POSSIBLE ATTACK ROUTE?—The Current Events Forum speaker uses a map to illustrate a point. The speaker is John Hanessian, an American Universities Field Staff member and expert on polar regions. He was the United States' program director of the International Geophysical Year project in the polar regions.
Expert Says Attitudes To Blame for Polar Lag
An expert on the polar regions said Friday that a difference in attitude and political systems has allowed the Soviet Union to surge ahead of the Western World in the development of the arctic.
John Hanessian Jr., American Universities Field Staff member, was talking at the Current Events Forum at the Kansas Union.
He said that Americans and Canadians do not seem to have as much interest as the Russians in the northern part of North America.
He said that United States companies do not want to spend hundreds of millions of dollars before they can expect a return on their investment.
"EVERYTIME I have been in the Soviet Union I have found the Russian youth very interested in this part of their country." Mr. Hanessian said. "They are very patriotic. They want to go there to work, even without pay. They are highly regarded by the Russian public for their work in the Arctic.
"In the United States people point at a person who has been to the Arctic and wonder what is wrong with him. The Russian attitude is like ours one hundred years ago when we were exploiting the West."
Mr. Hanessian said that the Soviets' political system calls for a plan for the development of their country, but the United States and most Western nations go on a year-to-year basis.
"THE SOVIET five-year plans are a blueprint of the economic goals that the Russians strive to achieve. In our country we do not use this plan. We have no long term goals."
Mr. Hanessian said President Eisenhower established a committee to study the United States economy and set up goals at which Americans could aim. The committee published its findings in a book entitled "National Goals for Americans."
"It's just an interesting book," he said. "The goals it sets are not a matter of government policy but are merely suggestions. This lack of official goals sometimes hinders us."
MR. HANESSIAN said that the areas bordering the Arctic Ocean
Weather
Considerable cloudiness today with scattered showers this afternoon. Partly cloudy and cooler tonight. Increasing cloudiness and warmer Tuesday. Highs today 50s. Lows tonight around 40. Highs Tuesday 60s.
have tremendous economic and strategic importance.
He said the main problem was developing a system of transportation and communication.
"The Soviet Union is not across the Atlantic from us, but over the north pole. It would take about 29 minutes for a Soviet missile to come across the North Pole to the United States.
"THE RUSSIANS have taken more than 1,100,000 people into the Arctic areas of their country and have developed it extensively. They have built 107 research stations on the coast of the Arctic Ocean. Forty or fifty of them have probably been outfitted for military use."
Mr. Hanessian was director of the United States program in the polar regions during the International Geophysical Year.
Daily hansan
Monday, March 27, 1961
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The sources said refreshed government troops had forced the rebels to retreat for about 11 miles north of Vang Vieng since launching a "counter-attack" last week.
IN VIENTIANE, Laos, Laotian military sources today claimed that Pathet Lao rebels are on the retreat near Vang Vieng, some 65 miles north of this capital city.
The Laotian military sources claim, the "shoe is on the other foot" and the Communist rebel forces are being plagued by supply problems resulting from an over-extended supply route that runs for almost
U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Roger Tubby informed the meeting of the reported acceptance.
58th Year, No. 111
Election Called Tossup
The election of student body president and ASC members begins tomorrow but neither of the party's candidates say they can predict the outcome. Presidential candidates, Max Eberhart, (Vox), and Alan Reed (UP), agreed the contest will be close.
IN BANGKOK, Thailand, the foreign ministers of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization adjourned their opening session following the reports that the Soviet Union was accepting the Western Ultimatum.
Eberhart said he wouldn't be sure of the outcome until 10 o'clock Wednesday night. The polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. tomorrow and Wednesday. He said Vox had campaigned optimistically and "we never play to lose."
Reds Accept Laos Plan
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An Editorial
As has been exhibited in the past, the office of president of the student body is the most powerful position in the University's student government.
The welfare and "image" of the University is dependent, in many areas, upon the person who fills the position. If he is an imaginative, mature, and dedicated individual, the students, the student government, and the University will reflect it. If he is not, they will not.
Reed, the UP candidate for president, said, "It's going to be awfully close. But I feel students are ready for a change and will support UP. Reed and Eberhart will meet at 8
The University of Kansas is bursting its seams. In every phase—academics, athletics, enrollment, and research—it is pushing to the outermost limits of its native ability. This is the time for dynamic student leadership. It is imperative. Nothing less will push the school to the greatness that is its destiny.
There are two such men vying for the position. In tomorrow's and Wednesday's election one will be elected to fulfill this responsibility. The Daily Kansan feels that both candidates are exceptionally capable men. In an exhaustive interview session with the two, the executive staff of the Daily Kansan attempted to find those qualities possessed by each that would provide the essential leadership. Its recommendation, based on this, can be found on page two.
The Soviet Union appeared today to have accepted in principle the West's three-point plan for ending the Laos crisis peacefully. But observers said East and West apparently still differ in their approach to the problem.
- The Editors
Student Body Veep Endorses UP, Renounces Own Party
The vice president of the student body has renounced his political party, Vox Populi, and endorsed the University Party platform and its candidate for student body president.
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meets with President Kennedy in Washington later today — presumably to spell out details of the Russian reply to last week's note from Britain on Laos which was backed up by the United States.
Ed McMullan, Long Beach, N. Y., senior and student body vice president, said he respected the ideals of UP and felt its aim was more admirable.
"THE UP IDEAL." he said, "will
200 road miles to the Soviet-supplied Plaine des Jarres area.
With the support of the United States, Britain had delivered a note in Moscow last week.
THE BRITISH plan calls for an immediate cease fire in Laos, reconvening of the Control Commission and then a call for a meeting of a 14-nation conference. The Control Commission would be made up of the original members - India, Poland and Canada. The 14-nation conference would include the eight nations that hammered out the original settlement on Indochina, including Laos, in Geneva in 1954.
Pravda, the official Soviet newspaper, commented on the British plan.
11. is not difficult to see that (Continued on page 8)
McMullan said he felt Alan Reed, on the UP ticket, would make a better student body president because he was less restricted by his party and would act on his own. He said Max Eberhart, Vox candidate for student body president, was limited by his strong party affiliations.
give students the chance to use their energy and active minds to do something important for the campus, the nation and the world. It is a step in the right direction."
"The Vox platform resembles the ones the party has had in the past. These issues should have been taken care of long ago." McMullan said.
He said Vox is too narrowed to campus issues.
"A BILL we are excited about can be put before the ASC. But by the time it goes through the committees and out again, it is watered-down middle-of-the-road Kansas conservatism," he said.
McMullan said he had talked to several Vox members who seem interested in issues in the UP platform.
McMullan said that he wasn't given the opportunity to express his ideas or work for the things that he felt were important.
"AS LONG as students have the energy and will to work for their government," McMullan said, "they should be able to use their potential doing something of value.
"With Vox I don't see any road for
p. m. today in the Kansas Union to debate issues of their party platforms.
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Three voting booths will be located on the first floor of Strong Hall for the election. These are the only booths that will be set up.
Class officers will also be elected tomorrow. Students select the officers for the class they will be enrolled in next fall. Students select ASC members by voting for a representative from the school in which they are presently enrolled.
Students must present ID cards to vote.
Ron Dalby, Joplin, Mo., senior and student body president, said he thought victory would depend on voters who had not been contacted by the presidential candidates. He said these students would vote on the basis of what they had read about the candidates in the UDK.
"The campaign has reached more students than ever before in the last 10 years.
"Students have been more interested in the elections," he said. "It is easier to talk to interested persons."
Polls to Open 8 a.m. Tuesday
All Student Council elections will be held Tuesday and Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. There will be three polls in Strong Hall. Student identification cards must be shown as proof of voting eligibility.
Nine Arrested In Miss. Sit-In
JACKSON, Miss. — (UPI) — Nine Negro college students were arrested today in the strictly-segregated main library after they ignored police officers' orders to leave.
It was the first sit-in in raceconscious Mississippi. The sit-in movement is more than a year old.
Police arrived at the scene about 15 minutes after the students from nearby Tougaloo College entered the downtown library.
After several officers questioned a few of the students, Detective Chief M. B. Pierce announced "All right, everyone of you get up and get out of here. There's a colored library on Mill Street. You are welcome there." The students ignored his order and
The students ignored his order and Pierce asked, "You can hear, can't you?"
"All right, everyone of you are under arrest," Pierce announced, and several officers took the students to police vehicles. The students did not protest their arrest.
Pierce, when asked what the charges would be, said, "We will work that out."
The students were members of the NAACP youth organization. They began arriving about 11:10 a.m. and were generally ignored by the few persons in the library. Library workers courteously answered the few that inquired about books.
Kansas Vies for Ratification Honor
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A tug of war developed between Ohio and Kansas over which state will have the honor of giving final approval to a constitutional amendment allowing district of Columbia residents to vote for president.
Leaders of the Kansas Legislature said today in Topeka they would ratify the amendment immediately after Ohio gives its approval. They said they had been assured by leaders of the Ohio Legislature that the Buckeye state would allow Kansas
the honor of being the deciding state in ratifying the amendment.
The proposal has been ratified by 36 states. Approval of 38 is needed to write the amendment into the constitution.
But in Columbus, legislative leaders said they had made no agreement with Kansas about ratifying the amendment.
"We kind of hoped that Ohio would be the 38th state to approve the amendment." House Speaker Roger Cloud said.
"After all, Kansas is all set for a final vote in its legislature and one of our committees still must hold hearings on the question."
Cloud said he would not want to see a deadlock develop because he felt residents of the capital should be permitted to vote for president.
"But I think Kansas should go ahead and attend to the business at hand instead of allowing the decisions of another state to control their course of action," Cloud said.