KU's 2,000 Grads Attend Late Details Before Final Walk
Reunions, dinners, and annual meetings, will be a part of KU's ninety-second annual commencement from May 30 through June 1.
Approximately 2,000 students will participate in commencement by walking down the "hill" from the World War II Memorial Campanile to Memorial Stadium at 7 p.m. June 1.
COMMENCEMENT MARKS the end of college activities for many seniors.
Details which seniors must complete before graduation include obtaining their caps and gowns. By presenting a cap and gown receipt, seniors can check out their caps and gowns between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. May 30 or 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. May 31 in Robinson Gym, not Hoch Auditorium as was previously announced.
SENIORS CAN ALSO participate in the All-University Commencement Supper, Baccalaureate Services, the Class of '64 Breakfast, and the University Reception.
The All-University Commencement Supper features Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's "State of the University" address at 4:30 p.m., May 31 in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union. Graduates, parents and alumni are invited and advance purchase of tickets is required. Tickets may be obtained at the Alumni Association Office, 127 Strong.
On June 1, seniors may attend the Class of '64 Breakfast at 8 a.m. in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union and also the University Reception for graduating seniors, parents and alumni from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the main lounge of the Kansas Union.
Baccalaureate services will be held at 7:30 p.m. May 31 in the Memorial Stadium. Rev. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the Lutheran Church of America will be the speaker and the music will be by the KU Commencement Band, Carillon, and Concert Choir.
SEVEN REUNIONS are included in commencement week activities, Richard Wintermote of the Alumni Association, said. Five of these reunions occur every year which are: the Gold Medal Club, the 50 year class, the 40 year class, the 25 year class and the 10 year class.
The Gold Medal Club includes all alumni who have attended or graduated from the University before 1914, Wintermote said. The annual meeting will be held on Sunday, May 31, in the Kansas Union.
The class of '14 which is the 50 year class will have their "Gold Medal Pinning Dinner" at 6:30 p.m., May 30 in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. Chancellor and Mrs. W. Clarke Wescoe will handle the ceremonies at the dinner.
Winternote said the class of '24 hopes to have 100 per cent of the class in the alumni association before commencement week. He said the class would probably do it because it had been working for it all year.
Two other groups which will be having reunions during commencement week are the '23-'28 Glee Clubs and the Modern Choir of '30's. Wintermote said that the two groups meet every few years during commencement week.
REUNION HEADQUARTERS for information on various group's activities will be;
Gold Medal Club, South Lobby, Kansas Union
Gold Medal Club, South Bend,
Class of '14. Music Room, Kansas Union
'23-28 Glee Clubs, Hotel Eldridge
Class of '24, South Lobby, Kansas Union
Class of "39, Trophy Room, Kansas Union
Modern Choir of '30's. To be announced.
Class of 54. Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union
During commencement week the annual meeting of Mortar Board and Phi Beta Kappa will also be held. Mortar Board will meet for a luncheon at 12:30 p.m., May 30 in the Watkins Room of the Kansas Union and Phi Beta Kappa will meet at 2:30 p.m., June 1 in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
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Tassels Distinguish Grads
Graduates from the different schools in the University wear different colored tassels on their caps, and the same colors are used by the respective departments in all universities, according to Frank Owen, assistant comptroller.
"There is a national code regarding the makeup of academic regalia." Owen said. "The colors of the tassels are dictated by that."
OWEN SAID he is not familiar with the reasoning behind the selecting of the various colors for the respective schools.
"I have heard the expression "Man of Purple" applied to a member of the law profession," Owen said, "but that is the only connection I am familiar with."
The colors the respective graduates will be wearing down the hill will be:
Law, purple; college of liberal arts and sciences, white; education, light blue; journalism, cardinal; business, drab; graduate school. black.
Medicine, green; pharmacy, olive; fine arts, brown; engineering orange; nursing, peach; and divinity, red.
Daily hansan
Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, May 20, 1964
Bogus Issue of Free Press Discredited by Wilcox, Long
By Susan Flood
A forged issue of the Kansas Free Press, a liberal student newsletter, is in limited circulation in Lawrence, according to its editors.
LAIRD M. WILCOX, Lawrence freshman and Free Press editor, said the forged issue was "an attempt to make us appear much, much farther left than we are."
But the state attorney general's office and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in Topeka said yesterday they will not investigate for prosecution for criminal libel.
An article reconciling Christianity and communism and purportedly written by Long, is the most radical of the faked pieces.
Wilcox said he first learned of the bogus issue when Steve Long. Mission senior, received a letter from Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, dated April 24.
The Chancellor's letter said he had received by mail a copy of the March 16 Free Press, which included in the biographical date that Long "lives in a scholarship apartment in the Chancellor's home."
Dr. Wescoe said he hoped this inaccuracy would be corrected in any further issue. (Long lived in the chancellor's b a s e m e n t apartment first semester but moved into an apartment in January.)
Wilcox said when he saw the Chancellor's copy he knew it was going to cause "a great deal of personal agitation."
Wilcox said there were many factual inaccuracies in the biographical data about the supposed "authors," but they are not defamatory.
"It is evident whoever did this was acquainted with both left and right-wing jargon and how to slant an article," he said. "Their frame of reference must have included a wide range of reading matter."
WILCOX LISTED these differences in the two issues:
- The forged issue bears the same
Two Students Arraigned On Jeep-Burning Charge
By Charles Corcoran
Two KU students, both varsity swimmers, have been arested and charged with the burning of a campus police vehicle.
is police Jeremy Wingate Higgins, Lawrence sophomore, and Michael N. Calwell, Bonner Springs senior, were arraigned this morning at 11:15 am. in the Douglas County Court of Judge Charles C. Rankin. They were charged with setting fire or causing to burn, or counsel or to procure the burning of a 1960 University of Kansas police jeep.
According to Ralph M. King, Jr., county attorney, "It's a felony and it's serious."
Bond was set for each of the accused at $1500. They were in the process of making bond at 11:45 a.m. this morning, King said.
"If convicted of the offense, the penalty can be one to three years in the (state) penitentiary." King said.
Both accused asked for a preliminary hearing which was granted and set for June 5th.
Senators Disagree On Maryland Vote
BALTIMORE, Md. — (UPI)—Sen Daniel Brewster, D-Md., said today the closeness of the Maryland presidential primary would have no effect on the civil rights bill now before the Senate. He predicted its enactment by June 15.
enburemer defeated Alabama Gov. George Wallace in the primary balloting yesterday to hold Maryland's 48 first ballot convention votes for President Johnson.
The last edition of the 64 Jayhawker will be distributed next Tuesday and Wednesday in the Information Booth.
President Obama.
But the showing by Wallace, who polled 42 per cent of the Democratic votes cast, was certain to cause some concern among Senate civil rights backers.
John (Tonto) Mays, Lyons junior and business manager, said a limited supply of the Commencement issue will be available in the Jayhawker office Monday for those who can not pick them up later.
WITH 1,443 of 1,461 precincts reporting, Brewster polled 250,171 votes to 196,468 for Wallace.
It was the best showing by far for the segregationist governor who brought his battle against the civil
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rights bill to the North by entering primaries in Wisconsin, Indiana and Maryland.
"We set out to protect our Democratic delegation for President Johnson and we succeeded." Brewster said. "In any battle there is no substitute for victory but you can't get all the votes. We did get more than the other man."
"I don't think the vote will have any effect on the Senate of the United States," Brewster said. "I predict that by June 15 we will have a civil rights bill."
WALLACE maintained that although he lost the popular vote, he won the convention delegates by the unit vote system. However, a check showed that Brewster wound up with 99 unit votes to 72 for Wallace.
The leader of Southern forces in the Senate, Richard B. Russell of Georgia, said he interpreted the results as evidence of increasing sentiment against the civil rights bill.
"It is finally getting through the people of this country just what the politicians are threatening to do with their form of government in their bid for minority bloe votes," Russell said.
SEN. JOHN J. Sparkman, D-Ala., said he felt Maryland had cast "a tremendous protest against the so-called civil rights bill."
Wallace ran heaviest where expected, on Maryland's eastern shore. He wound up carrying 17 counties while Brewster took six and Baltimore city.
date as the original, March 16, and is also identified as issue No. 7, but is identical in format and general makeup to issue No. 4.
- The four pages of the forgery do not compare at all in content of the two-page original.
- The forged issue contains a long article reprinted verbatim from issue No. 2 and written by Wilcox's wife, Eileen; a reworded answer to a letter in issue No. 4; a forged advertisement from Abington Book Shop; quotations without comment by Fidel Castro and Mao Tse-tung; a column resembling in format a regular feature, "News You Didn't See in the Press," and the article on Christianity and communism.
THE FREE PRESS is not connected with the university.
Close examination also suggests that the paper is different in quality, is blue rather than yellow, and the typewriter used on the forged issue has a different length spacing between lines.
Another angle is an April 20 broadcast by KLWN station manager Ardin Booth. Booth quoted the article on Christianity and communism on a program of different opinions.
Laird and Wilcox heard about the broadcast from friends and went to talk to Booth. He let them see the transcript of the program, which referred to Long as "an honor student" and then made a comment to the effect that the space Long occupied at the University might better be used by someone who had more constructive ideas for the good of society.
BOOTH ADMITTED this reference but said he did not mention the student's name or his residence in the chancellor's basement. He said he was acting on good faith in thinking the issue was a legitimate one and these were Long's views.
Booth said one copy of the forged issue was brought to him by a local man, whom he would not identify. Booth said another copy arrived shortly after this at his home and was accompanied by a note asking for donations to the Free Press. He said he assumed at the time that the second copy had come from the editors.
"I received several calls from persons who had seen the alleged bogus issue and were quite upset with its contents," Booth said.
"The only person I showed the issue to was Henry Bubb, chairman of the State Board of Regents, to ask his advice about quoting from it on my program. He did not advise me either way but I thought he ought to see the nature of writing in a University publication."
BOOTH SAID that after Wilcox and Long came to see him after his broadcast, he wrote another note to Henry Bubb explaining the problem of two issues.
Booth said the most likely possibility is that the issue was forged. "This is what I believe from talking with Wilcox and Long," he said. "Although I am known to be a conservative I highly respect other people's right to have an opinion."
Wilcox then retained Richard Dyson, assistant professor of law, as attorney for the Free Press.
Dyson said yesterday the forged issue constitutes a criminal libel, which is a misdemeanor and punish-
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Weather
Studying for finals will be difficult with fair skies and warm temperatures that are predicted by the weather bureau. Students will be lured from their desks tonight by clear skies and a low of 65. And sunbathers will wask in 90 degree highs tomorrow. Adding the icing to the weather picture will be the mild 5-15 mile per hour winds.