tomorrow--four days late--as the United States bowed to British and French pressure to permit the Laotian Reds to attend, only to have the prowestern royal regime reject this plan. It was later announced that the official opening will be tomorrow.
Monday, May 15, 1961
Red Laos Rebels To Go to Geneva
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Pickett, Dellwig to KU Advisory Group
Members of the KU Senate have elected Acting Dean Calder M. Pickett of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Louis F. Dellwig, associate professor of geology, to the Senate advisory committee.
Elected to the athletic board were Frank C. Foley, professor of geology and director of the State Geological Survey, and Charles H. Oldfather Jr., professor of law. The latter was re-elected to the committee on Committees, as was Dr. George L. Anderson, professor of history.
More Than 1,200 Hear Four Freshmen Friday
More than 1,200 persons attended the Student Union Activities Spring Concert featuring the Four Freshmen Friday night.
Until performance time Friday evening, SUA concert committee members had expressed worry that they could not meet expenses due to the slow selling of tickets.
It cost $1,500 to bring the singing group to the campus, and the SUA had estimated it would need $1,775 to break even.
Approximately $1,825 worth of tickets were sold for the performance. This means SUA made about $50.
The committee had obtained 2,500 tickets and of these, about 1,500 were sold for $1.50 apiece.
The Four Freshmen are currently on a tour consisting of one night stands at college campuses all over the United States. Their performances are only for college students.
Greeks Help in MS Fund Drive
Members of four Greek houses collected more than $1,600 Saturday morning in a house-to-house canvass for funds to fight multiple sclerosis.
From 8 a.m. to noon Saturday the collections were made by members of Delta Gamma and Pi Beta Phi sororities and Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Alpha Tau Omega fraternities.
The local committee plans to collect $2,500 by June 19. All the replies have not been received from the annual faculty letter campaign, and additional letters sent in the county have not been accounted for.
Funds collected will be used in local and national interests. Sixty per cent of the money collected goes to the national organization for research, while the remaining 40 per cent goes to the state organization to help patients and to meet fundraising expenses. MS funds pay half the cost of physical therapy treatment for victims of the disease.
Walter E. Sandelius, professor of political science and a member of the committee, said that there were 146 research projects underway now over the nation.
Edgar Wolfe, assistant professor of English, is chairman of the Douglas County branch chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
June 19 (Father's Day). This is the 15th annual nation-wide campaign to collect money for research and to help those who have the disease. Shirley Temple, former child star
The national campaign to collect money for the nervous disease began yesterday (Mother's Day) and ends
who now has her own television show, "Shirley Temple Drama," leads the national campaign. Prof. Sandelius said that Miss Temple has a brother with multiple sclerosis.
DONATION GIVEN—Mrs. Leslie Owen, 1445 W. 19th St., is shown adding to the Multiple Scelrosis collection of John Williams, Osage City sophomore and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Dian Upton, Wichita sophomore and a member of Delta Gamma.