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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 6, 1952
For Better Understanding Plane Pilots Change Lingo
San Francisco—(U.R.)Here is a preview of things to come in the air world:
A jet pilot zeros in over an airfield for a landing. The control tower gives him his wind velocity and tells him which runway to use.
"Romeo," the pilot radios back.
"Alfa, Lima, Lima, Sierra, Echo,
Tango."
What he would say in the former air lingo is:
"Roger, Able, Love, Love. Sugar Easy, Tear."
That means:
"Okay, All Set."
Day. An Set.
This streamlining of the airman's jibberish known as the phonetic alphabet is the work of two college professors who decided the old 'Able, Baker, Charley' system in use during World War II has outlived its usefulness.
The language professors, one unidentified American and one unidentified Frenchman, scraped around for words which they thought would be most easily understood by airline pilots throughout the world.
They said the old business was "strictly English" and that the new one was much more universal because it used only "the basics," and had its roots in Latin.
For example. Instead of the old
Item for "I" there's "India," and
Love has taken a back seat to
"Lima" to represent the letter "L."
"Quebec" has taken over from
Patent Medicine Doc To Appear At Rally
Doc Yak, old-time seller of patient medicines and other pep aids, will appear on the University campus at 10:45 a.m. Friday at a pep rally in front of Strong hall.
Doc Yak, who has been present at pep rallies in various forms, has been sponsored by the medicine show, is being sponsored by the KuKu and Jay Jane club clubs.
Jerry Scott, college freshman, will portray Doc Yak. He will be a marine in Marvin Pool, engineering sophomore, Lovellette, education senior.
As an added feature, the Doc Yak medicine show will present a band and a chorus of can-can girls. The chorus is composed of Vickie Rosenwald, college sophomore; Joey Brown, fine arts senior; Marjorie Gwain, business junior; Marjorie Gwain freshman; Lou Ann Smee, college sophomore, and Susanne Schmalhofer, special student.
Classes will be dismissed five minutes early for the rally.
Queen as the designation for "Q" and "Tango" has stepped in for Tear at the "T" position.
Pan American says most of its pilots think, the new alphabet system is a better one.
Perhaps most difficult of all to do without will be the old standby "roger," which has helped immortalize every adventure-in-the-sky movie thriller since Wrong Way Corrigan.
The only symbol that was left untouched was the one for "V"—
Victor.
The International Civil Aviation organization, governing body for the world's major commercial airways, has passed the list around to Pan American, United, TWA, Philippine Airlines, and the other major airlines.
Most of them have agreed that new jargon is here to stay.
The new alphabet (with old symbols in parentheses)!
A—Alfa (Able); B—Bravo (Bearer); C—Coca (Charley); D—Delta (Dog); E—Echo (Easy); F—Froxtot (Fox); G—Golf (George); H—Hotel (How); I—India (Item); J—Juliet (Jig); K—Kilo (King); L—Lima (Love); M—Metro (Mike); N—Nectar (Nan).
O—Oscar (Oboe); P—Papa (Peter); Q—Quebac (Queen); R—Romeo (Roger); S—Sierra (Sugar); T—Tango (Tear); U—Union (Uncle); V—Victor (Victor); W—Whiskey (William); X—Extra (X-Ray); Y-Yankee (Yoke); Z—Zulu (Zebra).
Forensic League Elects Officers
Officers of the Forensic league were elected at a special meeting Tuesday.
Dick Sheldon was elected president; Barbara Allen, vice-president; Kay Roberts, secretary, and Kenneth Dam, treasurer. All are college sophomores.
Win Koerper, college senior, and Bill Crews, college sophomore, were appointed judges for the intramural speaking contest which the league sponsors.
FACES SENTENCE—Former New York Deputy Fire Commissioner James Moran was found guilty and sentenced on 24 counts of extortion and conspiracy as the head of a $500,000-a-year fuel oil shake-down racket. He faces possible 348 years in prison.
Physics Society Initiates Nine
Nine students at the University have been initiated into Sigma Pi Sigma, honorary physics society.
They are: Francis Abel, college senior; Lawrence Cosner, Erwin David, and L. Wayne Davis, engineering seniors; Bennie Friesen and Warren Legler, college seniors; William McGlinn, education senior; Warren Murray, engineering junior; and Keith Smith, engineering senior.
Membership is limited to those taking advanced physics courses and to those who are in the upper 35 per cent of the scholastic standing in their classes.
Except for vultures and parrots, wild geese live longer than any other birds—sometimes as long as 70 years.
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Construction of a new bookstore necessitates the temporary removal from the present location in the Memorial Union Building
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WHEN? Monday March 10,1952
Shift In Emphasis Reduces Student Cheating In Classes
Student Union Book Store
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Shifting the emphasis from grades to integrity was considered the best solution for a lack of honor in the classroom when the question was discussed last night at a Campus Affairs committee meeting.
Frank Strong
An accent on grades through a feeling of pressure or competition may cause the student to lose sight of the values of integrity, the group decided.
The question of how cheating should be defined was considered first. Leah Ross, college junior, expressed the feeling of the group when she said, "I think cheating is anything that is not the student's own work or gives him an unfair advantage over the other students."
Bill Wilson, engineering junior and discussion leader, asked if the group thought there was a cheating problem at KU. Answers came from both extremes. Some believed there was very little cheating and others felt that there were those who would cheat whenever there was an opportunity.
Jack Heysinger, instructor in economics, asked the group, "Do you think the students consider cheating a moral wrong?" Mary Betz, college sophomore, said she thought they did but needed to be reminded. "When the instructor makes it clear he is going to place students on their honor, they don't cheat," she said.
Bill Wilson summed up the group attitude saying the students tend to use superficial excuses to their conscience for cheating. They pass off cheating as necessary because they feel they would be placed at a disadvantage if they didn't. If the superficial goal of grades were to be removed, so would be the superficial excuses.
Russel Wright
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