Three Win Speech Honors
Three students were selected as top speakers in the first Speech I Potpourri informative speaking contest in Strong Auditorium Tuesday night.
They were chosen from eight finalists representing all the students now taking Speech I.
The students are James Thompson, Wichita freshman; Jack Kollmann, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, and Bob Driscoll. Lawrence freshman.
Thompson spoke on "The Shooting of Lincoln." He traced the circumstances and events that led to the shooting of the president as he sat in his box in Ford Theatre.
The assassination of Lincoln satisfied two goals for his killer, John Wilkes Booth, Thompson said.
"He was for a time the most famous man in the world. And, even though he was killed, he had pulled down his Colossus of Rhodes."
"The communists in Korea used a plan calculated to divide and conquer American soldiers through ingenious psychological methods" he said.
"Brainwashing" was the theme of Kollman's talk.
"They built emotional voids in the minds of prisoners and then developed mental vacuums into which they threw the communist doctrines.
"Although the American soldier was physically prepared, he was
The problem of how to dispose of "Atomic Waste" was discussed by Driscoll.
not mentally prepared for war."
"The vast flood of lethal refuse from large scale atomic industry will make a tremendous disposal problem," he stated.
There are two disposal places now available, he said. They are the land or the sea. Both have arguments for and against their use.
"On the solution of the problem may hinge the entire future of the use of atomic energy," he said.
Each of the winners received a long-playing phonograph recording of a selection related to speech work.
Partly cloudy with increasing southerly winds reaching 30 to 40 miles per hour west portion. Scattered showers spreading across state tonight and continuing Thursday. Turning cooler northwest Thursday. Low tonight 50s. High Thursday 65 northwest to 70s elsewhere.
Daily Hansan
55th Year, No.141
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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ASC Elects Pat Little
ASCE Dean Says ASC 'Not Puppets'
Wednesday, May 7, 1958
The 1958-59 All Student Council, sworn in Tuesday night by new student body president John Downing, Kansas City, Mo. junior, elected Pat Little, Wichita junior, as ASC chairman for the coming year.
Other officers elected by the Council were John Husar, Chicago, Ill. junior, vice-president; Sharon Dey, Ulysses sophomore, secretary; Chester Vanatta, Bartlesville, Okla. junior, treasurer.
Downing was sworn in earlier by former president Bob Billings, Russell junior, and Carol Plumb. Overland Park junior, was sworn in by former vice-president Creta Carter, Jennings junior.
L. C. Woodruff, dean of students, addressed the old and new Councils, thanking the outgoing Council "for a job well done."
Dean Woodruff said while the cynical may look on the ASC "perhaps at best as puppets of the administration," that there is "no desire on our part to have student government become anything of that sort at all."
An informal critique of the University Theatre presentations of "Man and Superman" and "Don Juan in Hell" will be held Thursday noon in the Green Room of the University Theatre.
He told the new Council that financial affairs, social policies, leadership training and teacher evaluation are among the duties of student government.
John Patton, professor of religion and a faculty adviser to the ASC, gave the new group three words to live up to—community, character, and leadership.
University Theatre Plans Play Critique
Jay Ott, Wakeeney second-year law, representing the retiring Council, presented gavels to Billings and former ASC chairman Dick Patterson, Kansas City, Mo. junior, as tokens of their service this year.
Dr. Patton told the Council "Don't be a rubber stamp for the administration or anybody else."
The discussion is open to all staff members and participating students
THE NEW AND OLD REGIMES—Bob Billings, outgoing student body president, swears in his successor, John Downing, at the ASC meeting Tuesday night. John Husar, Chicago, Ill. junior, was elected Council vice-chairman, replacing Susie Stout, Wichita junior (Dolly Kansen photo)
THAT LONGING LOOK—Steve Callahan, Independence sophomore (Don Juan), demonstrates his poise as a lover as Ilze Sedricks, Topeka sophomore, gazes up at him in the Experimental Theatre's presentation. "Don Juan in Hell."
Final Humanities Lecture Tuesday
The final Humanities lecture of the school year, "Dostoyevski and Christianity," will be given at 8 p.m., Tuesday in Bailey auditorium. The speaker is Dr. Vsevolod Setchkareff, Russian scholar in comparative literature, who is teaching this year at Harvard University. He is the fifth foreign lecturer in the Humanities Series this year.
"There's nobody home."
Wilt Not Home As Rumors Fly
That seemed to be the story today as rumors concerning the possible loss of All America Wilt Chamberlain to professional basketball pyramided upward after The Lawrence Daily Journal-World printed the first of the rumors in a front page story.
The paper reported the rumor that Wilt would join in an European tour this summer with several other basketball stars, and return in the fall to play professional ball.
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Dr. Setschkareff will also participate in an SUA "open conversation" about "The Brothers Karamazov" at 4 p.m. Monday in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union. Dr. George Ivask and Sam Anderson of the KU department of Germanic and Slavic languages will discuss with him both the novel and the motion picture.
During his visit, Dr. Setschkareff will speak to classes in German and Russian and will confer with faculty members
After receiving the Ph. D. at the University of Berlin in 1938, Dr. Setschkareff was professor at Bonn University and at Hamburg University before taking his appointment at Harvard last July.
Foreign Language Training Needed
By JIM CABLE
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
(Editor's note: This is the last in a series of three articles on high school preparation for college in the sciences, foreign languages and English.)
Slightly less than 20 per cent (19.3) of the Kansas public high schools offer instruction in the modern foreign languages of Spanish, French and German.
Dr. John A. Burzle, professor of German and president of The Kansas Modern Language Assn., polled Kansas educators for their viewpoints on foreign language study.
This low figure puts Kansas near the bottom of the list in comparison with other states. Kansas ranks forty-first.
"The report pointed up one factor: We need well trained teachers of the highest intellectual caliber with overseas experience. Eighty-three superintendents of Kansas schools are ready to introduce foreign language study in their
"The answers are encouraging," he wrote in a recent KML bulletin. Kansas educational leaders realize the desperate need for more foreign language study.
schools if we can give them these well qualified teachers.
"If we are able to gain and hold the confidence and good will of peoples around the world,we must
DR. J. A. BURZLE
be able to talk to them not in our language but theirs.
Adel F. Throckmorton, State Superintendent of Public Instruction— "The world leadership of the United States is jeopardized by failure to open channels of communication through more foreign language study in the public schools.
"Our awareness of the need for knowledge of foreign languages is becoming greater. But it is still far from the time when every Kansas taxpayer will demand that his children receive instruction in foreign languages."
Some of the replies to Prof. Burzle's survey of educators indicate what the problems in foreign language instruction are.
"Kansas lags in this regard, ranking near the bottom among the states in percentage of secondary students enrolled in foreign language study.
"Kansas is in forty-eighth place in percentage of students dropping foreign language study after the second year."
James A. McCain, president, Kansas State College—"An indispensable tool for gaining a broad understanding of other people is a more widespread knowledge of modern foreign
"I do not refer to the smattering provided by a year or two in high school, but sufficient practice and emphasis to produce thorough familiarity and facile use."
languages.
Other college presidents and heads of education departments expressed the beliefs that foreign language instruction should begin in the elementary grades and be carried through so that students can become fluent in at least one foreign language.
Some work has been done on the idea of beginning foreign language instruction in the lower grades, Prof. Burzle said.
Since 1949 the Lawrence public schools have carried on a program in which pupils can begin a foreign language in the fifth grade. More than 85 per cent of the fifth and sixth graders are taking advantage of the chance.
Prof. Burzie said, "One of our main tasks at the moment is to create a supply of competent, enthusiastic young teachers, working with modern methodology to carry the language and the civilization of foreign nations into the Kansas classrooms."