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University Daily Kansan
Debate Tryouts Slated Thursday
Annual tryouts for the University debate squad will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in 103 Green hall for all undergraduate students.
"There are excellent opportunities on the debate squad this year, as twelve varsity debaters have been graduated in the last two years and their places must be filled by upcoming speakers," Kim Giffin, assistant professor of speech, said.
For tryouts, each speaker should prepare a 5-minute talk on some issue of this year's intercollegiate debate question: Resolved, that the Congress of the United States should enact a compulsory fair employment practices law.
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This talk should be solid, indicating some thought and investigation into the problem being debated. The talks should not be read nor memorized, but delivered extemporaneously.
Each speaker, following delivery of his prepared talk, will be asked one or two questions in defense of the viewpoint he has expressed. These questions will be advanced by E. C. Buehler, director of forensics; Professor Giffin, or Kent Shearer, assistant debate coach.
Both men and women are invited to try out. There will be chances for all to participate in debate squad activities. Included on the schedule for this semester alone are the following tournaments: Iowa university, Kansas State Teachers college at Pittsburg, Southwestern college, McPherson college, and Kansas State college. ___
The first meeting this year of the Women's Athletic association board will be held at 4:30 p.m. today in Robinson gymnasium, according to Mary Ann Mahoney, publicity chairman for the organization.
WAA Directors To Meet Today
ization.
Members of the board are Betty Blinger, education senior, president; June Porter, education senior, vicepresident; Jean Michaels, education senior, secretary; Diane Walker, college senior, treasurer; Joan Squires, education junior, business manager; Marilyn Ringler, college senior, point system manager; Flavia Robertson, education sophomore, hockey manager.
hockey manager,
Margaret Black, education sophomore, volleyball manager; Pat Garrett, education junior, basketball manager; Marlene Moss, education sophomore, swimming manager;
Jean Denny, education junior, minor sports manager, and Joan Grone, education senior, softball manager;
Miss JOie Stapleton, director of women's physical education, is the sponsor.
Fire Power Stops Reds
Seoul, Korea —(U.P.)- Communist soldiers launched 20 probing attacks across the Korean battlefront today, but UN troops battered them back with artillery, mortar and machine gun fire.
Six of the assaults came in the Bunker hill area, four came around Heartbreak ridge northwest of the Punchbowl and three were on the east-central front near the rocky peak called "Luke the Gook's Castle."
An 8th army briefing officer said he believed the probes were just "harassing actions."
The 8th army announced that Allied ground troops last week inflicted the fourth highest casualties of the year on Communist forces.
Washington — (U.P) — John L Lewis' bargaining victory over northern soft coal operators looked even better today as Southern producers considered the alternatives of accepting the same settlement terms or facing a strike.
Newly-revealed contract provisions showed further concessions by Northern producers to the United Mine Workers' chief-on top of a $1.90 daily wage boost and a 10-cent-a-ton increase in welfare fund payments.
1912 Whistle Recalled to Duty After Two Substitutes Fail
By SHIRLEY PIATT
The so-called "miscellaneous" items of the contract were not spelled out at the time it was signed.
Thirteen, twelve, eleven minutes before the hour and then the whistle.
At the sound of the piercing signal for the end of another class, clock watchers lose their expressions of anxiety, pick up their notebooks, and rush from their classrooms.
Lewis Repeats Victory in South
The whistle situated on top of the boiler building of the University heating plant has been in use since 1912 except for two occasions
After the introduction of the whistle in 1912, the faculty unanimously agreed that the huge noise older had proved its usefulness by eliminating a great deal of tardiness among students. It also gave time to walk between class, the administration said.
The custom of blowing the whistle a half hour before morning classes began when the University held devotional services each mornning at 7:30 a.m. These services lasted twenty minutes and class time was marked by another toot on the old whistle.
A few years after it was installed, the whistle was damaged and had to be replaced when it blew off the top of the boiler building. The whistle which was used in its place screeched so badly, however, that the first one was repaired and used once more.
and used by
In May 1945, whistle number,
three, a 200-pound affair salvagee
from German transport was
been held here by Captain Robert A. Haugart of the U. S. Maritime service. This whistle was unique in that it was built on the organ principle with three adjustable tones. This whistle proved unsatisfactory also and whistle number one was called back into use. It has been used ever since.
For several years it was the intention of University officials, according to the May 2, 1947 issue of
Professor Fishes All Summer But Not for Pleasure or Fish
By JERRY KNUDSON
One man of the University staff spent the entire summer fishing, but it wasn't for pleasure—and it wasn't for fish.
Dr. Charles Leone, assistant professor of zoology, was the "fisherman" who did field work of collecting the bloods of marine invertebrate organisms at Friday Harbor in Puget Sound, Wash.
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The summer's "catch" was added to the ever-growing collection here of approximately 350 species bloods, consisting of several thousand samples.
This work, which Dr. Leone has done for the past three summers, is partly sponsored by the Office of Naval Research.
Naval Research This summer, "one of the most successful we've had," Dr. Leone's group gathered blood and proteins from about 130 animal species representing eight major phila.
Since the marine invertebrates' blood has only one protein, it is extremely valuable in immunological research, Dr. Leone pointed out.
"I am interested in utilizing these proteins as raw material in our cytological research—the production of antibodies in rabbits," he said.
Also they are used for comparison with the proteins of organisms from
Sea water tanks were necessary on the boat since the organisms had to be kept alive, once caught. Back in the marine laboratories at the University of Washington, where several days' work would follow one day's catch, the large organisms were bled and the smaller ones crushed to form extracts, Dr. Leone said.
Today
the University Daily Kansan, to place the responsibility of signaling the end of classes upon the new carillon. But again history repeated itself, and the whistle continues to mark the end of classes.
The bloods and extracts, ice cold and well insulated, were then shipped back to the University. Timing the shipments just right, one group of samples was received here only 48 hours after it was mailed, Dr. Leone said.
other localities, and are used by graduate students in experimental zoology.
Official Bulletin
The fishing is done much as a commercial fisherman would do it, Dr. Leone explained. An otter trawl, a triangular net, scoops the organisms off the ocean floor; a beam trawl digs under the surface of the floor a little, and a dredgin secures the organisms deep in the mud.
Student Religious council meeting 4 p.m., Room B Myers hall. Very important.
Red Peppers, 7 p.m. Strong auditorium. Election of officers, be prompt.
prompt:
AROTC Rifle team, 7:30 p.m., 107
Military Science. Any cadet interested.
hospital.
Bailey Chemistry club, 7:30 p.m.
201 BCL. Anyone interested welcome.
Physical Therapy meeting, 7:30 p.m., Physical Therapy office at hospital.
ISA meeting, 7:30 p.m., AWS lounge. Everyone interested invited.
Theta Tau, national professional engineering fraternity, 8 tonight, smoker at the chapter house, 1602 Louisiana.
Speech Therapy seminar, 4 p.m.
Sneech Clinic Annex F.
Wednesday
Matins Service. 7:30 a.m., Danforth chapel. All invited, sponsored by Lutheran Student Association.
Christian Science organization meeting, 7 p.m., Danforth chapel.
Freshhawk organization meeting,
101, Snow. 7:30 p.m. All freshman men interested in joining please attend. Bring dues—limit 3 per house.
use the New
Chess club organizational meeting. 7:30 p.m.. 20 Strong.
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EBERHARD FABER
Tuesday, Sept. 23, 1952
TRADE MARKS REG. U.S. PAT. OSE
Reading - Study Laboratory Opens With 4 Full Sections
The Reading and Study laboratory opened yesterday with four full sections, H. P. Smith, associate professor of education, announced today.
The lab offers classes in study methods, reading comprehension, and speed improvement. It is a free, non-credit course.
The four sections begun yesterday will meet three hours a week for six weeks. Two more sections are to be started on October 13 and three more on November 3. These new classes are still open.
The classes are taught by graduate students in the School of Education. All have had teaching ex-
penience and all are working for their doctorates.
Such things as budgeting your study time, taking class notes, preparing for examinations, and taking examinations are covered in the course. About half of the 18 hours are devoted to improving reading speed.
A little later this semester, Dr. Smith plans to start an individual counseling service for students. A student need not be enrolled in the reading lab to take advantage of the service. It is planned that the student will meet once a week for 15 to 20 minutes with one of the advisors to discuss his note-taking method or a particularly difficult type of assignment. It is not a tutoring course, but rather a discussion of methods.
Students interested in either of the programs may go to the lab, Room 18, Fraser hall for additional information between the hours of 3 and 5 p.m.
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