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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. March 7.1961
Alan Reed
ASC to Decide On Civil Rights
Four bills presented at the ASC meeting on Feb. 21 will be considered at tonight's ASC meeting at 7 o'clock in parlors A and B of the Kansas Union.
The bills are concerned with establishing a committee on human rights, and a committee on merit appointments, a bill of rights amendment to the ASC Constitution and better communications between living districts and the student government.
ALL FOUR WERE submitted at the last meeting and were automatically sent to the Committee on Committees for action — the usual procedure.
In addition to these bills, it is expected that several others will be introduced tonight dealing with the interpretation of initiative and referendum and secretarial help for the ASC.
Alan Reed, Leavenworth junior, plans to explain the popular and legislative referendum. This issue has been before the council for several weeks, but no decision has been made. The question arose last January when student petitions on civil rights were circulated for signatures to present to the ASC calling for a student vote.
TOM KURT. Pratt first year medical student, said he would introduce a bill for a secretarial staff which, if accepted, would establish a staff of freshmen and sophomore women as secretaries to the ASC.
The staff would carry out the regular duties of the secretary, and put up an ASC bulletin board in the Kansas Union, said Kurt.
Kappa Sigma Off Social Probation
The Interfraternity Council last night reversed one of three disciplinary actions taken against Kappa Sigma fraternity for violation of IFC walk-in rules.
A motion to strike the six weeks social susp Feb. 20 action was passed 22-2 with one absten
Kappa Sigma took their entire pledge class to Lecompton the evening of Nov. 6 and instructed them to find their own way back.
KAPPA SIGMA IS still required to comply with the other two restrictions of the earlier action. They are:
- Submission of three re-evaluation reports on its pledge training program. One is due March 30, the second within the first two weeks of the next fall semester, and the third due in spring semester of 1962.
$\bullet$ Disciplinary probation until the end of the spring semester of 1962. This means Kappa Sigma could receive more stringent punishment if convicted on another violation of IFC rules within that period of time.
Paul Ingemanson, Topeka junior, said he was moving for the striking of the social suspension clause because he does not approve of the precedent of severe disciplinary action that has been set in the Kappa Sigma case and another incident involving Sigma Phi Epsilon.
"THEER IS NO RECORD of the administration ever taking action as strict as this," Ingemanson said. "I think we are hurting ourselves in taking measures this strong."
Ingemanson said another reason for reconsideration of the issue is
the amount of consideration given the question at the Feb. 20 meeting. "We pushed this through in one meeting," he said. "We should have given it more thought."
Some members of the IFC said that the bad publicity for Kappa Sigma could be considered punishment and that plus the formal action constitutes too harsh a punishment.
THE KAPPA SIGMA issue seemed to spur proposals for two committees to investigate better ways to handle disciplinary problems.
A motion passed 17-3 to create a committee to consider the possibility of having house presidents as members of the IFC.
When issues like the Kappa Sigma probation come before the IFC house representatives often have to act without knowing exactly how their chapter officers feel about the problem.
Neal McCoy, Winfield junior, said presidents' membership would allow someone more representative of house sentiment to determine the chapter's stand on an issue.
ingemanson moved that the IFC create a committee to establish a judiciary board to deal with disciplinary problems. The motion was approved unanimously.
Speakers, Communistic Film On Young Republicans Slate
The Faculty Forum will feature "Beachcombing in Southeast Asia" at noon tomorrow in the English Room at the Kansas Union. Edward H. Taylor, professor emeritus of zoology, will speak.
Prof. Taylor to Talk At Faculty Forum
WILLARD MURPHY, a professional lobbyist with the St. Louis office of the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education, will speak on the function and philosophy of COPE at a March 14 meeting.
A speaker from the John Birch Society will give a talk on his organization at an April 11 meeting. The John Birch Society is an organization dedicated to the elimination of communism, according to Charles McIlwaine, Wichita senior and the group's president.
At the first meeting, which will be tomorrow, Scott Stanley, Bethel law student and a member of the national board of directors of Young Americans for Freedom, will speak on the purposes and goals of YAF. It is a conservative youth organization.
The 32-page publication, which will cost 35 cents, includes five short stories and 12 poems by students. These were chosen for publication by William Hudson, Warsaw, Ind., graduate student and editor of the magazine, and his coeditors.
Two meetings have been scheduled for March. One will have a speaker for the conservative viewpoint and one will feature a speaker for the liberal viewpoint.
The Quill Club magazine will be sold Thursday and Friday in Fraser Hall and the Kansas Union.
The KU Young Republicans have announced a line-up of programs and a film-showing beginning tomorrow in its effort to stimulate student interest in politics and the GOP.
Quill Book On Sale Soon
A FILM, "Communism on the Map," will also be shown at the April 11 meeting.
the three articles judged best were awarded prizes of $15.
Short stories and poetry by Don Eulert, Lawrence graduate student and Clifford Caruthers, De Soto graduate student won awards. The third award was split by Rita Robinson, Coffeyville senior; Cary Stiff, Ada, Mich., graduate student and Larry Mason, Wyandotte, Mich., graduate student.
Judges were Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe; Francis Heller, associate dean of the College and George R. Waggoner, dean of the College.
Task Force Pulls Back From Congo
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The United States today abruptly pulled back a small navy task force heading towards the Congo and said the United Nations did not need it.
The naval group left the United States last Fall and had visited 11 African ports on its goodwill tour, also transporting food to the Congo and Guinea troops home from the Congo.
The task force was ordered to continue on its good will mission to South Africa, where it had been heading yesterday when it was ordered to steam to the Congo area.
Yesterday's decision to move the navy ships to the Congo was taken "in case the United Nations calls on them," the State Department said at the time.
There are 500 marines aboard four diverted ships. The marines are carrying normal battle equipment, including small arms, amphibious vehicles and six helicopters. They have been giving marching and landing demonstrations during the goodwill tour.
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