Daily Hansan
59th Year, No.136
Thursday, May 10, 1962
Student Protesting Striking in 3 Nations
By Daily Kansan Wire Services
Student protests and strikes are on in three different parts of the world this morning, protesting government meddling in university affairs, calling for the resignation of one president of a Latin American country, and supporting striking miners in Spain.
University students in Lisbon and Coimbra boycotted classes today in a strike to protest government meddling in university affairs.
IN LISBON, 85 students — including 8 coeds — closeted themselves in the university canteen with blankets and began a hunger strike.
In Coinbra, 110 miles to the northeast, 400 students shut themselves inside the school social center with food and drink. They sang the Portugese national anthem, shouted college slogans and tolled the bells in the tower.
POLICE ALSO were in evidence at Lisbon University but made no move to interfere.
In Guatemala City, students called off an ineffective anti-government strike but are standing by their demand for resignation of President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes.
In Spain, an estimated 1,500 students demonstrated on the campus of the University of Madrid today to protest the arrest and fining of other students during previous demonstrations last weekend in support of striking miners in northern Spain.
ONE GROUP OF 200 charged newsmen watching the demonstration, mauling one and shoving another against a wall and threatening him.
Both were rescued by police. Neither was injured.
The students told the newsmen they did not want publicity abroad for what was a "purely Spanish problem."
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The new demonstration came as
the Spanish cabinet was reported ready to approve a general wage increase for most major industries in an effort to end the country's labor crisis which started with the miner's strike last month.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco told Frank H. Bartholomew, chairman of the board of United Press International, that responsibility for the miners' strike lies directly on continuous Communist broadcasts in the Spanish language by Prague radio.
Forum Is Canceled
There will be no People-to-People "Ugly American" forum tonight. P-t-P student ambassadors are encouraged to attend the Phi Beta Kappa lecture, "The New World Role of the United States." to be given by Stuart Hughes, Harvard University, at 8 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Weather
Widely scattered thunderstorms northeast and extreme east this afternoon and evening. Generally fair over remainder of state this afternoon, tonight and Friday. Warmer northeast this afternoon. Low tonight 50s northwest to near 70 southeast. High Friday 88 to 94.
CRC Releases Barber Survey
A Civil Rights Council study of 16 Lawrence barber shops released last night indicates that not all Lawrence barbers would cut a Negro's hair, although a majority would apparently do so.
THE STUDY, which was prompted by reports that Lawrence barbers were more racially prejudiced in their practices than was reported in a similar survey last year, found
P-T-P Has New Approach
By Bob Hoyt
The revitalized version of the People-to-People "brother-sister" program is being rebuilt on a "first things first" concept.
P-t-P "brothers and sisters" will concentrate on helping incoming foreign students solve small problems such as how to use telephones, drugstores and cafeterias, then build the friendships from there.
"IF A FOREIGN STUDENT comes here with ten problems," James Murray, Leawood sophomore and P-t-P student ambassador flight chairman said, "and we can help him solve seven of them the first week, we'll all be that much further ahead."
P-t-P "brothers and sisters" will be assigned their international counterparts this summer, and will be ready to go into action at the beginning of the fall semester.
Two applications — one from each of the two students involved — are used in matching the American and the foreign student. The applications will be kept on file at KU and matched as well as possible according to common interests and fields of study.
The two students involved in each "brother" or "sister" pair will be in contact by mail as soon as the applications are matched.
The foreign student will notify his or her American counterpart of his or her expected arrival time in this country, and then the American will arrange to meet the foreign student at the most convenient terminal — in most cases Lawrence, Kansas City or Wichita.
THE FIRST TWO weeks of the fall semester will be a busy one for P-t-P "brothers and sisters." They will help arrange for housing for the foreign students, introduce them to deans and advisers and other American students, and help them find places to shop and get their washing done.
A. A. Abdul-Rahim, Damascus, Syria, graduate student, and president of the International Club said that sometimes the small problems are the most perplexing.
"I didn't know how to use the cafeteria when I first came here," he said. "It may sound strange, but
I was used to always being waited on, and I was lost the first time I went to the cafeteria to eat."
MONEY PROBLEMS enter in — especially when a foreign student is not familiar with currency and the rate of exchange. An enterpriseprising taxi driver managed to get a 20-dollar tip from one of the incoming foreign students last fall.
There is a possibility that some of the "brothers and sisters" may meet next summer during the P-t-P student ambassador tour.
Tour members who are also "brothers and sisters" will be sent the name and address of their foreign friends as soon as the applications are matched. It is possible that some of them may be able to become acquainted in Europe this summer.
The "sister" program is filled now, but there are still several vacancies for "brothers." Applications are available at the P-t-P office in room 113 of the Kansas Union. All applications must be in by May 16. The first orientation program for the P-t-P "brothers and sisters" will be held that night in the Kansas Union.
Honors System at KU?
'Midnight Oil' Sessions Due
By Ron Wilcox
(Editor's Note: This is the first in a three part series on the Honor System.)
In a couple of weeks about 10,000 KU students and thousands more in other colleges and universities will be taking final examinations. For many, these examinations will be the last of their college careers. For others, it will be only the beginning of the many tests to come in the future.
Final week on most college campuses can be considered a period of insomnia. Lights burn throughout the night, coffee pots get a workout and campus restaurants get set for a boom in business. Students deprive themselves of dates and social gatherings to gain that extra bit of information that might mean the difference between an "A" and a "B" or a "C" and a "D."
SOON AFTER THE graduating senior leaves school he generally finds a tremendous amount of competition in whatever he does. The pressure is off grades and is on integrity and ability.
When the graduating college senior applies for a job, the one thing that is mandatory in almost all applications is his student grade record. College students realize that grades have a great influence and that good marks might tend to persuade employers to hire them. The determination to make good grades often finds the student sacrificing his playful high school habits into more serious thought.
If he does not earn these grades in the proper manner advocated by the standards of the school, he is, in simple words, cheating.
This brings us to the question: Should there be an honor system at colleges and universities and should the University of Kansas have one?
DOES THE STUDENT earn these grades in the fairest and most equitable way possible?
AUTHORITIES WHO have studied the problem of cheating in American colleges say that it is universal. There is an honor system at West Point and that honor pledge
was violated during the early 1950s. Examinations — either at West Point or at KU — have been attacked for a variety of reasons. They intensify competition; they are a strain on the students so acute that they cannot resist temptation. Tests involve parents as well as the student who will apparently do anything not to disappoint his parents.
An explanation of what the grading system is would be a method of
The grading system at many American colleges is not an arbitrary system for humiliating students with low grades and glorifying those with high grades.
Prof. William Bass
Dean Francis Heller
evaluating every student's performance — in relation to the rest of the student body. Colleges are able to tell what to expect from the student from the kind of record the student had in high school. The grading system provides employers with a standard by which to judge the abilities of different applicants for the same job. These evaluations are almost a necessity today because of the stiff competition which exists in life.
What is the Honor System?
UNDER THE HONOR SYSTEM students sign pledges or give their "spoken word" that they will not cheat. In most schools the honor system requires that any student who sees another student cheating must report the student either to the teacher or the student council.
At KU, teachers are left on their own and it is their own right if they want students to sign such a pledge. There is at least one faculty member at KU who requires his students to sign an honor pledge when they enroll in his courses.
He is William Bass, assistant professor of anthropology. Prof. Bass is a graduate of the University of Virginia, a school in which the honor system has been used since 1846.
"DURING MY THREE YEARS at Virginia I never saw any cheating," he says.
Prof. Bass' honor pledge reads:
"On my honor I have neither given
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that five of the sixteen would not cut a Negro's hair.
The survey was conducted last week.
The general consensus of the other 11 barbers, as reported by CRC member Ivory Nelson, Lawrence graduate student, was that they would cut Negroes' hair if they (the Negroes) were willing to take a chance.
NELSON CONTINUED, "One of them said that Waldo Monroe, a Negro barber, had told white barbers at a meeting with the Chancellor in the fall that around $75 to $80 of special equipment is needed to cut a Negroe's hair."
Nelson said, "None of the shops tested which said they would cut Negroes' hair reported any loss in their business." (In previous talks with Lawrence barbers it was argued that cutting Negroes' hair would cause a loss of business.)
Last night, however, Charles Menghini, Pittsburg senior and the co-chairman of the CRC, said, "Most of the barbers we have talked to say that there is no real difference in cutting hair."
Monroe, in a telephone interview last night, said, "Well, someone is mixed up. I didn't quote any figures at all. Three of us Negro barbers in Lawrence have been quoted by the CRC, although we were never interviewed."
He added that extra equipment is needed to cut a Negro's hair, but did not state how much this equipment would cost.
George Buford, Kansas City senior and CRC co-chairman, said last night that one of the barbers interviewed in last week's survey said he didn't know how to cut a Negro's hair and didn't care to learn.
NELSON SAID that one other barber, when questioned, replied, "I don't understand what you're talking about and so I can't answer you."
In other action at the meeting, Fred Tiffany, Lyndon junior, reported on an investigation which he made into alleged discriminatory practices in men's dormitories.
He said that James G. Middleton, assistant to the dean of men, said that in the last five years he has been here there has never been any real problem in the men's dorms.
Peace Corps Man Will Show Films
Clair Butterworth, assistant chief of the college and university division of the public affairs office of the Peace Corps will be there to answer questions about the Corps.
A special meeting will be held at 8 p.m. tonight in the Templin Hall lounge for anyone interested in the Peace Corps.
Butterworth will speak and show films at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. Clark Coan, assistant dean of men, urges students with 3 o'clock classes to attend the meeting after their classes "because it will still be in progress then."
A Peace Corps examination will be given May 19 in Room 3 of Green Hall. The examination is not a regularly scheduled one, but is being given because so many interested people were turned away from the last test.
AWS Meeting Today
The outgoing members of the Associated Women Students House of Representatives will sponsor an annual "get-acquainted" picnic today at 4 p.m. at Potter Lake for the newly elected '62-'63 members of the AWS House.