Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
55th Year, No. 13
Tuesday, Oct. 1, 1957
71 In Hospital; Only 10 Beds Left Canuteson Says
Watkins Hospital has room for only 10 more patients unless it gets the help of nurses' aids and professionally trained people. Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the Student Health Service, said today.
A total of 71 students are now patients in the hospital.
Dr. Canuteson said that no cases of Asian flu have been diagnosed yet, and it is believed the patients have a virus cold.
He said that by closing the physical therapy room 10 more students could be admitted. There are six beds set up in the hall now.
Beds Outside Hospital
Without the help of more trained people it would be impossible to add any beds outside the hospital, he said. However, if the hospital staff does get more help, beds could be set up elsewhere in two hours.
Dr. Canuteson said it takes two weeks to secure lab analyses to determine whether the virus is the Asian flu, but the flu making the rounds of Lawrence is probably not the Asian type.
Watkins Hospital reported 40 patients admitted Monday and 300 students who came to the clinic for treatment.
Symptoms of Flu
The influenza suffered by the patients at Watkins Hospital usually lasts from three to five days. Symptoms are fever, sore throat, coughing, and general aches and pains.
1500 Shots Given
Not all the patients in the hospital are suffering from influenza, Dr. Canuteson said, but "upper respiratory infections" and "just plain bad colds" are keeping many students in bed.
A shipment of about 1,300 shots for Asian flu arrived late Sunday night and are being given on a first come, first served basis. About 1,500 have received the shots since the weekly shipments began arriving two weeks ago.
Miss Betty Hembrough, head resident at Gertrude Sellards Pearson dormitory, estimated that 20 girls in the dormitory were suffering from influenza. Monday.
Mrs. Wanda Dick-Peddie, housemother at Chi Omega sorority, said she took three girls to the hospital Monday with symptoms of influenza. She said a number of girls have recovered from recent attacks of flu.
A member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity estimated that 13 men there have the flu. Most houses asked by The Daily Kansan said they had no cases of flu.
Haskell Institute reported only 65 cases of flu Monday. Last week Haskell had as many as 200 cases.
KU Senate To Study Junior College Work
A proposal to allow students of junior or senior standing to take junior college courses in special cases will be presented at the meeting of the University Senate at 4 p.m. today in Strong Auditorium.
New members of the Senate will be introduced and Dr. Franklin D Murphy, chancellor of the University, will report on the conditions of the University.
A Fulbright forum will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday in Fraser theater. Anyone who is interested in foreign study opportunities should come. Applications for the Fulbright scholarships for the 1958-59 academic year are due Oct.25.
Fulbright Forum Thursday
JIM AUSTIN, VOX POPULI
Humanities Talks Start Oct.15
Two Humanities Series lecturers, one an Oxford historian and the other a leading American anthropologist, will visit KU during the fall semester.
On October 15, Dr. Alfred Leslie Rowse, fellow of All Souls College at Oxford, England, will speak on "The Elizabethan Age and America." Dr. Rowse has written 14 history and biography books, including two volumes on the Churchill family. He has been called the top living scholar of English Tudor history.
On November 12, Dr. Loren C. Eiseley, chairman of the department of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, will give the second Humanities lecture.
Both men will spend three days on the campus speaking to classes and to other groups of students and faculty.
New Political Party Fills POGO's Shoes
9,216 Students Pay Fall Fees
Payment of fees for the fall semester closed at 5 p.m. Monday. During the two and one half day period 8,021 students paid their fees, on the Lawrence campus, Keith Nitcher, comptroller, said.
A penalty of $2 per day for late payment of fees goes into effect today. The enrollment of any student whose fees are not paid by Friday will be cancelled.
Registration figures show 8,456 students on the campus, but some may have dropped out of school since registration. The official enrollment figures will be determined when fee payments are completed.
At the Medical Center in Kansas City 760 students have registered, making a total registration of 9,216. Last year the total was 8,864.
Harding To Represent KU
The Bureau of Business Research is sending Horace Harding, assistant director, as its representative to the Associated University Bureaus of Business and Economic Research annual meeting Wednesday through Friday at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.
—(Daily Kansan photo)
Weather
Fair and mild tonight and Wednes-
day. Low tonight 45-55. High
Wednesday 80-90. Monday's low
was 48. 83 was the high.
YES, THAT'S MINE—Ward Lockwood, visiting Rose Morgan professor, and his wife look at one of his murals on display in Spooner Thayer Museum. The exhibit opened Sunday and is the first of a series to celebrate the opening of the Fine Arts Festival
2-Party System Returns As Vox Populi Organizes
A new political party was formed Monday to replace the Party of Greek Organizations, which disbanded following the 1957 spring elections.
The new party will make campus politics a 2-party system again. When POGO broke up last spring, it left only one party on the campus. This party was the Allied Greek-Independent, which was organized three years ago.
The party is called Vox Populi,
Docking Hints At His Future
Gov. George Docking told the annual Douglas County Farm Bureau meeting in Lawrence Monday night that he has no further political ambitions.
However, he said that "as far as the Democrats are concerned the coming political campaign has already started due to the administration's 'open door, goldfish bowl' policies."
"I am living my political life from day to day without thought of my personal political future," he said. "I am doing my best to operate like a country banker without political aspirations or outside involvement."
Foreign Service Meeting Thursday
A representative of the State Department will meet with students interested in careers in the foreign service in the Jayhawker Room of the Student Union at 2 and 4 ome. Thursday, Oct. 10.
Clifford P. Ketzel, assistant professor of political science, said students who would like to know more about opportunities in the foreign service should see him in 19 Strong Annex B.
The annual foreign service officer examination will be given Dec 9.
or VOX. It means "voice of the people." It is a party of greeks and independents.
Organization of the new party was done primarily by Jim Austin, Topeka sophomore, who has temporarily assumed the position of president. "After everything is settled, there will be an election of officers." Austin said. He said, "Planning for VOX was started about four months ago, but not until recently did it materialize."
He said that they were waiting to see if POGO would reorganize. Austin said, "It was made pretty clear last week that nothing would develop."
A Different System
Austin said that VOX is definitely not a reorganized POGO party, but an entirely different system.
"The purpose of VOX is to give the independents a choice when they vote in the future," said Austin. "Last year, the majority of the independent students had only one choice if they wanted to take part in campus politics."
"We have had an outstanding response from the greek houses and independents we have talked with so far." Austin said.
He said that by next week VOX will have a better idea of their strength.
Campus Leaders Pleased
Other political leaders on the campus were pleased at the news of the organization of a new party.
Dick Patterson, Kansas City, Mo, junior and chairman of the ASC, said "The forming of VOX was necessary to maintain a 2-party system which I feel is most advantageous to sound government here."
Campus Leaders Frederick Bob Billings, Russell junior and student body president, said "It's a fine thing that there is another growing organization to challenge AGI in its present supremacy."
Park McGee, Olathe senior and president of AGI, said, "It was only a matter of time until the gap left by POGO was filled."
1,500 Books Are Sold At Watson Book Sale
Students still like books. They bought nearly 1,500 books at a book sale in front of Watson Library Monday.
"The rush began at 8 a.m. and by noon the supply of books was virtually exhausted," Robert Vosper, director of libraries, said.
The duplicate book sale was planned to last two days but the tables emptied Monday.
"The book sale was the first of its kind conducted at the University but had been handled at schools such as Harvard and Yale." Mr. Vosper said.
He explained that it was necessary for the University to wait for special legislation which permits selling surplus duplicate books.
Although many faculty members bought books the buyers were predominately students.
Mr. Vosper said the landslide book sale proves that University students do like to read and are anxious to buy books on their own.
He said that frequently gifts of
books are made to the library and because it is a large library many duplicates are received. The duplicate books which cannot be sold to dealers are sometimes sent as gifts to foreign libraries. Monday's book sale had been planned for sometime and books were set aside for it.
Books sold Monday had little commercial value and were predominately scholarly books.
The library will have similar sales in the future when more books are accumulated. The proceeds will be used to buy books which are needed at the library.
"A set of encyclopedias was auctioned at the sale, just for the (un of it," Mr. Vosper said.
He commented that the only dis- appointed people he saw were those that got there too late.