House 'Kills' WU Bill for Two Years
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The controversial University of Wichita bill was as well as killed for two years today with introduction in the Kansas House of a resolution recommending it be referred to the legislative council for an interim study.
THE RESOLUTION, sponsored by Rep. Odd Williams, R-Lawrence, and bearing the names of 70 other members of the House, would prevent the bill from coming to a vote in the House.
The 71 on the resolution would be enough to assure that the resolution carries. Only 11 of the 71 representatives are Democrats.
Gov. John Anderson had predicted that the bill, passed by the Senate, would survive in the House although it might be amended.
"THIS RESOLUTION IS a positive and sound approach to the proposition of the state taking over the University of Wichita." Williams said. "I am not opposed to the principle of the University of Wichita receiving state aid for the services it provides for Kansas, but I do strongly feel that incorporation of the institution into the state system deserves a more thorough study than it has had up to now. The sponsorship of the resolution speaks for itself."
The bill would provide that the state with approval of Wichita voters, would take over the university in two years.
Williams said recent reports from Wichita have indicated that persons interested in the two present state universities have been leading opposition to the Wichita University
Stanford Frat Becomes Local
STANFORD, Calif. — (UPI) — The Stanford University chapter of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, with strong backing from University President J. Wallace Sterling and the State of California, said today it will become an independent local fraternity.
The 71-year-old Stanford chapter was ousted by the high council of the fraternity in Chicago yesterday for accepting four Jewish students as members.
Chapter President Mike Kavanaugh, a junior from San Francisco, said, "we intend to conduct ourselves as we have in the past—as a Stanford fraternity dedicated to the pledging of those members who we think will make good ATO's."
Kavanaugh said his stand had received strong support from the alumni, the university's administration and ATO chapters at seven other universities and colleges.
Winter Makes a Last Ditch Stand
Winter has finally come. With the season drawing to a mild close, rain began falling last night and quickly changed to snow.
The storm brought an abrupt end to the unseasonably mild weather KU has experienced for the past several weeks.
The snow was light, however, compared to last March's heavy snow storms and sub-freezing temperatures. Many students can undoubtedly recall sliding down the ice covered hills and trudging through five inch snow at this time last year.
Students need not be dismayed by this latest attack of bad weather. The forecast is for a high in the middle 40's today and the new covering of snow should begin melting today.
Bill, authored by Sen. William C Farmer, R-Wichita.
"This is absolutely untrue." Williams declared. "The fact that a person was a student at one of those universities does not make him a lobbyist for either one of them. A representative has the responsibility of representing the best interests of the state no matter what his university or college affiliation."
Williams is an alumnus of the University of Kansas. He pointed out that Farmer, Sen. Joseph McDowell, D-Kansas City, Democratic floor leader in the Senate, House Speaker William Mitchell and the Governor all are alumni of the University of Kansas.
Hallmark Foundation officials will meet with KU student leaders tonight to discuss a "People to People" program for foreign students. The students and officials will meet at a banquet at 6 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
KU to Pilot Foreign Plan
The program would help integrate the foreign student into college communities and society so that they may better grasp the American way of life.
The Hallmark Foundation hopes to make the project a nationwide program. The program at KU will be a pilot program, designed to study the feasibility of methods suggested.
The program was suggested by former President Eisenhower while he was in office and has received his enthusiastic endorsement.
Council Passes Bill For Human Rights
By Carrie Merryfield
A bill to establish a permanent committee on human rights passed unanimously last night at the ASC meeting in the Kansas Union.
The bill, introduced by Alan Reed, Leavenworth junior, establishes a committee to work with similar organizations in Lawrence to study problems of local racial inequalities. Minority groups shall be represented on the committee.
Chapter I, Section 6 of the bill states, "the appointments shall provide at all times as nearly as possible for the widest representation of views on the subject of human rights and shall include one spokes-
Daily hansan
58th Year. No. 98
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Eberhart, Party Choice
Wednesday. March 8, 1961
Vox Names Prexy Candidate
Max Eberhart, Great Bend junior, last night received by acclamation the Vox Populi party nomination for president of the student body. Larry Moore, Topeka junior, was selected as the nominee for the vice presidential post.
Approval by the General Assembly was almost automatic after the chairman of the party's executive council announced the nominees.
VOX PRESIDENT JACK ROBERTS, Kansas City junior, said that the rest of the election slate will be
Vox candidates Larry Moore, left, and Max Eberhart.
Andrews Passive Sane,Says Doctor
Judge Stanley, also contacted by the UDK, said:
By Ralph Wilson
"Well."
"I know only that there was a contention that he was deprived of his constitutional rights. I granted the stay so he could present that contention. The sole purpose of the hearing will be to determine if he was deprived of his constitutional rights."
That one word, spoken without emotion, was the only reaction Lowell Lee Andrews had when told he had been granted a stay of execution by a court order, 38 hours before he was to be hanged.
The order which postponed the execution was signed by Judge Arthur J. Stanley of the U. S. District Court.
"Do you understand that the date has been postponed?" Warden Tracy Hand asked.
Warden Hand said yesterday in a telephone interview with the Daily Kansan that Andrews seemed completely unconcerned.
"YES, I UNDERSTAND," the former KU student answered.
Judge Stanley set the hearing for 9:30 a.m. March 16.
The petition states that Andrews was not given a fair trial before an impartial jury; that his counsel was not allowed to be present at all stages of the proceedings and that Andrews was insane at the time of the trial and is at this time incurably insane.
HOWEVER, ANDREWS was examined yesterday by Dr. R. H. Moore, and Dr. Moore contradicted the petition's content in saying:
"He is mentally clear, not nervous, complacent and not maladjusted. In my opinion this man is mentally competent. He is also in excellent condition."
Warden Hand, who has been observing the triple-slaver, said:
And while all the confusion reigns. Andrews relaxes in his cell, reads and talks to the other inmates. He eats with a good appetite and waits.
"As far as I can see his attitude toward a new trial is one of unconcern. I think, knowing what he knows, that he would probably just as soon that the execution be today, as to continue waiting for three weeks."
unveiled by the Executive Council at a special meeting tonight. These are the candidates for Student Council representatives from each of the 10 school districts.
Ted Childers, Wamego junior, praised the selection saying, "I think we have chosen as qualified a team as we have had since Vox has been in existence."
Roberts commented on the significance of the March 21 and 28 elections and then the quality of the candidates.
"The precedent that Vox has set for selecting the best qualified candidates has become a tradition that was upheld tonight in the nomination of Max Eberhart and Larry Moore," he said.
Vox has been the dominant campus political party since it was started in the Spring of 1958.
Last Fall Vox was seriously challenged at the polls by the newly organized University Party. It broke up the Vox monopoly, taking 10 of 16 ASC seats.
Vox presently holds 16 of the 20 ASC positions as well as the offices of president and vice president of the student body.
EBERHART AND MOORE are respectively a Greek and an independent.
Both have had experience on the All Student Council. Eberhart is presently one of the representatives from the fraternity living district. Moore was selected last March from the men's dormitory district. His term expired in November.
Eberhart is currently serving as vice president of State Wide Activities. He is also treasurer of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
BOTH CANDIDATES ARE members of the Owl Society,junior men's honor society.
Moore was president of Foster Hall last semester and is now the social chairman. He is also a Summerfield Scholar.
The General Assembly discussed proposals for the party platform. Roberts said that the platform will be ready in a few days.
Crafton Will Read At Poetry Hour
Allen Crafton, professor of speech, will present "The Ballad" at the Poetry Hour at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
man for those groups with strong minority opinions."
Prof. Crafton will read both humerous and serious ballads dating back as far as 600 years.
TWO FACULTY MEMBERS will be members of the committee and shall act as advisers. The student body president and vice-president shall also be on the committee. Other student members will be appointed by the student body president with the consent of the ASC. ACSC shall hold this position.
ASC also passed a bill regulating student conferences.
"The purpose of this is to avoid partisan representation," said Fred Morrison, Colby senior, who introduced the bill.
Delegates are to be appointed by the student body president or the National Student Association's coordinator with the approval of the ASC. The delegation is to consist of members of all campus political parties if possible.
Both bills were passed without deliberation.
Tom Kurt, Pratt first year medical student, introduced a bill to establish a secretarial staff.
The bill was automatically tabled and sent to the committee on committees for study; the procedure for the first reading of a bill.
DUTIES OF THE STAFF would be to record minutes, set up a bulletin board for ASC in the Kansas Union, and to send a newsletter to the various area newspapers.
The council passed a resolution by Max Eberhart, Great Bend junior, to support the NSA efforts to have the NSA regional conference at KU this spring. KU would host NSA groups from Missouri and Kansas.
The controversial initiative and referendum issue was explained by Alan Reed in a bill to amend ASC Bill Number 1. This bill was also tabled after the first reading.
IF THE COUNCIL does not pass the bill proposed in a petition after 15 days to the satisfaction of the petitioners, there shall be an election within 60 days. If the bill passes in student vote, the ASC cannot amend it for one year.
This proposed bill requires that in an initiative, a petition bearing 20 per cent of the signatures of the student body to be obtained within 40 days of one school semester for any action to be taken. If the signatures are obtained, the petition shall then be taken to the ASC. If not, the petition will die and a new petition must begin.
KU students have the right to call for a referendum, Reed's bill continues. The procedure followed is the same as in initiative, asking for a student vote on a bill that has been discussed in ASC, instead of presenting a bill to ASC.
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Rush Week Banned at OU
NORMAN, Okla. — (UPI) — University of Oklahoma President George L. Cross was burned in effigy last night as a large group of university students protested an announcement that formal "rush week" would not be held on the campus next fall.
The group, estimated at more than 400, also directed automobile traffic through the circular driveway leading to the president's home, chanted various verses while standing on the lawn and ended the demonstration with a 50-car caravan honking through the campus residential section.
Dr. Cross, who was ill with a cold, appeared on his front porch to face the students, after about an hour of demonstration.
He told the students rush week had not been abolished, but simply that university regents had told him to find a method of pledging students to Greek organizations that would alleviate criticism that has been voiced against present procedures.
Norman police watched the demonstration from across the street and said there was no violence. They did not interfere.