B TWELVE
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27,1950
Pictured above are Margaret Gartner, Nola Houston, and Nina Pearson, pre-nursing students.
Prospective KU Nurses Get Chance To Evaluate 'Glamour' In Nursing
By INA JAHR
The first pre-nursing students to return to Mount Oread after a summer of study and experience at the University of Kansas Medical Center are looking forward to their return there in February. The eight-week preclinical summer session makes it possible for the prospective nurse to determine well in advance whether it was glamor or judgment that let her to nursing study.
In the past the preclinical course was taken just before entrance to the clinical studies. Now, she can find out sooner whether the sight of blood is too much, or whether her humanity is equal to her ambition in this field.
The three girls who were "guinea pigs" for the new method were Margaret Gartner, Coffeyville; Nola Houston, Overland Park; and Nina Pearson, Tonganoxie. In addition eight hours of bedside nursing each week, the girls made visits to the Mary Taylor Tuberculosis hospital, the central supply room and operating room at the Medical Center, and to community, social, and health agencies.
Nola Houston found a day spent with a visiting nurse the most interesting part of the summer. "I wouldn't have believed there was such utter poverty in Kansas," she said. "One poor old lady didn't even have a mattress for her cot. But somehow the visiting nurse made her comfortable." She enjoyed even the miles of walking between cases so much that she's sure she'd like to be a public health nurse.
Margaret Gartner, Coffeyville, found hospital nursing most interesting. "I thought the emotional factors in illness were fascinating. And of course the various illnesses affected people's personalities in different ways. It was grand, I thought, to be a member of the hospital team." She added that one of
the days she remembered best was the first day she wore "that cute starchy blue and white uniform."
Clearly, the summer had been a busy one. Classes in nursing arts and professional adjustments were taught by Mrs. Orah McCormick, instructor in nursing arts, and by Miss Jean Hill, director of the nursing school. Each student selected a particular patient to study each week and wrote a paper discussing medical and nursing care as well as health teaching and plans for convalscence.
But there was also time for recreation, especially bridge and conversation in which to compare experiences with other nursing students.
Each of the girls entered the clinic with a patient and stayed with her through the entire visit. With occupational therapists, they helped the children at Bell Memorial hospital write letters to their parents or make little gifts in order to keep each child in touch with his home.
"I loved working with children," Nina Pearson commented. "I hope that some day I can do orthopedic nursing—that's working with people, mostly children, who have bone disease or deformity." As an office assistant to Dr. C. C. Weaver, orthopedic surgeon, for several weeks after the summer session, she feels that she learned enough of the field to know that it would be challenging and stimulating.
Although east coast nursing schools have tried the pre-clinical summer successfully, the University of Kansas is the first in this area to use the plan. Miss Sara Patterson, coordinator of the nursing program, said today, "We feel that this brief over-all view of nursing will mean easier adjustments when the student begins her twenty-eight month clinical service."
Engineering Grads To See Progressive School Today
Alumni of the School of Engineering and Architecture, here for the homecoming festivities, will see an expanding and progressive engineering school at their alma mater.
Ranking as one of the best of engineering in the country, it now stands at the top of the per-fermentor list who have their biographies listed in the latest edition of "Who's Who in Engineering."
Dean Carr believes that by incorporating the departments of engineering and architecture into one school, the individual students in engineering can learn something from architecture students and vice versa.
Since engineers and architects must deal with public works, enterprise, and industrial problems of many types, the technical training has become broader in spirit and scope. Class and laboratory exercises in technical departments are
The School of Engineering and Architecture offers undergraduate and graduate work in architecture or in one of the divisions of engineering such as architectural, aeronautical, civil, electrical, mining geological, mechanical, metallurgical, petroleum, chemical, or in engineering physics.
T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, said "The aims of this school are to have every student who is graduated take with him the maximum knowledge he has the ability to acquire, and to build character and good citizenship."
planned to give the scientific basis on which the graduate may build.
on which the graduate may The school's publication, "The Kansas Engineer," is done entirely by the students. It is in its 34th consecutive year of publication. A quarterly publication, it is edited this year by William S. Gartung, engineering junior.
Of the 1.246 students now enrolled in the School of Engineering and Architecture, 10 are women. Engineering and architecture are good fields for women because their pay for comparable work is the same as that of men, Dean Carr said.
Each year hundreds of letters are sent to the dean's office offering employment for recent graduates and students who will graduate at the end of the term. Many firms send representatives to the school each year to interview seniors and offer them employment. Dean Carr handles many of these opportunities personally by maintaining contact with firms throughout the United States.
The school makes a special endeavor to secure jobs in the Middle West for graduates. In the past few years, the trend has been for a greater number of the graduates to work in the Middle West.
the seniors make one or more field trips each year to Middle West
industries connected with their respective interests.
"But the main things in the school are study, the development of initiative, clear constructive thinking, and good judgment," Dean Carr said. This is backed up with laboratory work and engineering shop practice.
As now constituted, the curricula within the School of Engineering and Architecture provide for bachelor of science and master of science degrees in 12 departments. In addition to the degree granting departments, the departments of applied mechanics, engineering drawing, a shop practices offer courses of study.
"Recently the Engineering Council for Professional Development, the top accrediting organization for schools of engineering, announced that eight of the degree granting departments of the School of Engineering had been accredited. These eight departments and the department of architecture, which was accredited last year, keep the School at the top of the list," Dean Carr said, "with few schools having the honor to have so many departments accredited."
Dean Carr, the faculty, and the students extend a very cordial invitation to all alumni and friends to visit the School of Engineering and Architecture and inspect its facilities.
The various departments of the school are open to visitors until 6 p.m. on week days and until noon on Satdays.
School Of Business Becomes Major Unit At University In Quarter Of A Century
It has taken only a quarter of a century for the School of Business to become one of the most important and active schools of the University, and one of the most famous institutions of its kind in the country.
Authorized in June, 1924, the school rapidly developed into one of K.U.'s top schools. On Homecoming it is expected to get one of the biggest alumni groups.
When it was established, it only prepared graduates for positions involving business responsibilities of either a general or departmental nature. In recent years the school has attempted to direct graduates toward public service as well as private business.
The departments, although only part of the big organism of the School, have done independent research and practical work in their special fields. In the department of secretarial training, the newest models of electric typewriters, accounting machines and other electromechanical equipment have been added to the collection. This department is especially designed to prepare students to fill one of two types of positions, namely executive secretary or teacher of secretarial subjects.
The Business Placement bureau last year assisted many of the graduates in their efforts to find the proper location and secured business positions in their fields of interest, ability, and college preparation.
Most of its fame outside the campus the School owes to its Business Research bureau. Under the direction of Paul E. Malone, it made an extensive study of the economy of 19 southwestern Kansas counties last year. The details of this study were discussed in the counties concerned by Dean Leonard H. Axe, Mr. Malone and other faculty mem-
Red Peppers To Sell At Homcoming
Red Peppers will sell pennants for the Kansas-Nebraska game, Oct. 28, from 11 a.m. to game time, Nancy Gilchrist, president, announced.
Red Peppers' attendance at games will be checked by 19 monitors recently elected to each of 19 sections in the group. Red Peppers are to report to these monitors before each meeting begins.
They will also serve coffee and doughnuts in the Union from 10 a.m. to noon and after the game until 5:30 p.m.
Uniforms are to be worn every Friday before a game.
South Bend, Ind.—(U.F.)—Maurice Vennet says it's surprising what people use for money—in parking meters. Vennet's maintenance crew have found steel washers, lead slugs, dime-sized buttons, street car and bus tokens, fiber-board disks, steel tool checks, clock gears, children's cardboard play coins, and the round head of a key filed to the size of a nickel.
Odds And Ends Fill Meters
Wolf-Calls Are An Old Law Custom
The chorus of wolf-calls and whistles that emanates from the Green hall bleachers as pretty young ladies stroll by is an old custom that dates as far back as 1904, a search of old records reveals.
Various reasons have been offered as to why the law students engage in this strange pastime. Ervin Grant, president of the senior class of the Law school asserts that lawyers are forced to study so hard that they must relieve the extreme pressure on their cerebrum. However, he admits it is also largely a biological matter.
One of the chief complaints of the law students is that a great many of the girls sneak along the path behind the law school or cross the street to the Fraser hall side. Measures have been taken to combat these unfair practices however.
The location of the law school has a great deal to do with the mass whistling every noon. The majority of the women students must pass by the school during the day.
For one thing poison ivy has been planted by the law students along the walk behind the building. Also a suicide patrol has crossed treacherous Jayhawk drive and secured themselves on the opposite curb to combat the flankers.
One of the law students pet practices is to whistle "Here Comes the Bride" whenever a couple walks by holding hands. This usually results in the victims acquiring a pained expression and accelerating their walk to just short of a dead run.
Whenever two girls come by escorted by a single male (this in itself is a dangerous practice) the lawyers instantly swing into a melodious version of "The Third Man Theme."
Another trick of the future shysters is to count the steps as a girl walks into Green. They all chant in unison as she ascends and the usual result is that she speeds up until she trips on the last step.
There are several women law students and these young ladies assume their position on the steps of Green the same as the members of the so
called stronger sex but they direct their wise cracks and bird calls at the hapless males that are passing
Grant cannot understand why the engineers do not engage in a similar pastime from their vantage point at Marvin. He gave what he believed was the explanation however, when he said, "Engineers are not capable of doing this because they are weak and unorganized. However we lawyers have learned to look on them with kindly affection and sympathetic indulgence."
One of the outstanding hecklers is Fredd Bennett, 2nd year law student. Last year Bennett possessed a small imitation lizard. Whenever a young lady passed by Fredd would take out on a dead walk right in front of the lass with the lizard held before him at eye level. Mass confusion usually resulted.
Most of the lassies probably secretly enjoy the attention which they receive. At least the law students declare, years of research have shown that the swing of their walk has increased.
bers. Once this study is completed, others are to follow.
Enrollment is below that of Spring 1950 this year. The difference is a result of an unusual high number of graduates last summer. Some of them already have accepted business and economics teaching positions at several universities in the country.
The School's many-sided program for next year includes the highlight of all its social events, the Business School day, which will be held on May 9, 1951. It will be proceeded by the second Executive ball on March 10, 1951 in the Union building. It is intended to make it also an annual event.
To the various clubs, associations and professional sororities and fraternities, a new organization has been added: "The Future Business Leaders of America." The traditional speech series in the clubs will be continued by talks of important and outstanding men of American business life. There are field trips to nearby cities, parties, and picnics are planned.
The most active organization? the school, the "Business School Association", will publish two issues of the J-Hawk Business News this year, Gene Balloun, president announced. So it strives to meet the responsibilities it has as the greatest among the six organizations of the school.
To raise the interest of high school students, and to advise them in finding the right way to and through studies of economics and business, Dean Axe and Gene Balloum will soon visit Kansas high schools.
Wife Forgets Detail
Memphis,Tenn. (U.P.)—A co-worker of James Pulley and his own version of "The Egg and I." At lunch time he pulled an egg from his paper sack and cracked it on his knee. It spattered all over him. His wife had forgotten to cook it.
Trapped In A Manhole By Car
Boston (J.R.)—Announcement for the loud-speaker at a Boston museum club: "Will the owner of auto with license number K99920 please go out and move your car? You are parked over an open manhole and the repairman would like to come up and go home."