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Students Do Plastics Work In Fowler Shops Laboratory
By SHIRLEY LYON
Unlike the home economics department, Fowler shops has no egg beaters or electric mixers, but there is a plastic dough mixing machine in the plastics laboratory on third floor.
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The laboratory under Grant Snyder, instructor in shop practice, is the only one of its kind it the Midwest. It was established three years ago.
Other machines in the shop are for molding the plastic material into various shapes and sizes, then polishing it to a high luster.
Mr. Snyder says that although the classes have not done so, it is possible to make plastics in the plastics dough mixing machine or mill, which kneads the ingredients and lubricants into a homogeneous state.
The students learn fast production methods as well as hand methods. The majority of the students taking courses in plastics are engineering, occupational therapy, and fine arts students.
They make trays, drafting instruments, signs, advertising displays, and many other industrial projects. One student is now making new signs for the department which will be white with red letters and may be illuminated by a fluorescent light inside each sign.
Besides making products, the students learn much about the composition of plastics and study samples.
"Almost everyone today is interested in or curious about plastics," says Mr. Snyder. "You can pick up your newspaper and find articles about the plastic industry everyday. Some of the articles are true and some have run off into the realm of fantasy.
"People who have been poorly informed sometimes can have us believing that, given a few soy beans and a mold, anything can be whipped up—from a cheese grater to an airplane.
"This is entirely false, of course. There is nothing strange about the materials, but even with their limitations and correct application, we still have a vast and exciting field in which to work."
Because occupations that require knowledge of plastics products are
increasing, Mr. Snyder says that those who are industrial designers, engineers, draftsmen, students, and buyers in the electrical, radio appliance, automotive, cosmetic, packaging, and many other industries, must know something about plastics products. The classes in plastics serve this purpose.
University Radio Players will hold tryouts for students wanting to learn and develop radio technique by participating in KFKU programs.
KFKU Tryouts Will Be Jan. 30
Auditions will be held in studio A, engineering experiment station, between 8 and 10 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30. Students should bring dialog, monolog, narrations, or combinations of the three with them to the audition. The scripts should be no longer than five minutes.
"The primary job of KFKU is to bring educational, informational, and public service programs to radio listeners over the state and surrounding regions," R. Edwin Browne, director of KFKU said.
"A secondary function is to provide opportunities for skilled stu-
to receive practice in the techniques of radio broadcasting," he added.
KU Professor Writes For National Book
Dr. Charles D. Michener, chairman of the entomology department, is the author of a 212-page section in a larger publication of 1,420 pages just issued by the United States Department of Agriculture.
The book is technical and is titled "Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico." Bees, ants, wasps and their relatives are the subjects of the book. Dr. Michener's contribution is the section on bees.
Advance registrations indicate the third annual County Clerk's school Wednesday and Thursday at the University will be the largest ever held. Dr. James W. Drury, coordinator of the school, said today.
County Clerks To Meet At KU
Following a welcome address by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, the principal first day speakers will be Secretary of State Paul R. Shanahan, of Topeka; City Clerk Allison Schroeder of Newton, and Dwight Payton, editor of the Overbrook Citizen.
Prof. Lane Lancaster of the University of Nebraska, nationally known as an authority on rural local government; and Dr. Hugo Wall of Wichita university, also known over the nation as an expert on local governmental procedures, will be the principal instructors Thursday.
Participants in a panel on fiscal and budget operations will be Mrs. Mabel Click, superintendent of public instruction of Johnson county; Alvin Jones, of the state commission on revenue and taxation; Linn Peterson, clerk of McPherson county, and Schroeder.
KU faculty instructors will be Dr. Drury, Dr. Ethan P. Allen, director of the Bureau of Government Research; Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama; Edwin O. Stene, professor of political science, and Julian D. Morgan, associate professor of business.
The County Clerk's school is one of several public officer's institutes held at KU each year under joint sponsorship of University Extension and the Bureau of Government Research.
SUA Will Sponsor Ride Bureau Service
Monday, Jan. 14, 1952
A ride bureau sponsored by Student Union activities will again provide transportation for students during the interim between semesters. James Burgowe, director of SUA, said today.
Students desiring rides and drivers wishing to take passengers may sign up at the hostess desk in the Union from 8 a.m. until 10:30 p.m.
Liberals Do Most Of Writing For KU Magazines Gallin
By JEANNE FITZGERALD
"Most of the persons who are interested in writing for and printing magazines at the University are liberal minded." Dan Gallin, editor of Upstream, politics and humanities magazine, said in a reason. Gallin
During the past year a new trend was started, whereby material of a more restricted nature, meant to be used by other audience, was used in the magazine.
This was the main reason Gallin' gave for the liberal policy of the magazine. Gallin was referring to student magazines at KU which lean toward the more serious literary material.
The Upstream society has been operating since last year, Gallin said. The original plan was to have Upstream sponsored by Tau Sigma political organization, and Quill club, student writer's organization.
"We have made definite efforts to
view, at various times, the passport.
Upstream, which is published jointly by the Upstream society and the Quill club, has been on the campus for several years. Although several changes have been made in the magazine during the past year, it has maintained its policy of liberalism.
"The majority of the magazine staff members from the Upstream society is liberal or radical in its politics," Gallin said. "This is the main resemblance between the old and the new Upstream."
He added that the publishers try to print both sides of the question so that the magazine will not contain purely the liberal point of view.
The original magazine was intended to appeal to the masses. The articles were written down and it "failed miserably," Gallin said.
Tau Sigma Alpha decided not to take part in publishing the magazine. Then the Upstream society was formed for the purpose of co-commoring the magazine with the Quirk University, largely composed of students living in co-operative houses who had published the magazine before.
When the Quill club and the Upstream society decided to publish Upstream, the Quill club publication, Trend, was merged with Upstream. This gave Upstream a much larger reader audience.
Upstream is published by two six-member boards, one from the other from the upstream board. Each board has a faculty member.
In regard to what goes into the magazine. Gallin said the joint board meets with the staff and "we just hash things over. We decide what material to ask for, what to write, and review material we already have."
Approximately half of each issue is submitted by the Quill club and the other half by the Upstream society. The magazine appears four or five times each year and the subscription is $1.
Gallin, originally from Roumania,
is here on a student visa.
He claims no particular nationality now. He is a College senior majoring in political science.
He said he had never worked with publishing a magazine until becoming editor of Upstream during the last year.
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