January Grads Fade Away
By Giles Lambertson
Caps and gowns are nice, but who needs 'em.
The majority of about 400 senior men and women expected to graduate at the end of this semester will put no stock in tassels if past experience repeats itself.
January graduates may participate in spring graduation ceremonies conducted the previous or the following June. Usually, however, the majority of them elect to bypass the early ceremony or fail to return to campus for the late one.
The make-up of a January graduating section varies little from the June class, according to Agnes R. Barnhill, assistant registrar.
MEN OUTNUMBER WOMEN by an even greater proportion than last spring's class. Combining this with the fact the largest percentage of the graduates are a semester behind—rather
than ahead—could be construed as reflecting on male student effort. But such is not the case.
Miss Cheridah L. Kaufman, a Halstead education major, said she thought there was no particular advantage to a mid-year graduation, at least for education majors. Teaching contracts for the next school term are often signed and sealed by January.
Another candidate for graduation, Mrs. Dick Shireman, a Clifton journalism major, is not concerned with the employment situation. She is leaving for Nice, France, in February to live with her husband's parents who work in a USO there.
MRS. SHIREMAN'S COMMENT on not being able to march in full regalia to "Pomp and Circumstance" sums up the feelings of many.
"It has no particular significance to me," she said. "I won't miss it at all."
Aliens Must Report Addresses To Federal Agencies In January
The International Campus newsletter stressed that all aliens in the U.S. must, during January, report their addresses and certain other information to the United States Department of Justice and its immigration and Naturalization Service.
Report forms are available at any U.S. post office and at Dean Clark Coan's office, 228 Strong.
THE FORMS MUST BE MAILED by January 31, 1966. Completion and mailing of the forms is an important legal requirement.
Mr. Robert Blair of the Denver office of the Institute of International Education will visit KU from Jan. 12-19. He will meet with I.I.E. related students on Wednesday, Jan. 12, in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union at 7:15 p.m. He will also interview certain students privately.
Dean Coan also noted that KU's international students have had little trouble with their visas expiring.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No. 64
Fair and colder tonight with winds becoming southeastern. Increasing cloudiness and moderating temperatures tomorrow.
Monday, January 10, 1966
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
DePugh Revisits KU ToSpeaktoStudents
By Irvana Keagy
Robert Bolivar DePugh, leader of the Minutemen, will speak at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
DePugh spoke here April 18, 1963. During his visit he blasted various organizations and said Communists were infiltrating government offices, churches and the news media.
The Minority Opinions Forum is sponsoring DePugh's return to the campus.
"MR. DEPUGH IS a radical to say the least," Douglas L. Miller, Pittsburg senior and chairman of the Minority Opinions Forum, said.
"We hope and expect to have a big crowd. We also hope the crowd is courteous to Mr. De-Pugh." Miller said.
DePugh, a resident of Kansas City, was under investigation there last summer for involvement in a kidnapping case and for possession of firearms.
The April 19, 1963 issue of the University Daily Kansas reported DePugh's speech:
"TODAY I WONDER where the patriots are. Surely they didn't all die on the beaches of Normandy or the straits of Corregidor.
"They (the Minutemen) felt they must do something if they are going to enjoy their freedom.
"DePugh expressed more definite beliefs concerning some of President Kennedy's advisors, however, particularly Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg (present U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations) and press secretary Pierre Salinger.
"He said Goldberg has been connected with 11 Communist organizations and had organized or helped organize at least nine of them.
"AS FOR SALINGER, DePugh said the press secretary's mother, . . . had helped form . . . a Communist youth organization in Northern California in 1938."
Hill Highlights VP's Son to KU
A former classmate of Douglas Humphrey said Sunday he was confident the son of Vice-President and Mrs. Hubert H. Humphrey would enroll at KU next fall.
Steve Olsen, Alexandria, Minn., sophomore, said he was "pretty sure" young Humphrey would enter KU as a freshman in the fall of 1966. Humphrey is currently a senior at the Shattuck Military School.
Press Panel Queries
A panel of Kansas lawmakers and state school officials will face a corps of Kansas journalists Tuesday in a question and answer session on higher education.
The session, sponsored by the Collegiate Young Republicans, will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Lew Jones Speaks
Lew Jones, member of the National Council of Young Socialists' alliance, will speak at 7:30 p.m. today in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
U.S. Troops Sweep Cambodian Front
SAIGON—(UPI)A U.S. force of several battalions has been sweeping the jungles near the Cambodian frontier for the past six days, it was declosed today.
Many Viet Cong were sighted across the Se San River, which forms the boundary between Cambodia and South Viet Nam about 25 miles west of Pleiku in the Central Highlands and about 10 miles northwest of Saigon.
UPI staff correspondent Martin Stuart-Fox reported from the scene that field commanders understood they had authorization to fire back across the border if fired upon first.
A spokesman in Saigon for Gen. William C. Westmoreland, commander of American forces in Viet Nam, denied troops had blanket authorization for firing across the border.
THE MISSION was officially called "Operation Matador" and involved a number of battalions of the U.S. Army's 1st Cavalry air mobile Division. Although the operation was kicked off nearly a week ago, it was not announced until tonight because of security reasons.
ABOUT 25 MILES northwest of Saigon, about 8.000 U.S. 1st Infantry Division troops and 173rd Airborne Bridage paratroopers pushed through the Viet Cong's Ho Bo Wood sanctuary in the largest American operation of the war. Australian troops also were taking part in the operation, almed at trapping a major Viet Cong unit.
Only light contact was reported Sunday and today, a U.S. spokesman said. Thus far, the massive operation in the "Iron Triangle" zone, long dominated by the Communists, had accounted for only 21 Viet Cong dead and 36 captured.
IT'S ALL OVER AT LAST!-Student reactions were varied as they left the Western Civilization examination rooms on Saturday afternoon. Pre-exam worries were increased due to an erroneous reporting of the examination time from 8 a.m. to noon, James E. Sea-
(Photo by Glen Phillips)
ver, director of Western Civilization, reported receiving about 25 to 30 phone calls Friday evening from students questioning the time schedule differences. Just as the early bird gets the worm, the early exam riser got some extra "bone-up" hours.