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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, February 16, 1955
No Myth, This-Jayhawk Old Bird
By MARGOT BAKER
Good news for ornithologists and KU historians.
Walter Youngquist, professor of geology, believes he has found positive proof that the KU Jayhawk is not a mythical bird.
In 1932 Dr. R. C. Moore of the geology department, published a treatise titled, "Discovered: Ancestor of Jayhawkorns Kansasensis" pointing out the similarity of the fossil bird remains in the chalk beds of Kansas to the modern Jayhawk of KU.
Dr. Youngquist now offers evidence that the Jayhawk existed in South America at least until the time of the Inca empire.
On one of the walls of a fortress which surrounds the ancient Inca city of Chan Chan, is depicted a bird which unmistakably is the ancestor of KU's Jayhawk.
There are certain obvious differences between the bird in the picture and the present Jayhawk. The bird in the picture appears to have a lump on his head and a cock's-comb. Our Jayhawk has lost both these features due to evolutionary processes.
BEHOLD THE JAYHAWK—On the walls of a fortress near the ancient Inca city of Chan Chan is depicted the ancestor of KU's fighting Jayhawk. Although possessing certain characteristics which have disappeared in the modern Jayhawk through the process of evolution, the Inca Jayhawk undoubtedly is the predecessor to KU's winged emblem. The picture was taken by Dr. Walter Youngquist, professor of geology on his trip through the Inca empire.
There also is a definite difference in expression of face and carriage of the head, but the same fierce determination is apparent in the eyes of both birds.
K-State Will Pay KU $62
Members of the Kansas State Student council have been invited to the basketball game Tuesday, March 1, and they promise to bring a check for $62.22.
Saturday, members of the University of Kansas council presented the Kansas State council with the revolving football trophy. This was in compliance with the peace pact between the two schools. But along with the trophy went a
Theta Tau Piedges 2 Boys
Theta Tau, national engineering professional fraternity, announces the pledging of Gerald Albert Colwell, sophomore mechanical engineer from Bethel, and Robert Hewitt McCamish, freshman electrical engineer from Kansas City.
bill from buildings and grounds.
The statement was for painter
labor done Oct. 28 removing paint
applied by Manhattan students. The list of materials included 33 gallons of fast-cutting cleaner, 10 gallons of white gas, 4 gallons of Kutziit remover, and 7 pounds of rags.
Art Conference To Be Held in March
The annual University High School Art conference will be held March 25 and 26. Over a thousand teachers and students attend this program each year. Demonstrations of art and craft techniques will be scheduled in all University art studios during the two days. Work by junior and senior high school students will be displayed.
Curtains will slide on the rod faster if you put a small piece of adhesive tape over the end of the rod.
Defense to Rest Case Today In Star Trial
Kansas City —(U,P)— The defense was expected to complete its case today in the fifth week of the anti-truel trial of the Kansas City Star and its advertising director, Emil A. Sees, charged with attempting to monopolize and monopolization of the dissemination of news and advertising in the greater Kansas City area.
Mr. Sees and two other officials of the Kansas City Star company were among yesterday's witnesses.
C. G. Wellington, executive editor, testified on the news operation of the newspaper. He listed the contracts, syndicates and features.
Under questioning, Mr. Wellington said the two editions of the Star are handled on the basis of a 24-hour service of news. If an article seems vital and doesn't reach people served by a certain issue, the type is set aside and it is put in a corresponding press run that goes to those subscribers.
Asked what is meant by a 12-hour cycle, Mr. Wellington said, "It means the morning edition covers twelve hours and the afternoon edition covers the other twelve. It is not necessary to repeat in the afternoon what has been in the morning."
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Intermission Acts Needed for Revue
Eight in-between acts and a master of ceremonies are needed for the Rock Chalk Revue, to be held March 25 and 26.
An audition will be held in Strong auditorium from 5 to 8 p.m.. Sunday.
Applications must be mailed to 1955 Rock Chalk Revue, co YMCA by Friday.
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