Photo by Ron Bishop
Legionnaires on Mass.
The Second District Convention of the American Legion began Saturday morning with a parade down Massachusetts Street. The parade was composed of about 25 units. The convention was held Saturday and Sunday at the Ramada Inn.
Agriculturalists battle pesticides
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Agriculture Department experts will try to decide this week how to virtually end the use of DDT, the long-lasting pesticide that is leaving residues in the bodies of men and animals.
The panel meeting, scheduled Tuesday and Wednesday part of the seconding phase of a government drive to cancel federation registration of all but "essential" uses of DDT by the end of this year.
In the first phase, officials last December announced cancellation of federal registration for DDT uses on shade trees, aquatic areas, house and garden pests—uses which together account for about 35 per cent of the DDT then used in the U.S.
Manufacturers of most of the DDT involved in the December action accepted the cancellations without protest. Several producers filed appeals, however, and their products have been allowed to remain on the market pending disposition of the appeals.
Use Kansan Classified
Greeks seek new identity
By JIM ROTHGEB
By JIM KOTHGEB
Kansan Staff Writer
Today's fraternities at the University of Kansas are faced with a variety of problems. In most cases, these problems extend from the fact that each fraternity is merely a group of individuals seeking a new identity.
The fraternity's purpose is to offer a unique situation to freshmen and new students to KU. That is the opportunity to achieve academic excellence, fulfill an active social life, and to work to make one's living organization well thought of throughout the college community.
This situation must be a group project. But today's college student tends to evaluate himself individually. Here then, is where the problems lie.
They can not just be pinpointed to the fraternities, he said, those problems exist around the individual concept.
Jay Strayer, assistant to the dean of men and adviser to KU's fraternities, said the problems facing KU fraternities were the problems that existed almost everywhere on the KU campus.
To better illustrate the individual concept and how it relates to the fraternities, an existent problem in the house should be examined.
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In more and more houses, an alarming number or fraternity members have dropped out of their fraternity surroundings. Fraternity men, as well as people living in dorms, have taken up apartment living.
The reasons for a man dropping out of a fraternity vary. Some claim financial reasons. Fraternities do cost more than any other organized living at KU. Costs range anywhere from $100 to $125 a month. This includes room, board and chapter dues
The fraternity operates just opposite of the apartment situation. You contribute your efforts to further benefit a group and not just yourself. In a sense, the fraternity provides a similar setting to that of the University, only on a smaller scale.
Strayer said there was something about apartment living that appeals to the student. The idea that he is on his own, living with only two or three people, paying his rent and then simply doing as he pleases. This paints an attractive picture to the individual.
Others say they moved out because they sought academic privacy. They felt their low grade points were the fault of not concentrating on their studies or
being constantly interrupted by fraternity affairs. Over the past five years, however, the all—fraternity grade point average is 1.46, while the average for all men is 1.38.
One fraternity dropout said that he had gotten everything out of the fraternity that he expected and there was nothing more to obtain. He said that he had enjoyed meeting new people, been given both equal academic and social opportunities, and tried to benefit the house the best way he knew how.
It has been common knowledge in most fraternities that its members lose interest in the fraternity, usually sometime during his junior year. In most cases, "senior slumps" cut down the number of activities in which the upper-classmen might participate. Often the seniors make up the highest number of dropouts.
Strayer said the lack of interest occurring in the last two years was quite similar to any
business in which employees become tired of their job after their first two years and seek something new.
What, then, are fraternities doing to solve this situation? Some houses have taken up sensitivity training. T-groups exist within the houses so that its members might better understand each other, thus creating a better atmosphere. Fraternities bring men together of different backgrounds and sensitivity training helps to shed new light on why an individual acts the way he does.
In light of all the internal problems that exist within the fraternities at KU, houses continue to expand. A few years ago houses averaged around 50 members. Now 22 out of the 28 fraternities at KU have more than 50 members. Two houses have between 90-100 members.
Seven chapters constructed new chapter houses; another eight made major physical designs and five purchased new housing.
Russians celebrate anniversary of flight
MOSCOW (UPP)—Nine years ago Sunday an obscure Soviet air force major became the first man to orbit the earth in space.
Yuri Gagarin was small and stocky but his shoulders were broad enough to carry mankind's dreams into space for 108 breathtaking minutes on April 12, 1981
The United States forged ahead only in the last years of the 1960's when the mighty thrust of the Saturn 5 launcher was coupled to sophisticated, miniaturized computers and other on-board systems the Soviets have been unable to match.
This Sunday three more Americans were on a flight to the moon while the Soviets were talking about putting 24 men on six-month tours of duty on an orbiting space platform.
Gagarin was an unknown 21- year-old air force officer when he rode into history in the small jammed Vostok 1 spacecraft that carried a man into orbit around his earth for the first time.
The single orbit, at heights ranging from 109 to 187 miles, gave the Soviets a head-start in space, leading to such significant firsts as twin flights by manned craft, a mass flight by three men, and the original space walk.
It was this power that, to the nationwide disappointment of the Soviets, enabled an American to take mankind's first "giant step" on the moon last summer.
Gagarin was not alive to witness the American triumph, which the Soviets showed on television. The pioneer spaceman was killed in the crash of a jet trainer in March 1968 at the age of 34.
Fresh flowers were placed Sunday by the plaque in the redbrick wall of the Kremlin where his ashes are interred. The Soviets remembered Gagarin in speeches and newspaper articles marking cosmonautics day.
The press also briefly reporten, without comment, the launching of Apollo 13 on the new moon voyage.
Beatle beat still goes on without Paul
LONDON (UPI) — Ringo Starr and George Harrison said Saturday "the Beatles are alive and well and full of hope" despite Paul McCartney's announced departure from their group.
"The beat goes on," Starr and Harrison said in a statement issued on their behalf by Apple Enterprises, the Beatles management firm, after they had discussed McCartney's walkout at the Saville Row headquarters late Friday.