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Amazin' - simply amazin'
During the time of last minute papers and pre-final exams, students spend an unusual amount of time at Watson Library. But lately there's been a problem. Seems as if some industrious person grew tired of staring at the blank walls and decided to do_something about it. And what a problem (sigh . . .).
Women's group takes care of coed problems
Every undergraduate coed at the University of Kansas is a member of an organization created and maintained for her own benefit.
In 1909 KU women united and formed the Women's Self Governing Association. The name was changed in 1948 to Associated Women Students.
The purpose of the AWS is to bring KU women together and to give them a chance to discuss their problems, likes and dislikes and to unite their efforts to improve the University.
Reagon Oneill, president of AWS, said that this year a new plan of organization had allowed AWS to reach more girls.
"Until 1967 AWS business had been conducted by a senate and a house of representatives," said Miss Oneill. "At that time the forum and council took over."
"This year we combined the two governing bodies into one forum," she explained.
Representatives from every women's living group make up the forum and are placed on committees which serve as the back bone of the AWS.
"The Fall Seminar on Sexuality was sponsored by one of our Committees," said Miss Oneill, and AWS was very pleased with its success."
The High School Relations committee is busily working on a project to bring high school women to KU for a preview of campus life.
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Another committee will be sponsoring a Leadership Institute for KU women. Selected women leaders of the University will be invited to attend.
The AWS Scholarship Committee is in charge of gathering funds for the Scholarship Money is Our Purpose awards. These scholarships are given in the name of KU women who have had their college educations interrupted by tragedy. Five of these scholarships were presented last year.
National Guard and Reserve enlistments loom as the major factor in determining how high draft calls will go in the lottery sequence, Col. Junior F, Elder, the Kansas Selective Service director, said Wednesday.
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Enlistments to effect draft
"I think we're going to have a goodly number yet go into the reserves," he said.
Volunteers for the non-active armed forces decrease the I-A pool (those available for induction) yet are not counted in filling local board quotas. Thus, boards must reach higher in lottery numbers to meet Defense Department requirements.
The 2,282 men now registered as I-A and the 3,200 men expected to be I-A after college graduations in June 1970 must be used to fill Kansas' predicted 2,500 draft quota.
"The number of men now classified I-A will be decreased by those who suddenly pick up de-
"Yet January graduates and others who lose deferments then will keep the I-A pool relatively stable," he said. "Then, National Guard and reserve enlistments become especially important."
ferments, for example, men who enter college in January and men who marry and have children," Eller said.
Kansas draft headquarters also released the number of I-A men on various levels of the lottery sequence, as follows (sequence numbers first, followed by the total of I-A's who have passed their physicals):
001 to 025 -194; 026 to 050 -161;
051 to 075 -150; 076 to 100 -155;
101 to 125 -150; 126 to 150 -159;
151 to 175 -199; 176 to 200 -153;
201 to 225 -199; 226 to 250 -179;
251 to 300 -292; 301 to 325 -137;
326 to 366 -224.
Elder said Kansas will call about 200 men to fill the January quota of 139. The extra men must be called, he said, to account for
"No accurate studies have been made on the amount of trash Americans discard at this time of year," McKinney said, "probably because the results would be overwhelming."
The average American disposes of $4\frac{1}{2}$ pounds of trash a day but the amount probably doubles at Christmas time, said Ross E. McKinney, professor of civil engineering and director of the KU environmental health program.
Christmas inflates trash pain
McKinney is tackling the problem of year-round deposition of trash. He and Tim Tilsworth, a doctoral candidate in the department of civil engineering, are conducting research on ways to decompose non-metallic wastes into useful soil. Part of their research involves six large containers filled with trash which they placed on the roof of Learned Hall. The trash was treated with different types of sewage materials to speed up decomposition.
The non-metallic wastes are decomposed by being attacked by micro-organisms which convert it to humus-rich soil.
"We need to handle waste so it can go back to the earth where it came from." McKinney said in a Kansas City Times interview. "It is merely a matter of rearranging the atoms.
"One of the biggest problems is that we have ignored solid wastes. We've got to handle them in our environment and not throw them into someone else's back yard," McKinney added.
One fifth of all animal life, as opposed to plant or mineral, belongs to one family only: beetles, family coleoptera.
those who leave the I-A pool after physicals.
The January call will, therefore, go completely through the first 25 now rated I-A and into the next 25.
Draft quotas after January have not yet been announced, Elder said, but Kansas normally inducts about 250 each month. He added that the year's quota will probably be reduced because of Tuesday night's statement by Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird that draft calls will go down 10 per cent.
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