Seniors Vote Gift of $3,300 Loan Fund
By Virginia Mathews
The 1961 Senior Class will establish a Centennial Loan Fund of $3,300 for future seniors.
The loan fund will be given through the Aids and Awards office to be awarded in the following manner:
- The maximum amount of the loan is $150 per person with an interest rate of $2½ per cent. This means that the persons receiving the loans of $150 will pay $3.75 when they pay back the individual loan a year later or a total of $153.75. As many as 20 loans can be made at one time.
- Applicants must be classified as seniors for the year they will receive the loans.
- The loans must be paid back within a year after graduation.
- Applicants must have an overall 1. grade average.
EACH APPLICANT must have three references in addition to a co-signer. The co-signer cannot be a faculty member, a student, or spouse of the applicant. The co-signer must be over 21 and be able to afford the financial responsibility of the loan. Even if the student applying for the loan is 21 or over—he or she must have a co-signer.
The seniors' vote yesterday for the loan as a gift was close. Out of 521 votes cast at the coffee 187 went to the loan fund, 157 were cast for the trophy cases in Allen Field House and 143 went for a statue to be placed in the garden of the Museum of Art.
TWO OTHER SUGGESTIONS from the floor for gifts were defeated. The one suggestion that an Information Booth be established on the west side of campus received 29 votes, and the other suggestion for a Blake Hall clock monument received 7 votes.
Results of this last suggestion would have preserved the Blake Hall clock after building was torn down.
F. M.Clenahan
"A fund for loans for senior class—of 1973?"
Apparently since 1961 represents the Kansas Centennial, the seniors felt that this was the appropriate gift. Several seniors voiced this feeling.
ROBERT G. BILLINGS, Lawrence graduate student who works in the Aids and Awards Office, said that the lean fund established by the Senior Class would serve for as many as 20 awards at the same time and possibly more depending on the repayments.
Billings said that the applicant need not apply for the maximum amount of $150 but could apply for $100 or the amount that he needs. He added that the interest rate would cost approximately a penny a day. This means that a person taking out a loan and repaying it in 60 days would pay just 60 cents for interest.
THE $3,300 that the seniors gave to the Aids and Awards office to establish the Loan Fund came from the accumulated senior class account of $5,000. This was received through payment for class dues. Additional money will come from profits made on the sale of senior rings, calendars and announcements at the Kansas Union Book Store.
The exact amount from these sales will not be available until mid-June as the financial report will not be finished until that time. Seniors will be ordering rings for some time according to Kenneth Brown, Herington senior and chairman of the gift committee.
Daily hansan
58th Year, No. 137
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Tuesday, May 9, 1961
'Undetermined' Number of Detained in Cuba
WASHINGTON — (UPI)  An "undetermined number" of Americans are being detained in Cuba and some 300 are having trouble getting exit permits to leave the island, the State Department said today.
One official said possibly about 20 or 30 Americans rounded up in mass arrests following the recent invasion attempt may still be under arrest.
But he said this was a very rough estimate.
State Department press officer Joseph Reap told a press conference he could not estimate the number of Americans being detained.
"We do know," Reap said, "that an undetermined number of Americans were detained in the widespread operation which followed the invasion attempt. Some have been released after questioning but an undetermined number are still detained."
Reap said some 300 Americans are awaiting Cuban exit permits following a State Department advisory a week ago for all Americans to leave the island.
--said they expect to have it in operation next fall.
MIAMI, Fla.—(UPI)—An American woman fleeing Fidel Castro's Cuba said last night "hundreds" of Americans are stranded in Havana, unable to get clearance to leave or space on outgoing planes.
"Nobody helps us," the refugee said. "I don't know why the State Department doesn't do anything. I was two weeks trying to get out of there.
"Am I glad to be here? I could almost get down and kiss the ground."
THE CASTRO NEWSPAPER.
Combate, reported in Havana yesterday that about 2,000 Roman Catholic churchmen—most of them Spaniards—had applied for exit permits since Castro declared that foreign priests who "don't like his revolutionary government have to get out of the country."
Only a handful of Americans have arrived here since the State Department Wednesday advised the 1,200 Americans remaining in Cuba to get out of the country.
THE SWISS EMBASSY has been taking care of U. S. interests in Havana since the United States broke relations with Cuba last year.
A Cuban fleeing his homeland said "panic and desperation" have been spreading through Cuba since the failure of last month's anti-Castro invasion of the island.
"Since Castro made it a crime to own foreign money, people are even burning dollars," he said. "I know of one man who burned $900 for fear of being caught with them."
"The number of persons who have been 'lost' in Cuba simply cannot be calculated," he said. "The state of tension there is frightful.
THERE ARE AT least 20 persons vying for every available seat on outgoing planes, with airliners booked solid through July.
Religious Study Growing
(Editor's Note: This is the third and
most challenging student
religious activities at KU).
Among KU students there is a trend toward small religious study groups, a search by a minority for a set of values to fit modern life and a budding interest in religious student groups.
By William Mullins
These are the aspects of student religious activity at KU that are seen as likely to develop further in the next few years by faculty members, clergymen and student religious leaders.
THE REV. JOHN H. PATTON professor of religion, said he is working with four student groups in an effort to develop a joint study program for them. He said two student leaders each from the Evangelical United Brethren, the United Student Fellowship, the Disciples Student Fellowship and Westminster Center Council and four faculty members have been working this year to form a joint program for these groups. He
John McCabe, Lawrence senior and past president of the Wesley Foundation, the Methodist student organization, said the increase in religious interest is confined to a minority. The majority has remained primarily interested in "materialistic" pursuits, he said.
BUT FACULTY MEMBERS, clergymen and student leaders who were interviewed see no change in the apathy of the majority of KU students toward religious activity.
Robert Grantham, Lawrence senior and a member of Presbyterian student groups for the past five years, supported this viewpoint.
"THE MAIN REASON is that students never were interested in the church or its activities," he said. William J. Moore, dean of the School of Religion, said he saw no signs of religious revival, among students or the American population as a whole.
"A religious revival should take us past what people do in the ordinary course of things," he said. "A revival of religious feeling would show up in business practices, politics and a greater stability of home life."
WHILE ALL of those interviewed saw little chance of interesting the majority of students in religion, they were enthusiastic about several recent developments affecting a relatively small number of students.
A trend toward small study groups among the interested minority was seen by several of those interviewed.
The Rev. Ronald E. Smith, director of the United Student Fellowship, the student program for members of the United Church of Christ, said a number of small study groups rather than a few large ones is his goal because the students could take a more active part if they were divided into smaller units.
Grantham supported this view-
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Prof. Weinberg's topic will be "Poetics and Poetic Theory in the Italian Renaissance." Following the
He will speak to the French 169—The Symbolist Movement-class at 9 a.m. tomorrow. At 1 p.m. Prof. Weinberg will speak to the French 153—History of Early French Literature class.
Humanities Lecture Tonight
Bernard Weinberg, professor of Romance languages at the University of Chicago, will speak at the humanities lecture at 8 tonight in Fraser Theater.
lecture, Prof. Weinberg will be the guest at an informal reception by the Faculty Club.
FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow said in a speech to the National Assn. of Broadcasters (NAB) convention that the majority of TV shows are "a vast wasteland." He said he was unalterably opposed to government censorship of TV and radio programming. But he said he would use all the power in his hands to make broadcasters live up to their obligations as trustees of the public air waves.
FCC Warns Radio, TV
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission told broadcasters today they would have to improve the quality of programming if they expect to stay on the air.
"I understand that many people
He said the FCC in the future would look more critically at license renewal applications.
feel that in the past licenses were often renewed pro forma," Minow said.
"I say to you now: renewal will not be pro forma in the future. There is nothing permanent or sacred about a broadcast license."
He said television should grow up and provide "the kind of leadership that newspapers and magazines assumed years ago, to make our people aware of their world."
Weather
Fair with slowly rising temperatures today, tonight and tomorrow. Highs today upper 60s. Lows tonight middle 40s. Highs tomorrow- 70s.