Page 6 University Daily Kansan Monday, Oct. 17, 1955
Changes In Mars Surface May Indicate Life On Planet
A newly discovered blue-green area on the red face of Mars, almost the size of Texas and believed to be living vegetation, has produced the greatest change in Martian geography since the planet was first mapped 125 years ago.
The discovery was announced in the National Geographic Magazine.
Last summer Mars set off a world wide study by spinning closer to the earth than at any time since 1941.
The new dark marking, covering approximately 200.000 square miles near the great Thoth Canal, was totally unexpected. Never before has such a new dark splot appeared except as an increase of an existing dark area.
May Indicate Life
The remarkable transformation indicates that the division between Martian desert and the dark areas is not necessarily fixed or permanent. It helps support the conclusion that Mars is not a dead world The darkening may be due to the growth of plant life.
Biologists suggest that this life may be akin to lichens that grow on earth's barren rocks and mountainops. Such plants soon may be grown in the laboratory under the physical and chemical conditions thought to exist on Mars.
Clouds And Dust Seen
From the photographic record that the International Mars Committee made with special filters, cameras, and lenses, other new features of the earth's neighboring planet have been found. One is the existence of faint belts or bands in the atmosphere above the face of Mars. They are less distinct than those of Jupiter and Saturn, but indicating definite atmospheric circulation.
Because Mars is only half the size of the earth and thus has only feeble gravity, its atmosphere is thinner than that at the top of Mount Everest. Very little free oxygen remains, and there is little water vapor. Yet brilliant blue-white clouds were seen, as well as gleaming polar caps and great yellow clouds of blowing dust.
The great blue-green areas which began to mark the orange-red desert surface is the strongest evidence that Mars is still a living planet.
Hopi Designs Used For Home Fabrics
ALBQUERQUE, N.M. — (U.P.)— There's an American Indian as well as East Indian influence in home furnishings.
Authentic Hopi Indians designs are used for drapery and upholstery fabrics by Harlun and Lorena Embrey, artist and home economics majors respectively. The two spent years gathering the designs from tribes of the Southwest, and the result is the Nizonih studios here, devoted to reproducing the patterns by silk-screening and transparent dyes.
They use any type of cloth which has a flat surface and the sizing removed. Patterns bear such picturesque names as "Feathered Serpent" and "Corn Dance."
The 26-inning 1-1 tie game between Brooklyn and Boston on May 1, 1920, is the longest game in major league history.
Music Faculty To Attend Clinic
The faculty of the art and music education departments will take part in an art and music clinic Friday at Shawnee Mission High School.
The KU faculty members and northeast Kansas elementary, junior high and senior; high school teachers will instruct sessions of the clinic.
The University will have art work on display and the KU faculty will present an assembly program at 9:35 a.m.
This clinic is sponsored by the University in a different section of the state each year. The last clinic was in Dodge City.
Those attending from KU will be: Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts; Karl Blans, Gerald M. Cartey, Raymond Cerf, E Thayer Gaston, Marcus E Hahn, Roy Johnson, Elin Jorgensen, Clayton Krehbiel, Austin Ledweth, Edward Masters, Reinhold Schmidt, Raymond Stuhl, and Russell L. Wiley. Instructors in the music department: L. Don Scheid, Robert Unkefer, and Paul J. Wallace.
Professors in the art department:
G. Sheldon Carey, Evelyn De-
Graw, Maud Ellsworth, Robert
Green, Arvid Jacobson, Carlyle
H. Smith, Elden Teft.
Instructors in the art department: Alexander Boyle and Alice Schwartz.
Dr. Gaston, professor of music education, is coordinator of the clinic.
Band To Present Half-Time Shows
"American Songs" will be the theme of the half-time show at the Kansas-SMU football game Saturday.
The 100-piece KU marching band will play music typical of America from colonial days to the present. The band will also present this show when it goes to Lincoln for the Kansas-Nebraska game Oct. 29.
The band will enact a newsreel travelogue at the Kansas-Kansas-State game Nov. 5. This stunt depicts scenic points in the United States, France, China, and on the campus.
Conference
Dr. Harold C. Krogh, associate professor of business and economics will attend a College of Life Underwriters Educational Conference in Dallas, Tex., Oct. 27 and 28. The conference is one of four in the United States. Dr. Krogh is a member of the CLU and of the College of Property and Casualty Underwriters.
Krogh To Attend Conference
treat yourself to the finest in music K. U. Chamber Music Series
THIS YEAR
Oct. 17 Paganini Quartet
Jan. 13 Mozart Festival Quartet (Albenzert Trio plus Paul Doktor, violist)
Mar. 26 Juilliard Quartet
Nov. 14 Amadeus Quartet
May 7 Mozart Trio
Special student and faculty season rate----$4.08
Tickets now in the Fine Arts Office
Indian languages will soon die out in Kansas with the death of living speakers, J. Nenile Carman, professor of Romance languages, and Karl S. Pond, assistant instructor, say in a paper, "The Replacement of the Indian Languages of Kansas by English," which appeared in the summer issue of Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science.
The authors write that two World Wars destroyed the isolation of Indian tribes and economic forces opened the way for the invasion of English. For those breaking through social barriers, discrimination is a stimulus for learning the language of the dominate group, the authors add.
Dr. Carman has had another paper, "Continental Europeans in Rural Kansas, 1854-1861," published in the magazine Territorial Kansas last year.
He is now working on a historical atlas of the foreign language units of Kansas.
Approximately 90 per cent of the land in Denmark is productive and about three-quarters is actually farmed.
BOULDER, Colo.—(IP.)—Senior women at the University of Colorado will be free to stay out as late as they wish this year. The proposal has been approved by the Board of Regents, the University Executive Committee and President Ward Darley.
No Closing Hours For CU Senior Girl
Under the plan, door keys will be given to seniors. They will be required to sign out of their residence when they intend to be out beyond the regular closing hours or overnight. Falsification of information on signout slips or abuse of the key privilege will be subject to severe penalty. Persons supervising the program have the right to check signout information at any time.
The dean's office believes senior girls are mature enough to be trusted with the new privilege. The plan will be evaluated each year and the Associated Women Students organization is free to revoke it each year.
"By the time a woman is within 30 hours of graduation, she is capable of accepting the responsibility of no hours, and such responsibility is good preparation for independent life after graduation," commented an AWS official.
Spanish Instructor To Talk Wednesday
Ann Hartfield, assistant instructor of Spanish, will give an illustration talk about her recent trip to Guamal at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in Strong Hall. The program is spored by La Tertulia, junior Spirish Club, and is open to the pub
Carr Elected To Kennel Bod
Miss Hartiflatt attended a sum session at the University of Carlos, Guatemala, and made intensive trips.
Carr Elected To Kennel Boo Dean T. DeWitt Carr of the Sch of Engineering and Architecture been elected to the board of direct of the Jayhawk Kennel Club, cently chartered in Lawrence. ficers of the club include; Jo Brand, class of '29; Dolph C. Sim Jr., '51; Robert Docking, '48
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