Disc Jockey Mixes Jazz. Basketball
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BASKETBALL AND JAZZ—Walter Wesley, Fort Meyer, Fla., junior and KU basketball player, announces the next record on his weekly disc jockey program on KUOK radio. Wesley picks his own music and quips about his favorite sports every Tuesday from 8 to 10 p.m.
By Suellen McKinley
Walter Wesley strolled across the room and sat down, wrapping a chair around his 6'11" frame.
The towering junior center, who is averaging 19 points a game this basketball season, smiles when asked about the problems his exceptional height causes.
"My height causes a little trouble." Wesley said. "Chairs aren't too much trouble, but they aren't comfortable. In a few of my classrooms, though, like in Blake, the doors are too low."
Wesley, who has a special $7\frac{1}{2}$ foot bed that he takes with him when he moves, said he doesn't find his height a disadvantage at all. What basketball player would?
Basketball isn't the only thing that "Walt" plays. Every Tuesday from 8 to 10 p.m. he spins records on a disc jockey show over KUOK radio. The show is a semester project in Speech 47.
"I PLAY MOSTLY jazz on the program," Wesley said. "Sometimes I put in a few comments about a previous basketball game. If the name of a cut is "Last Night," for instance, I'd say, 'Oh, what a night it was—six minutes without a point.'"
When the game schedule conflicts with a broadcast, Wesley finds a substitute—for the program, not for basketball.
"Walt" said he tries to keep in shape for the sport on a year-round basis.
"In the summer I stay at KU for summer school and play a little in the gyms," Wesley, a physical education major, said.
IF HIS busy schedule allows time for relaxation and fun, Wesley said he likes to listen to jazz and dance a little every now and then.
When asked if he thought dancing helped his basketball game improve, Wesley said, "Dancing helps my coordination and playing basketball helps my dancing."
However, "Walt" shattered the notion that graceful basketball players take ballet lessons. He says he's never been to ballet class in his life.
After graduation, Wesley would like to play professional basketball for a while. He said he has no particular team in mind—just the "best offer."
WESLEY SAID when he finishes his pro ball career, he might like to coach on a high school level or work with summer recreation programs.
Right now, however, the near future is more important to Wesley. Saturday night the KU Jayhawks meet the Missouri Tigers at 7:35 p.m. on the KU court.
Wesley named Missouri, along with Kansas State and Colorado, as one of the major teams to beat this year.
"I think we have a lot of depth on the team this year," Wesley said. "It's a pretty good team—the guys are willing to give all they have and push themselves to win. That's what it takes—dedication."
An Editorial Game Conduct
A good basketball team has stimulated badly-needed support and enthusiasm from the student body. With KU seeking its seventh straight victory here tomorrow night against Missouri, even more enthusiasm is expected.
While college students no doubt have suffered dozens of words about school spirit, sportsmanship, etc., by the time they enter college, a word of caution is needed.
Poor sportsmanship—mainly in the form of booing free throw shooters—was noticeable in Allen Field House before the holiday recess.
ANOTHER THING that bothers us and others is the throwing of items to the playing floor. Not only is this even more barbaric, but is potentially injurious to players.
Not only does such behavior ruin the University's image, it is sickening to those fans and observers who know the difference between a charging foul or a search for a contact lens and who came to enjoy the athletic event.
We aren't asking that partisans remain seated or quiet throughout the game. It's only the officials that are affected by the new NCAA ruling on baiting of officials.
What we are asking is quite simple:
The least KU students and others can do in respect of the memory of Don Pierce, KU sports publicity director, who died Sunday, is discontinue this behavior.
As Don might say, "Boos never scored a basket."
But they do ruin the sport.
The Editors
Daily hansan
62nd Year, No. 64
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Jan. 8, 1965
Indonesian Guerrillas Land on Malaysian Soil
Security forces began a search of the area. Some Indonesian arms and ammunition were reported captured from the invaders.
eight boats were found abandoned in the Kukup area of the peninsula.
Villagers in the area had told authorities of seeing about 50 raiders. A resident of the Pontian area said
TWO MALAYSIAN fishermen said they were seized and held captive by the band of armed and uniformed Indonesian invaders for five hours. The fishermen told officials after their release that the commander of the band told them the party was the vanguard of a force of 1,000 Indonesians sent out to infiltrate mainland Malaysia.
Sousa March Right For Western Civ. Test
"THE QUESTIONS ARE intended to give the student a chance to express his own opinions as well as show the instructors that he can interrelate the readings and interpret them." he explained.
Prof. Seaver explained that the 36 Western Civilization instructors are divided into three 12-man teams. Each team is responsible for one part of the exam—essay, short answer, and objective.
Students facing the Western Civilization examination tomorrow may be inclined to think that a funeral march would be good music to take the exam by.
Bv Karen Lambert
The exam questions aren't bolts out of the blue. Twenty-four people ponder each question before it appores on the exam.
Prof. Seaver regards the exam as an "intellectual experience."
"Our aim in giving the exam is to challenge the students to think, not just set down factual material," he said.
If so, they may have missed the point of the entire program according to Prof. James Seaver, director of the program. If they were really in the spirit of the thing, students would go into the exam humming a jaunty Sousa march, a more proper send off for an intellectual adventure.
THE TEAMS COMPOSE several questions and submit them to the seven-member screening committee. Prof. Seaver, Prof. David Jones, assistant director, Claus Buechmann, senior instructor, and four instructors make up the committee.
"We take the questions and study them." Prof. Seaver said. "Some we reject immediately, others are acceptable as they are written, but the majority need to be rewritten before they can be used."
"WERE NOT GOING to give a true-false question such as 'Voltaire was born in 1492,'" Prof. Seaver said. "All the questions are calculated to make the student think."
Provisional blizzard warnings have been issued for Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
In the Lawrence area showers and rain are expected to change to snow tonight with a low of 15.
The committee doesn't choose questions that are completely matter of fact.
A major winter storm with blizzard conditions is expected to attack the central plains area tonight, sharply reversing the springlike weather.
"The questions are intended to give the student a chance to express his own opinions as well as show
Each section of the exam serves a specific purpose.
Weather
Rapid changes of 40 degrees have been recorded in South Dakota and Nebraska as a result of the storm.
the instructors that he can interrelate the readings and interpret them," Prof. Seaver said.
"The objective and short answer questions are necessary to catch those students who are adept at "bulling" their way through the essays without displaying a real knowledge of facts." Prof. Seaver said.
"BULLING BECOMES A HIGH art on some of the exams we grade," he continued. "The student will put down reams of irrelevant material in the hope that we won't want to wade through it, but he usually gets tripped up in the obiective answers."
Prof. Seaver said there is no plan to change the program, other than revising the readings every two years.
"The program is designed to make the student do his own thinking," he said. "We think that the discussion aspect is just as important as the content of the course."
"THIS PROGRAM PROVIDES the only opportunity most students have in four years of college to sit down and discuss ideas and philosophy."
donesians as saying they were out to "liberate" the Malaysian people from the British and asked where they could find Europeans. Told there were none in Pontian, the Indonesians then asked the fishermen to arrange a meeting with the headman of a nearby village.
The invaders, however, were sighted by a village boy on the way to a fishing trap at the mouth of the river. He raced to the police station with the information and security forces were promptly sent in. One boat was found by the troops as they tightened the cordon around the Indonesians in the swampy region near the river.
THE LANDING was the latest in a series of harassing raids launched by Indonesia from guerrilla-training bases in the Straits of Malacca, near the Malaysian coast. Almost all of the guerrillas landed in the raids have been killed or captured.
Britain is flying in reinforcements on the theory that Indonesia's withdrawal from the United Nations may be the prelude to an all-out attack on Malaysia.
Prime Minister Harold Wilson said in an after-dinner speech in London last night that Britain has stationed 50,000 men in Malaysia, including 10,000 in Borneo, to meet the Indonesian threat.
Wilson said a conference of Commonwealth prime ministers will be called "as soon as possible," presumably to discuss Malaysia's plight.
MALAYSIA OFFICIALS believe Sarawak, in the southwest of Malaysian Borneo, probably would be the first target of any large-scale Indonesian attack. Britain moved 600 Scots Guards from the Malay peninsula to Sarawak last week to reinforce troops already on the scene.
British army secretary Fred Muley, who is touring military installations in Malaysia, flew here from Kuala Lumpur today to confer with Adm. Sir Varyl Begg, British Supreme Commander in the Far East.
Council Recommends State Junior Colleges
The Kansas Legislative Council has recommended that a proposed state system of community junior colleges be presented to the 1965 legislature, which convenes on Tuesday.
The council's education committee submitted a report to the council which suggested that the state be divided into 22 junior college districts, each of which would levy a tax to support its college. The state, the report suggested, would pay approximately half of the operating costs of the junior colleges.
Also included in the report, which the legislative council voted 19-0 to forward to the legislature, was a suggestion that existing junior colleges be permitted to reorganize as community junior colleges or terminate their operations, or continue to operate under existing conditions for a maximum of five years.
THE JUNIOR COLLEGE proposal is designed, a government bulletin said, to relieve the enrollment pressures on Kansas colleges and universities and to provide more diversified post-high school opportunity.
"One of the best functions this proposal might create," C. O. Wright, executive secretary of the Kansas State Teachers Association, said, "would be more economic selective screening of high school graduates.
"This is a tremendous burden on the senior colleges in the state," Wright said, "finding out who wants to continue schools badly enough to do it. Junior colleges could help here a great deal."
STATE AID AMOUNTED to 13.9 per cent of the total operating cost of junior colleges during the 1962-63 school year, the government bulletin said. If the program is adopted, it is anticipated that the cost will be approximately $1.5 million more than the amount of current state aid.
"Financing this proposal," Wright said, "if it were accepted, should be only a matter of modernizing the Kansas tax structure. I wouldn't be in favor of the proposal if I thought it would drain aid to senior colleges or other institutions."