Sophs set party Nov.12; continue membership drive
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Newly elected members of the sophomore class congress met for the first time last night to discuss plans for the future.
Ken North, Emporia, president, opened the meeting with a review of why the representatives were elected. He emphasized they are a "decision making body who will make the policies" of the sophomore class.
PATTY BLACKBURN, Prairie Village, temporary chairman of the social committee, reported that there will be a sophomore party November 12, at the Red Dog Inn. There is a possibility that those who have paid class dues will be admitted free, and it is a certainty that free beer will be served to all sophomores in attendance.
Three reports were given, bringing the group up to date on class projects. Doug Irmen, Shawnee Mission, service committee chairman, reported what can be done with the money in the class treasury. New ideas presented were: the development of a library for the blind, made up of tapes made by sophomore volunteers; and the sponsorship of an orphanage or hospital in Viet Nam.
Dave Keesling, Herington, vicepresident, presented a financial statement to the congress. The sophomore class now has a balance of $7,100, 80 per cent of which can be spent for "tangible benefits," as University regulations state. Twenty per cent of the money, however, "has to be compounded annually and set aside to defer senior class expenses," the regulations emphasize.
AN EXTENSIVE dues campaign is being planned, using the sophomore newsletter, the "69-er" as the main means of advertisement. Sophomores may now pay their dues if they wish.
The proposed variety show to be sponsored by the class will follow the theme "Happiness is . . . " and will include all types
Conference on reading to be held
Six hundred teachers from over Kansas are expected for the 10th annual Conference on Reading Saturday, Oct. 29, in the Kansas Union.
KU's School of Education annually presents the conference for the Kansas Council of the International Reading Association, of which Miss Margery Berends, Hutchinson, is president.
Conference subjects include new trends in reading instruction, evaluating and improving existing programs, reading skills in content areas, selection of special reading personnel, and high school reading instruction.
Theodore Clymer, professor of elementary education and educational psychology at the University of Minnesota, and John Sherk, director of the reading clinic at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, will be the speakers.
Discussion leaders will be Sherk and Clymer, Oscar M. Haugh, Evelyn Swartz and Nita Wyatt of the KU faculty, and Richard L. Watson of Kansas State College, Pittsburg.
Watson is president-elect of the Kansas Council of the International Reading Association. Laura Holmgren, Ellinwood, is executive secretary-treasurer.
of entertainment. Auditions will be open to everyone and will probably be held during the first week of November.
The dixieland band chosen to be on "Campus Talent '67" will provide accompaniment for the show. The sophomore concert choir will perform, as will Dean Emily Taylor and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, if the show is approved. Drew Anderson, chairman of the show, is the person to contact for further information.
AN OUTDOOR advertising committee was formed to provide people to keep part of the bulletin board in front of Watson Library currently posted with
sophomore plans. This committee has also secured the SUA information booth for the first two weeks in January to advertise the proposed variety show.
Dave Keesling, vice-president, said he was "very happy with the response at the Congress. The representatives showed up to work and they did. They realize they're undertaking a unique type of class government that's important to KU."
10 Daily Kansan Friday, October 28, 1966