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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
53rd Year, No. 74
New Co-op Unit Named For Hilden Gibson
Another organized house, the Hilden Gibson Co-op, was added to the University Thursday night at a meeting of the KU Co-op Housing Board.
The board approved plans for a 16-man co-operative house at 1614 Kentucky to be occupied at the beginning of the second semester.
"The new co-oan is named in honor of the late Dr. Gibson, who was an active adviser of the co-ops since the first one was formed in 1939," said James A. Schellenberg, Newton graduate student and housing board chairman. Dr. Gibson was chairman of the human relations department and professor of sociology and political science at the time of his death last April.
Besides several non-student members, the housing board has representatives from the Don Henry, Rochdale, Hill, and Rock Chalk Co-ops.
Vinson Derington, Kansas City, Kan., senior, presented the new house proposal. He is president of a 14-member group which will live in the house.
450 Plan K-State Trip
Nearly 450 Jayhawk fans will travel to Manhattan Saturday as Coach Phog Allen sends his team after their 87th win of the 130-game series between KU and K-State.
Rivalry between the two schools in basketball has less effect on student populations than does football. No trouble such as "slinging paint and stealing mascots" has preceded Saturday's game. The schools probably won't be billing each other for damages.
Last year the Jayhawkers won both games from the Wildcats. "Playing in the dedication game of Ahearn Field House, KU won 78-68, and in the second game at KU's dedication of Allen Field House the Jayhawkers won by the same margin. 77-67.
The number of students planning to make the trip is lower than usual, but because final exams begin next week many will use the week end to catch up on assignments and get ready for the tests.
Massacred Americans Found In Ecuador
Friday, Jan. 13, 1956.
QUITO, Ecuador (U.P.)—The bodies of four massacred American missionaries have been found in the "green hell" jungles. Only a "remote chance" remained that a fifth survived a savage Indian attack, it was reported today.
An unconfirmed radio report from the jungle said at least one of the slain men had been decapitated recalling the Auca Indians' grisly practice of shrinking the heads of their victims.
Gov. Hall's Father Taken III
Gov. Hall's Farner Taken in NEWTON—(U.P.)-Fred L. Hall, father of Gov. Fred Hall, was in satisfactory condition in Axel Christian Hospital. Mr. Hall, a 69-year-old retired Santa Fe Railroad engineer, suffered a "light stroke" yesterday.
Mathematician To Speak
Dr. Albert Nijenhuis, mathematician at the University of Chicago will be the featured speaker Monday at the Mathematical Collouquium. His topic is "Differential Concomitants and Vector-valued Forms."
FRIDAY THE 13TH BOTHER ME?—Heck no. Dave Wheeler, Marion sophomore, is far from unlucky today. He hasn't any classes in the morning. He can sleep all morning and avoid black cats, ladders and mirrors — (Daily Kansas Photo)
Students Polled On Effects Of Black Day,Friday The 13th
Today is the blackest of black days. Friday the thirteenth, so the Daily Kansan took an informal poll of students to determine what effect this would have on their lives.
The question asked of all students approached was, "Do you know what today is?" Almost without exception the answer was "no" so we told them. Some looked around for black cats and ladders while others scurried away—evidently the superstitious type. Those who stayed long enough to talk had these comments on he subject:
Bob Breedlove, Memphis, Texas freshman: "A scientist has no room for superstition."
Watch Those Autos
Gary Jordan, Iola sophomore: "I'm not superstitious, but the only time I ever wrapped a car around a telephone post was on a Friday the thirteenth."
Barbara Mulvaney Wichita junior: "The thirteenth? No! Today's my father's birthday." And she rushed off to send him a birthday telegram.
Don Coyne, Hutchinson sophomore: "I hope I have bad luck and get sick—so I'll miss the physics test!"
German Symbolism
Hans Lechler, Stuttgart, Germany graduate student: "I was born on Friday the thirteenth and so was my girl. We hope Freya (Friday is the day of Freya, Norse goddess of marriage) will do the best she can—if not on her own, then probably with the help of a chimney sweep or two. Have you seen any around?" To meet a chimney sweep is considered good luck, but they're not too common around the campus.
In general, most students questioned weren't visibly bothered with superstitions, however many agreed with Pogo who thought that Friday the thirteenth should come on Sunday, since nothing much happens on Sunday afternoons.
Slugs To Pennies, 'Coke' Man Makes Daily Rounds
Donald B. Farrar, Kansas City,
Mo. sophomore, was elected president of the German Club yesterday for the Spring semester. Other officers elected were Robert J. Grabke, Independence, Mo. sophomore, vice president; Gloria C. Metcalf, Ferry sophomore, secretary treasurer, and Muriel B. Hoecker, Industrial City, Mo. senior and Eugene H. Schmitz, Alma senior, food committees.
"When are they going to fix this darn machine?" Maybe you've said this sometime or at least heard someone say it after putting a coin in a Coca Cola machine and getting neither coke nor coin. But have you ever thought why the machine doesn't produce?
German Club Elects Officers
"Slugs and foreign coins will plug up a machine and put it out of proper working order." Mr. Weaver said. "The worst thing about it is that a person inserting a good coin will often lose his money. I'll gladly make refunds to those people, but I'm not always around."
Marcus Weaver, Coca Cola Co. employee who is the campus distributor, knows.
Canadian, Japanese, and Chinese coins, as well as slugs, filed down pennies and streetcar tokens are some of the coins found in machines, he said.
"Once I even found an American two-cent piece."
"One beef I have is that bottles are scattered everywhere and lay around until they eventually get broken," he said. "I probably lose an average of about 350 bottles a day."
Mr. Weaver doesn't keep a coin collection because "it would take up all of my time." "I just give them to coin collectors."
Having been a campus distributor for three years, Mr. Weaver has made many friends and likes the job "real well."
Weather
KANSAS—Generally fair East, partly cloudy West this afternoon and tonight. Increasing southerly winds West this afternoon with some local blowing dust likely. Warmer central portion this afternoon and over most of state tonight. Saturday partly cloudy, warmer East and South turning colder Northwest. Low tonight 25-35. High Saturday 50s Northeast to 60s in extreme Souths.
Students Must Renew Parking Permits
Starting Jan. 16, the parking and traffic office will receive parking permit applications for the spring semester.
Student applications are only good for one semester. Students now holding parking applications and wishing to have them renewed may do so by coming to the traffic office and signing on the second line of their present permit. They must also present their 1956 license number.
Faculty and staff members who have paid for the full year and have registered their 1956 license number with the traffic office, will have their permits mailed to them by campus mail.
Albeneri Trio To Play Monday
The Albeneri Trio, which has appeared eight times in the KU Chammer music series, will play at 8 p.m. Monday in Strong Auditorium. Student ID cards do not admit. Tickets may be bought at the office of the School of Fine Arts, 128 Strong, and at the Student Union.
With the trio this season is Pau. Doktor, the only violist ever awarded the first prize at the International Music Competition in Geneva. Mr. Doktor has taught viola and chamber music at the University of Michigan for three years. He left there in 1951 to devote himself entirely to a concert career.
Fritz Jahoda will be pianist with the group, substituting for Erich Itor Kahn, who is recovering from an illness. Mr. Jahoda, born in Vienna, has been a resident of the United States since 1939. He has taught at Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C., at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., and since 1946 has been on the faculty of City College in New York. In February, 1947, he was guest conductor at the Vienna State Opera, and in the summer of that year, he taught at the University of Kansas City.
Monday's program, all works of Mozart, will include "Trio in C Major," "Quartet in G Minor," "Trio in G Major," and "Quartet in E Flat Major."
MU Is Host To Photo Contest
The 11th annual collegiate photo competition deadline for receiving pictures is March 10, 1956. The judging will take place the following week at the School of Journalism, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. Each of the sponsoring organizations, Kappa Alpha Mu, honorary photo-journalism society, the National Press Photographers Association, the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," and the Association of College Unions will be represented on the panel of judges.
An all-expense week as a guest of Life, and a set of "Encyclopedia Britannica" is the top prize in the contest, given to the photographer who turns in the best picture portfolio.
First place winners in other classifications, news, feature, sports, pictorial, portrait and/or character study, and picture series and/or picture sequence will receive a set of the encyclopaedia. Trophies, plaques, and certificates also will go to other winners in the competition, with a cup going to the girl whose picture entry is considered best. Similar awards will go to "the best print of show," and the print which "best symbolizes some phase of college life."
Carman Informs Audience Of Racine's Beliefs
Jean Baptiste Racine, a dramatist who "destroyed the jealous and rescued the innocent," was described last night at the Humanities lecture by Dr. J. Neale Carman, professor of Romance languages.
Dr. Carman said Racine did not consciously create two distinct patterns, but nine of his major plays fell into two groups. In one group Racine preserved the "temper of the innocent." Dr. Carman said.
"He destroyed the creature possessed of jealousy in the other group. The jealous and the innocent were usually women," he added.
Of the jealousy group, Dr. Carman said the plot structure follows a definite pattern. Some 15 steps can be followed, but there is no exterior evidence of these steps, he said.
"The plot of the innocent group, which has 19 discernible steps, is founded on the need for rescue," he continued. "Revelations concern a matter of identity or a matter of putting someone in his true light."
Classicism, with its restraint and orderliness in art and literature, and Jansenism, with its doctrine of loss of free will and predestination, influence Racine's writing, Dr. Carman said.
Racine's characters who surrender to a Greater: Will sail upon the sea of trouble, Dr. Carman said. Those who attempt to make their own fates are tragically inexpert; they are also the most interesting.
A new program of television courses will be offered in the spring semester.
The class schedule released this week by the registrar lists 10 courses in the radio and television sequence developed by Dr. Bruce A. Linton, who came to KU this year from Omaha University to head the committee on radio and television.
New TV Courses Slated For Spring
Are there identical male twins on the campus who have a yen for acting.
When students enroll early in February they will find the radio and television schedule includes a "core curriculum" which those working toward a degree in the field must take at some time in their college career. The courses labeled "basic" are Introduction to Radio and Television, Radio and Television Speaking, Radio Production, Radio and Television Continuity Writing, Laboratory in Radio, and Elements of Advertising.
Needed For Play Identical Twins
The department of speech and drama is searching for twins to appear in the Arena Theatre production, "The Menaechmi" by Plautus. The play, a raucous Roman comedy of mistaken identity, will be given Feb. 29, March 1, and March 2, in the ballroom of the Student Union. The plot concerns the search of the twin brothers for one another. One twin portrays a gay, man-about-town role and the other dramatizes his lot as the husband of a shrewish wife.
Any twins who would like to read for the parts should see Charles Dodrill, instructor of speech and drama, 2 Green.