College Base Load Now 14
Some students will have to work harder to remain in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the largest of the 10 schools in the University.
The faculty of the college, in which this fall's enrollment is 2,961, voted Tuesday to raise to 14 semester credit hours the minimum course load that may be carried. The old rule permitted enrollment for 12 hours with anything less requiring the dean's approval. Under the new minimum he may still make exceptions.
Dean George R. Waggoner said that compliance with the new rule, accompanied by examination credit for the Western Civilization course, would assure that a student has reached the half-way point of his college career by the end of the sophomore year.
Associate Dean Francis H. Heller,
reporting for the University Senate Administrative Committee which recommended the 14-hour minimum, said some students had been enrolling for 15 or 16 credit hours and then dropping a 3-hour, or even 2-hour courses whenever they encountered difficulty. Although classified as full-time students, they were not making normal progress toward graduation.
Normal loads for freshmen and sophomores are 15 hours, and for juniors and seniors, 16 hours.
Regulations of the college directly or indirectly affect approximately half the student body, as the college also provides the preparatory work for business, education, journalism, law and medical students.
The College faculty also approved a change in the foreign language requirement, whereby foreign students who already know one of the languages offered will not have to study another.
Foreign students who know a foreign language that is not offered in the College curriculum, will still have to fulfill the language requirement.
Daily Hansan
55th Year. No. 65
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Council Plans Budget Study
By DOUGLAS PARKER (Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1957
A committee to study the proposed budgets for the five state supported schools was appointed Tuesday night by the All Student Council.
The State Legislature convenes Jan. 14 to consider the budgets.
Brooks Becker, Emporia graduate, chairman, said the 5-member committee is working out a plan before classes start Jan. 6 after Christmas vacation.
"We have ideas but we don't know specifically what we are going to do." Becker said. "We'll certainly have something to say about the study before school starts again."
Vague about what steps must be taken, Becker said the committee does not want to divulge any plans until it is sure something definite can be done.
Committee Members
Committee members are Creta Carter, Jennings, Dick Patterson, Kansas City, Kan., Bob Billings, Russell, juniors, and Ray Nichols, Lawrence sophomore.
The committee's plan was announced after a meeting this noon. The committee was appointed at a closed session of the ASC meeting Tuesday.
The Daily Kansan reporter and two other students were asked to leave the Council meeting room in the Student Union Tuesday night while the committee was appointed and the project discussed.
The committee stayed for further discussion after the close of the Council meeting.
The ruling to clear the room was within Council procedure. Patterson said the ruling was the first in the two years he's been on the Council.
Ed Prelock, Cleveland, Ohio senior, said after Tuesday's meeting the project is "something we have to be careful about what we do."
"I'm not at liberty to say anything about it right now." Prelock added, "but no one will be displeased."
"Government Week" Proposed
At the open meeting the Council proposed to set up a "government week" next semester, and a resolution to propose to a Big Eight conference on international affairs to the Big Eight Student Governing Conference.
During the government week, proposed by Patterson. ASC members would each give short talks in three organized houses on the purpose and function of the ASC.
Also planned were forums on educational processes and on international affairs, Dr. James McCain, president of Kansas State College, was suggested as a speaker for the educational forum, and a nationally-known figure proposed for the international forum.
The Council appointed four delegates to propose the plan to the international conference at the Big Eight student governing conference in Kansas City Dec. 27-28. The delegates are Patterson, Susie Gaskins, Kansas City, Mo. freshman, Dick Lewis, Kansas City, Kan. junior, and Janie Dean, Prairie Village freshman.
Robert Davies, Dodge City senior, reported that the final total collected for the Campus Chest is $4,448.
Student Union May Be Named After University
Awaiting approval by the Board of Regents is a recommendation for the Student Union to be officially called the Kansas Union.
The 21-member Memorial Union Corporation board of directors, made up of students, faculty and alumni, sent the proposed name to the Board of Regents two weeks ago in an effort to get an official name for an aluminum nameplate to be placed on the building.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said the meeting of the regents is Jan. 17
L. C. Woodruff, dean of students and chairman of the corporation, said the name was chosen because it is the practice throughout the different colleges to name the union building after the school.
Asked if he thought it would be hard for students to start calling the building the Kansas Union, he said he didn't think so since most students just call it the Union anyway.
Six students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences interviewed this morning agreed unanimously that the new College requirement on minimum enrollment is a good idea.
The College faculty yesterday changed the minimum number of hours a student can carry from 12 to 14.
New 14-Hour Rule Good Idea,6 Agree
George Reida, Topeka junior— "I agree that the College should change the minimum. It will help raise the standards of the University."
The student opinions:
Dale GulHedge, Wellington senior —"It's a fair ruling. If a student comes to college to study, he should take at least 14 hours a semester."
Robert Loyd, Ottawa senior— "Twelve hours is too few for one semester, and the new rule is very good. Even if a student is on probation and trying to bring his grades up, he will be as likely to slack off on a 12-hour schedule as on a heavier load."
Marcia Moran, Prairie Village sophomore—"For the majority of the students 14 is a better minimum. Twelve hours doesn't keep a student busy and working at his potential."
NATO Seen Wary Of Missile Risk
Del DeShazo, Lawrence senior—"If a student carried only 12 hours one semester he will put a strain on himself to work harder later on if he is going to graduate on time."
Sara Coxe, Delmar, N.Y. graduate student—"This is a good rule, provided it is flexible and provides for the necessary exceptions, such as students who must work while attending school."
By BOB MACY (Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
Candidates for the Miss Santa contest may pick up a free 8 by 10 copy of their Miss Santa picture in The Daily Kansan business office Thursday.
NATO allies of the United States have decided that the risk is greater than the benefits in accepting U. S. missiles, Walter E. Sandelius, professor of political science, and Clifford P. Ketzel, assistant professor, told a Daily Kansan reporter in interviews Tuesday.
She will be interviewed over KLWN Thursday. No definite time for the interview has been set.
Almost 1,000 students voted in the Miss Santa contest Thursday and Friday.
Both agreed the refusal of some NATO allies and the reluctance of others to have U.S. missiles stationed on their soil is not due to a loss of faith in the U.S.
Prof. Sandelius said he thinks the NATO nations were "being cautious as to where our help is to be placed. There is a definite feeling that the situation is a little delicate."
"Russia has certainly made some strong indications about the conference." Prof. Sandelius said, regarding the recent Russian threats on the NATO meeting.
Miss Smith will be guest of honor at The Daily Kansan's Christmas party from 3-5 p.m. today, and will be presented with about $90 worth of prizes given by Lawrence merchants.
"Although they want us to supply help to the West, they want us to go slow as to just where that help's going to be," he said. "I think they definitely look to the U.S. as the leader of the free world. I feel the other NATO nations are determined not to give in to the Russians."
U. S. Has Tact and Care "I think the West wants a show
Kansan's Miss Santa Named
Suzann Smith, Arkansas City sophomore and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, was announced Miss Santa at the sorority house Tuesday by Steve Schmidt, Salina senior and promotion manager of the University Daily Kansan.
Runners-up were Janet Williams, Wichita, Delta Gamma; Elizabeth Robinson, Cedar Vale, Delta Delta Delta, sophomores, and Lucy Wachter, St. Joseph, Mo. junior, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Miss Smith was presented with a dozen roses by Ted Winkler, Spring Hill senior and circulation manager for The Daily Kansan. The presentation and an interview with Miss Smith was tape recorded for KUOK, campus radio station, by Jerry Bailie. Humboldt junior.
Miss Santa will be interviewed by Bill Kerwin on a five minute color television show, "Three Star Personality," at 6:25 tonight on KCMO- TV, channel 5.
This was confirmed this morning in an interview with the television station's program director, Ken Heady.
MISS SANTA AND FRIENDS—The 1957 Miss Santa, Suzann Smith, flanked by Ted Winkler (left) and Steve Schmidt. Winkler is handling a bouquet of roses, gift of a Lawrence flower shop, to Miss Smith. (Daily Kansan photo. Another picture of Miss Santa is on Page 1 of today's picture supplement.)
Santa is on Page 1 of today's picture supplement.）
of strength without being belligerent," Prof. Sandelius continued. "We want to show evidence of a strong arm without seeming trigger-happy. The different nations in NATO are concerned that we act with tact and care."
Commenting on the NATO nations' fear that Russia could defeat the U.S. if war came, Prof. Sandelius said, "I don't think our allies feel Russia could walk over us. There is just a general assumption in these countries that, in case of war, we'll all be in it."
He said he thinks the Bulgarian letter to President Eisenhower proposing peace and threatening trouble over the NATO meeting was designed to "deflate" the NATO conference.
"With the nuclear capabilities of the two major powers it doesn't matter who starts the war," he said. "The possibility of eliminating retaliatory power of the other is almost nil. The worth and the need for nuclear weapons are not that they would make victory possible, but that their use in retaliation would make the price too great for any nation to use them."
Prof. Ketzel said, "In the event of a nuclear all out war, it won't make much difference who supports whom. The catastrophic nature of an all out nuclear war will make it hard to tell the victor from the vanquished.
Ketzel; Price of War High
Asked why some NATO nations are shying away from taking U.S. missiles, Prof. Ketzel said, "They have decided that the danger to their country is enhanced rather than minimized by the location of missile launching sights on their territory.
"If there is a missile launching site located on their territory, this would be one of the first things the Soviets would try to eliminate in case of war," he said.
(Related story, "NATO Accepts Nuclear Weapons," Page 6.)
Weather
Partly cloudy east this afternoon. Increasing cloudiness tonight and cloudy Thursday with drizzle or light rain beginning west tonight and spreading over state Thursday. Warmer this afternoon turning cooler central and east tonight. Low tonight 30s, High Thursday 50s.
Low this morning 41. Low Tuesday 39, high 44.