Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Student Opinion On Athletic Emphasis Is Varied
Various opinions were expressed by students and faculty members when asked, "Do sports at K.U. get too much emphasis?"
Doris McCormick, education junior: "Sports at KU. are not overemphasized. In fact, the games are not given enough publicity. One has to consult a schedule to know when a game will be played. Sports are an important means by which a large school can unify its student body."
L. C. Woodruff, dean of men:
"Athletics is too big for its britches.
All over the country, too great emphasis is being placed on athletics at the expense of other more important issues. I don't believe that a fieldhouse on our campus is over-emphasis—elaborate contests for money is the thing that hurts. Games for the student body are within limits."
Richard Wright, fine arts sophomore: "I think major sports are being overemphasized at K.U. Tennis.
golf, handball, and the lesser sports should get more attention."
Carl Hoskins, business senior:
"The school is putting tax funds in the wrong place. The fieldhouse should pay for itself like the stadium did, and not come out of the tax-payers' money."
Don Muir, education sophomore:
"There is too much stress on basketball alone. The fieldhouse will serve only that sport. There is no swimming pool and only one removable basketball court. This will not help the intramural program which enables student participation."
Sue Boyd, College senior: "Sports develop school spirit. Too much favoritism is shown to outsiders, instead of students, in getting tickets to athletic events."
Betsy Thomas, business junior. "Athletics is important to the University. Possibly, too many scholarships are given for athletic ability and not enough for scholastic ability or other qualifications that students might have."
Dale Fields, journalism senior:
"Intercollegiate spectator sports at K.U. provide healthful recreation for only a few participants. The main recreation gained by the spectators is in exercising their vocal chords. If K.U. gave as much emphasis to education as it does to athletics, there wouldn't be a school in the nation that could touch us scholastically. It would be a great stride forward, if the state legislature would provide an equal amount of money for scholarships for poor but deserving Kansas residents, as they did for the two-million dollar fieldhouse."
Robert Lauber, engineering freshman: "The fieldhouse is a business investment and will pay for itself,
eventually. Local radio stations and newspapers advertise K.U. games more than the University does itself."
Virginia Brooks, education freshman: "I don't think sports are overemphasized, but I don't approve of paying a player in order to have a good team. I think everyone should have an equal chance."
Blaine Hardesty, College junior: "Too much emphasis is put on the star players in varsity sports and not enough emphasis is given to other students who need physical training."
Patricia Hiatt, College junior:
"Schools need sports for enjoyment and recreation. They provide competition, and competition is important to develop skills."
Tom Page, instructor in political science: "I don't understand the appeal of professional athletics to
what seems to be marginally adolescent mentality. Any sport performs a useful function in the release of aggressive drives, but I hate to see those natural, healthy, aggressive drives and the individuals corrupted."
Court Ernst, College sophomore: "Collegiate athletics are receiving more and more emphasis all over the country, but they are an integral part of a well rounded educational program. Certainly we are glad that things such as the current basketball scandal in New York do not exist in this part of the country. I think the fact that there are more fieldhouses in the Middle West schools is a major factor. We must realize that athletics are greatly responsible for bringing a school national recognition and prominence, and this in itself is of some value."
University Daily Kansan
Lawrence, Kansas
Free Flu Shots To Be Given Here
Free influenza vaccinations will be given at the University during next week, as attacks of the disease strike hundreds of thousands across the country.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of University health service, said the vaccine is expected to arrive this weekend. If it does not, the vaccination schedule will be postponed. The University Daily Kansan and posters will inform students in either event.
The hours of vaccination will be $ \textcircled{*} $
from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and from
12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Stations will be
set up according to the following
schedule: Monday and Tuesday,
Strong hall rotunda; Wednesday,
Marvin hall; Thursday, Lindley hall;
and Friday, Union Lounge.
Students, faculty members, their families, K.U. employees and any other persons on the campus may receive the vaccination.
New England appeared hardest hit. Officials said a quarter of a million adults and uncounted thousands of children were affected there.
The United Press reported today that outbreaks of the disease have closed schools, jammed hospitals, and caused a sharp rise in absenteeism in industries in many cities.
Dozens of schools shut down in Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey.
Depaul university officials at Greencastle, Ind., banned all campus activities as a rash of chest colds, accompanied by sore throats and muscular aches, spread through the student body. About 20 per cent of the school's 2,000 students were affected, officials estimated.
Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, and Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College, will attend the Association of Deans of the Mississippi Valley on Thursday, March 1, and Friday, March 2, at the University of New Mexico.
Lawson, Ulmer To Meeting
Watkins hospital here reported that 450 students and faculty mem-
A total of 35 deans have made reservations for the 43rd meeting of the association.
pers have already been vaccinated. "We have been watching reports from the Influenza Information center at Bethesda, Md., and have been holding off vaccination so that adequate protection could be given to those vaccinated," Dr. Canuteson said. Protection develops in 6 to 10 days and lasts from 60 to 90 days. If the vaccinations were given too early there would be very little immunity to the disease after the 90-day period.
"Vaccination is harmless," Dr. Canuteson said. "It will not protect against the common cold nor will it seriously aggravate an existing cold."
Medical Group In 35th Year
Steampipe Symphony Source Solved
Members of Phi Chi, professional medical fraternity, will hear Dr Michael Carey, Council Bluffs, Iowa, member of the executive council of the grand chapter, at their Founder's day banquet Saturday.
The celebration will mark the 35th year for the University Kappa Upsilon chapter.
The day will begin with an open house from 2 to 3:30 p.m. and the registration of alumni and guests in the chapter house. A business meeting at 4 p.m. to choose a house association officer for the fraternity will be in the chapter house. At the same time families and friends will have a tea in the English room of the Union.
The banquet will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Union. A dance from 9 p.m. to midnight will follow. Gene Hall's orchestra will play and intermission entertainment will be provided by undergraduate members of the fraternity.
The "Steampie Symphony" is keeping folks awake nights.
Some of the dormitories have steam heat which supplies warmth but is hardly conducive to study and sleep. A "steam" man in the building and grounds department has explained why steam pipes are sometimes noisy.
Water collects in the pipes. It is supposed to be pumped out, but occasionally some remains. Steam rushes in and builds up a tremendous pressure which pounds the water against the pipes—thus the free concert nearly every night.
Founder's day is Feb. 26, but by custom the celebration is always held on the nearest Saturday to the date.
Nine Americans Nominated For Nobel Prize
Oslo, Norway — (L.P) — U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Robert H. Jackson and Robert M. Hutchins, former president of the University of Chicago, were among 35 persons and organizations nominated today for the 1951 Nobel peace prize.
Nine Americans were named in the list announced by the Nobel prize committee of the Norwegian parliament. A total of 35 nominations were made. Persons and organizations listed represented 13 countries. The winner will be announced between September first and December 10.
Jackson, who prosecuted the top Nazi war criminals at Nuernberg, Germany, and Hutchins, one-time "boy wonder" of American education, were among 28 persons and seven international organizations named on the list of nominations which closed January 31. Hutchins now is an associate director of the Ford foundation.
One American organization was named. It is "CARE" which has sponsored shipment of food parcels to Europe.
Premier Jawaharlal Nehru of India, who has been active in attempts to mediate the Korean war; Norwegian Trygve Lie, secretary general of the United Nations, and three German pacifists were among the nominees.
The list posed the possibility that the peace award might go to an American for the 12th time. It was won last year by Ralph Bunche, the first Negro and 11th American to get the prize. He was honored for his work in mediating the Palestine war between Arabs and Jews.
Many of the individuals and all the organizations had been nominated before. Among nine Americans named were:
Ewing Cockrell, Warrensburg Mo., attorney, compiler of Declaration of Ten Fundamental Peace Policies approved by 65 government and business leaders in 1946.
WEATHER
Frank N. Buchman, Washington, D.C., theologist and leader of the moral rearmament drive.
KANSAS—Cloudy and warmer tonight and Saturday with occasional showers west and central portions; low tonight 35 to 49 degrees extreme west, to 45 east; high Saturday 60-65 degrees.
Reds Flee As UN Troops Drive On
Tokyo (U.P.)-Tank-led American troops chased fleeing Communists eight miles in east-central Korea today before bringing them to bay in a narrow mountain pass.
German Movie Will Be Shown Today
"The Affair Blum," a Germanmade movie with English titles, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium. All students will be admitted free.
The film, termed "excellent," "extraordinarily, perfect," and "one of the best," by reviewers, concerns the efforts of the police to pin a murder charge on an innocent man. It is based on a famous trial that created quite a stir in Germany 20 years ago.
The Yanks leaped off from dawn positions three miles south of Pyongchang, swept through the town at mid-morning and rolled on in swift pursuit of Reds fleeing north in a "human stream."
AWS Amends Constitution
Amendments to the Associated Women Students constitution including changes in the personnel board and provision for filling senate vacancies have been approved by the A.W.S. senate and will be voted on by all University women Wednesday, March 7.
A summary of the proposed amendments to the A.W.S. constitution follows: Amendments to the constitution must be ratified by a majority of the entire house membership and a majority of the members of the A.W.S. voting at the A.W.S. general election.
The personnel board shall include chairmen for summer counseling, precincting, office staff, and files.
Senate vacancies for the six elected offices shall be filled by the defeated candidate for these positions, and the remaining seats shall be chosen by the senate from new petitions.
One representative from each precinct of women who live in unorganized houses shall be elected to the hours.
Geology Club To Hear Frye
The club will meet at 8 p.m. in room 426 Lindlew.
Dr. John C. Frye, director of the State Geological Survey, will speak on the "Pleistocene Stratigraphy of Kansas" to the Geology club Wednesday. Feb. 28.
Five miles north of Pyongchang the Reds turned and fought. They picked an ideal defensive position in mountains flanking a narrow muddy road through a pass just south of Paangnim, an important highway junction.
Heavy fighting erupted in the pass as the Reds poured a barrage of fire into the pursuing Americans. The eight-mile advance ripped loose the eastern anchor of the Communist line at Pyongchang.
Twenty-five miles to the west anther American division smashed four miles forward and occupied hills overlooking the big road hub of Hoengsong, key to the central front highway network.
U. S. tanks rolled up the hills overlooking Hoengsong and began pouring point-blank gunfire into the smoking city. Dive bombers wheeled in to join the destruction with tons of bombs. An estimated 10,000 Chinese Communist troops protecting Hoengsong fled under the massive power of the United Nations troops arrayed against them.
In its four-mile drive the Hoengsong column captured Hill 166, key to the Communist defense line, and swept forward so fast the Americans were able to take over half-finished Communist foxholes on the banks of the frozen Ammul river south of the town.
They offered no resistance after losing Hill 166 early in the day. However, American commanders ordered their troops to dig in for the night on hills overlooking the city. In Korean warfare, a city is considered a death trap during the night.
The frontal assault on Hoengsong was accompanied by a second flanking drive about a mile to the southeast. An American column in this drive pushed forward to cut the supply road for Reds to the east.
Librarian Attends Manhattan Meeting
deLafayette Reid, assistant director of libraries, attended the meeting in the Kansas Library association and Exhibit Council in Manhattan. Tuesday.
The meeting was held to discuss forthcoming district meetings and to discuss plans for the annual meeting to be held in Hutchinson in October.