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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Illegal chain letters, p. 11 . . .
Weekend formals, p. 7 . . . Viet
Nam—pro or con, p. 3.
kansan
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
76th Year, No. 50
Weather
The weather forecast reads clear to partly cloudy and mild today through Saturday with winds shifting to the northwest at 10 to 15 mph today.
Friday, December 3, 1965
Two VIP's Visit KU; Probe
Carlson Hits Veil On Hanoi Offer
By Irvana Keagy
U. S. Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas spoke before the Collegiate Young Republicans last night and said he was greatly disturbed over the United States government's refusal for peace talks with Hanoi on the Viet Nam war.
Carlson is a member of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, and is a former U.S. delegate to the United Nations. He said the committee, which is "continually briefed off the record," had not been informed of Hanoi's offer. He said he was also disturbed that the American people had not been told of the offer.
"I think the American people are able to deal with the nation's problems if they could be told candidly all the facts," Carlson said.
CARLSON READ A letter written by J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., chairman of the committee, calling for answers to six questions about the peace talk offer, however, he did not read the questions.
Photo by Earl Haehl
The American people should plan on a long war, he said. "We're going to put more foreign aid into Viet Nam than in any other country, and from the present escalation of the war, it will last many years."
CARLSON NAMED FOUR courses the U.S. government can take in the war:
- The continued escalation of the war.
- Follow the advice of French President de (Continued on Page 3)
Turner Catledge, executive editor of the New York Times spoke Thursday for the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation on the subject, "Are we fat and fuzzy?"
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Press Outdated. Catledge Claims
By Walt Jayroe
A New York City newspaperman advised the newspaper industry here last night that they are facing a critical time when they must consider and develop some drastic new ways.
Turner Catledge, executive editor of the New York Times, speaking at the first annual Sigma Delta Chi Foundation Lecture, said the medium should "aspire to the role of that creative elite in our society."
CATLEDGE ADDRESSED his remarks round a recent article appearing in Newsweek magazine which stated the newspaper industry was "fat, and smug and, of all things, outdated."
CATLEDGE SAID THE problems are centered around two areas: adaptation of the newspaper in modern technology and an ill-perceived conception of the audience to which the newspaper directs itself.
"There is no doubt that newspapermen are their own best critics. But it seems to be a dialogue of the deaf. Even though the words are reiterated again and again, too little changes."
"They (the newspapers) are a part, a very important part, of the fabric of the social structure in which they grew. As such, if they be healthy, they must, within themselves, reflect changes in our surroundings, just as they must also report those changes and give leadership to our common purposes."
Eight Women Rewrite AWS Constitution
By Barbara Phillips
The Associated Women Students' (AWS) constitution is undergoing a possible face-lifting by a group of eight KU women, Peggy Smith, Garden Cty senior said yesterday.
About two weeks ago two coeds decided the AWS Constitution was outmoded and ineffective so they decided to do something about it.
WITH THE HELP of six other women, Miss Smith, and Kathy Powell, Garnett senior, have written a new constitution which they hope to put before the AWS Senate.
"The changes which we have made are concerned just with the constitution—not with regulations." Miss Smith said.
The regulations, which deal with such things as women's closing hours will undergo revisions in the spring in an AWS caucus.
The aim of the new constitution "I support the constitution because it gives KU women make it more effective and to define its reason for existence, Miss Smith said.
SHEILA REYNOLDS, Hutchinson senior, gave her reason for helping to write the constitution "I support the constitution because it gives KU women the chance to use their power to govern themselves. It makes the AWS a more independent body."
Miss Reynolds explained one of the changes in the revised constitution. "One change is to make the House of Representatives more equal to the Senate. This is important in looking ahead to the future of the university."
"At the present time, the married and unmarried-unorganized
women students do not benefit from AWS, but they must abide by its rules," she said.
ANOTHER CHANGE Miss Reynolds explained, concerns an increase in the members in the House of Representatives. Each house or hall would constitute one district and have at least one representative. There would be one representative for the first 50 girls and one for every 75 thereafter. Unmarried-unorganized women students and married women students would each constitute one district.
"It is important that all women be represented," she added. "To increase the membership would be to increase the powers of AWS."
PAULA DICKENS, Lawrence junior and another writer of the proposed constitution said that by allowing the Senate and House to select their own officers, the groups would become more cohesive since the group would be governed by people whom they themselves elect.
A new ruling on officers in the revised constitution would allow them to be elected by the Senate and the House themselves, and not by all the members of AWS. Senate members themselves would be elected at large by the women students.
The judicial branch of the AWS government has also been revised. Instead of the old standards board, the newly written constitution provides for a judiciary board to be made up of apoinees by the dean of women. Formerly, the board was composed of the senior women on the AWS Senate.
"We are revising the elections and representation policy more on the lines of the traditional U.S. election." Miss Dickens added.
KATHY POWELL, Garnett senior, said, "The judiciary branch is to assure that the women students are accorded their proper judicial frame."
"It would make the dean of women's position more in line with what it should be—more helper and confidante of the woman and not the judge and
acceuser. This part of governing would be handled by the student's peers."
"WEVE REALIGNED the constitution in the form of the legal boundaries of the U.S. Constituitely any problems."
"An adviser from the School of Law would be appointed by the dean of women to insure that both sides involved understand fully any problems.
The most serious criticisms of newspapers are those which find them lagging behind the general evolution of society, he said. These can be seen in labor relations problems which often result in lengthy blackouts of the press and the forming of newspaper monopolies which in turn reduces the numbers and types of newspapers in the larger cities.
"HEALTHY THOUGH the economic substructure of many, even most individual newspapers may be, common sense tells us that unless the newspaper business as a whole evolves with evolving
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Tau Sigma dancers perform one scene from their presentation of Kansas history from the early settlement days to the modern space age. The concert, which was composed mainly by
—Staff photo by Bill Stephens
student members of Tau Sigma will be given at 8:30 p.m. Saturday and at 3:15 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium. See story on p. 10.