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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, 7EBRUARY 21, 1951
Jay Jane Dance Will Be Given On March 2
The annual Jay Jane Vice-Versa dance will be held Friday, March 2, in the Union ballroom. This year the KuKu's are joining the Jay James to sponsor the dance.
an previous years the dance has been a women "foot the bill" affair and the Jay Janes have sponsored a date bureau where men could enter their names as "eligible". This year the bureau will be discontinued because the KuKu's are helping sponsor the dance, and tickets will be sold to both men and women. However, all women attending the party will be responsible for opening doors, taking off coats, and paying for refreshments.
During intermission a square dance will be performed by those members of the group who wish to participate. Everyone attending the party will wear square dancing costumes.
Betsy Thomas, Jay Jane social chairman, is in charge of the party. Robert Nash, president of the Ku Eus, is in charge of entertainment. Music will be furnished by Harlan Livinggood's orchestra.
Other committee chairmen are Mary Cole, College junior, chapelors; Alberta James, College junior, decorations; Nancy F. Anderson, journalism junior, and Janice Manuel, College sophomore, publicity; Laurence Murphy, education junior, Patricia Kennedy, education junior, and Shirley Mickelson, College junior, ticket sales.
Tickets for the dance, which will
be from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m., will be
$2.20 a couple.
Offer Course In Writing
A course in creative writing will be offered at Liberty Memoria high school beginning Thursday March 1. Five class meetings will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursdays.
Principles of writing short stories, newspaper features, and magazine articles will be taught by Miss Frances Grinstead, assistant professor of journalism. The course, open to anyone, will also include information about new writing markets and how to keep up with freelance writing trends.
University Extension and the Lawrence Adult Education program are sponsoring the course. Students who are interested in enrolling in the non-credit course should contact James Tucker, extension representative, or E. Logsdon, director of the Lawrence Adult Education program.
For Better Poker, Hear This Talk
A mathematical study of games of strategy will be given by William E. Scott, assistant professor of mathematics, at a Mathematics club meeting at 4 p.m. today in 203 Strong hall.
Dr. Scott will discuss the mathematical theory of such games as poker, chess and penny matching.
The first book published on the subject was "The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior" in 1944. It has been discovered that the theory games has extensive application to warfare, the biggest of strategy games.
Professor Scott first became interested in the subject while working on a navy project at the University of Michigan.
She Makes Him Fight
Danville, III. (U.P.)—Mrs. R u b y Pridemore, 33, was annoyed when her husband declined to battle a man who made an insulting remark to her in a tavern. His lack of chivalry so angered her that she hit him on the head with a beer bottle. The fine was $5.
BULLETIN
Washington (U.P.)-Price controller Michael V, Disillack cracked down today on a nationwide "new-used" car racket with an order setting retail price ceilings on all automobiles.
The order applies to cars sold by dealers or individuals and is effective March 2.
Disalle said the new ceilings are temporary and will be replaced as soon as possible by a permanent control order.
Dealers' ceiling prices for new cars will be the manufacturers list price, plus charges for "legitimate extras."
The ceiling for any used car still being manufactured will be the delivered ceiling price of the same car when new.
15 To Attend Press Meet
Fifteen student and faculty members of the University of Kansas chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, will attend the annual professional meeting and banquet on Thursday given by the Kansas City Press club in the La Fonda room of the Advertising and Sales Executive club in Kansas City.
Four undergraduate members and one scholarship winner are invited as special guests of the Press club and will be official delegates to the meeting. Seven additional students will attend.
Members of the Kansas chapter who will act as official delegates are Dewayne Oglesbee, president; John Corporon, vice-president; Harold Benjamin, secretary; Richard Tatum, treasurer; and John Bannigan, member.
Members of the journalism faculty who will attend the banquet include Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information; Emil L. Telfel, associate professor; and Burton Mevers, instructor.
Fred Sparks of the Chicago Daily News will speak at the meeting which will be attended by members from the University of Kansas, the University of Missouri and Kansas State college.
Mr. Sparks has recently returned from Korea and has spent considerable time in Indo-China and other areas of the Far East.
FACTS Heads Announced
Other officers elected were: Suzanne Plummer, fine arts junior, secretary, Edward Boswell, College junior, treasurer; William Nulton, College sophomore, membership committee chairman; and Walter Brown, College senior, issues committee chairman.
Officers have been announced for F.A.C.T.S., the new student political organization which was organized last week. James Logan, business junior, was elected president; Roy Zimmerman, College sophomore, and Kathryn Taylor, College senior, vice-presidents.
A resolution for the appointment of three F.A.C.T.S. members to the elections committee of the All Student Council was passed Tuesday, in the same resolution, the party protested against Roger Davis, F.A.C.T.S. member, from the present elections committee of the A.S.C.
The new political party inserted a plank into its platform advocating a student committee to assist in choosing a new chancellor.
Dead Fawn Causes Blackout
Spring City, Utah (U.P.)—T h r e e city councilmen, the city electrician, two hired hands and the power plant operator worked a full day before they could find the cause of Spring City's blackout. After tearing up a section of the 16-inch pipeline leading to the community's hydroelectric plant, they found the body of n fawn that had lodged against the nozzle, shut off the water and in turn, the lights of Spring City.
Dyche Camped At Museum Site
Bv ANNE SNYDER
Did you know that Lewis Lindsay Dyche once lived in a tent and did his own cooking on the very place where Dyche hall now stands
Or that one of the stone gargoyles on the entrance columns of the museum is the original of the Javhawk bird?
Or that both an inauguration of a chancellor and a funeral have been held in the Museum of Natural History?
The history of the Museum o. Natural History, which is 50 years old this year, really began in 1866, when Francis Huntington Snow, a young instructor in natural history, arrived at the University of Kansas and to see Chancellor R. W. Oliver. Snow asked if the University had specimens that he could use in his classes, and the chancellor said he must wait until school started to obtain them.
"About all you can do now," said Dr. Oliver, "is to take your gun and go hunting." Snow took Dr. Oliver at his word and went hunting. His collection of animals, including the lower jaw of prehistoric elephant that he found while fishing in the Wakarusa river, formed the basis of the collection later put into the museum.
Lewis Lindsay Dyche, according to an old story, was nursed by an Indian woman. He grew up with a great love for wild life and the out-of-doors. In 1877 he entered K.U. While a student, Dyche lived in a tent and cooked his own meals on the very site where he was later to construct the Museum of Natural History. He was taught by Professor Snow and developed his interest in natural science, doing eight years' work in five years.
Dyche was graduated from the University, and came back to teach in 1889. By this time Professor Snow had become chancellor.
--made 23 expeditions in all, including another to the pole with Cook.
Dyche collected and stuffed a large number of mammals, and experimented with arranging them in life-like positions against the background of their natural environment. In 1893 he displayed over 100 of his animals in the Kansas building of the Chicago World's Fair, including the famous figure of "Comanche," the horse that survived Custer's raid.
LEWIS LINDSAY DYCHE
Dyche was the first person to use natural arrangements of stuffed animals instead of the stiff, formal arrangements in most collections. His display caused so much comment that Chancellor Snow asked the state legislature for a museum to house the collection. The legislature voted to erect Blake hall instead, believing "an electrical building" more practical.
Dyche, meanwhile, went on many hunting and exploring expeditions. He rescued Commodore Robert E. Peary from an expedition to the North Pole in 1895. From this trip he brought back the Eskimo tools and clothing now displayed on the mezzanine of the museum. Dyche
In 1901 Dyche gave an illustrated lecture before both houses of the state legislature, and when he finished. both. houses, unanimously voted $75,000 to the University for a museum.
In the fall of 1902, the inauguration of Frank Strong as chancellor took place in the almost-completed building.
An off-center tower, gargoyles carved by an Italian stonecutter, and a door modeled after St. Trophine at Arles, France, said to be "the most beautiful door in the world." were features of the new museum. A gargoyle on the right column by the door is said to be the original "Jayhawk."
Professor Dyche's funeral was attended by so many people that it was held in Dyche Museum, on the same spot where he had once camped.
In 1932, the State Board of Regents ordered an examination of state school buildings, and the museum's floors were found to be overloaded and weak. The building was immediately vacated, and not opened again until 1941 because of the lack of money to repair it.
Professor Dyche was fish and game warden of Kansas in addition to being a famous explorer, professor of zoology, collector for the museum, author, and curator of the zoology collection. He died in 1915.
Lecture On France To Be In French
After 1920 medical students had their chance to stand and hoot at passing law and engineering students on the steps of Dyche hall, because anatomy classes were held in the basement of the museum.
An indignant editorial in the University Daily Kansan in 1955 pointed out that "only a handful of students now on the campus can boast of ever being inside the building."
In 1937 and 1939 the state legislature appropriated money to restore the museum and the exhibits. A steel framework was put in the building and the mezzanine floor added, the museum, completely remodeled, was reopened commencement week of 1941.
Prof. Robert Lacour-Gayet, lecturer for the Federation of l'Alliance Francaise aux Etats-Unis, will speak at the University Thursday and Friday.
At 4 p.m. Thursday he will speak on "France 1900-1950: Son Evolution et Son Avenir" in the Kansas room of the Union. The lecture will be in French.
His second lecture will be given at 11 a.m. Friday in 109 Marvin. His topic will be "The Atomic Age of Finances."
Both lectures are open to the public.
The club shot in competition with five other schools last week. K.U. defeated the University of Cincinnati 485 to 471. Cornell university forfeited the meet. Scores of the three other schools, the University of Louisiana, New Mexico A. and M., and Pennsylvania State college, are not available yet.
Women's Rifle Club Beats Cincinnati
The K.U. Women's Rifle club will meet in the Military Science building at 7 p.m. today.
Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice, was the bass soloist in the presentation of Handel's "Messiah" Sunday for the Topeka Council of Churches in the Topeka auditorium.
Members of the team are: Mary A. Ward, College senior; Barbara Burdick, College sophomore; Ruth Armstrong, fine arts junior; Barbara Prewett, College senior; Verda Nye, fine arts sophomore; and Nancy Lawrence, fine arts sophomore.
The team will compete in a match with Northwestern university this week.
Schmidt Is Topeka Soloist
"We feel that a student must demonstrate his ability on an instrument or voice by a public performance before graduating as an applied music major," said Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts.
Music Department Is No Older Than Senior Recitals
The entire recital lasts from an hour to an hour and 15 minutes. Performances are held throughout the year but most of them are given near the end of the semester, so the student may have more time to prepare the program.
As long as the University music department has existed, senior recitals probably have too, for these recitals are required of students graduating as applied music majors.
The recitals are given by students in voice, piano, violin, flute—any musical instrument. The students are not graded by a faculty board, but the instructors use the recital as a factor in the final grade.
Women students must make a B average in all journalism courses and a C average in all other courses to be scholastically eligible for membership. They must have intentions of entering journalism work after graduation.
The public in invited to attend the recitals which are held in Strong auditorium. Announcement of date and time is posted on the fine arts bulletin board.
Qualifications for membership in Theta Sigma Phi, professional journalism sorority, were discussed by Pat Jansen, president, at a coke party Tuesday afternoon.
Pat Jansen Speaks To Theta Sigma Phi
Eight women students, who are taking journalism courses or are interested in journalism, were present.
Voice Of America Broadcasts Heard
Practice in understanding the German language as it is broadcast to Germany is offered to students by the German department of the University.
The Voice of America programs which are broadcast to Germany are received in the German department laboratory on the fifth floor of Fraser hall from noon to 12:30 p.m. daily. Loud speakers have been installed in the laboratory, enabling more people to listen to the broadcasts.
"The Stage, Movies and Concert" was the title of the program heard Tuesday. The title of today's broadcast was "Broadway Melody." "In a Broadcasting Car Through America," will be heard Friday.
Prof. J. A. Burzle, professor of German, said that listening to these German languages broadcasts is very helpful in teaching students to understand the language and at the same time become informed on the type of information about America being sent to Germany.
Malott Has New Title
Chancellor Deane W. Malott received a letter with the most flattering address Tuesday.
On the first try die postman delivered to the chancellor a letter from the Ambrosiano Library and Art gallery of Milan, Italy.
The address: "Rector Magnificus" of the University of Kansas.