University Daily Kansan Thursday.May 10.1956
Will Mites Or Men Win On Trip To Mexico This Summer?
It will be men against mites this summer when four students in Entomological Survey class and two faculty members go to Mexico for a field trip. They will be there from June 6 to Aug. 5.
The mite collectors will be Charles Kramer, Leavenworth, and Burton Wagenknecht and William Keith, Lawrence, all graduate students; Barton Kelley, Toppea senior; Robert E. Beer, associate professor of ontology, and Worthie H. Horr, professor of botany.
Since the days of Chancellor Snow, summer field trips have taken students throughout the United States, teaching them how to collect insects from different habitats, how to preserve them, and how to observe their habits in the field.
"Entomological Survey students have made a major part of the Snow insect collection," Dr. Beer said. "It is the best one in any college in the U. S. and is unequalled anywhere in the world for certain groups of insects."
For the last three years the group has gone to Mexico on funds provided by the Greater University Fund. Last summer students began
a study to see if certain plant feeding mites had originated in Mexico and had then moved into the U. S.
Last summer the class went within 50 miles of the Guatemalan border in an attempt to collect from as many types of habitats as possible and to stay in undisturbed areas.
The trip last summer was not without excitement. Once the group camped in a jungle area near an Indian village. Very cordial relations were established with the Indians. In fact, they even cooked a meal for the entomology students. The students returned the courtesey by cook-®
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Mexicans who heard about it later were impressed.
"Those are some of the most vicious Indians in Mexico," they said.
Church Group Services Set
The Immanuel Lutheran Church will hold special Ascension Day services at the Lutheran Church, 17th and Vermont, at 7:30 p.m. today. The Rev. Norman Brandt will deliver a sermon on "The Gifts of the Ascended Christ." All students are invited.
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Poetry Contest Winners Announced
Winners of the William Herbert Carruth memorial poetry prizes were announced today by Prof. Holger Nygard, chairman of the contest committee.
The winners are Mrs. Delia Rainey McClung, Lawrence special student, first, $50; Marilyn Reeader, Topeka sophomore, second, $25, and Mrs. Bernice Larson Schear, Lawrence senior, third, $15.
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