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Student Gets $500 Award
Ernest Carlson, valedictorian of the 1955 senior class at Ellinwood Rural High school, will be the first to receive the Isern scholarship of $500 for the freshman year at KU, Dr. Dennis Trueblood, director of the aids and awards office announced today.
Carlson was chosen from among several candidates nominated by Sam Stitt, principal of Ellinwood High school.
Mrs. Edward H. Isern of Ellinwood set up the annual $500 scholarship in March for a graduating senior from Ellinwood High school for the freshman year at KU. Criteria for selection are scholarship, need, character, leadership, promise of future growth at KU, and active church membership.
While leading his class, Carlson has held part-time jobs. He was secretary-treasurer of both his junior and senior classes, Ellinwood delegate to the 1954 Sunflower Boys' State, a member of the band, and president of the Ellinwood Methodist Youth fellowship.
Mrs. Isern was graduated from KU in 1930. Her late husband, Edward H. Isern, belonged to the KU class of 1928.
At KU he plans to study either chemistry or chemical engineering. He also has been awarded a residence hall scholarship of $300 for the year.
The Kate Stephens fellowship in literature for 1955-56 will be held by Emily Jean Enos, college senior, who will receive her B.A. in English this June.
Emily Enos Wins English Fellowship
Miss Enos will continue her study of English at Columbia university in New York this fall. The fellowship is given to a student in the College two years out of every seven. In the other years the funds are given to students in either the School of Medicine or the School of Law.
George B. Smith, dean of the University, will speak on "Budget of the University," at the last faculty forum meeting of the year at noon tomorrow in the English room of the Student Union. Reservations should be phoned to the YMCA office, phone KU 523.
Budget to Be Forum Topic
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What is the number of graduate and undergraduate students enrolled on the KU campus at Lawrence?
How many of the following questions can you answer correctly?
What is the ratio of men to women undergraduate students on the Lawrence campus?
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What is the ratio of Greek to Independent undergraduate students?
Students in the class of Speech and Social Judgment recently asked 278 students these questions in an attempt to determine what sort of attitude they have toward finding information through face-to-face interviews.
How many matches did KU's gymnastic team win last year?
For the first question asked, answers ranged from 1,200 to 9,500. According to figures received from the registrar's office, the correct number is 6,450.
In answering the question about KU's gymnastic team, students gave answers that ranged from 0 to 50. More men than women students guessed correctly that there is no gymnastic team at KU.
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The largest variation of answers was received in reply to the question concerning the ratio of Greek to Independent students. Answers given ranged from 20 Independents to every Greek to 20 Greeks to approximate answer is 2 Independents to every Greek.
The ratio of men to women students is 2.9 to 1. The answers ranged from 5 to 1 to 1 to 3.
"Our purpose in conducting this poll was to examine the interpersonal factors involved in opinion sampling by personal interview." William Conboy, assistant professor of Speech and Drama, said. He added that since this kind of a process—mass mind sampling—is such a large part of the American scene, the class wanted to find out what sorts of attitudes a person runs into while conducting face to face interviews.
There are 19 species of oak tree in Illinois, eleven of them black oak varieties and the others white. The oak is the official tree of Illinois.
Houses participating in the program are Acacia, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Kappa Lambda, Battenfeld hall, Hella Theta Pi, Chi Omega, Corbin hall, Delta Gamma, Delta Upsilon, Don Henry co-op, Hill co-op, Jawhawk co-op, Jolliffe hall, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Sigma, Miller hall, Pearson hall, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa, Phi Gamma Delta, Rochdale co-op, Rock-Chalk co-op, Sellants hall, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Stephenson hall, Templin hall, Theta Chi, and Watkins hall.
The University has more organized houses which furnish room or board free to foreign students than any other school in the nation, according to the annual report of the Institute of International Education. Twenty-nine ne houses sponsored foreign students during the past school year.
GM, CIO Workers Begin Negotiations
The sponsoring houses choose the foreign students on the basis of country, age, and field of study. J.A. Burzle, professor of German, supervise the program.
Detroit — (U.P.)— General Motors Corporation and the CIO United Auto Workers today began day-long negotiations for the first time since the talks on the guaranteed annual wage started early last month.
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The company's negotiators had been meeting with the union for only a few hours at $a$ time previously, although Ford Motor Company and the union negotiators have held several all-day sessions on the annual wage issue.
Ford's contract with the union expires June 1 while GM's pact has been extended until June 7. CIO and UAW President Walter Reuther attended the union's talks with Ford this morning and planned to shift to the GM talks this afternoon. Mr. Reuther has been attending talks with both companies regularly for several weeks.
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