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Presidential Electors Cast Ballots Dec.15
Washington — (U.P.) The 531 presidential electors chosen by the voters yesterday will meet in their respective state capitals Dec. 15 to cast their ballots for a new President of the United States.
These electors will constitute what is known as the electoral college. They will cast the official ballots that will determine whether Adlai E. Stevenson or Dwight D. Eisenhower will be the next president.
Americans do not vote directly on candidates for president and vice president. Instead, they choose presidential electors who, in turn, cast ballots for president and vice president. The electors chosen in each state usually vote for the candidate who gets the popular vote majority in their state, although they are not required by the Constitution to do so.
The ballots of the electors will be opened formally before a joint meeting of the Senate and House
YWCA to Hold RSFNM' Nov.19
Members of the YWCA cabinet outlined the annual "RSFNM" at a meeting in Henley House yesterday.
The "RSFNM" is to remain secret until Nov. 19. Vernie Theiden, chairman, said that all YWCA members would be invited.
Other business included plans for a tea Nov. 16 for Miss Betty Walz, new WYCA secretary. Also a cabinet and commission leaders dinner meeting was announced for Nov. 11.
The meeting will consist of commission reports, the Estes conference report by Betty Gard, district representative, and National Student Christian Youth conference report by Dot Taylor, president.
Swimming Schedule Changes Announced
A change in the free swimming hours for men and women were announced today by Henry Shenk. chairman of the physical education department.
The new schedule for women is 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday and 11 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Men may swim from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
on Jan. 6. While the actual choice of the people, as well as the electors, will be known long before then, Congress goes through the formality anyway, of opening the electors ballots and recording them.
It is possible, but unlikely, that a candidate for president would get a majority of the total popular votes and still lose the election by failing to get a majority of the electoral votes.
In 1876 Samuel J. Tilden got 250,000 more popular votes than Rutherford B. Hayes, but Hayes still won the election because he got more electoral votes.
Each state's electoral vote is equal to its total number of Senate and House seats.
There have been 13 times in history when a president was elected without getting a majority of the popular votes cast. In most of these cases, that happened because there were more than two presidential candidates polling a sizable number of votes.
In 1948, for example, President Truman didn't get a majority of the popular vote but he got 303 electoral votes—37 more than the 266 needed for election. Mr. Truman had a popular vote of 24,105,812, compared with the 24,730,787 polled by all other candidates.
Aside from Hayes and Truman, other presidents who were elected without getting a majority of the popular votes included Woodrow Wilson (twice), Grover Cleveland (twice), Benjamin Harrison, James A. Garfield, James Buchanan, Zachary Taylor, James K. Polk and John Quincy Adams.
When no presidential candidate gets a majority of the electoral votes, the election is thrown into the House of Representatives for a decision.
Smithsonian Institute to Print Anatomy Professor's Article
A paper by Dr.. Paul G. Roeo, chairman of the anatomy department, will appear in the 1952 Smithsonian Report Appendix. It is being republished at the request of the Institution.
Entitled, "Recent Advances in the Study and Techniques of Anatomy", it first was published in the Kansas Academy of Science magazine. Dr. Samuel L. Lesher, former assistant professor here and now with the Department of Agriculture, collaborated on the article.
Prof Wins Study Grant
Dr. Edward S. Robinson, associate professor of philosophy, has been awarded an educational exchange grant for advanced study in New Zealand.
Dr. Robinson will do research in philosophy during the coming academic year at Auckland University in Auckland, New Zealand. He will leave the United States in February and spend about nine months "down under."
The grant, popularly known as a Fulbright fellowship, is one of 375 awarded by the United States government for lecturing and research abroad in the 1953-54 academic year.
Dr. Robinson, who holds three degrees from Harvard university, has been at KU since 1946. He previously taught eight years at Oklahoma A&M college.
Fulbright Group To See Applicants
The 36 University of Kansas applicants for Fulbright Scholarship awards are now interviewed by the local Fulbright committee, Dr. J. A. Burzle, Fulbright advisor, said today.
The students, if awarded a year's study abroad under the terms of the federal Fulbright act, would be sent to every part of the world. Their applications, Dr. Burzle said, included requests for study in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
Results of the applications will not be known until next April, since committees in Washington, D.C., New York City, and the countries named above must study the requests.
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Arrangements have been made for the senior students of the aeronautical, electrical, and mechanical engineering departments to visit the Westinghouse jet aircraft engine plant in Kansas City.
The trip is planned for Tuesday, Nov. 11. The group plans to arrive at the plant at about 1 p.m. where Westinghouse officials have planned a luncheon and a two-hour tour for the engineering students.
Each department of the School of Engineering is responsible for making plans for its students. Students wishing to make the trip must take their birth certificate, or other proof of citizenship, to the head of their department no later than Friday, Nov. 7.
The students will be divided into groups of eight or ten students. Each group will have a guide who will be able to answer the students' questions.
Arrangements for the trip were made by Dean T. DeWitt Carr of the School of Engineering, through Capt. Charles E. Smith, Bureau of Aeronautics, Department of Navy. $ ^{i}$
The trip to the plant is being sponsored by the aeronautical engineering department, under the direction of Ammon S. Andes, acting chairman of the department.
Cryostat Chamber Nears Completion
A cryostat being constructed by the anatomy department is almost completed, Dr. Paul G. Roofe, chairman, said today.
This is a chamber for maintaining stable low temperatures in which a micrometre, an instrument for slicing frozen organic sections for staining or microscopic study, can be used.
The cryostat being constructed is capable of maintaining an even temperature of 40 degrees below centigrade. The chamber has holes in which the gloved arms of the operator can be inserted to work the microtome. Through a moisture-free pane of glass, the operator can see what he is doing.
The chamber is now complete, and is ready for the installation of the freezing unit. Ivan Hird, anatomical technician, has been doing the work.
"This is one of the largest cryostats in the country," Dr. Roofe said. Ordinarily these machines are custombuilt by commercial companies, and—being of stainless steel —cost around $1,400. The anatomy department is constructing theirs for less than $300, Dr. Roofe added.
charge of Naval interests at the Westinghouse plant.
Students wishing to make the trip are asked to sign the trip schedules in their departments.
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