KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No. 108
WEATHER WARMER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Details on Page 6
Monday, March 28, 1966
Weather no bar to Fling
By Karen Henderson
Spring Fling was a success in spite of weather and unforeseen circumstances, said Thayne Coulter, Clyde sophomore and chairman of the event.
Nearly 1,200 students waited nearly two hours for the Kingsmen, the band scheduled to play for a dance at 8 p.m. Friday in the Alley Room of the Eldridge Hotel, Coulter said.
Two members of the band arrived at 8 p.m. The other two were delayed by plane trouble and came at 10:30 p.m. In the meantime, arrangements had been made with the Red Dog Inn to accommodate the crowd, which left the Alley Room about 10:15 p.m. The Kingsmen played at the Red Dog when the rest of the band arrived.
Financial arrangements are still being made with the Kingsmen and the Red Dog Inn, and we expect to "break even," he said.
Coulter also explained the confusion about the name "The Kingsmen." The group which originally used the name has broken up and now there are two groups, he said.
COULTER said he was amazed at the tolerance of the crowd; they listened to records while waiting. "They wouldn't have been so understanding at any place but KU," he said.
"It was our understanding when we signed the contract that this was the group that recorded 'Louie, Louie' and 'Jolly Green Giant.' This group has legal claim to the name and the numbers," he said.
SATURDAY weather prevented the picnic from being held at Potter Lake as planned. Two lines of students, each the length of Allen Field House, waited there to get sack lunches.
Races and contests were held at Potter Lake. Points were awarded on the basis of participation and every team that entered got points, said Larry Geiger, Mission senior in charge of competitive events. Men's and
See SPRING on Page 3
THE BOD ON THE BED MUST GO OVER THE LINE Independents charge toward finish in Spring Fling bed race.
-Staff photo by Bill Stephens
CONSPIRACY IS CHARGED
Vox would ban UDK editor
Bu Eric Morgenthaler
Vox Populi last night lodged a petition with the All Student Council Elections Committee, charging a conspiracy between Jacke Thayer, Ellsworth senior and co-editorial editor of the University Daily Kansan, and University Party and asking for a Student Court injunction prohibiting Miss Thayer from printing editors to campus politics.
UP countered with a petition asking for an immediate Elections Committee investigation of the charges, "so the names and reputations of those accused and implicated may be cleared."
THE VOX PETITION was based upon a notarized affidavit signed by Bob Montgomery, Topeka junior, and Mike LeVota, Kansas City, Mo., junior and Greek vice-president of Vox.
It charged that between 11:30 p.m. and 1 a.m. on March 16-17, in a local restaurant, Miss Thayer met with four students, including Al Martin, Shawnee Mission junior and UP student body presidential candidate, and agreed to give editorial support to UP in return for UP's influence in acquiring votes for Miss Thayer in an Associated Women Students (AWS) election.
The UP petition included notarized affidavits from Martin, Miss Thayer, and the three other
students involved—Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission law student; Jim Masters, Mission graduate student; and Mrs. Masters, Cairo, U.A.R., senior. All of them denied the Vox charges in their affidavits.
Miss Thayer, one of three codigners of an editorial which appeared in Friday's UDK supporting Martin, had earlier filed for the office of AWS president or senator-at-large. She was informed by the AWS Elections Committee that her name had been put on the ballot as a candidate for senator-at-large.
The co-chairman of the ASC Elections Committee, Kay Orth, El Dorado junior, and Jim Prager, Annandale, Va., junior, were to meet today with Jack Duncan, Raytown, Mo., law student and chief justice of the Student Court, to decide on the proper action to take on the petitions.
AFTER THE meeting this morning Orth and Prager issued this joint statement:
"The elections committee will investigate the charges presented in the two petitions. It is not within the jurisdiction of the committee to petition the Student Court to take action on the charges. Furthermore neither petition has been submitted to the court in proper form.
Applications for the Selective Service qualification test are available in the Office of Admissions and Records, James K. Hitt, registrar, said today. Test scores will be used by local draft boards in determining whether to grant college students academic 2S deferment.
Applications for draft test now available in Strong
The test will be given Saturday, May 14, Saturday, May 21, and Friday, June 3. The student will indicate on the application what he will be doing on each date and will be notified later when he can take the test. Hitt said.
ANY STUDENT registered for
The deadline for submitting applications is April 23.
"We will continue our efforts to investigate the matter and immediate action will be taken by the committee."
Applicants should obtain a bulletin, an application card, a ticket of admission and a mailing envelope.
Hitt emphasized that students do not have to pick up applications at their local draft boards but can get them in Strong.
Selective Service may take the test, but no one is required to take it.
Hitt said the local board "does not have to pay any attention to the fact that a student did or didn't take the test or whether the student made a high or low score. A board is not required to defer a student because of his test score."
"Evidence has been brought to our attention of a conspiracy to defraud and mislead the student body . . . Miss Thayer has violated a public trust, an editorial responsibility, and should no longer be allowed to print her views on the pages of the student newspaper.
The Vox petition, signed by Tom Stanion, Pratt senior and Vox president, said in part:
LOCAL BOARDS MAY also refer to reports of class standing which will be sent out from the Office of Admissions and Records in late June, for all students who have requested this be done.
"We . . . protest the role of University Party in the deal—a deal which can be considered as nothing less than a flagrant breach of generally accepted and honorable codes of campaign conduct."
The test will be administered by Science Research Associates and they will send the test results to the local draft boards.
On the application the student must designate an examination center, chosen from the list in the information bulletin. The SRA will assign that center or the closest alternative center.
"... we trust that the voters will respond to this exposure in such a way that whatever chance Mr. Martin had of winning the election will be totally negated," it said.
THE PETITION said that Vox seeks no action against UP through the Elections Committee.
The bulletin also provides a description of the test and sample questions.
The UP petition, signed by Martin and notarized, said in part:
"On my behalf, and on behalf of the other parties involved or implicated. I emphatically deny these charges.
"I interpret the Vox Populi petition as seeking, by the Student Court, the prevention of future publication of an individual's views—an action clearly outlawed by the laws of our land which relate to freedom of the press.
"I am equally confident 'that the voters will respond' to the 'exposure' by Mr. Stanion and will vindicate those who have been implicated by these false charges."
LeVota said last night he and Montgomery overheard a conversation among Miss Thayer and the four other students named in which both Miss Thayer's AWS presidential candidacy and the UDK's election editorial policy were discussed.
LeVota said that he heard the group talking about the AWS convention and the fact that a presidential candidate was running unopposed—a condition prohibited by the AWS constitution. The possibility of Miss Thayer's running for president and her
chances for election were being discussed, he said.
LEVOTA SAID that he heard Whitman tell Miss Thayer, "Don't worry. We will go into these sorority houses and get you all the support you need."
He said that Miss Thayer promised editorial support for UP in return for help from Martin and UP members in getting her sorority votes to allow her to run for AWS president.
LeVota said, "They didn't shake hands or anything like that, but we got the idea that the two subjects were correlated and that they were working hand in hand."
But Mrs. Masters said that the discussion of editorial policy and the AWS were two separate conversations.
"Jacke first said she was in favor of the UP platform because of its student rights plank and that she intended to support UP," she said.
"THEN, IN A SEPARATE conversation, she said she was interested in running for president of AWS, but didn't think she would be able to run because the AWS constitution said that presidential candidates had to have served on the AWS Senate, and Jake hadn't. She wondered about the
See VOX on Page 3
University Party (UP) and Vox Populi have made final plans for two political debates, the first to be held tonight at 6:30 in Ellsworth Hall, and the second tomorrow at 8 p.m. at McCollum Hall.
Parties to debate
★★★
A third debate has been scheduled by KU-Y and Student Union Activities for 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
The format will be four five-minute and four three-minute speeches followed by questions from the audience.
Difficulties in arranging time, place, and terms stumped several attempts at debates between the parties last week.