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76th Year, No. 68
Friday, January 14, 1966
-Staff photo by Bill Stephens
Clutter Trial
STUDY TIME—With finals just 10 days away, Bill Langsdorf, Topeka freshman, goes to work in Joseph R. Pearson Hall, reviewing the semester's courses in mechanical engineering.
Defense Attorney Calls It 'Disgrace'
The Defense Attorney for the executed killers of the Clutter family, Joseph P. Jenkins of Kansas City, spoke before a dinner meeting of the Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity last night.
Jenkins, who defended Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock for the murder, called the trial of these two men "the worst disgrace this country has ever seen."
THE CLUTTER FAMILY was murdered in 1959 in Garden City. The trial and the six stays of execution lasted six years.
Jenkins used the Clutter case
as a "classic example of a protracted trial" and tried to show the future lawyers how such a trial came about, and why it is important, in certain instances, that a case be protracted.
Five basic rights were denied to the defenders, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Smith, according to Jenkins. They involved protection from self-incrimination, illegal search and seizure, the right for counsel, equal protection, and due process of the law.
Jenkins pointed out that a confession had been wrung from
Hickock before he was allowed legal counsel. He also stated that certain evidence, used by the prosecution, had been obtained without the proper warrants. Illegally obtained evidence and an involuntary confession should have been thrown out, Jenkins said.
Parker Gets Post On Progress Council
"IF THE confession and the illegally obtained evidence had been thrown out, how in the world would they have been able to gain a conviction?" Jenkins question. "When such a heinous crime has been committed and a community suddenly aroused, it is amazing how due process, fair trial, and all these concepts literally go out the window," continued Jenkins.
Paul J. Parker, Bartlesville, Okla., has been selected as chairman of information activities for the Council for Progress by Chairman Stanley Learned of Bartlesville, president of the Phillips Petroleum Company.
The Council, composed of faculty members, alumni and friends of the University, is participating in planning for the University's second century which begins in 1966.
PARKER RETIRED in 1964 as director and vice-president in charge of the International Department of Phillips. He is an attorney and presently serves as a consultant to the company.
In his Council work Parker will direct the program to inform alumni and friends of the past accomplishments and present status of the University, to outline for them the University committee's Report of Objectives for the Second Century and the role of the Council in helping him to meet these objectives.
Jenkins said that he felt that the public misunderstood why the many appeals and stays of execution were given. Jenkins
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Team Send-Off Set
Yell leaders, Pom Pon girls and a pep band will lead students in victory cheers as KU's roundball players board their bus to travel to Ames, Iowa, where they will play Iowa State University on Saturday.
The pep rally will begin at 3:20 p.m. today in front of Strong Hall.
Final Tips: Preparation In, Cramming Out
by Rich Lovett
With final examinations only a week away, KU students are once again consigned to a ghastly fate—they must study. And if anyone should know how to study for finals, it would be someone with all A's. So, for anyone wanting advice on finals preparation, here are some tips from several KU men in scholarship halls, all of whom made a 3.0 grade point average (GPA) last semester.
As you might guess, in general these men think excessive noise and other distractions are a must to avoid. Would studying in the library solve this problem? Not according to Walt Bliss, Omaha, Neb. senior and triple major.
"I prefer to sit in an easy chair in my room, not at a desk," says Munzer. "However, I can do this because most of my studies involve lots of reading, and I don't
need a desk to write on. It might not work for others."
Carl Gibson, Lawrence junior, agrees. He said he rarely goes to any of the libraries on camp... because he can study better in his room. So can double-major Steve Munzer, Salina senior and Rhodes Scholar.
THOSE interviewed seemed to agree that organization of notes is immensely helpful in preparation for finals. They all stressed that notes must be comprehensive and must spotlight items
"I AM A BUG ON NOISE," Bliss says. "I don't want anyone around when I'm trying to study. And I can't study in Watson Library. There are too many distractions."
Ken Gray, Ulysses sophomore,
said, "Sometimes in class I see
students taking notes in a story-
book fashion. The only division
in the notes are new paragraphs.
This would never work for me.
emphasized in lecture. Outline-
type notes were a favorite.
Outlined notes can emphasize important facts, and this way it often isn't necessary to rewrite notes later."
this way notes are easier to remember when studying for tests.
MUNZER ADDS that when a teacher's lecture does not emerge in outline form, he imposes some sort of outline on it. He says that
"I find that, in general, students with better-than-average grades are usually more organized and systematic in their study habits, and especially in their notes," he said.
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Finals Test Students' Spare Time
Final week is many things to many people. For one thing it is the curse of every class at KU.
Final week is studying to the wee hours of the morning reading that book that has never been opened beyond the third chapter.
FINAL WEEK IS LEARNING how to play bridge, or chess, or jai-alai or something different that you'll probably never use.
Final week is rereading all the James Bond books in anticipation of "Thunderball."
Final week is spending most of your money on No-Doz, coffee, cigarettes, and anything else that will keep you awake.
FINAL WEEK IS TRYING out all of the new ice cream flavors at the ice cream shop.
Final week is bridge at the Wheel, pool at the Light, dance-
ing at the Red Dog, and the students' favorite beverage at almost any place.
FINAL WEEK IS GOING to bed at 6 a.m. when you have a final at 7:30 a.m.
Final week is roasting marshmallows over a candle in your room.
FINAL WEEK IS FINDING out who you are going to marry —via the ouija board.
Final week is trying to figure out what you are going to do about four finals on the same day which are only worth nine hours.
Final week is spent in wishing for totally hopeless things—like a stop week.
Final week is going downtown and blowing $20 on a new outfit.
FINAL WEEK IS THE LAST week of being nice to that professor you secretly hate.
Final week is cars parked three deep around the library.
Final week is doing something unusual that you have not done before—like studying.
Final week is going to a horror movie the night before your biggest final and then not being able to sleep because of nightmares.
Final week is wearing jeans and sweatshirts to class and no one's noticing.
FINAL WEEK IS DISCOVERing that unless you ace all of your finals, that scholarship is going down the drain.
Yes, final week is many things, but most of all—FINAL WEEK IS ALMOST HERE.
Final week is telling five people to wake you up at 7 a.m. and setting three alarm clocks besides.
IS SLEEP before a test important? John Shapley, Wichita junior, says no. He says that if he is faced with the choice of studying late or a good night's sleep, then he will always study at the expense of sleep. Others disagree.
"Relax," says Bliss. "If you spend your time constructively, you should be able to get six to eight hours of sleep a night."
Another 3.0 man adds, "For me, a good night's sleep cuts down on tension during the next day's test."
CRAMMING before a test is out, preparation is in, for a majority of those interviewed. "It depends on what you mean by cramming," said one respondent. "There is a difference between intensive review, which involves study beforehand, and real cramming, where you are trying to pound facts into your head in a last-ditch effort to save your grade."