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The polls are open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow in Strong Hall.
MR. LYNES WILL deliver the Humanities Lecture at 8 p.m. today in Fraser Theater. His topic: "Sense and Nonsense About Mass Culture."
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
58th Year, No. 112
Tuesday, March 28, 1961
Lynes Speaks Tonight
Russell Lynes, managing editor of Harper's magazine, will speak on "Sense and Nonsense about Mass Culture" at the Humanities Lecture at 8 p.m. in Fraser Theater.
Leisure is Work To Americans
Mr. Lynes made the statement yesterday to an overflow crowd which had gathered in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union for a Humanities Forum. The topic: "The Pressures of Leisure."
By Fred Zimmerman
Mr. Lynes explained that the life-insurance salesman with time off feels obligated to play golf with a prospect, "when what he probably ought to do is sit around and do nothing."
"It seems that in this country we have a moral commitment to work." Mr. Lynes said. "We all have a compulsion to get things done."
"Americans, driven at a breakneck pace by the pressures of modern life, have come to feel that leisure for leisure's sake is 'slightly immoral.'
One student asked if Lynes advocated a hobby or just plain loafing.
Russell Lynes, managing editor of Harper's Magazine and author of "The Tastemakers," delivered this opinion yesterday.
"Leisure must give you pleasure," the editor replied. "If you enjoy sitting around with your feet up in the air, do it. But most people get tired of doing that after awhile."
THE EDITOR SAID that college undergraduates are probably the only people in the country who really know how to use leisure.
"What we need is a dilletate class in our society. I suppose the closest thing we have are the baseball fans. The game has nothing to do with their jobs, but they know it backwards and forwards."
At an academy press conference today, prominent Soviet scientists said all technical problems for a manned flight have been whipped but some biological details are still to be solved.
Another student asked about watching "lousy television shows."
Mr. Lynes said, "I don't think there's anything wrong with watching 'lousy television shows' if that's what you want to do." He added, "I like westerns myself—the less adult the better."
MOSCOW — (UPI) — The vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences today confirmed reports of other Russian scientists that the Soviet Union is on the brink of putting a man into space.
Another scientist, Norair Sisokian,
said Russia has solved the problem of creating safe conditions for a human within a space cabin.
Soviets on Brink of Man Launching
They concluded that living organisms are not vitally affected if spaceships circle the earth in orbits below its heavy radiation belts.
3,000 Vote Total Is Predicted
Richard Harper, Prairie Village junior and ASC elections commissioner, this morning described voting in campus elections as heavy. At 11:30 a.m. 587 students had cast ballots for student body president and vice president.
"I think there will be around a 3,000 vote turnout." Harper said. "This would not be a record but would be fairly heavy."
The most ballots recorded at any ASC election on campus was in the 1952 election. Some 4,600 cast votes then. All of KU's nearly 10,000 students are eligible voters.
All three polls are located on the first floor of Strong Hall. Harper said that the center poll in the lobby of Strong Hall had only been able to close for a break once this morning. He said that it is easier to vote at the polls in the east and west halls because there have been fewer students voting at these polls.
"SO FAR there have been no real problems," Harper said. "One person's dean card was not in the file. This is about the only thing that has gone wrong."
The heaviest voting activity reported was occurring as students were going to and coming from classes during the last part of each hour. It slacked off in the middle of each hour with just a few voters at each polling place.
Polls were opened at 8:30 this morning after poll workers attended a short briefing session.
STUDENTS VOTING in the elections must pick up their dean's card at tables in the basement of Strong Hall before going to the polls to vote.
Apathetic Voters Urged, Cajoled, Forced to Vote
They may then vote at any of the three polls on the first floor of Strong Hall. The voter will be given his ballots upon presentation of his dean's card at the poll.
Bv Bill Mullins
"Then they stuffed me in this old '48 Ford, drove me to the polls and took me in to vote."
The disgruntled student sourly issuing the above complaint was one of several who expressed a lack of interest in campus elections last fall.
IT WAS THIS type of campus citizen that was met at the doors of campus residence halls, stuffed into cars and taken to the polls to vote.
One victim gave this description of his experience at Templin Hall:
The reluctant voter belongs to a
"I was coming back from my philosophy class and when I walked in the door, there was this big blackboard in the lobby saying 'don't forget to vote today.'
"Two guys stepped out from behind the blackboard and said 'have you voted yet?'
"I said err—err, no, and they grabbed me and said 'you're in the next carload.'"
large group. Various living groups, both Greek and independent, have had difficulty in the past getting enough of their members to vote to receive all the representatives allowed them.
THE GREEKS last semester lost an additional representative by one vote.
A method used by several Greek groups to insure the vote is an ID check. If the member's card is not punched to show that he or she has voted, a meal privilege is lost or a fine is levied.
For those too tired to walk to the polls avid party workers have established free taxi service at 8 a.m. 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. both days. The free transportation shuttles between the freshman dormitories and the polls.
Perhaps out of pure fear of embarrassment, the disgruntled Templin Hall resident will vote this time, but if he doesn't, chances are he will once again be "aided" in doing so.
"I deplore all this student apathy!"
A PLEASANT AND SERIOUS TASK — Charles Wetzler, Marsville first year law student, votes at the Strong Hall polls.
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West Still Hopeful On Laotian Crisis
Rv United Press International
WASHINGTON — Democratic Congressional leaders said today after meeting with President Kennedy that they are "very hopeful" for a satisfactory solution to the Laotian crisis. Meanwhile SEATO forges ahead with previous plans for possible military intervention to "save Laos from the Communists."
The view was expressed by Speaker Sam Rayburn and endorsed by Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield after the President briefed the leaders on his meetings with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
Rayburn told newsmen the Laos situation had been discussed and then said:
"ABOUT ALL WE can say is that the President and all of us look on the situation as hopefully as possible under the circumstances. Whether the situation is good or bad is another matter.
Weather
"We are very hopeful that a solution will come about that will be satisfactory to us and those who work with us in our affairs," said Rayburn.
President Kennedy has received indications that a Russian answer to the Western proposal for a ceasefire will be forthcoming in the very near future.
Cloudy to partly cloudy today, tonight and tomorrow. Lows tonight should be in the 30s. Highs tomorow will be 50s.
If Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev stalls for any great length of time, Kennedy is expected to exert more pressure by taking some of the steps available to emphasize his pledge to defend Laos. One such step would be to land American Marines in Thailand, a strong pro-Western neighbor of Laos. The Marines are now aboard U.S. Naval vessels standing off shore in the South China Sea and the Gulf of Siam.
KENNEDY AND GROMYKO, in separate statements after their meeting, expressed hope for a diplomatic settlement of the Laotian civil strife in which the rebels are receiving heavy Russian military aid and the central government is backed by U. S. supplies.
HOWEVER, THE MOOD here today, after Kennedy's one hour White House meeting yesterday with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko, was one of cautious optimism. The emphasis was on the possibility of a diplomatic solution.
American officials have said Gromyko's remarks to Kennedy yesterday indicated that the President's firm pledge to preserve the independence of Laos had had an effect on the Kremlin. Gromyko urged the President not to take haste measures before Khrushchev had time to reply to the cease-fire plan. The British proposal calls for a military truce as a first step. Britain and Russia, co-chairmen of the 1954 Geneva Conference of Indochina at which Laos received its in-
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