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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1951
Students For Typed Quiz; Some Fear Disadvantage
Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, instructor in English, announced last week that students can use typewriters on the spring examination, if they furnish their own typewriters. Mistakes made in spelling and punctuation will be counted wrong on the typed tests.
Earl Burton, College senior, who has taken the exam: "I see no objection to it and think it's a good thing."
When asked what they thought
about this, students replied:
Harold Dietsch, College junior:
"It's okay for students with type-
writers, but the noise might disturb
those without good powers of con-
centration. I can type, but I don't
plan to use my typewriter."
Lawrence Ferrell, College sophomore: "It might give students who are good typists an advantage over students who can't type. They should guide the exams on a separate scale."
ammyra Crane, College sophomore:
"I think it's an unfair advantage to students who can type because it is faster for teachers to grade ywritten tests."
Lawrence Casto, education senior:
"I think it's okay. I wouldn't have typed myself though, because if they're going to take off for typing errors it would take me longer to type it."
Susan Manovill, College junior: "I think it is a good idea. But poor typists will have a drawback if they make typographical errors."
Constance Moore, College senior, who has taken the exam: "Students who type the exam will be at a disadvantage. Unless they're very expert they won't be able to avoid errors in typing and construction. Concentrating on mechanical perfection will limit their imaginative powers, and they won't be able to give all their attention to content."
Kenneth Garrett, College sophmore: "I think it gives an unfair advantage to students who can type. Their papers will be neater and it will influence teachers who grade them."
Dorothy Oyer, College junior: "I don't think it's unfair."
Harold Rinier, College freshman:
"I plan to type the exam and think it's a good idea."
Pauline Patterson. College junior:
"I think it's all right. It will be noisy
would the typing rooms, however,
will be quiet to people even
though they're typing."
Gleun Harold Miller, College junior, who has taken the exam:
"It's all right if the typists are in a separate room where they won't disturb others."
More than 300 persons attended the showing of the portrait of Ellis Stoufler, professor of mathematics at the University, Sunday in the Museum of Art.
Stouffer Portrait Shown
The portrait, which was painted by Mrs. Nicholas F. Lopes of Lawrence, was not formally unveiled, but was on display near the receiving line.
Faculty members, students, and friends of Dr. Stouffier attended the university, honoring the former dean of the university. Among the guests were Chancellor and Deane W Malott, Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, dean of the K.U. Medical center, and Mrs. Murphy; and Dr. and Mrs. H.R. Wahl of Kansas City, Kan. Dr.Wahl is a former dean of the School of Medicine.
The portrait of Dr. Stouffer was painted during November and December of the past year. Dr. Stouffer posed for the picture while seated at the desk in his office in Strong hall. A historical touch is given to the picture by a blue book which can be seen in the portrait, lying on the desk. It is a volume of the Bulletins of the American Mathematical society journals. Dr. Stouffer was the editor of this publication for several years.
The portrait will be permanently hung in the graduate office sometime during the next several days. Miss. Stouffier was given a small photograph of the original picture, which is about two-thirds actual size.
Rock Chalk Revue Tickets Wednesday
Tickets for the Rock Chalk revue will go on sale Wednesday in the Union building, Fraser hall, Watson library, and Strong hall. They are 75 cents a person.
The revue will be given in Hoch auditorium at 7:45 p.m. Fri, March 9, and Saturday, March 10. Eight skills will be given; one each by Alpha Tau Omega, Beta Theta Pi, Chi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi, Alpha Chi Omega, Chi Omega, Pi Beta Phi and Sigma Kappa.
Christian Science Lecture To Be Given Friday
Ralph Castle, C.S. of San Francisco, will give a free lecture in Strong auditorium, at 8 p.m., Friday, March 2. His topic will be "Proving the Truth of Christian Science in Human Affairs."
Mr. Castle is a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. His appearance at the University is sponsored by the Christian Science organization.
Mrs. G. B. Price, Mrs. Gilbert Ulmer, and Mrs. J. H. Nelson arranged the tea. A string trio from the University played during the tea. Members of the trio were Delores Wunsch, fine arts junior; Donald Stewart College junior; and Carl Bilger, fine arts senior.
Will Confer Here On Age Problems
The first Kansas conference on aging will be held at the University Tuesday and Wednesday.
The purpose of the conference is to develop community leadership to meet the mounting problems with how from aging character of the population.
James R. Shay, assistant to the dean of the University Extension, said, "It has been estimated that by 1970.25 per cent of the population will be 65 years of age or older. Thus it becomes self-evident that the economic, social, health, and recreation problems of aging require immediate and concerted action."
The conference is sponsored by the University Extension, Kansas State College extension service, the state department of social welfare, and the Kansas state board of health.
de Rochefort To Explain Red Challenge
Nicholas de Rochefort, professor of political science at Georgetown university, will speak on "The Challenge of Communism" at 4 p.m. today in 206 Strong.
Professor de Rochefort, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, is the author of numerous articles on history, sociology, economics, and in-
ternational politics.
NICHOLAS de ROCHEFORT
He attended the University of Paris and in 1932 was appointed as instructor there. His courses dealt with political relations between Russia and the European powers.
During the early days of World War II he served as an infantry captain until taken prisoner in 1940. After his release he served as subprefect in France and later in Algeria.
Many of his articles have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor and he has been heard many times on the Voice of America broadcasts.
Speech Workshop Today In KC
A one-day workshop on esophageal speech is being given today at the University Medical center in Kansas City.
The program is to assist the training of physicians and speech correctionists and to aid persons who have had a laryngectomy (removal of the larynx). Persons who have no larynx make use of the esophagus for speaking.
Dr. Edward K. Elliott of the speech and hearing rehabilitation clinic of the university of Illinois college of medicine will be the guest instructor.
Dr. G. O'Neil Proud, Miss Miriam Levitt, and Miss June Miller of the K.U. faculty will also instruct.
Big Navy Ring To Be Ring Dance Attraction
Superstition Drama To Mix
Four scholarships worth approximately $350 each will be made available to American and Canadian students for the summer session at the University of Oslo, Norway.
A comedy concerning Halloween superstition in Wales will be one of two Lab theater presentations to be given in the Little theater in Green hall at 8 p.m. Tuesday, through Friday, March 2.
The scholarships will be given students on the basis of merit by the Association of Electro-Chemical and Electro-Metallurgical Industries of Norway in honor of Dr. Ralph Bunche, recent winner of the Nobel prize.
The second production will be "The Monkey's Paw," a dramatic play by W. W. Jacobs. Phyllis Clegg, education senior, and Mr. Shay will direct. Mark Gilman, Dennis Henderson, and Wayne Knowles, College freshmen; Alberta James, College junior; and Sam Perkins, College sophomores, will be in the cast.
"Walsh Honeymoon," the comedy by Jeanette Marks, will be directed by Thomas Shay, instructor in speech, and Ronald Sundbye, College sophomore, assistant.
Summer Grants Open To Students
Students can earn six credit hours for the six weeks course. The main emphasis of the curriculum is on Norwegian culture—geography, history, language, literature, music, and art.
The 1951 session of the summer school opens June 23 and closes Aug. 4. Approximately 250 students will be admitted.
Tuition for the term is $80, the student fee including health insurance is $10, and the excursion fee is $20
The cast will include Jack Pickering, and Vernie Jeanne Theden, College freshmen; Ronald Sundbye, College sophomore; is Helmrich; College sophomores.
A giant replica of the navy R.O.T.C. class ring will be the center of attraction at the ring ceremony at the navy ring dance to be held from 9 p.m. to midnight Friday in the drill hall of the Military Science building.
Korea Now Like A Dali Painting
Scholarship candidates should make application to Dean Norman Nordstrand, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn.
Kellogg Out Of Hospital
Joseph M. Kellogg, professor of architecture, was dismissed Sunday from Watkins hospital where he had been a patient since Feb. 19.
Somewhere in Korea. (U,P)—When you drive through the fought-over sections of Korea in a jeep, you get the impression of a vast wasteland. The fields in winter are brown and dead. Village after village is blasted, ruined, reduced to stark walls of mud and stone
It's like driving through an less painting by Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist, a procession of broken and decaying skeletons of buildings. Even the tiniest settlements have not escaped, if they lie astride roads along which the war has raged.
A road in the middle of South Korea is something like a street which runs the length of recovered Pompeii. But the volcano blitz which hit that ancient city was not as destructive in many ways in its effect on homes and business houses as the man-made fire which has hit Korea.
Much of the prune and asl which covered Pompeii has been dug away and the walls still stand. But where the war hit Korean vill-
lages, the walls are fence high Blackened and shredded stumps.
Old rusted hulks of tanks are everywhere along these roads, turned over into paddies, tipped at grotesque angles into ditches, half hidden in the ruin of city streets with their guns peeking out.
Trucks lie along the roadsiles, broken and gutted monuments to old battles and air strikes as the tide of war moved up and down this sick perinula.
The market places of those large cities which have changed hands more than once are flat, covered with the rubble of their leveled buildings.
As we passed the shell-blasted vehicles and tanks, I found myself
thinking of the coast of Guadalcanal, dotted with the hulks of ripped and grounded ships.
Through these stricken cities and along the muddy roads, the flow of humanity never ceases. You get so accustomed to the scenery and the people that you forget how picturesque they are.
There are the old patriarchs, each one always with a long white beard, carrying a cane and wearing a white frock and an elaborate stove pipe hat woven of horsehair. This get-up is the badge of their station life as the head of a family and entitled to retire.
There are the women squatting at the sides of the streams with the family wash, dunking the clothes in the icy water and beating the dirt out with a stick.
People who wish to travel fast ride bicycles. Everybody else walks.
The ring in the center of the hall will be surrounded by a fence covered with flowers. During the ceremony to be held at intermission, the midshipmen and their dates will approach the ring from the west end of the hall.
As each couple enters the area surrounded by flowers, the girl will dip the midshipman's class ring into a binnacle containing waters from the seven seas. The binnacle is a device used to house a ship's compass.
After dipping the class ring into the sea water, the couple enters the giant ring and the girl places the class ring on the midshipman's hand. This ceremony is one of the navy's oldest traditions.
The giant ring is more than 9 feet high at the crest and 8 feet across. It is too large to pass through the doors of the drill hall where it was constructed. The dance was originally scheduled to be held in the Union ballroom, but because of the size of the ring the dance will be held in the drill hall of the Military Science building.
The ring is constructed of plywood, wire mesh and paper. It rests on an 8-foot square platform and weighs more than 400 pounds.
The body of the ring is finished with gold spangles and the insignia is done in black. The insignia was painted by midshipman Charles E. Rice, fine arts senior.
Other members of the staff selected were Ronald Wigington, associate editor; William Funkhouser, advertising manager; and Glenn Barrett, business manager. All are engineering sophomores.
The set of the ring is made of red cellophane stretched over a frame of copper wire. It is about $ 3 \times 2 $ feet in diameter at its base and 10 inches in height.
Robert Kleist has also been selected senior representative to the council. William Gartung, engineering junior and past editor, announced a meeting of the old and new staffs at 8 p.m. today in 208 Marvin hall.
During the dance, the set will be illuminated by an electric light placed on its base. The light will draw its power from a 6-volt "hot-shot" battery in the base of the stone.
The ring was constructed by N.J. shipman who worked on the project after school and on weekends. Work was begun during the midterm vacation. Maj Herman Poggemeyer, Jr., U.S.M.C., assistant professor of naval science, supervised the construction of the ring. He was assisted by Lts. D. B. Millar and Joseph Colton, U.S.N., instructors of naval science.
"A local contractor would not accept the job for less than $300." Lt. Comdr. W. A. Mann, assistant professor of naval science, said.
The midshipmen constructed the ring at a cost of $100. The cost of constructing the set alone would have been about $25 if the work was done under contract.
The midshipman have a solution to what to do with the ring after the dance. Since it is too large to be passed through the doors of the drill hall and the dance is an annual event, the ring will be suspended from the rafters of the hall till next year.
Robert Kipp, engineering junior, was chosen editor of the Kansas Engineer, student engineering magazine, at a recent meeting of the engineering council.
Kansas Engineer Staff Selected
Ray Morgan To KPA Helm
Ray Morgan, a student at the University in 1944-45, was appointed assistant general manager of the Press Press Bureau in Kansas Press service, Inc. Saturday.
He was a staff writer on the Topeka Daily Capital for six years.