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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 20,1953 Engineers Continue Studies
Student-Faculty Group Holds Unique Meetings
A mixture of empty coke bottles, sociological concepts, orange peels, social research techniques and bread crumbs is the order of the day whenever one of the campus' most unique faculty-student discussion groups holds forth at the Human Relations Seminar, a lunch-time conference series that is now in its sixth year.
Every other Tuesday faculty members from social science departments and graduate students who are doctoral candidates meet at noon in 11 Strong with their lunch sacks to discuss informally, between munches and sips, basic problems in human relations, teaching methods, sociology and research projects currently under way.
Usually one individual is selected as the "fall guy" and his job is to make a report of some kind, generally in an area of his special interest or about a current piece of research he is undertaking. Then the group descends on the "fall guy" with a discussion period that usually lasts until two o'clock whistle. Tuesday's "fall guy" will be Prof. Paul Roofe, chairman of the anatomy department, who will discuss the changes in the curriculum and teaching procedures of the Medical school.
Other "fall guys" so far this semester have been Prof. Anthony Smith, chairman of the psychology department, who reported on a Ph.D. dissertation written by Len Olsund on small groups; Prof. Edward G. Nelson of the School of Business, and Miss Ann Mari Euitrago, graduate assistant, who reported on a current study they are doing in a small work plant in Kansas, and Prof. Carroll D Clark,
chairman of the sociology and anthropology department, who spoke on the conference he attended in Chicago last month on adult education.
Prof. Marston M. McCluggage acting chairman of the human relations department and a professor of sociology, is the group leader who—according to his own description—serves in a "non-directive capacity."
"The seminar," said Dr. McCluggage, "was set up as a clearing house to provide a meeting ground for the exchange of ideas and the improvement of communications inter-departmentally. Originally it was to discuss our experiment with the case method of teaching, but now the seminar has broadened to include all inter-disciplinary services vital to general education."
The seminar was started in 1947 after several faculty members returned from a Harvard Graduate School of Business fellowship in human relations.
Seminar sessions are open to anyone interested in the general field and who has no objection to serving occasionally as the "fall guy" while everybody eats a sack lunch and lends a most attentive ear.
The University's graduate program in engineering, being given for the first time in Kansas City this fall, has met with unprecedented success, Dean John H. Nelson of the Graduate school and Dean T. DeWitt Carr of the School of Engineering and Architecture said recently.
Graduate Plan Opens in Kansas City
With a total enrollment of 64 engineers, the evening classes are expected to attract even more students during the spring semester which opens February 4. Classes are being held at the KU Medical Center, 39th and Rainbow boulevards.
The program is designed to enable young engineers with Bachelor of
Clothes 'Nude Look' Draws Clergy Attack
Melbourne, Australia —(U.P.)P. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr. Daniel Mannix, attacked the "nudity" of women's clothing recently and said some garments looked as though they had been "sprayed on."
He told the National Catholic Girls' Movement conference that nothing indicated the paganism of the present day more than the "dreadful immodesty" of girls' dresses. He said some magazines and comic papers seemed to be doing their best to degrade womanhood.
"But judging from the pictures they use, nudity seems to be women's aim," he said.
"Nudity is not too strong a word. The garments worn in the pictures seem to be just sprayed on—no more."
Kansan classifieds bring results
Science degrees to obtain a master of science degree while holding full-time jobs in industry. The long-range aim of the program is to build up the quality of the engineering personnel in the Kansas City industrial area and to attract new industries to Kansas City.
"During the emergencies of World War II and the Korean War, young men went directly into the armed forces or industry right after they completed their bachelor of science work," Dean Carr said. "Now many are married and often have one or more children. For advancement and greater usefulness in industry, they need to complete work for their master of science degree, but are not financially able to quit work and go back to school. This program gives them the opportunity to obtain their degrees while holding full-time jobs."
Classes are taught each week in mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering. Presently 30 students are enrolled in the mechanical course; 19 are in the electrical classes, and 15 are in chemical engineering classes. The students go to class for exactly the same amount of time as if they were going to school on the KU campus.
The engineers may expect to receive their master of science degrees in about three years by attending night classes once a week. All work, with the exception of six hours, may be completed in the night classes. The remaining six hours is their theses which may be completed by using the facilities of Linda hall library in Kansas City.
mechanical engineering department; Dr. W. F, Smith, acting chairman of the electrical engineering department, and Dr. J. O. Maloney, chairman of the department of chemical engineering.
Dean Nelson said the group enrolled impressed him not only as a serious group, but as a very able group. "They display enthusiasm for their courses and a number of them have inquired about other engineering fields which might be represented later in the program."
Everybody's Doing It
While the students come from widely-scattered universities,—KU has the most students enrolled. The universities in addition to KU are presented by the students are Bradley, University of British Columbia, Colorado, Cooper Union, Cornell Drexel Institute of Technology, Illinois State, Iowa State, Kansas State, Kentucky, Missouri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michigan, Missouri School of Mines, Nebraska, New York university, Oklahoma, Purdue, Rice, and Technological Institute of Tulim.
Three professors from KU are directing the program. They are Dr. Edward J. McBride, chairman of the
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Salem, Ore—(U.P.)A 61-year-old Salem man, pleading his own case on a drunk charge, called as a character witness a woman who was complainant against him on another charge.
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The woman, a widow, had filed a trespassing charge, claiming he had broken her screen door. He was convicted on that charge and placed on probation.
Homecoming Dance
Then he went on trial for the drunk charge, and called the Widow as a character witness. She testified she had seen him enter a tavern the day of his arrest. Fine, $10.
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Prussia does not exist today as a geographic or political entity. But during a span of 500 years, 20 generations of Hohenzollerns built and ruled Prussia. They consolidated the German kingdoms, intrigued against the Hapsburg, Bourbons, Bonapartes, Russian czars, marched armies across Europe, and made the name "Prussia" synonymous with militarism.
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