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Glenn's Flight Still Doubtful
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI)— A space official said today that U.S. chances of launching astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., into orbit tomorrow have been cut to 50-50 by "marginal" weather in a sea recovery area.
"The launch is still set for not earlier than Wednesday," Powers said.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported "marginal conditions, fresh winds, and moderately high seas" likely in the Atlantic where Glenn would land if his flight were limited to one orbital trip around the earth.
weathermen were finding it hard to make forecasts for more than a few hours ahead because of unsettled conditions in the sea near the end of Glenn's planned first orbit.
LT. COL JOHN A. (Shorty) Powers, spokesman for the Mercury man-in-orbit program, said that from a technical standpoint "all systems are in a 'go' (ready) condition."
The decision Mercury bosses have to make is whether to "shoot for a hole" in the weather during tomorrow's five-hour launching period, 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (EST), or to order the eighth postponement in two months.
MIAMI WEATHER Bureau Officials said disturbances keep forming at the south end of a
large low pressure trough east of Puerto Rico. The trough runs east of Bermuda up into Newfoundland.
The recurrence of these disturbances, they said, makes forecasting difficult.
The Mercury forecast said, "The Western Atlantic is still subject to stormy conditions in the area around Bermuda and about 800 miles to the east." It added that "small scale storm centers are moving northward across the path of the first orbit at frequent intervals."
ALTHOUGH CONDITIONS in this area were "marginal," there was "no positive indication" that any major storm might crop up before launch time, the forecast said.
The forecast for Cape Canaveral cast some doubt on the possibility of putting Glenn through three full orbits. It said the cape was likely to be shrouded with clouds or fog which might continue to mid-morning.
TECHNICIANS meanwhile began the first half of the two-day split countdown, an exhaustive item by item check of the equipment on which Glenn's fate depends.
Everything went all right, officials said. The second half will begin early tomorrow.
This could delay the launch long enough to limit to only two orbits.
Senate Will Ask Report on Powers
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—Senators today apparently had no plans to call Francis Gary Powers for testimony but expected a full report on the government's interrogations of the U-2 pilot.
The position of two key Senate groups became known after Secretary of State Dean Rusk said Powers' release from a Russian prison represented little progress on "the issues that divide the Communist and the free worlds."
RUSK SAID IN A radio interview that it helped to get "unnecessary irritations" out of the way, "But I would not draw any conclusions from this return of Mr. Powers with respect to questions like Berlin or Southeast Asia."
At least two Senate sub-committees wanted detailed reports on what Powers had to say after his release. Chairman Richard B. Russell, D-Ga., of a Senate watchdog sub-committee said he planned to follow the matter closely.
ned to follow the matter. Russell said, however, he did not now expect Powers to be called in person before the panel, which rides herd on activities of the Central Intelligence Agency.
"WE HAVE HAD two or three meetings at which the U-2 matter was thoroughly reviewed. We had been told of the negotiations and were kept advised of the progress." Russell said, in an interview.
Russell said his group met with John A. McCone director of Central Intelligence, as recently as last Thursday.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which held closed-door hearings on the U-2 incident shortly after Powers' reconnaissance plane crashed in Russia, notified the State Department yesterday it wanted a full report too after Powers has been questioned. It did not plan to call Powers either, however.
Daily Hansan
59th Year, No. 81
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
A student governing cabinet hires an executive secretary—Tom Moore—and a program secretary—Constance Taylor—and a part-time office worker. In 1960-61 the salaries for the paid employees was $10,500. The remainder of the $12,850 budget went for programs and services including the Model U.N., youth guidance and a program for handicapped children.
Ferguson Opinion Cuts KU-Y Appropriation
Mr. Moore said that the KU-Y was notified of the attorney general's decision last Thursday in a meeting with the chancellor. Mr. Moore said that he understood that a general question in the chancellor's mind over the separation of church and state moved him to request an opinion on the matter from the attorney general.
Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1962
Mostly cloudy and colder today and tonight with fog and some drizzle this morning and scattered showers tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy, Highs today 50s. Lows tonight 30s. High Wednesday 50.
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An opinion from Kansas Atty. Gen. William Ferguson has left KU-Y with the problem of where it is going to get funds for its program.
The KU-Y is the University's largest campus organization. There have been YMCA and YWCA organizations on the campus for about the last 75 years. In the middle of the 1950s the YMCA and the YWCA joined together in the KU-Y. At that time the University started granting aid.
The opinion came in response to an inquiry from Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe about the University's practice of furnishing KU-Y with funds to help support the nondenominational group's campus activities.
"I think there's no doubt we'll have to begin asking people for money," said Thomas Moore, KUY executive secretary. He added that no plan had been developed for raising the money normally supplied by the University.
ASC Meets Tonight
The ASC will hold a meeting in the Sunflower Room in the Kansas Union at 7 p.m. tonight. "Revision of the Disciplinary Bill," will be the topic of discussion.
Chancellor Wescoe said, "When first I came to the University as chancellor I noted in the first budget that the KU-Y received a substantial allocation of funds from the University budget. I was surprised that a student organization would be so singled out for a subsidy, particularly in the light of the fact that the organization has a strong connotation of religion to which all of our students do not belong.
"In my own mind this called into question the validity of such an appropriation and for that reason I requested of the attorney general his opinion.
"That opinion speaks for itself. Several days ago, in meeting with three members of the KU-Y advisory board, they expressed their opinions relative to the matter and expressed no surprise concerning the opinion."
The UDK was unable to get definite information on the source of the funds given to KU-Y in the past. "Apparently they are out of the student activity fee, but as I understand the attorney general's opinion, it doesn't make any difference," said Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University. "In earlier years it came out
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U.S. Says 'Maybe Later' To Russian Summit Bid
WASHINGTON — The U.S. answer today to Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's call for a summit meeting on disarmament was: "Maybe later — on two conditions."
The conditions:
- **That disarmament talks in Geneva make real progress at the foreign ministers level first — in other words a significant break in the disarmament stalemate before heads of government step in.**
- That tensions in East-West crisis spots such as Berlin and Laos continue to ease.
SECRETARY OF STATE Dean Rusk last night rejected Khrushchev's proposal to begin the 18-nation summit level disarmament talks March 14 in Geneva.
Rusk said, "what is now called for is some systematic, serious, hard and determined and quiet negotiation . . . we do not believe that this kind of negotiation can best be carried on at a heads of government level."
But Rusk did not slam the summit door entirely. The issues, he said, "ought to be explored first through other channels with a possibility that heads of government may be able then to remove any remaining points of difference or put their final conclusions into operation."
Rusk's statement was made in a radio interview as the United
States conferred with allies on a reply to Khrushchev's proposal.
HIS REJECTION of a disarmament conference starting at the summit level appeared to be shared by the other major governments involved.
British Ambassador Sir David Ormsby Gore, emerging from a meeting with Rusk yesterday, told newsmen: "I don't think it will be suitable that heads of government start this conversation. At a later date, maybe."
A meeting beginning as an 18nation summit was seen by diplomats here as the most cumbersome possible way of going about things. It would be, diplomats feel, a lengthy speechmaking session in which the leaders involved would probably "freeze" their positions rather than negotiate.
Rusk, in his statement, said there is a general feeling here and in many Western capitals that summits must have advance preparation — that otherwise they may end "in disagreement, and in an increase in tension."
THE WHITE HOUSE yesterday released the text of a Feb. 7 letter from President Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to Khrushchev proposing that the March 14 disarmament talks be started at the foreign ministers level. It was this letter to which Khrushchev replied with his summit plan.
KU's Policy on Greek Rights Examined
By Arthur C. Miller
(Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles on racial and religious discrimination in fraternities and sororities. The first article dealt with the discrimination in the fraternities and sororites at KU.)
There are two basic answers to this question. One is that advocated by the fraternities and sororites themselves and the other is that advocated by those who object to the selective methods of these groups.
In a pamphlet from the University of Wisconsin, "Report of the Interfraternity Council." some of these arguments are presented. The following are the opinions of some of the national fraternities. (Names of the national organizations were not given in the article.)
Do fraternities and sororites at state universities have the right to select or reject students on any basis?
THESE SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS usually argue that the Constitution of this country provides the right of voluntary association, thus they have the right to select members in any manner they choose.
"This country was founded on the principles of individual choice, the right to worship as one pleases, and to be free to make one's own way. To me, an integral
part of that concept is the equal freedom to choose one's associates.
"The chief objection I have to this issue (a regulation passed by the Wisconsin faculty) is that it represents an attempt, from the outside,...to deprive us of our right of choice; to force us to accede to the views of others who are no part of our organization."
ANOTHER REPLY FROM ONE of the nationals says:
"Sororities and fraternities generally, like many, many other organizations, operate on the democratic principles of majority rule. In our constitution, adopted by vote of our members, we have established certain requirements for membership. The provisions of that constitution may only be altered, and rightly so to my way of thinking, by the prescribed majority of our members. That is the American way; for outside pressure groups to impose their will upon a private organization through decree and by propaganda is in opposition to our whole American concept."
A philosophy professor at DePaul University in Chicago. Father James A. McInerney, has often argued the fraternity-sorority position. In a recent speech to the National Interfraternity Conference he said:
"THE OPEN, UNDER HAND, the half-hearted attacks on lawfully constituted fraternities and sororites are the result of ignorance and malice. For an institution of higher learning to be guilty of either is unthinkable. To proclaim the attack in the sacred name of patriotism, civil rights, man's humanity or his religion reveals the grossest kind of ignorance."
David Lawrence, a noted columnist, wrote in an article concerning Father McInerney's speech, "The Associated Press reported that a sampling of delegate opinion indicated agreement with Father McInerney"
Father McInerney, who serves as spiritual adviser and scholarship director for Phi Kappa Theta fraternity continues, "To belong to a fraternity or not to belong, to prefer this one to that, have nothing to do with a man's patriotism, his duty to mankind or to accurately defined civil rights."
This does not mean, however, that all fraternity and sorority groups want to maintain their present systems, that they want to resist all outside pressure.
AN EXAMPLE AT KU IS TAU KAPPA EPSILON. Its chapters must select members "for their personal worth and character." Local chapters are granted
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