'Enrollment System Needs Revision'
Friday, Feb. 7, 1958
Two All Student Council presidents have agreed that a general shakeup in the enrollment system would curb future violations.
Bob Billings, Russell junior and ASC president, and Jim Schultz, Salina senior and 1956-57 president, told The Daily Kansan Thursday that the fault is in the system and blame should not rest too heavily with the persons immediately involved.
"In my three and a half years here this enrollment business (early enrollment out of turn) has gotten to be an accepted practice—so why put all the blame on two people," Shultz said.
JIM SCHULTZ
"I think the administration should take some positive action rather than all these reprisals," he said. "It's ridiculous to put a third of the student body on probation."
"Maybe the whole enrollment procedure should be investigated. When a third of the students are violating the procedure, there's something wrong with the system."
'Administration Lax'
Billings agreed with Schultz in part.
"The whole problem comes from laxity in the administration of enrollment" he said. "The system definitely needs to be corrected."
Billings said members of the ASC would meet with the dean of students' advisory board, and possibly appoint a committee designed to correct the failings of the enrollment system, if a committee seemed to be the proper way to handle the problem.
Although both thought the students were receiving undue attention for the action, each expressed no condonation for the act.
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Schultz said, "I don't condone
guys forging names, but it's the overall problem they should work on." Billings said, "You can't condone students going to the extremes of forging enrollment forms. The best solution is to remove the source of temptation."
As one means of curbing the enrollment problem Schultz mentioned the pre-enrollment system, which is used at other schools including Kansas State College.
BOB BILLINGS
Pre-enrollment Might Help
He said he and other ASC members have been unsuccessful in efforts to interest the University in the system.
Billings' comment on the pre-enrollment alternative was, "In actual practice, it might be hard to please everybody with such a system."
Dance To Follow Saturday Game
A dance in the Kansas Union ballroom will follow the basketball game Saturday night. The Collegians combo will play.
Committee chairmen for the dance are Rex Howell, Macksville sophomore, general chairman; Donna Laptat, Olathe freshman, refreshments and tickets, and Sally Mack, Topeka sophomore, publicity.
LINCOLN, Neb. — (UP) — Confessed mass slayer Charles Starkweather will be questioned about four murders in Wichita and Carlsbad, N. M., authorities here said today.
The Wichita officers were interested in the resemblance between the admitted shotgun slaying here Dec. 1 of Robert Convert, 21, service station attendant, and the Nov. 26 slaying in Wichita of service station operator Paul Williams. Both men were shot on a rural road after having been robbed and abducted from the station.
Religious Emphasis Week beginning Sunday, Feb. 16, will feature a program of coffee discussions in the Kansas Union conducted by guest speakers and clergymen.
Charles Platz, Hutchinson junior, chairman of Religious Emphasis Week, said, "It is our hope that each student will find time in his schedule to attend some of these meetings and expose himself to these speakers, for it is an excellent opportunity for him to test his ideas."
Generally fair and cold this afternoon. Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with scattered light snow west portion. Continued cold tonight and Saturday. Low tonight zero extreme northeast to 20 southwest. High Saturday 25 northeast to 30 southwest.
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To Question Killer In Wichita Death
A reception for all speakers will be held in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union on Feb.16 at 3:30 p.m.
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'U.S. Fears Its Own Ideals'
100 More Involved In Forgeries Fracas
Since there will be no convocation this year, informative meetings will be held at an all-student forum, a faculty forum and various coffee hours in the Union.
America has lost the initiative of "the old Yankee trader" and is now afraid that American ideals "will not be attractive to underdeveloped nations." Robert G. Colodny, visiting assistant professor of history, said Thursday in a Daily Kansan interview:
"It seems the United States seems to have lost confidence in their ability to bargain and bargain successfully, he said. The Americans entertain fears that their own ideals will not be attractive to underdeveloped nations."
Religious Week Plans Forums
He said this is a reason the United States seems to be buying friends instead of trying to win them over. Prof. Colodnyd said he thinks there is little chance of a war with Russia in this age of advanced weapons.
War In Fiction Realm
55th Year, No. 82
He termed war as "one of the unnecessary interrudes in modern life.' Prof. Colomedoy commented that peaceful coexistence in the world "has already started." He indicated that people are so used to looking at the world in old obsolete ways that they can't realize coexistence is possible.
War If Fiction Realm "Any talk of a United States-Russian war belongs in the realm of science fiction," he said. "It is an idea that can be entertained by completely irrational minds. How many minds there are such as this I don't know. Modern war no longer provides the solution to today's political problems."
ROBERT G. COLODNY
He said that although the Communist doctrine dictates eventual
"Russia has enormous territories undeveloped with enormous wealth untapped," he said. "And the Russians are shifting towards the participation of a broader segment of the population in the government, though still within the framework of a one-party state."
"There's a chance a country such as India could see success in the collectivism program in China and still choose Jefferson instead of Leonin as a basis for their government," Prof. Colodny said.
world domination, the Communists will try to, win the world over by methods other than outright war.
He said it would be possible for a country to adopt a government that was a combination of both Communism and Democracy.
Need To Work Together
Only when nations learn to work together in projects that can't increase their own power will there be real coexistence. The U. S. and Russia could do a great deal to help the economy of each other if only they could learn to get along, he said.
Prof. Colodny he thinks that if the United States and Russia continue to develop their economies as they are now, Russia could come abreast of the U. S. economic standards within 25 years.
Stolen Stamp Used Dean Woodruff Says
Approximately 100 more students are now under investigation for "irregularities in enrollment," L. C. Woodruff, dean of students, said Thursday.
"The smoke hasn't all cleared yet," Dean Woodruff said. "It appears a variety of different devices were used to gain access to the enrollment floor."
Get Free Shots Canuteson Says
Dr. Ralph I, Canuteson, director of the Student Health Service, issued a warning Thursday to students who haven't yet received polio and flu shots. He said both flu and polio shots are available to all students free of charge and for effectiveness should be taken right away.
Dr. Canuteson said national health authorities have mentioned possibilities of another Asian flu outbreak such as the one which struck the country last fall.
Dr. Canuteson said that students are more likely to get the flu after a vacation when they come back to school from different parts of the country.
Dr. Canuteson said they hope to avoid a situation such as the one that occurred last fall when there were 300 cases of proven Asiatic flu handled at Watkins Memorial Hospital.
These 300 cases were among 900 patients in the student hospital up to Thanksgiving vacation. Dr. Canuteson said the normal load in a year for the hospital is 1,200 students.
Dr. Canuteson indicated this was the opportune time for students to get polio shots. Health authorities recommend the shots be taken in the winter since the inoculations are not supposed to be given during the polio season. According to health authorities, the polio vaccine has reduced the number of paralytic polio cases about $85\%$ . Authorities are now recommending students have a fourth polio inoculation which has been proved to further reduce chances of the disease.
Dr. Camuteson said students who received their polio shots now could get their second shot before summer and the start of polio season. Authorities recommend 4 to 6 weeks between the first and second shots, 7 to 12 months between the second and third shots and 6 to 12 months between the third and fourth shots. Through January, 1,648 student
Through January, 1.648 sudents have received at least one polio shot.
Swimming Series To Begin Monday
A series of three articles dealing with the varsity swimming situation and facilities at KU will begin Monday on the sports pages of The Daily Kansan. George Anthan, Daily Kansan Sports Editor, will write the series.
The series will deal with KU's apparent deficiencies in swimming facilities as compared to other Big Eight schools, a survey of what other schools in the conference are doing in varsity swimming and the administration's views on the subject.
On Wednesday, the Senate Disciplinary Committee put 95 students on probation for early enrollment forgeries. Two of the 95 were disciplined by withdrawing their privileges of campus activities and driving automobiles on campus.
At a meeting Thursday night, the Disciplinary Committee placed three more of the first 95 students on what Dean Woodruff termed as "strict probation."
One student was denied the privilege of normal enrollment for the next two semesters, another was forced to make a contribution to the scholarship fund equivalent to the amount of money he made in selling the forged enrollments, and the third was placed on a very strict probationary status, Dean Woodruff said.
Stolen Stamp Used
In the latest findings the dean confirmed that a stolen registrar's stamp was used to gain early enrollment. The stamp was used on registration forms and activity cards by the students enrolling illegally.
Dean Woodruff said the status of the students involved is indefinite since the new developments "are still under investigation." He said it is possible that all of the 100 or none might be placed on probation, since the extent of their participation is not known.
Discovered By Registrar
The new irregularities were discovered by the registrar's office and sent to Dean Woodruff for action by the KU Disciplinary Committee.
The committee is headed by Dean Woodruff; Miss Emily Taylor, dean of women; Donald K. Alderson, dean of men.
Student members of the committee are Jason Ott, WaKeeney, second year law; George Blackburn, Joplin, Mo., John Spanbauer, Kansas City, Mo., and Joy Yeo, Manhattan, seniors; Ruth E. Shankland, Kansas City, Kan., and Barbara Taylor, Prairie Village, juniors.
A.C.Hill Award Winner Named
William F. Kane, Stafford junior, has been chosen by the Journalism faculty to receive the Alfred G. Hill scholarship in journalism for the 1958-59 school year.
Kane, majoring in the advertising-business sequence of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, will use part of the $200 scholarship this semester.
Mr. Hill, a 1917 KU graduate, established the scholarship in 1953. He is a former secretary of the Alumni Assn. Since leaving KU he has published newspapers in the Midwest and East. Currently he is editor and publisher of the Oak Ridger, Oak Ridge, Tenn.