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KUGradesRise During 1950-51; Average 1.53
The women again led the way as overall scholarship made a sharp climb during the 1950-51 year, the annual scholarship report released recently by James K. Hitt, registrar, shows
But pushing the women for top honors were the veterans, who for the first time showed marked superiority over "all men."
The all-university grade-point average was 1.53, up from 1.44 the year before.
The women averaged 1.65 as compared to 1.58 in 1949-50. The all-men's record was 1.50, an even 1 better. But the eye-opener was the all-veterans' mark of 1.60, up from 1.38
Order of the Coif, honorary legal fraternity, led all organizations with a 2.63 average. Sigma Xi, honorary scientific research group, and Phi Beta Kappa, liberal arts honor society, followed with 2.59 and 2.56.
The women of Miller hall topped the large organized houses with a 2.11 average, although the nine residents of the Couples co-op made 2.39 Watkins hall with 2.02 was second among the women. Sterling-Oliver hall averaged 1.98 to lead the large men's houses. The three are scholarship residence halls. Sigma Gamma Epsilon, earth science fraternity, averaged 2.25 to lead all professional groups.
Pi Beta Phi with 1.85 won the scholarship cup for social sororities. Kappa Alpha Theta, 1.78, and Kappa Gamma, 1.75, followed.
Alpha KappaLambda compiled a 1.75 average to take the fraternity scholarship trophy from Beta Theta Pi, whose second place 1.72 average was a full .2 above the third place mark of Phi Delta Theta.
DR. FRANKLIN D. MURPHY
Workmen have begun the resection of the 514-ft., FM radio tower at the University, J. J. Wilson, KU. business manager, said. Employees of the John A. Costelow Co. of Topeka prepared the steel and guy wires and began actual erection in August.
Radio Tower Being Fixed
Last December 28, when the steel tower was more than 400 feet high, it crashed to the ground. No fruitful clues have been found to the identity of the person or persons who released the guy wires.
The contractor will have a watchman on duty at all times and other security measures will be taken during construction.
Work has been delayed more than six months by the wait for essential steel replacement parts. When the tower and transmitter facilities are finished in the fall, the university will begin a regular FM broadcast schedule on station KANU.
Hashinger Follows Murphy As Dean Of Med School
Dr. Edward H. Hashinger of Kansas City became acting dean of the K.U. School of Medicine on September 1, succeeding new chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, who had been dean for three years.
The new dean was born in Chambensburg, Pa., October 12, 1892. He received the A.B. degree from the University of Kansas in 1917 and the M.D. degree from Washington university, St. Louis, in 1919. After service in the armed forces, he returned to Kansas City and in 1921 was appointed as assistant in pathology in the medical school. He was promoted through the various academic ranks to a professorship in 1937.
"The School of Medicine and the University are exceedingly fortunate that Dr. Hashinger has agreed to assume the deanship at this important time," Dr. Murphy said. "His long and devoted relationship with the school, his knowledge of administrative and educational details, and his stature as physician and teacher assures continuity and continuing progress at the medical school during the next months while we are making a permanent selection."
Dr. Hashinger, 58 years old, has been a member of the K.U. faculty for 30 years and is professor of medicine and gerontology. He has played a leading role in the development of the K.U. program in postgraduate medical education which has achieved nation-wide recognition. Earlier this summer he was appointed to direct a new program in the medical problems of aging.
Dr. Hashinger took the lead in organizing the 77th Evacuation Hospital unit, which was the K.U. hospital unit in World War II. He was the unit's executive officer and was with it through its long service in
North Africa and Italy. He was released from the Army in 1945 with the rank of colonel.
Dr. Hashinger has earned a wide reputation in the field of internal medicine. He has written numerous
scientific papers and was co-author with the late Dr. Logan Clendening of a nationally recognized and used text in methods of diagnosis and methods of treatment.
EDWARD H. HASHINGER
In August of 1850 Dr. Hashinger married Mrs. J.R. Battelfeld of Kansas City, Mo, who has been one of K.U.'s leading benefactors.
Murphy To Be Installed As KU Chancellor Monday
At the year's first all-University convocation Monday Franklin D. Murphy will be formally installed as KU.'s tenth chancellor. Formerly dean of the School of Medicine, he was unanimously approved by the Kansas board of regents for his new position.
At 35 Dr. Murphy is the youngest chancellor in the history of K.U. and one of the youngest in the nation.
The new chancellor assumed his duties September 1. Dean John H. Nelson of the Graduate school served as acting chancellor in the interm. after Deane Malot left July 1 to become president of Cornell university.
His salary as chancellor is $1,500 a year. He will live in the chancellor
3 Engineers Get Muchnic Awards
The award of three Muchnic foundation scholarships to students in the School of Engineering was announced recently by Dean T. DeWitt Carr.
The awards are $150 to Philip Charles Peterson, junior in mechanical engineering; $150 to Duane E. Dunwoodie, senior in electrical engineering; and $75 to Donald E. Uehling, senior in mechanical engineering.
The scholarships, awarded this year for the first time, were made possible by a $15,000 gift to the K.U. Endowment association by the Muchnic foundation of Atchison. The foundation was established by William H. Muchnic, assistant to the president of the Locomotive Finished Material company, Atchison.
The purpose of the awards is to encourage excellent academic work by young men who plan to enter industry after graduation. Selection is based on high scholastic standing and financial need.
Peterson was graduated from Topeka high school in 1948 and has compiled a 2.77 grade-point average at K.U. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Tau, engineering honor societies.
Dunwoode is a 1948 graduate of Wyandotte high school. His grade-point average is 2.75. He holds a "regular" Naval R.O.T.C. scholarship and is a member of Sigma Tau and Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering societies.
A $10 increase in entrance fees at the University of Kansas this year has been attributed to "rising costs in all fields" by Raymond Nichols, executive secretary in the chancellor's office.
Uehling is a 1940 graduate of Janesville (Wise.) high school and a veteran of service in the Navy, where he attained the grade of lieutenant. He is a member of Sigma Tau, honorary engineering society.
"The legislature cut our appropriation and suggested a $30 increase in entrance fees to make up the deficit," Mr. Nichols said.
Fee Increase Meets 'Rising Costs' Here
K. U. isn't the only school to suffer the axe of economy minded legislators. All schools in the state will have to operate on less capital, Mr. Nichols said.
In cutting the suggested $30 increase to a third, the board of regents explained the move as stating simply, "they're asking too much of the students."
"We'll just have to make the cloth 'it' the material," Mr. Nichols said.
lor's mansion at the southeast corner of the campus. The home is the property of the University.
Dr. Murphy received his A.B. degree from the University in 1936. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi social fraternity and Sigma Phi honorary biological fraternity.
In 1936-37 he was the University of Kansas exchange scholar at the University of Goettingen in Germany, doing graduate work in physiology.
He has won national fame with his program for rural health in the state. This includes providing small towns with doctors and with clinics, with the towns setting up completely-equipped offices as an inducement. Dr. Murphy also set up an internship program for medical school seniors, who spend a summer with a general practitioner in a small town before they receive their diplomas.
He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1941, and was a member of Nu Sigma Nu, medical fraternity, and Alpha Omega Alpha, honorary scholastic fraternity. After his graduation he intermitted at the University of Pennsylvania hospital, where he was a resident and then fellow in internal medicine from 1942 to 1944. In 1944 he was elected to Sigma Xi, honorary scientific research fraternity.
Dr. Murphy entered the Army in 1944 and was assigned to the national research council to work on a malaria research project in Memphis, Tenn. He was discharged from the Army in 1946 with the commendation ribbon and was appointed to the School of Medicine faculty. On July 1, 1948, he became dean of the school and associate professor of internal medicine.
As a result of his work, he was named the state's Man of the Year in 1949 by the Kansas Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Chancellor Murphy is a diplomate of the American board of internal medicine, a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the American Clinical and Climatological association, the American Association of the History of Medicine, the special medical advisory group to the Veterans' administrator, the council on medical education and hospitals of the American Medical association, and the special committee on pre-professional education.
He is also a consultant to Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, and in 1949-50 was vice-president of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
He was born Jan. 29, 1916, in Kansas City, Mo., the son of Franklin E. and Cordella Brown Murphy. His father was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical school.
In 1940 he was married to Miss Judith Joyce Harris, a graduate of Vassar college. They have four children: Judith Joyce, 9 years old; Martha Alice, 8; Carolyn Louise, 2, and Franklin Lee, 1.
The Beanies Are Back---- Cross Your Fingers
Freshman beanies are back on the list of "campus campaigns for school spirit."
The red and blue caps will be vended by the Ku Ku's, Jay Janes, and cheerleaders during registration. For a dollar, the freshman will get a card to be traded in at the Union bookstore for a cap. The profit from the cap sale will go towards the purchase of equipment for the cheerleaders and pep clubs.
This year's All Student Council will not enforce the wearing of the caps. However, the Traditions committee of the A.S.C. is plugging for them.
But the days of "murder the frosh because he forgot his bonnet" are gone.
L. E. Woolley, director of the Memorial Union said he thinks the caps will go over better on a voluntary basis than on a compulsory one.
"I hope the freshmen will think enough of the University of Kansas to want to wear freshman caps," he said.
The "voluntary basis" is a big change from the former paddlings, blanket-tossings, and Potter lake ducklings which used to be in store for bareheaded freshmen. The custom of forcing freshmen to wear caps went strong on the campus from 1905 until World War II.
In earlier days, K-Club, Sachem, and "vigilantes" appointed by the Men's Student Council used heavy taken paddles decorated with red U's to keep the freshmen in line. In addition, freshmen minus their caps could lose their right to vote in the spring elections.
By such methods, the freshmen were generally cowed into submission. However, in 1919 a fearless freshman wrote a letter to the Daily Kansas defying the beanie law, and later stood off the paddle wielders with a short lead pipe. He was pursued across the roof of Fraser hall, and finally took sanctuary in Chancellor Strong's office. He emerged declaring he would wear his cap,
And so the required wearing of the caps became a perennial issue at KU. In 1935 the Men's Student Council spent an entire meeting on a bill which made it compulsory for freshmen to have their identification pictures taken with their freshman cap on. This was so the K-club members could recognize freshmen more easily. The bill was passed by a good majority, and caused some resentment.
However, the next year the freshmen voluntarily capped themselves at the half of the Kansas-Washburn football game, and were commended for their spirit by Chancellor Lindlev.
With the advent of World War II, the cap lost popularity with both upperclassmen and freshmen, and in 1844 the A.S.C. passed a resolution banning the physical enforcement of the tradition.
but the outraged upperclassmen saw to it that he was thoroughly doused in Potter lake.
"I think K.U. should keep up her traditions even in war time," objected one student in a 1944 Daily Kansas opinion poll.
"The boys overseas won't think that it is silly to keep up a tradition like that. It promotes school spirit and tends to pull the freshman class together," another student complained at the dropping of the tradition.
But a woman student summed up the prevalent opinion on the caps. "What are they?" she asked.