UDK wins
By SARAH DALE
Kansan Staff Writer
For the first time in a decade, the University Daily Kansan has won an Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) All-American honor rating.
All-American is the highest rating awarded by the ACP. The Kansan was the only newspaper in the Big Eight states to win the honor for its fall semester newspapers.
The Kansan earned perfect scores in 12 of 25 judging categories and near-perfect scores in 11 others for 3,800 of a possible 4,000 points.
The minimum number of points a newspaper must have to receive the All-American award is 3,700. Usually newspapers have only 14 to 30 points above the 3,700 minimum.
All-American is awarded for "distinctly superior" newspapers. Other ratings are first, second and third class. Since the fall semester of 1959, the last semester the Kansan earned an All-American award,
All-American honors
the newspaper has usually rated a first class ranking.
"I was very pleased about the award," said Monte Mace, Garnett senior and editor in-chief of the fall semester Kansan. "The assistant managing editors deserve a lot of the credit as they were responsible for laying out the newspaper."
George Richardson, Kansan news adviser, said,
"The students worked hard to get the Kansan up by its bootstraps. They deserved this and a lot more."
Mace and Richardson explained that the staff completely overhaul, not only the Kansan's make-up and nameplate, but also its total concept as a newspaper.
"We geared the paper toward professionalism," Richardson explained. "The changes have paid off. I'll give anyone 20 to 1 odds the newspaper this semester will get the pace-setter award (the nations outstanding college newspaper)."
Among the plaudits of Gareth D. Hiebert, St. Paul Dispatch columnist and senior ACP judge, were these:
"Your staff has a professional approach to covering the news . . . your editorials strike a nice balance . . . I like your round-up column format . . . headlines are excellent, simple, interesting and colorful."
Mace said he was especially proud of the perfect scores in balance and news sources.
Hiebert awarded the Kansan perfect scores in the following areas: balance, news sources, creativeness, sports coverage, front page make-up, nameplate, editorial page make-up, headlines and headline schedules, printing, picture technical quality and picture captions.
The ACP guidebook states that news sources should include: faculty; administrators; academic side of campus life; interpretive articles on education; student government; organizations; athletics; speech reports; alumni; outside news fields, including local tie-ins; activities and events, and personal news of general interest.
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79th Year, No.111
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, April 16, 1969
Special relays issue
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
Hue buries '68 casualties
HUE, South Vietnam - The bodies of 260 South Vietnamese slain by Communist executioners in the battle of Hue 15 months ago were buried yesterday in a cemetery on the outskirts of this old imperial capital.
The mayor of Hue, Col. Le Dan Tran, declared a day of mourning and an estimated 30,000 people, many of them weeping women, lined the streets as the funeral procession moved to the gravesite to the beat of a death march.
Senate kills Ike pike bill
TOPEKA — The "Eisenhower Memorial Turnpike" bill, which called for the construction of a toll road from Kansas City to Galena, was killed late yesterday in the Kansas Senate as it neared the midnight hour of adjournment.
The proposal, the fourth toll road measure to meet senate defeat this session, would have authorized the Kansas Turnpike Authority to issue $130 million in revenue bonds to finance construction.
Earth tremor hits Sicily
CATANIA, Sicily — An earth tremor hit Catania yesterday, sending many of its 360,000 residents fleeing to open places in chilly rain. No casualties or damage were reported from the quake which was preceded by two lighter shocks.
WASHINGTON The Nixon Administration said yesterday it would ask Congress to raise rates for all classes of mail but would retain the 10-cent air mail rate the Johnson Administration said was superfluous.
Mail rates could rise
Postmaster General William M. Blount, however, refused to tell newsmen what the proposed rate increases would be. That, he said, would have to wait until President Nixon sends his postal message to Congress either late this week or early next week.
Former queen dies at 81
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Former Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain died here yesterday, members of her household said. She was 81.
Prince Juan Carlos, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's probable choice as the next heir to the Spanish throne, was at her bedside at the time of death. Also present were the former Queen's son Don Juan and her grandson Don Jaime.
Legislature OKs abortion section
TOPEKA (UPI) The legislature late yesterday sent the revised Kansas criminal code to Gov. Robert B. Docking.
The Senate, acting last on the measure, approved the code with its controversial abortion section 29-6. All of the opposition grew out of dissatisfaction over the abortion section.
The House had passed the measure twice, as it turned out, earlier in the day. The first vote was 70-47 and the second and final vote was 65-41.
The confusion in the House grew out of the conference committee which apparently lost track of all of the suggested abortion sections.
The committee replaced one abortion section with the final proposal, but forgot to repeal the first one before sending the bill to the House floor.
The House, in essence, adopted a
criminal code which had two abortion sections. After the mistake was discovered, the House voted to re-consider the bill and then eliminated the extra section.
The conference committee considered three abortion sections at different times.
The first, the one written by the Senate, would have left the decision on performing an abortion to a board in an accredited hospital.
The second, which was adopted by a House committee, was an unworkable proposal which had recently been adopted in New Mexico.
The final section, the one that was adopted, is the phraseology used by the American Law Institute.
The proposal basically was also the recommendation of the Kansas Judicial Council which, before the
start of the 1969 session, proposed the entire criminal code revision.
The abortion section would permit a licensed doctor to perform a legal abortion "if he believes there is substantial risk that a continuance of the pregnancy would impair the physical or mental health of the mother or that the child would be born with physical or mental defect, or that the pregnancy resulted from rape, incest or other felonious intercourse."
This legal abortion could not be performed, however, unless two other doctors certified the operation was justified. It would also have to be performed in a licensed and accredited hospital.
Violations of the abortion section could be punishable by as much as 10 years in prison or as much as a $5,000 fine or both.
The Pause That Refreshes
Photo by Ron Bishop
The lemonade stand of childhood was resurrected by KU coeds Tuesday as they attempted to raise money for a project to rehabilitate New Jersey Street in East Lawrence.