Daily hansan
55th Year, No.63
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
ASC To Select Big 8 Delegates, Vote On 2 Bills
Monday, Dec. 16, 1957
The agenda for the Big Eight student governing conference will be discussed and two bills will be voted on by the All Student Council at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Student Union.
Four delegates to represent the University will be selected to attend the annual conference in Kansas City Dec. 27-28.
The two bills call for a student voice on the University Parking Committee and for qualifications for the selection of the Homecoming queen to be given in advance and not during the selection.
Dick Patterson, Kansas City, Kan. junior and chairman of the ASC, said the parking bill is to replace an old one thrown out when the Traffic and Parking Committee changed names to the Traffic and Safety Committee.
The Homecoming queen bill stems from a ruling earlier this semester that a married student could not be selected queen. Brooks Becker, Emporia graduate student and representative for married students, proposed the bill at the last ASC meeting. It is intended to prevent any discriminatory ruling during the selection of the queen.
Burglar Pilfers AEPi House
Four trophies valued at about $60 were taken from the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, 1247 Ohio, while the house was practically vacant sometime Saturday morning.
Blumenfeld told police the house was probably entered through the front door sometime between 2:30 and 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
Herbert Silverman, New York, N.Y. freshman and a member of the fraternity, said today the fraternity members, except for the house parents and one student, were in Kansas City at a party during the burglary.
Campus police received a call from the Lawrence Police about 1 p.m. Saturday to investigate the burglary reported by Stewart Blumenfeld. Lawrence graduate student and house father of the fraternity.
Campus police estimated the value of the trophies. Stolen were a Brother of the Year trophy an athletic trophy, a KU-MU trophy with the scores of past games, and the top part of an Eric Cole Scholastic trophy.
$665 Donated To Vespers Fund
At the two performances of the Christmas Vespers Sunday $665.05 for the Christmas Vespers Scholarship Fund was collected in free will offerings.
In the afternoon $421.46 was contributed, and in the evening $243.59.
Last year $667.35 was given for the fund, $462.86 in the afternoon and $204.49 in the evening.
Christmas Films To Be Shown
Two color Christmas films will be this week's film features at 4 p.m. Wednesday in 3 Bailey Hall.
The pictures are "The Geesebook," showing 15 pages of a medieval missal, and "A Charles Dickens Christmas," showing the Christmas visit of Pickwick and his friends to Dingley Dell farm.
... AND A DOLLY THAT SAYS "MAMA"— Jolly old St. Nick is his usual patient and understanding self, as his young friend lets her imagination go, dreaming of the many wonders to be found under the tree on that certain morning soon. (Daily Kansan photo)
Yule Vacation Set For KU Employes
State civil service employees, including many KU staff members, will have $1\frac{1}{2}$ days of Christmas vacation—Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 24 and all day Dec. 25-Gov. George Docking announced Saturday.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said today no announcement of vacation for New Year's. Day has come from the governor's office yet.
Regulations for civil service employees do not affect University faculty members, who are hired on a 9-months basis, Mr. Nichols said.
Dense Fog Expected Tonight
The dense fog which blanketed the state, caused two traffic deaths and disrupted airline schedules in Kansas City and Topeka Sunday night and this morning, is supposed to be back again tonight.
The U.S. Weather Bureau said the fog would be in all parts of the state tonight, cutting visibility to zero in central and eastern sections.
The low temperature here this morning was 35. The low Sunday was 38, the high 48.
The forecast:
The forecast:
Cloudy through Tuesday, Scattered drizzle continuing east tonight and Tuesday forenoon. No important temperature change. Low tonight 30 northwest to 40's southeast. High Monday in 50's.
Mitchell Buys Lawrence House
After two weeks of hunting, KU's new head football coach has found and bought a house in Lawrence.
Coach Jack Mitchell said Friday that he had bought the Mike Murphree home at 314 Dakota St. in the Prairie Acres addition.
The house is ranch style, airconditioned, and has seven rooms, including three bedrooms, a large family room, two baths, and a 2-car garage. It is on a $ \frac{3}{4} $ acre lot.
TNE: Banned Bad Boys
Bv MARTHA CROSIER
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
Printed signs found on buildings and the cloth sign with the letters TNE painted on it, found on the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority door Dec. 9, show there is still an active chapter of Theta Nu Epsilon, banned drinking fraternity, at KU.
"The organization hasn't had a very good reputation from its beginning," said Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students. "It has sponsored printed signs and painted the campus.
The organization was founded in 1870 and became nation wide. References to it on the KU campus go back as far as 1898. It was banned by the faculty in 1906 but made a reappearance in the fall of 1909. The Board of Regents ordered it "forbidden in the University" March 17, 1910.
In 1957 TNE attempted to get a float into the Relays parade by hiring a person to drive it in after the parade had started but police stopped it before it reached Massachusetts Street. The float depicted a man chasing a nude woman.
The group seems to have been quite active during the 1953-1954 school year. In September 1953 they burned the letters TNE on the football field the night before the KU-Texas Christian football game which was shown over NBC television. The letters were covered by green paint before the game.
In the spring of 1952 the group tore the curtains in Hoch Auditorium and broke several drum heads.
"We have not had quite as serious a problem as Nebraska or Washburn universities have had in recent years but there is an active chapter on the campus," Dean Dean Woodruff said.
The letters TNE were painted on the rocks on Sixth Street highway on Parents Day, 1953, and printed signs appeared on trees and buildings over the campus. On Homecoming, 1953, handbills were distributed by persons hired by the group. They entered a float in the relays parade that year and painted the campus.
"The membership is made up of persons who are accepted and tolerated by their fellow students. It is composed largely of boys who belong to regular fraternities," he said. "When students know about TNE and don't do anything about it they are condoning something that the majority of students don't approve of."
The activity of the group goes in cycles Dean Woodruff said. "We sometimes take pride in being naughty. Social pressure has a lot to do with it. It is a problem that student leaders should be handling but there is not much evidence that they are." he said.
When asked what students should do about the oroblem, Dean Woodruff said, "There is nothing like social ostracism to bring most persons into line."
State Regents Won't Retreat On Salary Hike
The Board of Regents today said it "won't retreat" from a stand for a requested five per cent salary increase for faculty members at the five state colleges and university.
He said science departments, such as chemistry or physics, generally would receive high salaries. Other departments depending on the school involved, might receive lower salary increases, or none at all.
He said the overall effect would be about the same as a five per cent raise at all schools, or about $901,000 for the next fiscal year.
Gov. George Docking cut the faculty salary increase out. He told newsmen he probably would not recommend any increase in his budget. He objected to a blanket five per cent raise, contending it was on a "geometric progression" and was not equitably distributed.
Mr. Boyd said the new request was on a more selective basis. One professor might get a 12 to 13 per cent raise, while another might get none.
About 25 to 30 members of a House Ways and Means Committee today boarded a bus for a week's tour of state institutions.
The first part of the tour will include Atchinson Receiving Home, Kansas City School for the Blind, Osawatomie State Hospital and possibly Chanute, Topeka and Larned institutions.
Each institution will have before these same committee members its detailed spending requests when the Legislature meets in a 30-day budget session Jan. 14.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, and Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will take their budget requests to the committee sometime next month, before the budget session.
A Topeka insurance executive, Russell R. Rust, was named to the State Board of Regents Saturday by Gov. George Docking.
Democrat To Regents Board
Gov. Docking also made public a letter from regents member Oscar Stauffer, Topeka Republican, who said he did not wish to be reappointed when his term expires Jan. 1. He said he did not have the time to devote to the job.
Mr. Rust replaces Mrs. Elizabeth Haughey, Concordia, who had been on the board since 1942. The appointment is effective Jan. 1. Both Both Mr. Rust and Mrs. Haughey are Democrats.
Friday Gov. Docking appointed George B. Collins, Wichita attorney, to the board to replace A. W. Hershberger, also of Wichita. Hershberger had been on the board since 1951. He and Mr. Collins are both Democrats.
700 See Hallmark Show
About 700 watched the Hallmark "Hall of Fame" color television production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," starring Maurice Evans, Sunday in the Student Union.
Future programs include "The Silver Skates" on Feb. 9. "Little Moon of Albrin" with Julie Harris on March 24 and "Dail M for Murber" with Maurice Evans on April 25.