Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
53rd Year, No. 130
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, April 23, 1956.
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Latin America Lecture Series Begins Today
Dr. K. H. Silvert, a member of the American Universities Field Staff and an expert on Latin America, will begin his schedule of talks today. He will be on the campus until Wednesday, May 2. His schedule follows:
His schedule follows;
SECOND BEST—Bill Nieder, the second man in history to throw the shotput past 60 feet, displays his championship form. Nieder and Parry O'Brien, world record holder in the event, stole the show in the Kansas Relays Saturday.
Tuesday—10 a.m., junior-senior class, Government and Politics of Latin America, 2 Strong Annex B. topic: "Problems of Democracy in Guatemala"; noon, lunch with faculty group, Faculty Club, Francis Heller, associate professor of political science, host; 2 p.m., junior-senior class, American Diplomatic History, 110 Strong, topic: "U.S.-Central American Relations"; 4-5:30 p.m., political science colloquium, 2 Strong Annex B, topic: "The Impact of Communism on Central America".
Wednesday—9 a.m., junior-senior class. The Editorial, 210 Flint, topic; "Recent Political Development in Central America," noon, YMCA faculty forum, English Room of the Student Union, topic, "Guatemala Today"; 2 p.m., junior- senior class, Latin America II, 110 Strong, topic; "Revolution in Guatemala"; 6 p.m., ninth annual City Manager's School, Kansas Room, Student Union, topic; "City Government, Guatemala Style".
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Thursday—10 a.m., junior-senior class, Government and Politics of Latin America, 2 Strong Annex B; topic: "Population and Economic Problems of Central America"; 1 p.m., junior-senior class, Reporting II, 206 Flint, group interview; Evening-dinner with senior students, Latin-American area, place and time to be announced; 7:30 p.m., meeting of Sigma Delta Phi, Douthart Hall, topic: "Central American Union: 125 Years of Frustration".
Friday—8 a.m., freshman-sophomore class, General Anthropology. 102 Long, topic: "Population Problems in Central America". 9 a.m., junior-senior class, The Small Community, 17 Strong Annex E, topic: "The Measurement of Attitudes in Guatemala". 2 p.m., junior-senior class, Latin America II, 110 Strong, topic: "Some Business Problems in Central America". 4 p.m., Sociology Club, 17 Strong Annex E, topic: "The Nature of Revolution in Central America.
Dean Graves, Kansas City, Kan. junior, was chosen president of the Student Union Activities for the 1856-57 year by the Memorial Union Operating Board.
Other officers are Leo LeSage, Concordia junior, vice president; Joanne Beal, Lawrence sophomore, secretary, and John Zoellner, Tonganoxie junior, treasurer.
Weather
Applicants for eight board positions will be interviewed this week
Considerable cloudiness today and tonight. Partly cloudy Tuesday. Light rain northwest and north-central late today and over most of the state tonight. Rain mixed with snow extreme northwest early tonight. Some light rain likely Tuesday afternoon. Locally warmer southwest and central today and south tonight. High today near 50 northwest, in the lower 50s east and about 60 southwest. Low tonight in the low 30s northwest to 45 southeast.
(Related editorial on Page 2).
KCK Junior Head Of SUA Board
Sigma Xi Elects 25 Members
Initiation will be at the annual Sigma Xi banquet Wednesday, May 2, said Dr. David Paretsky, secretary of the chapter.
Full members elected: Dr. L. R. Moriarty, instructor in pathology at the University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.; Dr. Richard H. Benson, assistant professor of geology; Eric R. Brown, Rochester, N.Y., graduate student; Dr. Philip S. Holzman, clinical investigator at the Meningean Foundation, Topeka; Kung-Chu Fan, Formosa graduate student.
The University chapter of Sigma Xi, national honorary scientific research society, elected 25 members. Twenty are associate members.
Associate membership may be granted to persons well along on a promising research project, Dr Paretsky said. Among the 20 elected associate members are two undergraduates, Vaughn C. Moore, Osawatomie, and W. E. Tefft, Emporia, seniors.
Other associate members elected:
J. Robert Ashley, Lawrence; F. A. I Bowers Jr., Lawrence; David K Brice, Sulphur Springs, Tex.; R. A Consigli, Brooklyn, N. Y.; H Gordon Ewy, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Janet Elizabeth Galbreath, L. O Gilbert, J. L. Ginn, Lawrence; N. R Hillmer, Kansas City, Mo.; John E. Kendrick, A. W McCrone, Lawrence; Francis B. Sellers, Washington, D. C.; A. F Shinn, Lawrence; James E. Sorau, Milwaukee, Wis.; W. B. Wood, Lawrence; Beryl林 Sheffield, England; Norman E. Wenger, Salina; Martin Wollmann, Tel Aviv, Israel.
All are graduate students.
ASME Meeting On
Six student branches of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers are holding their annual conference today and Tuesday at the University. Schools represented are KU, the University of Arkansas, Kansas State College, the University of Nebraska, Oklahoma A&M College, and the University of Oklahoma.
Most of the two-day session will be devoted to technical papers by the students, who will compete for $110 in prizes. Ron Frevert, Holyrood senior, is author of the KU paper entered in the contest. The ASME will award $25 to the school with the largest percentage of members attending and $15 to the school with the second largest percentage.
Victor Blankenship, Topeka senior and chairman of the University branch of the ASME, will be toastmaster for a banquet at 6:30 p.m. today in the Kansas Room of the Student Union.
C. H. Shumaker, ASME vice president, will address the group at the awards luncheon Tuesday noon. Inspection trips to the Kansas Color Press and Stokely-Van Camp plant in Lawrence have been scheduled.
Oklahoma Student Stansbury Scholar
John R. Jeffrey of Bartlesville Okla., has been awarded a Benjamin M. Stansbury scholarship at the University.
The award is for the 1956-57 academic year but is renewable. Jeffrey, who will be graduated next month from College High School in Bartlesville, plans to study chemical engineering at the University with additional emphasis in mathematics.
Relays, Exposition Parade Draw Many
An estimated 15,000 persons took advantage of ideal spring weather April 20 and 21 to view the annual Kansas Relays and Engineering Exposition.
Friday's activities saw six Kansa high school records shattered a Memorial Stadium. Nine records fel Saturday to collegiate tracksters including a world mark, if approved of 40.1 seconds for the 440 yard relay to the University of Texas.
A sunny Saturday morning drew thousands of spectators to Lawrence's Massachusetts Street to witness the annual Relays Parade, of the 23 floats appearing in the spectacle, Alpha Phi won first place for the third straight year in the women's division, while Beta Theta Pi fraternity topped the men's class. Runners up were Chi Omega, second, and Alpha Chi Omega, third, in the women's class, and Triangle, second, and Tau Kappa Epsilon, third in the men's division.
Fire destroyed one float only minutes before the parade was scheduled to begin. Delta Tau Delta was unable to enter the competition when sparks from a torch on the float ignited it.
One man, Rick Kastner, Salina sophomore, was treated for second degree burns at Watkins Hospital and released.
Starting at 9 a.m. Friday, thousands of viewers crowded through the rooms and hallways of Marvin Hall, Lindley Hall, the engineering laboratories and Fowler Shops to take in the 21 exhibits at the annual Engineering Exposition. An Air Force exhibit was presented at Allen Field House. The petroleum engineers won the Theta Tau trophy for the best exhibit.
(Related Stories on Pages 4 and 5).
At 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Miss Janice Mitchell representing the University of Colorado was crowned queen of the Relays, and was presented at the Relays dance Saturday night.
French Society Elects Officers
Gary Sick, Russell junior, has been elected president of La Conferrie, French junior honorary society.
Other officers are Marcia Fullmer, Mission sophomore, vice-president, Joanne Beal, Lawrence sophomore, secretary-treasurer.
New members of the society are Barbara Wilson, Wilmington, Del., Mary Jane Brown, Tulsa, Lake, Kay Stoner, Kansas City, Mo., Gloria Leoffler, Washington, D. C., Melisande Magers, Mission, freshmen; Miss Beal, Miss Fuller, Sammie Marble, Fort Scott, Shirley Allen, Kansas City, Mo., sophomores; Carol Curt, Nesdemore, Renate Mayes and Linda Thorn, Kansas City, Mo,
juniors.
Architect To Speak At 3 Wednesday
A Mexico City architect and engineer, Felix Candela, will speak at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Strong Auditorium on "New Architectural Horizons." He is a professor at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura in Mexico City.
Prof. Candela will be honored at a dinner by the department of architecture and architectural engi-
chitecture. Dr. Candela will speak at the English Room of the Seth Green Unit
He will speak to the student chapter of the American Institute of Architects at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in 205 Flint. About 50 architects and engineers from Kansas City and Topeka will attend this meeting.
Author To Give Humanities Talk
The author of "The Making of the Modern Mind." Dr. John H. Randall Jr., will give a Humanities lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday in Strong Auditorium. Dr. Randall is professor of philosophy at Columbia University and president of the Renaissance Society of America.
His lecture, "The German Enlightenment: Seedbed of the Romantic Appeal to Experience," will close the ninth annual Humanities series. It will be the fourth lecture this year on the culture of the 18th century.
Dr. Randall will speak at 8 p.m.
Friday in Strong Auditorium on
"The New Cosmology: Copernicus,
Kepler, Bruno."
He will talk to two classes in philosophy, a class in history, and a class in religion. He also will participate with the instructors, proctors, and committee members in Western Civilization in a discussion based on the Contemporary Civilization program at Columbia University.
He will be guest at a luncheon given by the philosophy department faculty members, a dinner with Prof. and Mrs. Robert Sternfeld, a dinner with the Humanities committee, and a reception by the Faculty Club Thursday evening.
"The Making of the Modern Mind" was published in 1926.
Dr. Randall has written two other books, "The Problems of Group Responsibility," and "Our Changing Civilization." Besides being joint editor of the Journal of Philosophy, he is co-author of 18 published works, including "Religion and the Modern World" "The Philosopher of the Common Man," "Naturalism and the Human Spirit," "Freedom and Experience" "Renaissance Philosophy of Man," and "Well-springs of the American Spirit."
He is president of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern division.
Renaissance Group To Meet Friday
The University will be host to The Central Renaissance Conference to be held Friday and Saturday for all teachers and scholars interested in the Renaissance.
J. H. Randall Jr., professor of philosophy at Columbia University, will talk on "The New Cosmology: Copernicus, Kepler, Bruno." Interest groups will discuss research projects, historiography, and musicology.
Oil Engineering Exhibit Wins
The department of petroleum engineering, with its exhibit, "Evolution of a Modern Drilling Rig," won first prize in the 1956 Engineering Exposition.
"The Human City." by the department of architecture, won second prize, and "The Big Rock Candy Mountain," department of mining and metallurgical engineering, won third. Honorable mention went to the electrical engineering department's "Electronic Wonderland."
The chairman of the winning exhibit was Max Mardick, Iola junior.