Ex-KU Dean Will Speak at Greek Banquet
A former assistant dean of men at KU will speak at the Greek Week Scholarship Banquet March 22.
William R. Butler, dean of men at Ohio University, will speak on "Recent Trends of Fraternity Affairs."
DEAN BUTLER RECEIVED his Masters and Doctor of Education degrees from KU. His doctorate dissertation was a comparative study of six KU fraternities. It is entitled, "An Analytical Study of Factors Associated with Scholastic Achievement in High and Low Achieving Fraternities."
Paul Ingemanson, Topeka junior and Greek Week co-chairman, said he expects Dean Butler to incorporate some of the data from his KU fraternity study into his banquet address.
ALL HOUSE PRESIDENTS,
scholarship chairmen and honor
initiates will attend the banquet free
of charge. All other interested
Greeks will be admitted for $1.75.
Greek Week starts March 19 with individual house religious observances. All houses are being encouraged to take part in the religious observance by attending church as groups.
THE INTER-FRATERNITY SING and the crowning of the Greek Week Queen are scheduled for March 23.
The following Greek Week function will be exchange dinners held on March 21. Five officers from each Greek house will exchange places at dinners to be held at all fraternities and sororites.
Fraternity men will compete in a chariot race on the morning of March 25. Greeks will gather to work on the Greek Week project that afternoon.
"At the moment it looks like the Greek Week project will be to paint the seats at Memorial Stadium." Ingemanson said. "However, this is not definite," he added.
Rock Chalk Seats Available Both Nights
Approximately 500 good seats are left for Rock Chalk Revue this weekend.
Friday and Saturday nights are not sold out. Tickets may be obtained at the Information Booth, the Information Desk in the Kansas Union, and at booths set up in the dormitories.
And Where to Go Now?
Rv Carrie Merryfield
- Dropping the field and adding seats below the present ones.
- Closing the south end of the bowl.
- A plan to increase the seating area between 30-yard lines at Memorial Stadium is being considered by the KU Athletic Board.
- Adding a second deck between the 30- yard line zones.
Proposals include:
Since the third proposal would not add desirable seating, it probably will not be considered as seriously
as the other two, Laurence Woodruff, dean of students and chairman of the Athletic board, said.
"THERE ARE DISADVANTAGES to the other plans also, however," he said. "Adding a second deck would be extremely expensive and might present several building difficulties."
"More seats must be made available," he said. "There is a waiting list for seats in the choice zones and the tickets in the end-zones are not all sold."
If the field were lowered, the track would be eliminated, he continued. This would mean that the KU Relays would have to be re-located or abolished.
DEAN WOODRUFF SAID a committee had been appointed to study the programs and report to the board at a later date.
"The University of Oklahoma recently enlarged their seating facilities successfully, so their plans will be of interest to the committee," Dean Woodruff said.
A. C. Lonborg, athletic director and committee chairman, will leave next week to investigate stadium expansion at Norman Okla., Dallas and Houston, Tex.
ALBERT PALMERLEE, professor of engineering, will advise the board on building and structural difficulties. A Kansas City engineering firm has been called in as consultants.
"We want the most product for the least money," Dean Woodruff said. "The board won't hurry on this project. It will take time to make the necessary studies and come up with recommendations."
Daily hansan
58th Year, No. 94
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, March 2, 1961
Adlai Warns of War in the Congo
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, warned Russia today that a Soviet attempt to take over the Congo will lead to war
He appealed to the Kremlin to "stay your ambitions" in Africa and to call off its attempt to hamstring the U.N. and "thus sabotage the only institution which offers an alternative to imperialism."
KU Barber Shop Wanted by CRC
Speaking at a lunch given by Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Stevenson warned the African countries that an invitation to Soviet intervention would mean that "Russian control will remain—as it does, today, all over Eastern Europe."
By Fred Zimmerman
The council voted last night to discuss this possibility with the University administration, after a survey has been completed to learn which Lawrence barbers refuse to cut Negroes' hair.
The Civil Rights Council wants KU to establish a non-discriminatory barber shop.
The vote came after Steve Baratz, Lawrence graduate student, told the council that all nine of the Lawrence barber shops he and John McCabe, Lawrence senior, checked last week do not serve Negroes.
Machines Won't Replace Man
Bv Kelly Smith
Man is not going to be replaced by a. "thinking machine."
John D. Millett, president of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, believes that the electric computer cannot destroy the role of the individual in decision making.
President Millett was speaking to members of the Kaw chapter of the American Society for Public Administration last night.
THE COMPUTER IS becoming increasingly valuable to administrative work for its accuracy in delivering factual information, and its tendency to reduce large marginal errors, he said.
"However, the electronic computer is useful only to any situation that can be defined in terms of mathematical data," President Millett added.
"Machines can aid us in making more sophisticated, accurate decisions, but only man can interpret the consequence of those decisions.
"We're not on the verge of perfecting a substitute for man for making decisions, but new techniques will enable him to judge the subject matter content more efficiently and effectively."
John D. Millett
President Millett said the final decision for the United States to engage in an all out nuclear retaliation will be made only by the President of the U.S. This is an example of the tendency for decisions to be passed on to top level. small, elite groups for thought and execution.
"THE TIME ELEMENT between the decision of a top executive and the execution of that decision has been reduced to only a matter of minutes."
He pointed out that new information on decision techniques had made this speed possible, but administrators still did not know any more about the subject or environmental content.
"Each decision is influenced by the nature of the organization which calls for that decision.
"Each administrator has a value system based on subject matter content of policies and management that he must incorporate into his decisions.
"A COMPUTER CAN never alter the environmental influences or the personal evaluation of content.
The speaker emphasized that there will always be problems in decision making, and new techniques involving the use of the electronic computers will not erase them.
Baratz said, "This is a pressing student need. Many students have to go to Kansas City or Topeka to get a haircut."
BARATZ FIRST suggested that the council consider setting up a "training workshop" to teach barbers how to cut Negroes' hair.
"The barbers we talked to presented a pretty formidable list of qualifications. They told us they don't have the proper training or equipment." Baratz said.
See editorial, "CRC Should Stop," page 2.
Some of the other council members doubted the barbers' arguments, and after listening to the discussion Baratz conceded that the arguments probably were "a dodge."
Harry G. Shaffer, assistant professor of economics and president of the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy, suggested that the council ask a disinterested party, such as "a barber in New York," about the validity of the arguments of the Lawrence barbers.
Baratz withdrew his proposal to consider setting up a training workshop, and suggested that the CRC request the University to establish a barber shop.
EARLIER, BRUCE WRIGHT. Salina sophomore, reported that a member of the council's housing committee had talked to J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, who said that next semester the housing office planned to exclude anyone from the list of University-approved housing who discriminates.
Alan D. Latta, Wichita junior, said that in a talk with Emily Taylor, dean of women, last week, he was told that Negro girls are always roommates.
"I told her we were planning to see Chancellor Wescoe about this," Latta said. "She said that would be fine."
(Continued on page 4)
Scholarship Averages Out
The all-university average for undergraduates was 1.35, James K. Hitt, registrar, reported today. The all-women average was 1.53 compared to 1.25 for the men.
That non-existent average student at the University of Kansas made a B in one-third of his courses and a C in the remainder for the fall semester.
THREE LIVING GROUPS earned better than all B for the entire membership and each led their category: Douthart Women's Scholarship Hall led all with 20.8; Pearson Men's Scholarship Hall, 20.5, and Kappa Alpha Theta social sorority, 20.4.
Other leaders were: fraternities, Beta Theta Pi, 1.91; women's residence halls, Lewis Hall, 1.40; men's residence halls, Joseph R. Pearson, 1.06.
The all-women's scholarship hall average was 1.93, men's scholarship hall average 1.84, all-sorority average 1.73, all fraternity average 1.35, all women's residence hall average 1.23, and all men's residence hall average 1.04.
THE ALL-FRESHMAN class average was 1.02. Freshman women averaged 1.22 while the freshman men averaged .90.
The fall grade point averages of organized living groups are as follows:
SORORITIES: Kappa Alpha
Theta, 2.04; Kappa Kappa Gamma,
1.96; Chi Omega, 1.92; Pi Beta Phi,
(Continued on page 4)
Mock UN Blocs to Organize Tonight
International debate begins tonight with the Mock United Nation's bloc meetings.
The blocs will discuss organization and floor strategy for the General Assembly April 14 and 15. Chairmen and delegates for various committees of the blocs will be selected.
The blocs meet at 7 p.m. today in the following rooms of the Kansas Union: Blaoc Bloc, 306 C and Communist Bloc, 306 A and B. The remaining blocs will meet in the Cafeteria: British Commonwealth and United States Bloc, Alceove C; African Bloc, Alceove A and B; Asian Bloc, Sunflower Room; Western European Bloc, Meadowlark Room; and Latin American Bloc, Cottonwood Room.