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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 23. 1958
American Egghead' Talk Wins In Oratory Contest
"The Hey Day of the American Egghead" was the subject of the winning speech given by Ralph Seger, Topeka senior, in the 11th Annual Delta Sigma Rho oratorical contest.
A tie for second place went to Lizzie Dawson, India freshman, and William Summers, Wichita senior.
Seger was awarded a $300 encyclopedia set and Miss Dawson and Summers received cash prizes of $12.50 each.
"The American mass mind has bent its knee to the egghead," Seger stated. "This is because of a bugaboo on the American conscience—the Russian sputniks."
This reaction of emphasizing our intellect to "beat the Russians" is an unhealthy one, he said.
"This is not only unhealthy, but a danger to the existence of a free society."
It is up to the American individual to turn the present emphasis on "eggheads" into a constructive, healthy aid, Seger said.
Miss. Dawson, speaking on "Christianity," said that the Christians in India look to the United States for spiritual as well as political aid.
It is important to Indians whether Americans are "preaching Christians or practicing Christians," she said. "We say so much and do so little in America."
"An enemy just as large and terrible as any foreign enemy lurks within the country," he said.
Summers warned against the dangerous, ever present threat of "The Enemy Within."
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty from a power-hungry individual who may attempt to establish himself as the first American despot. Summers said.
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Other students in the finals of the contest were Claude Kean, Olathe senior; Pat Beers, Hoisington junior; and John E. Brown, Lawrence freshman.
Council Starts Flurry Of Bills
after the Vox primary March 30.
Under the ASC constitution, political parties may submit any names they wish for the general election ballots, regardless of primary results. The complaint is on the ground that Bath was not notified of his withdrawal from the ballot.
Jim Austin, Topeka sophomore and Vox president, withdrew Bath's name when Ed Prelock. Cleveland, Ohio senior, filed to run for student body president.
The Elections Committee will continue to investigate Bath's complaint.
Prelock introduced an amendment in which ASC members who change schools or living districts after they are elected would be removed from office and replaced by another student from the election district.
Amendments Concern Elections Bill
One elections amendment would require all parties and writ-in candidates to submit summaries of all campaign expenses and reports on the sort of campaign material used, within two weeks after the election.
Several amendments submitted Tuesday were concerned with the Elections Bill. The Elections Committee reported there were no voting frauds, but that there were "multiple campaign violations" which will be brought before the proper authorities.
Another amendment would clarify appointment of the Elections Committee, and provides the committee would be appointed by the ASC chairman with the approval of the Committee on Committees.
WINNING SPEAKERS—Ralph Seger, Toppea senior (center), won first place in the Delta Sigma Rho oratorical contest which ended Tuesday night. Lizzie Dawson, Mukupen, India freshman (left), and William Summers, Wichita senior, tied for second place (Daily Kansan photo)
Business Society Elects Twelve
The election of one junior, eight seniora and two graduate students to membership in the KU chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, national business administration honor society, was announced by Harold C. Krogh associate professor of business and chanfe: president.
Dean James R. Surface of the School of Business, was voted into honorary membership. Dean Surface took his undergraduate degree at KU in political science and was elected to Pi Sigma Alpha, honorary political science fraternity. The new members are;
Workshop Slated For June 3-14
Kansas Elementary Education Workshop will be held June 3-14 at KU for teachers, supervisors and administrators. It is designed to present an over-all view of current trends in elementary education yet permit intensive work in an area of special interest.
Deaak Kenneth E. Anderson of the School of Education and Robert W. Ridgway, coordinator of the School of Education, will direct the workshop. KU faculty members will teach courses in nine fields.
The 1958 Foreign Student Festival will be held Saturday, May 3. in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union. Exhibits will be open from 1:30 to 5 p.m., and will reopen from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m. A program is scheduled for 7:45 p.m.
The workshop classes will cover arithmetic, guidance, science, language arts, music education, social studies, reading, playground activities and home-school relationships. The workshop may be attended for two hours of credit of may be audited.
Foreign Students To Hold Festival
The program will include about 20 selections given by more than 20 different countries, and exhibits of 40 countries.
Douglas Arnold Scott, Ottawa junior; Fred Charles Allvine, Jr. Kansas City, Kan. Paul Richard Carolus, St. Joseph, Mo. John David Cleland, Topeka, Hugh Mansfield Grant, Hutchinson, Robert Eugene Plain, Garnett, Wallace Allen Richardson, Bartlesville, Okla., John William Sanders, Jr., Stockton, Cloyce Evan Wiley, Lyndon, seniors; Virginia R. Huntington, Kansas City, Mo., John David Moxley, Atchison, graduate students.
The world premiere of "Symphony No. 2" by John Pozdró, assistant professor of music theory, will be played May 4 in Rochester, N. Y. as part of the 28th annual Eastman School Festival of American Music. Dr Howard Hanson will direct the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra in the performance.
Festival Will Hear Pozdro's Music
There Were Only 400
Professor Podroz "Symphony No. 2" was written as a doctoral dissertation while he was a teaching fellow and student at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, in 1956-57.
Professor Pozdro has taught at KU since 1950, except for the year in Rochester for work on his doctor of music degree.
The Parthenon, a Greek temple built 447 B. C., had optical refine-ments which made the building look correct in perspective, though its parts were not exactly perpendicular and horizontal.
A musical contest was held in which each group played its version of "A Foggy Day." The groups were judged upon their interpretation of the song and originality of improvisation.
The first concert of the Big Eight Jazz Festival was attended by a small but enthusiastic crowd here Sunday night. Jazz combos from four Big Eight schools participated, and they played as if Hoch Auditorium contained 4,000 persons instead of 400.
Musicians Play To Appreciative Crowd
Judges from four Big Eight schools were unable to choose between the rendition of the Don Conard Quartet from KU and that of the Dale Narris Sextet from Kansas State. Carroll D. Clark, professor of sociology, presented one trophy to both schools to be shared until next year's contest.
Aardvark milk is very rare in Western Europe.
The Esquires from Oklahoma State began the concert. The audience enjoyed their rendition of Horace Silver's composition, "The Preacher."
The Esquires were followed by the Don Conard Quartet, featuring Gary Foster, Lawrence senior, and Jay Fisher, Marion senior, on tenor saxophone and piano. The Conard group opened with "Hersey Bar," and followed it with "Spring Is Here." On both numbers solos by Foster and Fisher were applauded by the audience.
The Kollege Kats Kombo from Missouri performed next, and Sam Hargadine's baritone saxophone solo on "Broadway" brought applause, as did Frank Sullivan's piano solo.
The Dale Norris Sextet opened with an up-tempo composition, "Count Me Out," and followed it
with the ballad "You Are Too Beautiful."
The Larry Cummings Trio and jazz vocalist Fattie Tucker, both from the Embers club in Kansas City, were the featured guest artists. They performed while the judges were deciding the winner. Cummings sang "Caravan" and "Dancing on the Ceiling" in addition to playing the piano. Miss Tucker's rendition of "Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe," was the best received number of the whole evening.
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