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62nd Year, No.123
Tuesday, April 27, 1965
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
-Photo by Eric Johnson
SHARON ANDERSON, Topeka senior, was named outstanding senior woman last night at Associated Women Students honors night in Hoch Auditorium. The award to Miss Anderson, a member of Mortar Board, was presented by the American Association of University Women.
Top Senior Woman Named at Program
By Nancy Scott
Amid screams and cries of joy of 2200 women, outstanding women on the KU campus were announced last night at Associated Women Students (AWS) Honors Night.
Sharon Anderson, Topeka senior, was named outstanding senior woman. The award is given by the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
Miss Anderson was elected by women attending the junior-senior brunch last Sunday morning. She is a 1965 Hilltopper and a member
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of Torch Chapter of Mortar Board, national honorary organization for senior women. She was representing Lewis Hall.
EMILY TAYLOR, dean of women. announced the selection of Miss Anderson.
Dean Taylor also revealed the names of 21 women elected as the outstanding women of their living groups. The women were elected by their respective living groups.
New members of women's honorary organizations, Mortar Board and Cwens; AWS Fashion Board members and freshman residence hall counselors for the coming year were also named.
Dean Taylor said, "There is no greater selection than by those who know you best."
HONORS NIGHT OPENED with installation of AWS officers for 1965-66. Arn Peterson, Shawnee Mission junior, was installed as president of the association for the coming year by retiring president, Sherry Whitcher, Prairie Village senior.
Miss Peterson spoke of the commission on Status of Women which is already established in most of the states. As president of AWS, she plans to set up a commission to talk to William Avery, governor of Kansas, to help establish a commission in Kansas.
As Miss Whitcher stepped down from officer she said, "More than
activities themselves, I think I will remember the people who made it possible. Through your continued interest and support, the AWS program will continue to be the vital program it is."
DANIELLE GOERING. Moundridge junior, received the Delta Delta Delta Scholarship for $300. Miss Goering was judged on scholarship, leadership, resourcefulness, and potential service to the community.
Linda Bahr, Annandale, Va., junior and service project chairman of Delta Delta Delta, presented the award. Money for the scholarship was earned by the sorority working in concession stands at football games last fall.
Four women were named recipients of AWS Memorial Scholarships. Winners are Jary Donnan, Webster Groves, Mo., sophomore; Spring Stidham, Park Ridge, Ill.; sophomore; Margaret Tietze, Bartlesville, Okla., junior; and Carol Jo Weber, Davtown, Mo., junior.
JONNI WATSON, Kirkwood, Mo. junior and chairman of the Scholarship Money's Our Purpose (SMOP) committee, said selection is made on the basis of scholarship and contribution to campus. Money for the scholarships is raised through sale of SMOP late night tickets and other SMOP activities
The scholarship has been awarded at Honors Night since 1948. It is given in memory of those women whose college careers were terminated by death.
Mary Lasley, Mission junior and chairman of the All Women's Day committee, was mistress of ceremonies for Honors Night.
Assisting Miss Lasley on the committee were Louis Clovis, Salina sophomore; Marcia Heichen, Dodge City Junior; Susan Hosely, Leawood junior; Marie McMoss, Leawood sophomore; Karen Shellengerger, Manhattan senior; Jennifer Speer, Wichita freshman, and Connie McLain, Leavenworth sophomore.
Americans Safe Amidst Revolution in Dominican
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic —(UPI) The government today assured the United States it would guarantee the lives and properties of 2,300 American nationals here.
Word of the guarantee was broadcast over Dominican Radio, which has been in the hands of the provisional regime since the civilian junta of Donald Reid Cabral was overthrown last weekend.
But the U.S. nevertheless began evacuation of nationals from the battletorn republic. The evacuation started as new and heavy fighting broke out in downtown Santo Domingo.
Evacuation by American warships standing off the sugar port of Jaina Haina, a few miles west of the capital, was expected to be completed by today, an American Embassy official said. Evacuees will be taken to San Juan, P.R., it was indicated.
A U.S. NAVAL squadron led by the aircraft carrier Boxer stood prepared to carry out evacuation, if and when decided upon. This presumably would be carried out by helicopter flights to and from the Boxer.
In Washington, officials said at 10:45 a.m. EDT a final decision to evacuate Americans had not yet been made but that "preparations" to do so were underway.
Officials said a cease-fire appeared to be in effect in Santo Domingo but that the country was still in turmoil.
At least 20 persons were killed and more than 60 wounded Monday in fighting which included an air attack on the Dominican "white house" and at least one troop-vs.-tank battle in the streets.
SO FAR, HOWEVER, there has been no indication of a serious threat to Americans living in the country.
MARINE - manned helicopters might be used, however, to bring out American residents if it is deemed necessary to rescue them.
The Boxer is carrying its normally-assigned Marine detachment, but U.S. officials said there is no plan to land Marines to restore order in Santo Domingo.
Some gunfire was heard during the night, but there were no reports of heavy fighting.
The revolt appeared early today to be deadlocked.
The official radio, captured by
army rebels early in the revolt, alternated predictions of victory with exhortations to the people to "rush into the street and fight for the revolutionary movement."
THE RADIO also appealed to forces which have not yet taken sides to ignore the orders of loyalist Gen. Elias Wesson.
In Miami, Dominican consul Alberto Arvelo received a telephoned report saying the Dominican "white house" was held partly by rebels and partly by loyalists. Arvelo's sources said President Donald Reid Cabral, earlier reported in asylum in a foreign embassy, is in loyalist hands.
Other reports reaching Miami said mobs roaming the streets stoned the embassies of the United States, Panama and Guatemala. Police frustrated a mob attempt to
storm the Guatemalan embassy, where a number of loyal politicians had sought refuge, these reports said.
THE REBELS, including most of the navy and army units stationed in Santo Domingo were seeking to restore ousted ex-President Juan Bosch, who was overthrown a year and a half ago by military men who accused him of being "soft" on Communists.
An air attack Monday on Reid's official residence accounted for nearly half of the dead. Heavier casualties - 11 dead and 50 wounded were reported in a clash between police and an army tank.
The air force and army units elsewhere in the Dominican Republic remained loyal to Reid and the civilian junta government installed in Bosch's place.
Court Tightens Ban On Voting Payments
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— The Supreme Court held today that the 24th Amendment's ban on poll taxes as a requirement for voting in federal elections also applies to any "equivalent or milder" obstacles to voting.
In it's ruling on the 24th amendment, which went into effect last year, the high court ruled unconstitutional Virginia's law that voters must file before each federal election a certificate to show they still are residents of the state.
WHILE THE certificate of residence was outlawed for federal elections, Virginia voters will still have to pay a $1.50 a year poll tax to vote in state elections.
The 24th Amendment had no effect on state voting levies, still in effect in four other states as well as Virginia.
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Weather conditions will be mostly cloudy tomorrow with little change in temperature. The low tonight will be between 40 and 45. The high tomorrow will be near 60.
Today's decision marked the first departure by the Supreme Court from its long standing custom of handing down opinions only on Monday. In the future it will issue opinions on any day of the week while in session.
In the Virginia voting case, Chief Justice Earl Warren said, "For federal elections the poll tax is abolished absolutely as a prerequisite for voting, and no equivalent or milder substitute may be imposed."
Warren read the unanimous opinion. He said it was important to understand that the question was not whether a state has the power to abolish the poll tax entirely and require all voters—for both federal and state elections—to file an annual certificate of residence.
INSTEAD, HE said, the issue was whether Virginia could constitutionally confront the voter in federal elections with a requirement that he do one thing or another to be able to vote.
"We concluded that this requirement constitutes an abridgement of the right to vote in federal elections in contravention of the 24th Amendment." he said.
Faculty Signs Rights Petition
Bv Eric Johnson
A faculty petition supporting civil rights and peaceful demonstrations has been returned with 206 signatures, according to Donald Emmons, assistant professor of philosophy.
Emmons, one of six professors who conceived the idea of a petition, said its objective is "to get some expression of opinion on civil rights generally and how people should go about fighting discrimination."
Writing-Arts Talk Tonight in Union
Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, professional journalism societies, will sponsor a symposium entitled "Journalism and the Arts." at 8 o'clock tonight in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
The symposium, in the form of a panel discussion, will consider how journalism can enrich the public understanding of the arts.
On the panel will be four writers in the fine arts from the Kansas City Star.
Emmons said he and other faculty members felt there was a feeling among the students that the KU faculty was apathetic on things such as civil rights. He said the petition somewhat dispelled this rumor.
the petition was circulated a week after the civil rights demonstrations on campus early last month. The petition reads:
"We the undersigned, members of the faculty and staff of the University of Kansas, pledge our support to the attempts to establish regulatory and persuasive procedures necessary to ensure that all benefits, privileges, and opportunities afforded by the University and associated sectors of the university community are accorded each person-student, faculty
member, and employee—according to his individual merits, accomplishments and needs, and that no rights, privileges, or benefits shall be denied to anyone by reason of race, creed, or national origin. In addition, we support the right of all members of the university community to press for this principle by persuasion and peaceful demonstration."
Emmons stressed that the signers of the petition were speaking for themselves and not for the University.
Emmons also stressed the group of six who initiated the plan for a petition had no leader. Others are: Charles Landesmann, associate professor of philosophy; Marvin W. McKnight, director of the language laboratory; Michael J. Maher, assistant professor of zoology; Mildred Dickeman, assistant professor of anthropology; and H. Unz, professor of electrical engineering.