GREEK ROYALTY—Betty Lou Douglas, Carol Barker and Judith Duncan were selected Sunday as finalists for Greek Week queen. Miss Douglas is at the top. Miss Barker in the middle.
This Kelly Looks Good In Green
It's St. Patrick's Day and any combination of Kelly and green will rule supreme for 24 hours. KU's 'combination,' a lawyer named Kelly who teaches in Green Hall, has replaced the symbolic lawyer's cane with a shillelagh today.
William A. Kelly, associate professor of law, says he thinks Green Hall is a good place for an Irishman to spend the day.
"Although my mother didn't come from Ireland, the Kelly clan goes back to the old sod," he said. "We don't do any real celebrating now, but when the Kellys got together at home, the neighbors knew it."
Prof. Kelly said (modestly, but with an unmistakable twinkle of Irish pride) that he always manages to wear a green necktie, even if he doesn't do any "celebrating" on St. Patrick's Day.
He believes that if you're Irish you don't need to flaunt it. People can tell by your name.
Prof. Kelly named his sons so people wouldn't have any trouble recognizing their heritage. Michael Bryon is 9; Timothy Patrick is 8. Prof. Kelly's daughter, Billie Carolyn, 14, was named after him and her mother.
This is Prof. Kelly's first year on the faculty, but Green Hall isn't new to him. He was graduated from the Law School in 1949. He practiced with a Kansas City, Mo. law firm and lectured at the University of Kansas City before returning to KU
Although a bit of the blairney stone may show up in the geology lab
and top hats may outnumber straw hats at the business school today. Prof. Kelly says nothing special is planned at Green Hall.
His office is painted light green, but he said he didn't think it was planned for him.
Even though he contends that he keeps his Irish to himself and doesn't shower the lawyers with shamrocks, he keeps a book case partly filled with a row and a half of green-backed pamphlets.
Could this be a subliminal suggestion from anyone who happens to be in 208 Green?
MANHATTAN —(UP)—A holiday for all students at Kansas State College was declared today by President James McCain to celebrate the school winning the NCAA Regional Basketball Championship Saturday.
Victory Brings K-State A Holiday
He said another holiday will be declared next Monday if the basketball team wins the National title at the finals this weekend in Louisville, Kv.
Earlier, students had blocked entrances to the college and few classes were held.
Election Petitions Due
The deadline to file petitions for spring elections is 4 p.m. Wednesday, the Elections Committee announced Sunday.
Potential candidates for student body president, vice-president, and the All Student Council must be backed by a campus political party or file an independent petition at the Dean of Students office.
Candidates for class offices must file a petition.
Petitions for president and vicepresident must bear 200 names of registered students, those for ASC members 100, and for class officers 25.
The primaries will be held Friday, March 28. In the primaries, the list of candidates for each class
office will be cut to three, and the campus political parties will narrow their lists of candidates to one for each office.
In order to run for office, a student must have made 60 per cent C's during the fall semester, must have completed 24 hours in the previous two semesters, including 12 hours in the last semester, and must not be on probation.
Queen Finalists Chosen
Greek Week Starts
Greek Week activities began Sunday with the selection of three finalists in the queen contest. Events will continue through Saturday night.
Queen finalists selected by three Lawrence residents were Carol Barker, Independence, Mo. senior, Alpha Chi Omega; Judith Duncan, Overland Park sophomore, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Betty Lou Douglas, Kansas City, Kan. senior, Alpha Phi.
The identity of the queen will remain a secret until the dance Saturday. The finalists will attend a fraternity chariot race Saturday afternoon and will be introduced.
The next event of the week will be when Martin Dickinson, past national president of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, speaks at a scholarship banquet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room.
Guests at the banquet will be honor initiates, scholarship chairmen and fraternity and sorority presidents. The Inter-fraternity Council will give a trophy to the fraternity having the highest grade average and a plaque to the oledge class with the highest average.
Panhellenic Council will give a trophy to the sorority with the highest average and to the woman with the highest individual average.
The IFC will award two $250 scholarships for next year. Panhellenic will give one $250 scholarship
Wednesday the 28 fraternities and 13 sororites each will have three faculty members and their wives or husbands as dinner guests.
Panel discussions on pledge training, scholarship and rush rules will start at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in various rooms in the Kansas Union. Miss Patricia Patterson, assistant dean of women, will speak to the sorority oledge trainers.
The IFC will sponsor three panels. L. C. Woodruff, dean of students, will speak to fraternity pledge trainers Dr. Gordon Collister, guidance bureau director, will speak to scholarship chairmen.
Dick Jones, McPherson junior and IFC rush chairman, will lead rush committees in a discussion of proposed revisions of rulers-rules.
Inter-fraternity Sing Thursday
Twelve sororities and 16 fraternities will compete in an inter-fraternity sing at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Union Ballroom. Trophies will be given to the winner and runner-up in sorority and fraternity divisions. The winning men's and women's small ensemble will also receive a trophy.
Judges will be three faculty members of the School of Fine Arts. Dale Flagan, Columbus senior, is master of ceremonies.
Saturday afternoon 23 fraternities will compete in the traditional chariot races. Each chariot will have a rider wearing a toga, which will be pulled by two men in white shorts and T-shirts.
Cornelius Boersma, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore and chariot chairman, said heats will start at 2 p.m. from the west end of Strong Hall. Racers will circle the Chi Omega fountain and finish at the drive between Strong and Snow halls.
Chariot Races Saturday
Saturday morning sorority women will canvass Lawrence for the multiple selesion fund donations from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Fraternity men will help buildings and grounds crews with dirt spreading, rock hauling and crosswalk painting on the campus.
Woody Herman and his orchestra will play for the Greek Week dance from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday. The queen and her two attendants will be crowned at the dance intermission.
Before the dance there will be a dinner in the Union for all IFC and Panhellenic Greek Week chairmen, queen finalists, and judges and their wives.
Daily Hansan
55th Year. No. 108
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Lawyers Say 'No' To Engineers
"Another humilizing tug-of-war defeat would serve only to further the already deflated ego of our future engineers."
With these words the lawyers have declined to challenge the engineers to the traditional tug-of-war. Friday the engineers asked why the challenge had not been issued.
Code Not On Slide Rules
Richard Foster, Halstead third- year law student and president of the Student Bar Assn., said today that the "code of gentlemen" is not printed on slide rules. The lawyers, who won last year, are not obligated to make the challenge.
Monday, March 17, 1958
"Preluding this breach of honor," he said, "patriotism and justice require a more merciful course this year. In light of the Russian Soutniks (with respect to German born rocket expert Mr. Von Braun) we lawyers feel that another humiliating defeat suffered by the University's trade school would not be in order."
"Years ago a rivalry did exist between those students in engineering and those studying law. This was a time when law students and engineers both began their professional study upon entering the University.
'Lawyers Are Grads'
"Since then the lawyers have raised their course to a post-graduate level. The engineers have not
"We admonish the engineers to get before their drawing boards, unsheath their slide rules, and make some effort to recapture at least a scintilla of their professional reputation.
"We feel, therefore, a duty to disregard the caustic remarks, broadcast so widely by the engineers, in their interest and in that of the free world."
Weather
Tonight mostly cloudy with occasional snow extreme west, clear to partly cloudy elsewhere. Tuesday occasional snow west, partly cloudy east. No important change in temperature. Low tonight 5 northwest, lower 20s east and south. High Tuesday 25 to 35.
UNITED NATIONS VOTE—Another vote on an international resolution is taken at the annual mock United Nations General Assembly held Friday and Saturday. Representing Russia at the session were students from Cottey College in Nevada, Mo.
Mock UN Rejects Reds
The admittance of Red China and West Germany, a world wide economic program and disarmament proposals were among subjects discussed and acted upon by the mock U.N. General Assembly meeting Friday and Saturday.
The admittance of Communist China was turned down by the group. They sustained an American objection to the issue.
The assembly approved a plan whereby all economic aid to various countries would operate through the U.N. After the plan was approved, the Russian delegation agreed to match any contributions made by the United States.
A resolution was passed encouraging disarmament and a move was made to establish a U.N. agency to oversee and inspect to see that the disarmament terms were being carried out.
The assembly provisionally agreed to seat West Germany. A motion was also made to have the Security Council act on admitting West Germany.