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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1950
-Kansan Photo By Ed Chapin
STUDENTS IN THE Germanic Languages department are now studying via earphones in the department's new auditory instruction laboratory in 502 Fraser. From left to right are: Miss Irma Spangler, instructor inn German; Jeannine Parkerson, College sophomore; Donnalea Steplees, Wanda Strimple, Kenneth Beck, Claude White, and Darwin Sharp, College freshmen. In the recording booth at far right is Robert Sanford, University Daily Kansan reporter.
Auditory Laboratories Make German Easier
By ROBERT SANFORD
One of the most complete auditory instruction laboratories in the country is now ready for use by students in the Germanic Languages and Literatures department.
Located in 502 Fraser, the new laboratory has 20 listening booths where students may study via earphones. The earphones in the booths are connected to a glassed-in recording room containing a short wave radio for live radio broadcasts, several recorders, and outlets for relaking 10 different programs to the booths simultaneously. A language instructor on duty in the recording room acts as monitor for the broadcasts and assists the students with personal instruction.
The earphones in the booths are equipped with volume controls. The booths contain mirrors in which the students may watch their facial expressions when they practice pronunciation.
The laboratory is designed to serve all the needs of the language student. For example, if he forgets what he was supposed to have learned in a regularly scheduled laboratory period, he may go to the new laboratory and hear a wire recording of the forgotten knowledge. If he has trouble in learning certain words, he may listen to records of these words, and listen, and listen until the words are learned. If he has trouble in imagining the language in daily use, he may hear "Voice of America" broadcasts in the language he is studying. These radio shows are recorded for later use in the laboratory.
The student may record his conversation or readings and later check them with an instructor. Correct recordings of all the readings in the textbooks are made and these enable the student to check the written words with the records.
The laboratory enables the department to concentrate on auditory instruction in addition to the visual methods. This method of instruction, which was pioneered by the educational department of the army during the war, facilitates faster learning.
Records in German, Russian Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish are available in the laboratory. The laboratory record library will be added to by purchases and by wire and tape recordings of radio programs.
Linnaean Club Elects Officers
Dr. J. A. Burzle, chairman of the department, said, "With the new laboratory we hope to make the language come alive for the student. If we can do this, one of our prime objectives will be accomplished."
Elmhurst Club Elects
Lewis Goyette was elected president of the American Botanical Science Club in a meeting held Sept 27. Other new officers named were Ivan Joseph Shields, vice-president and Andrea Sperry, secretary-treasurer. All the new officers are graduate students.
Big Class-Man And Wife Learn Of Pictorial Art
Perhaps you have been thinking that there were no really small classes at K.U. Well, there is at least one "small" class which is meeting this term. Total enrollment, two—a man and his wife.
John A. Bannigan, journalism senior, and his wife, Shirley, special student, complete the roster of students in Prof. Raymond J. Eastwood's class, "Introduction to Pictorial Art." This class, designed to give an understanding of the various terms and materials used in the field of pictorial art, originally had four members. However, because the class was not for art majors, three of the students dropped the course. Bannigan was the sole survivor.
It was then Mrs. Bannigan was persuaded to enroll in the course. It is expected that the enrollment will be fairly stable from now on.
Asked what he expected to get out of the course, Bannigan replied, "I believe I will have a better appreciation of art and its concepts when I finish this course."
Mrs. Bannigan also hopes to get a better understanding of art and "to learn various painting techniques so I can paint as a hobby."
Naval Supply Club Receives Banquet
Twenty-six members of a naval supply class were honored by their instructor, Lt. Comdr. W. A. Mann, at a banquet recently.
Lt. Condir. Mann, who feted his spring semester class in the same manner, said his group is the largest of 12 similar classes in the United States.
Thomas Schocken, assistant professor of architecture, spoke on "Communism in Operation." Capt. W. M. Terrell, professor of Naval Science, commented on naval supply.
Dr. Henry Fitch Receives Award For Ecology
Guests included: Mr. Charles Holmes, of Holmes, McGrew, and Peck Real Estate, and T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
Dr. Henry S. Fitch, assistant professor of zoology and resident ecologist on the Robinson Natural History reservation, is the 1950 winner of the George Mercer award in ecology.
The award, presented at the national meeting of the Ecological Society of America, is made annually to a North American scientist for the most outstanding published contribution to ecology, which is the study of living organisms in relation to their environment.
Dr. Fitch won the award with his 84-page technical paper on "Ecology of the California Ground Souirrel on Grazing Lands," published in the American Midland Naturalist.
The studies, made from 1934 to 1940 in the San Joaquin valley, involved the capture, marking and releasing of 1,522 ground squirrels for a total of 15,936 times. Dr. Fritch identified 51,755 separate food items of the squirrels.
Animals that influenced the habits of the squirrels were also studied. Six-hundred and seventy-nine rat-tesnakes were captured, distinctly marked and released, and 156 of these were recaptured 203 times. Ground squirrels were found to be 116 of the 258 prey items found in the snakes. Results of the studies have been guides for more profitable management of western grazing lands.
Dr. Fitch was a member of the U.S. biological survey when he made these studies. He came to the University two years ago and is now conducting a similar study of plant-animal relationships on the Robinson Natural History reservation, seven miles northeast of Mount Oread.
ISA Renames Publication
Liberty Bell, the "Voice of Independents," has replaced Kan-Do as the official publication of the Independent Student association. Robert Dunwell, education junior, renamed the paper because "it needed a lift," explained Richard Krimminger, president of the L.S.A.
Robert Longstaff, director of public relations for the LS.A. edits the paper, which is published when something needs to be brought to the attention of LS.A. members. Publications average three every two months. One was issued orientation week and one the past week.
Positions are still open for reporters, mimeographers, and office workers. Interested students should notify Longstaff.
Classmate's Son Now Her Pupil
"Excuse me, don't you know my father?"
This is not a new girl-meets-boy approach. It was a question directed at Frances Grinstead, assistant professor of journalism, by John Crawford, College sophomore.
During her undergraduate days at the University of Missouri, Miss Grinstead and the elder Mr. Crawford were classmates. Today, through the odd workings of fate, Miss Grinstein is teaching the son of her former classmate the finer points of Communications in Society.
One might draw the moral that it is better to treat the girl next to you in a gentlemanly fashion or your prospective offspring might suffer the consequences.
College Employee Has Surgery
McGrath Employee Has Surgery
Mary Saintevenson, who is
employed in the Coachella area,
underwent major surgery this morning
in Watkins Memorial hospital.
Taxes Will Be Higher Than In War Years
Washington, Oct. 3—(U.P.)—Taxes on United States citizens are going higher than they ever have been before, even in World War II.
It is possible that individual income earners, who will feel a new tax bite this week, will be soaked later with a new kind of tax, toughest of all.
That would be an excess income tax. It would work like the excess profits tax on corporations. All individual income above the average over a stated past period of years would be confiscated, or near it.
For instance: The base could be average income earned in 1946-49. The individual would pay regular taxes on such an income if he continued to earn it. But if his income went higher, the rate would take just about all of the excess.
Taxpayers have had fair warning that the higher rate charged against their pay checks this week is only a beginning of war and re-armament increases.
Secretary of Treasury John W. Snyder said the other day that the average taxpayer "has no notion" of the heavy burden he shortly will have to bear.
Congressional tax experts doubt the Treasury would support such painful levies. But they say the tax squeeze is going to be terrific and that the excess income tax should be mentioned among the possibilities.
President Truman told the nation in his Sept. 10 defense broadcast that he wanted to "pay-as-we-go."
These two powerful figures are talking about 10 years of re-armament and took war. That is what he told into-and maybe a hot war to boot.
But cold war and re-armament alone will hoist taxes beyond all previous levels. The individual and
corporate tax hike voted by congress recently is only the first nibble. It will increase government revenues by about $4,700,000,000, bringing the total on an annual basis well over $42,000,000,000.
A lot of money. But not enough. So congress will get to work in November on an excess profits tax against corporations to raise about $5,000,000,000 more.
Government then would have upward of $47,000,000,000 a year to spend. Still not enough, by a great many billions. With only that to spend in the next fiscal year, government will go in the hole for $13,-000,000,000. The year after we will spend more than that.
Where's the money coming from? An excess income tax, maybe. Or a transactions tax, maybe. A transactions tax takes a percentage of every move by which a raw material moves through industry and trade to the consumer. But a transaction tax pyramids costs and is a bad tax all around. Count that one out.
The individual and the consumer are the same fellow. But the treasury socks him twice, once with an income tax and once with taxes on things he buys. Both taxes are likely to go up from here along with corporation taxes.
There remain, for sure, the three sources of revenue from which the treasury already draws most of its money; individual income tax payers, corporate income tax payers, and consumers.
If they go up enough to cover next year's $60,000,000,000 expenditure the American taxpayer will be hit harder in the pocketbook than ever before. And the next year could be even worse.
That is what is meant by: Pay-as-we-go.
Lecture Boring? Read This And Learn To Enjoy Class
A little more difficult method, but one that, if it is perfected, is the most desirable of all is the head-in-hand method. In this one you place your elbow on the desk with the arm pointing straight up. You then place your head face down in the palm of your hand and proceed to snooze. The teacher may think you are reading your lesson or have a headache.
By JOHN McMILLION
In the sprawled out version you must find a desk with an empty chair in front of you. You place your feet in the other desk, slide down in your chair until you are reclining comfortably on your spinal cord, lean your head back until it is horizontal to the floor, adjust yourself to the monotony of your instructor's voice, and drop peacefully off to slumberland. This is the easiest way to go to sleep but also the easiest for the instructor to catch.
The second method is the head-on-desk. This too is easily detected by the instructor. It is the easiest of various maneuvers to execute and is advisable only for freshman who lack the necessary experience to try the harder methods. All you do is place your head on your arm and lay it on the desk. Your arm supplies the cushion and the desk offers plenty of support.
There are several effective methods of doing while in class. They are: (1) The sprawled-out-over-two-chairs method; (2) The head-on-desk method; (3) The head-in-hands mode; and (4) The head-erect type.
One of the finer and more skilled accomplishments of the average American college student is his or her ability to sleep in classroom's. This is an art that is cultivated from the moment the lad or lass, usually the former, enters college until he reaches perfection his senior year.
The objects of sleeping in class are threefold. First you must get as much sleep as possible in fifty minutes. Second you must do so while giving the teacher the appearance that you are wide awake. Third you must be sure to wake up when the bell rings.
The most difficult method and the one that shows you have reached the highest peak in the art of class sleeping is the head-erect method. The idea here is to sit straight up in your seat with your head stiffly erect. You must be seated where the teacher cannot see your eyes. It takes years of practice to be able to sleep this way without allowing your head to nod.
One of the finer points of class sleeping is the ability to hold your pencil in your hand while sleeping without allowing it to drop. When you have accomplished this you can consider yourself one of the best of classroom sleepers.
Practice, practice, and more practice is what is required of an average college student to become a perfectionist at class sleeping. However some natural talent is needed and you positively must have the inborn ability to wake up at a certain hour to enable you to make your next class.
Geology Movies Will Be Shown
The first showing of a 25 minute kodachrome motion picture entitled "Jayhawkers In Colorado" will be given Monday, Oct. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in room 426 Lindley hall. The films will be shown by Dr. R. P. Dreyer, chairman of the department of geology at the University.
The movies were taken last summer at a field trip near Canon City, Colo., sponsored by the geology department. They also include some aerial photographs of the Royal Gorge, taken from a plane piloted by Dr. Dreyer. The movies are shown in conjunction with the regular meeting of the Geology Club.