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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 7, 1962
International Skulduggery
Soviet Delegation Head Labels Microphone Charge a 'Lie'
the chairman of the Russian delegation in the Model United Nations charged last night that Steering Committee accusations that his delegation planted a microphone in one of the meetings was a "boldface lie."
Pat Figgot, Kansas City, Mo., senior, said his bloc was conducting itself in "good faith" and that the accusation was made because they were the Russian delegation and supposed to be "bad guys."
HE ACCUSED THE United Kingdom delegation of spying on the Steering Committee's meeting and the Latin American delegation of padding its bloc with a country that doesn't exist.
Piggot also accused the UK delegation of spying on one of his delegation's bloc meetings. He said a girl who arrived late for the meeting noticed a man outside the door taking notes.
"We later found out he was connected with the Great Britain delegation," Piggot said.
HE SAID THE LATIN American bloc included a Tongolese Republic which doesn't exist. Four girls organized the country, he said, but all
correspondence is sent to one of the leaders of the Latin America bloc.
Maurice Smith, secretary general, accused the Russians of planting a microphone in the Pan American Room where the Steering Committee held a meeting last Wednesday night.
Piggot explained his actions and whereabouts that evening.
He said there was a Russian bloc meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Pan American Room. The meeting adjourned about 7 and he went home, Piggot added.
He said he returned about 7:30 for a SUA Board of Directors meeting. When the meeting broke up about 8 he went to the corridors outside the Pan American Room to wait for George Bennet, student adviser for the Russian delegation, he said.
He said he was not listening to the proceedings. About 8:15 Steve Long, Mission sophomore, arrived at the meeting and saw him standing in the hallway. Long informed the meeting that "Piggot is spying on us."
PIGGOT SAID HE anticipated trouble so he left immediately to avoid any controversy.
Nest where he met Jacob Dyck, Topeka senior, and Dyck's date. They talked for awhile and when Smith appeared at the Hawk's Nest, Dyck went upstairs.
Dyck had tape-recorded a Russian class in the Forum Room earlier. He said he had taped a Russian class with Ken Collins, Shawnee Mission graduate student, from 2 until 4 that afternoon. Dyck said he went to class at 4 o'clock, leaving the tape recorder behind.
He went downstairs to the Hawk's
WHEN HE RETURNED to the Pan American Room later in the evening he discovered there was a meeting in progress, but did not know it was a Russian bloc meeting, he said.
He went downstairs to the Hawk's Nest and returned to the Pan American Room about 8:30 to pick up his tape recorder, meeting several members of the steering committee, Dyck said.
British Set for Summit Before 18-Nation Talks
LONDON—(UPI)—Prime Minister Harold Macmillan has told Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev that the British are ready for a summit conference at Geneva if anything can be gained.
The message was contained in a brief note handed to the Kremlin last night by the British Embassy.
Macmillan told Khrushchev he would go to Geneva during the
Piggot said he went upstairs to help Dyck and he saw the discussion. Piggot said he overheard a steering committee member congratulate Dyck on planting the microphone.
Billings Operates Large Business
A small office in room 222, Strong Hall, is the center of a brisk business topping many Kansas industries in size of money transactions.
Here, Robert Billings, director of aids and awards, manages a $1.25 million-a-year business.
Each year, the Aids and Awards office distributes about $.5 million for scholarships and about $720,000 in loans to KU students.
The office's yearly scholarship business includes about $300,000 in academic scholarships and about $200,000 in athletic scholarships. The staff is now processing 2,200 new scholarship applications for next year in addition to scholarships now in effect and up for renewal.
Scholarship applications will be studied to evaluate the financial need of each applicant. Award decisions will be made by May 1.
During the past year the office has made 3,100 student loans for a total of $420,000. Another 500 loans totaling $300,000 were made under the provisions of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA).
Students can borrow as much as $500 a semester in the NDEA program. Interest of 3 per cent begins one year after graduation and the graduate repays 10 per cent of the principal each year for ten years.
The federal government supplies eight-ninths of the money for NDEA loans and the University furnishes the rest. KU gets about $250,000 a year in federal funds and adds about $28,000 for its share in the program.
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forthcoming 18-nation disarmament talks "at any stage when it appears that such action can be of positive value."
Macmillan's message was in reply to Khrushchev's letter of March 3, in which the Soviet leader reluctantly agreed to the Anglo-American proposal that the big-three foreign ministers meet in Geneva before the 18-nation disarmament conference. Macmillan said:
"I am very glad to learn that although you do not entirely share my view, you have agreed to the proposal put forward by President Kennedy and myself for a meeting of our three foreign ministers two days in advance of the 18-power conference on disarmament.
"I have accordingly asked British Foreign Secretary Lord Home to be ready to meet Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U.S. Secretary Dean Rusk in Geneva on March 12."
While Kennedy's letter made no specific reference to a summit conference, Macmillan once again expressed readiness in principle to go to Geneva if and when the presence of heads of governments is warranted.
Macmillan's message followed a letter from Kennedy to Khrushchev yesterday.
Advisers Are Needed at KU
Applications are open for student counseling positions in men's residence halls for the Fall semester.
The positions involve working in a residence hall as an adviser to individual students and student groups.
The general duties of a counselor include general counseling with residence hall residents, advising hall student government and activities, encouraging positive student citizenship, and reporting maintenance needs.
A counselor must be a graduate student, senior or junior, must have an interest in working with other students, must be academically and emotionally mature, and must have a class schedule so as to have certain free hours for staff meetings and duties usually held at night.
The deadline for applications is March 30. Application blanks may be obtained from the office of the dean of students, 288 Strong Hall.
Student counselors receive a monthly salary of $45. The counselors pay their own room, board and tuition fees.
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A special textbook is used, which is prepared through the studies of Dr. Waldo E. Sweet of the University of Michigan. The study is supplemented by the use of recorded tapes, films, maps and records which are used as practical laboratory work in the study. Prof. Lashbrook said the new method is not necessarily easier to learn than the traditional methods, but is more of a challenge.
THE NEW METHOD WAS first carried out by two Lawrence West junior high school teachers, Mrs. Alma McLaughlin and Mrs. Robert Green.
The new method was compiled by a group of Latin teachers who met in summer study to work out plans for a more comprehensive approach to the language. The project was carried out under a Carnegie Corporation grant of $25,000.
In reading skills, under the traditional method, 12 per cent of the students ranked in the 75-100 percentile, whereas 24 per cent of the
World Prayer Day Service Planned
A World Day of Prayer service for KU students will be held at 7 p.m. Friday in Danforth Chapel.
The event is sponsored by the Lawrence United Church Women. Students from University church groups have planned and will give the program.
The event is an international, inter-denominational and inter-racial observance. Christians in more than 150 areas of six continents will take part in the observance.
students studying the new method ranked in the same percentile group. In grammar proficiency, $5\frac{1}{2}$ per cent of the students in the traditional method ranked in the 75-100 percentile, while 14.4 per cent under the new method scored in the same percentile.
On total scores, only 7.7 per cent of the traditional study group attained the 80-100 percentile, but 20 per cent of the students under the new method scored in the same range — a 12.3 per cent improvement.
KU Professor to Head Puerto Rican Project
A KU professor of geology has been named chief investigator of a two-year project involving a study of Western Puerto Rico.
Frank C. Foley, state geologist and director of the State Geological Survey, will participate in the study under a $28,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research.
He and Mortimer D. Turner, Lawrence graduate student, will conduct a study to determine how the geologic area ties in with the geology of other islands in the Caribbean Sea. The information will be used to help interpret some of the earth movements which have taken place there.
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