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Remodeling Of Bailey To Be Done By January
The remodeling of Bailey Hall, which will house the University's School of Education, will be completed sometime in January. KU will then be one of the few institutions to have an entire building for use by the education school, according to Kenneth Anderson of the School of Education.
He said that an increase in enrollment in the school had made it necessary to have more adequate facilities than Fraser Hall now offers.
Because of its heavy use in the summer, Bailey Hall will be completely air conditioned, Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor, has announced.
Maily Interior Changes Although the outside has not been changed, the interior of Bailey has been altered considerably.
Mr. Lawton said the work, started early last spring, is now about 80 per cent completed. The building should be ready for use during the second semester.
Fireproof entrances, with brick walls and steel steps, have been added to the south and east sides of the building. Doors are of glass. The halls will have new light fixtures, vinyl tile floors and ceramic tile wainscot.
Many Interior Changes
Offices of the school, the Teacher Placement Bureau, and Guidance Bureau will be on the main floor. The Bureau of Educational Research will be on the second floor.
A speech correction suite of four rooms will be located in the basement. This floor will also have a student lounge and offices for student organizations.
The third floor will have a 200-seat lecture hall, offices and classrooms. The top floor will contain six practice rooms for music students.
It is planned to dedicate the building in the fall of 1956.
Zoology Professor Attends Conference
Dr. Robert Wilson, associate professor of zoology and associate curator of vertebrate paleontology has been in New Orleans attending the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America.
Dr. Wilson discussed research work in Eocene geological deposits, in progress at the University. He also was chairman of a committee on the correlation of certain Tertiary geological deposits.
Papers were given by Dr. H. T. U.
Smith, associate professor of geology,
and in abstract a paper by Dr.
H. A. Ireland, professor of geology.
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OMAHA-(U.P.)—Roy Gish, McCook, Neb., showed up here at the Marine recruiting station weighing only 102 pounds—three pounds under the minimum weight for joining up. Gish returned and passed his physical—after eating four pounds of bananas.
Cuba Is Topic Of El Ateneo
"In Cuba the difference between the rich and poor is tremendous, but people don't do anything about it. They are so cynical about the present dictator's government." Domingo Ricart, assistant professor of Romance Languages, told the Ateneo meeting last night. Prof. Ricart gave a lecture tour in Cuba last summer.
Miss Sammons said Cubans believe that if they wash their hair right after their meals they would die. So when she washed her hair, the natives were alarmed.
The program included the speeches by Wanda Sammons, assistant instructor of Romance Languages, Mary F. Poe, Mountain Grove, Mo., senior, and Helga Junge, Otawa, graduate student, and 'slides of Cuba.
She also pointed out that the people of rural areas were extremely poor but they share their food and are living a happy life.
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Grading System Ends D Mark
WALLA WALLA, Wash. —(I.P.)
—Whitman College's unusual fourpoint grading system has been the object of much discussion. The college doesn't adhere to the five-grade system (A.B.C.D.F) recognized as standard in most schools.
This method not only allowed the student to graduate with a deficiency in his would-be liberal education, but it put a hardship on him in obtaining a superior grade in another course. In adopting the four-grade system (F' is failure, P, passing; H, honors and HH, highest honors) the faculty eliminated entirely the grade D. There is now no such thing as work not failing yet not up to standards of graduation.
In the opinion of the faculty the older system needed revision, the most outstanding defect being the grade D given for work not up to the standards for graduation. Regardless of the low quality of work the recipient of the D was credited for the course but had to make up for the poor grade by better work in another subject.
The first decision of the professor is whether the student has worked at a level complying with those standards. If not he receives an F which can be made up only through taking the course again.
Dr. Phillip Newmark, assistant professor of biochemistry hopes research he has undertaken will provide science with more ammunition in the war against virus diseases.
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He has received a two-year grant of $9,000 from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Pyrimidine and Purine Biosynthesis in Tobacco Plants."
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"Eventually, scientists will be able to tackle the problem of preventing viruses from growing," he predicted.
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"Fundamentally, this project is aimed at understanding how viruses multiply," Dr. Newmark said. "We work with tobacco mosaic virus because quite a bit is known about it and because it is easy to handle."
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Before coming to KU in 1954, Dr. Newmark was a research fellow of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at the University of California's virus laboratory. His work there dealt with the changes in metabolism of tobacco plants brought about by introduction of the mosaic virus in the plants.
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The Science Foundation grant permits a half-time research assistant to Dr. Newmark. He is Richard W. Meyers, Coal Valley, Ill., graduate student.
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WASHINGTON —(U.R.)-The Defense Department plans to close down 32 more military facilities that compete with private business, yesterday bringing to 46 the number scheduled for closing by early February.
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