Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
55th Year, No. 84
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1958
Resignation Stops Senate GOP's Plan
TOPEKA—The resignation of Board of Regents member Russell R. Rust, Topeka, Monday night cut short a Senate Republican plan to seek a State Supreme Court ruling on the question of appointment confirmation by a budget session.
Sen. Paul Wunsch (R-Kingman).
Senate president pro tem, said Monday a caucus group had decided not to take action on one of Gov. George Docking's appointees to the Board of Regents. Later, the Senate approved 38 appointments, but took no action on Mr. Rust, a Topeka Democrat.
Atty. Gen. John Anderson recently ruled that the Senate could, and must, act on confirmations during a budget session. Former Atty. Gen. Harold Fatzer had ruled to the contrary in 1956. Sen. Wunsch said the Senate action was "No reflection on Mr. Rust, but he had to choose someone" to provide the means for a high court test.
Sen. Wunsch, when informed of Mr. Rust's action, said the Senate might now reconsider its entire action on the confirmations.
Mr. Rust, George B. Collins of Wichita and Whitley Austin, a Salina Republican, had been named to the Board of Regents by Gov. Docking.
Professor Emeritus To Give Lecture
Eugene A. Stephenson, professor emeritus of petroleum engineering, will be the speaker at a meeting of the Institute of Mining Engineers, Petroleum Division, in Wichita Tuesday night.
The development of means by which oil and gas production are controlled and the miscibility of reservoir fluids, recent research on this subject, will be the topics discussed by Prof. Stephenson.
Religious Emphasis Week Feb.16-22
14 Speakers To Participate In University Program
Fourteen speakers representing Jewish and Christian faiths will take part in campus activities recognizing Religious Emphasis Week. Feb. 16-22.
Eight Named For Awards
The award of Elizabeth M. Watkins faculty scholarships of $800 each for the summer of 1958, to eight KU faculty members has been announced by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
Financed by a grant from the KU Endowment Assn., these scholarships are made to members of the staff below the rank of associate professor.
The faculty committee chose these 1958 scholars:
Robert J. Friauf, assistant professor of Physics; Seymour Menton, assistant professor of Romance Languages; Robert W. Lightwaardt, assistant professor of Botany; Philip Newmark, assistant professor of Biochemistry; Robert N. Sudlow, assistant professor of Drawing and Painting; Bernard Frazier, sculptor in residence; John G. Grumm, assistant professor of political science, and Robert Tomasek, assistant professor of political science.
Members of the Selection Committee were Professors Jacob Kleinberg, E. J. McBride, Charles, Michener, L. J. Pritchard, James Seaver, and Robert Vosper, director of libraries, chairman.
1.641 Enroll In College
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has a total enrollment of 1,641 for the spring semester. There are 586 freshmen, 422 sophomores, 300 juniors, 301 seniors and 32 special students enrolled. A breakdown by departments is not yet available.
- A panel discussion, "Man, His Mind, and God," at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, in Bailey Auditorium will highlight the week's activities. Dr. John H. Patton, Professor of religion, will moderate the panel.
Other panel members are Dr. Paul W. Pruyser, clinical psychologist and research associate, Menninger Foundation, Topeka; The Rev. Herbert P. Fritze, chaplain, Winter Veterans Hospital, Topeka, and Dr. Erik Wright, professor of psychology.
Religious Emphasis Week will officially begin with a reception for the speakers at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
Arrangements for coffee hours, all student forums, house guests and other activities will be announced later this week, said Charles Platz, president of the Student Religious Council.
Guest speakers include; Rabbi Louis J. Cashdan, lecturer of the Jewish Chautauqua Society; Dr. Donald Bliss, professor of sociology. Principia College, Elsah, Ill.
Paul Little, secretary of international student work, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship; The Rev. William Myers, professor of sociology, Ottawa University; Dr. Leslie Olsen, dean of Grace Cathedral, Topeka.
The Rev, Peter S. Raible, minister of the Unitarian Church, Lincoln, Neb.; Rev, Merton Rymph, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church, Wichita; Dr. Evan V. Shute, medical director of the Shute Institute for Clinical and Laboratory Medicine.
Weather
Partly cloudy to cloudy today and Wednesday. Continued cold. Scattered light snow or freezing drizzle west today. Low tonight near 0 extreme northeast, 5 to 10 elsewhere.
High Monday 25, low 10. Low this morning 10.
Prize Writing On Display
To commemorate his birthday, William Allen White's 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial, "To An Anxious Friend" is on display in the William Allen White Reading Room, Flint Hall.
The display also includes another editorial and ten cartoons representative of the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists.
Besides White's editorial, a 1952 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial by former Kansan Louis La Cross is displayed. He won the prize for his "Low Estate of Public Morals," written for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Representative cartoon work of the following men is shown: Rube Goldberg, New York Sun; James Berryman, Washington, D.C. Star; John McCutchean, Chicago Tribune; Robert York, Louisville Times; Herbert Block, NFA Service; Vaughn Shoemaker, Chicago Daily News; D. R. Fitzpatrick, St. Louis Post Dispatch; Rollin Kirby, New York World; Edmund Duffy, Baltimore Sun and Joy Darling, New York Tribune.
The Rev. Benjamin E. Smith, Presbyterian university pastor at the University of Arkansas; The Rev. Wilber G. Voelkel, Chicago Theological Seminary; and Dr. W. Jack Wilson, pastor of Holmswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Missouri.
Accident Ruled In Shooting Of Student
The shooting of Gerald B. Raw, 23. Kansas City. Kan. senior, who was killed Saturday, was determined to be accidental by a coroner's inquest Monday afternoon.
Raw was shot by his employer, Richard Loufek, 2343 Barker St., while Raw was frying hamburgers at the Moore Burger Drive-In, 1414 W. 6th St. Raw had been a part-time employee for about a month.
Loufek told the 6-man coroner's jury that he shot Raw with a .38 caliber pistol while he attempted to place the loaded gun in a safety position. He said his finger slipped off the half-cocked hammer of the pistol.
He said he had been showing the gun to a friend, Jack Dysart, 1645 W. 20th St., in the rear room of the drive-in. Loufek said he had walked toward the front when the accident occurred.
Bill Cox, assistant police chief, told the jury that the spent shell had a lighter indentation from the hammer than a shell fired with the hammer fully cocked. Dysart's testimony agreed with Loufek's.
Wesley Norwood, assistant county attorney, said there was nothing that indicated anything but an accident and no action against Loufek would be taken by his office.
Group To Consider Enrollment Change
Possible changes in enrollment procedure will be one of the main topics at a meeting of the Deans' Advisory Board Sunday.
L. C. Woodruff, dean of students, said Tuesday, "We are gathering, as we have been for some time, all sorts of ideas and statements" for consideration at the meeting.
Kent Peiz, Des Plaines, Il., senior and member of the board, said other issues would be discussed, but the enrollment problem "will certainly be one of the subjects."
TUNING FOR BOOM—Robert Gubbins, tympanist with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, adjusts his drums
Minneapolis Symphony Critic Lauds Performance
By JOHN HUSAR
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra spoke in music's universal language Monday night in Hoch Auditorium. What the group had to say was understood by every individual in the near-capacity audience.
When conductor Antal Dorati took the rostrum and began Rossini's overture to "La Gazza Ladra," the orchestra's immediate precision, energy and enthusiasm left no doubt concerning its competence.
Especially noteworthy in this piece was a gradual crescendo of a staccato beat which began in the violins and violas, and graduated to the cellos and basses to climax in a fortissimo of sound.
From the clear call of the oboes and flutes in the first movement to the lively mood established in the final movement, Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 was marked by smartness even in its muted moments. A recurrent theme in the Scherzo: Presto movement kept the audience aware of its familiarity.
Stratas' Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks tended to remind us of
Peter and the Wolf in that its broadly-played themes descriptively carried the wild, zany hero, Till, through a series of mad adventures to his death. The effect of the tympani during Till's hanging corresponded delightfully with the cirri-nets' interpretation of the boy's sadness.
The only American work in the program, Prelude and Quadriple Fugue by Alan Hovhaness, was the least interesting work of the evening, but was a study of remarkable timing on the orchestra's part. The various sections blended the difficult parts in a manner that seemed simple.
Ravel considered Daphnis and Chloe his best work. We could not help but agree as we became enraptured by the dreamy, yet intense Daybreak scene. Although the General Dance scene seemed more fiery and passionate than joyoffs, the excellence of this work could not be questioned.
After his fourth trip to the rostrum, Mr. Dorati played two encores, Mozart's overture to "the Marriage of Figaro" and the Rakoczy March from "The Damnation of Faust" by Berlioz. These two pieces were also well-received.
Certainly these musicians, as professionals, are subject to a higher standard than is usually accorded to collegiate concerts. We find little to criticize.
Antal Dorati, a Hungarian, can truly be called great from the evidence of the masterful coordination found in his orchestra. The rapport of his conducting displayed respected leadership qualities even in his hips and legs. He worked with his whole being. The result was significant.
For more music news, see Page 4.
Workshop Tryouts Wednesday
Theatre Workshop tryouts will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday in 341 Music and Dramatic Arts Building. Students interested in reading for acting roles or in a technical crew position, should apply.