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Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, May 20,1955
52nd Year, No. 15v
Prof. Gellhorn Gives Talk On Neurophysiology
There has been a hesitancy to do any kind of work in the field of neurophysiology, Ernst Gellhorn, professor of neurophysiology at the University of Minnesota, said yesterday in his speech to students and faculty members.
He said that the most reasonable approach to such a study is to begin with an elementary type of psychology concerning consciousness and awareness.
Prof. Gellhorn, who has published 300 papers and 6 books, refused to set in one box the physical and in another, things mental. His belief is that they are part of the same function.
—Kansan photo by Harry Elliott
Discussing consciousness and awakening as a psychological-physiological relationship, he showed slides of charts showing the changes in the electrical potential in the cortex of the brain of a deeply anesthetized animal, and the different reactions of the brain to pain, proprioceptive, auditory, and optic stimuli. Only generalized responses were accompanied by signs of awakening, he said.
To find a correlation between the physiological and psychological aspects, Prof. Gellhorn cited experiments involving the stimulation and reaction of the hypothalmus and cortex.
Consciousness, he said, varies from high attention, normal awareness, drowsiness, through various stages of sleep to a coma in which no outside stimulation will affect the subject.
"I believe we have made some progress in the last century. The intimate understanding of the relationship may never be known, but a great deal of knowledge can be accumulated," he said.
Joe Muller Named Rock Chalk Producer
Joe Murier, college junior will be producer for the 1956 Rock Chalk revue, it has been announced by Prof Charles F. Peterson, chairman of the Rock Chalk committee.
Allen Sweeny, business junior, will be business manager, and John Ryberg, college sophomore, will be assistant producer. Prof. Peterson announced that other positions on the staff will be held open until next fall.
DOWN THE HOME STRETCH—Even the Hawk's Nest is used for studying as finals draw closer. Mary Stark, graduate student, shows how coffee breaks may be utilized for studying if the will to learn is strong enough.
KU Nursery School Keeps Youngsters Happily Busy
By DARLINE MONTGOMERY Walt Disney has his Disneyland but the University has a playland which, to its members, is almost as exciting.
Want to play house, or ride a tricycle, or maybe create a finger painting? You can if you're between three and five years old.
An ordinary white house surrounded by an ordinary white picket fence is the scene of all kinds of fun for the 50 youngsters who attend the University nursery school. The school is also a classroom lab for students in child development classes.
In the yard for good weather play there are ladders, large boxes, a jungle gym, a tire swing, and a table for working with clay. A child size sink and stove, both made of wood, keep many young homemakers busy. For those who prefer indoor play outside there is a real playhouse.
this year to deserve new white side walls.
Many of the tricycles and wagons in the yard have traveled far enough
Inside the house there is a kitchen, an entry room, a play room, and an educational room.
Fellows who may enter the School of Architecture about 1970 are now constructing and tearing down block buildings. One whole corner of the play room is devoted to different kinds of blocks and building equipment.
For those interested in home economics there is a corner filled with doll furniture, stoves, tables, little chairs, little brooms, doll beds, and of course dolls.
One section of the room has extra large building blocks which the especially popular with the girls. The 'ladies' can build their own playhouses complete with a cardboard roof.
New Rains Pummel Southwest Area
Drenching rains have broken a five-year drouth in Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas, but flood crests have driven more than 5,000 persons from their homes.
The Army, Red Cross, and state officials rushed emergency supplies of blankets, food, water, and anti-typhoid vaccine to stricken areas.
Southeast Colorado, where a major dust storm raged just one month ago, was flooded.
The swollen Purgatoire river drove hundreds of person; from their homes at Trinidad, Coto., and washed away six homes and a church.
Seventy miles to the northeast, the Arkansas river washed over its banks at La Junta, Colo., forcing 1,800 persons from their homes. They spent the night in an abandoned World War II housing project.
In Kansas, rain topped the seven-
inch mark today in the Southwest.
mark today in the Southwest.
Rainfall up to two and a half inches in the past 24 hours stretched across the southernmost tier of counties from Colorado to Missouri.
The most recent rain was confined to the southern parts of Kansas. No precipitation was reported more than 100 miles north of the Kansas-Oklahoma border.
The low pressure area that produced the rains which bloated rivers and sent persons from their Colorado, Texas, and Oklahoma homes migrated southward. U.S. Meteorologist Tom Arnold said southeast Kansas may get a few final thundershowers this afternoon and evening.
Temperatures in Kansas Saturday through Wednesday will average five degrees above normal in the northwest to near normal in the southeast. Normal highs will be in the upper 70's, lows in the 50's. In the northwest, lows will be in the 40's.
Several periods of minor warming and cooling will occur. Rainfall will average one-tenth or less, occurring as scattered showers in the southeast Saturday and over the state about Monday or Tuesday.
In Colorado, states of emergency were declared in both Trinidad and La Junta, and it was estimated that the Purgatoire and Arkansas floods had made 4,000 persons homeless.
Yearbook Board Picks Editors
Henry T. Wittenberg, pharmacy junior, and William J. Martin, business junior, will be editor and business manager for the 1955-56 Jaynawker.
They were chosen yesterday by the Jayhawker Advisory board from among 16 applicants. Karl Klooz, bursar and chairman of the student-faculty group, said the number of candidates was the greatest in many years.
Wittenberg, has served on the Jayhawk editorial staff and this summer will be business manager of the K-Book. He is reagent (president) of Kappa Psi, professional pharmacy fraternity.
The appointment of the two executives follows recent controversy over the financial future of the Jawhawk. Several letters to the editor of the Daily Kansan have complained about finances and quality of past publications.
Martin has held a University residence hall scholarship and now holds a regular NROTC scholarship.
Recently a recommendation to raise enrollment fees 25 cents a semester to help finance the Jayhawker was presented to both houses of the All Student Council, but no action has been taken.
The recommendation was formulated by a special ASC committee which included the executive council of the ASC, the ASC publications board, the four class presidents, the presidents of the AWS, I-FC, Panhellenic, and ISA, and the business manager, editor, and past executives of the Jayhawker.
George Sheldon, president of the ASC, said the Jayhawk will not be changed this year. Issues will be made quarterly as usual, he said.
LATE SPORTS
By DICK WALT and SAM JONES |
Kansan Sports Writers
The Kansas golf team held a big lead after the first 18 holes of play in the Big Seven golf tournament at the Lawrence Country club, with a four-man score of 298. Early results in the tennis tourney showed Missouri with the lead with four points.
KU golfers held the first two places and a tie for third. Mark Nardyz fired a one over par 73 to take the early lead, carding a blistering 34 on the back nine after going three over on the front side.
Teammate Bob Richards birdied the last two holes to finish with a 36-38-74, for a second place tie with Dan Molyneaux of Iowa State. Pete Rush's 75 left him tied for fourth.
Nardyz fired an eagle three on the par five 10th hole, then went on to par the last eight holes to take the early lead. Tied with Rush were Colorado's Keith Alexander, the defending individual champion; Missouri's Tom Faerber, and Oklahoma's Tom Beck.
Five others were another stroke back at 76. They were Kansas' Jim Mears, Kansas State's Kent Poore, Nebraska's Jack Moore and Chuck Jensen, and Iowa State's Don Web-
Tournament favored Ken Taylor, of Oklahoma, almost lost the first set to little Eddy Hoffman of Iowa State. Both kept their service until the tenth game when Taylor broke Hoffman's service and won the set. Taylor went on to win easily the second set and the match, 6-1.
In tennis Iowa State was second, with three points, and Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado were tied for third with two points each.
The first round of the doubles will begin late this afternoon.
Bob Simpson, Missouri, and Gerry Starika, Nebraska, had the longest match of the morning, going 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, with Simpson emerging on top.
In other matches, KU's Bob Riley defeated Bob Hunsinger, CU, in two sets, 6-3, 6-1. Riley will face Bill Wickersham, MU, at 1 p.m. today.
Eob Hansen, K State, easily defeated John Schroeder, NU, in two sets, 6-0, 6-3. Hansen plays Ken Taylor this afternoon.
KU's Dave Kane was defeated by Barry Watraven, of OU, in two sets, 6-2, 6-1. Dick Circle, K State, was defeated by Lowell Burford, Iowa State, 6-3, 6-1.
Kansan photo by Nancy Collins
LIFE BEGINS HERE—With the semester rapidly drawing to a close graduating seniors look anxiously to bulletin boards for predictions of their futures. Shown here looking over job requests are Gerald Rogers, Wayne Zeigler, and Howard Washburn, 3rd year law students.