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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1
KU Receives Fellowship From DuPont
The Du Pont company has awarded a post-graduate fellowship in chemistry to K.U. for the 1951-52 school year.
It is one of 78 post-graduate and post-doctoral fellowships to 47 universities, and grants-in-aid to ten universities, intended to "stock-pile" knowledge through the advancement of fundamental research.
The selection of candidates for fellowships and the choice of problems on which they are to work are left to the universities which receive the awards. Individuals are under no obligation with respect to employment after completing work under this plan.
Each post-graduate fellowship provides $1,400 for a single person or $2,100 for a married person, with an award of $1,200 to the university, for the next academic year.
Granting of the fellowships is a continuation of the company's plan originated in 1918 to encourage graduate research in chemistry. It has since been expanded to include other fields.
The University of Kansas Band under the direction of Russell L. Wiley will present its annual winter concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10. in Hoch auditorium.
KU Band Will Give Concert Wednesday
Featured soloists will be Tommy Lovitt, education junior, cornetist; and Dale Moore, fine arts freshman, baritone.
Identification cards will admit students to the concert.
Dinner and Dancing Today For University Club Group
Covered-dish supper and dancing will be on the agenda for the University club at 6:30 p.m. today.
Covered dishes will be furnished by the club members.
Hosts will be Prof. and Mrs. Cecil Lalicker, Mr. and Mrs. Lesh, and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Page.
Service Period May Be Extended
Washington—(U.P.) — Chairman Carl Vinson (D.-G.) of the house armed services committee said Thursday the service period of drafts probably will be extended from the present 21 to 27 months.
Other changes being considered, Vinson said. include;
1. Lowering the draft age to 18.
Youths of 18 must register now but may not be inducted until they are 19.
2. Extending the upper draft age, possibly to 28, for single men and married men without children. Only men under 26 are now being inducted.
3. "Complete restudy" of deferments of draft-age men for physical reasons or to continue their education.
Veterans would not be drafted under changes now being considered, Vinson said.
Senior Recital To Be Sunday
The School of Fine Arts will present Olin G. Parker, clarinetist, in a senior recital at 4 p.m. Sunday in Strong auditorium.
Parker, who is from Plains, Kans,
holds a Bachelor of Music Education
degree from Bethany college,
where he studied clairnet with Walter
Brown for four years. He also
received a Master of Music Education
degree at the University of
Kansas the past year. He is now
working towards a Bachelor of Music
degree with a major in clairnet.
He has taught instrumental and vocal music at Macksville, Kan., and is at present an instructor in instrumental music in the public schools of Leavenworth.
The program will include:
"Siellienne" and "Rigaudon" (Francoeur); "Sonata in F minor Op. 120, No. 1" (Brahms); "Fantasy-Piece, Op. 73, No. 1 (Schmann); "Petite Piece" (Debussy); "Piece En Forme De Habanaer" (Ravel); "Allegretto Fantasia" (Miskow); and "Scherzo in C minor" (Koepke).
Billie George, graduate student, will accompany him on the piano. The public is invited to attend.
Fellowships Are Offered By Atomic Energy Group
Fellowships, granting stipends from $1,600 to $3,000 for one year, have recently been opened by the Atomic Energy commission, it was announced by the University Relations division of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
The fellowships are for predoctoral work in physical and biological sciences and postdoctoral work in physical, biological, and medical sciences.
The predoctoral fellowships are to enable men and women with unusual scientific ability to gain further graduate work and research for doctor of philosophy or doctor of science degrees in physics, geophysics chemistry, mathematics, metallurgy, astrophysics and engineering; or in botany, biology, biophysics, microbiology, pharmacology, physiology, radiology, zoology, etc.
Appointments are limited to citizens of the United States. The period of the fellowships continue for one year, beginning in September
Any problem in these basic sciences which is sufficiently related to atomic energy to indicate that the candidate, upon completion of his studies, will be especially suited for employment by the Atomic Energy commission or one of its contractors, is open to applicants for these fellowships.
Those applying for fellowships in physical science must have completed at least one year of graduate work before entering the fellowship, and those applying for the biological science fellowship should have bachelor degrees before entering upon the fellowship.
A fellow will be expected to devote his entire time to advanced study
Atomic Hygiene Is Discussed At Conference
and research, except, when approved in advance by the commission, hing on the appropriate level as a may do a limited amount of teach-part of his training. A fellow may not engage in any work for remuneration or receive aid from another appointment, fellowship, scholarship or similar grant during the tenure of the fellowship.
Additional information and applications for the fellowship may be obtained from the office of T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, 111 Marvin hall.
Applications should be filed in the office of the Oak Ridge Institute of nuclear studies, P.O. Box 117, Oak Ridge, Tenn., not later than Thursday, Feb. 15.
Women interested in a residence hall scholarship for the second semester may apply before Friday. Jan. 12, in the dean of women's office. 220 Strong hall.
Scholarships Open In Spring Semester
He spoke to state food and drug inspectors and public health department food sanitarians attending an atomic disaster orientation conference at the University.
Aside from the treatment of casualties, the essential public health problems resulting from an atomic blast will be the same as for other disasters, said Dwight Metzler, chief engineer for the Kansas State Board of Health. These are sanitation and the prevention of epidemics.
The sanitation problem would be principally one of purifying water from a bacteriological standpoint and the disposal of human wastes. Metzler said. An atomic blast would have created microbes in sewer lines over a considerable area.
Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, said there will be a few vacancies in Miller and Watkins halls for the coming semester. She said the minimum grade average for freshmen is 1.5 and 1.6 for upperclassmen.
Food protected by a container, even just a tight paper sack, will not be dangerously contaminated by radiation, W. A. McQuary, chief of the industrial hygiene section, reported. "Of course, that means food outside the 1,000 yard radius of the bomb blast," he said. "You just won't have to worry about any food or water near the blast."
Mr. Metzler and speakers from the industrial hygiene section minimized the radiation problem that would face food sanitarians.
Although the food would be safe for consumption, there might be a problem of decontaminating the outside of the container. If the container were of a material with a short radioactive "half life," decontamination could be effected by just letting it sit.
Lee Mayes reported that water contamination by radiation probably will not be a major problem in Kansas since an underwater atom bomb blast is most unlikely.
The water purification methods used by Kansas cities, is still operative after a bomb blast, would remove any dangerous degree of radiation produced by an air or ground level blast, Mr. Mayes said.
BULLETIN
Washington—(U.P.) The state department announced today that Russia, after two years of stalling, has agreed to negotiate an overall settlement of its lend-lease account with the United States.
YWCA, YMCA Will Give Joint Report
Delegates to the joint Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. national assembly will give their report at a joint cabinet meeting at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 7 in the Pine room of the Union.
The three Y.W.C.A. members: Diana Sherwool, education senior; Jane Baker, College junior; and Jean Almon, fine arts junior, attended the policy-making convention during vacation. Miss Dorothy Reinhold and David Riggs, W.Y.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. executive secretaries respectively, also attended the convention.
The cabinets will also discuss joint projects for the coming semester. It will be the last meeting until the second semester.
KU Calendars Again On Sale
A new supply of 1951 K.U. calendards are on sale at the University business office, the Union book store, and in the alumni office, James Gurley, business manager, said today.
Barbara Burdick, College sophomore and member of Chi Omega sorority, is featured as calendar girl in the All Student Council publication which sells for 75 cents.
Also included in the booklet are 25 campus scenes and a calendar of University events. More than 1,000 calendars were sold before the Christmas vacation and the downtown stores have been resupplied.
College Students Are Ignorant Of Geography
Geography, deemed by most educators as vital to good citizen ship, is nevertheless virtually ignored in American colleges a universities, according to a survey printed in the New York Time on Dec. 18.
Faculty Member Receives Award
Awards were given for the best essays appraising the commodity exchange system in America. Winning entries will be published and distributed through educational channels to help establish a broader understanding of the functions of America's free commodity markets, of which the Chicago Board of Trade is the oldest and largest.
Jack A. Wichert, chairman of the University marketing department, won an honorable mention award of $100 in the professional division of the Uhlmann Awards competition sponsored by the Chicago Board of Trade.
The competition was sponsored by the Board of Trade to encourage original research in the field of grain marketing and agricultural economics. Awards were offered by Richard F. Uhlmann, president of Uhlmann Grain company who led as president of the Board who in 1948, 1949, in honor of his father, Frederick Uhlmann, who was an officer and director of the Board.
Three other $100 honorable mention awards in the professional division were given. Judges in the contest ranged from university and financial administrators to business officials and an editor of a farm publication.
Kansas—Increasing cloudiness this afternoon followed by cloudy toonight and Saturday with snow flurries or freezing drizzle over southeast tonight and Saturday morning and snow flurries over northeast and north-central tonight. Colder tonight except in extreme south-west. Colder east and south Saturday, much colder southeast half. Low tonight 12-15 north to 20 south; high Saturday 25 northeast to 28-32 west and south.
THE WEATHER
"Fewer than 5 per cent of the college students in this country are taking even one geography course this academic year," stated the article, "and something under 1 percent of the undergraduates have enrolled in an American geography course."
Dr. Walter M. Kollmorgen, chairman of the department of geography at the University, contributed facts to the survey to show the importance of the average student this field.
Each semester Dr. Kollmorger department gives an examination the beginning course, Fundamenta of Geography. Here are the result as shown by the last examinatic given late in September, 1950:
1. The average student can loc
32 of the 48 states.
2. He can locate two South American countries.
3. He does well to locate foie European countries.
Dr. Kollmorgen said that the facts have already been used in editorial carried in the Baltime Sun and that Collier's magazine is requested permission to quote him in a forthcoming article.
"All but one of the 298 liberal art colleges and universities covered by the survey agreed that every American citizen should have some knowledge of geography. Seventy-eigh per cent held that geography would help students become betterzens."
While only 93.9 per cent of Americans can colleges require a geography course for an undergraduate course the majority of college authors consider geography essential for telltellig citizenship.
"College officials are almost unanimous in complaining that their students are 'woefully ignorant' about questions dealing with geography.
The most embarrassing statement of all to collegiate ranks was this:
Genevieve Lamson, professor of Vassar college, added insult to in jury by saying, "I have found that one cannot take even the most elementary geographic knowledge granted."
The work of the clinic is fully accredited by the American Speech and Hearing association since Professor Schiefelbusch is a professional member of the association.
Richard Schiefelbusch, director of the University speech clinic, said this group of children represents only those needing immediate attention.
The training clinic is an addition to the Green hall speech clinic which has been aiding University students with speech needs since 1941. Miss Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech, started the student
More than 100 children in Lawrence and surrounding communities who have speech defects have been aided by the speech clinic since the fall of 1949. This fall the clinic opened new quarters in Strong annex F.
While aiding children, the clinic serves in training speech correctionists. Advanced speech students work in the clinic and do practice teaching in surrounding schools.
Professor Schiefelbusch also said that it "is now possible to take an undergraduate interest in speech correction and continue on graduate work in the same field."
University Speech Clinic Aids Lawrence Children
Current surveys indicate that between 5 and 10 per cent school children have speech problems that are a source of difficulty in school activities.
The demand for speech correctionists is now much greater than the supply, he pointed out.
clinic and has been a promoter the training clinic.
The training clinic in annex F has two laboratory rooms decorated if an attractive yellow color and equip ped with small tables, chairs, all blackboards. Games add to stude interest as they are aided in the clinic.
The basic technique in instructing youngsters is to teach them to help the difference between correct and incorrect patterns of speech.
One of the most common speech needs of children is sound substitution. An example of this difficulty, the substitution of "th" for "s."
Instructors will describe a flat car on an automobile trip and talk about the "leaky sound" as compared to the "steamy sound" from a train. This method is used to distinguish the difference between the "s" and "z" sound. If the youngster in him understands the differences given some reward.
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Two large mirrors in each room are used to distinguish lip movements for the different sounds. In structors observe the work student are doing with children.
After each individual instruction period, a report of the youngster response is made. The length treatment varies from one to the semesters.