UP Pulls Greeks, ASC Men
Two fraternities officially aligned themselves with the University Party last night.
The petitions of Tau Kappa Epsilon and Phi Kappa Sigma were read and unanimously accepted by the University Party General Assembly.
Earlier in the week Alpha Delta Pi sorority announced that it had switched its support to the University Party.
"WE WILL LOSE a few votes as a result of the switch, but it will not seriously weaken the Vox Party
in the upcoming election," Thomas Bornholdt, Topeka senior, president of Vox Populi, said.
Bornholt refused to give any reasons for the three living groups shifting support. "It is up to the houses to give this information," he said this morning.
REPRESENTATIVES FROM Phi Kappa Sigma and Alpha Delta Pi were not available for comment early this morning.
Rod Lennard, Ottawa senior and TKE president, said, "we felt that our house could benefit more directly from an association with the University Party." "Also we felt that the candidates backed by UF were better than the others."
Commenting last night on the switches, Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission senior and UP chairman, said the "KU political system is rotten to the core. Vox especially."
ALSO FRANK JACOBSON. Devanan sophomore, ASC representative from the large men's Residence Halls, and Thomas Shumaker, Russell junior, representative from the Fraternity district, have switched affiliation from Vox Populi to UP.
Daily hansan
Thursday, March 5, 1964
Lawrence, Kansas
61st Year, No. 97
Attorney General Plans To Talk Here Tonight
Rv Lee Stone
Kansas has legal problems with paper-back pornography.
Kansas also has legal problems with its new House reapportionment law.
William Ferguson, attorney general of Kansas, who is responsible for resolving these problems will explain, tonight on campus, what he is doing about them.
FERGUSON IS ALSO A Republican candidate for governor. "I don't pretend to be a political speaker," Ferguson said. But, he said he would answer questions about his philosophy of government at a Young Republicans club meeting tonight.
Sam Evans, Jr., Salina junior, president of the Young Republicans, said Ferguson would speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Sunflower room of the Kansas Union.
Ferguson said he would come to KU today immediately after asking the Kansas Supreme Court to correct a House reapportionment law mistake that gives double representation to Prairie Village.
HE WANTS TO TAKE students "behind the scenes" of the reapportionment case, Ferguson said.
refused to correct it. The court claimed no power to put words into a law, namely "Leawood."
Although the Senate omitted Leawood township when it passed its reapportionment, the Supreme Court
To correct the law, the court said, would be tantamount to its assuming a legislative role, something plainly forbidden by the constitution.
THE GOVERNOR HAD TO call a special legislative session to patch up the law.
Now the state wishes to avoid the expense of a second special session to correct the House's mistake and has also taken the Prairie Village duplication to the court.
While he is arguing this case before the court today, Ferguson said he would point out to the court that they could possibly interpret a corrective action as resolving an "ambiguity". This would be "constructive" not legislative, Ferguson said.
DURING THE WEEK OF March 23, the U.S. Supreme Court will review another case on which Ferguson has worked since he became attorney general.
The court's decision on this case is expected to draw the line between what is obscene and what is literature, Ferguson said. Because the Supreme Court receives so many appeals, it reviews only those cases that have a "broad national application." Ferguson said.
The obscenity case, known as a Quantity of Books versus The State
of Kansas, arose when some paperback books were confiscated from a Wichita newsdealer. Officials who siezed the books described them as "obscene."
FERGUSON SAID the attorney general's office was not opposed to books like "Peyton Place," and "God's little Acre."
Paraphrasing retired Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, Ferguson said his office wanted to control, "dirt for dirt's sake, or worse for money."
"Pornography is a little like dope," Ferguson said. "It has to become more erotic." To illustrate, Ferguson said he would bring samples of what his office believes to be "commercial smut" to the meeting. Some of the samples are dated from the time of the Wichita seizure, some are current.
FERGUSON, WHO GRADUATED from the KU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1938, was on the Honor Roll his senior year. He majored in history. Ferguson's home is in Wellington.
In addition to his political duties with the Republican party, Ferguson is on the advisory council of the Young Americans for Freedom, he said.
The State of Kansas Election Statistics show that Ferguson won the post of Attorney General in 1960 by 251,295 votes a plurality of 57 percent. Ferguson's opponent in the race was Democrat Jules V. Doty, Ottawa attorney.
QUEEN CANDIDATES—One of these KU women will be queen of the Military Ball, Friday night in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union. Top row, from left, Linda Machin, Ottawa senior; Cynthia Dickson, Leavenworth freshman; Judy Fraser, Larned senior. Bottom row, from left, Sharon Rogers, Prairie Village sophomore; Karen Schwartz, Pratt junior; Kathy Bergstrom, Kansas City, Mo., junior.
Doty has also announced his candidacy for governor of Kansas and if he wins the Democratic primary, he may again be Ferguson's opponent.
The Young Republicans chairman said he hopes that his club will be able to bring other Republican gubernatorial candidates to the campus to inform students on political issues.
Twelve candidates have entered the race for governor. Six are Republicans, six are Democrats. Republicans include, McDill "Huck" Boyd, Phillipsburg publisher; William H. Avery, U.S. Congressman; Harold Chase, Lieutenant Governor; Paul Wunsch, president pro tem of the Kansas Senate; and Grant Dohme; and, of course, William H. Ferguson, attorney general.
Democratic candidates for the office are; Harry Wiles, Kansas Corporation Commission commissioner; Jules Doty; George Hart, Wichita; J. Don Coffin, owner of the Council Grove Telephone Company; Joseph w. Henkle, former lieutenant governor; and Ewell Stewart, a Democratic prohibitionist.
Weather
Clear skies are forecast tonight and partly cloudy Friday. According to the weather bureau, the low tonight will be in the upper 20's and the high Friday will be in the middle 50's.
(Photo by Charlie Corcoran)
UP CANDIDATES—Kaye Whitaker, Wichita senior, and Robert Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, were announced last night by the University Party General Assembly as candidates for VicePresident and President of the student body. General elections will be April 1 and 2, 1964.
UP Names Ticket, Declares Platform
The University Party last night named Bob Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla., senior, as its candidate for student body president, and Kaye Whitaker, Wichita junior, as vice-presidential candidate.
The party's General Assembly also ratified a seven-plank campaign platform, and the names of the nominees for All Student Council from the school districts.
Council from the school board In accepting the UP nomination, Stewart said "The University Party is determined to bring a new era of student government to KU.
"This new era will be one of interest and concern for the student's needs," he continued. "It will be an era of emphasis on campus politics and student government."
ONE PLANK OF THE PLATFORM calls for an investigation into student employment on the campus, including inquiries into the hiring policies of departments and branches of the University, wages paid by them, and hiring policies of the businesses off the campus.
The University Party proposes the establishment of a committee to investigate the food services in the various living groups. It proposes a temporary committee to work with the KU Library to update and improve library files of examination and course material.
Also approved by the general assembly was a plank calling for an
(See text of platform on page 6.)
ASC service whereby students may anonymously evaluate teachers and teaching methods.
THE PLATFORM ALSO CALLS FOR A committee similar to the Little Hoover Commission which would operate year-around to test the effectiveness of the various ASC committees. UP also proposes to establish a system by which an ASC member attends each meeting of each ASC committee.
The platform also calls for establishment of a freshman leadership program to acquaint them with the various responsibilities and activities of student affairs at KU.
The UP platform supports the resolution introduced at the last ASC meeting by Miss Whitaker to form a committee to investigate the use of voting machines in campus elections.
The ASC candidates are college men, Carl Linquist, Prairie Village junior; college women, Mary Ruth Lanning, Lawrence sophomore; fine arts, Susan Lawrence, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore; pharmacy, George Brenner, Princeton junior; journalism, Roy Miller, Topeka junior; engineering, Ray Myers, Dodge City senior; business, Ken Robb, Mission junior; law, Pete Robertson, Lawrence first year law; graduate, Hugh Taylor, Stoke-on Trent, England, and education, Nancy Johnson, Caldwell junior. Miller and Taylor are incumbents.
Miss Johnson is president of Hashinger Hall, Linquist is president of Joseph R. Pearson Hall, and Brenner is president of Ellsworth Hall.
Commenting on the UP platform, Tom Bornholt, Topeka senior and president of Vox Populi, said, "I know that new ideas are hard to come up with in the second semester, but I didn't think they were this hard to come up with."
"We intend to go over the platform plank by plank," he said.
WHITMAN SAID the platform contains some "fine ideas."
"One of the first planks most responsive to the students needs is that asking an investigation of student wages. I am a University employee — a $1.05 slave. I think there is a crying need for investigation." he continued.
Bornholt said Vox Populi candidates will be ratified tonight and the party platform will be ratified March 12.