Monday, March 31, 1952
University Daily Kansan
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Defense Tactics To Be Shown At Exposition
An outline of the action of Kansas state's board of civil defense in the event of atomic attack will be illustrated at the Engineering Exposition Friday and Saturday.
At first report of an explosion, two-men squads called "monitoring units" would be dispatched by plane to the disaster site to probe for radioactive areas. After plotting the danger area, the units would contact the highway patrol.
The petroleum engineering exhibit will all illustrate types of operations in oil field practice, including the construction of a miniature cable tool rig. A geological structure demonstrating water flooding also will be on display.
Next on the scene would be firefighters, medical and utility crews and a liaison group to test food and water.
The engineering physics department will exhibit the special type suits worn by the monitoring units, radiomonitoring instruments, geiger counters, and radioactive materials to demonstrate their use.
A slate of election plans to be included in the FACTS party platform was approved recently in an open meeting of the group attended by more than 60 persons.
FACTS Adopts Platform Planks
Some of the planks FACTS plans to use "to keep the U in University government" are:
1. To form a permanent student group to act as a liaison between the state legislature and the student body.
2. To push the state legislature for sufficient funds to build university dormitories to house all students who wish to live in them.
3. To abolish discriminatory clauses in all student organizations whether organized houses, social fraternities, or sororities which are directly or indirectly under the jurisdiction of the All Student Council.
4. To place faculty members and students on the same system of checking out library books, and include assessment and enforcement of fines for late return.
5. To amend the ASC constitution to install a permanent system of classroom voting with the purpose of getting more student participation in campus government.
6. To secure a sub-postoffice in the Student Union.
In other actions, a post card committee and a telephone committee were set up to urge unaffiliated students to vote in the party primaries Wednesday, and in the general elections Wednesday.
Freshman Dorms Termed A Success
The freshman dormitory program has been highly successful, according to an evaluation of the program by Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, and Miss Martha Peterson, assistant dean.
Under the plan inaugurated last fall some 350 freshman women have lived together in Corbin, North College, Hodder and Hopkins halls.
"There have been few cases of homesickness and friction between roommates, and tension among the girls in the dorms is almost unheard of." Miss Peterson reports.
The goal of the program, as defined by Miss Habein, is to "provide experience for each freshman woman in learning to live with and appreciate all kinds of people, an example in which she learns to use all the resources of the University to develop her own abilities and develop responsibility for herself, both in the classroom and out."
There is a new and fine kind of morale among the freshman women, Miss Peterson found but through which I had made the most please having contact with the program.
"They have pride in what they are doing," she said. "They are not only proud, but also and appreciate all kinds of people, but they are having fun doing it."
Freshmen women are allowed to date any nights they wish, but only 5 per cent go out on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights, and less than 15 per cent date on Wednesday, a commonly accepted date night.
The freshmen women have been placed under a limited number of restrictions in order to help them take responsibility for themselves. This "honor system" has worked well, according to Miss Peterson.
In spite of no required study hours, the freshman grade average of 1.43 is identical with the average made by freshman women last year under the study hall system.
Strict regulations involving signing out and closing hours have been kept by the girls, not from fear of punishment, but because they realized the responsibilities of their counselors, Miss Peterson said.
The counseling program in the dormitories is centered around the idea of helping a young woman develop her own abilities and to recognize her own limitations.
Reports from the Guidance bureau, Watkins Memorial hospital, the Reading clinic, the Speech clinic, the dean's offices, and academic advisors point out that many more freshman women than ever before have taken advantage of these opportunities for help.
At present the freshmen are discussing ways to expand their social program to include more faculty members, other students, and visitors on the campus, ways to continue training in etiquette; ways to develop better habits of housekeeping in the dormitories, and ways to increase the participation of freshman women in University activities and events.
Only six freshman women participating in the program dropped out of school during the first semester.
The largest difficulties in the freshman dormitory system concerned noise and food. The freshmen have the former under control now although, as to be expected, houses of 150 to 200 women will
The food, in North College in particular, was not good at the first of the year, Miss Peterson said.
never be as quiet as a family of three or four, Miss Peterson commented.
"Lack of personnel, untrained staff and undelivered equipment created this situation," she explained. "A constant check on the food has improved it to the point where it is of high quality although it isn't mother's cooking, we admit," she continued.
The big question facing the freshman woman now is her plans for next year. Many hope to go through rush week and join a sorority. Others are thinking about scholarship halls, upperclassman dormitories, and private homes.
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