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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Dec. 17, 1964
Campus News of '64
The top campus news story mirrored the national unrest over civil rights last year. The long, winding lines of pickets and the catcalls that flew from each side became familiar last year as the campus organization involved in the ideological and practical aspects of civil rights protested against the discrimination they felt was being shown to Negro students on the campus.
The picketing activities were leveled mainly at the Greek houses, since it was felt that clauses, written or implied, were preventing Negroes from pledging a sorority or fraternity house. The bulk of the anger was directed at the Sigma Nu fraternity, since the Sigma Nu national charter contains a written discriminatory clause. Another protest was directed at Greek Week, the annual week of activities planned mainly for the sorority and fraternity members. As in the former case, picketing was the main form of protest.
FOLLOWING THE SURGEON GENERAL'S report on the harmful effects of cigarettes, the administration decided to withdraw the cigarette machines from campus. This story is awarded the second place in the gallery of year-long news events. Students alternately praised and condemned the administration for its steps, and despite its immediate repercussions of more trips to the drugstore, the issue died down fairly soon. However, it still stands out as the second most important story on the campus last year.
The third most important news story is that of the construction on the KU campus. As plans for the razing of Fraser Hall were being made, destruction and construction of Blake Hall had already begun. Students and faculty became very sentimental about "good ol' Fraser," but the building that has become the symbol of the University is still going to be replaced by a more modern structure.
The name of Robinson will be attached to a new building, it was announced this fall. A 900-man residence hall has now taken its place in the row of large residence halls up on Daisy Hill. Marvin Hall, long the home of the engineers, has now been abandoned for the new Engineering building across from Allen Field House. Pi Beta Phi and Phi Kappa Psi constructed new chapter houses next to the Nuclear Reactor. Tau Kappa Epsilon and Lambda Chi Alpha built new residences across from Stauffer Place. Plans are now being made for the new law school building.
Coach Harp resigned as head basketball coach. His resignation followed a wave of student dissatisfaction, which is nothing really new, with the team's defeats. Following Coach Harp's resignation, Ted Owens, already a coach with KU, took over the head position.
A WAVE OF BOMB SCARES swept the campus last spring, even resulting in the evacuation of two buildings during classtime. The whole series culminated in the case of the threat by Mike Mount to bomb the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house. Mount maintained he meant it as a
joke, but the administration took a dim view of that sort of joke. Mount was suspended for the remainder of the semester.
Controversy raged around the visit of George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader, to the KU campus. The Union Ballroom was packed and the Union lobby was crowded with students and faculty listening to the microphones. Many of the worried comments about the corrupting influence of the visit were shattered by the derisive hooting and laughter of the students as they listened to the Nazi leader.
UP, the underdog in former campus elections conducted an all-out campaign and won the election both last spring and this fall, as the members of VOX take stock of what went wrong.
"Galloping Gayle" Sayers, already KU's favorite, endeared himself to the KU fans even more by making the All-American football team.
TWO UNEQUATABLE STORIES TIED for ninth, the $500,000 bequest to KU by the Berger family and the killing of Pedro Escobar, graduate student and assistant instructor of Spanish.
Sargent Shriver, director of the Peace Corps, came to visit the campus last year in honor of the Peace Corps Week. His speech, given in Hoch Auditorium, was well-received by the students and the faculty and was quite a change from the raving of Rockwell.
The ASC "dead" bills, a recent legislative mix-up in the All Student Council, ranks 11th.
The first Oread Jazz Festival was held here last spring. Jazz artists from many parts of the country attended and competed for the prizes. Jazz enthusiasts and the just curious sat fascinated in Hoch Auditorium as the musicians played.
Billy Mills, a KU graduate, won an Olympic gold medal and was honored this fall at a football game.
KU TIGHTENED ITS campus parking regulations this fall and KU students started to walk more. The price of parking stickers was raised to $10.
Wade Stinson was named athletic director.
Around election time, a series of local, state and national leaders visited the campus. Prominent among these were the contenders for the governorship of Kansas and Barry Goldwater Jr.
Foster Hall, a scholarship hall, will be closed and the present residents will move to Oread Hall. Ellsworth Hall for men and Lewis Hall for women will change occupants next fall.
The burning of a campus police jeep last spring and Miss Bobbi Johnson's winning the title of Miss USA tied for 19th. Miss Johnson, a KU student, won the contest last summer in Atlantic City.
The Student Peace Union was active last year in protest to Greek Week and the student ROTC. The SPU picketed the annual ROTC review and held an Un-military ball the same night as the Military Ball. The SPU is opposed to all military activity.
—Leta Cathcart
Obituary for the Past Year
Jawaharlal Nehru, Douglas MacArthur, Herbert Hoover, Harry Holt, Forest Yeo-Thomas, Joseph Schildkraut. These were a few of the people who had touched our lives in some way. They died in 1964. Some names of those who died, easily call back memories of splendid words and deeds. Other names might bring a questioning look to someone's face, because their deeds have far outstripped their names.
When Nehru died, the announcement was made that "the Prime Minister is no more. Life is out. Light is out." Ironically, this was the same statement Nehru made when Mahatma Gandhi died. For Gandhi's closest disciple, there could have been no more fitting eulogy. As the world's leading neutral, he was respected by leaders of both East and West, and his policy of non-violence and passive resistance, learned from Gandhi, placed India in a prominent position in relation to smaller nations who feared the arms race by the giant world powers.
DR. JULIUS RAAB was the first chancellor of Austria. He spared his country the agonies of division
Also, the first president of independent Lebanon, Sheik Bechaar el-Khouiry, was among the former heads of state who died in 1964.
In the United States, the death of the 31st President, Herbert Clark Hoover, was mourned. Hoover, who was unlucky enough to have been President during the 1929 Stock Market crash, is not remembered so much today for what he did as President, but what he did before and after he occupied this high office. His greatest triumphs were his World War I relief programs in Europe, and the Hoover Commission after World War II which helped the government save millions of dollars by cutting back on needless expenses. Death also claimed George
Death also claimed George Docking, former governor of Kansas, and a director of the U.S. Import-Export Bank.
CLARENCE CANNON, member of the House of Representatives from Missouri, and the oldest member of the House, also died. Cannon was the ranking member
And, Senator Claire Engle ot California died after failing to recover from an operation for a brain tumor.
of the House Appropriations Committee at the time of his death.
The world of science was saddened by the loss of some of its distinguished members. Dr. Norman Wiener, a U.S. mathematician and scientist, generally regarded as the founder of the science of cybernetics, died in Stockholm. He pioneered in the development of computers, which had workings similar to the human nervous system.
Dr. Winthrop Osterhaut, a distinguished pioneer in cellular biology, and Dr. Leo Szilzard, who, with Enrique Fermi, set off the first nuclear chain reaction at Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, also died.
MacARTHUR TOPPED A long list of many "old soldiers" who died in 1964. The general, who was in command of the Allied forces in World War II and part-way through the Korean Conflict, was buried with the highest honors his country could bestow.
Bob Jones
"Tell You What——I'll Give You A Break And Cooperate With You For A While"
The People Say...
Dear Editor:
The Sunflower Doubleheader should be abolished. The disgusting performances by the K-State fans Friday night and the KU fans Saturday night prove that they do not deserve this fine sports attraction.
It is painfully apparent to me that playing before hostile crowds this weekend caused KU and K-State to each miss at least one basket
It isn't difficult to imagine what the big joke is around the Penn State campus right now.
Steve Todd
Steve Todd (K-State '63; KU '66) Second-year Law
I wish to commend Mr. Tom
Haugh on his enlightened article "Silence Reigns Quietly" about my home country, the Republic of the Philippines. Although the Communists conveniently forget us when attacking American foreign policy, we Filipinos are quite aware of the role the USA played in our struggle to obtain independence.
There are certain mis-statements about specific facts (e.g., I would not call President Macapagal's 1633 Cadillac an "ancient car") but coming from an American, they are easily forgivable.
Congratulations!
Trulv yours.
Truly yours,
Emilia V. Lara
Graduate Student
from the Philippines
BOOK REVIEWS
A HISTORY OF SEXUAL CUSTOMS, by Richard Lewinsohn, M.D. (Premier, 75 cents).
This book is not for the salacious. It is scholarly and oriented toward the anthropological approach. Lewinsohn previously has written "Animals, Men and Myths," and once again he has presented a fascinating story of how customs and attitudes have changed over many generations.
He begins with a discussion of primitive peoples, of the sexual drive in mankind, of legends, art and statuary. The latter, he notes, go far back into antiquity, and present an emphasis quite different from that of the comparatively chaste world of today. He deals with attitudes of the Greeks and Romans, with practices of the Christian and Moslem worlds, with the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
When he considers the modern world he presents the story of George Sand in sexual rebellion, of Oscar Wilde and his controversies, of the question of censorship of literature. There also is ample treatment of laws regarding sexual customs.
Dailij Yiänsan
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