Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
55th Year, No.148
Friday, May 16, 1958
Life In U.S. Studied By Ceylon Student
"I don't want to be served in restaurants because I'm a foreign student. I want to be served because I'm a human being," said Joe Madawela, Kadugaurawa, Cevlon graduate student.
"Dark-skinned foreign students have a feeling of resentment when refused service," he said. "But they also have a feeling of pity for the ignorance of the person who refuses them service."
Madawela, who is going to marry a KU girl and take her back to Ceylon, said in a recent interview that in his country to call a man "black" or "white" is an insult.
"Before I came to America I thought racial segregation was only in the South," he said "but I've found that segregation is much more widespread than I had thought."
JOE MADAWELA
Madawela, who was graduated from the University of Ceylon and also attended summer sessions at the University of Berlin and the London School of Economics, said that KU students are not as politically conscious as most foreign students. In Ceylon, for instance, the student elections are conducted along national political lines, he said.
Here the students are generally "liberal" in their political attitudes, he said, while in Ceylon they are mostly "radical."
He said this is because "students there want to accentuate their role on the social upheaval in Ceylon, which is changing from a colonial state to a free and independent society."
In Ceylon the students get a much earlier start in science and mathematics than they do in the United States, he said. Education is compulsory until the student is 14 years old. After that age selective tests determine whether the student will go on to advanced schools.
Madawela said KU student government is practically at the bottom of the list in effectiveness in student politics. The members of student government are too involved in other activities to devote enough time to it, and they are afraid of stepping on someone's toes, he said.
Asked his impression of Americans in general, he said, "Almost all—even college students—are too materialistic, some even ostentatious, because success is measured in terms of money and gadgets.
"At home (in Ceylon) the criterion for success is the amount of leisure time one has," Madawela said.
Anyone Missing Dental Device?
Someone, somewhere, is missing an orthodontic appliance.
The dental device, made to hold recently straightened teeth in place, was found last week on an intramural field by Kenneth Rebah, instructor of engineering.
Mrs. Relph called the Daily Kansas Sunday and described the object as looking like a partial dental plate with the teeth missing. A check with a local dentist revealed that it is probably an orthodontic retainer.
Regardless of all this, the person whose teeth need a guiding force, may collect said force by contacting Mr. Relph, VI 3-4972.
Student Court Finds 6 Guilty
The Student Court found six students guilty and nine students not guilty of campus parking violations in its session Tuesday.
Those found guilty as charged were Pietro Balestra, Lugano, Switzerland, Louis Dorang, Lawrence, both graduate students: Luther Hoell, Kansas City, Kan., Richard Chatelain, Lawrence, both seniors; Charles Winters, Lawrence junior and Theresa Byers, Kansas City, Mo. freshman.
Caryl Dillon Named 1957-58 Jayhawker Queen By Inge
Those found not guilty were Donald Small, Havertown, Pa. graduate student; Judith Jones, Wellington senior; Arnold Henderson, George Jackson, and Merrill Scott, all Topeka seniors; William Cohn, Topeka, and Ronald Miller, Kansas City, Mo. both juniors; Julie Harann, Lawrence, and John Pap, Sheldon, Ohio, both sophomores.
Thomas J. Kennedy, Wright-Patterson, Ohio junior, and John Newlin, Lawrence senior, were each found guilty on one count and not guilty on a second one. Joseph Ensley, Joopl, Mo. junior, was held not guilty on three counts and guilty on one.
Kansan Staff Chosen
Martha Crosier, Lawrence, and Robert Macy, Hutchinson, both juniors, will be co-editors of The Summer Session Kansan, which will be published Tuesdays and Fridays until the session ends. Business manager will be Bill Irvine, Lawrence junior, and photographer, Ron Miller, Kansas City, Mo. junior.
Caryl Dillon, Hutchinson senior, Kappa Kappa Gamma, is the 1958 Jayhawker queen. She was presented a bouquet of roses Thursday night at the Kappa Kappa Gamma social sorority house by John Mischlich, Kansas City. Mo. senior, business manager of the yearbook.
She was selected queen from a field of seven finalists by William Inge. Broadway playwright and KU alumnus.
Last year's queen, Peggy Garrison, now Mrs. Gary Skinner, Chanute, was selected by Prince Rainier of Monaco.
Other finalists for the title were Ann Carol Underwood, Emporia; Cynthia Hunter, Hutchinson; Barbara Jane Everly, Eudora, juniors; Julie Casterman, Pittsburg, Kathleen O'Neil, Kansas City, Mo., sophomores, and Sandra Aldrich, Clinton, Iowa freshman.
Photos of the queen and the finalists will appear in the final issue of the Jayhawker.
Weather
Mostly cloudy, scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight with more numerous showers northwest and north central. Saturday partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers west and north. Low tonight 50s west to 65 southeast.
WRA Honors GSP Upperclassmen
The Women's Recreation Assn. held its spring awards banquet Wednesday in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
Joie L. Stapleton, professor of education and physical education, presented awards to the winning intramural teams, the most valuable player from each of the participating houses and the intramural individual point and group point champions.
Gertrude Sellards Pearson upper-classmen received the "sweepstakes trophy" for accumulating the largest number of points in intramural
competition. Second and third places went to Kappa Kappa Gamma and Delta Gamma sororities respectively. The points are given on the basis of participation in and the winning of intramural sports events. Chamniorship Trophies Presented
Championship trophies were presented to Gertrude Sellards Pearson upperclassmen, basketball and volleyball; Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, swimming; Ellen Welch, Kansas City, Mo. senior, badminton singles;
Sherran Nevius, Kansas City, Kan,
Elizabeth Wooster, Salt Lake City,
Utah, freshmen, badminton doubles;
Lois Dubach, Overland Park junior,
tennis; and Yoko Tajima, Osaka,
Japan graduate student, table tennis
singles.
Individuals awarded trophies for receiving the highest number of points were Judy Morgan, Emporia sophomore, sororities; Judy Kimball, Sioux City, Iowa sophomore, dormitories; Peggy Epps, Topeka junior, scholarship halls; and Liz Wooster, Salt Lake City, Utah, freshman.
From Swingin' To Studyin'
Rock n' Roll music and a flyby-night promoter's swindle sent Troilus C. Warren, Oklahoma City freshman, scampering across the Oklahoma hills to Mount Oread for a college education.
He left Oklahoma City and the Fabulous Fortunes, his five-man show group, last fall so he wouldn't be tempted to book theatres when he wanted to make a showing with the text books.
Warren's Fortunes were organized in a high school rhythm class. The boys not only sang together, but were also in the school band. Their music teacher encouraged them to be on radio and TV talent shows where they won first prizes and a teenage following.
When they were juniors they were on a two-hour TV show by themselves. Warren, who plays the drums, piano, french horn, sings and dances, put the group through "all the songs I could think of."
After playing for teenage dances
all over Oklahoma, doing benefits for veteran hospitals and playing wee hour rock n' roll shows, they got a "big rush."
A man came along promising tours and record cuttings which would be as lucrative as their name.
"We left school for two days to practice with him and nearly lost our chance to graduate," Warren said.
Decided On College
But on the third day there weren't any plans because there wasn't any promoter. The fourth day Warren realized that they had been trying to get into show business unprepared for a possible failure. That was the day he "decided to go to college and to get as far away from the group as was practical."
Before he got to KU the Fortunes started moving up. They signed with Richard Gorham, the agent who promoted the Platters.
Last summer they polished up gimmicks and routines. Their blind piano player wrote lyrics and Warren and the others wrote the music to several songs.
They were asked to be the "special attraction" between shows when the top ten rock and roll troup came to Oklahoma City. They sat in the audience while Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, the Platters and others performed.
"The stars' encouragement and compliments were worth gold to the Fortunes that night," Warren said.
Added Some Comedy
"We got the idea to add some comedy when we were one man short at a prom. The saxophone player didn't have a white coat. We played without him, but we told him he'd have to meet us in a rented coat for our midnight theater date."
He showed up and they started a dance that "wasn't particularly funny." As they strutted around holding their coats open the crowd began to roar with laughter.
Warren, who's still under contract, but on release for school, plans to rejoin his group this summer.
"I stopped the dance and looked around at the fellas. There inside the rented coat was written 'Jakes Pawn Shop' in big letters."
Most Valuable Players Named
The most valuable player awards went to Prudy Schneck, Mission sophomore, Alpha Chi Omega; Ruth Milam, Overland Park sophomore, Alpha Delta Pi; Jane Flagler, Geneva, Ill., Alpha Omicron Pi; Pat McCluggage, Wichita senior, Alpha Phi; Toni Ernst, Kansas City Kan; junior, Chi Omega; Kay Rodrick, Independence junior, Deta Delta Delta; Kayose Galve, Kansas City, Mo. junior, Delta Gamma; Peggy Owens, Parsons sophomore, Douthart Hall.
Mary Wade, Minneapolis, Minn.
juniper, Gamma Pi Beta; Judy
Mackenzie, Prarie Village, Gertrude
Sellars Pearson freshman; Judy
Kimball, Sioux City, Iowa sophomore, Gertrude Sellars Pearson upperclassmen; Sharon Skinner, Lawrence sophomore, Jayettes.
Martha Maxwell, Columbus senior, Kappa Alpha Theta; Mary Judy Wedin, Kansas City, Mo. junior, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Barbara Sanderson, Goodland sophomore, Miller Hall; Liz Wooster, Salt Lake City, Utah freshman, North College-Corbin halls; Judy Allen, Lawrence sophomore, Pi Beta Phi; Peggy Brown, Wichita freshman, Sellards Hall; Jo Ann Challman, Galva, Iowa junior, Sigma Kappa; and Nadine Blair, Atchison sophomore, Watkins Hall.