Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, March 15, 1963
60th Year, No.14
NEW AWS OFFICERS AND SENATE—The newly elected officers and senate for the Associated Women Students are: back row, left to right: Ann Leffler, Jane Breckenridge, Lesley Hagood, Patricia Kendall, Sheridan Whitcher.
Jill Newburg, and Jo Lynne Talbott; second row, Barbara Kibler, Margaret Harris, Pamela Rice, and Wendy Wilkerson; front row, Carol McMahan, Joan Fowler, and Patricia Behen.
Ann Leffler Chosen to Lead KU Women In Coming Year
Ann Leffler, Pittsburg junior, and Jo Lynne Talbott, Overland Park junior, were chosen yesterday to head the Associated Women's Students (AWS) senate.
The two women and 12 other members of the senate were elected yesterday by 1233 KU women.
MISS KARLENE HOWELL, assistant to the Dean of Women, said the voting turnout was probably the largest for an AWS election.
Election polls this year were stationed in the individual living groups. Previously the polls were located in Murphy Hall, Fraser Hall, the Kansas Union and Strong Hall.
Other winners and runners-up who will compose the AWS senate are: Patricia Kendall, Holton junior and runner-up to the presidency; Margaret Harris, Leawood junior, runner-up to the vicepresidency; Jill Newburg, Webster Groves, Mo..
freshman, secretary; Carol McMahan, Wichita freshman, runner-up; Jane Breckenridge, Louisburg sophomore, treasurer, and Lesley Hagood, Prairie Village junior, runner-up.
ALSO SERVING AS senate members are Barbara Kibler, Topeka freshman, Cwen adviser; and Sheridan Whitcher, Prairie Village sophomore, runner-up; Wendy Wilkerson, Wichita junior, All Student Council-Panhellenic representative; Pamela Rice, runner-up; Jean Fowler, Shawnee Mission sophomore, ASC-Interresidence Council representative, and Patricia Behen, Kansas City, Kan., junior, runner-up.
These women and two other senate members elected last fall from the AWS House of Representatives and the freshman class, act as the governing body for all University women.
The two freshmen members are Claudia Reeder, Overland Park and Beth Beamer, Topeka.
Peace Corps Will Screen Applicants in Mar. 23 Test
The next placement test to screen applicants for service in the Peace Corps will be given March 23.
To be eligible for this test applicants must obtain a questionnaire either at the main Post Office or at the Peace Corps office in the Kansas Union. The completed questionnaires can either be brought to the testing center on the day of the tests or sent directly to the Peace Corps.
TESTS CAN BE taken at the Main Post Office in Lawrence or in G-19, Federal Building, 711 Armstrong Ave., Kansas City, Mo. In addition to March 23, test dates have been set for April 27 and June 8.
No one will flunk the test because there is no passing score. The tests are all graded on a relative scale. The results are used primarily to determine the type of assignment for which each applicant is best qualified.
A low score on one part will not necessarily eliminate a person if another part indicates he might fit
There is a psychological test, a test to measure verbal and reading aptitude, and one to measure the applicant's ability to learn a foreign language. This is not a language test; although, if a particular assignment is desired, a language test can be taken.
well into some other area ot the Corps work.
THE TEST IS composed of several parts, some of which are optional. The general test that everyone must complete takes from three to four hours, and is given in the morning. Other parts are given in the afternoon, the time depending on the parts taken.
The applicant is also tested on his knowledge of the world. If he plans to work within a certain area of knowledge, such as teaching a particular subject, he will be given a skill test on his grasp of the particular area.
A. Swan, Topeka junior and chairman of the Peace Corps Committee at KU said. "The questionnaire and the references are also very important."
"I THINK IT should be emphasized that these tests are only one part of the selection process," Robert
He explained the questionnaire He eight or nine pages long, and designed to provide extensive information about the individual.
"After these first three initial steps, the selective process continues with a special training program of 8 to 10 weeks, followed by 26 days in Puerto Rica." Swan said. "It is within these periods that most of the elimination occurred."
Weather
Mild temperatures with moderately strong winds are forecast for Lawrence this afternoon, tonight, and tomorrow, with occasional showers and thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow. The high today will be around 60. The low tonight, 40 to 50. The high Saturday 55 to 60.
Vox Calls UP Planks Old Stuff
The president of Vox Populi last night criticized the University Party's platform as being "three quarters repetition."
Roger Wilson, Wichita senior, said at a Vox meeting, the UP uses the same planks with different wordings election after election.
He also charged that some of the planks concerned plans already in operation in the All Student Council.
NANCY LANE, Hoisington junior and co-chairman of UP, said later in an interview the planks Wilson probably felt were repetitious appeared in the platform again because as yet nothing had been done.
She said the first plank, stressing Greek-independent cooperation which Wilson said was repetitious, was included again because this cooperation is always one of the party's main goals.
"We feel that from this cooperation better student government will result," she said.
Miss Lane said the UP included support of the Student Political Education Campaign (SPEC), which is now in operation to elaborate on the purpose of SPEC and to give their continued endorsement to it.
THE UP PLATFORM endorses the allocation of funds to class officers to "promote an increase of class activity and spirit."
Wilson said he would prefer to see a desire demonstrated for funds and unification by the officers before university funds are allocated.
"We must have University unity before we split up into classes," he said.
Miss Lane said the idea of the plank had been formed into a bill
in the All Student Council, but nothing had resulted.
JOHN STUCKEY, Pittsburg junior and Vox candidate for college men's representative, answered UP criticism that Vox supports the formation of too many committees.
"We should be proud they can find nothing else to criticize us for than this," he said.
He said UP seems to think that unless everything a committee does is publicized, it does nothing.
"The committees solve the problems and just figure that's enough, without a public pronouncement," he said.
WILSON CRITICIZED THE UP plank proposing a University Coordinating Committee for all extra curricular activities was not feasible.
He said it would be impractical to get representatives for the over 200 organizations on campus together for a profitable exchange of ideas.
The UP platform points up inadequacy in the Big Eight Student Government Association and proposes that KU promote a Midwest Student Government Association.
Wilson criticized this plank as being unclear and unrealistic. He said it does not explain who it would plan to include in such an association or how it would be organized.
HE SAID in the meeting there might not be a primary for the forthcoming election.
Miss Lane said unless more than two candidates were running for class offices primaries would be eliminated this year. However, not all of those running for these offices have announced their candidacy yet.
Argentina Readies For Peron Move
BUENOS AIRES —(UPI)— Tension mounted in Argentina today amid rumors of a possible naval move to head off a political comeback by supporters of ousted ex-President Juan D. Peron.
Unusual police activities were reported in various Argentine cities last night in the wake of reports the Roman Catholic church had lifted Peron's excommunication. The interior ministry, which controls the police, said the moves were merely a precaution against possible "extremist disorders."
HOWEVER, the secretaries of the army, navy and air force held an unscheduled meeting with the defense minister at naval headquarters last night.
There were also unconfirmed rumors that some army units had been alerted, and a small-scale joint army-air force simulated nuclear war game was scheduled for later today at the big Campo Mayo Army base outside Buenos Aires.
Military sources said the maneuver was intended as a show of strength to caution the navy against any ill-advised move.
NAVAL LEADERS are believed angry at a court decision which granted legal standing to the Peronist popular Union party and cleared the way for its participation in the election scheduled for June 23.
The party swept local elections in Buenos Aires last year, but the armed forces nullified those elections and deposed President Arturo Frondizi for allowing the Peronists to take part in them.
But now, with the legal way cleared for re-entry into the political arena and Peron reinstated to good standing in the Catholic church, his followers could again prove a decisive factor in the new elections.
A DISPATCH from Italy quoted a high Vatican source as saying that "word has been received" that Peron's excommunication has been lifted.
Peron, who now lives in exile in Madrid, was excommicated in 1955 because of the persecution of the Catholic clergy while he still was dictator-president of Argentina.
The formal excommunication degree was signed June 16, 1955, by the late Aedodeo Giovanni Cardinal Piazza, then secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation, after Peron arrested and expelled two Catholic prelates.
On Sept. 19, 1955, Peron's government was overthrown by an armed forces revolt, and he was forced into exile. He lived in various places until he finally wound up in Spain.
IN RECENT months, there have been persistent rumors that he had expressed repentance and become reconciled with the church. These reports broke into the open this week, and finally have been confirmed by the high Vatican source.
The member of the Congregation of the Holy Office which deals with such matters declined to be identified. But he said that "word has been received about Peron's reinstalment in the church, but no public announcement will be made."
NORMALLY, because the excommunication was announced publicly, its lifting would involve a public announcement of Peron's repentance.