Yule Lights A KU Tradition
Christmas Decorations To Be Up By Dec.15
Traditional Christmas lights are now being put up on the campus and will be turned on about Dec. 15.
Multi-colored lights will be used in front of Strong Hall, Hoch Auditorium, the chancellor's residence and on the Chi Omega fountain, according to C. G. Bayles, superintendent of buildings and grounds.
"The lights have been a tradition for many years." Mr. Bayles said. "They have grown from 1927 when one tree in front of Blake hall was decorated and students sang carols around it."
The large cross on the back of Watson library, formed by lights in windows in the stack section of the building, will not be used this year. Installation of new windows has necessitated the end of the tradition, Mr. Bayles said.
Reindeer, a Santa Claus and a Jayhawk were placed on the roof of the Student Union this week. Christmas trees will be decorated in the lobby, the cafeteria and the Hawk's Nest early next week. Wreaths will also be hung on doors in the building.
Several organized houses are planning outdoor decorations. Members of Delta Chi fraternity are stringing lights on the edge of the roof, Greek letters and trees in front of the house.
Sigma Chi fraternity will put up its traditional lights and Christmas scene. Sigma Nu fraternity is planning to decorate the house and lawn.
Foreign Students To Meet Truman
Foreign students will have an opportunity to visit an American industry, meet a former United States president, and see Kansas City's famous Country Club Plaza Wednesday as part of a field trip sponsored by the foreign student office.
A bus will leave at noon from the information booth and return by 6 p.m. Box lunches will be available. The first stop will be at the Buck-Oldsmobile-Pontiac assembly plant in Kansas City, Kan.
They will then go to Independence, Mo., to meet former president Harry S. Truman and see the new Truman Memorial Library. From there they will ride through the Plaza.
Reservations for both the field trip and box lunches should be made in the office of the dean of foreign students in 228 Strong by noon Monday.
Clark Coan, assistant to the dean of men, will accompany the group.
Murphy Urges Contributions To Campus Chest
"One of the most important hallmarks of a free and democratic society is voluntary effort, and of all such efforts carried out in the U.S. none is more significant than the various Community Chest drives," said Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
Speaking of the Campus Chest drive the Chancellor said, "It is my earnest hope that each member of the student body will understand his personal responsibility by contributing to this most worthwhile cause."
About 1,100 tickets had been sold for the Four Freshmen concert by 5 p.m. Wednesday. The concert, sponsored by the Campus Chest, will be at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium.
Tickets may be purchased at the Student Union ticket office or at the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard.
The candidates for the Mr. Cumous Chest contest are nominated by the women at organized houses where they serve as waiters.
Leaders in the Mr. Campus Chest contest by 5 p.m. Wednesday were Tom Rinehart, Liberal, Delta Gamma; Jerry Elliott, Hutchinson, P贝Bahi; Dick Murray, Kansas City Mo; Sellards Hall; Elwood Armstrong, De Soto, Miller Hall. All are seniors.
Mr. Campus Chest Leaders
The contest closes at 4 p.m. Friday. The winner and two runners-up will be announced at intermission at the concert Sunday.
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Persons may vote for Mr. Campus Chest from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the rotunda of Strong Hall.
Topeka Sports Writer Dies
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. —(UP)—Stu Dunbar, 55, the dean of Kansas sports writers, died last night of a heart attack while attending the mid-winter baseball convention.
He said that whenever this information is needed, the students are asked to come into his office a few at a time.
James K. Hitt, registrar, said the cards are filled out by all seniors in order to let his staff know the exact name which the student wants on his degree and the specific degree for which he is working.
"If any seniors are in doubt about
Seniors who will be graduated this spring are being called into the registrar's office now to apply for their degrees.
In the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences seniors fill out these cards when they enroll, and in several of the schools it is handled differently.
their standing at this time, they are welcome to ask us about it," Mr. Hitt said.
Accident Record 28 In 2 Months
Campus police reported a total of 28 traffic accidents from Sept. 5 to Nov. 25. None has been reported since then.
In the same period last year 25 accidents were reported, with the same afterwards. The next reported accident last year was on Dec. 10 when bad weather hit the campus and only three more occurred during the rest of December.
This year a rash of accidents occurred in November, with six accidents reported in nine days.
FESTIVE AIR—The campus will look much like a Christmas card picture by Dec. 15. Most decorations should be lit by then. Hoch Auditorium
is one of several buildings that was trimmed with garlands of outdoor lights last year. (Daily Kansan photo)
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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
55th Year, No. 56
Thursday, Dec. 5, 1957
Jason Ott, Wakeeney, second-year law student and chairman of the All Student Council Committee to Review the College Curriculum, said his committee will meet today to review the suggestions received and present them to the College deans next week.
ASC Gets Curriculum Ideas
The general areas covered in the suggestions were for making the curriculum more specialized, having more liberal arts in the engineering
About 40 suggestions for changes in the curriculum of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences were received Wednesday by the All Student Council through suggestion boxes put up in Strong Hall.
curriculum, and specific changes in courses.
Ott said his committee will use several methods to achieve their goal of broadening the students' understanding of the curriculum of the University this year.
They plan to have open forums to allow the students to discuss the curriculum, gather student opinion through use of suggestion boxes, and improve communication between the administration and the students about the curriculum.
The curriculum review committee was organized by Bob Billings, Russell junior and president of the student body.
Topeka Man Dies At Game
His two companions told campus police that after they entered the west door of the entrance, Workman fell, hitting his head on a handle of the door. Dr. Dean Peterson, of the Student Health Service, was called and a few minutes later an ambulance from Rumsey Funeral Home and the coroner arrived.
A 34-year-old Topeka man suffered a fatal heart attack in the north lobby of Allen Field House a few minutes before the Kansas-Canisius basketball game Wednesday night.
Kenneth W. Workman, office manager of the Farwell Construction Co., was pronounced dead due to a heart attack by Douglas county coroner Dr. Byron Walters.
Accompanying Workman to the game were LaVerne W. Miller and L.R. Lindawood, both of Topeka, who said Workman had a heart condition since birth.
Weather
Mostly cloudy through Friday Snow northwest and extreme west Friday and rain beginning southeast late tonight or Friday. Warmer east this afternoon and tonight. COLDER northwest tonight and over state Friday. Much colder west Friday. Low tonight 20s extreme northwest to 40s East. High Friday 30s northwest to 60 east.
Low this morning 40. Low Wednesday 25, high 63.
KU To Face Cambridge In Debate Tuesday
An international debate between the University of Cambridge, England, and KU will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Strong auditori...
John Eland, Topeka second-year law student, and Lee Baird, Newton senior, will debate for KU against the Cambridge team of David Ritchie Fairbairn and James Neil Crichton-Miller.
The debate question is "Re- $ ^{9} $ solved: That the United States has to prove her capacity for world leadership."
Fairbairn, 23, a student of classics
and economies, received his bachelor of arts degree from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
NEIL CRICHTON-MILLER
Crichton-Miller, 24, was a Foundation Scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and a Harmsworth Scholar at Middle Temple, London law center.
Cambridge is the only debate
DAVID FAIRBAIRN
team from abroad which will visit the campus in 1957 or 1958. The debate will be open to the public.