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61st Year, No. 133
Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, May 5, 1964
Women Receive Honor Awards
Screams of surprise and delight echoed through the University Theatre last night as women students received the highest honors of their university careers.
Hilda Gibson, Lawrence senior, received the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Award for the outstanding senior woman student.
Miss Gibson's selection was announced by Miss Jan Wise, last year's winner, and Miss Emily Taylor, Dean of Women.
IMMEDIATELY preceding Miss Gibson's award, the outstanding woman from each living group was announced by Dean Taylor.
Tapping for the National Society of Cwens was announced by Kay Lutjen, Des Moines, Ia., sophomore, and president of this year's Cwens.
Fifty-one freshmen were called from the audience and escorted to the stage by the red-jumpered 1963-64 Cwens. On the stage, each was presented with a necklace of red and gray ribbon with a single red carnation attached.
Selection to Cwens is made in the spring of a woman's freshman year, and she is an active member of the society during her sophomore year.
Complete List on Page 12
MRS. JOEL GOLDSTEIN, resident director of the freshman women's residence halls, was named an honorary Cwen at the conclusion of the ceremony.
To the lighting of 19 white candles, 19 junior women were called from the audience to be capped by the KU chur chapter of Mortar Board, national senior women's honorary.
Hilda Gibson, president of this year's Mortar Board, announced that Pamela Stone, Wichita, was to be president of next year's group. Miss Stone was then capped with a gold-tasseled mortar board, previously worn by Miss Gibson.
Anne Shontz, Kansas City, Mo., received a mortar board with a silver tassel, signifying her selection as vice-president of 1964-65 Mortar Board.
ACCEPTANCE INTO the honorary organization was climaxed when the black-gowned 1963-64 members "capped" the incoming women.
Beth Beamer, Topeka sophomore; Paula Dickens, Newton freshman; and Joan Fowler, Shawnee Mission junior; were selected to receive the AWS Memorial (SMOP) scholarships.
The SMOF scholarships, $250 each,
are awarded on the basis of scholar-
ship, need, and contributions to the
campus by the recipient.
MONEY FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP fund is raised each year
through various projects, such as the library book moving project and the SMOP post office service at Christmas time.
New freshman hall counselors were announced during the program, as were the members of the 1964-65 Associated Women Students' (AWS) Fashion Board.
Installation of the 1964-65 AWS officers, and the presentation of the AWS House of Representatives were included in the evening's activities.
Although the selection of Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Winners, Phi Beta Kappa members, and Direct Exchange winners had been made some time ago, these women were also presented to the audience.
Survey Results In News Hassle
ROCHESTER, Mich.—(UPI)—Inquires by the student newspaper into the sex lives of men and women attending Oakland University had the campus of this normally quiet Michigan college town in a furor today.
Chancellor Durward B. Varner charged "irresponsible journalism," fired the editor of "The Oakland Observer," suspended publication and ordered all copies of the last issue destroyed.
Irate parents complained to Varner that publications of the answers to the questionnaires would scar the reputation of every girl attending the school.
The ousted editor, Austrian-born Wolf Metzger, countered with a charge of "censorship" and called on the 12-man newspaper staff to resign en masse. At least five did.
A six-man committee of faculty members and students was named to take over publication of the campus newspaper and get it in line with administration thinking.
And the completed questionnaires remained in Metzger's apartment, with very little likelihood they ever would be printed.
A month ago, another observer editor gave out a two-page questionnaire about sex to the 288 students living in the university's three dormitories because he was alarmed by rumors that pregnancy was increasing on the campus.
The questionnaires asked about family background of students, their sexual experiences before attending Oakland and while at Oakland and whether the experience, if any, took place on campus.
Varner found out about the survey and Metzger's intention to publish it. Metzger said Varner ordered him to refrain from publishing the survey or face suspension from school.
ASC Dorm Seat Election Ruling Still Contested
Appeal is pending on the case concerning the contested election in the women's large residence halls, Tom Thompson, Atchison third year law student and chief justice of the Student Court, said last night.
The court had previously ruled that Jean Borlang (UP), Sierra Guadarrama, Mexico, junior, should be reinstated to her seat on the All Student Council.
Beverly Nicks (Vox), Detroit junior, had contested the election in which she lost by 14 votes (200-186) on the grounds that the elections committee had been negligent for not passing out ballots to all voters from her district and for not sufficiently informing students of the election.
THE ELECTION had been a special one held the first day of spring elections to fill a seat vacated by the recall of a representative of the district. The normal time for election of representatives is in the fall.
The appeal from the previous decision of the Student Court handed down April 22 is based on the allegation that "the verdict is contrary to the weight of evidence," Allen Knought, Topeka second year law student and attorney for Miss Nicks, said.
However, Thompson explained, "It is very unlikely that the appeal will be heard this semester."
HE SAID THAT the last session this school year of the Student Court as an appellant court is tonight. He also explained that the court needed to have the transcript of the original four hour trial before it is heard. Although the transcript is now being prepared, it will not be ready for tonight.
When asked what their actions would be in reference to the circumstances, officials of Vox declined to comment at the present time.
Weather
Skies will be partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with scattered thunderstorms tonight. Tonight's low will be in the middle 60's and tomorrow's temperatures will be warmer. Southerly winds are expected to reach as high as 50 miles per hour tonight and tomorrow.
A weather bureau spokesman said that the expected high winds are not unusual for this time of year. He said that there has been a fairly strong disturbance from the west which has linked up with and reinforced an existing front which stretches from central Texas north to Iowa. The frontal area includes eastern Kansas.
Student Admits Bomb Threat
A KU senior admitted to Lawrence Police last night that he had left a note as a joke in the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house yesterday evening saying that a bomb was hidden in the house set to explode at 11:40 p.m.
The note had set off the second bomb scare and police search of the house in less than 24 hours. No bomb was found in either instance.
The student, whose name has been withheld by the police and university officials, went before Dean of Men Donald K. Alderson at 9 a.m. this morning.
Dean Alderson said that the student will appear before the University Disciplinary Committee this afternoon. (The committee is composed of 6 students and 5 faculty members appointed by the All Student Council and the University Senate.) Dean Alderson said he will chair this afternoon's meeting.
"I consider this to be a very serious matter." Dean Alderson said. "When you think of the number of students living in this particular living group and of the number of students living nearby and of the two nights of disruption that this has caused, especially at this time of the year, one can readily see the seriousness of the situation.
"We just haven't got time or room for juvenile delinquents," Dean Alderson said.
Acting Chief of the Lawrence police department, James R. Collins, said that the student said he had nothing to do with the first bomb scare. He was not held nor charged with any crime because there is no law against bomb scares in the state of Kansas. Collins said.
LAWRENCE POLICE are still investigating the first bomb scare.
The first scare in the sorority took place at about 1:25 a.m. yesterday when an anonymous caller told a KU operator "There's a bomb in the Kappa Kappa Gamma house set to go off at 1:45 (a.m.)." Collins said. The operator, Miss Darlene Boyd, was unable to be reached for comment.
Collins said that the sorority house was evacuated and thoroughly searched by KU and Lawrence policemen before the members of the sorority were allowed to return to their rooms shortly after 2 a.m.
Early last night the second scare was touched off when a Kappa Kappa Gamma member discovered the note in the first floor telephone room. According to Collins, about 15 policemen from the KU and Lawrence forces searched the house and had found no sign of a bomb when the KU student returned to the house and admitted that he had left the note. He voluntarily accompanied Lawrence policemen to Lawrence Police Headquarters for questioning. He left the police station at about 12:30 a.m. this morning.
The student told police he had heard of the earlier scare and had left the note only as a joke.
MRS. Nova Sperry, Kappa Kappa Gamma housemother, said that she was called by Miss Boyd at about 1:25 a.m. yesterday morning and told of the threat. The telephone operator said that she had called the Lawrence Police Department and that they were sending men to investigate.
"I DONT SCARE easily." Mrs. Sperry said. "I thought that it was some sort of prank." She said that she nevertheless went upstairs and told Kay Walker, Park Ridge, Ill., junior and house president, about the call.
"When the policemen arrived, I didn't let them in immediately." Mrs. Sperry said. "They were very young, and I still thought that it might be a prank. They were wearing guns and badges, but I waited until they showed me their identification cards. They thought it was funny. They were smiling from ear to ear," she said.
"When another police car drove up, I decided that it was no prank," Mrs. Sperry said.
DOUGLAS COUNTY Attorney Ralph M. King, Jr., suggested last night, Collins said, that Lawrence City Attorney Charles Stough draw up an ordinance for the city under home rule that would apply in future bomb scare incidents.
Collins said that the student would probably be charged with disturbing the peace, but that no formal charge has as yet been made.
Foreign Aid Funds Don't Meet Need
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— The House Foreign Affairs Committee was told today that the administration's $3.4 billion Foreign Aid Program was "simply too little" to meet the need.
The charge came from Andrew J. Biemiller, a spokesman for the AFL-CIO.
Biemiller urged the committee to boost Johnson's programs for economic development and technical assistance.
But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce disagreed with the labor spokesman. John O. Teeter, vice president of the Pfizer Drug Co., said the aid program should be cut by about $400 million. But he emphasized that the chamber does support "effectively administered foreign assistance."
Iconoclast Mencken's Works Displayed in Watson
Built like a fire hydrant and probably just as tough, Henry Louis Mencken has been the target of such high accolades as "one of the most brilliant personalities in American literature."
Several of the works and literary artifacts of Mencken are on display in the main floor of Watson Library. The display, part of one of the major Mencken collections in the world, is the property of Mrs. Elizabeth M. Taylor of Kansas City, who makes the annual Taylor Book Collection awards possible.
In addition to her Mencken collection and several other specialized collections, Mrs. Taylor's library includes a broad general selection, principally English literature from the seventeenth century through the twentieth century.
THE PORTION ON DISPLAY of
Mrs. Taylor's "Menckeniana" includes books, manuscripts, notes, newspaper copy and other miscellaneous materials which attempt to describe the career of Henry L. Mencken.
One of his books in the display, "The American Language," served to draw the line between the King's English and English as spoken in American. But more than just making a distinction, the book gave to the American language a dignity and respect it had not had in the hands and eyes of English purists.
In the display are several of Mencken's editorials written during his tenure with the Baltimore Sun which serve as examples of his biting wit, wry humor, and notorious iconoclasm.
There are several issues of "The Smart Set." ("a magazine of cleverness") and the "American Mercury." two magazines for which he served as editor and literary critic.
Also, there are several books about Mencken. During his life (1880-1935) Mencken wrote more than 25 books, in addition to reams of newspaper and magazine copy. The card catalog in Watson lists more than 60 books which were either written about Mencken or by him.
AMONG HIS LETTERS is one he wrote to playwright Eugene O'Neill, objecting to O'Neill's Catholic argument against birth control; "... as for the ecclesiastical objections to birth control, they seem to me to be wholly idiotic. There is nothing in Christianity which puts upon anyone the duty to augment human miserv."
Several of the books in the display are opened to pages with pictures of
One picture, a cartoon titled "The Subconscious Menchen," has mencken bearing a strong, stormy and undeniable resemblance to Mark Tvain.
Mencken. In one display case there is a small green tarnished bronze bust of Mencken with strangely oriental eyes.
The bust is tilted upward, showing his hair, parted in the middle, as though it were sculptured while Mencken sat looking up from his editor's desk at a reporter or a copy boy who had a question to ask.
BUT WHILE THE DISPLAY may describe the career of Mencken, it leaves much to be desired regarding enlightenment for the uninitiated as to the man himself. But no mere display can be expected to give thorough insight into so diversified and energetic a man as Henry L. Mencken. A man who during his 55 year
life span wrote books on such subjects as philosophy, drama, politics, humor, ethics and grammar.
Mencken was a man who aroused praise, respect and sometimes fierce loyalty among his readers. But on the other side of the coin there were those, like the character Harvey Stone in Ernest Hemingway's book "The Sun Also Rises," who dismissed the Mencken of 1926 as having "written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know."
In addition to literary criticism, Mencken tried his hand at writing drama, and also verse, the latter, which for some reason, failed to inspire the critics to write rave reviews, but which do serve to show another side of this many talented and dynamic man.