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61st Year. No. 140
Union Refunds To Be Reduced
Thursday, May 14, 1964
Student Union Book Store refunds will be reduced during the next four years to make possible $550,000 additional loan funds to KU students. The reduction begins with the next period.
The money freed, as a result of the reduction, will be used to pay a loan to match federal funds in the National Defense Education Act loan program.
Congress recently increased the maximum amount of money each school may use from $250,000 to $800,000. One-ninth of this money must be supplied by the participating school.
The Book Store will attempt to make refunds of 5 percent compared to the present rate of 8 percent.
The use of the refund money to match federal funds has the unanimous approval of the All Student Council which passed a resolution on March 31 recommending this step to the executive committee.
THE EXECUTIVE committee of the Union Memorial Corporation yesterday authorized Frank Burge, Union director, to sign a four-year, no-interest note with the Endowment Association which will make available KU's share of $90,000 for full participation.
It was estimated the refund reduction would free about $22,500 a year for repayment of the endowment loan.
"THROUGH EFFICIENT management and careful operation," Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students and chairman of the executive committee, said, "we expect to continue the refund at 5 percent during the four years required to pay off the loan.
"Members of the executive committee of the Memorial Corporation voted unanimously to use part of the patronage refund for this purpose, and we are pleased that the Kansas Union can be the means by which students will receive in this way not only the $22,500 a year they ordinarily would have had returned in refunds but approximately $900,000 in loans next year," Dean Woodruff said.
"KU has been assured of a major source of student aid next year," said Robert Billings, director of aids and awards.
"This year we passed the $2 million mark in student aids of all
kinds — scholarships, short-term loans, and long-term loans. Next year we will exceed $2.25 million, and no competent and needy will have to postpone an education because of inadequate funds," he said.
Since the first NDEA loan funds were received by KU in 1959, 2,228 students have received almost $2 million in long-term loans, about $1.8 million of it in Federal funds, about $200,000 in private matching funds, largely from the KU Endowment Association.
Only 1.7 percent of the installment repayments are currently past due. The Memorial Corporation owns the building, leases the land from the University, and is responsible for its operation.
THE LOANS OF UP to $1,000 a year for a maximum of $5,000 are repayable at the rate of 10 percent a year after graduation, with interest of three percent one year after graduation. Borrowers who go into public school teaching are forgiven 10 percent of the loan for each year of teaching, up to a total of 50 percent.
The directors of the corporation include members of the University administration, student body president and vice-president, chairman of Student Union Activities, and alumni.
OWLS WERE IN A TREE—Sophomore initiates into the Owl Society, a junior men's honorary society, were perched in a tree near the Information Booth this morning until a campus policeman ordered them out. The Owls said they were told they must have the permission of the dean of men, Donald K. Alderson, Clark Mandigo II. Kansas City sophomore and speaker for the Owls, said he has talked with Dean Alderson concerning the ousting of the Owls from the tree and that permission had not been granted. The Owls "hooting" the praises of their new membership from campus trees has been an annual event for many years. For related story, see page 10. (Photo by Tom Moore)
Fingerprints Found On Police Jeep Bomb
Police have some fingerprints of the person who may be responsible for the burning of a KU Traffic and Security jeep Saturday night.
Lloyd Davies, deputy state fire marshall and a Lawrence resident, said that fingerprints besides those of the KU police have been found on the glass container used to throw a flammable liquid into the KU police jeep. Davies said the glass and the unidentified fingerprints have been turned over to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation for identification.
E. P. Moomau, chief of the Traffic and Security Office, said the damage to the jeep was only minor since the man driving the jeep had only gone into the office for a minute and discovered the fire in the jeep when he returned. He said the man quickly got an extinguisher from the office and put out the fire.
This was the second such "bomb" throwing. (Bomb refers here to a bottle of flammable liquid in a glass container.)
MOOMAU SAID that part of the jeep seat was burned, but the real damage was to a radio cable.
The first "bombing" took place early Wednesday morning at 12:40 (May 6) when a flaming "bomb" was thrown from a car at the traffic control station at 13th and Jayhawk Boulevard, Moomau said. The "bomb" broke in front of the booth, supposedly having bounced off the control station before breaking.
The Lawrence Fire Department put out the fire before any damage was done.
Moomau said that the jeep that was partly burned was one of the older model patrol cars and was not equipped with door locks.
YD's Eye 'Paper Club' Move
By Lee Stone
Will the KU Young Democrats use "paper clubs" to influence the Collegeate Young Democrats State convention this weekend? The club's secretary and its collegiate council representative disagree.
Paper clubs are clubs organized by an active club in counties where no active club exists. The membership dues of the inactive club are paid by the active club. So are its dues to the state organization.
This amounts to at least $23 and nets the active club a minimum of three votes at the convention.
CAN YOU EXPECT the allegiance of such a club in a showdown vote?
"Naturally you would expect it, but there is no guarantee," Brad Sumner, Leawood junior and YD collegiate council representative, said.
To my knowledge, KU has no
Previously, Jacke Thayer, Ellsworth freshman and the YD's secretary, said, the KU club's influence at the convention depended upon "how many paper clubs we can get in."
"FORT HAYS AND K-State control the gavel and are planning to elect their own slate of officers," Miss Thaver said.
support from paper clubs." Sumner said.
The KU club is presenting only one candidate to the convention.
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"The treasurership is a powerful job. He (the treasurer) is the only one who can withdraw money, and he must approve all projects of the club," the secretary said.
Sumner, who is running for State collegiate council treasurer.
"KU ISN'T organizing any paper clubs because it can't afford them," Sumner said. He believes the convention credentials committee would very likely disqualify the votes of such clubs.
"The function of the credentials committee is to check into the qualifications of each club," Sumner said.
In order for a club to qualify before the credentials committee, it must have had at least one representative at a collegiate council meeting during the previous year; it must be recognized as an active member by the committee, and it
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Council Member Changes to VOX
By Gary Noland
An All Student Council member said last night that he has switched political affiliation from University Party to Vox Populi.
Bill Panning, Ellinwood junior, said he has disassociated himself from UP because he was told that he was "no longer welcome in the party caucus."
"AS FAR AS THE PARTY was concerned, there was no move to expel him (Panning) from the caucus. Any ideas along these lines were purely his own," Bretschneider said.
Panning's switch to Vox now gives Vox a two-seat majority on the ASC. This is the same marginal majority that UP had just after the spring election, but since then, UP has lost two council seats to Vox, one of which was successfully contested by Vox in a trial after the elections.
Before Panning left the UP party, both campus political parties were tied with 19 seats each on the council. Vox now has 20 seats, UP has 18, and Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika junior, is an unaffiliated council member.
Panning said last night that UP "assumed after the election of ASC officers, that I had not voted for the UP candidates for chairman and vice-chairmän." (He did not say whether or not this assumption was warranted or not.)
"I CONSIDER MYSELF rather independent of party politics." Panning said. "I vote the way I feel instead of the way the party tells me."
"I was going to resign from the council altogether, until I was approached by Vox.
"My joining Vox does not mean I will vote straight down the party line. I will vote how I feel," Panning said.
In the council's elections for ASC officers, Mike Miner, Lawrence junior, the Vox candidate for ASC chairman, was elected by a narrow one-vote margin over the UP candidate, Hugh Taylor, Stoke-on-Trent, England, graduate student. In the race for vice-chairman of the council, Gary Walker, Wichita sophomore, the Vox candidate, was chosen by the newly elected chairman after the voting ended in a tie. Tom Shumaker, Russell junior, was the UP candidate for ASC vice-chairman.
Wescoe Music Makers To Perform in Concert
The fifth annual Pops Concert will be at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium, James S. Ralston, assistant instructor of choral music and one of the organizers of the Pops Concert, said.
Also accompanying the students on his guitar will be Charles Oldfather, professor of law, but will be at a different time than the administrators.
He said this year's Pops Concert will feature a number by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe; Emily Taylor, dean of women; George B. Smith, vice chancellor of institutional planning; Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor of finance; James R. Surface, vice chancellor and dean of faculties; and Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts.
School of the Arts Chancellor Wescoe and his group will play Haydn's 'Toy Symphony' on toy instruments in accompaniment with the KU orchestra.
The KU Orchestra, the Chamber Choir, and the Concert Choir will team up to produce some light music, meaning mostly fun music and spiritual features, Ralston said.
Admission into Hoch Sunday will be a $1 donation, Ralston said.
Tickets may be obtained at the Information Booth, from many music students, or at Hoch Sunday. Ralston said root beer and pretzels will be served free by faculty to visitors who will be seated around tables on the main floor of Hoch.
The choir will be on risers on the stage and the orchestra will be in the orchestra pit in front of the stage.
Robert Hull, visiting lecturer of fine arts, will conduct the music groups. Ralston said.
Don Grant, Kansas City senior, will direct both choirs in two numbers that he wrote, Ralston said.
The Pops Concert will also play a new arrangement by the Lawrence High School choir director, Wayne Nelson.
The Pops Concert will be from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Ralston said.
Proceeds from the concert will go to the music scholarship fund.