Page 4 University Daily Kansan Tuesday, May 9, 1961
Calm NSA Meeting Follows Charges
Praise, harmony and calm after a storm of accusations prevailed yesterday in the National Student Assn. meeting.
The accusations charging political deals and election-blocking were made at last weekend's regional NSA convention here. The KU delegation split its support between two KU students running for regional offices. Both Charles Menghini, Pittsburg junior, and Jerry Dickson, Newton sophomore, were defeated as a result.
The political split caused hard feelings among some of the members, and a heated meeting was anticipated.
The quiet meeting was held yesterday in the Kansas Union as an evaluative session for the Missouri-Kansas regional conference held here last weekend.
JERRY PALMER, El Dorado junior, said he felt the group must compromise on some issues on combining support of NSA candidates from KU and not fight within itself.
"There are two viewpoints represented in NSA," he said, "but we'll have to be realistic. When we realize that we must compromise and not fight among ourselves, we will be able to present a united front representing KU."
Charles McIlwaine, Wichita senior, said a careful evaluation of NSA's position on the KU campus was needed.
"NSA is an organization where ideas are to be discussed," he said. "But at KU it is a place where there is little discussion and a lot of fighting. A careful appraisal of KU and its position on NSA is needed."
McILWAINE SUGGESTED the work and principles of NSA be discussed at length next year, giving the student body a chance to see NSA in action.
"IF WE FIND, after this study,
that NSA (considered a liberal or-
ganization) can take a moderate
stand, and KU can gain something
by being in NSA, we should stay in the national organization, but if we will gain nothing, we should withdraw," he said.
Ed McMullan, Long Beach, N. Y., senior, said he felt that compromise and intelligent thought were the crux of the problem.
"The opposite side of anything must be shown if there is to be progress," he said. "NSA can reach the middle of the road by having two extremes."
CAROL McMILLEN, Coldwater junior and KU-NSA co-ordinator, said she felt controversy last week-end was healthy and that the KU group had been the most active since NSA was established at KU.
Palmer said he felt the meeting was progressing smoothly and that both views were being expressed.
"We're bringing out all points, we're giving in to the other fellow, we're keeping our tempers, we're giving the other fellow the benefit of the doubt—for once we're functioning like NSA should."
McMULLAN, ART MILLER,
Pittsburg sophomore, and Charles
Menghini, Pittsburg junior, submitted a resolution concerning academic freedom asking that travel bans on students between countries and censor boards for literature and ideologies be eliminated.
The resolution was not considered by the NSA yesterday. McMullan, Miller and Menghini withdrew the resolution to make stylistic changes. It will be presented at the next NSA meeting.
West Tells Soviets No On Berlin Negotiations
OSLO, Norway — (UPI) — The Western powers have decided to reject a Soviet proposal for direct negotiations between West Germany and Moscow on the German and Berlin problems, informed sources said today.
The sources said the decision was reached by U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, British Foreign Minister Lord Home, French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve De Murville and West German Foreign Minister Heinrich Brentano at a private meeting last night.
The sources said the Western powers will insist that the problem of divided Germany be handled as the joint responsibility of the United States, Britain, France and Russia.
RUSK TOLD the 15-mission North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council of Ministers yesterday that the United States will resist Soviet attempts to tamper with western rights in Berlin.
Detailed strategy on Germany and Berlin will be worked out by a fourpower committee in Washington. The other 11 members of the Atlantic Alliance also will be consulted.
This second point is in line with President Kennedy's avowed intention to keep all the NATO allies more fully informed and to hear their views in advance of decisions that will affect the alliance.
INFORMED SOURCES said the foreign ministers had approved a plan for the United States to work out with Russia procedures for resuming East-West disarmament negotiations.
9 Cadets Get ROTC Awards
Nine KU Army ROTC cadets have been awarded separate honors for academic and leadership ability, rifle team proficiency, and high scores in rifle team competition.
Superior cadet ribbons for the high academic standing and military leadership ability were awarded to: John T. Wettack, Coffeyville sophomore; Edwin C. Hodges, Lawrence; Constant Poirier, Topeka, juniors; Jerry D. Roberts, Kansas City, Mo senior.
THE AMERICAN LEGION Outstanding Freshman Rifle Team Member Award was awarded to Philo M. Romine, Stead Air Force Base, Nevada freshman
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Rifle Team trophy for the members of the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps rifle team with the highest scores was awarded to the following cadets:
JAMES H. JUPE, Phillipsburg senior; Romine; Harvey L. Edmonds, Leavenworth; William R. Dickinson, Kansas City, Mo., and Robert B. Sklar, Bayonne, N. J. freshmen.
Students opposed to the proposed stadium seating plan as well as those for it will air their views at the All Student Council meeting tonight.
ASC to Hear Views On Seating Proposal
The council will meet at 7 o'clock in the Kansas Union.
Arthur C. Lonborg, associate professor of physical education and director of athletics, said yesterday that he favors student reserved seating because it would stop congestion at games.
Lonborg Endorses Reserved Seating
The ASC committee appointments will be read to the council for approval. A bill which would make the National Student Assn. at KU a policy-making group will also be discussed.
"Every year I get beat over the head because of the long lines waiting to get into the football games," Prof. Lonborg said. "I am definitely in favor of the program because I think that it would stop this.
"I don't think that the plan will hurt attendance at games very much. Perhaps a little. But soon we are going to have so many students here that it won't make any difference."
Jack Mitchell, KU football coach; Kevin A. Remick, Kansas Union concessions manager and E. L. Falkenstien, business manager of athletics, declined to comment on the matter.
Mortar Board Gift To Cheryl Payer
Cheryl Payer, El Dorado senior,
has been awarded the Katherine
Wells Coleman Fellowship by the
National Council of Mortar Board.
National Council of Mortal Bone.
The annual fellowship carries a $500 stipend, and may be used in addition to any other scholarship the recipient may receive. Miss Payer also holds a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate work in Russian Area Studies at Radcliffe University and a KU Direct Exchange Scholarship for study of political science in Bonn, Germany.
Senior Recital Tomorrow
Marva Lou Powell, Topeka senior, will give a senior recital at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Miss Powell is a soprano and will be assisted at the piano by Mrs. Mary Jo Smith, Lawrence graduate student. The program will include works of Handel, Brahms, Schumann, Strauss and Poulenc.
Official Bulletin
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Catholic Daily Mass: 6:30 a.m. Sk
John's Church, 11th & Kentucky.
Episcopal Evening Prayer (Daily): 5 p.m., Canterbury House.
Naval Reserve Research Co. 9-20: 7:30 p.m., Room 104, Military Science Building "Geology in the Antarctic," by Professor E. J. Zeller, University of Kansas.
TODAY
German Language Film: 4 p.m., 6:15 p.m., 8:15 p.m., Projection Room, 3 Bailey Hall. "Der fraumende Mund 'Dreaming Lins.'" Everyone is invited.
Jay Janes: 5 p.m. 306 Kansas Union.
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The absolute belief of the Soviet visitors in the superiority of the Communist system was emphasized Friday at, the Current Events Forum. The eight Russians visited KU from April 26 to May 1 on a cultural exchange program.
SWISS SYSTEM CHESS TOURNAMENT
Episcopal Holy Communion: 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
PROF. LAIRD SAID the "monolithic" faith of the Soviet visitors in their system made them take the position that "you are either for us or against us."
Angel Flight Drill: 4 p.m., Military Science Building.
The speakers were Roy D. Laird, assistant professor of political science, and George Bennett, Lawrence senior.
"When I gave a lecture on Marxism and Leninism in one of my classes, Mr. Baranov agreed that I understood the system," Prof. Laird said.
Thursday, May 11
7 p.m.
ROOM 305 - UNION
Prof. Laird Emphasizes Confidence of Soviets
"IT WAS THEN assumed by Mr. Baranov that I accepted the system," Prof Laird said.
When Prof. Laird stated in the Daily Kansan that he disagreed with the tenets of the Communist system and Mr. Baranov read it, he decided Prof Laird was "two-faced and fork-tongued."
ALL CHESS PLAYERS WANTED
Bennett said the Russian visitors were friendly and easy to get along with except in political discussions.
"When we got to political discussions it was like two mortal enemies fighting with every means at our command to win," said Bennett.
"THEY HONESTLY and sincerely believe that they are right. There is no question in their minds that they will eventually win."
This year's regional Children's Theater Conference will open its two-day session Friday in Murphy Hall.
Children's Theater Conference Friday
Some 100-150 directors or participants in children's drama programs will attend the series of workshops, discussions and demonstration sessions on all aspects of theater production for children.
Guest workshop leaders at the conference will be Kathryn Kayser, associate professor of theater at the University of Denver, and Mary Jane Larson Watkins, assistant professor of drama and director of children's theater at San Fernando Valley State College, Calif.
Prof. Laird said the invicibility of the communist system in which the Russian visitors believe is a myth.
He said the Soviet priority on heavy industry and its military role created a serious imbalance in the Soviet economic system. This is retarding Soviet economic growth.
"IN CONSUMER goods they can never catch up with the United States under the present priority system," said Prof. Laird.
"They've made tremendous growth and are going to continue to grow," he continued. "But they will run into obstacles created by this imbalance and Western economists feel they are going to level off at a very moderate rate of growth."
Bennett said the Soviet visitors had several complaints they would take back as impressions of the United States. They were not able to talk to any workers or the "great mass of unemployed" and one could not see an oil refinery. These were things they had wanted to do.
PROF. LAIRD SAID they came to the United States with a pre-conceived idea of what it was like and then looked for things to fit into this pre-conception.
He said that the Russians could not wait to find the "splashes of meaningless paint" in the abstract art section of the Nelson Art Gallery during their visit to Kansas City
They believed this truly represented the United States and that all the rest of the art was a facade, Prof. Laird said.
Svmphonv bv Pozdro Chosen
A composition by John Pozdro, associate professor of music theory, has been chosen for performance at the Contemporary Music Symposium, May 24-27, at the American University in Washington, D. C. It is his "Second Symphony," which received its premiere last winter by the Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra and has been recorded commercially by that orchestra.
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