Two College Bowl Protests Upheld
Two College Bowl teams were granted a rematch by the College Intermediary Board yesterday after presenting a joint protest charging inconsistency in interpretation of the contest rules.
Sigma Nu and Stephenson Hall, who competed against each other in the second-round College Bowl matches Sunday, both stated that playing time had expired when Sigma Nu was permitted to answer a bonus question that decided the match in its favor.
THE TWO TEAMS argued that
Astronaut Grissom Aiming for Moon
NEW ORLEANS — (UPI) — Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson said yesterday the United States is "not shooting for the moon merely to satisfy idle curiosity."
But whatever the reason for the project, Capt. Virgil Grissom said he wanted to be the first astronaut to make the trip.
Johnson and Grissom were featured speakers at the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) convention here yesterday. The convention closes today with talks by comedian Bob Hope and newsman James Reston of the New York Times.
Johnson said the U.S. space program will give the average citizen a whole new set of products, including pocket television sets and better hearing aids.
By landing a man on the moon, he said, "We will solve many of the problems here on earth and will open new possibilities of peace and prosperity for mankind as well."
Grissom said that the United States was recruiting new astronauts, and added that the new recruits would "have a lot of competition because I want to go to the moon, too."
this situation was not well defined in the original contest rules.
A third protest, issued by Foster Hall, objected to the conditions under which its match with Templin Hall was played.
FOSTER HALL maintained that its team members could not hear the moderator because he was sitting in front of the Templin team, enabling Templin to jump into a substantial lead during the first 15 minutes of the match. The Board ruled against a Templin-Foster rematch, however, because Foster did not tell the moderator its team members could not hear the questions until they trailed by 125 points.
COMMENTING ON the appeals for rematches, Charles Anderson, Osage City senior and chairman of the Intermediary Board, said, "We tried to look at each case as judicially as we possibly could, because we felt the teams would not be protesting unless they had a valid point."
Anderson said the Stephenson-Sigma Nu rematch would be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. He added that a revised copy of the rules would be sent to teams remaining in the competition next week.
Cuban Debate Date Arrangements Stalled
A special committee of the All Student Council has been unable to arrange a debate on Cuba.
The ASC appropriated money for the debate, but agreement on a date for the debate could not be reached. The schedules of the opposing organizations did not coincide.
The "Truth About Cuba Committee" (anti-Castro) may send a speaker to the KU campus, but no "Fair Play for Cuba Committee" (pro-Castro) speaker will be able to speak for the other side.
Ten more people saw the great debate last night.
Few See Great Debate Again
Wednesday, the candidates for All Student Body president, Gerald (Kep) Kepner, Wichita junior and member of University Party, and Jerry Dickson, Newton junior and member of Vox Populi, were questioned by 10 people in Templin Hall.
THE DEBATE WAS held in the Joseph R. Pearson Hall cafeteria last night.
Again debate formalities were abandoned, and the two candidates answered questions from the floor. Following the question-and-answer session, both candidates criticized recent results of their series of debates.
Kepner said:
"The success of the debates in the girl's dorms (the first two debates of the series) was great, but their effectiveness has been decreasing."
DICKSON ADDED that the "results of the debates in the men's dorms have been quite poor."
Dickson said that attendance at the debates was essential to make the current campaigns and election a success.
"There is no other way for students to become aware of the candidates' attitudes and ideas under a situation of pressure except by attending one of these debates. The debates make the elections more than a popularity contest," Dickson said.
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Kepner agreed with Dickson, but he said the debates had one fallacy. "The people who have come to the debates so far were people who had already made up their minds." Kepner said. "It was not the uninformed person—who had yet to make up his mind on the candidates and issues—who came."
Bus Stop Buzz—Boss a Beast LONDON — (UPI) — A London secretary was reported recently to have remarked to her companion at a bus stop: "My boss was a perfect beast today. Ever since lunch hour I've been working."
Friday. April 20, 1962
Space Test Today, Skybolt Shot Good
University Daily Kansan
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI) — A forecast of good weather gave U.S. scientists a tentative "go" for another attempt today to fire their powerful new Centaur space rocket on its oft-postponed maiden flight.
Pithecanthropus Found
The Centaur, an upper stage powered by a revolutionary combination of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, will be launched into space aboard a modified Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile.
IN OTHER SPACE developments America's new marriage of a high-speed jet bomber and a ballistic missile is expected to produce the most mobile nuclear weapon punch
THE SHOT WAS the first of a series of four planned American space launchings designed to test new rockets, orbit still another satellite and send a complex probe to the moon during the next week.
Scientists hoped to send the Centaur rocket about 300 miles into space to ignite its pair of 15,000-pound-thrust engines for the first time in flight.
The maiden flight of the Skybolt did not go off without a hitch,however.A problem developed in the second stage of the rocket and dropped it short of its planned 900-mile range.
The key to the Centaur's importance was its use of liquid hydrogen, a super-cooled fluid, as a fuel. Hydrogen offers nearly half again as much power per pound as conventional kerosene-oxygen
But the launching proved the main point—that a ballistic missile could be launched from a fast-moving airplane and ignited in flight.
The discovery of Pithecanthropus Erectus, an important event in the study of evolution, was made in Java in 1891-92 by Prof. Eugene Dubois—(UPI)—
THE FLASH WAS the Air Force's new Skybolt ballistic missle as it left its perch beneath the right wing of the BS2. The smoke was the characteristic white vapor trail of a solid-fueled rocket, marking the missile's climb through the sky.
Yesterday afternoon, a B52 bomber roared over the Cape at a speed of more than 400 miles per hour. One minute later, a small flash could be seen beneath the plane. Then, a sparkling path of white smoke was etched in the sky, soaring steeply toward space, well ahead of the bomber.
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