Staff photo by Bill Stephens
PUFF—The magic stuff is upon us. Bundled appropriately, an Oread stroller tries to ignore the season's first snowfall.
Great Snowman Chases Warmth
By Giles Lambertson
The skies clouded yesterday, flakes filled the air, and suddenly a "White Christmas" is possible again.
The Great Snowman followed the script yesterday and lightly frosted The Hill for the first time this season, allaying fears that he had forgotten how.
THE FEARS had soared—along with the temperature last Saturday when a record 69 degrees was posted. Students from Southern California felt right at home.
But it's here now and here to stay according to the U.S. Weather Bureau which called for one to three inches of snow tonight and the rest of the week. Temperatures are expected to remain within a whisker of the freezing point.
Roads are slicked down for the annual holiday automobile get-together, thanks to the sleet which preceded the snow.
$100 - 90 Days City Outlaws Hoaxes
By Maury Breecher
The Lawrence City Commission yesterday unanimously passed an ordinance designed to protect the Lawrence public from bomb threats or any similar type threat.
City Attorney, Charles D. Stough said, "The City Commission passed the ordinance because of the lack of any specific bomb-threat law, either on the State or city level; consequently we felt it worthwhile to cover this specific area in light of recent disturbances."
Stough said the City Commission had directed him three weeks ago, during a rash of such bomb threats directed at KU and Lawrence High School, to prepare the ordinance.
The ordinance is divided into three sections. Section One states: "It shall be unlawful for any person to threaten injury or destruction of
persons or property, whether such threat is made by telephone or any other means of communication, or to aid or abet in the communication of any such threat concerning the deposit of any bomb or similar explosive device in any area or building, public or private, within the City of Lawrence, Kansas."
Section two of the ordinance provides for the punishment of a convicted person. An offender can be fined up to $100.00 or imprisoned up to 90 days, or by both the fine and imprisonment.
Section three provides that the Ordinance take effect immediately after its passage and publication.
Lawrence Police Chief, William E. Troelstrup, praised the passage of the ordinance and said, "It is a tool for us to work with and apply."
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Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
76th Year, No.58
Wednesday, December 15, 1965
Council Elects Prager New Vice President
By Stephen Russell
Jim Prager, Annandale, Va., junior, was elected vice-chairman of the All Student Council in a friendly duel at last night's ASC meeting.
Prager (Vox — Men's Small Halls), defeated Kay Orth, El Dorado junior (UP—Sorority), by a vote of 24 to 16.
BOTH CANDIDATES complimented each other in their campaign speeches to the Council, and left the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union arm-in-arm when it was time for the council to vote.
PRAGER SAID he would
Prager, in listing his qualifications, said he has been a member of the Council for about a year and a half and was just elected to his third term in this fall's elections.
like to change the current Council situation by incorporating the assistance of all 40 members in researching the legislation which the Committee on Committees and Legislation investigates. In this way, he said, the Council will be working as more than just a rubber stamp when it passes legislation and the image of student government will be raised.
THE AMENDMENT made an addition to the duties of the Public Relations Committee. It requires the committee to inform each freshman and transfer student, individually in the form of a letter, between two and three weeks before the fall and spring ASC elections, of the basic rules and procedures of voting.
After the election, the council passed an amendment to ASC Bill No. 3 and introduced a resolution concerning the College Intermediary Board.
The resolution requested the Council to appropriate to the College Intermediary Board $100 to pay for a trip by the Board to the University of Michigan to investigate the residential college system being tested there.
Dean Woodruff
Sex Issue Overemphasized
By Jerry Kern
This statement is a reaction to a recent Associated Press story. In the article, a group of psychiatrists agree that "an administration should not worry about their students' sex lives, provided sexual activity is practiced with appropriate attention to the sensitivities of other people."
The issue of sexual activities of college students is over-emphasized by the press, according to Laurence Woodruff, dean of students.
"I wouldn't want to say one way or the other whether I agree with this statement. This is a touchy subject. It is often a subject that just gives a newspaper a topic to write about, and the readers something to giggle about," Woodruff said.
"THE ADMINISTRATION does not police student for sexual misbehavior or check all motels for KU students. This matter is one for which the individual must make his own standards," he said.
Closing hours for women students have nothing to do with the University's policies on
sex, Woodruff said. The girls want closing hours, because their organization, the AWS, has set up this rule, he said.
Woodruff said he could not accept any contraceptive program that would include the student. "Like many medics, I would be against it. I don't know their reasons, and I am not well enough versed on the subject to make a statement about mine," he said.
"It would be difficult to measure the difference of student sexual activities now and a generation ago. I wouldn't say that we have a problem now. I think the issue has received more publicity than it deserves." Woodruff said.
ACCORDING TO the Rev. John Simmons, United Campus Christian Fellowship adviser, the administration does have policies on sex. For it to say it has not, is not the truth, he said.
"Every time it supports a ruling such as no kissing inside Miller Hall, for example, it is taking a stand on this issue as simple as it may be. I do think the administration should take a closer look at the issue and its policies on sex,
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Bulletins Geminis' Rendezvous
CAPE KENNEDY —(UPI)— Gemini 6 astronauts Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford streaked unerringly 100,000 miles through space from a perfect liftoff today and rendezvous with the orbiting Gemini 7 space capsule in an historic triumph for the United States.
They closed nose-to-nose but did not touch for man's first meeting in space at 1:27 p.m. CST.
Gemini 7 astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell met the space newcomers about 185 miles up at a point roughly over the Philippines in the Pacific.
Marvin Resigns Post In Tel Aviv,Israel
Burton W. Marvin, former dean of the KU School of Journalism, has resigned from the University of Tel Aviv in Israel where he had gone this year to organize a communications center. He will return to Lawrence in January. Professor Marvin, on leave of absence from KU until next fall, reportedly told friends that internal difficulties with the Tel Aviv administration over setting up the new center led to his decision to resign.
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