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Thursday, April 23.1953 University Daily Kansan
Campus Candids
Milton Wallace
Jerry Hodgden
Mary Jo Huyck
Campus Candids question of the week: "What do you think of the English proficiency exam?"
Milton Wallace, business junior: "I don't think it serves the services for which it was intended. The test, if given at all should be given while the student is taking English courses. I am not in favor of it."
Georgia O'Daniel, college sophomore; "Much is needed to aid our English usage, but I am not sure this is the right way to accomplish that task. Students in every school should have to take the test."
Jerry Hodgden, engineering senior: "Being a student in the engineering school, I have never taken the test, so I don't have an opinion on it. I am very glad I do not have to take it, though."
Dorothy Ann Sheets, college freshman: "Everyone, after passing the required English courses, should have to take an English proficiency exam, regardless of what school he is in."
Elizabeth Robb
Elizabeth Robb, college freshman:
"I think the test is a good thing.
It gives each student a chance to sum up his knowledge of correct English, and to find out whether or not anything was learned from English courses. Everyone should take it."
Mary Jo Huyck, fine arts freshman: "I am not looking forward to taking it. Themes in the test should be written on the personal title choice of the student, not from a list of required choices. Teaching of English is not uniform, making it hard to set a uniform standard for the test."
Don Carcy, education senior:
"Does the test prove anything?
Writing a couple of themes does not prove a student's proficiency in English. I am not sure the test is graded fairly. It seems students in various schools must meet varying standards."
Lynn Bartlett, engineering freshman: "It is a good deal. No matter what a student gets an education for, self expression is important."
U.S. Communists Revamp Party for Internal Security
The process began long before the Subversive Activities Control board handed down its ruling early this week that the party is a Moscow-controlled fifth column that must register its membership with the Justice department.
A court fight over the ruling probably will hold up enforcement of the order for at least a year. Meanwhile, authoritative sources said, the party is already burrowing deep underground.
Washington—(U.P.)—The U.S. Communist party has revamped its whole organization in order to protect its own internal security and avoid detection. $ \textcircled{6} $
A radical change in the party's "apparatus" began to take effect shortly after 11 top Communist leaders were convicted in New York in 1949 of conspiring to teach violent overthrow of the government. Party leaders were alarmed because the trial disclosed that FBI undercover agents had infiltrated the party from top to bottom. There, they ordered a "loyalty purge" to weed out all but the tried and proven corps of fanatical Communists. But still they weren't sure of the effectiveness of the purge, or more and more second string leaders were rounded up over the last two years, the party went underground. And presumably, FBI informants went underground with it. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover described the situation recently in testimony before a senate appropriations subcommittee. He said his agents have a "far more difficult" task now in keeping up with the party.
It is the tiny size of the new "cells" that is the keystone of the party's "internal security program." Gone are the days when a party norver went to a meeting and was not forced to his fellow comrades in the area. Now, he knows, as fellow Communists, only the three
He said the Communists use disguises to throw off FBI agents and meet in public parays and at "alleged picnics."
Georgia O'Daniel
Dorthy Ann Sheets
Don Carey
Mr. Hoover, on the other hand, doesn't seem discouraged. In reply to a senator at the subcommittee hearing, he said that the FBI is able to keep an accurate account of party members.
or four members of his own cell.
"I would say it is a complete list," he said.
Lindley Houses KU's Big Telescope
"Hey, man! Dig that era-a-zzy opera glass."
Bv JOAN McCLURE
For those who don't understand jive talk, this is a description of the 27-inch reflector telescope which was constructed on the KU campus and is one of the instruments in the observatory in Lindley hall.
The mechanical design of the telescope was primarily the work of a student, Manley Hood, in about 1830. The metal castings were-made in the engineering foundry.
The glass, which is valued at around $15,000, was bought by the University, then ground and polished
Health Meeting Slated Saturday
The annual meeting of the south central section of the American College Health association will be held in the Student Union Saturday.
Two more panels will be conducted in the afternoon. The first on the objectives of a mental health program in a college, will have as speakers Dr. Sigmund Gundle, University Health Service; Dr. James N Haddock, Washington university health service; Kenneth Anderson, Dean of the School of Education; Dr. William Craig, dean of students, Kansas State college, and Mrs. Frances S. Nelson, Lawrence.
The second panel will discuss health service problems in the smaller colleges.
Featured speaker at the meeting will be Dr. Harold S. Diehl, Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Minnesota.
In the morning a panel discussion on administration views of the college health program will be held. Participating in the discussion will be Dr. Diehl, Franklin D. Murphy, chancellor; R. G. Gustavson, chancellor of the University of Nebraska; Thomas A. Spragens, president of Stephens college, and Rees H. Hughes, president of Kansas State Teachers college.
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When necessary auxiliary equipment arrives, the giant telescope will begin its work in photography and research.
Another telescope is a 6-inch refractor, and is used by the astronomers for research.
A 3-inch transit, a tiny telescope compared with the other instruments, is used to determine precise time or position of the earth. With it, latitude and longitude of a star can be calculated within about 7 feet.
The clock in the observatory is by
Law School Members To Attend Meeting
The annual meeting of the Bar Association of the State of Kansas will be attended Friday and Saturday in Wichita by F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law; Quintin Johnstone, and M. C. Slough, associate professors of law.
Prof. Johnstone is in Wichita today for the series of meetings and as guest speaker at a luncheon to be held there. The subject of his speech will be "Law and Social Work."
They will speak at the University of Kansas luncheon which will be served in the Hotel Broadview ballroom Friday noon to an expected 300 University law school graduates.
no means an ordinary clock. This one is set according to stars and is used with the transit telescope and a chronograph for determining time.
The chronograph is an electrical recording of happenings in the sky and may be noted for later study.
The newest instrument in the observatory is for measuring astronomical photographs. With this instrument, measurements can be made to 1/250 of an inch, and can measure how far apart stars are on the photo, position of planets, distance of stars from the earth and from other stars, and the rate at which a star is moving.
Lindley hall is the third location of the University's observatory. Its first location, in 1919, was where Hoch auditorium is now. In 1926 it was moved just west of Marvin hall. It was located there until 1944 when it was moved to its present location.
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