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Squat May Die In ASC Amendment
Squat, campus humor magazine, will be fighting for its life at the next All Student Council meeting.
At Tuesday's ASC meeting, Squat staff members-managing editor Jerry Blatherwick, Mission senior, business manager Stewart Horejsi, Salina junior, and art editor John Martin, Ottawa senior- explained the operation of Squat.
After the three staff members spoke, a proposed amendment was introduced by Dale Brethower, Nevis, Minn. senior, to remove the section of the ASC bill concerning Squat.
The amendment was given its first reading, which means it now goes to a committee and will be discussed at the next ASC meeting. There was no discussion on the amendment.
If Squat was dropped from the ASC bill, it could no longer be published or sold on campus, since magazines published by students must come under the ASC charter.
Editor Cites 3 Justifications Blatherwick named three factors which he said justify publication of a magazine:
1. A need for the magazine among its readers.
2. Educational value to the staff.
3. Financial justification — does it show a profit?
On two of the three grounds, Blatherwick said he was sure of justification. Squat showed a profit for the first three issues this year and Blatherwick said it was effective in teaching its staff about publication.
As to need for the magazine, Blatherwick cited Squat's circulation of 1,200 to 1,600 per issue, with "three or four readers per copy." from a student enrollment of about 8,000.
The original motion to investigate Squat was made by Wendell Wallace, OmahA. Neb, senior, at the Feb. 25 ASC meeting, and the Publications Committee met with the Squat staff after publication of its third issue.
Brethower said Thursday night he felt Squat was not "functioning as a good magazine to represent the University." His main objection is to the content and taste of the magazine.
He said while Blatherwick "impressed me as being quite willing to work to produce a good magazine," he thought "it would be much easier to kill Squat and start another magazine" to improve the situation.
Willing To Accept Changes
Blatherwick said Thursday that at Squat's meeting with the Publications Committee he had offered to accept any changes the committee
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suggested for the staff or the magazine.
He said he thinks if the magazine were considered harmful to the student body, the KU administration would take some action.
No such action has been taken, he said.
Hugh Grant, Hutchinson senior and chairman of the Publications Committee, said the committee was neutral in the dispute. The committee was asked to see how Squat was doing financially and to see if it was operating in accordance with ASC rules.
The committee members are members of Squat's governing board and act as administrators. At the meeting with the staff, Grant said, he advised Blatherwick of the criticisms of Squat so he could be aware of them.
Plans were announced for a bi-partisan rally at 4 p.m. Monday in Hoch Auditorium. Candidates for both parties will be introduced, and both presidential tickets—AGI candidates Dick Patterson, Kansas City, Mo, junior, for president and Susie Stout, Wichita junior, for vice-president, and nonpartisan presidential candidate Ed Prelock, Cleveland, Ohio senior—will give campaign speeches.
Student body president Bob Billings, Russell junior, who cleared the rally with the KU administration, said he had turned the program over to the two party presidents and Prelock.
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Billings said there possibly would be demonstrations for the candidates, placards and signs, in the manner of a national party convention—or a combined Democratic and Republican convention.
At the Vox Populi meeting, Jim Austin, president of that political party, said the 5-point Vox platform was kept short because "we don't intend to make any promises we can't fulfill."
"AGI pledges to continue to support a policy of student government based upon cooperation among independents and Greeks. We believe that through this program AGI has given to the students a good administration during the past year. AGI realizes that student government
The AGI platform:
Parties Give Platforms
Vox and AGI selected election workers-poll workers, poll police, and ballot counters.
Party platforms and election tactics were decided Thursday night for both campus political parties as next Wednesday's general election draws nearer.
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At the meeting of Vox Populi's General Assembly, the party set up its platform, reviewed election and voting rules and gave out campaigning rules for its candidates.
The Forum of the Allied Greek-Independent party met and approved an 11-plank platform, endorsed the platform of AGI's presidential ticket, and heard party leaders outline election work to be done.
Engineering Exposition To Feature Space Travel, Satellite Exhibits
Friday, April 11, 1958
"Frontiers of Engineering," is the theme of the 1958 Engineering Exposition to be held April 18 and 19 in Marvin Hall.
The frontiers theme has been supplemented by department exhibits on space travel, satellites and missiles, new const ion methods and new sources of power.
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Space travel will be featured by displays on missile development, human factors in high speed travel, construction of satellites, manufacture of rocket fuels, and rocket launching.
The archway over the doors of Marvin Hall to the entrance of the exposition will feature a 20-foot model of a balance scale. The beam of the scale will be 20-feet long and will extend over the sidewalk leading up to Marvin. Theta Tau, professional engineering fraternity, built the archway.
In one balance tray will be an 11-foot long slide rule and in the other tray will be a 9-foot missile on a launching platform.
Humanitiies Lecture To Be Held Saturday
Thomas Hart Benton, Humanities Series lecturer will speak on "Regionalism—Thirty Years After" at 8 p.m. Saturday in Fraser Theater. Mr. Benton is a Missouri-born artist who has gained world fame as a regionalist artist. His works will be on exhibition in the Museum of Art for the next 5 weeks.
One department will give away satellite souvenirs while another will actually receive and decode
WASHINGTON — (UP) — Russia agreed today to an ambassadorial meeting next week to take the first step toward a summit conference. But the White House said Russia is still imposing terms that amount to rejection of the western proposals.
Russia Accepts Summit Step
Sam Molen, sportscaster for KMBC radio and TV will be master of ceremonies at the Kansas Relays banquet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union ballroom. Paul W. Brechler, director of athletics at Iowa State University, will be the speaker.
The architectural exhibit will be an experiment with laminated cardboard construction. This is the first such test in the United States and supposedly the first in the world.
Molen To Be MC At Relays Banquet
Visiting coaches, athletes and Relays supporters will be guests. The banquet is open to the public. Tickets are on sale in Allen Fld House.
information being transmitted by the American satellites.
To assure the visitors that the down-to-earth factors will not be missing in the world of tomorrow a display of a car of the future and the roads it will travel on will be
Sources of power—from the water wheel to the atom—will be demonstrated in a display of a model community. Another power source, petroleum, will be featured.
Visitors will have an opportunity to take part in stereophonic sound experiments and in an investigation of extra-sensory perception.
presented.
The Speech and Drama Festival being held on campus today and Saturday, has been an annual event for more than 10 years, according to E. A. McFarlane, manager of the Bureau of Institutes and one of the festival's supervisors.
The event at KU will have some 300 entries from more than 80 Kansas high schools who will compete for medals and certificates.
Speech Festival Opens Today
Fair east tonight, partly cloudy west with scattered showers or thunderstorms extreme west by evening, continuing west portions tonight. Saturday partly cloudy with light rain showers west portion. Warmer over western half tonight. Cooler west portion Saturday.
There will be extemporaneous speaking, original oration, manuscript reading, plus humorous and dramatic readings.
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can be effective only when capable and interested people are elected and offers such a slate of candidates for election. These people are pledged to work toward the realization of the following objectives:
1. To continue cooperation with the faculty in investigating the possibilities of revising College requirements.
2. To more fully utilize the methods of student evaluation of the faculty through the use of a survey system with real results as an end product.
3. To continue support of the foreign student leadership program and to take benefit of the ideas brought out through the program.
4. To support the efforts of the Group for the Improvement of Human Relations and to work for better relations among all student elements.
5. To continue in the position that seating for athletic events must be governed in a manner favorable to
the majority of the entire student body.
6. To support events such as the Big Eight Conference on International Affairs in order that all interested students may have an opportunity for exchange of ideas.
7. To continue to support and take benefit of reports and suggestions from groups like the Little Hoover Commission in order to give the students the best possible administration.
8. To investigate and attempt to prevent excessive charges for certain student housing and to improve existing conditions.
9. To work toward permitting each district to have at least one voting representative.
10. To continue to work toward a more efficient student government within the framework of the recently revised ASC constitution.
11. To welcome at all times the suggestions of all students and to give consideration to all ideas that may originate with any individual or group."
The Vox platform:
"1. The ASC should not be used as used as a springboard from which individuals may promote their personal interests and ambitions.
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Queens, Floats, Bands Salute Relays Theme
Bands, fancy horses, drill teams, queens and floats will salute "Sports In A Scientific World" April 19 in a hour-long Kansas Relays parade.
The annual spectacle will start at 10 a.m. from Sixth Street and move down Massachusetts to South Park. Two queens and four attendants, riding in convertibles, will be the feature attraction.
Parade co-chairmen, Skipper Williams, Lawrence businessman, and Raymond H. Dean, Kansas City, Mo. senior, said Thursday that 22 parade entries have been received and at least five more are expected by Tuesday.
Fifteen organized houses have entered floats built around Relays theme.
Women's houses entered floats are Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall, both freshman and upperclassmen, Delta Gamma, Alpha Phi and Delta Delta Delta. Fraternity entries are from Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta, Triangle, Phi Kappa Sigma, Delta Upsilon, Phi Gamma Delta, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Chi, Delta Tau Delta and Tau Kappa Epsilon. Dean said he expects other houses to enter next week.
Marching groups entered include the KU band, ROTC Pershing Rifles, the Lawrence junior and senior
high school bands and the Yates Center high school band.
About 40 members of the Kansas City, Mo. Saddle and Sirloin Club, dressed in western outfits will parade on show horses. Mr. Williams said the club will also have "three carloads of 'cow girls.'"
Haskell Indian Institute will enter a float, band or Indian dancers. Mr. Williams said.
"By next Tuesday we should have the parade all lined up," he said. There will be several bands, but we may not get as many as we expected because there is a high school band day also on April 19.
The Lawrence National Guard is expected to enter a Civil War colon guard. Mr. Williams said some Lawrence business may enter floats next week.
Dean, the campus parade chairman, said all queen candidates have been invited to appear in the parade.
IM Speech Contest Begins Wednesday
The 11th annual intramural speech contest for all organized houses will begin at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday with demonstration oratory.
The following Wednesday, April 23, will be the informative speeches, while April 30 is the date of the argumentative presentation Both will be at 7:30 p.m.
Applications should be made at 116 Strong.
The contest, which will award trophies to individual winners and to the house with the highest point total, is sponsored by the KU Forensic League and the Speech department.
Brad Lashbrook, assistant instructor in speech, is in charge of the contest.
Another oratorical contest open to all undergraduate students is being sponsored by Delta Sigma Rho, honorary forensic group.
The contest, which offers a $300 set of encyclopedias as first prize, will have preliminaries at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in 134 Strong. Students are to present a 10-minute oration on any subject they wish. Mr. Lashbrook said.
The actual contest will be held Tuesday, April 22 in Strong Auditorium. There will be cash awards to other winners, Mr. Lashbrook said. Judging will be done by faculty members in both contests.