Sooners Missed At Student Talks
The Big Eight Student Government Association got underway this morning, but with one of the eight missing.
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The delegation from the University of Oklahoma did not arrive at the Hotel Eldridge with the rest of the delegations last night, and is not expected to attend.
The University of Oklahoma was instrumental in forming the Associated Student Governments, an organization of 50 schools.
"I don't feel Oklahoma is dropping out of the organization," said Jim Cline, Rockford, Illinois, junior and conference chairman.
"THEY'RE PROBABLY just tired after hosting the ASG meeting." he said.
The representatives of the seven schools that attended and Ray Edwards, Bethesda, Maryland, senior and Big Eight Student Government president, had a presidents' conference this morning to
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discuss legislation to be submitted at the first business session.
The conference agreed that the BESGA should cut back some of its activities because they were getting two expensive.
"WE SHOULD TRY to cut the expenses to $50 or under per school." Edwards said.
"There is no need to put so much expense in an organization of only eight schools when we can get more good out of a larger organization," John Lydick, Nebraska representative, said.
Edwards suggested the size of the conventions be cut down to save on expenses. He felt
that a presidents' conference and an exchange of minutes of student government meetings were all that were necessary.
"We should end BSGA sponsorship of the college bowl," Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C., senior and KU representative, said.
EDWARDS PROPOSED THAT each school make a bid for holding the college bowl on its campus and the lowest bid gets the contest. "The college bowl is self-supporting anyway," he said.
Tonight Robert C. Londerholm, Kansas attorney general-elect, will address a conference banquet at 6:45 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Three discussion groups met simultaneously for one hour before the president's conference.
STUDENTS FROM KU led a discussion on "Campus political parties—the development of a good system." Other discussions concerned the exchange of student government projects, the structure and apportionment of student governments, methods of increasing student participation in campus elections and a cultural exchange among Big Eight schools.
The conference's first business session was scheduled to convene at 3:15 p.m. today. Delegates may submit legislation for programs and policies for Big Eight schools and may nominate officers for the 1965 term.
Final action will be taken on legislation and elections of officers at a business session at 9 a.m. tomorrow.
LAURENCE C. WOODRUFF, dean of students and All Student Council adviser, welcomed the delegates.
"We in student government get in a rut sometimes," Dean Woodruff said. "Many types of administrative assignments have a great amount of routine. Perhaps this is one place where student government falls down, for no one likes to do the drudgery."
Daily hansan
62nd Year, No. 56
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Dec. 11, 1964
Christmas Vacation in '64 Longer Than in Wartime
By Suellen McKinley
The countdown is nine days until take-off for home and a 16-day Christmas vacation.
a three-semmester a year program to allow students to complete their educations before going into the armed services.
The two-week-plus vacation scheduled for KU students each Christmas season is a far cry from the four days allotted during the war year of 1942.
At that time, on Dec. 18. University students crowded in front of Chancellor Malott's office to protest action by the University Senate limiting the Christmas vacation.
The shortened vacation was scheduled to accelerate KU's academic program during "these serious times," said Chancellor Malott in 1942. The University had changed to
AFTER THREE DAYS, many meetings, and much reconsideration, the University extended the vacation to seven days. The decision was made to allow students to reach home by Christmas despite bad transportation conditions and unfavorable weather.
The senate announcement also stated that one of the reasons for change was the "undoubted sentiment attached to the holiday season being spent at home."
That sentiment remains the same today, as the mass exodus of students
Cuban Decries U.S. In General Assembly
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y.-(UPI)-Ernesto (Che) Guevara, minister of industry and major power in Fidel Castro's Cuban government, charged today that the "lives of millions of human beings are constantly threatened and subject to the whim of the American invader."
Meanwhile, in the security council, Belgium warned that African states critical of American and Belgian intervention in the Congo have been trying "to separate Africa from Europe and perhaps even pit the black man against the white."
The bearded Cuban, considered by many the chief power in Castro's Marxist regime, was applauded for 30 seconds by Eastern European and African delegates as he was called to
Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak launched an attack on the African complainants against his country when the Congo debate resumed in the council today.
Guevara, wearing open neck battle fatigues and high-laced combat boots, addressed the General Assembly under heavy security precautions. New York police reinforced U.N. guards outside the world headquarters and admission to the huge assembly hall was strictly limited.
"I ASSURE YOU I have not come here to sit in the dock," he said. "I have spent two evil days of my life here_and by exercising great effort over myself I have suffered through a torrent of eloquence."
the speakers' stand. Latin American delegates sat quietly.
Spak accused African foreign ministers who had preceded him in the debate of deliberately injecting racism into the Congo crisis.
"WE KNEW WE would provoke speeches which we have so often heard on colonialism, neo-colonialism and imperialism," he said.
"It appeared to me that in those speeches there seemed a scarcely disguised will to separate Africa from Europe and perhaps even pit the black man against the white.
"But beyond these statements I have glimpsed something much more serious.
"This is a twofold danger and this is the true seriousness that underlines what we have heard so far."
GUEVARA SPOKE quietly with a minimum of historicis.
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"The last hour of colonialism has struck," he said, "and millions rise to a new life."
Basing his speech on an appeal for coexistence, Guevara launched into an attack on U.S. activities in many parts of the world.
He said Cuba was "one of the entrenchments of freedom in the world, a few steps away from American imperialism" and a "socialist camp which is stronger day by day."
THE DIFFERENCES today, only 22 years later, are: the war is now "cold." marriage is a "king's-X" from the draft, and the speedy methods of transportation make time at home even longer.
"THE KINGDOM of Cambodia has been subject to all kinds of brutal attacks from Yankee bases in Viet Nam," he said.
However, the KU vacation and academic calendar is still determined by the Calendar Committee of the University Senate, the official legislative body of the faculty. At the head of this committee is James K. Hitt, Registrar and Director of Admissions. The committee also includes student members.
"The calendar has been this wav at least 30 years," Hitt said, "except for that year during the war when there was no time."
The Christmas vacation is generally two weeks and three weekends, or two weeks and two weekends, depending on when Christmas falls Hitt said.
THE CHRISTMAS VACATION is set up in this manner to allow travel and shopping time before Christmas and time to return after the holiday period.
The Calendar Committee always tries to include three weekends in the vacation; however, when Christmas falls on Monday or Tuesday, as it did in 1861, the vacation is scheduled from Wednesday to Wednesday, including only two weekends.
Hitt said the total calendar of the year hinges on several considerations.
One is for the past eight years school has begun on the second Monday after Labor Day.
"SOME PEOPLE ASK why we wait two weeks after Labor Day," Hitt said. "We have the notion that most people are not ready to do anything until after Labor Day, and then we must include time for rush and Orientation Week."
A second consideration of the Calendar Committee is the KU tradition of having commencement on Monday.
THE COMMITTEE PLANS the academic year with approximately 15 weeks from the beginning of each semester until a week-long final examination period.
THE VACATION USED to be an expanded weekend around Easter Sunday, including Good Friday and Easter. There was a disadvantage to this method of setting the vacation because the date of Easter changed each year.
Residence Hall Men Give Record Blood Gift
"I'm supposed to feel dizzy according to those who gave blood yesterday, but I don't feel it yet," Art Ogilvie, North Kansas City, Mo., senior, said yesterday as he gave blood in the KU men's residence hall blood drive.
Ogilvie apparently meant what he said. He got up from the donor cot and walked briskly into the Templin Hall cafeteria for refreshments of cookies, water, and coffee fruit juice, or a soft drink.
DURING THE PAST TWO DAYS residents of Ellsworth, Templin, Joseph R. Pearson and Grace Pearson halls participated in the largest blood drive in Lawrence since the Korean War, Mrs. Karel Elaas, executive secretary of the Douglas County Red Cross, said yesterday.
As he left the cot, Mrs. G. E. Manahan, Red Cross volunteer nurse, cautioned him to drink plenty of liquids during the next twenty-four hours and not to smoke for at least one hour.
124 pints of blood were collected—50 on Wednesday and 74 yesterday, Mrs. D. H. Stoneback, Thursday's coordinator of the Douglas County Red Cross mobile unit, said last night. Mrs. George Luckan was Wednesday's coordinator.
Final tabulations revealed that
The drive ended last night at 7 p.m., some two hours after it had been scheduled to end. Tired Red Cross nurses and Gray Ladies worked until all men who had waited in line had donated blood. Mrs. Stoneback said some of the men waited in line two to three hours
MRS. STONEBACK said she and the Red Cross have a wonderful feeling for these KU men who came of their own free will to give blood.
"They're wonderful and should be given a big pat on the back," Mrs. Stoneback said.
Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe, KU chancellor, was the physician in charge Wednesday and was assisted by Dr. John L. Barton, physician at
the student health center. Yesterday, Dr.Barton and Dr. Howard F.Joseph,a member of the Lawrence Memorial Hospital staff, handled the physician's duties.
Dr. Barton came to KU last January on an exchange fellowship program to study the student health center procedures. He came from Leeds in England where he was on the staff of St. James Hospital and associated with the student health center at the University of Leeds.
THE DONORS were warned not to eat fatty foods for four hours before giving blood. Many hadn't eaten anything since breakfast.
A BLOOD COLLECTION takes much more than just donors. At 3 p.m. yesterday, 16 Red Cross
Weather
The weather bureau predicted fair weather tonight with partly cloudy skies tomorrow. The low tonight is expected to be in the middle 20's.
nurses and Gray Ladies, plus the two doctors, were on duty in Templin Hall.
Some of the blood, although given willingly, came slowly. "It's coming out awfully slow. Is it full yet? I gave blood last year, and it was faster than this." Jeff Bohndorf, Kansas City, Kans, junior, said. A few minutes later Bohndorf finally finished, stood up and said, "I feel fine, but I'm sure hungry," and he headed for the refreshments.
WHILE BOHINDORF donated his pint of blood, Red Cross chief nurse Judy Grupp explained what happens to the blood after it is given.
"If it appears that the blood
"The blood is kept in the Douglas County blood center in the basement of Lawrence Memorial Hospital," she explained. The blood is preserved at a temperature of four to six degrees centigrade. The blood can be kept and used for 21 days, Miss Grupp said.
will not be used before being outdated at the end of 21 days, we send it to another blood center where there is a need for it," she said. "Even if we have blood which for some reason is kept past the 21-day mark, we don't waste it," she said. The blood is then made into plasma which is frozen and can be kept for a period of one year. Plasma is often used for transfusions to hemophiliacs, Miss Grubb said.
MISS GRUBB said that the Douglas County blood center keeps the Lawrence Memorial Hospital and Ransom Memorial Hospital at Ottawa supplied with blood. The Douglas County Red Cross mobile unit visits Ransom Memorial Hospital every three months to receive blood donations.
As two donors walked out of the Templin Hall lounge, a prospective donor waiting in line shouted to them. "You guys better head for the service station—you're a pint low."