Daily hansan
Friday, March 23, 1962
59th Year, No. 109
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Election Faulty Says Oldfather
The winning candidates of the March 14 Young Democrats election of officers have been found guilty of an "improper course of conduct."
Prof. Oldfather made his charge of improper conduct today after hearing almost five hours of testimony from both sides at a hearing last night.
At last night's hearing, Aylward asked if he would be allowed to match YD treasury receipts with the number of memberships listed. Bennington was treasurer of the organization prior to the March 14 election.
The charge was levied against the slate of Young Democrat officers headed by Barry Bennington, Cheney junior, the new YD president. The charge that the March 14 election was fraudulent was made by Peter Aylward, Ellsworth junior and defeated candidate for president of the KU Young Democrats.
The leaders of both the Bennington and Aylward factions agreed to allow Charles H. Oldfather, professor of law, to arbitrate the case.
In a telephone interview this noon, Prof. Oldfather said that as a result of his decision, the YD faculty adviser will not certify the Bennington officers as delegates to the state Young Democrats convention.
Aylward said he checked the YD bank records and found them to show $154 in deposits. The treasury report listed the total receipts as $205. Bennington said he had the remaining funds in his apartment.
AYLWARD SAID HE would drop his charges if Bennington would allow Prof. Oldfather and members of both factions to see the YD treasury funds Bennington said were in his apartment.
Bennington refused. Asked why, he said, "It's a matter of principle."
Aylward maintained that a shortage in the funds Bennington claimed to have in his apartment would indicate that illegal free memberships had been distributed.
Before Aylward asked for an examination of the funds Bennington claimed to have in his apartment, witnesses called by the two factions gave contradictory testimony.
SANDRA ROBINSON, Ellinwood junior and candidate for treasurer on the Benington slate, said Bennington asked her to get more members from her sorority (Chi Omega) house after the Feb. 21 deadline for memberships with voting privileges in the March 14 election.
She said Bennington told her she would "take care of" the $1 membership fees so she would not have to sell the memberships but could give them away. She said she issued 13 free memberships to her sorority sisters after the Feb. 21 deadline.
Kay Arnold, Wichita sophomore, said she was given a card shortly before the election meeting. She said Gauby wrote the name of Anne Simpson, Newton sophomore, on a card and gave it to her (Miss Arnold). Miss Arnold said that Gauby told her Miss Simpson was a member on the voting list and she (Miss Arnold) could vote when Miss Simpson's name was called at the balloting.
Nancy DeFever, Independence sophomore, said she had not bought a membership in the Young Democrats but was allowed to vote in the election. She said that on the night of the election she was given the card of Jane Lutton, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore.
Much of this testimony was contradicted by witnesses called by the Gauby-Bennington faction.
"MR. GAUBY HAD quite a number of cards and he was signing them," she said.
The will directs that preference in the use of both funds be given to students in nursing, medicine and medical technology.
Michael T. Thomas, Fort Riley junior and membership chairman of the Young Democrats, said Miss Robinson gave him the names of 26 Chi Omegas and the money to pay for their memberships before the Feb. 21 deadline. He said no names of Chi Omegas were turned in to him and put on the list after the deadline.
KU Endowment Willed Big Scholarship Fund
University officials who have been advised of the provisions of the will have indicated that selection of recipients of awards from the Lundquist and Jones funds will be made on the same basis used for the Summerfield and Watkins scholarships.
GARY CONKLIN. Hutchinson law student and elections committee chairman said, "Any Chi Omega who was on the membership list was a member before the 21st (of February)."
A will admitted to probate in McPherson County apparently will establish the third largest endowed scholarship fund at KU.
The income from the Effie J. Jones memorial Fund, in memory of Mrs. Lundquist's late sister, is to be used for scholarships and loans to students from the town of Reading and from Osage County.
The will of the late Mrs. W. E. Lundiquist of McPheron bequests to the KU Endowment Association property with an estimated value of $100,000. The money is to be used to establish two scholarship funds.
The income from the W.E. Lundquist Memorial Fund is to be used for scholarships and loans to KU students from McPherson County.
THE INCOME from each of the two scholarship funds is expected to yield $2,500 or more a year for awards to KU students.
Settlement of the estate will take about a year, making the first awards from the fund available for the 1963- 64 school year.
"Many distinguished graduates of the University, as well as many outstanding students now on our campus, came from McPherson and the Reading vicinity. Through Mrs. Lundquist's generosity, in the years to come, many young men and women from these areas, who would have found higher education beyond their means, will be able to achieve this goal.
"The University depends entirely on gifts and bequests from friends and alumni for student financial aid, and we are deeply grateful for Mrs. Lundquist's bequest, which will provide one of the largest scholarship funds at KU, being exceeded only by the Summerfield and Watkins awards which are on a state-wide basis."
WHEN CHANCELLOR W. Clarke Wescoe was informed of the bequest, he said:
Property in the bequest includes a quarter section of pasture land near Reading, a 400-acre tract northwest of Marquette (the former Lund-quist home) and a partial interest in a 110-acre tract north of Lyons.
Jerry Dickson
Dickson Named Vox Candidate For President
Jerry Dickson, Newton junior, is Vox Populi's candidate for student body president in the spring elections.
In a meeting last night, Vox's general assembly unanimously ratified the nomination of Dickson George Hahn, Scotch Plains, N.J. junior for student body vice president and a slate of 10 school candidates for the All Student Council
The ASC candidates are Greg Turner, Seattle, Wash., sophomore, college men; Janice Huffman, Junction City sophomore, college women; Judith Fitts, Topeka junior, School of Education; Larry Milne, Lawrence senior, School of Pharmacy;
Dennis Branstiter, Independence, Mo., junior, School of Journalism; Anne Peddie, Wichita junior, School of Fine Arts; Rab Malik, Karachi, Pakistan, Graduate School; Leo Kelly, Kansas City, Mo., School of Law, and Larry Borcherding, Kansas City, Mo., junior, School of Business.
Vox criticized the University Party's platform plank which calls for direct primaries, instead of the closed primaries which Vox uses.
"If UP is concerned about direct primaries," he added, "why are they running only one student body president candidate?"
After his nomination, Dickson said that although Vox has made many reforms in the past, "it cannot stay where it is, it must look toward the challenge of the future.
"I have been called an 'Angry Young Man' by certain people, and I am angry at such things as mediocrity, at those persons who will not accept responsibility, and at those persons who do not realize the potentialities of a thorough student government at KU."
Weather
Increasing cloudiness and windy this afternoon and tonight with scattered showers or thunderstorms developing over the extreme west portion this evening and moving eastward across the state tonight. Saturday cloudy and windy with rain or snow northwest and showers or thunderstorms East. Turning coldest west and central portions Saturday. Low tonight near 30 northwest to near 50 southeast. High Saturday 30s northwest and near 70 southeast.
Menghini Charged With Taking Plank
University Party leaders last night charged Charles Menghini, Pittsburgh senior, of taking a former UP platform plank.
The action came in a meeting called to answer charges of Brian O'Heron, Lawrence senior and Action party temporary president, that previous UP platforms have included the present Action plank supporting All Student Council consideration of national and international issues, but that the planks were never acted upon.
Gerald Kepner, Wichita junior and UP candidate for student body president, said the plank was one advocated by Menghini when he was a UP member in 1961.
"But," Kepner said, "Menghini took that plank with him when he left UP."
"Action currently has a misconception of what student government is. The purpose of the University is to educate, and it should be the express purpose of the campus political parties and representatives to the ASC to represent the student body in campus and University affairs.
"Various organizations on the Hill, such as the Current Events
Committee, the Minority Opinion Forum and the Model UN offer students ample opportunity to hear and express student opinion on national and international affairs."
UP party leaders also criticized these two planks in the Action platform as inconsistent:
- Granting the Faculty Senate power to set University policy in areas of direct student concern.
- Jim Anderson, Lawrence senior and UP co-chairman, said that the two Action planks are "inconsistent."
- The abolishment of the University's practice of the traditional student-University relationship of "In Loco Parentis" or "in lieu of parents." The Action ggroup believes the students should be allowed more freedom in such areas as campus newspapers, regulations on controversial speakers and unnecessary social regulations.
"In this platform, they want to give more power to the students in one plank, and grant the Faculty Senate power to override the chancellor in the other," he said.
"These two planks are diabolically opposed to each other," Anderson added.
Scholarship Trophies Given at Greek Dinner
Representatives from 39 Greek letter organizations last night attended the annual Greek Week Scholarship dinner and distributed seven trophies to organizations which ranked high in campus scholarship in the 1961-62 year.
Kappa Alpha Theta won the
Camilla Swayze, Shawnee Mission junior and president of the Panhellenic Council, awarded the trophies for the sororities.
THOMAS M. HAHN, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Kansas State University challenged top scholarship students to take the lead in campus activities. Dean Hahn, the principal speaker, said Greek letter organizations should urge their top students to assume more leadership both on and off the campus.
Susan Cole, St. John sophomore and member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority, received the award for the pledge with the highest grade-point average. She had a 3.00 average for the year.
trophy for the sorority with the highest grade average, 2.02.
Paul Ingemanson, Topeka junior and president of the Inter-Fraternity Council, awarded the five fraternity trophies. Beta Theta Pi won trophies for the pledge class with the best grade-point average, and for the highest house average.
Sigma Nu was awarded the Scholarship Improvement Trophy. The 38-inch trophy is a traveling trophy. It was passed on to Sigma Nu, which improved its house grade average .41. from Phi Kappa Tau.
PHI DELTA THETA placed second in overall grade averages and Alpha Tau Omega placed third.
Two events are left in the Greek Week schedule, the Greek Week Sing, at 7:30 tonight in the Kansas Union Ballroom, and the Greek Week project, which is scheduled for Saturday.
Members of Greek organizations will clean and paint the tree stands along Massachusetts Ave. for the project.
Soviet and Western Blocs Make Rounds at Model UN
Representatives of the Soviet and Western blocs visited other bloc delegation meetings of the Model United Nations at the Kansas Union last night.
The Western bloc submitted resolutions to the other blocs for approval, while the Soviet representatives introduced themselves and discussed their stands on crucial issues.
Daily Kansan reporters were barred from reporting some of the bloc meetings last night.
One bloc closed its meeting to the press, and others attempted to exercise control over the reporters.
THE ENTIRE SOVIET bloc did not meet last night. The bloc's representatives included chairman Pat Piggott, Kansas City, Mo., senior, Sally Smith, San Antonio, Tex., senior, and Jim May, Shawnee Mission junior.
The Soviets first visited the
Western bloc. Piggott explained that his purpose in visiting the meeting was that the delegation might know who the Soviet representatives are.
The Soviet chairman called for a meeting of foreign ministers from Great Britain, the United States and the Soviets before the General Assembly meeting to discuss disarmament, nuclear testing and space control.
The Soviets also visited the meetings of the African, Arab, Latin American, Southeast Asian and nonaligned European blocs. In each visit, Piggott called for friendly relationships between the two blocs and offered assistance in backing concurring proposals of the two blocs.
THE WESTERN BLOC proposed three resolutions to the groups it visited which called for member assessments to raise money to meet
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