Page 10
University Daily Kansan
Friday. April 22, 1955
But We All Have一
Listen, Friend - You've Got Mites!
By LOUIS BUCK
You can't see them, you can't hear them, and you can't feel them, but they're all over you just the same. No, they're not germs. They're mites, the microscopic animals that are found in the pores of your body.
"We need not fear these tiny organisms, for they are neither harmful nor beneficial to us," according to Robert E. Beer, assistant professor of entomology. "We are the hosts of only one of over a million types of mites which are found on anything and everything all over the world."
Prof. Beer came to KU five years ago and has been studying mites for over eight years. Being microscopic and so varied in location and size, mites have not been studied and collected until recently. Prof. Beer is hoping to build the largest collection of mites in the world at KU.
Several entomologists have estimated that mites appear on only about 50 per cent of us, but Prof. Beer has failed to find a single individual who did not have a few mites in his pores. Sometimes mites appear in the human body as parasites, but their number is so limited that they seldom cause harm to the victim.
Hodgson's Poetry Called Musical
Mites can be very beneficial to man by killing many insects that harm man or plants used for food. It has been estimated that there are as many mites as there are
Ralph Hodgson's poetry was described as having some sentiment and being musical to the extent it can be read with the ears as well as the eyes in the poetry hour yesterday.
Alexander MacGibbon, instructor of English, read poems by Hodgson and Walter de la Mare. He said Hodgson had a fondness for birds and wild animal life.
Most of Pakistan's population live in East Pakistan, only one-sixth the size of West Pakistan. East Pakistan covers 54,500 square miles of jungles, rivers and alluvial plains, and provides a home for 42,000,000 people.
--insects, since each insect seems to have a different variety of mite as a parasite.
The dragon fly's compound eye is composed of nearly 30,000 units, permitting vision in almost all directions.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Lutheran Student "Coffee Hour," 3 p.m., Trail Room, Student Union. Museum of Art record concert, noon; International club to present piano recital by Norman Chapman, 8 p.m. Strong auditorium. Everyone invited.
SATURDAY
Jay Jane rush tea. 4:30-5:30 p.m.
room. Student union. Actives in
uniforms.
Museum of Art record concert noon
and 4 p.m. Charles Ives: String Quartet
SUNDAY
Liahona Fellowship worship service
8 a.m. Church
Museum of Art record concert, 4 p.m.
Beethoven: Symphony in C. Major,
Namensfeiler Overture, Op. 115; Consecration of the House Overture, Op. 124.
Gamma Delta Supper meeting, 5:30 p.m.
Immunel Lutheran Student Center, Pth & Vernont Speaker: Rev A. C. Burroughs, Exec. Scey. Kansas District
Lutheran Student association cost super, 5:30 p.m., Trinity church, 13th & New Hampshire. Host to K-State LSA.
NORONAY
Episcopal morning prayer. 6:45 am.
Boly Commission 7 a.m., D 6:45 r t h.
Boly Commission 7 a.m., D 6:45 r t h.
Morning meditation, 7:30-7:50 a.m.
Danforth chapel. Everyone welcome.
Museum of Art record concert, noon
and 4 p.m. Gabrielli; Canzone, Riccerci
and hort for Single and Double Brass
instruments on Sonatas for s-
Voiced Brass Choir
Baptist student union devotions and
prayer 12:10-12:50 p.m. D a n f o r t h r.
Saturday
Sociology club coffee forum, 8 p.m.
Pine room, Student Union, Dr. Carlie S. Smith: "What is Anthropology"
Movie and discussion.
Engineerettes, 8 p.m., Kansas Power and Light building.
One species lives in the breathing tube of bees and often accumulates there in such numbers that it cuts off the air and kills the bee. Some mites live on larger mites as parasites.
TUESDAY
Combined meeting of International club and Current Affairs club, 4 p.m. Strong auditorium Leo Huberman: An In infringement on Academic Freedom."
The best known mite to man is the chigger, which lives in the grass. The chigger is one of the larger mites which range from microscopic size up to the size of the point of a pencil. Mites lack body segmentation and have eight legs.
Mites also are found on almost every plant form, a fact which increases the number of species. The mite is often a parasite on the plant and kills many plants used by man such as wheat. KU and
K-State entomology departments are working together on wheat streak mosaic which is a virus disease transmitted by a mite and kills large quantities of wheat each year. KU graduate students are studying the type of mite while K-State entomologists are working on a method to stop the mite.
The improvement of the microscope in recent years has greatly added the study of mites, according to a paper by F. J. A. Kovalenko, the best antical equipment possible.
The national museum in Washington has the largest collection of mites in the country at present. KU has more than 50,000 specimens of 1,500 species mounted on slides and identified, with work continuing each year under the direction of Prof. Beer.
KU is offering the first course in the country in acarology, the study of mites, which is given every two years for a semester. At present, seven graduate students are working on mites which is the largest number at any university in the country.
Summer Study in Foreign Lands Enjoyed by ManY
By DARLINE MONTGOMERY
To many American students the Riviera, Capri, and Paris are no longer just glamorous names in movies and books. Each summer many students go abroad to travel and to study.
In many countries there are student and youth organizations to help visiting students. American Youth Abroad specializes in providing travel assistance for students with an emphasis on low-cost travel opportunities.
Besides university study there are seminars in Europe. The seminar are lecture courses, which include trips in connection with the field of study.
Foreign universities welcome American summer students. The universities do not use the American credit system. A student who wants summer study credited should check with the dean of his own school.
Student hostels are open to American students during the summer. These hostels are university dormitories and are located in or near major European cities.
Travel agencies in this country offer several kinds of tours for students who want to go abroad to sightsee. A planned tour can eliminate many of the delays and difficulties which usually bother travelers.
Latin American countries do not usually require passports, but every country in Europe does. Applications for passports may be obtained from the nearest U.S. district court.
European countries maintain one or more tourist offices in the United States. These offices have series of publications and maps of various regions of their country, and many meal and other costs. Special savings for individual students are offered in many countries.
The best sources of information on low cost accommodations and special student rates are the National Unions of the Students Travel bureau. The office of Alds and Awards on the campus has information about foreign travel.
What young people are doing at General Electric
Young manager handles finances for building of $5,000,000 plant
In the next ten years, the demand for General Electric industrial heating equipment will double. To meet this demand, a giant new plant (model at right) is being built at Shelbyville, Indiana.
25,000 college graduates at General Electric
The plant will cost $5,000,000, and the man responsible for handling finances for the entire job is 32-year-old R. E. Fetter.
This is a big job. Fetter was readied for it in a careful step-by-step program of development. Like Fetter, each of the 25,000 college-graduate employees is given his chance to grow, to find the work he does best, and to realize his full potential. For General Electric has long believed this: When young, fresh minds are given freedom to make progress, everybody benefits-the individual, the company, and the country.
Now, during construction, Fetter's chief concern is keeping track of all the expenses on this multimillion-dollar project. When the plant is completed, he will set up a complete financial section and manage everything from tax, cost, and general accounting to payrolls, budgets and measurements, and internal auditing.
Fetter's job is important, responsible
Dick Fetter's work as Financial Manager of the Department began long before General Electric started building the plant. He and his group first had to estimate probable operating costs and predict whether the plant would be profitable.