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Daily hansan
60th Year, No.122
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Wednesday. April 17, 1963
NEW OFFICERS INSTALLED—Outgoing student body president Jerry Dickson, Newton senior (right), swears in Reuben McCornack, Abilene junior, the new All Student Council president, and John Underwood, Parsons junior, vice-president.
ATO to Build On TKE Site
Plans for a $160,000 addition to the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house have been announced—but the ATO's can't start work until Tau Kappa Epsilon moves.
The ATO addition will go on the south end of their house at 1537 Tenn. St. But the TKE house occupies the land where the addition is to go.
ATO bought the TKE house last year, with a gentleman's agreement that the TKE's could rent the house until they got a new one built.
THE TKE FRATERNITY MEN hope that will be soon.
Robert Keelin, Ottawa senior and president of Tap Kappa Epsilon, said the fraternity plans to begin work on a new home this month, but construction cannot begin until the drawings are completed.
The fraternity had planned to begin construction April 1.
The new Tau Kappa Epsilon house will be built at the corner of 19th and Iowa Streets. The fraternity purchased two lots from the Univsity Endowment Association in 1961.
The new TKE house will house 80 men and will cost about $250,000. Keelin said.
THE HOUSE WILL be a tri-level structure, he said. One two-story wing will contain study rooms and sleeping quarters. The dining room will be on one level, the living room will be on a second level, and a chapter room and recreation room will be on a third level
Keelin said the house should be finished by next fall.
The new wing on the ATO house will match the structure's present exterior and will contain a living room, dining facilities, a new kitchen and several new study-bedrooms.
The addition will also provide room for a chapter room, which the ATO's do not have now, and will increase the dining room capacity from 80 to about 120, according to Dave Gough, Chanute senior who is past president of the fraternity.
THIS WILL BE the second time the ATO's have added to their house. The house was originally built to house 45 men, but a fourth floor was added several years ago.
The expansion will provide space for 26 more men. The present capacity is 72 men.
The ATO's use a study-bedroom plan. This is a suite of three rooms—a study room flanked by two small sleeping rooms.
The other system, which will be used in the new TKE house, is the sleeping porch system. Under this system, the fraternity men sleep in large rooms.
THE ATO'S PLAN to begin work on the addition in the summer of 1964, since the TKE's have signed a contract to rent their old home for the 1963-64 school year.
The area just south of Stouffer Place is owned by the Endowment Association, and has been named Fraternity Place. The entire area has been marked for fraternity expansion.
Dickson Relinquishes Reins to McCornack
Reuben McCormack, Abilene junior, and John Underwood, Parsons junior, were sworn in as student body president and vice-president, respectively, at the All Student Council meeting last night.
They were installed by Jerry Dickson. Newton senior and outgoing student body president. Newly-elected members of the council also took office last night.
Before the installation of new members, the outgoing council acted on pending business.
A PROPOSED amendment to form an executive appointments committee was defeated after much discussion.
The purpose of such a committee would have been to approve all executive student appointments made by the student body president and to determine the eligibility of appointees. The amendment was submitted by Tom Ward, Concordia sophomore.
Ward said the ASC, "being the principle student governing organization, should have the right to set up requirements for executive student appointments."
He explained that the appointments committee would not make appointments, but would approve those made by the student body president. Appointments would then have to be ratified by a two-thirds vote of the council.
GREG TURNER, Seattle, Wash., junior, opposed the formation of the committee.
"It would drastically retract from the power of the student body president, a power which has not been abused," he said.
Turner said the committee, which would have consisted of the administrative assistant to the chancellor, two political party representatives, and two students appointed by the Dean of Women and the Dean of Men, "would give part of the executive power to someone else besides the legislative body."
"Why have a student body president if people don't feel he shouls have the responsibility to make some very basic decisions about those who serve on ASC committees," Jerry Dickson asked. "I am always opposed to any restriction of power of the only representative of the entire student body," he said.
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McCornack Tells His Plans To ASC
Reuben McCormack, newly-elected student body president, announced his plans and policies to the All-Student Council last night.
McCormack, Abilene junior, said, "I will try to keep the council aware of its responsibility to fulfill its obligations to the student body in providing the services needed by the students."
HE SAID HE WOULD try to "carry out the proposals of the council in the best possible manner and be conscientious in representing the student body."
He suggested the formation of the following committees as part of an extensive legislative program to be considered and acted upon by the ASC this spring:
- A special committee to study student health insurance rates.
- A Hosting and Hospitality Committee, which would set up hosting facilities for groups coming to the campus next fall.
- A Student Travel Service to make arrangements for students going home at the end of the semester.
- A committee to work in conjunction with the registrar on enrollment problems.
- A committee to study the seating arrangement in the University Theater.
- A committee to investigate possible extension of library hours.
McCORNACK SAID there was no need for a committee such as this, "for there are adequate safeguards in our present system of appointments."
In other business, nominations were made for council offices. Nominations will again be opened at the next council meeting, and elections will be held at that time.
Nominees for chairman are John Young, Salina law student, and John Stuckey, Pittsburgh junior; vice-chairman, Charles Marvin, Lawrence junior, and Greg Turner, Seattle, Wash.; junior; secretary, Anne Donald, Prairie Village freshman, and Sandra Garvey, St. Louis, Mo., junior; and treasurer, Jack Croughan, Novato, Calif., junior, and Chuck Portwock, Shawnee Mission junior.
Bob Swan, Topeka junior and Peace Corps president, gave a report of the activities of the Peace Corps.
JOHN FAIRHURST, Wichita junior and, chairman of the Peace Corps special events committee, announced that the first statewide Peace Corps conference will be held here May 3-4.
Swan said the Peace Corps would like to become a self-perpetuating organization working in affiliation with the ASC.
After the installation of the new members, McCornack presented an outline of business to be handled by the council before the end of the semester.
Weather
The hot, humid weather that came into Kansas yesterday is expected to continue through today with some stiff southerly winds.
Temperatures in the Central Kansas counties were near 90 yesterday, but today's highs are expected in the 75 to 80 range with a low tonight around 60.
Widely fluctuating temperatures may range throughout the state, but no moisture is predicted.
KU Grad Uses Odd Angles To Photograph Relays Action
By Roy Miller
One of the many photographers who will be scurrying around the track in Memorial Stadium this weekend is no stranger to the Kansas Relays.
Rich Clarkson has missed only one KU Relays since 1948.
Clarkson, a native of Lawrence and 1956 KU graduate, is chief of the photography department of the Topeka Daily Capital and State Journal.
THE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM graduate received national recognition recently in Editor & Publisher, a newspaper trade magazine, for the novel pictures he took at the KU-Kansas State basketball game here this year.
Clarkson placed a remote-control camera on one of the panes of glass backboards in Allen Field House to get a unique view of that game.
Clarkson used the same device at last year's Relay's. As an experiment he placed a remote-control camera in the pit area of the pole vault event.
CLARKSON'S SHOTS of John Uelses, the 16-foot pole vaulter who was competing here, were picked up by the Associated Press and used
throughout the nation.
Although only 30 years old, Clarkson is known as one of the best photographers in the Midwest. Numerous citations and plaques hang above his desk in the Capital-Journal newsroom.
CLARKSON has won eight first places in the last 12 monthly contests sponsored by the Midwest Region of the National Press Photographers Association. He won the association's first place nationally in December.
Clarkson, who has been doing free lance work for Sports Illustrated magazine since 1957, has been offered several jobs. But he claims he has considered only three of them seriously.
HE HAS also been offered positions as picture editor of National Observer, a weekly newspaper published by the Wall Street Journal, and as assistant illustrations editor of National Geographic magazine.
"I'm not quite ready yet to sit down at a desk being a picture editor," Clarkson said. "I have too
Clarkson said he turned down one of the offers — to head the Houston Chronicle's photography department — because he didn't feel he would have enough freedom.
Clarkson worked for the Lawrence Journal-World on a free lance basis while he was a Lawrence high school student. At the end of his freshman year at KU, Clarkson became a fulltime Journal-World reporter-photographer for the summer months.
much fun taking action pictures."
After graduation, he was the newspaper's chief photographer. Nine months later he was drafted. He served his entire term of duty at Forbes Air Force Base in Topeka.
"I FLEW A DESK. I was a public officer." Clarkson said,
Clarkson joined the Topeka newspapers in 1958 and completely re-organized their photography resources.
Clarkson's latest organization job has been planning the photo department for the new Capital-Journal plant which is slated for occupation May 4.
Clarkson's outside work with Sports Illustrated keeps him busy. This winter he was on assignment for the weekly sports magazine from a small Utah community to Boston.
People in the newspaper business sometimes wonder why Clarkson doesn't move into the magazine
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