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Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
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77th Year, No.9
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, September 29, 1966
Lights signal hall interplay
An after hours meeting was called late last night by members of the Centennial College, which convened at Oliver Hall, which houses the female participants of the program.
The meeting was allegedly arranged during classes Wednesday. The women decided that they would signal the men, who are housed in Ellsworth Hall, by a pre-arranged signal.
SHORTLY AFTER 10:30 the women began flashing their room lights off and on, causing a spectacular sight to the residence halls on the top of Daisy Hill.
The men in Ellsworth reciprocated with their lights. This was soon noticed by the male residents of McCollum Hall, who joined in the flashing.
**TIRING OF THIS** routine, the women began yelling to the men on the hill above. The men in turn, returned their calls.
About 200 men,150 from Ellsworth and another 50 from McCollum swarmed from the halls and down across Stouffer Place to Oliver Hall below.
Meanwhile stadium horns were sounded, firecrackers shot, and a Roman candle or two was seen from the windows of the men's halls.
When the men arrived at Oliver they did not enter the hall. They gathered around the building and chanted to the women in the windows above.
THE GIRLS, fascinated by the onslaught of "Romeos," swarmed to the windows. About five or six of the girls rewarded the men for their appearance by tossing several pieces of their undergarments from their windows.
About 11 p.m. the KU Traffic Security Officers were called to Oliver to dispel the men and quiet the women. The men made a hasty retreat back to their residence halls across the football practice field and through Stouffer Place, cheering all the way.
As the residents of Ellsworth re-entered the safe bounds of their hall, displaying the trophies of the chase, they chanted: "We got Oliver, We got Oliver. . .."
Panty raid staged
Security stepped up
Police patrols and additional security measures will be taken as a result of the events last night near Daisy Hill.
J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, said today that additional steps had already been taken to improve the lighting near Oliver Hall and that the cooperation between the KU traffic and security office and the dormitory guards would be improved in the area.
IT WAS speculated that additional security measures might prevent any more trouble between the residence halls such as the roving "gangs" of hall men which assembled near Oliver Hall last night.
WHAT'S INSIDE
EDITORIAL — The Editors relate their views on KUPA, KU's latest political party, on page two.
SOCIETY The latest campus pinnings and engagements are found on page three.
Additional improvements were also announced today. A new cyclone fence, currently being installed along Iowa Street will run along the Daisy Hill area to 19th Street.
Workmen are also doing preliminary work for the paving of McCollum and Ellsworth halls' parking lot. Officials speculate the
project might be completed this fall. It has been delayed several times.
New lighting was turned on last night for the University's newest parking lot. Located on Daisy Hill, the new lot is located across the new overpass, west of Iowa Street. It is used as an overflow lot for the surplus of cars parked in the residence hall lots.
Campus Crusader to talk sex with Ehrenreich
Gerald A. Ehrenreich, originator of a law suit testing the Kansas loyalty oath, and Karl Dennison, state coordinator of the Campus Crusade for Christ, will discuss "The Sex Ethic" at 7:30 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room.
After a short speech by Ehrenreich, KU Medical Center psychologist, a panel including Ehrenreich, Dennison, who is a KU professor, and several students, will discuss Ehrenreich's speech and possibly his reasons for refusing to sign the loyalty oath.
Ehrenreich, who with 13 other state university professors is bringing suit against Cancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and eight other state officials, received his doctorate at KU in 1956.
His lecture tonight is sponsored by the KU Humanist Committee, a newly organized group led by Mrs. Don Olson, Lawrence junior.
Dennison, a 26-year-old graduate of Arizona State University, had planned to bring a psychiatrist from the Meninger Foundation in Topeka to refute Ehrenreich's "Sex Ethic" speech. The psychiatrist wasn't available, so Dennison will face the medical center professor.
ASC apathy reigns with students
KU students just don't care about the All Student Council (ASC) and its "star that has risen in the east."
The "star," as Mike Youngblood, Prairie Village junior and vice president of the Vox Populi party, referred to it, is the KU Progressive Alliance (KUPA) formed Tuesday night at the first ASC meeting of the year.
COMMENTING ON the formation of the new party, Youngblood said at the meeting, "Behold a Star in the East has arisen, but beware."
Bill Robinson, Great Bend senior and former student body vicepresident, said, "It probably is the finest thing that has happened to student government in ten years."
The majority of students questioned agreed with Marietta Mundinger, St. Louis, Mo., senior, who said, "This new student alliance really doesn't matter to me. I don't think political parties have too many important issues to decide anyway."
A few students, however, expressed approval while others were skeptical.
"I have a great deal of admiration for the people who have backed this thing. I know it won't be easy but I offer all my help and think it's great" he added
Robinson noted that "the idea isn't particularly new but the spirit and determination certainly
is and the campus owes a lot to them."
Tom Stanion, Pratt senior and former president of Vox Populi, was "not at all surprised" by the formation of the new campus political party.
"If they will be of service to the students, then I am all for this group," John Pepper, Lenexa graduate student and former ASC representative, said.
He said, "I think it will be a good thing for KU politics. Working together rather than apart, its members will be a solid driving force for KU.
"As we all know, campus politics are variant. These things
could develop overnight," he stated.
KUPA rejects Vox plan for merger of parties
Tuesday night after the announcement of the new Alliance, the Vox executive council announced the tentative dissolution of the party and encouraged its members to involve themselves with the Alliance.
Officials of the recently formed Kansas University Political Alliance discounted last night any big merger of their part with Vox Populi.
Dick Darville, Shawnee Mission senior, explained that the Alliance does not want to take in any members who truly do not have the goals of the party in mind.
HE SAID the main ideals of the Alliance at this time are to weaken the political party system and to reduce the flamboyancy of the political campaigns.
The statement of the political party:
"There will be no merger between the KU Progressive Alliance and any campus political
party. Merger assumes the consent of both groups The members of Alliance desire no such merger. The Alliance will never compromise its goals in order to gain any party's support.
"WE DO WELCOME the sincere efforts of any student who shares our goals and is willing to work for them. The spokesman for Vox Populi, however, indicated that he and his party are only coming along for the ride and if not satisfied with the work of others, they would desert the Alliance.
"We don't want this kind of empty support. Neither do we want anyone who joins the Alliance for more political "fun and games." If these are their motives, they should tear down their posters and go home.
"We again reiterate our acceptance of any sincere, dedicated support."
"However, I can't help but be awwy skeptical of this because it is a splinter group, even though a very large one," he added.
Pepper said that he was a little concerned that the alliance won't be able to do any more than is now being done. "I feel the other parties are working in the right direction," he said.
"Also, the new alliance will have to work harder to accomplish its goals because first it will have to establish contacts with the entire university community —contacts which have already been made by the existing political parties." Pepper added.
Mike McNally, Bartlesville, Okla., senior and former ASC chairman, said, "Upheavals and realignment of political alliances have been a regular and common occurrence throughout KU political history."
He noted that during the 50's, political parties came and went as rapidly as ambitious politicians could dream up new names and reword their platforms.
"It is interesting to note that virtually every new political alliance which has appeared has professed an ardent desire to stamp out corruption and instill meaningful student representation," he added.
"It is surprising again from a historical viewpoint that UP and VOX have withered so long," McNally said.