Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
Wednesday, March 30, 1955
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
52nd Year, No.119
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JAYHAWK QUEEN FINALISTS—The finalists for the Jayhawker Queen are (back row 1-r) Mary Lue Wickersham, journalism junior; Betty Kegel, college freshman; Sue Rider, college freshman; Judy Garver, college sophomore; (front row 1-r) Rudy Schaulis, education junior; Linda Thorn, college sophomore; Jan Skarner, education senior; Judy Howard, college sophomore; and Nancy Bowman, college sophomore.
AWS Scholarship Deadline Friday
The deadline for application for Associated Women Students scholarships is Friday. Friday is also the deadline for scholarship hall and other general scholarship applications.
The scholarship was originated Dec. 3, 1948, by an AWS committee as a memorial to two University women, Frederika Ekbald and Geraldine Cuddy, of Hosington, who were killed in an auto accident during Thanksgiving vacation.
Later, the names of other women were added to perpetuate the memory of those whose studies were cut short by death. They were Jane Pippin, Joyce Diller, Janice Kohlman, Natalie Pierson, Jamie Daniels, and Dolores Sudduth.
YM-YWCA Hold Meeting Tonight
Although the scholarship was started by AWS, individual contributions have also been made.
The YMCA and the YWCA will hold a joint, all member, meeting at 7:30 p.m. today in the Student Union cafeteria.
The program chairmen, Barbara Binger, education junior, and Scott Hayden, engineering junior, will present to the members of four programs which the two organizations are directing, Christian Heritage, Social Responsibility, Personal and Campus Affairs, and an International Commission.
The guest speaker will be Dr. W. E. Sandelius, professor of political science, who will discuss "Where Are You," raising questions related to the four programs. Small discussion groups will meet following the talk to discuss the projects and then report back to the group as a whole.
Anyone interested may attend.
Vote on Honor System Set for Next Election
The resolution presents the following for consideration on a referendum:
Psychology Aid Described
The All-Student Council last night passed a resolution to bring the proposed UVO honor system to a vote in the next general election.
"Round table psychology is more effective and long lasting than many other kinds of psychological treatment given to hospital patients today," Dr. Willis H. McCann, chief psychologist at the St. Joseph, Mo., State hospital, said at a dinner meeting of the Psychology club last night.
"This tool is a helpful attitude that the hospital tries to create in the patient, and its purpose is to help him to adjust to life after his release from the hospital."
The procedure was inaugurated at the St. Joseph hospital in 1949. Dr. McCann said the underlying principal of this type of treatment is "love your neighbor as yourself", with the patients helping each other through discussions.
Bulletin
"This procedure does not attempt to solve the patient's problems, but rather it makes available to the patients the tools for solution.
Dr. McCann feels that the patient receives more benefit from helping others solve their problems.
Dr. Hilden R. Gibson, chairman of the human relations department and a professor of political science and sociology, was reported in critical condition at noon today at the KU Medical center. He underwent brain surgery there yesterday.
1. "I am in favor of and desire to live under the proposed honor system (UVO) for the University of Kansas.
2. "I am in favor of an honor system for the University of Kansas but not the proposed honor system.
3. "I am not in favor of any honor
system for the University of Kansas. "In the event a majority of regularly enrolled students vote affirmatively for No. 1, that immediate action will be taken to put the proposed honor system into effect.
"In the event a majority of those students voting, vote affirmatively for No.1 and No.2, that the ASC appoint a committee to continue to study honor systems and subsequently draw up an honor system to be presented to the students at the next general or special election of next school year."
Lange Says Kafka Was a Defeatist
Bv GORDON HUDELSON
The world of Franz Kaffa is a strange, unreal world of imagery in which the characters are timid, frustrated, and faithless individuals who possess only a curiosity and have nothing for which to live. Victor Lange, head of the Cornell university department of German, said at a Humanities lecture last night in Fraser theater.
Kafka, who died in 1924, lived a simple and retiring life as an insurance official and wrote in his spare time, Mr. Lange said, adding that "The Castle" "The Trial" and "America" were published from manuscripts, correspondence, notes and diaries left after his death.
"Kafka's plots begin in photographic reality but almost immediately dip into an abstract imagery to try to bring the problem to the surface," Mr. Lange said.
His characters are not based on what persons are but on what they might be, he said. It is impossible to look for a familiar type of person in his work, the lecturer said.
Mr. Lange added that Kafka's characters always possess a sense of defeat and failure as his stories end. The individual is completely bewildered but keeps trying to find a way out, and his plots are based on the intense dread of the individual in coping with the unexpected symbolizing the parable of the present human situation, Mr. Lange said. The central theme of much of his work is knowledge, the constant striving for it, and not finding it, he said.
"Kafka does not use time as a basis for chronological sequence," Mr. Lange said. "Darkness and light as the marking of day and night have no meaning in his work."
Mr. Lange said the urbanization that came about in the 19th century made things hard for novelists such as Kafka and brought about a belief that the individual was lost in the complexity of modern life and was only a "statistical average."
"The 20th century novelist has produced a sensitive individual in an inhuman world," he said. "The central figure in the novels of Kafka's period has lost his identity.
"Kafka provides a world of symbols which can be read on more than one level. On the high level one can find God and persuade the true meaning of Kafka's imagery.
"The world of Franz Kafka is a very strange world of a kind of fiction which was unknown before Kafka's time."
Two to Entertain at Dance
Show to Be Produced By Student Nurses in K.C.
Michael Grove and Frank Tavares, fine arts freshmen, will provide entertainment at the weekly Trail room dance in the Student Union from 8 to 10 p.m. today. The weekly dance is sponsored by Student Union Activities and is free.
In the tradition of the Rock Chalk Revue here on the Lawrence campus, the student nurses at the University of Kansas medical center in Kansas City, Kan., are presenting the Caduceus Capers at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. $ \textcircled{4} $
One of the outstanding features of the show will be a "high-kicking chorus," forecast to reach a new high in choreography.
The Caduceus Capers replaced the annual carnival, sponsored by the student nurses, for the first time last year. The initial production was a big success, and for the one night it ran in Battenfeld auditorium the show enjoyed a more-than-capacity crowd.
The musical comedy type production will represent the combined talents and efforts of 150 student nurses. About half of the girls were on the Lawrence campus in their earlier semesters.
In addition to the singing and the dancing of the chorus, smaller vocal groups have been polishing up their lyrics to some familiar songs. Spotted as probable show-skeeters are "Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Interns." "Hi, Ho, Nursing Is Grand," and "The Lament of OB Residents."
ISA Election at 7 In Douthart Hall
The Independent Students Association will hold its spring election at 7 p.m. today at Douthart hall.
The candidates nominated by the elections committee of the ISA are John Myers, engineering sophomore; vice president, Bob Grabcke, college freshman; secretary, Barbara Feitler, college sophomore, social chairman, Judith Berg, pharmacy freshman, and activities chairman, Laura Noell, college freshman.
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Additional nomination can be made at tonight's meeting.
Early Returns Show Big Vote
Voting in the ASC primary election seemed heavy this morning, with long lines forming at the polls between classes.
By 10 a.m., 78 persons had voted at Strong, one of the five pollling places. Forty-seven students had received AG-I ballots and 23 had voted on the POGO ticket. Eight voted on the non-partisan class officers but not on party ASC candidates.
Polls will be open until 6 p.m. today at the lobby of the Student Union, the rotunda of Strong, Marvin, Frazer, and Lindley. Students must present their ID card and party membership card to vote on the closed primary ballot for ASC Senate and House of Representatives positions. Only the ID card is necessary to vote for class officer candidates.
Before the general election, Wednesday, April 20, wires will be strung north of the Journalism building for the hanging of posters. Robert E. Pope, third year graduate, elections chairman, said that official bulletin boards were the only other official places for political posters.
Anderson to Talk To Ed Group
Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the School of Education will speak tomorrow to the KU and University of Missouri chapters of Phi Delta Kappa, an honorary education fraternity. His topic will be "Critical Years Ahead in Science Teaching." At the meeting in Wyandotte High school in Kansas City, Kan., Dean Anderson will also show a film for which he was a consultant on "Why Study Science?"
Farm Mill Razed
The old mill on the Brown farm at the corner of 19th and Iowa streets has been razed by the department of building and grounds, according to C. G. Bayles, superintendent of the department.
The building was torn down because a heavy wind storm damaged it, leaving it in a dangerous condition.