Daily Hansan
Wednesday, March 7, 1962
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
59th Year, No. 97
Fund Drive Hits ASC Rule Snag
By Bill Sheldon
A resolution presented at the last All Student Council meeting to start a special fund raising drive has brought up the problem of the ASC's regulations concerning such drives.
Jo Snyder, Bethesda, Md., junior, presented the resolution to start a fund raising campaign for the Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee (SNVCC).
SNVCC is a group which works in the South to get eligible voters registered and aid in the coordination of integration activities such as sit-ins.
The problem is that the ASC constitution states that Compu
Committee Asks For Script of 'Medium Rare'
The Rock Chalk committee of KU-Y has sent a letter to the holders of the original script of "Medium Rare," the play from which one of the Rock Chalk skits is alleged to have been taken.
Jim Scholten, Salina senior and Rock Chalk Revue producer, said the committee has written the Happy Medium Cabaret in Chicago requesting a copy of the original script. The committee will make a comparison with the Kappa Sigma - Delta Delta Delta skit "Medea" in last weekend's Rock Chalk Revue, he said.
The committee will meet tonight to further its investigation into the alleged possibility that this winning skit was excerpted from "Medium Rare." Committee members will meet with people who have said they saw the original production in Chicago and have made the allegations.
Keith Jochim, Birmingham. Mich. junior, representing the two houses involved, gave the following statement to the Daily Kansan last night:
"No one in either the Kappa Sigma or the Delta Delta Delta house had any knowledge of a professional performance of the story of 'Medea' with a Disney interpretation before Monday, March 5, 1962."
The Disney interpretation spoken of in the above statement is that which is used as a part of the production "Medium Rare."
"We want to get to the truth." Jochim said. "We want to get the matter cleared up as soon as possible and will be willing to cooperate as much as possible in doing so."
Chest is the only agency which can be recognized for soliciting funds. Therefore, unless the constitution is amended, the ASC cannot sanction the proposed special drive.
If an amendment cannot be passed, the ASC would have to pass by a 2'3 vote a motion to allocate money from the Campus Chest Emergency Fund for such a special project.
The only other alternative is that the campaign be carried on independently of the ASC on a voluntary basis.
MAX EBERHART. Great Bend senior and student body president, said last night the only way to have the ASC sanction the proposed drive is to have the constitutional bill amended. He explained that the ASC is presently legally prohibited to pass the resolution.
"The history of soliciting funds is consolidated into the present bill." Eberhart said. "The idea is that the students should be asked to contribute to only one drive rather than a great many. That's the purpose of the Campus Chest."
Eberhart then explained the ASC position on the matter.
"We have to take the long range point of view and protect what we have now." he said. "If we don't, we will probably return to what we had before the Campus Chest — a lot of small drives."
Eberhart said he could not predict the vote on the issue but that he had found several ASC members to be thinking along his lines.
"TM WORRIED about the precedent that would be set if we were to allow this resolution," he stated. "If we let this pass, every organization wishing to solicit funds would come to us to ask for sanction.
"A vote against the resolution would not be against the project (SNVCC) but in favor of the principle of the Campus Chest," Eberhart added.
Eberhart mentioned that the Emergency Fund is "slim" and that he did not think it would be wise to allocate money from it.
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William Ferguson
Social Progress Lag Seen by Ferguson
Charles Menghini, Pittsburg senior and one of the organizers — along with Arthur Miller, Pittsburg junior; Brian O'Heron, Tarrington, Conn., senior, and Bruce Bee, Mission senior — said that a meeting will be held tomorrow night in which the organizers hope to complete their constitution and elect temporary officers.
William Ferguson, Kansas attorney general, said yesterday that it is unfortunate that American social and political improvements are not keeping pace with technological advances.
If they do finish their constitution.
A third political party - to be called ACTION—which will be part of a national confederation of campus political parties, is coming out of its embryonic stage after many months of organization.
"THE RECENT SPACE flight of Astronaut John Glenn proves that we are rapidly advancing in the field of technology," he said. "However, the juvenile delinquent problem shows that we haven't made similar social advances."
Mr. Ferguson spoke at the Faculty Forum yesterday in the Kansas Union.
Mr. Ferguson said that he has appointed a committee of five juvenile judges to cope with this problem.
He said Kansas recently set up a diagnostic center to determine whether or not convicted criminals can be rehabilitated.
Mr. Ferguson also commented on Kansas laws affecting the seizure of obscene literature and on Sunday closing.
ACTION Breaks Political Surface
"The Kansas legislature put the language of a U.S. Supreme Court decision into a new section of a law that makes it possible to seize and destroy obscene literature," he said.
By Mike Miller
"The case concerns alleged obscene books that were confiscated in a raid on a Junction City newsstand last summer."
HE SAID there is now a test case in the Kansas Supreme Court that concerns this section of the law.
The section of the law gives power to any judge to decide whether the books are obscene.
HRC and CRC Set Meetings
Mr. Ferguson said he was not too disappointed because he lost the case
The Human Rights Committee of the All Student Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Union to discuss what attitude they will take toward the Civil Rights Council.
Two campus organizations concerned with civil rights will hold separate meetings tonight.
GRACE SAID the function of the HRC is to investigate and make recommendations to the ASC but that nothing needing the attention of the committee had arisen to warrant a meeting.
Brian Grace, Lawrence sophomore and chairman of the HRC. called a committee meeting for the first time since early fall for Monday night.
that the Human Rights Committee was the proper committee to take care of human rights problems.
CRC MEMBERS will meet at 8 p.m. not more than 50 feet away in Parlor C to discuss the statement by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe noting that CRC actions concerning discrimination be referred to the HRC.
Two weeks ago, CRC co-chairman Charles Menghini, Pittsburg senior, was told by the Chancellor
Only Grace and one other member of the HRC showed up for the
The responsibility the Chancellor gave the HRC, namely of handling the actions proposed by the CRC, changed the HRC docket.
Monday meeting. It was postponed until tonight.
Thus, according to Menghini, the Civil Rights Council will try to "draw up a formal stand for the CRC which we will present to the Human Rights Council for action and consideration."
THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE, meanwhile, will be discussing what to do with any proposals the CRC might introduce.
Both meetings are open to the public.
in the Kansas Supreme Court involving the Sunday closing law. (The court Saturday ruled that the law was wague and unconstitutional.)
"MOST LAWYERS DON'T TALK much about cases they lose," Mr. Ferguson said. "However, in this case, I don't mind to comment because the law was obviously vague."
MR. FERGUSON, who graduated from KU in 1938, told of a state Legislature investigation of alleged communist activities while he was in school.
Menghini said last night he and the other co-chairman of the CRC —George Buford, Kansas City junior—would attend the first 30 minutes of the HRC meeting. Grace said no member of the HRC would attend the CRC meeting.
"Several students decided to convince the investigating legislators that there was communist activity here on campus," Mr. Ferguson said. "They made several Russian banners and flags and planned to display them when the members came over."
Mr. Ferguson said that the flags and banners were not displayed because of a downtown incident the night before the legislators came over.
"Unfortunately, the Lawrence police caught a student who was displaying a Russian flag on his car." Mr. Ferguson said. "The students then decided not to do anything the next day."
U.S. Launches New Research Satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI) — The United States today launched the first of a new series of satellites to find a way to forecast radiation "storms" that threaten man's flight through space.
A GLEAMING WHITE Thor-Delta rocket thundered from its launching pad with the 458-pound moonlet tucked in its nose.
The satellite, called an "orbiting solar observatory (OSO)," was aimed toward a nearly circular orbit more than 350 miles above earth.
Scientists hoped OSO-1, which cost more than $5 million to launch, would remain "alive" for at least six months.
OSO-1, carrying a series of 13 experiments, was designed to take the first direct, undistorted look at the sun.
THE SUN IS THE source of high-intensity radiation that whips through space threatening manned-flight to the moon and planets.
The satellite today was the first of a group the Federal Space Agency plans to launch during the next 11 years—a period covering one full "sun spot" cycle.
Menghini said, they will start holding public meetings and become a working political party.
The organizers have announced three issues which they plan to include in their platform and which they feel the student government should give its immediate attention to. They are:
- "We endorse the People-to-People program and the proposed Current Events Committee. However, we consider them inadequate substitutes to affiliation with the national and international student community which can only be accomplished through affiliation with the National Student Association (NSA). We consider withdrawal from this organization an irresponsible and provincial act on the part of the ASC.
- We censure the Human Rights Committee for its stagnation. Furthermore, we suspect that the HRC is another example of the ASC' creation of committees which never meet and are not intended to function, although we assume that the blame for the committee's inactivity attaches to its chairman.
- "We call for the referendum on the football seating plan which was unconstitutionally denied the student body. We feel that the rejection of this referendum, demanded by the signatures of 2,500 students, highlights the ineffectiveness and weakness of the ASC."
MENGHNI SAID last night that the national confederation will act as a coordinating body for the information submitted from the different campuses and will distribute these ideas to the other members.
He added that this idea of an organized national political party confederation would probably take another two or three years to go from its present formative state into a functional reality.
Bee said that membership in the party will be through "individual choice." Because of this individual membership, he said, the dues will probably be higher than those of the two existing campus political parties, Vox Populi and the University Party.
This individual membership will be in opposition to the block membership used by the other two parties. Bee said this approach is "more democratic."
ASKED WHETIER the party would run candidates in this spring's All Student Council elections, Menghini said:
"It depends on how much work we can get done before election time. I would imagine there will be candidates running who agree with our political views, but I doubt if ACTION will formally back them."
However, O'Heron indicated ACTION may enter candidates in a future election. He said he was not sure how many the party would run this spring but that members hope to run a full slate in the future.
Menghini said he believes the party could get the signatures of 10 per cent of the student body, which is necessary according to the ASC constitution for a group to become a recognized campus political party.
THE PURPOSE OF ACTION, according to the organizers, is "to promote the active interest and participation of students in student government and in University affairs by presenting a liberal position on both a campus and a national basis."
Weather
Fair and warmer today. Increasing cloudiness and not so cold tonight. Rain late tonight and tomorrow. Rain possibly mixed with snow along the northern border tomorrow. Highs today and tomorrow 40s. Low tonight 30s.