GREEK WEEK QUEEN CANDIDATES—One of these women will reign over Greek Week March 26-28. Front row, from left; Delores Tutton, Wichita senior; Cynthia Childers, Merriam senior; Mary Morozzo, Council Grove junior; Sherry Dart, Leawood junior; Sandy Coffman, Pittsburg junior. Back row, Beth Cook, Arlington, Va., senior; Sandy McCarty, Wichita senior; Martha Parmley, Wichita senior; Pat Wise, Wichita sophomore; Carolyn Eymann, Atchison sophomore; Pam Stone, Wichita junior. (Photo by Paul Kivett)
Daily hansan
Lawrence, Kansas
61st Year, No. 103
Friday, March 13. 1964
Board of Education Hesitates
City Split on Sex Course
By Nancy Schroeter
The Lawrence Board of Education announced this week a sex education program will not begin at the present time.
The decision was approved unanimously on the board after Dr. George R. Learned of 1065 Wellington and presented petitions, signed by more than 500 persons, which asked the board to reconsider the action it had taken Feb. 23. It voted then to initiate a program of sex education in the Lawrence schools. When asked to make a statement on the action Dr. Learned declined to comment.
Organized by the Lawrence Board of Education, the committee on sex education had its report approved by the board at its Feb. 23 meeting. The report stated: "Proper instruction in the area of human reproduction and sexual behavior is not only desirable, but particularly necessary today."
THE UNANIMOUS decision of the committee on sex education as stated in its report was to recommend that the "school take the initiative in a gradual and progressive course of instruction in all matters, including sexual, pertaining to human growth and development, at no period interrupted, and adapted to the students' level of maturity and understanding."
Further recommendations in the report included:
report methods
"The school staff should be responsible for developing an outline of the program to be followed, drawing heavily upon the special resources we have in Lawrence . . .
Social Board Probes Reports On Living Area
Reports of beer-drinking and fighting in the quarters of a living group are forcing a committee of the All Student Council to investigate the matter.
gate the maze.
Lee S. Pierres, Park Ridge, Ill.
sonsen and chairman of the ASC
Social Committee, said his committee
would meet Tuesday to look into
reports that beer-drinking and
fighting took place at the Un-Mili-
tary Ball last Saturday in the lounge
of Don Henry Co-op.
"The committee has not met with anone officially so far," Ayres said. Donald K. Alderson, of men, said yesterday:
"I think an inquiry should be made and I am confident it will be made."
Alderson said the ASC Social Committee should make the investigation, not the University.
"The schools should continue to provide special counseling services on an individual basis to these students with personal questions or problems.
"A PROGRAM of adult education should be offered annually, paralleling and supporting the program in the schools."
Purposes of the committee on sex education were outlined in a memo to committee members from the Superintendent of Schools, Carl S. Knox. dated Oct. 25, 1963.
The purpose of the committee was four-fold. One purpose was to serve as a sounding board from the community and to reflect ideas and opinions concerning the role of the schools in teaching proper attitudes and knowledge.
The committee was to indicate the degree of importance, emphasis and scope which it felt this area of instruction should have in the school curriculum.
The committee was also to suggest safeguards that should be taken in this area of instruction to insure the best interests of the children, and to indicate the responsibility of other groups and agencies in this area of instruction for boys and girls according to the memo.
THE COMMITTEE was to proceed, as explained in the memo, by inviting in for their contributions "any individual who wishes to express himself relative to the subject and give him ample opportunity to be heard without prejudice."
But, during the process of compiling information on sex education, the committee found that the report became controversial. Marston McCluggage, professor of human relations, sociology and anthropology and chairman of the committee on sex education, said.
"Resource people" were also to be invited to provide the committee with information that might not otherwise be available.
Letters the committee received during its investigation which began Nov. 25, 1963, were about 50 per cent for sex education in the schools and 50 per cent against, Prof. McCluggage said.
Cottage land
"We are not opposed to sex education, as such." Mrs. Albert Burgstahler of 1620 Massachusetts and a citizen who voiced opposition to the plan, said.
SPEAKNG FOR herself and her husband, Albert Burgstahler, associate professor of chemistry, Mrs.
Weather
Cool air will move into the Lawrence area this evening from the east, possibly causing scattered thunder showers that will last until tomorrow morning. Tomorrow's skies will be clear. The high tonight will be in the lower 30s and the high tomorrow will be in the upper 50s.
Burgstahler explained, "We feel the primary responsibility for sex education rests with the home."
She said that there should be some guiding principal in the sex education program, and would like to see sex education presented so it is made clear that it is not either moral or ethical to have sexual relationships outside of marriage.
The recommendation of the committee on sex education, Mrs. Burgstahler said, was to present sex education by giving the facts to the students. She said that sex should be presented in the light of what is right and what is wrong..
"Most of the community feels
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Vox Advocates Stadium Growth
A plan to build an addition to the student side of the stadium is the number one plank ratified by the General Assembly of Vox Populi last night.
The stadium addition would be financed by increasing the reserved season ticket price to about $5.
This plan would not go into effect until fall of 1965 when the addition would be completed.
Another plank calls for an investigation of all methods of student pre-enrollment, such as IBM card systems discussed at the Big Eight Student Government Convention this fall.
A PLANK CALLING for reorganization and fair enforcement of traffic regulations specifies such things as opening zones for Saturday and vacation parking.
Another of Vox's planks calls for encouragement of the Kansan to publish actions, without the names of students or groups, which come before the disciplinary and social committees for a better understanding of the nature of violations.
A suggestion to replace Pinkerton men with students to take tickets at all athletic events is an effort to ease the student employment problem.
Vox also endorses the apprentice system to train interested students as non-voting members of ASC committees.
ONE PLANK CALLS for student planning of Homecoming activities and a student poll to solicit opinions on the grading system.
Two other ideas of the Vox platform call for an alumni visitation program to become familiar with various professional and technical fields, and the establishment of a student Centennial committee.
(Text of platform on page 8)
"I feel we have a great deal to campaign with in our candidates and platform," Vox president Tom Bornholdt, Topeka senior said.
"We advocate meaningful actions for the students interest with a lot less trivia than UP."
UNIVERSITY PARTY general secretary Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission senior, said "some of the planks are good, however, most of them cannot be implemented by students."
Vox candidates for school district seats which were ratified are: College Women, Carol Jo Webber, Raytown, Mo., sophomore; College Men, Robert Hicks, Kansas City, Mo., junior; Education, Margo VanAntwerp, Plymouth, Mich., junior; Journalism, Russell Corbitt, Chanute senior; Fine Arts, Norma Sharp, Arkansas City junior; Business, John Benson, Prairie Village junior; Engineering and Architecture, Ken Mathiasmeier, Arkansas City sophomore; Pharmacy, Gary Gilstrap, Galena fourth year; and Law, Andy Graham, Lawrence second year.
Granham, Lawrence second yelr. Vox has not finished interviewing candidates for the Graduate school seat.
In Heart of America Event
Debaters Call Competition Stiff
By Bobbie Bartelt
The reputation enjoyed by the Heart of America debate tournament for being one of the debate circuit's most difficult tournaments has not changed this year.
Debaters from all parts of the United States commented yesterday about the stiff competition they had met after one day of debating.
"This tournament is always good." Annette Wright, Springfield, Mo., senior from Southwest Missouri State, said. Miss Wright and her colleague, Kent Keller, Springfield, Mo., junior, are the members of the team that won the KU tournament last year.
A TEAM FROM Southwest Missouri State has won the Heart of America tournament for the last two years.
Teams from the West Coast noticed the similarity between debating in West Coast tournaments and Mid-western tournaments.
"There is a relaxed feeling in the West and Midwest that isn't found in Eastern debating," a group from the University of Southern California agreed.
Dartmouth debaters, however, disagreed with the California group.
"THE PACE IN Eastern debating is much slower. We have nearly an hour's wait between rounds," Brian Butler of Dartmouth College said.
The preliminary rounds will end this afternoon, when the octo-final winners will be announced.
These 16 teams which survive the preliminaries will advance to the octa-, quarter-, semi-, and final rounds, all to be conducted Saturday in the Kansas Union.
DEBATE CHAMPS—Caught eying the trophy which their school has won for two consecutive years are Annette Wright and Kent Keller, members of the debate team from Southwest Missouri State College. The traveling trophy is the prize for the winner of the Heart of America debate tournament now in progress in the Kansas Union. (Photo by Paul Kivett)