Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
62nd Year, No.49
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1964
ASC Takes First Step In Reviving Dead Bills
Bv Judv Farrell
The All Student Council took one step toward reviving its technically dead legislation last night by voting to print and distribute to members copies of 27 bills and amendments.
The bills and amendments which the council asked to be distributed are legislation which it passed between Oct. 6, 1963, and May I2, 1964. The legislation is technically dead because it has never been sent to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe for approval or veto as required in the ASC constitution.
The bills and amendments were to have been read, discussed and voted upon at last night's meeting.
INSTEAD, COUNCIL MEMBERS,
stating that they did not have copies
of the legislation or of the ASC
constitution and bill book, asked
that the procedure be changed. Four
copies of the constitution had been
distributed to members.
The council then passed a motion by Hugh Taylor, Stoke-on-Trent, England, graduate student, to print and distribute copies of the legislation. Taylor, University Party, represents the graduate school on the council.
The passage of the motion was the final legislative action for 21 retiring council representatives from University living districts. Replacing them were 30 representatives elected Nov. 11 and 12, and sworn in last night by Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C., senior and student body president.
STEWART ALSO ANNOUNCED the appointment of four delegates to the Big Eight Student Government conference at KU Dec. 10, 11 and 12. Delegates are Roy Miller, Topeka senior, Ted Dickey, Louisville, Ky., junior, Mike Miner, Lawrence senior and ASC chairman, and Stewart.
Lee Ayres, Park Ridge, Ill., graduate student, submitted a bill concerning membership in the Associated Student Governments of the USA.
The bill, if passed by the council, ratifies the national constitution of the ASG, and states:
"The Associated Students of KU further endorse and commend such an organization as a means of improving and strengthening all University student governments through idea forums among member schools."
The council also passed three resolutions submitted by members.
- A resolution by Douglas Walker, Belle Mead, N.J., sophomore, urging that all organizations which have meetings tomorrow night suspend meetings and encourage students to attend the first home basketball game.
- A resolution by T. J. Snyder, Independence senior, instructing the athletic seating board to give seniors first preference in seats in Memorial stadium. Second preference would be given to graduate
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Seven Housing Shifts Planned for Fall '65
Fred Ellsworth hall will become a residence hall for upperclass women in September, 1965, as one of seven major changes in residence hall occupancy scheduled for the fall semester.
The other occupancy shifts include:
- Opening McCollum Hall to 976 men.
- Housing freshman women in Lewis Hall.
- Reclaiming Carruth-O'Lery hall as a men's residence hall.
- Operating Grace Pearson hall as a scholarship hall for men.
- Closing Foster hall as obsolete.
- Cosing Poster hall as obsolete
- Razing Oread hall, the last World War II surplus residence hall at KU.
In a special meeting for Lewis Hall residents last night, Emily Taylor, dean of women, announced that the women now living in Lewis will be primarily affected by the fall move to Ellsworth.
"We want you to take your hall program (hall government and social programs) to Ellsworth as the nucleus of starting a new residence hall for women," she said. "We are proud of the job you have done here and hope you will want to continue it in Ellsworth."
LEWIS RESIDENTS will not be required to move to Ellsworth, but may live in Hashinger Hall, also for upperclass women, if they choose.
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No Vote Planned In UN Assembly
UNITED NATIONS—(UPI)The 1964 General Assembly was off to a shaky start today under a stopgap arrangement to avert a showdown on Russia's right to vote.
U. S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko were meeting for lunch at Soviet delegation headquarters in continuing talks to resolve the potentially crippling dispute.
It was expected that they also might touch on other East-West issues such as disarmament if time permitted.
The United States had demanded that the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellites be deprived of their assembly votes under U.N. charter regulations for failure to pay assessments for peacekeeping operations in the Congo and the Middle East.
Weeks of efforts to arrange a compromise were climaxed by high-level talks carried on by U.N. Secretary General U Thant up to the time of the assembly's opening session yesterday.
Thant emerged from those talks to tell the assembly:
"There is an understanding to the effect that issues other than those that can be disposed of without objection will not be raised while the general debate proceeds."
The annual general debate, in which foreign ministers and other delegation leaders make policy statements, was scheduled to run almost until Christmas.
The arrangement afforded at least another month for U.S.- Soviet talks on the financial issue.
Under the no-voting agreement, the assembly proceeded to elect Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana as president of its 19th session. Quaison-Sackey,40,is the youngest assembly president and the first Negro to hold the office.
Sayers Signs With Bears
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —(UPI)— Gale Sayers, Kansas' All-America halfback turned down the Kansas City Chiefs for the Chicago Bears yesterday because he would "prefer to play in Chicago."
Sayers, from Omaha, Neb., told Chief scout Don Klosterman just before his announced signing with the Bears;
"I prefer to play in Chicago to Kansas City, that's all there is to it. There's nothing you can do about it."
Sayers, who led the Jayhawks and the Big Eight Conference in rushing both as a sophomore and junior, had been drafted by the Chiefs of the American Football League.
The All-America set a conference record with 283 yards rushing against Oklahoma State in 1962.
Kansas City announced earlier yesterday they did not expect to sign Sayers; however, a Chiefs spokesman said the club was "very disappointed" and thought until the last it had a chance to sign him.
Maintenance Crew Ready for Winter
Bv Glen Phillips
Winter and slippery sidewalks were apparent to students who ventured across campus early this morning.
Those starting out at 7:30 a.m. were hampered by icy sidewalks, a result of frozen sleet which had been falling since the wee hours of the morning; but those who began the school day at 9:30 a.m. were greeted with softly falling snow, which put a colorful camouflage over the ice.
The first true snowfall of the year is predicted to continue into the evening, accompanied by northerly winds of 10 to 20 miles per hour, and a low tonight in the 20 degree range.
For the merchants of downtown Lawrence, winter means it is time to bring out and display all the stock which they ordered in the middle of last summer. It is a time of colored lights, of Santa Clauses, and of special sales.
But for the Buildings and Grounds crews the coming of winter is merely routine. It is a part of their job that comes around at this time each year. Harry Buchholz, director of Buildings and Grounds said, "We don't think of the coming of winter as something special. Getting ready for it is just something we do regularly.
For the foreign student the coming of winter usually means an adjustment of some sort from the climate of their home country. It means heavy coats, blustering winds, and snow.
to check and repair all the steam pipes and valves," Bucholz said, "but we only shut down long enough to check everything."
About this same time all the vehicles and snow removal equipment are put in shape and winterized. From the early fall Buildings and Grounds is ready to go out at the first sign of snow.
"FIRST OF ALL, in the early fall we shut down the power plant
As part of their preparation for winter, crews from Buildings and Grounds must turn off the air conditioning in the buildings equipped with it. Buchholz explained that the cooling systems must be turned off at a specific time if there is a chance of a
sudden freeze which would ruin the air conditioning equipment.
SHORTLY AFTER THE air conditioning has been turned off, it is necessary to begin turning on the heat in the buildings around campus.
Buchholz explained that the crews must go into each building and let the steam into the heating system gradually. If the steam was just run into the pipes at one time there would be no allowance for heat expansion of the pipes and some would burst.
"Turning the heat on is not complex," Buchholz said, "but it
IN THE FALL most of the leaves on campus are raked up by the Buildings and Grounds crew and disposed of. Buchholz explained that this measure was necessary if there is to be any grass on campus. "If we didn't rake the leaves, we would have a leaf mat like the floor of a forest and there would be no grass," he said.
takes a lot of time—usually about a week."
Along with the preparations going on inside, there is much work taking place around the campus.
Also, crews have been working all fall to seal the small cracks in
Christmas Comes Early to KU
Around the campus, buildings and grounds crews are stringing lights and greenery on seven of the University buildings, students are holding informal tree-trimming parties in their living groups, and somewhere a 20-foot Canadian balsam is being fireproofed before it is placed in the rotunda of Strong Hall.
By Suellen McKinley
Everything's coming up Christmas at KU.
All this to produce a touch of Christmas before most students and faculty desert the campus Dec. 19th or the day before to spend their Christmas vacations in their own homes.
WORKMEN BEGAN Monday adorning Strong Hall, Hoch Auditorium, the Kansas Union, Danforth Chapel, Watkins Hospital, the Chancellor's residence, and the Nurses Home with lights, stars, and greenery.
Six thousand light bulbs, 12,000 feet of wire, 800 feet of evergreens, 350 ornaments, and six
large wreaths are required to "deck" seven University halls in the traditional Christmas manner.
Harry M. Buchholz, superintendent of the Physical Plant of Buildings and Grounds, said the decorating would take almost a week, depending on the weather.
"IT ALSO DEPENDS on how many dogs we have chasing through the wires." Buchholz said.
Christmas is the season to be jolly, but Buchholz can remember past years when students have been a little too eager for fun.
"Two years ago we put the tree in Strong Hall and trimmed it. The next day almost half the decorations were gone," Buchholz said. "We lose almost half of our decorations every year."
He added that the department knew where most of them were going, but that catching someone in the act of un-decorating was difficult.
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the streets. The cracks in the pavement must be filled before winter or they will fill with water, freeze and keep expanding.
Buchholz noted the Buildings and Grounds most important day-to-day task during the winter is to keep the approaches to the campus open and passable through the winter so there will always be police and fire protection.
WORK BEGINS on snow removal and sanding as soon as it is necessary. Buildings and Grounds supervisors are on call at all times of the day. Buchholz explained that if snow and ice should become heavy overnight, the Lawrence Police Dept. contacts one of the supervisors. He comes out and checks the situation and if it is serious enough the crews are called out to sand the streets or remove the snow.
Buchholz said there are crews on call at all times to handle emergencies.
And Buildings and Grounds is always ready to sand sicy hills if they need it. In the early fall they bring in a large supply of sand and store it where it will be kept warm and dry—ready for instant use.
THE MAIN POWER plant supplies steam for heating to most of the buildings on campus. The service area is bounded on the west by Allen Field House, the new engineering building, Carruth and O'Leary, and Joseph R. Pearson. The power plant serves all the university buildings to the eastern edge of the campus.