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Tuesday, April 16, 1963
De Pugh To Talk At SUA Forum
Robert Bolivar De Pugh, head of the controversial "Minutenem," will be the speaker at the SUA Minority Opinion Forum Thursday.
De Pugh will talk at 4:30 p.m., in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
The "Minutemen," a secret organization of civilians who train for guerrilla warfare to combat Communist infiltration in the United States, was formed by De Pugh and nine others in June, 1960.
DE PUGH, WHO lives in Norborne, Mo., is national coordinator and chief spokesman of the group.
Two years ago the "Minutemen" was one of the organizations denounced by President Kennedy as an extremist group. De Pugh has repeatedly insisted that "Minutemen" are "patrotic" citizens preparing for a last-minute fight against the Communists and not a private army.
"If the time ever comes when the people feel their government no longer represents them as a true constitutional] form of government, then I look for open rebellion. It's almost inevitable." De Pugh has said.
Many "Minutemen" feel the U.S. may collapse internally or be invaded in the near future.
TITAN FOR KU—Edward Abbot, Lawrence senior, and Ammom Andes, professor of aerospace engineering, inspect the second stage of a Titan I intercontinental ballistic missile acquired by KU as part of $2 million worth of surplus space age hardware. The 10-foot, one-ton, liquid-fuel rocket engine will be used by Prof. Andes as a teaching aid in the propulsion laboratory. KU paid only the transportation cost in obtaining the equipment through surplus.
As to who will decide when the government no longer represents the American people under the Constitution, De Pugh has said the Minutemen believe the nation has a "built-in alarm system" to alert the citizens against the formation of a totalitarian government.
THE EXPRESSED objectives of the "Minutemen" are to "abandon wasteful, useless efforts and begin immediately to prepare for the day when Americans will once again fight in the streets for their lives and their liberty."
"Minutemen" have said their main task has been combating the infiltration of U.S. schools.
"MINUTEMEN FEEL," De Pugh said, "if their identities are unknown they will be in a better position to obtain information on the infiltration of school systems by Communists and subversives."
"Minutemen" have dealt with this project through a careful study of school textbooks and the ways in which they are selected.
De Fugh said a large portion of the U.S. school system has been penetrated by these subversive factions.
The organization expects a membership of one million by this year.
12 to Study In Finland
Twelve KU students are among chosen to study Russian in Finland this summer at an institute sponsored by KU and the University of Colorado.
The group will study intermediate and advanced levels of Russian in Jarvenpaa, Finland, a center for Russian-speaking people.
Studies will be supplemented with cultural events in Helsinki, tours of Finland and two trips to Russia.
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has given KU and the University of Colorado a $67,000 grant for the program.
The 12 KU students selected for the program are:
Harold Baker, Osborne junior; Joy Bullis, Davenport, Iowa, sophomore; Joseph Cerniglia, Lawrence senior; Roger Findlay, Prairie Village senior; John Finger, Topeka graduate student; Linda Hannaford, Lawrence junior; Donna Hanneman, Junction City freshman; Stephen Klemp, Lawrence freshman; E. David Seal III, Independence, Mo., junior; Karl von Loewe, Minneapolis, Minn., graduate student; Irene Zaluski, Lawrence junior, and Barbara Backus, Lawrence graduate student.
Students Selected For Foreign Study
More than 100 students have been selected to study foreign languages in Europe under the KU Summer Language Institute program.
Three groups of the students will be in Paris, Barcelona and Weynay, Germany. The program is sponsored by the KU Committee on International Educational Affairs.
Accompanying the students abroad will be Arnold Weiss, associate professor of romance languages, who will accompany the
Phi Beta Kappa Honors Go To Seven Juniors
Seven KU juniors have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national liberal arts honor society.
Each of the seven juniors has a cumulative grade point average of 2.8 or better out of a possible 3.0.
The seven will be initiated on May 7 with a larger group from the senior class.
The new Phi Beta Kappas are:
PHI BETA KAPPA was the first Greek letter organization in the United States. The first chapter was established at William and Mary college, Williamsburg, Va., Dec. 5, 1776.
GARY H. GOSSEN, Wichita, anthropology, Latin America area and Spanish; Robert I. Guenthern, Augusta, economics and English; Bruce D. Hall, Coffeyville, economies and humanities; Barry L. Isaac, Mankato, anthropology; Bert Breon Mitchell, Salina, art history, German humanities and philosophy; Carolyn M. Nelson, Clifton, English and French; Frank W. Thompson, Jr., Iola, liberal arts and sciences.
Phi Beta Kappa introduced the characteristics of secret societies—a badge, Greek and Latin mottoes,a constitution,initiation,token of salutation,and a seal.
In 1831 secrecy was relinquished. The society was transformed to an honor organization. In 1875 women were allowed membership.
THE FIRST NATIONAL Council of the united chapters of Phi Beta Kappa began its sessions in 1883.
Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was organized at KU in 1890. 36 years after the founding of the University. Alpha was the 29th chapter to be admitted.
Originally Phi Beta Kappa was to encourage patriotism, scholarship, and especially literature.
As a badge of membership Phi Beta Kappa members are given a gold watch key pin with emblems and inscription.
*Spanish group; J. Neale Carman, professor of romance languages, who will accompany the French group, and Helmut Huelsbergen, assistant professor of German, who will accompany the German group.
Students going to France are:
THE STUDENTS will leave New York June 4 and return Aug. 7.
Students going to France are:
Patricia Sue Barnes, Osage City sophomore; Ann Jeanine Barry, Topeka freshman; Bea Burnette Baxter, Little River freshman; Michael Ellsworth Berger, Springfield, Mo., freshman; Carolyn V. Bernekin, Lawrence sophomore; Bruce A. Bikales, Prairie Village freshman; Jane Lee Breckenridge, Louisburg sophomore; Lawrie Kathleen Cena, Arkansas City freshman, and Mary Jean Curtis, Leoti sophomore.
ELINOR ANN ELLIOTT, Clay Center sophomore; Gary Lynn Garrison, Chanute freshman; Mary Margaret Geiger, Topeka freshman; Vicki Allene Gillespie, Indianola, Iowa, freshman; Daniel Fair Houshoulder, Wichita freshman; Margaret Dale Hughes, Ottawa freshman; Margaret AnJeter, Hays junior; Mary Ella Kline, Wichita sophomore, and Rebecca Jane Larson, Tulaa, Okla., freshman.
Donald Lee Malone, Lawrence freshman; Mary Lynne Mangan, Dodge City freshman; Carolyn Lucia Marino, Salina freshman; Ellen Faye Mendenhall, Leoti sophomore; Michael Dean Milroy, Sophomore sophomore; Bert Breon Mitchell, Salina senior; Carolyn Ruth Penner, Wichita sophomore; Paul Edward Piper, Parsons freshman; Sharon Kay Popp, Russell freshman, and Claudia Gene Reeder, Overland Park freshman.
Sheila May Reynolds, Hutchinson freshman; Carol Marie Sibley, Prairie Village freshman; Cathy Speer, Wichita freshman; Sharon Lou Stalcup, Lawrence freshman; David Arthur White, Prairie Village junior, and Sharon O'Nan Young, Hutchinson sophomore.
STUDENTS GOING to Spain:
Martha Allen, Lawrence junior;
Marjorie Argersinger, Lawrence special student; Monti Belot, Lawrence sophomore; Robert Brewster, Prairie Village junior; Lou Brown, Atchison freshman; Sharon Budd, Skagway, Alaska, sophomore; Helen Bush, Lyons freshman; Nancy Cole, Wichita freshman; John Craig, Atchison junior; Richard Duwe, Lucas junior.
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Today's Coed—Dizzy Blonde or Serious Student?
(The first of a three part series)
By Patti Behen
The modern college woman . . .
who is she?
She is your best friend, your sorority sister, your classmate, you. She is not just one of these, but all of them.
What is she like? She reads Keats, Kafka and Harper's Bazaar. She likes Beethoven and Brubeck. She joins campus organizations, goes to pep rallies and dances, and is always a good "fourth" for a bridge game. She wears bobby sox, loafers, short skirts and a boastful hair style.
HOW MANY jokes and cartoons we have seen which portray this contemporary college coed as the "dizzy blonde," with the campus as her "happy ground for husband-hunting."
She is descended from a long line of women students. In 1833 Oberlin College in Ohio gave the American woman her first opportunity to participate in the opportunities afforded by higher education.
But what is she really like?
THE MODERN college woman has come far from her sister coed of the 1830s. She is a comparatively different woman, in a much more complex society. She has evolved from cions of other women, each generation of which left a mark upon her.
Laurine E. Fitzgerald, keynote speaker at the 1963 national convention of the Intercollegiate Associated Women Students, said that in the first and second centuries of Rome, "Women studied philosophy, read and wrote books, dabbled in finance, occasionally demanded tax reforms, and were learned in poetry, mythology, history, rhetoric and religion."
Miss Bchen attended the 1563 National convention of Intercollegiate Associated Women Students (IAWS) in Norman, Okla. She was one of a nine-member delegation representing KU's Associated Women Students.
"Women of the Italian Renaissance became serious scholars and were active in astronomy and the sciences." Prof. Fitzgerald said. "Some actually received doctorates in the universities."
And yet the women of the United States did not enter the higher educational scene until the mid 1800s. Prof. Fitzgerald pointed out that, in general, women who took advantage of higher education came from the upper socio-economic groups and had little vocational or occupational orientation.
"The opportunities for female employment at the upper end of the educational ladder were too few to be of any significance," she said.
FROM THE mid-nineteenth century until about 1920, educational opportunities for both men and women flourished. Yet with these developments came many of the myths which still persist in the conception of the modern woman student.
"Within our cultural mythology," explained Prof. Fitzgerald, everyone 'knows' that man is intellectual and logical, while woman is emotional and less capable and competent."
SOCIOLOGISTS mark 1920 as a special date in regard to education. It is interesting to point out that in the 1920s,47 per cent of all college students in the United States were women.Current statistics indicate, however, that women now comprise only 35 per cent of all college students, despite the fact that there are now more women in the population than men.
"It is not true that too many women are crowding our colleges, when in fact women are less well represented than in 1820," said Prof. Fitzgerald.
WHY DOES the contemporary woman go to college? This question would be answered easily of European women, but it is more complex in America.
Some interesting implications are found in the comparison of Russian and American women. For example, 51 per cent of the students in institutions of higher learning in Russia are women. The comparable figure in the United States is 35.2 per cent.
"Only a small proportion of women in America go to college because they intend to follow a career," says Harold Taylor, president of Sarah Lawrence College, in his essay "Education for Women."
IN RUSSIA, women comprise 60 per cent of the medical student body and 5.5 per cent in the United States In Russia 39 per cent of the engineering student body is made up o women, and in the United States the comparable figure is only 0.59 per cent.
"THE EDUCATED woman thus faces a society that leads her to flee into early marriage to prove her womanhood." savs Prof. Brown.
We might ask, do these professions require more ability and logical thought than the American college woman can expose?
Donald R. Brown, professor of psychology at Bryn Mawr College, tells us that "unlike boys, who see college as preparation for an occupation, girls are imbued by their families with the idea of family and motherhood. The manner of this persuasion leads young women to wonder whether intellectual and
the feminine role are not in direct conflict."
"We have long tended to equate intellectual activity with masculinity and femininity with intellectual passivity," says Prof. Brown, "so that recognition of intellectuality by a young woman as something she possesses is almost tantamount to questioning her sexual role."
This confused set of values, then, is what the modern college woman faces.
PROF. BROWN tells us, however, that the college senior woman is tending more and more to reject traditional feminine roles in favor of more broadly defined roles.
Today's college woman must face the complexity of her college society as well as the society in which she will live. She must learn to define her role in society. She must decide what she wants out of life and what part she will play in her community.
She has at least six full, rich, delightful decades to do with as she pleases. Yet she does not know what type of world she will have to cope with and what problems she will have to meet.