Vox Votes to Have Briefing Sessions
Vox Populi voted last night to begin holding an information session before All Student Council meetings to tell its members of the issues to be discussed.
"When the ASC is speaking of technical matters of student government, many students have a basic idea of the problem," Ted Childers, Wamego senior and president of Vox, said, "but they don't have the fine points to really understand it."
CHILDERS SAID the purpose of the meeting will be to inform members on important matters and not to tell them how to vote.
He said, "The effectiveness of the council can be increased a lot because the previous orientation will cut down on explanation time in council meetings."
Roger Wilson, Wichita junior and Greek vice president of the party, explained that Vox members of the ASC will still vote according to the planks in the party's platform and that these briefing sessions will cover situations not in the platform.
PARTY LEADERS PLAN—Ted Childers, Wamego senior and Vox Populi party president, speaks at the party meeting last night. Seated is Roger Wilson, Wichita junior.
GEORGE HAHN, Scotch Plains, N. J., junior, men's small dormitory representative, endcrsed the idea saying, "I sometimes wonder what is going on in the meetings. This would really help me."
Dean Salter, Garden City junior, fraternity representative, will be in charge of the orientation sessions. Mike Harris, Shawnee Mission junior and executive vice president of Vox, explained that Salters was chosen because he is well versed on parliamentary procedure and campus affairs. Jerry Palmer, El Dorado senior and chairman of the ASC, will assist him.
IN OTHER ACTION, Jim Martin, Arkansas City sophomore, said that the school "has been hurt by the problem of student apathy." He proposed that students be encouraged to attend ASC meetings and take an active interest in campus situations.
Childers urged the party to find the best candidates possible for the coming ASC elections, April 17-18. He explained that the executive council would draw up a tentative slate from the candidates submitted and these would be subject to ratification by the Vox members.
He said he "thought it is best to go into the primaries because they will give an estimate of our strength in the various districts and expose the candidates to election situations."
Liszt's 'Les Preludes' Will Be Part of Band's Winter Concert
Les Preludes by Franz Liszt, which was performed at KU's first fine arts recital in 1884, will be part of this year's annual Winter Concert.
The concert will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre. Russell L. Wiley, professor of music, will direct the University Concert Band.
Unlike previous years, there will be no charge for the concert and no tickets will be required.
"It will be a very fine concert this year. We have a very good band and a delightful program," Prof Wiley said.
He continued that most of the
music was written especially for the American concert band. The numbers written for band will be Chorale and Alleluia, by Howard Hanson; Symphony Number Six for Band, by Vincent Persicetti; Celebration Overture, by Paul Creston, and the finale, Purple Carnival March, by Harry Alford.
Other numbers on the program will be Iphigenia by Aulis, by Christoph W. R. von Gluck, and Corrida, a Spanish march, by Domenico Savino.
This is one of the two concerts given annually by the University Concert band with the other one being the Spring Concert.
Daily hansan
59th Year, No.84
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Feb. 16, 1962
LONDON — (UPI) — Britain called on Russia formally today to restrain Communist North Viet Nam from attempts to overthrow by force the established government in South Viet Nam.
British Ask USSR Restraint Of Viet Cong Communists
The British appeal was made in an aide memoire the Foreign office handed to the Soviet Charge D'Affaires in London, A. V. Loginov.
South Viet Nam and charged the United States with interference.
Nam in violation of the Geneva settlement," the note said.
HER MAJESTY'S government resolutely condemn the many manifestations of flagrant North Vietnamese interference in South Viet
"Her Majesty's government regrets that they cannot accept the views of the Soviet government that the present increase of tension in South Viet Nam has been caused by the actions of the United States of America," the British reply said.
It urged the Soviet Union, as cochairman of the 1954 Geneva conference which settled the Indochina war, "to exercise restraint upon the North Vietnamese authorities and bring home to them the serious consequences of their actions in South Viet Nam."
BRITAIN'S MOVE was in response to a Soviet aid memoire of Jan. 10, 1962, which expressed serious concern about developments in
JFK Gains GOP Support On Viet Nam Military Policy
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Kennedy appeared to have support of GOP leaders for the U.S. military program in South Viet Nam despite criticism by the Republican national committee that he has been "secretive" about it.
Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, GOP presidential nominee in 1960, said in California that he supported Kennedy's military buildup "to the hilt."
"Her Majesty's government is of the opinion that the tension in South Viet Nam arises directly from the pursuance by the North Vietnamese authority of the policy of seeking to overthrow the established government in South Viet Nam by force.
Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen said Kennedy and his top officials had fully briefed GOP congressional leaders on the communist threat in Southeast Asia.
"Both Laos and South Vietnam are important passageways involving the possibility of Communist domination of all of Southeast Asia. Our military leaders, based on the briefings we had, are fully aware of what is at stake and are mapping the strategy to meet this challenge."
Dirksen, who like most GOP leaders was out of town when the national committee publication "Battle Line" carried its criticism, said in an interview:
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield urged Republicans yesterday not to make the military situation in Viet Nam a "subject for political profiteering." Like Kennedy, Mansfield said congressional leaders had received plenty of information on what was going on in the Communist-infested country.
"Early in January congressional leaders of both parties were briefed on Viet Nam and were candidly advised that it was serious. This included details to fortify the President's estimate of what was involved.
A spokesman at Republican Headquarters acknowledged that none of the party's top congressional leaders had been consulted in advance about the "Battle Line" statement on Viet Nam. But he said this was because most of them were out of town for Lincoln Day speeches at party rallies.
William Sprague, Public Relations Director of the Republican National Committee, said that usually "if we feel down here there is a conflict with the leadership in Congress, we certainly touch base with them."
He observed that much of the general newspaper editorial reaction to the Viet Nam criticism had been good.
"Battle Line" has been in existence for the last two and a half years. It was established to counter a similar publication issued by the Democratic National Committee. Since Kennedy took office, "Battle Line" has needled the new frontier as often as four times a week on various issues.
The tone has varied from a tongue-in-cheek joshing about Caroline Kennedy's antics to much tougher attacks on Kennedy's programs.
Weather
Generally fair today. Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Afternoon highs today and Saturday in the 50s. Low tonight near 30.
"Her Majesty's government is convinced that the rebellion in South Viet Nam has been fermented, organized, in part supplied and wholly directed from the north."
BRITAIN REJECTED the Soviet charge that U.S. military assistance to South Viet Nam was aimed at turning the latter into a strategic bridgehead in Southeast Asia.
The British aide memoire said a Marxist-Leninist Vietnamese People's Revolutionary Party had recently been formed in South Viet Nam, designed to become "the vanguard of the so-called national front for the liberation of South Viet Nam."
The latter was dedicated to the overthrow of the Republic of Viet Nam, the document charged.
'Operation Correction' Film Showing Set for Next Week
"IER MAJESTY'S government," it said, "learned with concern of this development from the announcement made on Jan. 18 by Hanoi Radio. The formation of such a dissident group with revolutionary aims within the territory of the sovereign state can contribute only to the undermining of peace and stability in this area and increase the likelihood of international repercussions."
Efforts are being made to secure speakers who will discuss the film after it is shown, and answer questions from the audience.
A film designed to refute "Operation Abolition" will be shown in Fraser Theater at 7:30 Wednesday night.
Britain drew Russia's attention to the "kidnapping and murder by the Viet Cong of Colonel Hoang Thuy Lem Nam, chief of the mission charged with relations with the International Control Commission, to the evidence of intimate links between the Lao Dong Paroy in North Viet Nam and the terrorist movement in the South, to the many cases of infiltration of Cadres by sea, through the demilitarized zone and through Laos, and to the provision of the equipment by the North Vietnamese to their agents in the South."
THE FILM IS "Operation Correction," produced by the American Civil Liberties Union in an effort to correct alleged distortions in "Operation Abolition," which is being distributed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) as a documentary of "Communist-inspired" student demonstrations against the committee in San Francisco in May 1960.
A member of the student group sponsoring the showing said last night there is a possibility that Kenneth Myers, the American Legion official in Wichita who issued the widely publicized protest against World Crisis Day, will be one of the speakers on the program.
The student, Brian O'Heron. Torrington, Conn., senior, said Myers promised him in a telephone conversation that he would come if possible, and if not he would send an associate.
OTHERON SAID Robert Love, a member of the John Birch Society made a similar commitment. Love spoke at KU this fall.
O'Heron said John Grumm, assistant professor of political science, and Charles Landesman, assistant professor of philosophy, have tentatively agreed to participate in the program.
Professors Grumm and Landesman would defend the "corrected" version of "Operation Abolition," and Love and Myers would defend the original version.
Since its issuance in 1960, "Operation Abolition" has become the center of a heated national debate about the usefulness of HUAC and the extent of internal Communist subversion.
THOSE WHO DEFEND "Operation Abolition" say it proves the student demonstrations against HUAC were led by known Communists, and that the students were
"Communist dupes." They further state the film is being criticized solely as a means of discrediting HUAC, its producer.
The film's critics charge that HUAC "doctored" subpoenaed television footage when editing the film, and that it makes several errors concerning the sequence of events during the demonstrations.
Nearly all the participating students, and several persons who witnessed the demonstrations, have charged that San Francisco police were guilty of brutality in their handling of the demonstrators.
"OPERATION ABOLITION" has been defended by most conservative groups, and by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The film has been attacked by such newspapers as the New York Times and the New York Post, and by nearly all liberal groups and periodicals.
In March, an overflow crowd saw "Operation Abolition" at KU, and heard speakers discuss related issues.