Hard work by KU students created the first Oread Jazz Festival.
Countless Letters, Phone Calls Precede Festival
In the fall of 1962, Robert M. Bush, Glendale, Mo., senior, and members of the Jazz Festival Committee, went before the Student Union Activities Board and proposed a jazz festival. The board told him to go ahead, Bush said.
With the voluntary cooperation of interested students,plans were made,letters written,and
dates set. Bush said that the task was "monumental."
The festival, created by student effort, will be all day tomorrow. The preliminary competition for the 12 groups entered occurs from 10 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The five finalists and Woody Herman's Herd perform beginning at 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
NINETEEN MONTHS OF work by students.
with the help of Michael Maher, assistant professor of zoology, has given KU its first jazz festival.
All through the spring semester of 1963, Bush explained, the students planned with the advice of music and jazz buffs in Kansas City and Lawrence. Bush recalls the biggest concern of the students was getting a "big name" to play at the festival and prizes for the collegiate bands entered.
Letters and phone calls soon followed, Bush
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61st Year, No. 126
World Spotlight
Friday, April 24, 1964
Johnson Crowded On Poverty Tour
SOUTH BEND, Ind.—(UPI)—President and Mrs. Johnson, on the start of a four-state tour of poverty-stricken areas, were caught for five minutes today in a milling crowd which pressed around the Chief Executive on a football field in South Bend.
At least one woman was carried away, apparently injured, from the jam of an estimated 5,000 persons waiting for the President on his helicopter hop from Chicago to this northern Indiana City.
The President's Secret Service agents worked furiously to get Johnson out of the crowd of hundreds who pushed close around him and Mrs. Johnson.
Johnson once tried to calm the excited crowd—raising both arms over his head in a pacifying gesture—but to no avail.
Agents finally wedged a path for him.
Johnson was unsmiling but later broke into a grin as he continued shaking hands in a more orderly fashion after emerging from the crowd.
It was Johnson's first stop on a tour of the front lines of his war against poverty campaign.
Bases Shutdown
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara today announced the shutdown—complete or partial—of 22 military installations and facilities with the elimination of 10,056 jobs.
McNamara told a news conference that the shutdowns and reductions plus the sale of two industrial reserve plants, the consolidation of defense contracting offices in 29 U.S. cities and several other economy measures would save $68 million annually in the United States and abroad over the next $3½ years.
Wallace Jeered
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—(UPI)—Alabama's Gov. George C. Wallace, his composure frayed a bit by a raucous, jeering reception from about 3,000 Indiana University students, carried his Hoosier primary campaign into Southern Indiana today.
Wallace's opponent in the May 5 primary, Indiana Gov. Matthew E. Welsh, headed north to meet President Johnson in South Bend.
The Alabama segregationist had about 200 hissing, cat-calling students walk out in the middle of his speech last night.
The meeting began with wild laughter when Wallace was introduced as "a man who has done much to improve the lot of the Negro in his home state."
Nazi Flees Germany
HANNOVER, Germany—(UPI)—A fugitive Nazi mass murderer flew to Switzerland after escaping from a maximum security jail with the aid of an old Hitlerite comrade, police said today.
They said his plane trip followed by hours his escape from the Braunschweig jail—from which he slipped with the aid of a guard who had served with him in Adolf Hitler's forces.
Hans Walter Zech-Nenntwich, convicted of the slaughter of Jews, used a private airplane to fly to Basel, Switzerland, early yesterday, police said.
They said the 47-year-old former Nazi SS officer flew to Basel in a private plane belonging to a textile manufacturer. The plane took off from nearby Nordhorn.
Police said they had unconfirmed reports that Zech-Nenntwich was joined in the plane by a woman friend, Margrit (Little Angel) Steinheuer. 32.
Frazier Chosen Vox President
Jim Frazier, Topeka senior, was elected President of Vox Populi last night.
Other officers elected were: Jon Alexion, Mission junior, vicepresident; Pris Osborn, Stockton junior, secretary; and Mike Pallesen, Topeka freshman, treasurer.
Frazier succeeds Tom Bornholdt,
Topeka senior.
Sig Nus Give Brother Blood
The Red Cross bloodmobile in front of Sigma Nu fraternity yesterday had special significance for the members—they were donating blood specifically for a member of Sigma Nu.
This blood will be exchanged for the type required by William Monty, St. Joseph, Mo., senior, who is in critical condition in a St. Joe hospital with a bleeding ulcer, Tim Wettack, Coffeyville junior and president of Sigma Nu, said.
"It takes two pints of our blood to exchange for one pint at the community center in St. Joe. Monty has to pay $25 a pint unless it is replaced by donations in his name," Wettack said.
The bloodmobile was supposed to make its scheduled stop at Stephenson scholarship hall, but many of the members of Stephenson were in the hospital with measles. Several residents of Stephenson gave blood at the Sigma Nu house when they learned the Sigma Nus had requested that the blood go to Monty.
Students interested in donating blood for Monty can go to Lawrence Memorial Hospital between 4:30 and 6:00 next Tuesday.
Court Gives Vox Contested Seat
The Student Court last night reversed the announced outcome of the spring election for All Student Council representative from the School of Fine Arts, and ordered that Norma Sharp, Arkansas City junior, be declared the representative from that district.
The court's ruling nullifies the decision of the elections committee, at the time of the spring election, declaring Susan Lawrence, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore, the winner in that district.
The failure of the election committee to redistribute two write-in ballots to the indicated second choice candidate was the reason for the court's ruling.
In the spring election, the elections committee announced that Miss Lawrence (UP) had won, by lot, over Miss Sharp (VOX) after the vote ended in a 138-138 tie.
There are 39 seats on the council. Before the trial, UP had a slim majority (20) by two seats over Vox (18). Now, neither party has a distinct majority, being tied with 19 seats each. One council member is unaffiliated.
The result of the trial last night has changed, slightly, the complexion of the all Student Council.
DURING THE TRIAL, evidence also revealed an error by the elections committee in the handcounting of 14 ballots, but the deciding factor in the case, was the policy of the elections committee in the matter of redistribution of two write-in ballots, which was contradictory to the procedure outlined by the ASC constitution.
In the race for representative from the School of Fine Arts, there were two write-in ballots cast for Gary Little, Prairie Village freshman. The two voters in this case, designated Norma Sharp as their second choice.
The ASC bill on elections states that "the quota of votes shall be determined by dividing the total number of valid ballots cast . . . by one more than the total number of positions to be filled." The quota necessary in the race between Miss Sharp and Miss Lawrence was 139 votes.
The elections bill also specifies that the candidate with the lowest number of votes, who cannot possibly win, shall be declared defeated, and his ballots redistributed, by hand, to the voter's second choice (in this case, Miss Sharp) until one candidate receives the required quota of votes.
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Study Organizations
Sociologists Tackle Projects
By Bobbie Bartelt
Student attitudes toward education, the changing role of women in the Costa Rican society and the functions of voluntary organizations illustrate the diversity of research work being done by members of the department of sociology.
Many of the projects are still in the research and appraisal stages, and the final results will not be known in the immediate future.
E. Jackson Baur, professor of sociology, explained his work concerning student attitudes toward a college education in an interview Wednesday afternoon.
"WE WERE CONCERNED with how participation in campus life influenced students' studies and their attitudes toward education," Prof. Baur said.
"A representative sampling of students was taken, and they were interviewed six times during their
four undergraduate years," Prof. Baur explained.
In addition to the interviews, 200 personal histories, selected from students taking introductory sociology courses, were collected and studied.
"ALSO STUDENTS taking seminars in sociological research observed student behavior in certain campus groups, in which the researchers themselves were participants," Prof. Baur said.
Weather
The study was also concerned with comparing students participating in honors courses to those in the regular program.
The Weather Bureau today said skies probably would be mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms through tonight and early morning. The low temperatures tonight are expected to be in the middle 50's.
"This project is about 15 months from completion," Prof. Eaur said. "During the coming months we will analyze the data and write the final reports."
THE CHANGING ROLE of the woman in Costa Rica's middle class is the subject of a study, "The Gentel Revolution," being done by Gordon Ericksen, professor of sociology.
Prof. Ericksen spent last summer in Costa Rica working on his pilot project and will return to Costa Rica this summer to continue gathering material. He is working under the KU-Costa Rica Faculty Exchange program.
"Middle class women in urban Costa Rica are showing signs of acting like middle class American girls," Prof. Ericksen said.
"Accordingly, they are asking Who am I?, and 'What do I want
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