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University Daily Kansan
47th Year No. 135
Thursday, April 27, 1950
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
—Photo by Frankie Waitu
ON A FIELD TRIP at Baldwin hill these entomology students are looking beneath rotten logs for horned Passalids.
The students above, from the entomology class of Miss Kathleen Doering, associate professor of entomology, are on their first of three field trips to be taken during the semester. Left to right: William Gordon, John Twente, Allene Wenke, Raymond Beamer, professor of entomology, and Robert Bottoms. All are College seniors except Gordon who is a College junior.
Entomologists Open House Friday To Show Rare Insects
Field trips train students to observe live things first hand as they live in their native habitats.
When the campus casanova kissed a coed, his stomach might flutter instead of his heart if he knew that her rosy lips were colored with crushed bugs. The Cocchineal insect, which lives on the Prickly Pear cactus, is the source of the red color in cosmetics. Originally the insect was used by the Aztec Indians to make red dye.
Students will have the opportunity to see this and other interesting insects at the open house exhibit of the department of entomology on the main floor of Snow hall, from 1 to 7 p.m. Friday. This collection is the largest in any university entomological collection in the world.
There are between 2 or 3 million specimens in the Francis Huntington Snow entomological collections. A large number of these will be included in the display. Both live and "pin" exhibits from all over the world can be seen.
And this is all because a harrassed construction foreman 90 years ago told a nosey sidewalk supervisor to quit bothering him, and go hunting, the University can claim the largest university entomological collection in the world.
"So Dr. Snow took the foreman's advice and went hunting, and that was the beginning of Snow entomophagy." The chener declared with a straight face.
According to Charles Michener, associate professor of entomology, the bothersome onlooker was Dr Francis Huntington Snow, chancellor of the University from 1890 to 1901, and founder of the museum.
Dr. Snow made his "hunting trip" into an annual affair and each summer took a group of students to different states to collect insects. The practice is still carried on each summer. The present expeditions are headed by Dr. R. H. Beamer, professor of entomology, and curator of the museum.
Dr. Snow's first expedition went with the purpose of collecting any and all kinds of animal life. Now the field trips are organized and have a specific assignment to study a certain type of insect.
Secured under close guard to protect the visitors will be numerous human body lice. These vicious little parasites will be displayed under microscopes so the public can see them. A demonstration will show how they are fed on a rabbit. They will also be placed under light which excites them and causes them to go through various contortions.
For the picnicker and woodman will be a close-up view of their most president source of irritation, the chigger. Contrary to common belief however, it is not the adult but the larva which embeds himself so solidly into the skin.
Many common fantasies can be disproved by the lectures and explanations that accompany the exhibit. Among these misconceptions are ones such as: the black widow spider will attack you, a tarantula can jump as high as a man's head, and that scorpions are deadly poisonous. All these are strictly "poppy-cock."
The most colorful and largest exhibits will be those of the butterflies and beetles. Numerous pinned specimens of butterflies of brilliant hues will be displayed.
In addition to the displays short talks will be given and movies will be shown. One of these will be a twenty minute film entitled "Beneath our Feet". It will show the dramatic struggles of the insect world that go on around us every day.
A familiar friend of the fisherman will be the black fly which will also be on display. This small inhabitant of the North American woods is known to all would be anglers by his painful and vicious bite.
One of the outstanding exhibits of the Medical Entomology dept. will be the one on Tuleramia, or Rabbit Fever. This disease is transferred from one rabbit to another by insects and these have been isolated. Ticks and lice are the most common of these carriers. As many as 100,-000,000 Tuleranima organisms have been found in a single tick.
More than 50,000 species are now in the collection. These insects range in size from pin-point creatures to the large rhinoceros beetle, some of which are six inches long. These beetles are the most ferocious looking in the collection. They have long black curved horns two or three inches long, which they use in fighting their enemies.
Of the many bugs in the collection about 1,000 have red labels instead of the customary white ones. This signifies that insects in this group are extremely rare. In some instances they are the only known specimens.
Clarence E. Ridley, director of the International City Managers association, Chicago, Ill., and Asher K. Christensen, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, will be honored at a dinner in the Kansas room of the Union at 6 p.m. today.
One of the more interesting of these rare creatures is the black scarab beetle which was once worshipped by the Egyptians.
Both men are discussion leaders at the third annual City Managers' school being held Wednesday through Friday at the University. They will give brief informal speeches following the dinner.
City Managers Will Honor Two Tonight
"The ancient Egyptians used to worship the sun and since the scarab beetles produced round balls of
Perhaps the most valuable specimens in the collection are the tiger beetles or Amblychila cylindriformis. Records show that Dr. Snow, who had a reputation as a shrew businessman, once received $40 for a single pair of them from a university in Germany.
dung, the were worshipped by the Egyptians who associated the roundness of the balls with the sun." Professor Michener commented.
Fifty-four persons from nine states have registered for the managers' school.
All of the insects are classified and labeled with the name of the collecter, date and place found printed on small cards. The smaller specimens are impaled on special steel pins imported from Czechoslovakia.
Another specimen which draws a large number of "ah's" and "ohs" from museum visitors is the gold-bug, which was made famous in the story by Edgar Allen Poe.
SAM Visits Glass Factory
Museum tours will be conducted each half hour during the open house.
The Society for the Advancement of Management is visiting the Fiberglass corporation in Kansas City, Kan., today. The 15 persons making the trip left from the Student Union at 12:30 p.m.
The group will see the various products of the factory, and the processes of making and handling glass.
Students Will Be Counted Here
A student at or above college level will be counted in the census where he resides the greater part of his time.
if a student lives "five days a week in Lawrence and week-ends of Lawrence" he will be counted in Lawrence, explained Glenn Kappelman, crew leader for the west half of Douglas county. Those commuting to Lawrence will be counted at those points. It is not likely that a student living in Lawrence will be counted outside the city even if he votes outside.
Some students are asked a few questions and others many. Why? Kappelman, a political science graduate student, pointed out that "every fifth person is used as a sample", who must answer not only general but particular questions.
In Lawrence the census districts have been unequally divided according to political wards. As a result wards two and three comprise most of the students and are exceedingly heavy. Even with late reports on these two wards, the Lawrence census is expected to be completed the first part of May.
Co-working with Kappelman is Malcomb Pfautz, second year law student and crew-chief for the east half of Douglas county. Out of 24 numerators in Douglas county, seven are University students.
KU Man Is Nominee For Elks Award
Joseph E. Balloun, business junior from Russell, has been selected to represent Kansas men students as a candidate for an Elks National Foundation scholarship, it was announced recently by the selection group headed by Wynne W. Ester of Gorham.
Other Kansas students honored were Norma Lou Fallette, high school senior at Arma, to represent Kansas women students; and Miss Beulah M. Fisher, a student at the state school for the blind in Kansas City.
15 Cheerleaders Are Chosen For Next Year
Nine cheerleaders and six alternates were chosen at the final tryouts Wednesday to serve for the 1950-51 school year. The 10th cheerleader is yet to be named from the Ku Ku pep organization.
The cheerleaders named were Donovan Hull, College sophomore, head cheerleader; H. Thomas Payne, College sophomore, assistant head cheerleader; Patricia Ames, College junior; Patsy Landes and Sydney Ashton, education sophomores; Beverly Jennings and Warren Cook, College sophomores; and Albert Gorsky, College freshman. Judith Buckley, fine arts sophomore, representing the Jay James pp organization completes the group of principals.
The six alternates selected are Max Whitson, Shirley Strain, and Nancy Lichty, College freshmen; Grace Endecott, fine arts freshman; and Nancy Anderson, College sophomore.
25 Will Be In 'Our Town'
Twenty-five students have been chosen for the cast of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" to be presented in the Little theater of Green hall Tuesday, May 16, and Wednesday, May 17.
More than 50 persons tried out for this first three-act play to be given by the University Players laboratory theater. Scenery and lights will be brought from Fraser theater and will be remodeled to fit the smaller stage. Don Harling, College senior, will direct the production.
Those in the cast are: Ernest Coombs, Thomas Welch, Richard Grey, Ronald Sundbye, Betty Sage, Phyllis Clegg, Thomas Payne, Carolyn Oliver, Ray Berry, Ann Nelson, Robert Allen, Harvey Jetmore, Katy Coad, Edward Lynn, Barbara Donovan, Glenn Helgesen, Melba Cantrell, John White, Lee Stone, William House, Louise Hamilton, Nona Prettyman, and Leah Ross.
Kay Conrad will handle properties, and Mary Beth Moore will be prompter.
Math Club Hears McDuffie
Math Club Ree's McDuffie
C. C. McDuffie, professor of
mathematics at the University of
Wisconsin, discussed "Lorenzian
Transformations" with members of
the mathematics club Tuesday.
Annual Music Week Will Present Recitals By Top Artists and KU Festival Chorus
Music Week at the University will begin at 11 a.m. Sunday when the Lawrence churches will make a special recognition during the regular church services.
The high spot of the week's activities will come at 3 p.m. Sunday when the University Festival chorus, directed by Donald M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, will present Giuseppe Verdi's "Requiem." Dean Swarthout and the Festival chorus have been preparing the mass since the beginning of the spring semester.
Rudolph Ganz, for more than 50 years a concert pianist, will present a recital at 3 p.m. Monday in Strong auditorium. There will be no admission charge.
At 4:15 p.m. Monday, the annual Fine Arts banquet will be held in the Kansas room of the Union. Mr. Ganz will be the principal speaker. Other speakers on the program will be Dean J. B. Smith of the Kansas
City Art institute, Kansas City, Mo.
Prof. Alexander Tillotson, chairman of the art department at Washburn university, Topeka; and Dean Swarthout. Guests will be limited to 200 persons. Tickets may be obtained at the fine arts office in Strong hall.
The annual young American artists program will present Miss Frances Magnes, violinist, who will play a recital at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Strong auditorium. No admission fee will be charged.
Leonard Warren, Metropolitan Opera company baritone will appear in a recital in Hoch auditorium at 8:20 p.m. Wednesday. His recital is included in the University Concert course.
Thursday will be devoted to the organists. At 9:30 a.m., the American Guild of Organists, Kansas chapter, will hold a meeting and organ recital in Hoch auditorium.
At noon Thursday, the Lawrence Kiwanis club will hear a talk by E. Power Biggs, concert organist from Harvard university. At 2 p.m., the Guild of organists will continue its meetings at the Congregational and Methodist churches.
The guild will have a dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday in the English room of the Union. Swartwhout will attend the Charity Carers in Church Music—a Retrospect."
Mr. Biggs will give an organ recital at 8:20 p.m. Thursday in Hoch auditorium. Admission is free.
Music Week will close with a concert presented at 8 p.m. Friday in Hoch auditorium by the Lawrence Public schools.