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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Dec. 19. 1952
BUSINESS STUDENTS KID' EACH OTHER—Howard Stettler, associate professor of accounting, cooperates with a group of students of the marketing department in posing as a bookkeeper at a desk set up in front of the accounting office in the basement of Strong hall. The stunt is result of a mild rivalry between the accounting and marketing students. Sign above reads: "Wanted: Accountant. $150 per month. Top wages in the field, and we furnish very comfortable stool, eye shade,
sleeve garters and pen."—Kansan Photo by Phil Newman.
For Every Bob Cratchit There's a Benevolent Scrooge
The perennial feud between the lawyers and the engineers is not the only one raging over the campus.
A continuous intra-school rivalry exists between the marketing and accounting students in the School of Business. The latest gag was pulled by five marketing students, Howard Kisling, Bill Tobler, Wayne Bear, Kempel Wilhelmsen, and Paul Arrowwood, who ordered a special Christmas gift for the accounting students from Santa Claus.
The gift was a tail easel-top desk, similar to the one used by the much-abused Bob Cratchit in Dickens' "Christmas Carol." Appurtenances delivered along with the desk were a high stool, an eye shade, a pair of sleeve garters, and a quill pen.
The marketing students contend that this will be adequate working tools for the student accountant 40 years hence, when he hobbles into the office on his cane, hoists up his sleeve garters, climbs wearily up the rungs of his high stool, opens his beloved accounts receivable ledger, and begins scratching away with his old, faithful quill pen.
The accountants are pictured in the future as men who will feed their families bacon rinds and hominy grits, the meager benefits of a $15 a week salary. So say the marketers.
By RICH CLARKSON What causes accidents?
That is a question with a single answer. But that answer is something that the American public hates to admit. And consequently, experts in all fields associated with the problem spend millions of man-hours and billions of dollars trying to place the blame elsewhere.
Probably the costliest attempt at reducing accidents is the large number of million-dollar highway
Public Covers Up for Accident Culprit
Students Laugh With Lecturer
The 100 or more students who attended Dr. Gilbert Haight's lecture on the properties of liquid air yesterday spent most of the hour laughing.
Included in the "lecture" were demonstrations of how to make coffee with liquid air, how to boil an egg and how to make rubber as strong as steel.
A highlight of the demonstration came when Dr. Hight made a popgun from a cork and a test tube which contained some of the stuff.
A pair of his "colleagues" chose an inopportune moment to enter the lecture room late, and were peppered with corks from his improvised "air gun."
"In this test tube we have common ethyl alcohol, which we will lower into the liquid air." After several minutes the tube was lifted out and it was shown to contain frozen alcohol.
The demonstrations were liberally sprinkled with commentary, such as:
"This is how the chemist makes hard likker," he quipped.
Dr. Haight demonstrated how much more rapidly relatively "incombustible" materials burn in a container which holds liquid air.
A cigarette, for example, burns so completely that not a trace of ash is visible. A cigar, which Dr. Haight had some trouble in lighting, also burned itself out more or less completely.
In answer to the question, "What happens to animate things in liquid air," Dr. Haight brought out a hot dog and immersed it in the liquid air. Presently, he brought it out again and smashed it on the table top. "Dog gone," he said.
Affirming a desire to show those attending the lecture that "the chemistry department's heart is in the right place." Dr. Haight "unveiled" a Christmas greeting on the dual blackboard in the lecture room.
Then, sliding that out of the way,
he revealed a "chemical Christmas tree," which is actually a hodge-podge of chemistry props put together by Dr. Haight.
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construction programs that have been instigated in many states following World War II. Although the resulting highways are a greater convenience to America's drivers, the result has not been to help the accident problem, but only to worsen it.
Statistics of the National Safety council show that most serious wrecks occur on level stretches of highways. In this very area, the majority of accidents occur on the best highways, while the corkssew roads with an excess of sharp corners carry the cleanest records.
Automobile manufacturers advertise the many safety features of the new cars, such as reinforced tops, leather covered dash boards, improved brakes, and better overall construction. Yet in the same advertisements, they point out that increased horsepower will make fast driving almost effortless.
The safety council records also show that less than four per cent of all fatal accidents are caused by mechanical failure.
Weather conditions, blamed by majority of one the principal causes of wrecks, actually contribute to than four-fifth of all fatal accidents.
With only one variable left, it becomes obvious through simple elimination that the driver himself is the principal cause in most accidents. The safety council's list of major causes—passing on hills, speeding, drinking and driving—shows where the true blame for America's poor safety records rests.
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Campus Radio to Present Christmas Holiday Programs
University FM radio station KANU has an abundance of spec Christmas programs scheduled for the coming week.
Outstanding among them are:
Bach's complete "Christmas Oratorio" beginning at 8 p.m. Sunday. The station will remain on the air until about 10 to complete the "Oratoria."
A complete performance of the "Messiah" at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Again the station will remain on the air until the program is completed at about 10:30.
Monday: "The Heart of Shelter," special dramatic production by
Other Christmas programs scheduled on Sunday: Schutz "A Christmas Story" at 4 p.m.; "London Studio Concert" at 2:30; "Music for the Connoisseur" at 5, featuring the Randolph Singers, and "Candlelight Concert" from 6 to 7.
Throughout the week Christmas programs are planned for children at home at the time when the "Jayhawk School of the Air" is usually beard—2 to 2:15 and 2:30 to 3:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
The Christmas theme will also be featured on "Music You Want When You Want It" from 4 to 4:30 p.m. and Candlelight Concert from 6 to 7 p.m., Monday through Thursday.
A traditional reading of Dickens' "Christmas Carol" by Robert Calderwood, professor of English, from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Christmas Day over both KANU and KFKU.
BBC at 7:30 p.m. over both KANU and KFKU and "Music of the Baroque" from 8 to 9, featuring the Mt. Holyoke college choir in a program of Christmas hymns and carols.
Tuesday: "Britain's Ceremony of Carols" on Symphony Hall from 7 to 7:30 p.m., over both stations, and the FM Concert from 8 to 9, presenting the Robert Shaw choral.
Thursday: "Old English Carols"
from 2 to 12:51 p.m.; "Welcome, You"
at 2:30 to 3 with orchestra and
chorus presented by BBC; Marian
Anderson with Christmas music at
7:45, and Chamber Music from
8 to 9, presenting "Christmas with the
Trapp Family."
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