Seniors Vote Crafton HOPE Award
Allen Crafton, professor of speech was awarded the 1961 Honor for the Outstanding Progressive Educator (HOFE) award at this morning's Senior Coffee.
Approximately 800 seniors strolled to the Ballroom, picked up their Senior Reminders, pennants, TGIS pins, coffee, and settled back in their chairs to hear Frank Naylor, senior class president, present the HOPE award and review the Senior Reminder.
THE HOPE AWARD was founded by the class of 1959 through a $2,500 endowment. The annual award is the interest drawn from the fund for that year.
Prof. Crafton was selected by the HOPE committee of senior representatives from each school. He will be given an engraved
desk set by the class of '61 at a later date.
Naylor said, "Personal sacrifice is the price paid by dedicated men. This year's recipient of the HOPE award has endeared himself to the University community for his endeavors."
Naylor described Prof. Crafton as a man "who has devoted hours to helping students in and out of the classroom, and who has stimulated the minds of countless students to greater intellectual achievement."
Prof. Crafton who will retire to emeritus status at the end of this semester, was a founder of the KU speech department and directed the operations of the University Theatre for 30 years.
The first recipient of the HOPE award was Clayton Krebhiel, associate professor of music education and choral music, in 1959. R.Q.Brewster,professor of chemistry, was last year's award winner.
VOTING ON THE 1961 Senior Class gift was a second feature of this morning's coffee. The results of the vote are not yet available.
The choices included; a statue for the A. D. Weaver Memorial Fountain Court next to the Spooner-Thayer Museum of Art; a Centennial Loan Fund for juniors; and trophy cases for Allen Field House.
The gift will be presented to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe at the Senior Breakfast on June 5.
THE REMAINDER of the time was devoted to a review of the Senior Reminder. Highlights of the commencement weekend include:
Saturday, June 3
Noon, Reception and Official Reunion Luncheon, Class of '51, Big 8 Room, Kansas Union.
Sunday, June 4
1:00 p.m. Mortar Board Luncheon, Room 306, Union.
4:45 p.m., All-University Commencement Supper, Ballroom, Kansas Union.
7:30 p.m. Baccalaureate Services, Memorial Stadium.
Monday. June 5
8:00 a.m. Class of '61 Breakfast, Kansas Union.
2:30 p.m., Phi Beta Kappa Meeting, Kansas Room, Kansas Union
7:00 p.m. Commencement Exercises Memorial Stadium.
Prof. Allen Crafton
Speaker Claims Eichmann to Live
Bv Jerry Musil
A recent visitor to Israel said last night that most Israeli lawyers do not want to make a martyr of Adolf Eichmann and that probably he will be released to West Germany for trial.
This is the prediction of Irving Levitas, director of adult services at
Irving Levitas
political science, addressed himself to what he considered the major question of the Eichmann trial:
the Jewish Community Center in Kansas City and professor of history and philosophy at Kansas City University. He spoke at the People-to-People discussion on the Eichmann trial last night in the Kansas Union. Roy Leaird, assistant professor of
"What is it all about?" he asked. "Nationalism is behind the drama occurring in Israel now. It is an outgrowth of the rise of the nation-state."
Roy Laird, assistant professor of
"IST THE DRAMA IN ISRAEL being understood by the people of Little Rock, or here at KU, or the Lawrence townpeople who say that they have no race problem in Lawrence?"
Prof. Laird said that sororities and fraternits with restrictive clauses see little connection in what they are doing and what happened in Germany.
He said that this same logic was behind Hitler's claim that he was protecting the purity of the Aryan race.
"He liked the orders and went along with them. He is quite responsible for them." Prof. Unz said.
HILLEL UNZ, associate professor of electrical engineering, answered that Eichmann was high enough in the hierarchy to resign. He said that many of Eichmann's colleagues did ask to go to the Russian front.
When asked whether Eichmann was obeying an order of the state and therefore not guilty, Prof. Levi-tas said that "one would like to think there are incidences when a person would tell the state 'to go to hell' when asked to do an immoral act."
Daily hansan
58th Year, No. 136
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, May 8, 1961
Seniority Seating Dropped From Reserved Seating Plan
The student reserved seating bill to be voted on tomorrow evening at the All Student Council will not include the seniority plan for selected season reserved seats.
The major aleration came after a meeting between University officials and ASC members Saturday morning. This meeting came just three days before the last ASC meeting.
Conard Kansan Speaker
The editor of three small Western Kansas papers listed pride and poetry as important elements in good journalism Saturday night at the Daily Kansan Board Awards banquet.
John Conard, a member of the State Legislature and chairman of the House Way and Means Committee, said that the newspaperman should have pride in his community. He said that this is something that should grow with the newspaperman.
"Put a little poetry in your writing," he said. "You should give some thought to the sound of your writing. If you are careful you will be able to select words that sound
good and also convey the meaning you want."
The good newspaperman needs education, travel and other experience, Mr. Conard said. He recommended that anyone going into newspapering try to see a good portion of the world first. He said it is also good to have experience in other fields.
Mr. Conard is a former managing editor of the Daily Kansan. He graduated from KU in 1943. was was a naval aviator in World War II. After the war, he returned to KU as an instructor of political science and received his master's degree in that field. He then received a Rotary Scholarship to the University of Paris and received his Ph.D. there.
Church Complexity Kindles Apathy
(Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of lessons that helped student religious activity at KU).
By William Mullins
Students at KU are apathetic about religion because of dogmatic church language they cannot understand, the competition of material values, their dislike for strong commitment to anything and a current fashion of disinterest in religion
THESE ARE THE OPINIONS expressed by student religious leaders, clergymen and faculty members who were questioned in Daily Kansan interviews
The Rev. Ronald E. Smith director of the United Student Fellowship, the student program for members of the United Church of Christ, said there is a semantic barrier between students and their religion. They have difficulty in understanding the dogmas and doctrines of the old church. These doctrines need to be expressed in modern terms. The thriving churches do this, he said.
Carroll D. Clark, professor of sociology and chairman of the sociology department, agreed.
"I THINK SOME CHURCHES have lagged in revitalizing their religious teaching and conceptions
"You can say, and some do, that this doctrine is the eternal, absolute truth," he continued, "but it has to be rephrased and reinterpreted for each age."
This semantic barrier was also emphasized by several student religious leaders. Robert Grantham, Lawrence senior and a member of Presbyterian student groups at KU for the last five years, said:
to meet the needs of this time," said Prof. Clark.
Prof. Clark said the church leaders must either do this or lose the young people
"THEERE IS BEGINNING to be apparent in all churches a lack of understanding and correct presentation of the material. The training of most young people in church is not what it should be."
"A lot of people were active in high school religious groups," he said. "But they are more social organizations than religious student groups and the student gets tired of this. When he comes to college, he doesn't want to attend the meetings of a religious organization. He thinks they are the same thing he experienced in high school."
James L. Anderson, Lawrence junior and past president of the Lutheran Student Assn., agreed with Grantham.
Prof. Clark and William J. Moore, dean of the School of Religion, said an emphasis on materialistic values has contributed to the lack of interest in religion.
"THE CHURCH HAS TO compete against the mass media and commercial recreation," said Prof Clark.
Religion?
John McCabe, Lawrence senior and past president of the Wesley Foundation, the Methodist student organization, agreed with Prof. Clark. Most students are concerned with secular goals such as large houses and cars rather than with religious values he said.
McCabe said:
"The students like to be totally free and maintain as much of this freedom as they can. They prefer not to commit themselves very strongly to their religions."
Tom Moore, director of the KU-Y,
said it was not fashionable among
students to be religious.
He said:
"THE MOST FASHIONABLE thing is to be conventionally pious, to go to church on Easter and Christmas. To give a kind of bow toward religion and not let it interfere with the rest of one's life. In other words, to be a Sunday Christian, one hour a day on Sunday."
Mr. Moore said he thought the mobility of the students and their lack of knowledge about the Bible and religious doctrine contribute to the lack of interest in religion. He said the students did not like to talk
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DICK HARPER, Prairie Village junior and chairman of the ASC committee, said that students, under the bill to be presented tomorrow, will buy a book with five coupons the spring before football season. These coupons can be exchanged the week before the game, probably
Editors Disagree
The reserved seating plan is both attacked and defended on today's editorial page. The Daily Kansan editors differed in their opinions concerning the bill to be voted on tomorrow night at the ASC. Student reaction story is on page 4.
The block selection of seats would also be allowed.
Monday through Wednesday, for seats on a first-come-first-served basis.
The previous plan called for tickets to be bought for students for the entire season on a basis of class standing at the University with senior and graduate students receiving top priority.
THE $2.50 for each basketball and football season, for the first year; $5 for each sport the second, and $7.50 the third year remains unchanged.
This money has been earmarked for a building fund for a new physical education building in addition to paying for the expenses of running the student reserved seating plan.
Cooler Air Follows Storm
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Cooler air flowed across Kansas today on the heels of a storm system which spawned tornadoes, hail and heavy rain in eastern sections yesterday.
Showers were still occurring in southeastern Kansas this morning, but the weather bureau said it appeared that the moisture was moving eastward and Kansas was in for a day or two of respite from rough weather.
High temperatures today were forecast from the 50s in the northwest to the 70s in the southeast.
Forecast
A few thunderstorms extreme east this forenoon. Otherwise slowly decreasing cloudiness and cooler today. Fair to party cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Cooler tonight. Highs today 60s. Lows tonight 40s. Highs Tuesday around 70.