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O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F K A N S A S
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Lawrence. Kansas
Juniors May Study Abroad For KU Credit
Beginning with the next school year, students in the College may study abroad and receive University credit during their junior year provided they can meet necessary requirements.
Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, said that the College faculty decided at its last meeting to appoint a standing committee for the Junior Year Abroad program.
The duties of the committee will be: 1. The making of contacts and arrangements with sponsoring groups. 2. The selection of students for participation. 3. The assisting of students and their major advisers in planning the work of the Junior Year Abroad. 4. The providing of publicity for the program.
Dr. J. A. Burzle, chairman of the German department, will head the committee on the program. He said that an applicant for study abroad must be of excellent character, show seriousness of purpose, be pleased to work generally qualified to represent the American college student abroad.
To meet the requirements a student must have a grade point average of 1.5 and adequate preparation in the foreign language required. Each student's program must be approved by his major department and the dean of the College. Any exemption from College requirements must be approved by the administrative committee of the College faculty.
The student must have the consent of his parents or guardians and their approval of the financial arrangements unless the candidate has an independent income. The student must also accept the supervision and authority of the "professor-in-charge," an American professor who is resident with the students throughout the year and who superintends all work.
Fifty-five colleges and universities in the U.S. have such programs functioning today. They have formed the American Council on the Junior Year Abroad. The Council determines recognition, academic standards, scholarships, finance, and publicity. While some of the schools operate their programs independently, K. U. will join with a Junior Year group from some other school. Groups are now set up in France, Italy, Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland.
According to a report submitted to the College faculty such a plan would cost the student between $1,400 and $1,800 plus travel expenses and "a reasonable amount of pocket money." This program has been approved by the Veteran's administration for those under the G.I. educational plan. Financial aid through scholarships is available.
Dr. Burzle pointed out that the Junior Year Abroad is intended for mature and responsible students who are interested in the language, history, and civilization of a foreign country, or who desire to specialize in one of the liberal arts, fine arts, or social sciences.
The program seeks to bring the student face to face with the peoples of the world thus leading to "an appreciation of other national backgrounds and of the essential unity of Western civilization."
KANSAS—Frost or freezing temperatures over the state tonight. Low temperatures 25 to 30. Fair this afternoon, tonight, and Wednesday, cooler in east tonight, warmer Wednesday. Strong northerly winds this afternoon, diminishing tonight. High Tuesday in 60's.
WEATHER
Students desiring more specific information about the plan should contact Dr. Burzle.
Bitter Bird Asked To Discontinue
The management of the Bitter Bird, campus humor magazine, has been asked to discontinue publication by Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, and Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of men. The following statement was issued jointly by Dean Habein and Dean Woodruff Monday:
"We have asked the management of the Bitter Bird to discontinue publication. This action has been taken because two years' experience has indicated to us that there is a place on the campus for only one humor magazine.
"For at least 30 years the Sour Owl has been the humor magazine at K. U. It's present connections with the School of Journalism permits a continuity of policy and management which appears to be essential to the success of such a venture. Lack of such continuity has been responsible for many of the difficulties encountered by the Bitter Bird."
Jayhawk To Get Resurfacing Job
Jayhawk drive from 13th street and Oread avenue to West Campus road will be resurfaced as soon as contracts can be drawn up and let by the state architect's office.
The board of regents at a recent meeting authorized $53,000 for the project and other repaving projects for University streets.
A hot bituminous mat will be used on all the streets to be repaired. Mississippi street will be repaired from 13th street south to near Watson library. The drive in front of Fraser and Blake halls and Watkins Memorial hospital will be resurfaced.
At Mississippi street and Jayhawk drive, the intersection will be widened and paved on the northeast corner. The road from the Jayhawk drive circle to the entrance of Memorial drive will be widened and resurfaced. Completion of the parking apron on West 16th street to Michigan street is also planned.
J. J. Wilson, business manager, said that the weather would largely determine how fast the job could be done after the contracts are let.
The board of regents also authorized the removal of a skylight from Spooner hall. Tile will be used for re-roofing.
Phone Strike Still Unsettled; Rail Strike Off
Chicago, April 25 — (U.P.) — The government struggled today to head off a nationwide telephone strike after winning an agreement from locomotive firemen to postpone a strike against seven railroads for two weeks.
Chairman Francis A. O'Neill of the national railway mediation board won a promise last night from the brotherhood of firemen and engineer- men to hold off its strike until 6 am. on Wednesday, May 10.
Meanwhile, O'Neill will meet with the union and the railroads in Chicago in an attempt to reach a permanent settlement on the union's long-standing demand for an additional fireman on multiple-unit diesel engines.
U. S. conciliators scheduled last ditch meetings at New York this morning with representatives of the C.I.O. Communications Workers of America and various divisions of the American Telephone and Telegraph company.
The telephone strike was scheduled for midnight tonight. The railroad walkout had been set for 6 a.m. Wednesday.
50 Years In Bailey To Be Celebrated Friday
With barely 13-1/2 hours to go, the mediators were attempting to prevent a strike by 200,000 A.T.&T. employees that could tie up most of the nation's communication system.
At the banquet in the evening several alumni and friends of the department will deliver short speeches. Invitations to visit the campus and tour the fifty-year old structure have been sent to alumni of the School of Pharmacy, the chemistry department, and other colleges and universities in the area.
The C.W.A., in 24 separate negotiations, has attempted to win what amounted to a 15-cent per man package increase.
But even if the mediators succeeded in postponing the big C.W.A. strike, it was highly probable that an unofficial walkout would start at 6 A.M. tomorrow in each time zone due to a separate strike by 11,000 equipment installers who are members of C.W.A. division 6.
Fifty years of occupancy in Bailey Chemical laboratories will be celebrated Friday, by the chemistry department and School of Pharmacy, Dr. Ray Q. Brewster, head of the chemistry department announced recently.
The installers struck Monday over a grievance involving television construction workers at South Bend Ind. Today, however, the installers officers said the strike involved wages.
Dr. Wendell M. Latimer, professor of chemistry at the University of California, will give two speeches as part of the day's program. Dr Latimer will talk at 4 p.m. in 305 Bailey, and again at a dinner in the Kansas room of the Union building.
The installers planned to set up picket lines at 6 A.M. tomorrow and to begin "jamming" telephone lines with an excessive number of calls.
In that case, members of the C.W.A. were expected to honor the picket lines even if their own nationwide strike had been postponed.
Dr. Latimer is the leading chemical consultant on atomic energy to the national government. He will speak on the relations of the principals of the hydrogen bomb and the energy of the sun and stars. His talk is entitled "Astro-Chemical Problems in Formation of the Earth."
Visitors will be taken on conducted tours of Bailey chemical laboratories by members of the following student organizations: student affiliate chapter of t he American Chemical society; Alpha Chi Sigma, professional chemical fraternity; Phi Lambda Upsilon, honorary chemistry fraternity; and the student affiliate chapter of the American Pharmaceutical association.
Bailey Chemical laboratories, known in earlier days as "Bailey's barn," was erected around 1900 when out of an urgent need for building facilities lawmakers appropriated 55 thousand dollars for the structure. The aged building was officially dedicated to Edgar Henry Summerfield in 1938, a former instructor of chemistry at K.U. who did much for the development of the department before his death in 1933.
Vogt Will Address Honor Convocation
William Vogt, naturalist and author; will speak at the 27th annual Honors convocation at 9:20 a.m. Wednesday in Hoch auditorium. Mr. Vogt, author of "The Road to Survival," will speak on "Our Need for Conservation."
WILLIAM VOGT
Budenz Testifies Secretly Today
Washington, April 25—(U.P.)—Louis F. Budenz goes before senate investigators today for a grilling on his charge that Red leaders regarded Owen Lattimore as a secret—and disciplined—communist.
The one-time communist editor, now an economics professor at Fordham university, testifies at a closed session of a senate foreign relations subcommittee today. He will be asked to give names, dates, and places.
Present at the hearing will be Lattimore and the man who has accused him of being the top Soviet spy in this country—Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, (R., Wis.)
Lattimore will receive another "day in court" at an open session tomorrow.
Subcommittee members want Budenz to spell out these assignments specifically. In addition, he has promised to supply the names of at least 20 communist writers who contributed to the magazine Pacific Affairs while Lattimore was its editor.
Budenz testified last Thursday that he did not know Lattimore personally, but that his fellow Reds told him during his communist party days that the Johns Hopkins professor was under their discipline. He was told, he said, that Lattimore was a member of a communist espionage cell and got "assignments" from top party leaders.
The controversy over government loyalty files that has slowed the investigation from the start broke out in a new form.
But McCarthy has insisted the files will furnish proof for his charges. But President Truman has defied a subcommittee subpoena for the records and has refused to open them.
Subcommittee chairman Millard E. Tydings, (D., Md.) said he made three trips to the White House to discuss the issue. He said he found the president "ready, willing, and anxious" to turn over the files to the senate's investigators, but that F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover protested vigorously that this would break down the organizations investigative procedures.
At the convocation the University will pay tribute to its outstanding students. A printed convocation program will list the names of the upper 10 per cent of the senior class in all schools. The leading student or students in the junior, sophomore, and freshman classes will also be recognized on the printed program.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will read the names of those students newly chosen for membership in the honorary fraternities and sororities at the University. Until a year ago it was the custom for an anonymous selection committee to select a member of the past year's graduating class for being the outstanding student. No such selection will be made this year.
The speaker to address Wednesday's convocation has been warning the world and the U.S. in particular that unless we make an about face on our wildlife and cultivable land policies the world faces mass starvation.
In 1948 Mr. Vogt was appointed chief of the conservation section of the Pan-American union. This union has been called the first "international conclave" to define and begin to solve the relationship between populations and resources.
After winning an Inter-American fellowship Mr. Vogt studied climatology in Chile from 1939 to 1942. The War department called on him during the war as expert consultant on South America. In 1942 he became the associate director of science and education for the office of Inter-American affairs.
Soon after becoming editor of "Bird Lore" in 1955 he edited Audubon's "Birds of America." In "Road to Survival" Mr. Vogt says that our past is catching up with us, and now while there is still time we must turn our attention and our efforts to preserving the strength and productivity of our still "lusty and fruitful land." He received his bachelor of arts degree from St. Stephens college (now Bard) at Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., in 1925.
In his conservation studies he has travelled more than 100,000 miles in North and South America. Mr. Vogt holds to the idea that men cannot live happily and permanently on this planet except in "ecological harmony with the wildlife."
The Girl's Glee club, directed by Miss Irene Peabody, associate professor of voice, will sing "Song of Merriam" (From). Reinhold Schmidt, associate professor of voice, will sing the baritone soo. The University band, directed by Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra, will play before and after the convocation.
Inter-dorm Plans Election, Banquet
Women's Inter-dorm will elect officers on Monday, May 1, and will hold the installation banquet Monday. May 15.
Candidates for office are Diane Johnson, College junior, and Patricia Kennedy, College sophomore, president; Melva Lutz, College junior, and Evelyn White, education junior, secretary-treasurer; Doris Kendall, and Johnnie Shafer, College sophomore, social chairman. Runner-up for the presidency will be vice-president
All girls living in dormitories who would like to be counselors next year are invited to attend a counseling breakfast Saturday morning, April 29.