Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
55th Year. No. 55
Campus Chest Drive Opens
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1957
4 Freshmen, Trophies, Contests, Highlight Week
The Campus Chest drive opened today with the Mr. Campus Chest contest, solicitations within organized houses, and fraternity pledge classes soliciting from students not living in organized houses.
Robert N. (Jim) Davies, Dodge City senior and chairman of the drive, said it was decided not to solicit at the game tonight because "we felt we have enough avenues of solicitation this year to canvas the campus.
"We don't want to take away from the rest of the drive," Davies said. Some students might feel their obligation was fulfilled when they gave at the game and we want to encourage them to support the other areas of the drive."
Mr. Campus Chest Vote Begins
Voting for Mr. Campus Chest candidates began at 8 a.m. Persons may vote for Mr. Campus Chest until 5 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the rotunda of Strong Hall. Money votes should be dropped into the milk bottle with the candidate's name and picture on it.
The organized house, sorority, fraternity, dormitory or professional fraternity with a house, which contributes the most money per capita to the drive will receive a 30-inch high traveling trophy. In 1956 Phi Sigma fraternity won the trophy.
The person with the most money in his bottle will win. The winner and two runners-up will be announced during intermission at the Four Freshmen's concert, 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium.
Pledges Solicit
A trophy will also be given to the freshman women's dormitory which collects the most money. Corbin-North College Hall and Gertrude Sellards Pearson's Hall freshmen will be competing for this trophy, in addition to the traveling trophy.
Fraternity pledge classes will begin today soliciting from the 2,500 students not living in organized houses. Each man will be responsible for soliciting from four of these students. The pledge class collecting the most money per capita will also receive a trophy.
"This is an opportunity for the fraternity pledge classes to assert themselves." Davies said.
Contributions will be collected in the activities lounge of the Student Union from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday.
Student Union bookstore rebate slips will be accepted as contributions. Last year over $1,000 were collected through rebate slips.
Registration Ends For English Test
Final English preficiency examination registration deadline is 5 p.m. today.
Students with junior standing on above in the College, Schools of Education, Journalism, Fine Arts, Medicine and Nursing can register in the office of their dean. The examination is a graduation requirement in the above schools.
The fall examination will be given at 2 p.m. Saturday. Room numbers will be assigned at registration.
Pictures of the candidates will be taken Monday through Wednesday. The candidates will be dressed in a short-skirted Santa Claus costume
Miss Santa Contest Opens
The names of candidates for the Miss Santa contest, sponsored by the University Daily Kansan, must be turned in by Saturday noon to Steve Schmidt, Salina senior and promotion manager of The Daily Kansan, or Ted Winkler, Spring Hill senior and circulation manager of The Daily Kansan.
These pictures will be posted in the bulletin board of the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard Dec. 12-13. Students may vote for one candidate at the information booth.
Each organized house may nominate a candidate. A woman not living in an organized house may be nominated by a petition signed by 25 persons.
The winner of the contest will be announced in The Daily Kansan picture supplement Dec. 18 and she will be guest of honor at The Daily Kansan Christmas party.
Last year Miss Santa received about $200 worth of merchandise contributed by local merchants. The amount of this year's gifts is not yet known.
Generally fair and warmer tonight. Thursday increasing cloudiness and mild. Low tonight 28-35. High Thursday 55-65.
Low this morning 25. Low Tues-
25. high 41.
Weather
ASC Discusses Addition To Student Union
By DOUG PARKER (Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
The million dollar addition to the Student Union, the further study of a new name for the Student Union, and specific suggestion for changes in the University's curriculum were discussed by the All Student Council Tuesday night.
Brooks Becker, Emporia graduate student, reported on the action taken by the Student Union Operating Board and described the northside addition to the Student Union as in the "financing stage."
He said construction is expected to start at least by late fall in 1958 and should be completed about February 1960.
The Student Union is now checking bond houses to find out which ones are willing to buy commercial bonds. When this is decided, it is expected a federal loan will guarantee part of the money needed.
The operating board also reported that a new name for the Student Union, the "Jayhawk Union," was sent back from the Board of Regents for further consideration.
The name was suggested to the Board of Regents, Becker said, in an effort to get an official name for an aluminum-lettered nameplate to be placed on the building.
New Name Sent Back
Similar nameplates are planned for all University buildings to replace the blue signs now in the lawns in front of buildings. The plan was proposed about three months ago. Nameplates will go on Snow, Malott, and Strong halls and Allen Field House in about a month.
Curriculum Change Suggestions
The Committee to Review the College Curriculum, headed by Jason Ott, Wakeeney second-year law student, asked for specific suggestions from ASC members on changes desired and received many.
Suggestions included a physics course that taught scientific thought and methods and cutting down some of the freshman-sophomore requirements so that a student could start working in his major field sooner.
Also suggested were a junior seminar in humanities, a course in American civilization for engineers, a labor education course, and a rule that foreign students would not have to take a foreign language course.
KEEP IT UP MEN-Al Donaghue, left, and Monte Johnson review a newspaper clipping of Monday night's 63-56 Kansas victory over Oklahoma State. Much of the success of this year's Kansas basketball squad depends on these two athletes after heavy losses were suffered through graduation last year. Both performed well in the opening game, and, with continued improvement, are expected to give Kansas another top team. (Daily Kanson photo)
(Daily Kansan photo)
KU Plays Canisius In First Home Tilt
A young, but surprisingly strong Kansas basketball team will open its home season tonight when it faces a short but potent team from Buffalo. N.Y., Canisius.
A crowd of 12,000 is expected to watch the Jayhawkers tip off their home season after they won their first game of the season Monday night in Stillwater against Oklahoma State.63-56.
" Their past record indicates they have a fine team," Kansas Coach Dick Harp said, "and we have the utmost respect for them. In addition to the returning regulars Canisius has back, it also has several fine sophomores playing for the first time this year."
With a starting lineup averaging only 6-foot, 1-inch, Canisius will be at a decided height disadvantage against the Jayhawkers. Kansas has slightly over a 6-foot, 4-inch team average.
This will be the first meeting between these two clubs and marks the season's opening game for Coach Joe Curran's Golden Griffins, a team which has reached the Eastern NCAA Regional tournament three straight years.
Two sophomores, up from a freshman team which compiled an 18-2 record, will be in Caniusi's starting five. Joe Rauh, 6-foot, 4-inch center, was the leading scorer on last year's
Where To Go About Problems?
By LARRY BOSTON (Daily Kansas Editorial Editor)
Where can the student go to talk out his problems?
That's the question facing University officials, who, shocked by the death Sunday of Virginia Maddox, Tulsa, Okla. freshman, think better student counseling methods are needed.
Representatives from the offices of the dean of men and dean of women, the Student Health Service, the Guidance Bureau and class advisers were to meet at noon today in the Student Union Pine Room to discuss the problem.
Here's what troubles the University guidance workers.
The Problems
1. Although the University has an abundance of guidance activities, students are often unaware they exist and are sometimes reluctant to use them.
2. At least five separate counseling agencies exist on the campus, but there is little or no coordination of
their activities.
3. If caught in time, personal problems need never develop into severe depression, but getting in touch with the troubled student is often difficult, if not impossible.
Where To Go
A student can go to several places to talk out his troubles. The offices of the deans of men and women are staffed with personnel capable of discussing most problems connected with schoolwork.
The Student Health Service has a full-time clinical psychologist, a full-time psychiatrist and assistants from the Meningen Clinic in Topeka waiting to consult with the student on problems of mental adjustment.
In addition, there is the Guidance Center, student advisers in dormitories, and the student's own pastor. "We haven't grown into the 20th century in some of our attitudes toward mental health," said Miss Emily Taylor, dean of women.
First Step Up to Student
First Step Up to Student The first step in guidance is up to the student, who must want help, she said.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, Student Health Service director, estimates that at least one-third of the organization's services are for personal adjustment problems.
What is the solution to the guidance problem at the University?
"I think we will solve a lot of problems when this newly formed group gets together," Dr. Canuteson said. "The University is well equipped to handle advisement problems. What we need is better coordination."
(Related editorial, "Virginia Maddox," Page 2.)
Rounding out the starting five for Canisius will be junior guard Jimmy Mackinnon, who possesses an excellent jump shot; Jim Springer, a junior forward; and senior captain Greg Britz, who averaged 14.6 over last year's 28-game route.
freshman club. George Swift, a 6- foot, 4-inch sophomore forward, is expected to be the team's best rebounder.
The Jayhawkers, of course, are expected to be fueled by their 7-foot all-America junior center, Wilt Chamberlain. Chamberlain opened the season Monday by scoring 30 points.
But Chamberlain got steady help from several other Kansans against Oklahoma State. Junior forward Ron Loneski scored 14 points and nailed down 7 rebounds for the Jayhawkers. He played what Coach Harp termed "his best game ever."
Bob Billings, junior guard, scored four points for KU against Oklahoma State and played his usual steady floor game.
Rounding out the starting five for Kansas will be junior forward Monte Johnson and senior guard John Cieland.
Also expected to see much action for KU in their home opener are two sophomores, Al Donaghue and Bob Hickman.
Student's Son, 3, Dies
Michael Thomas Mueller, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Mueller, 5B Sunnyside, died Tuesday in the Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a short illness.
Mueller is a graduate student and technical assistant in the chemistry department.
Funeral services will be at 7 p.m. today in the Immanuel Lutheran Church.
He is survived by two brothers, Rudy, 5, and Jonathan, 10 months; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Wehmeier Sr. of Navasota, Tex., and paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Mueller of Fort Wayne, Ind.