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University Daily Kansan
Monday. April 19. 1954
Former Russian Noble Is Humanities Speaker
"Gogol—the Man and the Mask" will be the topic for a discussion by Prof. Vladimir Nabokov, former Russian noble, in the fifth Humanities lecture at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser theater.
Professor Nabokov, author of A novels, poems, short stories, and sketches in Russian, French, and English, is a naturalized American citizen and professor of Russian literature at Cornell university.
He has written a critical biography of Nikolai Gogol, the Russian novelist and dramatist, whose comedy, "The Inspector General," was first produced in 1836. American audiences saw the movie version in 1948. starring Danny Kave.
Nikolai Gogol noticed the short-comings of people and showed them in an amusing light. He died in 1852 and was buried in Moscow, His novel, "Dead Souls," was published in 1841.
A tea at 3:30 p.m. and program at 4 p.m. will be heard today in the Kansas room of the Student Union, so students, faculty members, and their friends can hear Prof. Nabokov discuss his works, which have been published in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and Harpers magazine.
The Cornell author and lecturer, also an entomologist specializing in butterflies, is spending three days on the campus. He addressed a class in Masterpieces of World Literature II this morning and spoke to classes in Feature Writing and Writers' Workshop this afternoon.
At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday he will participate in a discussion and coffee with the English and Quill clubs in the Student Union.
Prof. Nabokov will visit the entomology department at 2 p.m. tomorrow afternoon and will speak to a class in Contemporary French literature at 1 p.m. Wednesday in 396 Fraser.
The lecturer received the American Academy of Arts and Letters award in 1951 and has twice held a Guggenheim fellowship for creative writing. He has made U.S. lecture tours for the Institute of International Education, and has taught creative writing to several summer conferences.
Prof. Nabokov's family escaped from Russia in 1919 and lived in England, Germany, and France. The professor, his wife, and his son came to the United States in 1940.
Educated in a private school in St. Petersburg, the lecturer was later graduated with honors at Cambridge in England. He has been on the Cornell faculty since 1948, and has taught courses in writing and in Russian literature at Harvard, Stanford, and Utah universities and at Wellesley college.
PROF. VLADIMIR NABOKOV
His published works in English include two novels, "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight," and "Bend Sister;" the biography of Gogol; "Conclusive Evidence," memoirs published by Harper Brothers in 1951 and a collection called "Nine Stories," published by New Directions.
In Russian, Professor Nabokov has published eight novels (all have been banned by the Soviet government), two plays, three books of verse, and two volumes of short stories. In French, his works include a short story and several articles. One of his Russian novels, "Camera Obscurea," has been translated and published in French, Swedish, Czech, English, Italian, and Spanish.
'You Drive - I've Had Five Ounces'
New York - (U.P.) - Science put together a handy whisky-plus-time chart today for the guidance of drinkers. It could be printed on cocktail napkins or posted in bars, but probably won't be.
An average person who drinks 30 ounces of whiskey, in an hour (and retains it) can expect to die promptly of paralysis of the respiratory center. That's at the top of the chart.
But a person who drinks only three-quarters of an ounce—the usual bar drink is about one ounce—in one hour will feel and show little or no effect. That's at the bottom of the chart.
The critical measurement is in the alcoholic concentration in the circulation blood. Three-quarters of an ounce will produce a 0.01 per cent concentration. One ounce in an hour will step that up to 0.02 and now, according to the chart, the drinker feels warm, pleasant, and sociable.
Two to three ounces in an hour raises it to 0.05 per cent and now it is high enough to work on the cerebral cortex, that portion of the brain which makes man superior to animals.
The effect is to make him think he's more than he is—and otherwise mess up his judgments. Now he's likely to argue with cops.
Five to six ounces in an hour raises the concentration to 0.1 per cent which will depress the brain's motor area enough to make him fumble his glass and have trouble pronouncing s'.
Eight ounces in an hour depresses the motor areas more deeply and now he is drunk and no doubt about it. Ten ounces extends the depression to the mid-brain, the blood concentration is up to 0.2.
Sixteen ounces raises it to 0.3 per cent; the sensory area of the cerebellum is taken in, and he's in a stupor. Increase it to 0.4 to 0.5
Housing, Wages, Advisers Included in AGI Platform
The Allied Greek Independents party has announced a platform that includes support of the housing survey, adoption of a minimum wage of 65 cents an hour for students, and action to establish an improved advisory system.
AGI has nominated Bob Kennedy, engineering junior, and Marjorie England, education junior, for president and vice president of the All Student Council.
The planks in the platform support continuation of the annual housing survey as a step towards improving housing conditions, working through the budget committee and the State Legislature toward adoption of the recommendations of the labor committee for a minimum student wage of 65 cents an hour and action through the ASC scholarship committee to establish an improved University advisory system supplemented by qualified students acting as advisors.
Under student activities there are planks that ask a more intensive effort by the ASC to record the extra-curricular activities of students on their transcripts and that the calendar committee establish a central registry of all campus functions.
A student government plank provides that a means be established through a committee whereby appointment to administrative positions on ASC committees can be made on the basis of merit, rather than politics. There is also a plank
Among planks which concern student rights are an affirmation of the student's right to express himself freely and to vote as he pleases in elections and on the ASC, and the right to support, or participate in, the political party of his choosing.
opposing confiscation of the Rock Chalk Revue or any similar private student activity by the ASC.
Lent by the William Rockchick Nelson Gallery in Kansas City the exhibition consists of 16 prints and was made possible through the cooperation of Laurence Sickman, gallery director.
The AGI advocates, and will continue to practice, a party primary in which every individual member of the party has the right to vote
Woodcuts and engravings by Albrecht Durer, German Renaissance artist, are exhibited this month in the Museum of Art.
German Woodcuts Engravings Shown
Among the prints shown are Durer's portrait of Erasmus; "Melancholia," an engraving; the "Madonna of the Pear," and the "Rhiaceros."
per cent and that puts him in a coma. Thirty ounces brings the concentration up to 0.6 or 0.7 per cent and that is enough to produce death.
Scientists said the chart would vary from individual to individual according to the psychological situation, temperment, and the contents of the stomach. For measuring purposes, they considered three to four ounces of wine or two glasses of beer about the same as one ounce of whisky.
AOPi Sight Drive Starts
Douglas county residents who own discarded eyeglasses, as well as any broken jewelry with salvagable gold or silver, will have the chance this week to give them further usefulness by donating them to New Eyes for the Needy, volunteer social service which has for 21 years been supplying new glasses and artificial eyes for those who could not afford them.
Lawrence alumnae of Alpha Omicron Pi are conducting the collection as a service activity. Contributions are to be left in designated containers at one of these places this week: Lawrence Journal-World, New York Cleaners, Rusty's or Cole's markets, Stowits Drug store, and the Student Union.
No money is solicited for this cause. Funds to supply those in need of eye helps are derived solely from the salvaged metal of broken jewelry and rims of old eyeglasses.
First the sunglasses, simple magni-fiers and cataract glasses will be distributed through charitable organizations, hospitals, and clinics. Then metal frames and jewelry scraps are to be sent to a large refinery to be melted and redeemed for cash.
After the material has been collected, the Alpha Omicron Pi alumnae will send it to New Eyes for the Needy, where it will be carefully sorted.
Up to 1952 the organization has helped more than 70,000 persons in need of sight aids.
KDGU Schedule
7:00 Aren Jones *
7:00 Bookstore Hour
8:00 Great Moments in Music
6:00 in the Dark
9:30 News
9:35 Jazz Junction
10:00 In the Mood
11:00 News and Sign Off
'Glasspox' Moves East With Pitted Windows
A "glasspox" epidemic of mysteriously pitted automobile windshields spread eastward across the nation today from the Pacific Northwest where hundreds of car windows have been pocked in recent weeks.
By UNITED PRESS
Cause of the so-called "ghostly" phenomenon had not been determined but, whatever it is, one atomic scientist said it is not radiation.
It was likely that some of the latest reports came from persons who—excited by publicity—took a hard look at their windshields and found old pits caused by gravel or little boys with B-B guns.
In the Seattle, Wash., area, where hundreds of windshields were mysteriously pitted, the epidemic was evidently ending and complaints of damaged windshields were dropping off.
Miss Shellhaas Was 20th Queen
By NANCY NEVILLE
When Carol Shellhaas, college sophomore and a member of Delta Delta sorority was crowned Saturday, she became the 20th queen to reign over the Kansas Relays.
The tradition began in 1934 when Betty Lou McFarland was selected as the first KU Relays queen. She was chosen by Gene Venzke, middle distance runner of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ted Husing, radio announcer, selected the second queen, Mary Margaret Manary.
Miss Isabelle Perry became the third consecutive member of Pi Beta Phi sorority to reign as the queen. She was chosen by Sophie Tucker, vaudeville and radio star.
In 1937 the method of selecting the queen was changed. A participating track队 was allowed to name the queen. The first queen was Bash, a member of Gamma Phi Beta.
Teams from Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Minnesota chose the queens for the following years. Betty Martin, Kappa Alpha Theta, Helen Johnson, Kapua Kappa Gamma, Ruth Rodgers, Delta Gamma, and Virginia McGill, Kapua Alpha Theta, were the girls chosen to present the trophies for the next four Kansas Relays.
When the Relays were resumed in 1946, Carolyn Campbell, Pi Beta Phi, reigned. Her successor to the throne was Elizabeth Esterle, Delta Gamma.
Washburn university was the first school other than Kansas to have the queen reign over the Relays. Nancy Lindemuth held the honor from that school in 1949.
The 13th queen, Kappa Kappa Gamma's Diane Stryker, was again a KU student, as was Lynette Oberg, Delta Delta Delta, queen in 1951. Liebert of Pittsburg State Teachers college, was the 1952 queen.
Margaret Louise Allen, a college freshman, reigned last year. Her attendants were Charleen Dunn of Kansas State college, and Vivian Graber of Wichita university.
Jayhawk Jubilee Draws 330 Seniors
Approximately 330 high school seniors were on the campus Saturday for the second annual Jayhawk Jubilee.
The group did not include the approximately 2,000 high school athletes which were for the KU Relays and the five high school bands which marched in the Relays parade Saturday morning.
YOUR EYES
should be examined today. Call for appointment. Any lens or prescription duplicated.
LAWRENCE OPTICAL CO.
Phone 425    1025 Mass.
Over the week-end reports of unexplained windshield damage were made in such widely scattered areas as Wisconsin, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and British Columbia, Canada.
As in Seattle, an oily ash or dust deposit was sometimes found in the pits, raising the possibility that an airborne agent was responsible for the pitings. The windshields were not broken by the force of a blow in Washington state, but merely cracked or pocked mysteriously.
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University of Wisconsin Professor Farrington Daniels, who worked on atomic bomb projects, said he doubted that any form of radiation could cause the pock marks.
Ross N. Kusian, director of air pollution research at the University of Washington, began experiments today on dust films found on many of the pitted windshields. An Illinois state entomologist, H. E. Brown, said that insects and their body wastes could pock paint but not glass.
"I'd say those cars had been driving through a dust storm," he said.
Most of the new reports, from Cleveland to Chicago, had the same ring. Small pits suddenly and "mysteriously" appeared, motorists said.
However, some of the new reports were markedly different. Mrs. Mary Baldwin, a Springfield, Ill., probation officer, said the rear window of her car "looked like it had exploded" after being parked out all night. "There were about 100,000 little pock marks on the rear window." she said. "I'm sure it wasn't vanalism."
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