Daily hansan
Friday, March 2, 1962
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
59th Year, No. 94
WHAT'SA MATTER—Pedro Pan (right) played by Don Perry, Witchita junior, and sidekick Tinkerbell played by Fred Jones, Merriam senior, are shown here in a scene from Rock Chalk Revue to be presented tonight and tomorrow at 8:00 in Hoch Auditorium.
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Administration, Students Satirized in Revue Skits
KU students will poke fun at the administration and themselves tonight in the opening performance of the 1962 Rock Chalk Reve "Classics Awry" in Hoch Auditorium at 8 p.m.
The Reve end with the Saturday night performance.
Speaking about Rock Chalk, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said, "We gather together in one of these most human activities, to laugh at ourselves, in the hope that it will be cleansing laughter, healing laughter—never the malicious laughter that cuts and scars.
"The University though it may rock tonight, will remain standing tomorrow."
FOUR SKITS will comprise the student production. The skits will be presented by Beta Theta Pi and Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Sigma and Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Tau Omega and Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Delta Theta and Gamma Phi Beta.
The Beta Theta Pi and Kappa Alpha Theta skit is entitled "Scotts on the Rocks." It supposedly was premiered on the Elizabethan stage, colossalized as a motion picture. enjoyed on television, featured in English 1 and 2, and now brought to the Rock Chalk Stage.
The plot centers around a Scottish university, McKay U., on the shores of Loch Potter. A very popular Chancellor Duncan has gone to Costa Rica, leaving the Dean of the Alchemy School, Banquo, as chancellor.
MacBeth, second ranking man in the Alchemy School, meets some witches in the woods. Using chicanery, MacBeth comes to the realization he has a "chance to be Chance."
Bryant Hayes, Alexandria, Va.
sophomore, plays MacBeth; Kay Eilen
Consoler, Wichita sophomore,
Lady Gladys MacBeth; Bob Adams,
Wichita junior, Duncan; Mike Patterson, Larned freshman, Banquo.
Directors of the skit are John Letton, Pittsburg junior; Bob Thomas, Marysville senior; and Barbara Brooks. Hays junior.
Kappa Sigma and Delta Delta Delta will present "Medea," a story of an innocent young girl who falls prey to an amorous-looking young man who is searching for some golden fleece. Medea loves Jason so much that she betrays her father, kills her brother and murders a perfectly
Lenita Childers, Kansas City senior, is cast in the leading role of Medea. Michelle Steele. Wichita sophomore, plays the nurse; Ken Mendenhall, Kansas City, Mo., senior, Kreon; Sharon Black, Wichita sophomore, fair godmother.
Model UN Group Finds Concealed Microphone
"South of the Border" is the presentation of Alpha Tau Omega and Kappa Kappa Gamma. It portrays KU in a deplorable situation wherein the Dean of Women Wemily and the Martyr Board are crusading about students drinking, swinging and carousing.
total stranger, but Jason dumps her over in favor of the king's daughter.
A hidden microphone was found last night by members of the Model United Nations Steering Committee during their meeting in the Kansas Union.
The skulduggery of international politics has hit KU!
House directors are Diane Thompson, Hutchinson senior, and Keith Jochim, Birmingham, Mich., junior.
The students in turn harass Wemily and her Board about closing hours, chaperones and classes. The situation is remedied by the appearance of Pedro Pan and his trusty sidekick, Tinkerbell.
Maurice Smith, Mission senior and president of this year's Assembly, said the microphone had been planted by members of the Russian delegation to the Model UN in an attempt to get "a little added information on the third and fourth resolutions before they are released to the rest of the delegations."
By Mike Miller
THESE RESOLUTIONS for the Model UN discussion will not be released for another few weeks,
He said that the Russian delegations efforts were useless, because Steering Committee members, discovered the microphone before they started discussion.
Smith said that the third resolution will be released about three weeks before the Model UN meeting, which will be April 13-14, and the fourth less than a week before the meeting.
Smith explained. For that reason any prior knowledge of the content of the resolutions would give a delegation a great advantage over the others.
In the end, "All ess well that feneshes well."
The Soviet delegation later returned to claim the microphone.
No action against the Soviet delegation has been taken yet.
Phi Delta Theta and Gamma Phi Beta presents "The Sound and the Scurry," a simple, unadulterated and unabridged story of a bunchnik of no-good Rednips who decide to overthrow. Nothingham University of Damselry and Knighthood because students think for themselves.
House directors are Anne and Sarah Graber, Hutchinson juniors and Perry.
Don Perry, Wichita junior, plays Pedro; Fred Jones, Merriam senior, Tinkerbell; and LeAnne Burnett, Prairie Village sophomore, Wemily.
The University is rescued from this attack by Ivanhoe, B.K.O.C. (Big Knight on Campus) and Little Richard Wescott, B. C. (Boy Chancellor.)
Tom Miller, Fort Scott junior, plays Wescott; Ron Kessler, Hutchinson junior, Ivanham; Betty Jackson, Lakewood, Colo., junior, Rowing.
House directors are Dorothy Hartbauer, Overland, Mo., senior, and John Maxwell. Columbus junior.
Hoite Caston, Independence junior is master of ceremonies for the production. Charles Snodgrass, Lawrence junior, directs the 1962 Rock Chalk Revue orchestra.
Jim Scholten. Salina senior, is producer and Sharon Dobbins. Lawrence junior, is assistant producer.
Phi Psi Joins Vox; Party Names Acts
By Mike Miller
Phi Kappa Psi was unanimously accepted into the general assembly of Vox Populi last night.
The fraternity was an original member of the opposition University Party, but dropped out at the start of this year because of house apathy toward campus politics.
Greg Turner, Seattle, Wash., sophomore and member of Phi Kappa Psi, said, "When we dropped UP, we had no intention of
Kennedy to Say Nuclear Tests To Be Resumed
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Barring a diplomatic miracle, President Kennedy will inform the world tonight that the United States must resume atmospheric nuclear tests.
U. S. officials also expected the President to offer certain alternatives to atmospheric testing, in an effort to assure the world of this country's continuing desire for an ironclad test ban agreement with the Soviet Union.
The President ordered a careful scientific evaluation of the Soviet tests. U.S. surveys were checked with British studies and from these scientific appraisals came Kennedy's decision to order atmospheric test resumption.
The last U.S. atmospheric test was conducted in Nevada on Oct. 30, 1958. Russia broke a 34-month moratorium last Sept. 1 and went on to fire test weapons that ranged above 50 megatons in nuclear explosive power.
The White House announced late yesterday that the President would speak tonight over all major radio and television networks and world-wide radio facilities of the Voice of America.
The miracle would have to be a reversal of basic Soviet foreign policy. Otherwise, when the President goes on nationwide radio and television from his White House office at 6 p.m., he will announce that the United States must resume testing because of the Russian test series last fall and the absence of an effective test ban.
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and French President Charles de Gaulle were believed to be aware of the general nature of the Chief Executive's announcement.
Official sources also said Kennedy was sending a special message to Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda because of Japan's particular sensitivity on the subject of nuclear explosions, tests or otherwise. Despite Kennedy's explanation, Japan is expected to protest.
Russia is expected to send up a new shower of invective and accusation.
U. S. officials said Kennedy was prepared to announce a go-ahead on test resumption without specifying a date or deadline, and still offer the Soviet Union another chance to join in a test ban with effective inspection controls.
He wants his atmospheric test announcement out of the way well before the March 14 convening of the 18-nation Disarmament Conference in Geneva.
Essentially Kennedy's alternatives to testing add up to the U.S. case in the forum of world opinion. There seemed to be no realistic expectation that Russia would reverse basic policy and agree to what the West regards as foolproof inspection.
The President, however, will try to keep the door open to negotiation while attempting to convince the world that this country cannot allow Soviet scientists to test at will and gain a jump on the West in weapons development.
Weather
Generally fair and warmer this afternoon, tonight and Saturday. Much warmer with southerly winds 20 to 30 miles per hour this afternoon. Low tonight in the 20s. High Saturday 45 to 50 northeast to near 60 southwest.
*joining Vox; we just lost interest in politics.*
he said.
Ted Childers, Wamego senior and president of Vox, said, "The Phi Psi's will be an asset to the party. We are very pleased to have them in.
"We've had two unsuccessful attempts with UP to put candidates into office," he continued. "We feel that we have a better chance to get a candidate elected with Vox. We feel that after working in the party for a while, we can win with Vox," he said.
"The action by Phi Psi is a recognition of the accomplishments of Vox in relation to the party doing things on the All Student Council." Childers continued. "For instance, when we put a plank into our platform, we put work in on it. We have an excellent record of accomplishment. We work on a plank until it is accepted as a resolution or until we run into a brick wall."
IN FURTHER action, Brian Grace, Lawrence sophomore and independent vice president of Vox, reported that seven of the nine planks in last fall's Vox platform have been directly acted upon by the ASC, and the other two have been worked on by the party's members in ASC.
The seven planks which have received action are;
- Investigation of pre-enrollment procedures at other universities in hopes of improving the procedure at KU.
- Improvement of study facilities on the Hill.
- Night bus service to the women's living districts.
- Support of the Human Rights Committee of the ASC.
- An increase in the appropriations for the People-to-People program.
- An investigation of the student seating plan.
Jim Martin, Arkansas City sophomore, said the pre-ASC meeting caucus is "working out like we planned it." He said that ASC members are well-informed, but stressed that "there is no Party influence on their voting."
Burma Army Overthrows U Nu Regime
RANGOON, Burma —(UPI) —Burmese Army Commander Gen. Ne Win seized power in Burma today in a pre-dawn coup. At least one person was killed in fighting that broke out when troops arrested political leaders.
Premier U Nu and his cabinet were imprisoned by the army. It was the second time in 13 months that British-educated Ne Win, a staunch anti-Communist, has taken control of the government.
GEN, NE WIN said the army had been forced to act because of a steadily deteriorating economic and political situation in Burma.
He said matters had been going from bad to worse. He called on the people to support the coup.
troops fought a gunbattle with supporters of former President Sao Shwe Thaike, killing his oldest son, Sao Mimi.
The battle broke out at 2 a.m. when troops surrounded the homes of U Nu and other politicians to arrest them. They were greeted by small arms and machinegun fire from the former president's home.
THEY RETURNED the fire and stormed the house, arresting 22 persons.
President U Win Maung's wife said her husband was called out by the army for secret talks. She refused to say whether he had been arrested.