—Photo by Bill Stephens
The Danish Gymnastic Team cartwheeled, tumbled, and danced for two hours last night but it was the audience that left Hoch Auditorium breathless.
Blending strength and grace, the 12 girls and 12 boys of the troupe displayed the Danish version of perpetual motion, executing precision movements ranging from dizzying cart-wheels to folk dances.
The gymnasts, whose ages vary from 17 to 27, employed hoops, ropes, and balanced clubs in their rhythmical exercises. In one slow coordinated dance, the girls passed and dribbled soccer-sized rubber balls.
The boys' arduous exercises were performed to the curt command of their instructor. A missed attempt at a handstand on a high leather platform awakened the audience to the difficulty of the exercises.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Thursday, October 7, 1965
Prepare a Kerchief: It's English Pro Time
By Barbara Phillips
Tears will be shed and the gnashing of teeth will be heard throughout the University for tonight is the English Proficiency Examination.
At 7 p.m., two hours of torture will start for many juniors and seniors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Schools of Education, Fine Arts, Journalism Business and Engineering and Architecture.
Only those juniors and seniors who received A's or B's in English 1H and 2H, or A's in English 1 and 2 are exempt from the test. The examination is a requirement for graduation.
Faint solace 'though it may be to those taking the test, KU students since 1938 have faced the examination.
In 1959, the worst scores were recorded. Of the students who took the examination in 1959,39.8 per cent failed.
That year's Jan. 13 Daily Kansas said, "No student will fail the examination unless a majority of the committee, after examining his work, decides that the failure is merited."
The reason for holding the examination has remained unaltered through the years. The Daily Kansan in an article in 1938 said, "This composition was suggested for graduating students as some
Weather
Fair weather is predicted tonight and Friday by the United States Weather Bureau. Not much temperature change is seen. Low tonight lower 40's, high Friday lower 70's. Light westerly winds are forecast.
are incapable of composing a well-organized, intelligent piece of writing."
The mistakes made in the examination have not changed either. Faulty mechanics and sentence structure, lack of coherence
and transition between paragraphs cause the faculty members to mark the paper a failure.
One of the most heard complaints of test graders is the inability of students to read instructions carefully.
GOP Needs Unity
Van Sickle:
Republican party unity, the civil rights question and possible issues in the 1966 Congressional campaigns were among topics discussed by Sen. Tom Van Sickle, state senator from the third district, at the first meeting of the KU-Collegiate Young Republicans Wednesday night in the Kansas Union.
By Irvana Keagy
"THERE IS ROOM in the Republican party for liberals, but the only thing that can build a good party is party solidarity," Van Sickle said.
He said the party could not be strong when people vote mostly Republican, but do not vote for a Republican president.
Van Sickle said that variations are helpful—liberal, conservative and middle-of-the-roader, but "I must say to you we have no respect for those on the radical right . . . or the radical left. "It is time to talk of the individual, not the Negro." he said.
"It is time to talk of the individual, not the Negro," he said.
"American politicians are responsible for the civil rights problem," Van Sickle said. "They do not understand. They promise that the government will do it all by laws." Van Sickle said. "But these laws in themselves will never do for the people what the people must do themselves."
Van Sickle echoed former President Eisenhower's appeal to halt the growth of crime in the United States.
VAN SICKLE CITED the cost of living as a possible issue for the 1966 Congressional campaign.
"This country is in a moral crisis," he said. "It is believed by some that it is fine to break the law if you don't like it, but all men must obey the laws, or no one will obey any law."
McNally Never Gets a Rest
By Jerry Kern
In the subterranean "East Bilge" of the Kappa Sigma fraternity house lives one of the most influential men in KU student government.
That man is Mike McNally, Bartlesville, Okla., junior and chairman of the All Student Council. Outlining his brief career as a campus statesman, McNally says that his work with the ASC has been rewarding, but also very trying.
"STUDY TIME becomes cramped, since about three hours out of each school day are taken up by meetings alone. However, weekends are usually free, and I have time to catch up with the books." McNally said.
The ASC is a major student organization, requiring much time and preparation from its members—and especially from its chairman, McNally added.
"It is necessary to know about legislation that is coming up or that which is being acted upon; to know the procedure well enough so as to be able to answer any questions from both students and administrative officials," NcNally said.
MOST OF McNALLY'S time is spent with either the ASC or ASC-related meetings and events. Being chairman of the ASC also means working with the presidents and vice-presidents of the student body, and serving on the University Human Relations Committee, the Deans Advisory Committee, and the board of class officers.
McNally is also secretary of the inter-fraternity Council.
Although student government is a vital part of a college student's life, it is just as possible to go over the deep end here as it is in any other extracurricular activity, McNally explained.
McNally believes that the most important quality an ASC chairman must have is impartiality. If he feels certain legislation should be passed, his work toward accomplishing this must be done outside actual ASC meetings. Yet, at the same time, the chairman is responsible for any unacceptable action of the Council.
"IF SOMETHING ridiculous is proposed, the chairman must know about it and make sure that enough of the members know also, so that the proposal will be defeated," he said.
This ASC chairman has at least 83 men who will back him up as being the right man for the job. These men are McNally's fraternity brothers whom McNally says have given him a tremendous amount of help and support.
THE FRATERNITY has had to handle an increase in telephone calls because of McNally's chairmanship, although complaints have been few.
The red telephone in McNally's room is also kept busy. His roommates call it the "hot line." Roommates Dan Austin, Salina sophomore, and Ron Sable, Kansas City, Mo., junior, say they don't mind the interruptions.
"McNally is very quiet for a collegiate politician, and certainly not the stereotyped campus politico," Austin said. "He is very efficient and always seems to get things done. Needless to say, the whole house is proud of Mike."
—Photo by Dan Austin
ON THE HOT LINE—Mike McNally, chairman of the All Student Council, begins his midnight round of calls.