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University Daily Kansan Friday, October 20, 1961
New Japanese Course Taken By 14 Students
Japanese I is being taught here this year for the first time.
Fourteen students enrolled in the new course, taught by Leon Zolbred, instructor of Japanese, because they wanted to take something besides the usual foreign language, or have an interest in Oriental culture.
PROFESSORS IN THE Oriental Language Department agree that if America wants to keep Japan as its strong ally in the free world it is important for the American people to understand the problems, opinions and prejudices of the Japanese people. This can best be done by an understanding of the language itself.
Student views on the language varied.
"I'm an art major, and I'm interested in Oriental Art," Carla Maness, Independence, Mo., sophomore, said.
"JAPANESE IS A HARD language to learn because there are no similar words in English," she added, "but it's fun because it's something you've never come up against."
Basic sentence patterns are learned first, Dale Hamilton, Lawrence senior, said. He is taking the course because of his interest in the East Asian field as a second major. "For example, 'He is my friend,' is literally translated into Japanese as 'He my friend is.'" he explained.
We haven't studied symbols vet, Arlene Carvill, McPherson sophomore said, since right now we're concerned with learning sentence patterns and memorizing vocabulary words. The more we speak, the
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Duplicate Bridge Tourney Sunday
There will be a Duplicate Bridge Tournament Sunday, Oct. 22, at 2 p.m. in the Jayhawk room of the Kansas Union.
Duplicate bridge is very similar to contract bridge, especially Goren's contract bridge with which most people are familiar. The only difference is that each table plays the same bridge hands. At once it is clear that this system pits one pair of players with its corresponding players at the other tables. The winners are the players who can make the most of the hand.
"Don't be afraid that you might be out-classed or that your duplicate bridge is below par," Arnold Strassenburg, assistant professor of physics stated. There will be a 15 minute lecture to familiarize everyone with the rules.
KU Professor Discusses Survival in Atomic Age
Radiation can be a silent, invisible killer—but only when citizens lack knowledge of protective defenses against it, a KU radiation biophysics professor said last night.
Speaking before a group of Lawrence citizens in the Lawrence High School auditorium, Professor Frank Heecker explained basic atomic age survival techniques and the nature of radiation and radioactive fallout itself.
"IF YOU ARE FAR ENOUGH away from the (nuclear) blast that you are not subject to the instantaneous gamma and thermal (heat) radiation," he said, "you will usually have plenty of time to find shelter
Rock Chalk Staff Picked
The 1961-62 Rock Chalk Revue staff was chosen recently. The staff was organized through personal interviews with students interested in participating.
Members of the production staff for Rock Chalk Revue consist of Jim Scholten, Salina junior; assistant producer, Sharon Dobbins, Lawrence junior; house manager, John Neal, Hutchinson junior; stage manager, Glenn Bickle, Independence, Mo.; assistant stage manager, Mike Milroy, Lawrence freshman; and technical advisers, Carol Strickland, Kansas City sophomore, and Michaele Kyle, Leavenworth junior.
Business staff members are business manager, Don Hunter, Oak Park, Ill., senior; assistant business manager, John Bumgarner, Tulsa, Okla., sophomore; program editor, Charles Waiker, Lawrence graduate
student; publicity chairman, Gerald Kepner, Wichita junior; sales manager, Bill Hyson, Ottawa senior; assistant sales manager, Cloy Robertson, Independence junior; business secretary, Ruth Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla., junior; publicity committee members, Patty Zoggleman, Norwich sophomore; Rosemary Webster, Belleville, Ill., sophomore; David White, Prairie Village sophomore, and Larry Gamble, Pittsburgh sophomore; program committee members, Randy Williams, Blackwell, Okla. sophomore; Carol Eklund, Summit, N. J., sophomore; Susan Smith, Webster Groves, Mo., junior, and Scott Linseatt, Topeka freshman; sales committee members, Carol Drever, Marysville senior; Franice Thompson, Evansston, Ill., junior; Cynthia Lackie, Kansas City, Mo.; senior; and Charlotte Persinger, Hugoton junior.
Lively HUAC Discussion by McIlwaine, Lawing, Menghini
About 20 persons showed up at the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union to see the new forum for the expression of dissent through its second session.
The KU Presidential Forum was saved from immediate extinction last night by a handful of students who locked ideological horns over the history, aims and future status of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
THE MEETING PRODUCED a lively exchange between three student panelists who took varying stands on the committee and about half a dozen participants from the floor.
After about an hour and a half in which some hard verbal body punches were thrown, primarily at Charles McIwaine, Wichita senior and principal defender of the committee, HUAC emerged battered but still intact.
HUAC may have a valid function as a legislative investigating committee but its findings should be kept secret unless turned over to the proper government agency for prosecution, was the position taken by James Lawing, Okmulgee, Okla, graduate, and one of the panelists.
"No one should be condemned 'or a poor TV image." Lawing said.
Charles Menghini, Pittsburg senior, the third panelist, stood on the contention HUAC was guilty of civil injustices that warranted its abolition.
"I DON'T THINK YOU can separate the methods from the institution," he said.
Due process of law and the concept of innocence until proven guilty have to be weighed against the right of Congress to investigate, he said.
MENGHINI NOTED THAT THE committee was organized to investigate "un-American propaganda."
"What is it?" Menghi asked.
"I'm not qualified to define it. Apparently it (HUAC) knows what un-American is."
Concluding that the committee has overstepped its bounds, he said, "the committee has encroached on the administrative branch by making arrests and on the judiciary by holding ad-hoc trials."
McIlwaine charged a communist conspiracy was behind the efforts to destroy HUAC, and the conspiracy was being abetted by Americans.
"IN OUR SOCIETY TODAY there are a number of Americans who have developed a psychological color blindness — they cannot distinguish red from white and will not, or cannot, distinguish deceit from arguments for civil liberty.
"It is untrue, despite strenuous efforts to prove otherwise, that HUAC operates like a Star Chamber, plucking witnesses out of "a hat," he said.
Later, during a general discussion, a student asked why, in defining un-American, the Congressional committee didn't direct its investigations toward forms other than communism. He suggested that the John Birch Society, which contends the United States was never intended to be a democracy but rather is a republic, was also un-American.
"I THINK YOU CAN HARDLY object to the Birch Society as a Communist front," Mcllwaine answered.
"Then un-American is only communism?" the student queried. Mcllwaine answered that communist subversion was the immediate danger to the country.
ANOTHER STUDENT went back to an opening statement by McIlwaine that the attacks on HUAC stemmed from a 1859 American Communist Party declaration of aims.
"They also came out at that meeting in favor of desegregation. Is it also subversive to support desegregation?" the student asked.
"No more so than those who are in favor of peace (which was another avowed aim of the 1959 meeting)" Meilwaine commented.
from the second phase of an atomic attack—radioactive fallout."
To protect himself from radioactive fallout a citizen should get the thickest protective covering possible between himself and the falling radioactive particles, Prof. Hoeecker said.
One of the best shields against radiation -outside of lead-is concrete, he said. Earth, while less efficient than concrete, also makes a good shield.
Prof. Hoecker explained that every nuclear blast produces two kinds of radiation-gamma and beta—and that the protective methods are not identical for both.
"EVERY NUCLEAR BLAST poses an individual situation," he said. "For this reason, there is no single type of shelter which is best for all situations."
"Beta particles are something like bullets," he said, "in that a certain thickness of material will stop them.
"HOWEVER, THERE IS NO thickness of material that will stop all the gamma rays from getting through. For every beam of gamma rays, there is a thickness that will stop one-half of the rays.
"Each succeeding thickness that we pile on the original thickness will then stop one-half of the amount of gamma radiation remaining."
(In other words, if a two-feet-thick layer of concrete will stop one-half of a given quantity of gamma rays from penetrating it, then a four-feet-thick slab will stop three-fourths of the gamma rays from getting through.)
FOR HOW LONG WOULD a citizen be forced to remain in his shelter after a nuclear attack? Prof Heecker explained that this depends on another complicated atomic age term, "radioactive half-life."
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"A nuclear weapon manufactures radioactive substances when it explodes," he explained. "Radiation then is emitted from these radioactive substances."
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The half-life of a radioactive substance is important to the citizen in a fallout shelter, Prof. Hoecker said, because it determines how long he must wait before the radioactive fallout materials around him lose their deadly potency.
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