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kansan
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
What's Inside
76th Year, No.24
Opportunity for poets, p. 8... Docking coming, p. 7... Why demonstrate now? p. 2..
Thursday, October 21, 1965
Around the Campus Vox Tells Slate
Vox Populi, campus political party, announced the names of their candidates for the Nov. 10-11 All Student Council (ASC) living district election last night.
Candidates for the fraternity district are Bob Little, Kansas City senior; Rick Harrington, Terre Haute, Ind., junior; Tom Rader, Greensburg sophomore; Douglas Stoddard, Louisville, Ky., junior.
Unmarried and Unorganized district: Roger Oeschlager, Clay Center junior.
Married district: John M. Simpson, Salina sophomore; John Seitz, Holyrood junior.
Small Men's district: Jim Prager, Atchison junior; and Jim Klumpp, Coffeyville sophomore.
Candidates for the professional-cooperative, sorority and freshman women's districts will be announced at a later date.
Rush: 900 Enlist
Approximately 900 women registered for sorority rush Tuesday according to the Associated Women Students' office in the Kansas Union.
The majority of the rushees are freshman women. Those upperclassmen participating in this rush were previously eligible but could not attend fall rush.
OPEN HOUSE, held Nov. 12, 13 and 14, will begin this year's formal rush. The social visits start Friday night, Nov. 12, and resume Saturday afternoon and evening. The final open house will be Sunday afternoon.
"Since this is the opening of formal rush, it is essential for each rushee to participate," Judy Hodge, Raytown, Mo., senior and chairman of rush council for Panhellenic, said.
Previously open house was held during semester break.
Photo by Bill Stephens
TOUCHE!-A nasty way to settle an argument. Actually, Heather Graham and Carmen Spuck are competing in the KU Women's Fencing Matches held yesterday in Robinson Gymnasium. Patricia Lee Stark, Kansas City, Mo., junior was overall winner.
Thrush Invades Watson
By Barbara Phillips
Security Section 1 North American Division
THRUSH
That is what the sign said. But it was not in a TV studio, not on a movie sound stage, not even somewhere in the heart of New York, Paris, or Moscow. It was found in KU's own Watson Library.
True, the sign was in an out-of-the-way place, hidden deep in the stacks on the fourth level of Watson Library, near the entrance to a dark and forbidding staircase.
PULL YOUR trench coat collar high around the neck, glance around to check for UNCLE agents, and then plunge down the darkened stairs.
Treading through the gathering gloom, one wishes secretly that Napoleon Solo or Illya Kuryakin were there. After all, the old karate and judo are a bit rusty, and who knows what doom lies ahead.
A faint light shines ahead, and a curve in the metal wall appears in the darkness. Rounding the curve cautiously, one suspects trouble any minute. And there is it.
Descend these stairs even more cautiously than the first. A sharp light outlines an archway. Smile grimly because the end is near.
FEELING a little sheepish, after finding it to be only a chair, continue on the hazardous path. Another curve, and more stairs.
Step out in the bright light, pick up the book for Chem 153, and take the elevator back up to Level 7.
No one actually knows how the sign got there. An educated guess by one of the girls at the desk was that a stack boy got carried away.
Anyway, the sign is there no longer. Thrush has moved its Security Division to another locale.
The whole idea was ridiculous anyway because everyone knows there is no Thrush—Super enemy of UNCLE. Of course there is no Thrush.
OF COURSE, it must be added that the girl did not know what "Thrush" was herself.
Or is there. . . . . .?
It Used to Be...
Oct. 21. 1940
Chancellor Dean Malott named Wade Pierce, Lawrence, c'27, as chairman of the homecoming committee.
R. A. Schweegler will retire at the end of the year as dean of the Education Department. He has served here 18 years.
Photo by Bill Stephens
DR. JAMES A. PEOPLES . . . before the seismograph
KU Records Quake
Slight Tremors Shake Region
An earthquake, described at "one of the biggest on record for this area," shook Lawrence last night.
By Joan McCabe
James A. Peoples, director of the seismographical laboratory and associate professor of geology, described the tremor as "a pretty decent little earthquake."
The tremors were felt in Missouri, Illinois and Iowa as well as here. Motion lasted about 14 minutes. However prominent movement lasted only about seven minutes.
The tremor was centered in south-central Missouri in Reynolds County, a St. Louis University geophysics professor said today.
Otto Nutttli said that the center of the quake had been pinpointed, with the closest seismograph station at the University of Missouri at Rolla.
The tremor in Lawrence was recorded at 8:05, 36.5 CST with a measurement on the Richter scale of 4-6 magnitude. "This would be the same magnitude one would receive from a 20 kilaton bomb being exploded under ground," Peoples explained.
Peoples said the size of the quake was unusual for this region with the last of such magnitude being recorded on Christmas Day, 1601 at Excelsior Springs, Mo.
"Damage should be only minor," said Peoples. "It will indicate the weakness of the structure itself if serious damage is done."
He indicated that if Fraser Hall were still on campus it would have probably withstood the tremor. "People in this area are in more danger of being blown away by a tornado than of being shaken away by an earthquake," he said.
Jeana Peters, Scott City graduate student and her roommate Chris Wolf, Wichita graduate student, were watching television and sitting on the sofa in their apartment when it began to shake.
"At first both of us thought the other one was doing it," Miss Peters said. "Then I looked across the room and noticed that a tall candlestick was also moving. The first thing we thought of was an earthquake."
Miss Peters said they sat there and waited for it to get worse but the tremors subsided. "It seemed like they lasted for a long time, but they couldn't have," she stated.
Peoples said the "earth should have moved about four thousandths of a millimeter, large enough to be picked up by all stations in the United States except that it was a "shallow earthquake."