Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, March 19. 1958
55th Year, No.110
'Fraternities,Sororities Give Vital Training'
PRESENTS AWARDS—Making the announcement of the two $250 Inter-fraternity Council scholarship winners is Bruce Rider, IFC vice-president. At right is Joseph Reitz, co-chairman of the scholarship banquet.
Engineers Have Last Word With Lawyers
The lawyers have the last victory in the annual tug-of-war contest with the engineers, but the engineers may have the last word.
The lawyers this year have declined to issue the traditional winners' challenge. Asked why, Richard Foster, Halstead third-year law student and president of the Student Bar Assn., Monday said that "patriotism and justice require a more merciful course this year."
Today, still looking for a contest, the engineers issued a parting shot.
"I managed to glean from among the red herrings which you planted in your reply to me, the idea that the lawyers do not care to meet the Engineers on the field of honor.
In a letter to Foster, Carlos Campuzano, Kansas City, Mo, senior and president of the Engineering Student Council, said:
"If you choose to rest upon the rather thin laurels of your only victory in the tug-of-war tradition, so be it."
Weather
Fair west, generally fair tonight and Thursday. Warmer west over state Thursday. Low tonight 10 northwest to 28s elsewhere. High Thursday 45 to 50.
The Inter-Residence Council will honor independent women having high scholarship during the fall semester at a scholarship dinner in Miller Hall at 6 tonight.
IRC Scholarship Dinner Tonight
The outstanding scholar carrying the highest number of credit hours, will receive a special award, and a traveling trophy will be awarded to the hall with the highest grade average.
Business Day Set For May 7
The three ten students from each women's scholarship hall. Hodder Hall, and each floor of upperclassmen at Gertrude Sellards Pearson dormitory, will attend the dinner.
Franklyn C. Nelick, associate professor of English, will speak at the dinner.
Business Day has been set for May 7. Dean James R. Surface of the Business School, announced Tuesday. Classes in the Business School will be dismissed at 10 a.m. Balfour Jeffries, president of the Kansas Power and Light Co., will be the main speaker.
Education Is First Goal Speaker Says
The number one objective of fraternity and sorority members in any college community is to get an education, Martin B. Dickinson, class of '28 and past national president of Delta Tau Delta social fraternity, told Greek organization representatives at the scholarship banquet Tuesday in the Kansas Union.
Greek organizations also have a responsibility to their school now and in the future, he said.
"None of us will ever be able to repay this University for what we got out of it," he said. "All we can do is to build it and keep it strong."
The level of scholarship here is very high, Mr. Dickinson said. This is the result of "steady, conservative and solid" planning by the administration.
Mr. Dickinson said fraternities and sororities are select undergraduate social groups.
"We can't have the benefits of such an organization unless we are choice and select."
Being an undergraduate implies that we are still learning. "We need not be unduly upset if mistakes are made in the zeal for education.
"Greek organizations are social, not only in the sense that they give parties and are on the social page, but in the sense that they give important social training," he said.
"We are continuing through our organizations a social and humanitarian training for ourselves and for those fortunate enough to belong, which has no parallel or peer anywhere in the world." he said.
Awards Given
The Panhellenic and Inter-fraternity councils, sorority and fraternity governing groups awarded trophies and plaques.
The Panhellenic trophy for the woman with the highest grade average was awarded to Marilyn M. Mull, Lawrence sophomore and a member of Pi Beta Phi social sorority.
Kappa Alpha Theta was given awards for the greatest improvement in grades among the sororities and for the highest sorority grade average.
Beta Theta Pi won awards for the highest pledge class grade average and the highest over-all grade average.
Two sophomores, Hershel F. Murry, Kansas City, Mo., Kappa Sigma, and Donald A. West, Salina, Phi Kappa Tau, received $250 IFC scholarships awarded on the basis of scholarship and need.
Chapter honor initiates were introduced by the scholarship chairman of each group.
Greeks Entertain Faculty Tonight
Faculty members and their wives or husbands will be the dinner guests of 28 fraternities and 13 sororities tonight as a part of Greek Week activities.
Each organization will invite three faculty members to be their guests for the evening.
An Atlantic Union: Problem Solver
The free world can prevent world war and economic depression by a firmer union of the Atlantic nations, Clarence Streit, editor of Freedom and Union magazine, said in a lecture Tuesday in Bailey Hall.
4 Greek Week Panels Tonight To Discuss Rush
Four Greek Week panel discussions on pledge training, scholarship and rush rules will begin at 7:30 tonight in the Kansas Union.
The Panhellenic and Inter-fraternity councils will each sponsor a discussion on problems and possibilities for a stricter pledge training.
Miss Patricia Patterson, assistant dean of women, will speak to the sorority pledge trainers. Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, will speak to the fraternity panel.
A proposed rush week rule revision will be the theme of another IFC panel discussion. The rule revision, if approved, will mean that all fraternity rushees will stay in University dormitories during rush week.
Panel discussion chairmen are Mary E. Sanborn, Chapman senior, and Robert Kralicek, Independence, Mo. sophomore.
2 Films To Be Shown Wednesday
Two films, "Riches of the Earth" and "Earthquakes and Volcanoes," will be shown 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Bailey projection room.
"Riches of the Earth," is a 22-minute animated film illustrating how Canada's underground resources took shape during geological times, and how they have been tapped as raw materials for man's progress.
"Earthquakes and Volcanoes," a 15-minute film, shows the relationship between the two and their causes.
The primary objective of the people of democratic nations is to maintain a free way of life without world war, and at a low cost that won't force the nations into depression, he said.
"We want the strength offered by defense crash programs without the cost that leads to depression," Mr. Streit said. He explained that this can be accomplished by means of an economic, political and military union of the Atlantic peoples.
The reason past and present organizations along these lines do not work is because the sovereignty of the participating nations is placed above everything else, even the good of the people, Mr. Streit said.
"The nations, not the people, are represented in organizations such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the U.N. and the League of Nations," he said.
Mr. Streit said in the Constitutional convention of 1787 state sovereignty was sacrificed for the good of the people by forming a federal union and this general principle should be applied on an international level.
An international union would give the free world both military and economic strength that he described as a "tremendous, untapped resource of power that we have only sampled slightly in NATO."
Furthermore, Mr. Streit said, such a union would "impress the Kremlin more than if we sent up a 3,000-pound Engineer."
The surprise the Communists would get by the formation of such a union would come when their Marxist belief that the capitalist nations will "cut their own throats" with their economic greed was proved false by the establishment of a common market among nations of the free world, Mr. Streit said.
Mr. Streit is one of the founders of the Atlantic union movement that helped bring about the formation of NATO.
SPRING "FARMING"—It's the middle of March, ordinarily a time for early planting down on the farm. But one of KU's little tractors has been busy the past couple of days, still plowing away
at a late winter crop of snow. (Daily Kansan photo)