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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Jan. 17, 1962
Sex Ratio Mystery May Be Cracked in'62
NEW YORK—(UPI)—One of the brightest scientific prospects for 1962 is a really accurate determination of the primary sex ratio of human beings.
Only when they are maturing into men and women is there approximately the same number of males and females. But that's not the primary sex ratio. Indeed, it is at least twice removed from the primary.
AT BIRTH THERE ARE 106 boys for every 100 girls. This birth ratio is firmly established and is accepted everywhere as accurate. But still it is not primary. It is once removed, and so secondary.
What science has wanted to know for many years is the sex ratio at conception. That's primary. And now, for the first time, thanks to newer scientific techniques, it can be determined.
The fact is a start has been made. In the Hungarian university town of Szeged the newly but tentatively established ratio at the very beginning of human life is 122 males to 100 females.
WHAT REMAINS to be done is for scientists in all parts of the world to do what the Szeged University scientists headed by Dr. F. E. Szontagh did. Then all the figures can be put together and the average will indicate the ratio for the human race.
It has been known for a long time that more boys enter this world than girls. What seems to make the sexes eventually equal in number is the greater toughness of the female.
But nothing science had known up to now had suggested that the ratio in the remote beginnings of us all, could show such a predominance of the male.
THIS ADDS to the scientific mysteries of human conception rather than lessening them. Theoretically it couldn't happen because, theoretically, the sexes at conception should be precisely equal.
The female contribution to human life, the ovum, contains only the "X" chromosome which is the chromosome of femaleness. Thus the female contribution has no part in sex determination.
But the male contribution, the spermatozoon which fertilizes the ovum, may carry either an "X" chromosome or a "Y" chromosome which is the chromosome of male-ness.
When two "X" chromosomes come together in the fertilized ovum a girl will be the eventual result, and when the maternal "X" combines with a paternal "Y" the determined sex is male.
SZONTAGH AND his associates could offer no explanation for the challenge which their tentative work offers to the theoretical. They merely remarked on it in reporting to the technical journal, "Nature," adding that should this ratio of
Halls Plan High School Weekend
About 115 top Kansas high school students have been invited by the Men's Scholarship Hall Council to learn more about the University in general and the men's scholarship hall system in particular during a "Scholarship Hall Weekend" planned for early next semester.
High school principals in various Kansas high schools have been asked to nominate senior students ranked academically in the upper one-fourth of their class for the event, which will be held Feb. 9 and 10.
After the students arrive Friday afternoon, the 9th, they will be assigned to one of KU's five men's scholarship halls: Battenfeld, Stephenson, Pearson, Foster, and Jolliffe.
While at the University, they will participate in informal discussions with students and faculty members, tour the campus, see the Iowa State-KU basketball game and hear Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe speak at a dinner in their honor Saturday night.
Throw fear to the wind. — Aristophanes
122-100 be maintained in worldwide studies, science would be confronted with a really hard question.
The Hungarians examined embryonic cells derived from very early and apparently normal pregnancies which had been terminated for medical reasons. The newer techniques they employed permit the determination of the chromosomal materials which cells concentrate before dividing.
THESE TECHNIQUES are available and in use throughout the world. Since the question of primary sex ratio is so basic, it can be assumed similar investigations are under way in many places. This should be the year when there will be enough statistics to determine the ratio.
John Ise-
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should have a good faculty, good salaries, and fewer courses so that students would take solid stuff and not frills.
"You can't blame the Chancellor for too many courses, it's the faculty."
HAVING BEEN connected with the University since 1904, what one characteristic does Prof. Ise believe to be the most important?
"The liberalism of the administrations is the best characteristic in the nature of KU's history.
"I often wonder how Kansas could have this type of liberal administration. When you consider the political nature of this state, it's one of the most conservative in the nation, it's striking that we have such a reputation as a liberal place."
NOW IN HIS sixth year of retirement, Prof. Ise says he is not doing too much, just trying to "keep up intellectually." This he does by reading numerous magazines.
Is Prof. Ise writing any articles or is he writing another book? He has already written eight books. He answers:
"I if I had good eyes I might start another book. But there is one article I'd like to write. I'd like to make a study of the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as compared to labor unions.
"I have this theory that unions have more enlightened views than the others. I often find NAM and the Chamber following close to Birch lines.
"YOU COULDN'T really draw any precise conclusion, but it would make an interesting study."
When leaving Prof. Ise's small office it is impossible not to glance about, catching the title of one book here and another there. "Living-stone's Last Journey," "The God That Failed," "The Age of Terror," are one one shelf. On another side of the room is a book entitled, "Poultry in Kansas," and laying inconspicuously behind his desk one notices a paperback edition of "More Trash From Mad."
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FORT MADISON, Iowa—(UPI)—Americans either are writing more or becoming more careless about losing things. Statisticians at the Sheaffer Pen Co., here predict that the industry will produce a record one billion fountain pens and ball-points in 1962. That's six pens for every man, woman and child of writing age.
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Teacher Interviews: Jan. 17, Louis H. Park, III.; Jan. 17 & 18, Charles Romine, Asst. Supt. (sec only), Oks Pers. Dr. (Jeff C. Co. Schools), Lakewood, Colo.
HILLCREST SHOPPING CENTER
Analytical-Iorganic-Physical Chemistry Colloquium: 4 p.m., 122 Malott. Dr. Ernest Griswold, "Conductance Studies in Tetrahydrofuran."
Catholic Daily Mass: 6:30 & 8 a.m. John s Church, 13th & Kentucky.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Open Evenings, VI 2-0562
SUA Bridge Lessons: 7 p.m., 206 Kansas Union, Instructor, Larry Bodle.
Episcopal Holy Communion & Lunch:
12 noon, Canterbury House
THURSDAY
Organic Chemistry Colloquium: 4 p.m.
233 Malott, Martin Tessler, "Entropy Factors in the Control of Organic Reaction Rate."
Baptist Student Union Devotional: 5 p.m., Southern Baptist Activities Building, 1221 Oread. Bible study and devotional.
American Society of Tool & Manufacturing Engineers Meeting: 7 p.m. Fowler Building, Speaker, Mr. Tom Negro, Supervisor of Chemical Fabrication Laboratories, Collins Radio Co., Cedar Rapids, on "Photography for Small Lot Tooling
Christian Science Organization: 7:30 p.m. Danforth, Chapel
Episcopal Evening Prayer: 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
JIM'S CAFE 838 Mass. GOOD FOOD DAY and NIGHT
Hadl Joins Elite
Quarterback John Hadl joined Ray Evans, Kansas' first varsity All America (1947) as the only players in Jayhawker annals to surpass 1000 yards in both rushing and passing. Hadl finished with 1016 ground lengths, 10th-high on the all-time roles, and 1342 through the air, fifth-best on that table.
Fear has many eyes.—Cervantes
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