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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, March 12, 1964
Lodge Lacks Appeal On National Tlcket
By Lee Stone
Two KU political science professors, a Democrat and a Republican, generally agree on the implication of the New Hampshire primary election.
In separate interviews, both James E. Titus, an associate professor of political science, Democrat, and Earl Nehring, assistant professor of political science and a Republican agreed that:
- Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. ambassador to South Viet Nam, and write-in candidate for president in the New Hampshire primary has not yet been proven as a candidate with national appeal.
NEHRING SAID. "I go along with the belief that Lodge's strength is not nation-wide."
Nehring believes, however, that Richard Nixon, the 1960 Republican presidential candidate, gained more than any other candidate. Nehring said Nixon did not have the backing of an organized campaign as did Lodge, yet Nixon polled half as many write-in votes. Nixon also has proven himself as a national political personality, and professional politicians will consider this, he said.
Like Prof. Nehring, Prof. Titus said that Lodge would have to prove himself outside of New England before he could be considered as a "serious candidate" for president. Because the UN is more popular in the East than the West, and because Lodge's name has borne the prestige of Ambassador to the UN, Lodge is better known and respected in the East. Prof. Titus said.
- Both professors believe that the Lodge write-in victory was also a
Council Invites Support Groups
More than 100 letters have been mailed to various organizations inviting them to become "supporting organizations" of the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee (CRCC), George Ragsdale, Lawrence senior and president of the Civil Rights Council, said last night.
The letter states that the only requirement for becoming a "supporting organization" is the giving of moral support to the CRCC.
A sample letter also explains that the CRCC was organized for the sole purpose of planning two mass demonstrations. A March 21 picket of the Sigma Nu fraternity is planned to protest the discriminatory clause in the national constitution of Sigma Nu fraternity.
A March 28 picket of the Greek Week chariot races will protest what the letter calls "... the de facto segregation in most KU fraternities and sororites."
Petitions protesting the Sigma Nu discriminatory clause and the "de facto" segregation of fraternities and sororites were distributed to members of the Civil Rights Council last night. Ragsdale said that after the petitions have been circulated among the students, they will be presented to the All Student Council for its consideration.
Ragsdale said they hope to get enough signatures to show that some action should be taken by the ASC.
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"Goldwater was hurt most." Prof. Nehring said. He believes the Barry Goldwater campaign suffered most because of Goldwater's remarks about social security and the UN.
Prof. Titus feels that "very probably" Lodge pulled support from Rockefeller.
victory for moderate forces in the Republican party.
BOTH LODGE AND Rockefeller are members of what Prof. Titus calls "the Eisenhower wing" of the Republican party.
Prof. Nehring said the primary was "useful" in that it showed that the Republican party has no "front-runner" at present, and that it provided "some kind of clarification" of Goldwater's philosophy.
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PROF. TITUS SAID he could not recall a write-in candidate in primaries winning a national election. He warned however, against generalities, because Senator J. Strom Thurmond, (D-South Carolina), was a write-in contender in the general elections and won his Senate seat.
As further evidence that the unexpected can happen in elections, Prof. Titus said Dr. John R. Brinkley, a quack doctor who advertised the replacement of human organs with those of monkeys, won 30 per cent of the Kansas vote for governor when he ran as an Independent.
Marston McCluggage, professor of sociology and anthropology, said the people are not always aware of what motivates them in their choice of candidates. In a voter study of Erie County, Ohio, it was found that an uncommitted voter's vote could be predicted by his social and economic position most of the time, Prof. McCluggage said.
What motivates the voter's selection of a candidate is not yet understood. Prof. McCluggage said.
THOSE WITH whom persons identify and on whom they rely for approval are also factors in the voter's choice of candidates.
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Klaus Pringshiem, instructor in East Asian Areas studies, did not believe that Lodge's victory would jeopardize his ambassadorship in South Viet Nam. On the contrary, he believed the unexpected vote of confidence by New Hampshire citizens would enhance his position as a diplomat. "People everywhere would tend to look up to him," Pringshiem said.
PRINGSIEM SAID he would be inclined to hand the victory to Lodge's son, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., because it was he who conducted an extensive write-in campaign, not Lodge Sr.
Pringsheim feels Lodge remained properly aloof during the New Hampshire primary.
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The Missouri Valley Forensic League (MVFL) will honor E. C. Buchler, professor of speech and drama, at its annual conference March 26-29.
Forensics Honor KU Prof. Buehler
The 13 member schools of the MVFL will meet at KU.
THE CONFERENCE will feature six rounds of debates on the question, "Resolved, That the present method of making committee assignments in the United States Congress should be abolished."
Prof. Buehler was secretary of the league for 26 years.
A banquet March 26 in the Kansas Union will feature four tributes to Prof. Buehler by Don Olson, professor from University of Nebraska; Emeritus Howard T. Hill, professor from Kansas State University; Thorrel Fest, professor from University of Colorado; and Waldo Braden, professor from Louisiana State University.
The 13 schools will enter one representative in oratory and two representatives in extempore speech. About 52 students will attend. Trophies will be awarded individual winners.
THE CONFERENCE comes after another major KU speech event, the Heart of America Debate Tournament, being held now on the campus, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
PROF. BUEHLER IS the author of 20 books on debate and public speaking, and he served as national president of Delta Sigma Rho, honorary speech society, for 11 years until 1953 when he became a trustee of the organization.
Universities participating in the conference are: Kansas State, Kansas, Wichita, Nebraska, Creighton, South Dakota, Iowa State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Colorado, Louisiana State, Texas and St. Louis.
A. B. Leonard, professor of zoology and chairman of the zoology department, and Tong-Yun Ho, Taiwan graduate student, have discovered a new fossil dating method using protein degradation.
Proteins Fix Fossil Age
BY DETERMINING the pattern of protein degradation in rock strata of increasing age, they have been able to place the relative date of fossils by measuring protein content.
Prof. Leonard explained that protein is preserved intact in fossils
but that the amount decreases with the progression of geologic periods. He believes that with this information the relative age of shells on the Great Plains can be determined without knowing the exact stratographic position of the rocks in which the shells are preserved.
THE RESEARCH, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, took $2_{1/2}$ years.
The findings will be published in Science magazine and presented to the American Geological Society.
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