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University Daily Kansan Friday, Nov. 14. 1952
Emphasis on Athletics Blasted in Prize Speech
By JERRY KNUDSON
After the smoke cleared away, Bill Dickinson, college senior carried away the first place trophy of the campus problems speaking contest last night for a dynamic speech blasting over-emphasis collegiate football.
Tying for second place were Richard Howard, education junior, and Jack Pickering, college junior. The contest was held before a large student audience in Strong auditorium.
As the United Press representative on the campus, Dickinson said he has seen "patched players put in the game on Saturday held together by salve, tape, and somebody's imagination."
The "villains" of collegiate sports are the alumni, and those students "who feel that the success of the game or of the school year depends on whether we win or lose," Dickinson charged.
Lauding Chancellor Murphy's stand on no post-season games, Dickinson said he wondered, however, if the Big Seven representatives "would have voted for an extension of the no-bowl-games rule had not both Oklahoma and Kansas lost last week.
"Disgrace and disaster to this University lies no farther away than the football stadium," Dickinson concluded.
Howard, speaking on "Fire Prevention," expressed shock at some of the fire hazards existing in University dormitories. "In three girl's dorms the occupants must slide down a rope in case of fire," he said, "and one dorm does not have a fire escape."
Pickering, talking on the "Language Requirement," said he believed that emphasis should be placed on reading current periodicals rather than literature in language classes.
Other charges flew thick and fast as few phases of campus life emerged unscathed. Bill Nulton, college senior, said the All Student survey course setup was "merely the plaything of 24 campus politicians."
Lee Baird, college sophomore,
termed classroom lectures "insomnia
cures as practiced by some professors
on the Hill."
Referring to Watkins Memorial hospital, Robert Wunsch, college junior, said, "They call it a hospital
Students to See College Advisers
All students in the College should see their faculty advisers Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, Nov. 18-20, for a mid-semester conference, Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean, said today.
"The purpose of the conference is to give the student a chance to discuss his problems with his faculty adviser," Dean Ulmer said.
All the names of college students with their faculty advisers are now listed on the bulletin board outside the college office in Strong hall. The hours and room are also listed. In case of schedule conflicts students should make appointments with their advisers.
He urged that it was very important that all students in the college attend. The conference is to help the student to decide what subjects and course of study he should take.
After the conference unsatisfactory grades will be sent to the student's home.
Chemical Society Meets Tonight
The November meeting of the University section of the American Chemical society will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in 305 Bailey Chemical laboratories, Dr. Calvin Vanderwerf, professor of chemistry, said today.
A talk will be given by Dr. L. F. Audriet, professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Illinois. Dr.Audriet has done extensive research in the field of nitrogen chemistry.
but it seems to me more like an experiment station."
Good alumni are those "who come through with a big, fat contribution for a really worthwhile project—like the campanile," Don Smith, college senior, said.
Edith Sortor, college freshman called for a re-adoption of the teacher evaluation program in her suggestions for instruction improvement.
Judges for the event were John Hankins, professor of English; Dean Burton W. Marvin of the School of Journalism, and Don Dixon, associate professor of speech and drama.
A sightless University graduate has just completed his first year as a pastor of a New York City church, at last realizing his life long ambition.
Blind Alumnus Realizes Life's Goal
Rev. Urich formed the desire to be a minister at the age of nine, but because he had been told so often it was not a practical ambition, he enrolled at the University in social science on the promise of a job with the welfare department in Kansas City upon graduation.
John Urich, '41, who was a familiar figure for four years on the campus and streets of Lawrence with his seeing eye dog Duchess, was told to forget his desire to become a minister, because he could not see.
Born the only sightless child of a family of six in Kansas City, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Urich Sr., knew financial privation and couragement early.
Mr. Urich did not forget, and his success is the subject of the lead article in this week's Saturday Evening Post.
While in Lawrence he became
well known to local churches where he often sang. When he was a senior he married Carole Richert of Washington, Kan. Mrs. Urich is also sightless.
Rev. Urich entered the seminary in September 1947, and at the end of a three-year course was second in his class. He preached before many congregations, but never received a church. He was ready to change to the Presbyterian church in hope of a pastorate, when he received the call to his present church on a six-month trial basis.
Hours of rehearsal made him walk with a sure and unflattering step to and about the altar during the service, and down the aisle and to the door to shake hands with the congregation at its conclusion.
When not one member voted against retaining him, the vote of confidence at the end of the trial period brought tears and almost a breakdown of self control to Mr.
and Mrs. Urich.
As one member of the congregation expressed it, "Blindness brings a special quality to a minister . . .
The way I feel, it is often the pastor who sees and it is we who are blind."
Microscope Missing, Says College Senior
A Bausch and Lomb microscope was reported missing today by Donald Woodson, college senior and medical student. Woodson said the microscope disappeared from the vestibule of Haworth hall sometime Tuesday afternoon or evening.
Woodson said the microscope was in a black carrying case with his name in the upper left corner.
A reward for the return, with no questions asked, has been posted for the return of the microscope, Woodson said.
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