Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
58th Year. No. 101
Monday, March 13, 1961
Vox Answers UP Charge of 'Lies'
Eberhart said:
Max Eberhart, Great Bend junior, yesterday tossed back the charge of the University Party nominee for student body president that Vox Populi intends to campaign "by subterfuge and lies."
"I THINK THAT if anyone is particularly uninformed it is our opposition. This year was the first time that any council has ever come to grips with a civil rights proposal. It was the Vox representative from the Graduate School who first introduced this legislation last November."
Eberhart was talking to a group of Vox candidates for the All Student Council. He is the Vox candidate for student body president. The charge was made by Alan Reed, Leavenworth junior, when he accepted his party's nomination last Thursday.
Reed had struck out at Vox saying, "The campus has been laboring too long under their backward non-thinking leadership." He said that Vox has not offered one major piece of legislation since the fall elections.
HE CLAIMED FOR UP the credit for the civil rights resolution the ASC passed three weeks ago.
He said:
"We finally backed down the Vox majority on the council enough to pass for the first time a strong and reasonable civil rights resolution after they had even refused to discuss it for a month."
He explained that a bipartisan committee reworked the original proposal submitted by Tom Kurt, Pratt first year medical student. Eberhart was a member of the group that revised Kurt's legislation.
"Reed presented the resolution and it passed unanimously," Eberhart said.
The Vox presidential nominee challenged Reed's charge.
"Our thinking might be backward political-wise but it aids constructive student government." Eberhart said.
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Anti-Birch Students Form Opposition Group
An organization to be modeled after the controversial John Birch Society has already stimulated formation of an opposition group.
Six students met Friday night to discuss the framing of an organization to be called KU Students for Academic Freedom.
They were acting in response to announced intentions of William F. Gibbs, Wichita freshman, to start an anti-communist organization at KU. Gibbs said the group would be patterned after the John Birch Society.
Craig Robertson, Joliet, Ill., senior and member of the academic freedom group said:
"I was alarmed to read that such an organization may be established at KU. The society could undermine the integrity of education upon which we students are dependent. I hope the students will take this threat seriously."
Referring to the John Birch Society, Michael W. Dunlop, St. Louis, Mo., junior, said:
"I cannot help but distrust any group whose leader has repeatedly implied that ex-President Eisenhower is a communist and who has berated him for "Klieg-light fraternizing with the Butcher of Budapest."
Rothwell to Discuss 16th Century Drama
Kenneth S. Rothwell, assistant professor of English, will speak on "Mysteries' End Revisited" at the Humanities Forum meeting at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
His talk will deal with the relationship between the views of the fathers of the Anglican Church and sixteenth century English drama.
Eryll Hoff, Wellington senior, said, "A glance at their Blue Book terrifies me."
Light rain and snow ending this forenoon. Slowly decreasing cloudiness this afternoon. Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Warmer Tuesday. High today mid 40's. Lows tonight around 30. Highs Tuesday lower 50's.
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AFRICAN SPEAKS—Francis Okediji, Nigeria graduate student, speaks at the Current Events Forum.
'Communism Unthinkable'
Self-Rule Africa's Goal
Two African students agreed Friday that Africa is turning neither to the East nor the West. They stressed that Africa's most important present goal is to unite itself to build a strong bond and national image.
The students, Francis Okediji, a graduate student from Nigeria, and Augustine Kyei, a senior from Ghana, spoke at the Current Events Forum at the Kansas Union.
Kyei said, "Africa will not turn toward the East." "We have too much in common with the West. It is unthinkable to consider that we might go to the Communist bloc.
"OUR OWN BASIC way of life is democratic. Tribes operate on a democratic system. They elect a chief and sub-chiefs, and if the tribe doesn't like them it throws them out.
"I am in a tribe. All Africans are." Okediji said, "The essense of life to Africans is human dignity. This is not measured by money or western suits.
"We're cautious. We select the best from your way of life and add it to our own in an effort to create a new Africa, a new country.
and we can," Kyei said. "It infuriates us when others think we are not trying to understand.
"AFRICANS ARE TURNING pro-African. We are not dedicated to neutralism, an ambiguous term, we just want to govern ourselves like other peoples."
Both speakers said the press coverage in newspaper and magazine articles was "overdoing the contrasts between the societies of the United States and Africa.
"If you don't agree with our methods," he admonished the American audience, "that is no reason to call us lousy names. If your country (the United States) is going to live with the world, she must be ready to understand too. We have to learn by making our own mistakes."
Okediji was asked about the African response to the racial problems in the United States.
"We have to live with ourselves.
"WE LOOK ON the United States (Continued on page 8)
Class Officer Hopefuls File
Twenty-nine University men and women turned in nomination petitions for class officers Friday.
Dick Harper, Prairie Village junior and All Student Council elections commissioner, said there will not be a primary election for class officers. Class officer candidates are not entered in the primary election unless there are four or more seeking the same office.
The primary election for ASC party nominees will be March 21 and 22. There are no contests in the primary election.
THERE WAS only one addition to the ASC and student body slates announced by University Party and Vox Populi. Ted Weeks, Tonganxie junior, was added to the UP slate as a candidate for the Pharmacy School district ASC seat.
Verne Gauby, Grand Island, Neb. second year law student, is the only candidate unopposed in the ASC races. He is the Vox nominee for the School of Law district.
Candidates for class offices are not affiliated with political parties. They are:
Senior class: President, Stuart Barrer, Harrisonville, Mo., and James Deckert, Larned; vice president, Cristen Jensen, Kansas City; secretary, Priscilla Cherry, Pittsburg, and Margaret Pettit, Mission; treasurer, Charles Anderson, Osage City, and Bruce Burns, Olathe.
Junior class: President, Gerald Kepern, Wichita, and Lauren Ward, Ottawa; vice president, Thomas Black, Lawrence, and Max School-
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Harp Says Both Teams Share Blame for Fight
Basketball Coach Dick Harp today decried what he called "this singular emphasis on winning by coaches, alumni and spectators," and called on "school boards, college presidents and conference officials to place their athletic contests in proper perspective."
Looking back on Saturday's Kansas-Missouri game at Columbia in which a free-for-all developed, Harp said he was "not trying to dodge responsibility for failure to control" his squad.
He said he understood it to be his job to teach basketball as the rules intend it to be played and that
it is his responsibility to prevent responses to provocation.
Harp said he does not blame his
KU Wins Wilson Awards
players, just as he does "not blame the Missouri players."
KU received more Woodrow Wilson Fellowships than any other publicly supported university for the coming year.
THE FELLOWSHIPS cover the first year of graduate study and are awarded in nationwide competition. They are intended to encourage students in the arts and sciences to prepare for careers in college teaching.
Only five private universities surpassed KU's 20 grants. These were Harvard with 31, Princeton and Yale each with 30, Chicago with 23 and Stanford 21.
Since a Ford Foundation grant of $24,500,000 enabled the Wilson Fellowship program to become truly national in scope, KU students have won far more than the school's share of fellowships. In 1958, 8 KU students were appointed Wilson Fellows, in 1959, 11 and in 1960, 13. This year's 20 brings to 61 the total for University students since 1945.
Nationally 1,333 Fellows were appointed for 1961-62 from 10,453 nominees. Honorable mentions were accorded to 1,614 seniors and 13 KU students are in this category.
KU SENIORS won 20 of the 26 Fellowships given at Kansas schools, 20 of the 82 awarded in the 5-state region of Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Missouri and Oklahoma. KU accounted for about 40 per cent of the awards at Big Eight conference schools.
The KU seniors who won honorable mention were 13 of 31 at Kansas schools and 13 of 104 in the 5-state region.
For comments on the fight between the Missouri and KU basketball teams Saturday see the editorial on p. 2 and the column on p. 6.
Next fall the 20 Fellows from KU will begin their graduate training in universities throughout the nation and Canada and in England. The students, fields and the schools where they will study are:
Ernest Z. Adelman, Kansas City, Mo., philosophy, Northwestern; David J. Albert, Monterey, Calif., psychology, McGill (Canada); Robert Barnhill, Lawrence, mathematics, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology; Bruce R. Barrett, Kansas City, physics, California Inst. of Technology; Ronald R. Broun, Phillipsburg, English, California (Berkley).
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Jack D. Salmon, Elkhart, East Asian Studies, Yale; Jack L. Schrader, Parsons, Art History, Prince-
JOIH E. BROWN, Lawrence, history, Columbia; Brenda L. Bruckner, Emporia, French, Yale; Lois E. Eaton, Lawrence, dramatic literature, Cornell; Rebecca Grantham, Topeka, social psychology, Kansas; R. Alan Kimball, Derby, Slavic studies, Indiana; Susan R. Maxwell, Kansas City, Mo., history, Stanford; Kenneth Megil, Vassar, philosophy, Yale; Fred L. Morrison, Colby, political science, Wisconsin; Cheryl A. Payer, El Dorado, Russian area studies, Radcliffe; Lora Kay Reiter, Simpson, English, Radcliffe.
"No longer is the game the thing," he said. "Now winning and nothing else is important. This singular emphasis on winning by coaches, alumni and spectators is inimical to the values which many of us hold can be taught a young man in competition."
Special Meeting Of ASCRequested
A special meeting of the ASC is being called to consider the riot at the MU-KU basketball game Saturday.
Alan Reed, Leavenworth junior and University Party presidential candidate said last night that the council should discuss the "disgraceful riot" and to send a letter to the University of Missouri student council "deploring the actions of their students and fans.
"I feel it's a terrible reflection on the University of Missouri, the Big Eight, and athletics in general." Reed said, "particularly since the game was on nation-wide television. "I am going to call for the cooperation of the MU students to stop this irrational approach to athletics before something unfortunate occurs are MU-KU games," Reed said.