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University Dairy Kansan
Tuesday, May 12, 1964
Around the Campus Three Initiated in Debate Society
Three KU sophomores have been initiated recently into Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, recently merged national honorary forensic society.
Members must have at least sophomore standing, be in the upper 25 per cent of their graduating class, and be proficient in college forensics.
The new members are Margaret Miller, Red Wing, Minn., Walter S. Bliss III, Omaha, Neb, and Melvin O'Connor, Wichita.
General to Speak
Brig. Gen. Kenneth J. Hodson, assistant Judge Advocate General of the Army, will speak at the joint ROTC commissioning exercises on the 30th anniversary of his own commissioning at KU.
The exercises for 63 men will be at 11 a.m. June 1 in Swarthout Hall. Fourteen men will be commissioned into the Air Force, three into the Marines, 28 into the Army and 18 into the Navy.
Gen. Hodson was an Army ROTC student from 1930-34 and attended the KU School of Law, earning both the A.B. and LL.B. degrees in 1937.
English Professor Gets Award
Arthur H. Nethercot, visiting professor of English, has received a $500 award from the Friends of Literature, Chicago, for the best nonfiction work last year in the Chicago area.
His prize-winning book was a biography, "The Last Four Lives of Annie Besant," published earlier in England and this year by the University of Chicago Press.
The book describes 40 years in the life of the English champion of Indian education and home rule, and of a number of other causes. It is Prof. Nethercot's second work on Mrs. Besant, the other work "The First Five Lives of Annie Besant," was published in 1960.
Prof. Nethercot is visiting this semester from Northwestern University, where he has the title of Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English.
He was presented the award earlier in Chicago.
Education Grant Received
The U.S. Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, has granted KU $29,000 to train teachers of children who have serious speech or hearing defects.
KU shared the total $1.3 million that was given to 71 universities and colleges in the nation. Institutions will use the money during the academic year 1964-65 beginning in September to provide scholarships, fellowships, traineeships and to meet part of the cost of training the new teachers.
Each institution will select the teachers to receive the grants. Wichita State University received $17,000 from the grant.
Student Recitals
Sharon Tebbenkamp Sooter, Salisbury, Mo., graduate student, will give the second in a series of student recitals that are being held in Swarthout Recital Hall this week.
Mrs. Sooter, mezzo-soprano, has won the district Metropolitan Opera Auditions twice.
Wednesday evening Julia Varner, Kansas City, Mo., senior, will give a piano recital and Thursday evening, soprano Diana Osterhout, Topeka senior, will present the final recital of the week.
Students Give PBOAE Talk
A panel of ten students will present the Philosophical Basis of Absolutely Everything Lecture at 7:30 tonight in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
They will discuss their college experience and attempt to make constructive criticism for other students. The students have been chosen because of their diverse interests.
Those participating will be Sandra Bornholdt, LaCrosse senior; Joy Bullis, Davenport, Iowa, junior; Don Igelsrud, Minneapolis, Minn., senior; Kenneth Leone, Alexandria, Va., sophomore; Cordell Meeks, Kansas City senior; Trudy Meserve, Abilene senior; Breon Mitchell, Salina senior; Jay Roberts, Venita Park, Mo., senior; Frank Thompson, Lawrence senior, and Mrs. Susan Whitley Peters, Lawrence senior.
IFC to Try August Open Rush
The Interfraternity Council is experimenting with a new rush program for next fall, which means an "open season" on all prospective pledges during August.
The new program, which permits fraternities to pledge men during August, was approved by the IFC in December. Another change resulting from the new program is that two days of open rush, instead of one, will be conducted during Rush Week in September.
(Open rush is a period during which rushes may be pledged.)
JIM JOHNSTON, Independence, Mo, junior and IFC president, described the new rush procedures as an "expansion program to get more students through rush and in the fraternity system."
Each fraternity in the summer will be able to pledge up to 75 per cent of the number which it intends to pledge for the Fall semester. The quotas are decided by the IFC based pledging figures for each fraternity during the past five years, Johnston said.
A pledge in August is binding; if a student breaks it, he cannot pledge another fraternity for one semester. The signature of the rush chairman, the pledge, and the pledge's parents will be a binding obligation, Johnston said.
JOHNSTON SAID if new members are pledged before Rush Week, the fraternities will not have to worry about losing them to other houses.
"We think it will mean that more houses will be full by September," Johnston said.
The new system also gives the student more time to decide on a fraternity, Johnston said:
"The rushee will have all of August and rush week to make up his mind."
BUT WHILE THE new program may give the rushee more time to think the matter over, Johnston said it will mean stepped-up summer rush programs for the fraternities, more money for rush parties, and more pressure on rush chairmen.
In telephone interviews with two fraternity rush chairmen last night, both men agreed the new system will touch off strong competition among the fraternities during the summer.
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Carl Berentz, Leavenworth sophomore and Alpha KappaLambda rush chairman, said, "We'll have to start a new summer rush program. You can't rush the way you did two or three years ago.
"During June and July, we will have to make more contacts with a smaller number of men so you can approach them during August, instead of contacting a large number of men.
"EVERY FRATERNITY is going to be gunning harder than ever the minute school's over." Berentz said, Scott Linscott, Toneka junior and
Sigma Chi rush chairman, said. "The total rush program will be accelerated—more parties and more contact with rushees. With the new program, it is absolutely necessary that we get to these boys early. Rush will be very much more competitive."
Both men said they hoped to have their quotas for August filled before rush week.
Johnston said the new program is experimental and there are not many schools using it.
"I think that most houses favor if or, if not, they are taking a wait and see attitude," Johnston said.
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