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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
55th Year. No. 22
Monday, Oct. 14, 1957
—(Daily Kansan photo)
CYCLONE SPECIAL—Chugging down the football field, just as their team did, the Iowa State College band forms a train engine while playing "Alabamy Bound," Saturday afternoon during
halftime of the KU-Iowa State game. Note smoke (arrow) coming out of the train's smokestack. The KU band performed later.
Tells 300 How Novel Develops
The writing of a novel was begun in the minds of 300 persons Friday night in Fraser Theater as Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist and short story writer, told his audience how a novel grows in a writer's mind.
Mr. Clark illustrated his subject with a woman named Julie, who lived in Virginia City, Nev., during the boom days of silver mining in the 1860s.
"You can now perform the creative act, by letting the facts of the story go to work in your mind." Mr. Clark said.
Mr. Clark fascinated the audience with his vivid accounts of incidents and characters connected with the story of Julie.
After telling the main facts about Julie's life. Mr. Clark just dropped the subject, leaving the prospective novelist to answer many questions and fill in the details that the finished story would need.
Nearly all of his talk was concerned with this illustration of the method of a novelist, but Mr. Clark also outlined six types of novels, light fiction, historical, regional, social, personal and philosophical.
These types of novels make up what Mr. Clark termed the "hierarchy of intentions" of all novels. Although he categorized the intentions of novels, he said, "no novel can succeed which seeks to deal with only one area of intention."
Six members of the KU Young Democrats will be chosen to attend the national Young Democrats convention in Reno, Nev., Nov. 7-10 to elect national officers.
Mr. Clark is professor of English at San Francisco State University. He spoke Friday to the fifth annual Composition and Literature Conference.
Mr. Clark's outstanding novels are the "Ox Bow Incident" and the "Track of the Cat." He has contributed to the Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker and other leading publications and is a past winner of the O. Henry Short Story Award.
Young Democrats Will Go To Reno
Members interested in going should see Jack Sullivan, Lawrence senior and president of the group, before Friday.
What Were You Calling It?
The official name of the new building housing the School of Fine Arts and the department of speech and drama is the Music and Dramatic Arts Building, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said today, and not the Fine Arts Building or Music and Drama Building, as it has been erroneously called.
The building will be dedicated Nov. 10. It is now in use, but landscaping work around it has not been completed.
Comic Strip Theme For Homecoming
Homecoming decorations this year will feature comic strip characters on the lawns and porches of organized houses, the homecoming house decoration committee has announced.
First, second and third place winners will be chosen in categories of social sororities. social fraternities independent women and independent men.
Judging will be done in the afternoon and evening of Friday, Nov. 22, with results of the competition announced as part of half-time ceremonies at the Kansas-Missouri football game Saturday, Nov. 23.
Registration, including a rough sketch of the proposed display by each house, will begin at 8 a.m. Tuesday. Oct.22. in 226 Lindley Hall.
The theme of the cartoon displays is to emphasize originality and the homecoming spirit.
Directories Cost Now, Due Nov.
A bill passed by the All Student Council last year will take its toll beginning Nov.1 when students, for the first time,will pay for student directories
The price is 25 cents.
Jim Davies, Dodge City senior and editor of the directory, said the directory board sells advertising, but because this covers only about half the cost, the ASC in the past has covered the remaining cost with its money.
Money made in excess of expenses will be put in a temporary fund, Davies said.
The directory, which can not be completed until the list of new faculty appointments has been completed, is printed by the University Press. This year it will have a cardboard simulated leather cover.
The directory has a staff of about 20 persons to type, sell advertisements and do the administrative work. plus 60 house representatives to distribute it.
The staff includes Davies, editor Ann Nichols, Hutchinson junior, assistant editor; Bob Downey, Kansas City, Mo. senior, business manager; Wesley StClair, Kansas City, Mo. senior, distribution manager; Stewart Horeisi, Salina junior, advertising manager.
Mostly cloudy through Tuesday. Scattered light rain or drizzle over most of the state tonight and Tuesday. No important temperature change. Low tonight 40s northwest, 50s elsewhere. High Tuesday 60 to 70.
Weather
Parents Visit Despite Rains
Despite threatening skies and slight rain most of the morning, an estimated 2,000 parents registered at various booths on the campus and visited houses and University buildings and then watched KU lose to Iowa State during the sixth annual Parents Day Saturday.
"It is our hope and conviction that if we all play our part,we will produce the trained and educated men and women to aid our present world," he said.
In a welcoming speech before the game, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy told the parents that with cooperation among students, parents and the University, KU will be able to produce the trained and educated minds upon which the world is so dependent now.
A pep rally in front of Strong Hall Friday morning began the weekend activities. Members of the football team spoke to the cheerling students.
Pre-game buffets were held in all organized houses in connection with Parents Day. About 800 attended a Jayhawk Buffet in the Student Union and saw movies of the KU-Colorado game.
All schools and buildings were pleased with attendance during the open house period in the morning, according to Pearson. Clearing skies later in the morning brought out more parents, he said.
Bands Play At Halftime
Tighten Watch On Ballots
Saturday's game was the official migration for Iowa State students. Cheerleaders and a redbird similar to the KU Jayhawk led approximately 400 visiting students in cheers.
Halftime entertainment at the regionally televised game was provided by the KU and Iowa State marching bands. The red-coated, fast-stepping Iowa State group enacted an "Imaginary Trip to the South" under the leadership of director Frank Pierslah. Russell Wiley, professor of band and orchestra led the KU band in describing the "Trials of Dad Watching the Game on TV."
"The early-morning rain was no doubt responsible for the drop in registration from 2,200 last year," said Gerald Pearson, director of extension classes and chairman of the Parents Day committee. "Tickets to sit in the student section for the game were sold to 1,728 parents," he added.
Receptions at the Student Union and organized houses followed the game.
The election committee of the All Student Council is going to take a long, hard look at the coming freshman primary and general elections to prevent stuffing the ballot box, John Downing, Kansas City, Mo. senior, election committee chairman, said today.
Student Union Activities sponsored the Jayhawk Jump, a dance for students and visitors. Saturday night.
In conjunction with the KU-
Oklahoma U. football game, four
alumni meetings will be held this
week: Wednesday noon at Independence, Kan., Wednesday night at Bartlesville, Thursday night at Tulsa, and Friday night at Oklahoma City.
Governor George Docking will attend a meeting of KU alumni Friday night in Oklahoma City.
Docking To Meet With KU Alumni
The subject of stuffing the ballot box arises after it was found last year in the ASC elections that the political party, Pogo, was stuffing ballot boxes.
University officials who will attend the meetings on their way to the game are Fred Ellsworth, executive secretary of the KU Alumni Assn., Dick Wintermote, field secretary of the association and Maurice Barker, executive secretary of the Greater University Fund.
"We have nothing new this year as far as preventive ideas," Downing said. "We are just going to be more alert.
"There are plenty of provisions to prevent vote stuffing but election workers were kind of loose last year and nothing was being done to see what was going on," he said.
Four poll workers will be chosen for each of the eight voting places located in Fraser, Student Union, Marvin, Lindley, Malott, Music and Dramatic Arts Building, and two in Strong. Two workers will be Allied-Greek Independent members and two others Vox Populi members.
"The party picks the poll workers and the night before election, poll workers meet with me and I give them instructions." Downing said.
Poll workers work from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., when the election committee, composed of the members of the ASC, picks up the ballot boxes and counts the votes.
Each party sends five counters who work under an election committee faculty adviser.
Election police appointed by the Student Court circulate from poll to poll throughout the day.
Murphy Says-
Little Steel Ball Puts Emphasis On Education
The Russian satellite provides a glimpse into the depth and violence of the scientific revolution which daily alters all aspects of our lives, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said Friday in Washington, D.C.
The chancellor, speaking as retiring chairman of the American Council on Education, told the council the little steel ball, now circling the globe every ninety minutes, puts a definite emphasis upon the necessity for expanding the quality and dimensions of our educational effort.
He said that in this age of technological change "nothing is as important as the trained and educated mind, and that the future of the 20th century lies in the hands of those who have placed education and its siamese twin research in the position of first priority."
In stressing this need for more and better trained minds to cope with this expanding scientific revolution, he stated that, "the yardstick for education must be the need and not the dollar. Time is already short and unprecedented effort is needed to reach unprecedented educational goals."
Bus routes through the campus were changed today to provide service to North Lawrence and to end services to Sunset Hill.
New Campus Bus Routes
The schedule of the Haskell-4th and Maine route will stay the same,
Both of the other buses are following one identical new route. Buses will reach each bus stop at the same time every hour since the route takes one hour to complete.
A daily schedule with times listed for the first buses each day at major stops is:
Northbound from 11th and Mass. (6:05 and 6:20) to Locust in North Lawrence, east to N. 8th. (6:15 and 6:30), back west on Locust to N. 7th, north to Lincoln, west to N. 2nd, south across the bridge to 9th and Massachusetts (6:25 and 6:40), around present route through KU campus and out to 21st and Ousdahl (6:45 and 7) east on 21st, north on Alabama, east on 19th, north on Indiana, northwest on Sunflower, west on Sunnyside to Naismith and around present route to KU bus stop (6:55 and 7:10), back downtown on present route.
Wichita Jewel Theft Nets Over $100,000
WICHITA, Kan.,—(UP)—A jewelry store robbery netting an estimated $100,000 to $150,000 was discovered early Sunday at the Carl Barrier Jewelry Co.
Authorities said the theft, which included 400 watches and a large number of un-set diamonds apparently occurred Saturday night. Intruders bored a hole in the roof of the 2-story building with a brace and bit and lowered themselves into the store.