No Help Seen From Vatican
NEW ORLEANS—(UPI) —Three segregation leaders who were ex-communicated by the Catholic archbishop of New Orleans can look for little sympathy if they appeal their cases to the Vatican.
Church sources here and in Rome said that the Roman Catholic Church has opposed racial segregation everywhere and in any form throughout the two milleniums of its history. They said the action taken against the segregationists by Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel, 86, was in line with the church's stand.
MRS. GAILLOT, Perez and Ricau will be denied the sacraments, including communion. They would not get Catholic burial if they died while excommunicated but they may go to Mass and make confessions.
The archdiocese said all three were sent letters threatening excommunication if they did not stop
Rummel invoked the church's severest penalty recently against Leander H Perez, Sr., Mrs. B. J. Gaillot and Jackson G. Ricau for attempting to incite "disobedience or rebellion" to his recent order to desegregate all Catholic schools in the 10-parish (county) archdiocese of New Orleans.
their opposition to Rummel's school integration order. Ferez claimed he never got such a letter. The church said it was mailed to him four times and each time it was returned marked unclaimed.
The three indicated they would fight the archbishop's decision, taking their cases to Rome if necessary, and they said the ruling would not deter their fight against desegregation. But there was slight if any chance that the Vatican would take cognizance of their protestations. The Vatican praised Rummel in 1955 for closing a Louisiana mission for its refusal to accept a Negro priest.
PEREZ, ONE-TIME leader of the National States Rights Party, immediately charged at a (white) citizens council meeting that forced integration was the work of the
Archbishop Rummel, who said in a pastoral letter in 1956 that segregation was "sinful and morally wrong," announced last month that Catholic schools in this sprawling, heavily-Catholic South Louisiana archdiocese would be desegregated next fall through all 12 grades, including all extra-curricular activities.
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Legislative Program Misunderstood by Few
The director of research for the Kansas Legislative Council said yesterday that a few council members opposed the legislative program because they did not really understand it.
The program allows graduate students to study the Kansas Legislature.
Friday, May 11, 1962
"They (the council) were complaining because two of the four appointed were not Kansans," he said. "They asked why they should pay money for interns who will go back to their own states."
THE FOUR INTERNS that were appointed are all Democrats and will serve in next year's Republican controlled Legislature.
Two interns, Robert D. Roache and Donald P. Sprengel, are students at St. Louis University. The other two, James W. Guenther of Wichita University and John R. Snider of KU were the two Kansas named. The two St. Louis University students are from Chicago, Ill. Snider is from Russell.
THE LEGISLATIVE Council is made up of ten senators, 15 representatives, the speaker of the house and the Lieutenant Governor.
An intern receives $200 from the state and $200 from the Ford Foundation each month. He also receives ten hours of credit from the KU Graduate School.
"I don't think the council members realized that these interns will be helping the various legislative committees as well as observing the legislature," he said. "The council got off on a tangent when they found that two of the recommended were not Kansans and took a vote on the appointment before the program was explained."
The intern program is financed
equally by the Ford Foundation and the Kansas Legislature. The legislature appropriated $10,000 for the program during this year's budget session.
Daily hansan
GUILD SAID the eight that opposed the program felt that the applications should have been screened so more Kansans were appointed.
The vote was 17-8 in favor of accepting the appointments.
"The council did not understand how an intern program works," he said. "It is very similar to a school scholarship program."
"You choose the ones that are most qualified," he said "Residence does not affect the choice."
59th Year, No.137
Wescoe Issues Terse Statement On CRC Meeting
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Three representatives of the Civil Rights Council and the chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the All Student Council met for an hour with Chancellor W. Clarke Wescote today, and the Chancellor issued a terse statement which gave no hint of what was discussed.
THE CHANCELLOR obtained promises from the student representatives that they would not disclose the content of the discussion, at least until more talks are held.
"Mr. Warner, Mr. Ellison and Mr. Holbert, with Brian Grace, visited with me this morning, and we discussed matters of mutual interest to all of us." Chancellor Wescoe said.
The chancellor had declined to meet with CRC representatives when they asked for an appointment Feb. 23. At that time, CRC wanted to discuss with Chancellor Wescoe the possibility of University action to remove discriminatory clauses from fraternity and sorority constitutions.
THE CRC REPRESENTATIVES at today's meeting were Don Warner, Topea junior, Nolen Ellison, Lawrence junior, and Leland Holbert, Kansas City senior. Brian Grace, Lawrence sophomore, is chairman of HRC.
On April 11, CRC discussed taking legal action against the University for alleged discriminatory practices. The practices were not named, but some sources mentioned the requirement that freshman women send photographs of themselves to the office of the dean of women.
The Daily Kansan was told by Chancellor Wescoe last week that the CRC representatives had made an appointment with him for today. The students were admitted to the chancellor's office at 11:10 a.m. The chancellor issued his statement at
The chancellor said Grace and the CRC representatives agreed that the brief statement was all they wanted said about the meeting.
Temperatures today will be slightly higher. The upper 90s west to around 90 east are expected.
The students were admitted to the chancellor's office at 11:10 a.m. The chancellor issued his statement at 12:10 p.m.
The outlook for tomorrow is more favorable, with the chance of a few scattered afternoon showers.
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Authorities Return Refugees to China
HONG KONG — (UPI) — Uniformed soldiers and entire Communist party cadres of communes in neighboring areas of China were reported today to have fled to this British colony in a wave of border crossings that has brought in as many as 3,000 refugees a day.
British colonial authorities, alarmed at the prospect of further crowding of this refugee-filled Crown Colony, were reported to be rounding up the border crossers and sending them back to Communist territory.
Many of the refugees were dressed in rags and tatters and some were suffering from visible signs of malnutrition, seeming to bear out persistent reports of acute food shortages in Communist China.
In one incident today, a Hong Kong police marine launch intercepted a junk carrying 40 refugees from the mainland. A government spokesman said all were returned under a "no entry" rule.
Local press reports said the Communist cadres of communes in Kwangtung — most of them young men between the ages of 18 and 30— were rounded up by Hong Kong authorities after they came across the border and were placed under the guard of Gurkha soldiers.
One local newspaper, The China Mall, today published photographs it said were those of fleeing commune officials from Kwangtung.
Other local reports said the influx of Chinese from the border — fenced off for all but four of its 14-mile length—include Communist militiamen and regular army soldiers.
According to farmers in Hong Kong's new territories area, about three miles from the border, some 160 Chinese soldiers in uniform crossed the border carrying their rifles and shotguns.
The soldiers, press reports said, were seeking political asylum and repatriation to the Nationalist Chinese Island of Formosa.
Meanwhile, the number of persons seeking refuge in Hong Kong from what they describe as intolerable living conditions in China still is on the uptrend. The number entering this colony ranges from 700 to 3,000 a day, these reports said.
The influx so far this month has posed such a serious problem for Hong Kong that Gov. Sir Robert Black is reported to have visited the border town of Ta Ku Ling for an on-the-spot inspection.
Groups as large as 100 persons
Police have been enforcing as best they can the "no entry" policy since about three weeks ago. Late in April Communist vigilance along the 14-mile border relaxed mysteriously for the first time since 1956.
There has been no hint whether the relaxation is the consequence of a policy adopted by the central government in Peiping, whether it stems from local decisions or indicates a complete breakdown of discipline in the border area.
Hong Kong authorities have said they must deport the refugees to maintain the economic well-being of the territory.
This small British Crown Colony has a population of more than 3,250,000 persons.
Dr. Scheerer Memorial Set
The memory of a KU psychology professor will be honored by naming a section in the Kansas Neurological Institute at Toneka for him.
Dr. Martin Scheerer served 13 years on the faculty prior to his death last October. The announcement of the honor was made Wednesday noon during a meeting of more than 150 psychologists gathered here for the Martin Scheerer memorial meeting.
Mrs. Scheerer was present at the meeting when Dr. Clement Vickery, superintendent of the Topeka institute, made the announcement.
Dr. Scheerer was recognized as a world authority on the psychological effects of brain damage. He and Dr. Kurt Goldstein developed an internationally-used test to determine the degree and effects of brain damage — the Goldstein-Scheerer test. Dr. Scheerer joined the University of Kansas faculty in 1948, coming here from the New School for Social Research in New York City. Previously he had taught at Columbia University, Wells College and the City College of New York. Dr. Scheerer was serving as president of the Kansas Psychological Association at the time of his death. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg, Germany, in 1927.
Student Honesty Involved in Honor Program
By Ron Wilcox
(Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of three articles on the Honor System).
How honest is a college student? What kind of test is he likely to be tempted to cheat on?
These are the questions that a number of college and university officials have been asking themselves for a number of years. Does cheating in the classroom lead to cheating in other walls of life?
MARVIN L. HENRICKS of Indiana Central College conducted a survey on cheating. The data obtained from a questionnaire showed that 57 per cent of the students questioned and nearly 75 per cent of the seniors questioned had cheated some time during their college careers.
When the students were asked to comment on the Honor System, 12 per cent said they would co-operate if they saw someone cheating, 33 per cent were unsure, and 55 per cent said they would not inform the instructor.
Students said there is no reason to believe that because a person cheats
he also would steal a $5 bill if given the chance.
IN A SURVEY conducted with students from Brooklyn College it was found that nearly every student had cheated some time in his academic career.
The report said, "If these reactions are a reliable index of moral values, then the vast majority of college students today seem to have little regard for the ethical standards that should guide and control their behavior."
Clyde Jones, professor of military science at KU and a 1933 graduate of West Point, is a firm believer in the Honor System and thinks that it would be well for KU to have one.
"I THINK KU SHOULD have an Honor System because all college students should be mature enough to have established a sense of moral value." he said.
"The students found guilty sometimes leave school within two hours and leave as quietly as possible."
He said that nearly every year there are a number of violations of the Honor System at West Point.
Edward Bishop, Lawrence graduate student and a 1953 graduate of West Point, agrees with Prof. Jones.
"The honor code at West Point is carried out to the fullest extent," he said. "If a Cadet observes someone cheating, it is his duty to report it."
A QUESTION CLOSELY connected with college cheating is the punishment that should be rendered.
Some believe correction, rather than punishment, is needed to curb cheating.
"I think the student should be as severely punished as the rules of the University permit," said Francis Heller, associate dean of the College. "We should give the student a fair return on his investment."
Prof. Jones also said the student should be heavily punished.
"I think the student should be dropped from class and expelled from school," he said.
IT IS KU'S POLICY that a student caught cheating will flunk the course.
W. Stitt Robinson, professor of history at KU, said students should
be out of school within 24 hours after found guilty of cheating.
Prof. Robinson has a special interest in the Honor System program because he served on a special committee to look into the possibility of an honor code a few years ago.
REFERRING TO CHEATING a KU, he said that the situation has improved since 1950.
"The student's attitude is better, although there is still a problem," he said.
Prof. Robinson considers this a form of serious cheating and in most cases is just as recognizable as cheating in the classroom, he said. He suggested that organized houses throw away past tests and term papers.
Prof. Robinson showed concern about the fraternity and sorority system of saving term papers and tests. Fraternities and sororites on most college campuses keep a file of tests taken and term papers submitted in previous years by students.
"I CAN USUALLY remember a term paper from its content," he said, adding that he will flunk a student if he sees any part of a paper that might have been copied from another.
Another example of college cheating was brought into the open in May, 1960, when a New York City grand jury found a number of "ghostwriting agencies" providing book reports, term papers and doctoral dissertations on any subject.
The "ghostwriting agencies" are not a secret organization; they advertise their services throughout the nation. The jury found that there are hundreds of students who have contacted the agencies for help.
SURVEYS SHOWED that students who handed in papers written by "ghostwriters" received an average mark of "C."
William Bass, assistant professor of anthropology, and Dean Heller said they have not seen any evidence of "ghostwriting" at KU. Dean Heller, however, added that he has heard of instances where a student has taken a test for another student.
"There is a great deal of use of files and collaboration of homework," he added.