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Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Kansan STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday, May 15, 1951
Lawrence, Kansas
KU Teachers To Be Rated By Students
Every teacher with a class of more than five students has been given questionnaires with instructions to take 15 minutes of class time for students to fill them out. This formal registration of complaints will start Wednesday and continue for a full week.
The object of the plan is to give opinions of students directly to the teacher to help him study his course and teaching techniques.
Each instructor will appoint a class monitor who will put the completed forms into envelopes and seal them. The envelopes will be stored in the business office. At the end of the semestr they will be returned to the instructor.
The idea of questionnaires frequently has been discussed but nothing has ever been done about it. This year the question again came up and the campus affairs committee discussed the merits of the plan before deciding it would be a good idea to try it. The committee's recommendation was approved by Chancellor Dean W. Malott.
The committee appointed one faculty member and two students—Howard Baumgartel, instructor of economics; Lane Harold, engineering senior; and Beverly Barnhardt, fine arts freshman—to consult the guidance bureau, faculty members, and students familiar with this type questionnaire.
Another committee was responsible for planning the exact form of the questionnaire. Members of this committee were L. C. Woodruff, dean of men; Miss Martha Peterson, assistant dean of women; William R. Scott, associate professor of law; Charles Hall, business senior; Leah Ross, College sophomore; Helene Austin, fine arts freshman; Mark Gilman and Lou Ann Smee, College freshmen.
Emalene Gooch, College junior, and the House of Representatives of the Associated Women students prepared the forms for distribution.
Although the campus affairs committee was instrumental in giving the plan a trial, Dean Woodruff pointed out that the committee has no administrative standing. It is merely a body that discusses problems and makes recommendations to the proper authority.
The committee is an outgrowth of the old Student-Faculty conference. It is sponsored by the All Student council, Sachem, and Mortar Board. Two members of each of those organizations were responsible for the present committee setup.
Membership of the committee is made up of interested students, the University Senate advisory committee, and faculty advisors of the A.S.C.
Student Wins $25 For Best Ad Copy
James H. Page, College senior,
has won a $25 U.S. bond for sub-
mitting the best advertising copy
from the Advertising Copy class to
the College Advertising contest
sponsored by the American Safety
Razor corporation.
Three entries from the class taught by Emil L. Telfel, associate professor in journalism, were submitted to the contest. The three best entries chosen in the class were submitted by Page; Robert Dring, journalism junior; and Charles A. Miller, College senior.
Danish Films To Be Shown Tonight
Three Danish films will be shown by the German department at 7:30 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium. Admission is free.
Philip M. Mitchell, assistant professor of German, said that two of the films, "Symphony of the City," and "Shadows on the Snow," were produced by Arne Sukdforff, Danish producer, and are outstanding examples of the film as an art form. They won the prize as the best European films at an international competition in Venice in 1949.
The third film, "The Farm at Vikagardur," is a documentary about the Faeroes, Danish island group.
Graduate Pianist To Give Recital
Mrs. Mable Hanson, graduate student, will play a graduate piano recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Strong auditorium. The public is invited.
The program follows: English Suite in A minor (J. S. Bach); Sonata in A major (K.P.E. Bach); Symphonic Etudes, opus 13 (Schumann, and Sonate (Ravel).
Boy's Heart Stops Then Starts Again
Mrs. Hanson was member of the music faculty at Bethany college in Lindsborg for a number of years. There she was organ accompanist for the Messiah. She is a student of Mrs. Janet Turk, instructor in piano.
Denver (U.P.)—An 11-year-old boy whose heart stopped beating after a televised heart operation recently was alive but in critical condition after doctors massaged his heart into activity again.
Band Presents Final Concert In Hoch Monday
The operation at the Denver General hospital was to open a closed valve in the youngster's heart. Midway through the operation, the organ weakened. Physicians quickly injected a stimulant into it and its strength returned.
Nearly two hours after the operation was completed, the boy's heart stopped completely. The incision to the heart was immediately reopened and a physician reached in and massaged the heart with his rubber-gloved hand. Slowly the pulse returned.
"The brain suffered from the lack of blood and pressures developed," the surgeon said. "His big trouble now is there—the heart operation was a success."
Hershey Grants 10 Day Extension For Men To Apply For Draft Exam
The University concert band, directed by Russell L. Wiley, gave its last concert of the term in Hoch auditorium Monday night.
By Lou Fry
Tom Lovitt, cornet soloist, did an excellent job in producing his high tones with ease and played the passages with difficult fingering clearly and in a well-defined manner. The Mendelssohn violin concerto lends itself well to a cornet transcription.
Dale Moore, baritone vocalist, did especially well on "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." The total impression of the "None But the Lonely Heart" was somewhat marred by the band's being too loud. Moore has a rich, full voice.
Yoder's popular arrangement of "Joshua" was one of the best-played numbers of the evening. The entire band seemed to feel the marked rhythm throughout the number, and played with a liveliness that pleased the audience.
The popular waltzes from the opera "Der Rosenkavalier" showed to an advantage the good work of the French horns.
"The Flight of the Bumblebee" was a well-played technical work for the woodwind section.
As an encore the band played a rousing arrangement of "Onward, Spirit of Kansas." This piece gave a dynamic and ringing climax to the evening's performance.
A reduction in the tax on domestic telegrams was approved, at an estimated loss of revenue of $8,000,000 a year. The present 25 per cent tax on telegrams would be reduced to 20 per cent under the committee proposal.
John Morgan, fine arts senior, has won 75 and first place in a contest for K.U. art students sponsored by Hall Brothers, incorporated, of Kansas City, Mo.
Morgan Wins $75 In Card Contest
House Group Recommends Federal Gas Tax Increase
Second place, a $50 prize, was awarded to Shirley Stewart, fine arts junior. Jacquelyn Leedy, fine arts senior, won the third place prize of $25.
The committee rejected proposals to put a one cent tax on each bottle of soft drinks. It also turned down a 20 per cent manufacturers' tax on candy and chewing gum.
Washington (U.P.)-The House ways and means committee voted tentatively today to increase the federal tax on gasoline by one-half cent a gallon. This would yield the government an estimated $210,000,000 a year in additional revenue.
The tentative actions taken by the committee today brought the total tax boosts to $6,528,000,00 a year.
The federal gasoline tax is now $1 \frac{1}{2}$ cents a gallon. The administration had recommended a raise to three cents.
This figure takes into account substantial increases in corporation and individual income taxes as well as in various excise taxes.
1. To increase the tax on bowling from the amount $20 per year to the amount $20 per year,
The committee made these other tentative decisions today:
2. To exempt ballrooms from the present 20 per cent tax on cabarets. A ballroom was defined as an amusement place where soft drinks and light refreshments are sold.
Washington (U.P.)—College students had 10 extra days of grace today in which to sign up for the new Draft Educational Deferment test.
3. It rejected a proposal to increase the present 15 per cent tax on local telephone bills to 20 per cent.
Original deadline for filing applications was today. Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey extended the deadline until midnight, Friday, May 25. Hershey gave no reason for the extension.
College students have been signing up fast with almost 300,000 applications already in. The tests will be given on three Saturdays—May 26, June 26, and June 30. A special test will be given Thursday, July 12 for men whose religious beliefs bar them from taking an examination on a Saturday.
James K. Hitt, registrar, says that every male student who has not already signed up to take the test, should make application immediately before the 10 day extension on applications runs out. Over one thousand K.U. men have already signed up to take the draft deferment test. Mr. Hitt said today.
A student reporting to take the test must have with him his notification of where and when to take the test, and either his notice of classification card or draft identification card. The only place where these identification and classification cards can be obtained is from the student's local draft board.
The college qualification testing program was established to give local boards evidence of the aptitude of individual students for college work. The test was prepared by the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J.
Students can obtain application cards for the test at the registrar's office. No man can take the exam unless he has made out an application to take the test and received a notice from the testing bureau giving the date and place where he is to take the test.
To be eligible to take the test an applicant must be registered under the Selective Service Act and intend to request deferment as a student. He must be under 26 years of age and satisfactorily taking a full-time college course leading to a degree. The college qualification test may be taken only once.
Students will report to the place of examination assigned to them at 8:30 a.m. The test will begin at 9 a.m. and will end at noon.
To keep unauthorized persons from taking the test each applicant will be fingerprinted when he reports for the test.
Test scores will be based only on the number of questions answered correctly. It is best to answer all the questions even if you must guess on some, according to selective service bulletins.
A report of each examinee's score will be sent to his local board. An examinee who cheats during the test will be dismissed from the examination. His test book and answer sheet will be taken from him and his local board notified.
Orchestra's Spring Concert Cancelled
The annual spring concert by the University symphony orchestra scheduled for Monday, May 21, has been cancelled.
Prof. Russell L. Wiley, conductor of the University band and orchestra, said, "The demands placed on the orchestra for duties connected with music week left the orchestra with insufficient time to prepare the challenging program which had been scheduled for the spring concert."
WEATHER
KANSAS: Considerable cloudiness. Occasional showers and thunderstorms central and west this afternoon, tonight and Wednesday. Locally severe winds and hallustres west this afternoon or early tonight.
Draft Boards Must Wait On Test Scores
Local draft boards are being notified by Selective Service authorities to delay induction of college men further until the results of the Draft Deferment tests are in to the local boards, according to reports received by the K. U. registrar's office.
Ronnie's Fund Passes Mid-Mark
The Ronnie Ewert Scholarship fund went over the half-way mark Monday. A total of $1,637.07 has been contributed toward the goal of $3,000 to send 6-year-old Ronnie to college. His parents and sister were killed in an automobile accident in April.
Ten organized houses turned in a total of $60.85 over the weekend. They are Delta Tau Delta, Delta Upsilon, Sigma Nu, Phi Kappa Tau, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, and Phi Kappa Psi fraternities and Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Phi, and Chi Omega sororities. Alpha Delta Sigma, professional advertising fraternity, contribution $15.
Persons or groups who have contributed more than $5 include: Harold B. Meyers, Jacob Kleinberg, the Victoria club, T. DeWitt Carr, Gene Courtney, the Royal College shop, Palace Clothing company, Adelane's shop, Terrill's Dry Goods store, Ransdell Motor service.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Ewing, Frances Grinstead, 'Lucy Kohler, Constance and Martin Scheerer, Fred Ellsworth, Harold Barr, L. S. Cole, Edward H. Taylor, Dr. J. I. Perry, Roy Boyer.
J. Underwood and Sons Grain, A. B. Sanders, Gallagher Motor company, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Shmalberg, Kress dine store employees, Margaret Lynn, Kanwaka Literary club in memory of Mrs. Alice Armstrong, W. C. Sanderson, G. E. Barnes, Martha Peterson, Robert Williams, Acme Cleaners, Kennedy Plumbing company, W. G. Beougher
Robert Kipp, engineering junior, has been elected president of the Engineering council for next year. The council is the governing body for students in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
Kipp Will Head Engineers' Council
Other members elected to the council are Frank Davis, vice-president; Glen Beauchamp and James Merrill, tie for secretary-treasurer; Roland Graham, senior representative; William Funkhouser, junior representative; Donald Lloyd, sophomore representative.
Departmental representatives elected were Theodore Taylor, civil; Robert Smith, electrical; Frank Thomas, chemical; Richard Etherington, aeronautical; E. J. Blair, mining and metallurgical; Dean Barrett, petroleum; Donald Uehling, mechanical; Franklin Walter, architecture; Scott Phillips, geological; Lawrence Heinrich, physics.
A run-off election for the secretary-treasurer race will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday in Marvin hall.