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60th Year. No.132
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Wednesday, May 1, 1963
Max Fessler Dead Following Heart Seizure
Max Fessler, 48, professor of business administration, died of a heart attack at 7 a.m. today in his home.
Prof. Fessler was a graduate of KU and had taught in the School of Business periodically since 1938. He is survived by his wife Margaret, an eight-year-old daughter, Sally, and a brother, Will, of Garnett.
FUNERAL SERVICES will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in the Rumsey Funeral Home. Cremation will follow.
Prof. Fessler had suffered previous heart attacks, according to his physician, the latest being in August.
Prof. Fessler graduated from KU in 1936 with a B.S. degree and received his M.B.A. degree in 1941 from the University. He taught at KU during the period of 1938-42.
During World War II he served in the Army Air Corps as an officer in meteorology.
In 1948 Prof. Fessler lectured on statistics at Columbia University while working on his doctorate. He returned to KU the following year as an associate professor of statistics. In 1957 he became a professor of business administration.
Prof. Fessler was on leave during the 1950-60 school year on a Ford Foundation grant to participate in the Institute of Basic Mathematics for Application to Business, conducted at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In the last few, years he taught a junior course in statistics and qualitative methods of advanced statistics.
KU Junior Dies After Auto Crash
A KU junior was killed after a head-on collision of two automobiles yesterday afternoon on Grant Township Road three and one-half miles northeast of Lawrence.
Graydon L. Ford, 21. Kansas City died shortly after arrival at Memorial hospital. Ford, an engineering student, lived at home and commuted to KU.
ACCORDING TO Kansas Highway Patrolman Dick Kvasnicka, the car driven by Ford and a car driven by Oscar T. Linquist, 79, Topeka, collided at the crest of a blind hill.
Both cars were traveling about a foot left of the center line when the accident occurred, Kvasnicka said. Grant Townshiu Road is an unmarked gravel road.
Ford's parents told the highway patrolman that Ford often picked different routes to return home on.
A graduate of Washington High school and Kansas City, Kan., Junior college. Ford was a member of the students' chapter of the American Institute of Engineers at Lawrence.
Linquist and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Alma Larson, 81, Topeka, were in fair condition last night at Memorial Hospital. They were returning home from Des Moines, where Mrs. Larson had visited a daughter.
Weather
Warmer temperatures and cloudy skies are forecast for tonight with a low temperature in the 50s. Tomorrow skies will be partly cloudy, with temperatures rising above today's high of 65 to 70.
No immediate relief is in sight for the unusually dry conditions that prevail throughout the state. Weekend rains improved conditions in areas of eastern and north central Kansas, however.
LOVE SCENE—Cyrano de Bergerac played by William Kuhkle, instructor of speech and drama, professes his love to Roxanne played by Marilyn Miller Boyd, Lawrence senior in the opening night performance of "Cyrano de Bergerac." Review. page 6.
Haitians to Release Dominican Refugees
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti—(UP1) Haiti has agreed to the Dominican Republic's demand that 22 political refugees in asylum in the Dominican embassy here be allowed to leave the country in safety, diplomatic sources said today.
The decision by Haitian President Francois Duvalier's government appeared to ease further the crisis between Haiti and its neighbor republic on the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola.
It was communicated to Latin American diplomats as a five-man team from the Organization of American States (OAS) investigated Dominican charges that Haiti violated the embassy last Saturday while searching for opponents of the Duvallier regime.
THE INCIDENT led Dominican President Juan Bosch to threaten the use of armed forces unless Haiti withdrew a policeman from
the embassy grounds and guaranteed the safety of Dominican Diplomats and the Haitian political refugees sheltered in the embassy.
Bosch mobilized land, air and sea forces to back up the demands. Haiti withdrew the policeman yesterday.
HAITI BROKE off diplomatic relations Sunday. Bosch has charged the Haitian government backed an assassination plot against him in January and is still conniving with recently arrived members of the family of late Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo to overthrow the Dominican government.
A United States Naval task force stood ready in the Gulf of Gonaives off Haiti's West Coast to remove about 1,500 American citizens from the country if trouble starts, according to informed sources in Santo Domingo, the Dominican capital.
'Suburbia Could Change Parties'
The new mayor of Overland Park said last night that population movements from the core city to suburban areas may cause what he called "a true two-party system" in Kansas.
arvin Rainey, speaking at a Young Democrats meeting.
Labor of Maryland, special characterized suburban areas as heavily Republican because people have moved from the core city in search of "Republican prestige and white collar jobs."
BUT THE DEMOCRATIC mayor said this Republican domination is being threatened by the moving of so-called blue collar workers into these areas.
"This is causing the Republicans—the white collar workers—to move even further from the city." Mayor Rainey said. "I think this is an indication that a two-party system is developing in suburban areas."
Mayor Rainey, a 29-year-old attorney, is the first officially endorsed Democratic mayoral candidate who has been elected in Kansas. Only Overland Park and Prairie Village hold bipartisan municipal elections.
He said he believes the enactment of reapportionment in Kansas and his own election in Overland Park are indications that a "true two-party" system is developing in Kansas.
DESPITE SAYING he thought re-apportionment would help Democrats, Mayor Rainey said, "This re-apportionment however, was one of the classic examples of gerry-mandering."
Rainey told the Young Democrats about the campaign strategy that enabled him to become elected mayor as a Democrat in what he called "the most Republican county in the most Republican state in the Union."
"I decided the best thing I could do was not to talk about Democrats," he said. "In fact, in not one of my speeches did I mention the word Democrat—not even in newspaper advertisements did I use the word."
Mayor Rainey spoke of the key role played in his election by Republican voters in one of the precincts, saying that only two of 102 votes were cast for him in the primary election.
"IN THE meantime, I became friends with the chairman of the Republican organization in that precinct and he shifted some of the Republican support into my column," he said.
Members of the KU Young Democrats helped in the mayor's campaign. The students did some polling and telephone work, according to Max Logan, chairman of the KU Young Democrats.
Stuckey Named ASC Chairman For Coming Year
John Stuckey, Pittsburg junior, was elected chairman of the All Student Council for the coming year in the council's elections last night.
Other officers elected to the ASC were Greg Turner, Seattle, Wash., junior, vice-chairman; Sandra Garvey, St. Louis, Mo., junior secretary, and Charles Portwood, Shawnee Mission junior, treasurer.
BEFORE THE VOTING, Peggy Conner, Sacramento, Calif., junior, asked that nominations come from the floor as well as from each of the political parties.
"There is a good and useful place for the political parties on the campus, but not in the election of officers of this council," Miss Conner said.
JOHN STUCKEY, who took over as presiding officer immediately following the election, appointed the members of the Committee on Committees.
Turner, as vice-chairman of the council, will serve as chairman of the Committee on Committees. Other appointees are Jerrie Trantum, Kansas City junior, secretary; Pat Wilson, Kansas City senior; Chuck Marvin, Lawrence junior; Bob Tieszen McPherson junior, and Harry Bretschneider, Kansas City, Mo., junior.
The committee will begin work on a Student Advisory Board to advise students on enrollment and class scheduling procedure.
A RESOLUTION was passed concerning the inadequate stairway and access to the west side of Memorial Stadium and asking the student body president to take immediate action to improve the situation.
Reuben McCornack, Abilene junior and student body president, appointed Jim Thompson as chairman of the Student Liaison Committee. He also announced that interviews for other ASC committees will be held Saturday and Sunday.
Debate Marks Fraternities' History
(First of a three part series)
By Wally Henson
The college social fraternity system has been the target of heated criticism and debate since its beginning in 1776.
Some people attack fraternities on the grounds of scholarships — or the lack of it.
Others accuse fraternities of holding wild parties.
OFTEN SEEN is the cartoon depicting the fraternity pledge as an overworked subordinate of the active members.
The March 12 issue of Look magazine concluded that fraternity ritual and discriminatory practices would cause the extinction of the fraternity system.
True, the fraternity system does have faults, as evidenced by the second look some fraternities are taking at themselves.
AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 37 men conspired, pledged together, and yanked their chapter out of its national system because of a discriminatory clause in the national constitution.
At Williams College in Massachusetts, 47 fraternity men charged;
THE COLLEGE has taken steps to ban 15 fraternities there by the end of 1964.
"Fraternities . . . create false centers of loyalty and concern which inhibit true intellectual and social development."
A 16-story residence hall is being constructed at Bodwin College, a men's school in Maine, for the entire senior class there.
The expressed purpose is to get the men into an environment which will "support the goals of the college rather than negating or merely tolerating them."
SEVENTEEN CHAPTERS at Brown University in Rhode Island will get the ax within four years unless membership rises.
Understanding of fraternity must include a definition. But opinion varies because a fraternity means different things to different people.
"Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities," says men's "social fraternities are mutually-exclusive,
self-perpetuating groups which organize the social life of their members in accredited colleges and universities as a contributing factor to their education program."
NEWTON D. BAKER, former secretary of war, said "a fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days . . . because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations. . . .
"A fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left college, they delight to renew their own youth by continued association with the fraternity."
AT KU, ADMINISTRATORS take a tolerant attitude toward fraternities.
Those definitions agree with the dictionary, which defines a fraternity as "a body of men associated together by a common bond of interest."
"Most of the administration is sympathetic to fraternities," said L. C. Woodruff, dean of students. Woodruff is an alumnus of Sigma Chi fraternity.
"In general our fraternities have a lot to offer to some students," Dean Woodruff said. "A fraternity is a way of life." he added.
Fraternities help the individual adjust to college and to life itself, Dean Woodruff feels. He said "our youngsters must develop their own ideals.
"THEY ARE WRESTLING with the problem of authority." They are making a break with their parents, he said, and "group association frequently is helpful in this regard."
Fraternities were originally designed to provide a place to live and eat and develop close associations. Those associations are intended to develop into group loyalty and a set of ideals by which to live.
Dean Woodruff admitted that fraternities do not always live up to all the ideals for which they stand.
BUT DEAN WOODRUFF emphasized that he reserves the right to draw his own conclusions about individuals.
"I try to judge people on their
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