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59th Year, No. 100
Survey Reveals Lack of Interest In Events Group
A series of telephone interviews by the Daily Kansan over the weekend has revealed a lack of interest in the All Student Council bill to create a current events committee.
Most persons in the 10 fraternities and 12 sororites contacted said they have little information about the proposed committee, which, if established, would bring speakers and films to the campus to encourage discussion on vital issues of the day.
The committee would also form a speakers bureau composed of faculty members and students.
The only person contacted who said she was informed on the proposed committee was Linda Stark, Salina junior and president of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Ask if she felt the committee would be worthwhile, she said:
"I do. However, there has been an emphasis on current events lately and I don't feel this program would add a great deal to the programs already existing. If it did, it would be worthwhile."
Nearly all the persons interviewed expressed the opinion that present organizations such as the Current Events Forum and the various house organizations are doing an adequate job of filling any need in the field of current events.
All but one of the fraternities covered in the survey bring speakers into their houses and all the sororities checked have a similar program.
Most persons interviewed professed little knowledge of the current events bill.
Robert Walter, Hutchinson senior and vice president of Phi Kappa Psi questioned the need for the committee.
When asked if they would make use of the speakers bureau to provide speakers for their organizations if the bureau should be formed, representatives of all house and dorms thought they would.
"A continuation of the Current Events Forum will satisfactorily meet the needs. As for supplying speakers for the house, I think those who are interested will attend campus meetings. This is my personal opinion and I cannot talk for the house."
Don Eversmeyer, Wright City, Mo. sophomore and president of Joseph R. Pearson Hall, felt the committee could perform a worthwhile service, but expressed concern over the expense.
"Yes, I think it is a good idea. But if the expense is too great, I am against it. Under the present setup, we have faculty members speaking at no expense."
Jim Standefer, Lenorah, Tex., senior and president of Templin Hall, was in favor of both speakers bureau and the off-campus speaker functions of the proposed committee.
"It would be a good idea—if the program was carried out. It would give independent organizations an opportunity to hear qualified speakers that they don't have now."
"GSP has a program for having speakers talk every Sunday on subjects in their areas. I feel these speakers are a cultural benefit to students."
Mary Frances Watson, assistant to the residence director at Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall, said she would favor the committee.
Judith Martin, Winfield junior and president of Lewis Hall, said that Lewis has a similar program.
A lack of knowledge on the proposal prevented most of those interviewed from expressing too strong an opinion for or against it. When given a sketch of the committee's proposed function, all those interviewed felt that excellent speakers would be required to make the committee worthwhile.
WOODROW WILSON FELLOWSHIP WINNERS—Seated left to right are: Frances M. Schloz, Kansas City, Mo.; Karen M. Jennison, Healy; Mary S. Killgore, Parkville, Mo.; Charles E. McLure Jr., Van Horn, Tex.; Carol S. McMillen, Coldwater; Patricia Ann Monseth, Kirkwood, Mo.; Nancy H. Marsh, Dieue-sur-Meuse, France, (formerly, Leavenworth). Standing: Robert K. Remple,
Weather
Lawrence; Alan D. Latta, Wichita; Constant J. Poirier Jr., Topeka; Jon T. Anderson, WaKeney; Charles W. Hargrove, Lawrence; Harold W. Fearing, Lawrence; John R. Swanson, Baldwin; Larry L. Laudan, Lawrence; Craig E. Nelson, Mankato; Russell D. Klomp, Detroit, Mich., all seniors. Seven other KU seniors won honorable mention.
Kansas has more tornadoes than any other place on earth Fred C. Bates, associate professor of aeronautical engineering, said yesterday.
Partly cloudy and windy this afternoon with a few snow flurries northeast and extreme north central portion. Colder East. Clearing and colder tonight. Tuesday generally fair. Low tonight 10 to 15 northwest to the 20s southeast. High Tuesday 35 to 40.
He was speaking to the Faculty Club on "Tornado Tracking."
Kansas Top Storm State, Bates Says
Tornadoes do occur in South Africa and Australia, he said, but they occur mostly in the Great Plains area of the United States. Kansas is in the center of the area.
Prof. Bates said Great Plains thunderstorm activity is the most violent on earth. "It makes Florida and Ohio storms look gentle as kittens by comparison.
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"If a thunderstorm passes directly over you or goes south, there is only a slight possibility you will be hit by a tornado," Prof. Bates said. Research indicates tornadoes usually occur south of the principal thunderstorm.
Prof. Bates said tornadoes are often spotted by radar. Thunderstorms appear as a gray blotch on a radar screen. If a hook-like appendage shows up, the storm is likely to contain a tornado, he said.
"In the East, however, Kansas has a reputation it doesn't deserve. People think we are like gophers in holes, running for the storm cellar about once a week to escape tornadoes. More than 255 storms occurred between 1916 and 1955," he said. "That's an average of five storms per year in a 14,000 square mile area."
But there is less than one chance in 300 for a town to be affected by a tornado in such a large area, he noted.
"But if a severe thunderstorm goes just north of you, the chance of being hit by a tornado is greater."
A vector angle can be drawn from
17 Win Wilson Awards As KU Places in Top Ten
Seventeen KU seniors have won Woodrow Wilson Fellowships to put the University among the top ten colleges and universities in competition for the coveted awards.
Seven other KU seniors won honorable mention.
Michigan (20). Columbia and Swarthmore tied for tenth with 16 each.
The 17 awards put KU in ninth place. All the other institutions in the top ten have highly selective admissions examination policies.
THE WOODROW WILSON National Fellowship Foundation makes the awards to encourage students in the arts and sciences to prepare for careers in college teaching.
TOPPING KU in number of awards were Harvard (31); Yale (26); Oberlin, Princeton and Toronto (21); and Chicago, Cornell and
Each Wilson fellow will receive a full year's tuition and fees at a graduate school of his choice and a living allowance of $1,500.
IN THE NATIONAL competition,
965 colleges nominated 9,975 candi-
Chancellor Advocates Individual Action
In a statement issued this weekend, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoc said he is opposed to discrimination in fraternities and sororites but that he feels they should be allowed to deal with the situation themselves.
During a Daily Kansan interview Saturday, he said:
"I AM AGAINST SECREGATION. I am opposed to it, and also opposed to discrimination used in that sense," Chancellor Wescoe said.
"I do not believe fraternities should have discriminatory clauses," he said.
- "I THINK AT THE University of Kansas we probably have the campus with the least discrimination I have seen, and I have seen a good many of them. One of the great things about the University is that the living groups have gotten along very well together.
Chancellor Wescos set forth his policy in five points:
"There have been in the past excellent relationships between those who were members of fraternities and sororites and those who were not. I suspect that if there is any real hallmark of our student body at the present and in the past, it is the excellence of these relations.
- **"AS I UNDERSTAND the situation relative to the chapters on this campus, each one at the present time really has the option within its organization of accepting whomever it wishes to accept.**
The mechanics of acceptance differ but the mechanisms are available.
(If a national organization has a
Chancellor to Discuss Racial Discrimination
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will participate in an open hearing on the subject of racial discrimination at KU next Sunday night, Brian Grace, Lawrence sophomore and chairman of the Human Rights Committee, said last night.
The meeting will be held in the Kansas Union, Grace said.
- "THE FRATERNTIES in the recent past (by which I would mean particularly the postwar years) have
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discriminatory clause, the local chapter can apply for a waiver of the clause, Chancellor Wescoe added.)
dates. The foundation named 1.058 winners.
The 17 awards to KU students were among 21 awarded at Kansas schools. They accounted for about 40 per cent of the awards at Big Eight schools.
KU students have won far more than the University's share of the awards since a Ford Foundation grant made the Wilson Fellowship program a national program. Since 1945, KU students have won 78 of the fellowships.
Jon T. Anderson, WaKeeney, Asian studies, Harvard; Harold W. Fearing, Lawrence, physics, Stanford; Charles W. Hargrove, Lawrence, French, Stanford; Karen M. Jennison, Healy, sociology, Washington:
THE KU FELLOWSHIP winners, with field of study and first choice of graduate schools are:
NANCY H. MARSH, Dieue-sur-Meuse, France, art history, Michigan; Charles E. McLure Jr., Van Horn, Tex., economics, Michigan; Carol SueMcMillen, Coldwater, English, Wisconsin; Patricia Ann Monseth, Kirkwood, Mo., anthropology, Columbia or Minnesota;
Mary S. Killgore, Parkville, Mo., geography, Wisconsin; Russell D. Klomp, Detroit, Mich., classics, University of Washington; Alan D. Latta, Wichita, German, California; Larry L. Laudan, Kansas City, Kan., philosophy, Princeton
Craig E. Nelson, Mankato, zoology, Texas; Constant J. Poier Jr., Topeka, international relations, California; Robert K. Remple, Lawrence, mathematics, Stanford; Frances M. Scholz, Kansas City, Mo., German, Stanford; and John R. Swanson, Baldwin, international relations, Indiana or Wisconsin.
THE SEVEN KU students who won honorable mention are:
Judith E. Baker, Salina, English; Garv E. Dilley, Emporia, Asian studies; Dell R. Odell, Shawnee Mission, French; Jon R. Rutherford, Garden City, French; Clyde O. Thogmartin Jr., Emporia, French; David C. Trowbridge, Prairie Village, history; and Janet Wright, Prairie Village, history.