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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1350
K.U. To Enter Four Programs Offered By State Department
The University has been invited to participate in several training programs recently announced by the state department. Chancellor Deane W. Malott has appointed a committee to screen local applicants with Francis H. Heller, assistant professor of political science, as its chairman.
Three programs are being operated by the state department and one by the United Nations. The United Nations' program is a summer internship for which the United States will send three to five students to Geneva, Switzerland, for on-the-job training with U.N. agencies in that city. Good knowledge of French is a prerequisite. Eligibility is limited to college students completing their degree work this June and graduate students.
Professor Heller explained that the U.N. will pay an allowance for living expenses while in Geneva but transportation to and from Switzerland will have to be paid for by the student. The University may name one candidate for this program. As the candidate's name has to reach the state department before Friday, May 5, anyone interested should contact the committee at once. Professor Heller said.
The three programs carried on by the state department are a year's training in Washington, work for the state department in Washington during the summer months only, and participation in a seminar on foreign affairs.
Selections for the three programs will be made in the second week of May. Students and faculty members desiring to be considered should get in touch with Professor Heller, by Saturday, May 6.
Two students may be named by the K.U. committee as candidates for the year-long internship program only seniors and graduates will be eligible. As department state department selection board will select about 25 individuals from the nominees of the participating universities. After their year's training in Washington they will have an opportunity to enter the service of the state department through the appropriate civil service examination. Trainees will be paid $2,850 a year, and may after the first six months, receive a raise to $3,210 a year.
During the summer months only, the department will take 15 undergraduate or graduate students as student assistants. They will have
an opportunity to work on current and routine assignments, on all levels of departmental activity. Lectures and group discussion meetings will be arranged for them to intensify their contacts with the problems and operations of American-foreign policy. They will be paid about $9.25 a working day.
Eligible for this program are students completing the junior year this June, seniors who are definitely planning to return to school in the fall for graduate work, and graduate students who will return to school for continued study in the fall. There is a maximum age limit of 30 on both this and the internship program. Each participating university may nominate one candidate for the summer student assistant program.
The state department is also sponsoring a "Professor and Student Summer Seminar on Foreign Affairs." An opportunity will be given advanced seniors, graduate students, and faculty members under 40 to pursue research on one of a number of topics listed by the department. This seminar will be conducted from July 10 to September 1. No monetary grants are available for this program. KU, may name one student and one faculty member to participate in it.
Other members of the committee are H.B. Chubb, professor of political science, and Leland Pritchard, professor of economics. Major study qualifying for consideration may, in addition to the departments represented by the committee members, be in history, geography, foreign language and culinary psychology, ect. Knowledge of foreign languages is required only of those applying for the U.N. program.
The nominating committee plans to interview all those who appear interested and qualified. Only those selected will be required to furnish supporting documents with a formal application. For the purposes of the local committee, it will be sufficient to indicate interest to Professor Heller.
With A Song In My Heart' Musicale Is Presented By Sigma Alpha Iota
An American musicale, "With A Song In My Heart," was presented by Sigma Alpha Iota, honorary music fraternity, April 21.
Kitty Walter, fine arts senior, sang two numbers, including the spirited "Miranda." She enunciated very well in both numbers.
A popular duo piano number, "Night and Day" (Cole Porter), was played by Miss Barr and Carolee Oeberhart, fine arts freshman. The audience especially liked the numbers, which she played back for an encore, for which they played the short, fast-moving "Jamatea Rumba."
The theme song, "With a Song In My Heart," written by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Lynt and arranged by Marilyn Barr, fine arts sophomore, opened the program. It was sung by the chorus and followed by two other chorus numbers, "Thou Art the Night Wind." (Harvey Gaul) and "Wing Tee Wee" (Goefrey O'Hara).
Lois Bradfield, fine arts sophomore, played a piano solo, "Scherzo" (Charles Griffes). The number consisted of the right-hand playing a melody in a minor key accompanied by the left and vice-versa, in a crossed hands technique. It had an abrupt, invasive ending.
The alto section of the chorus carried its part exceptionally well in a short selection, "Water Colors" (Water Color), expression and good dynamics; the chorus also sang the plaintive "Things" (Bernardine Road, fine arts senior).
Margaret Granger, College junior, was selected president of Student Union activities for the 1950-51 school year by the Union Operating committee.
ly flat on the latter, "The Song Is Ended." written by Irving Berlin and arranged by Miss Barr, was sung by the chorus with good dynamics as the closing number.
Mary Lynn Lucas, fine arts senior,
sang "Seasons" (S. R. Gaines) and
"My Lover He Comes on the Skee"
(Clough-Leighter).
With precise timing, the chorus next sang "Hi Jinks" (Adalgath Morrison) and "The Rose of S.A.I." However, the alto section was slight-
The other officers chosen are: Paul Coker, Jr., vice-president; Patricia Ames, secretary; and Curtis Coffey, treasurer.
Granger Heads Revised Union
The S.U.A. was reorganized to include eight directors, to replace the present committee chairman, who will be responsible for the individual projects. The directors will be chosen by the four officers of S.U.A. plus five members of the Union Operating committee appointed by the president. The board of directors will include the four officers and the eight directors.
Margaret Granger
Miss Granger announced that directors' petitions may be obtained at the Student Union office beginning today. All applications must be returned by noon Saturday
The following persons have been appointed to the advisory committee for S.U.A.: L. C. Woodruff, dean of men; Miss Martha Peterson, assistant dean of women; Ernest Friesen, College senior; Harold Edmondson, engineering junior; and Mary Helen Baker, fine arts senior.
Dean Woodruff has become temporary chairman of the Union Operating committee following the resignation of Ogden Jones, geologist, wate. laboratory, because of ill health. Robert Bennett, first year law, was appointed temporary secretary.
WEATHER
KANSAS: Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with thundershowers in northeast and extreme east this afternoon. Tuesday partly cloudy and cooler in east; fair and somewhat warmer west. Low tonight 30-35 degrees northwest to 45-50 degrees southeast; high Tuesday 60-65 degrees.
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No Human Can Stop Life On Earth, Geologist Says
No man should presume that anything he can do will terminate the biotic history of the earth.
"Fundamentally such predictions are unworthy of a scientist. They are, indeed, an indication of a lack of prospective and a lack of faith."
That was what Dr. Robert M. Dreyer, chairman of the geology department said at the ninth lecture in the "Atomic Energy and Man" series.
"The geologist knows that the natural forces of an earthquake or a volcanic eruption involve the production of energy of such stupendous magnitude as to dwarf any conceivable manifestations of man-made energy."
Dr. Dreyer described the principal minerals used in the production of fissionable materials and enumerated the known sources of them in the world. He pointed out the fact that although uranium and thorium, the most important elements used in the production of atomic energy, are present in 159 minerals, there are only three common minerals mined to supply them.
Dr. Dreyer traced the course of monazite, the principal thorium mineral, from the original magma
The Belgian Congo, Canada, the United States, and Czechoslovakia supply the world's demands for uranium. India and Brazil are the principal thorium sources.
of molten rock, to its eventual deposition in the black sands of Travancore, India. Until 1947, these deposits were mined to obtain titanium dioxide, a pigment used to color paint white. In that year both the government of India and of Brazil put embargos on this mineral. Citing the Smyth report on atomic energy, he said that thorium could be used in the production of atomic energy, but that uranium was preferred because it was susceptible to both fast and slow neutron bombardment. Thorium was susceptible only to fast neutrons.
This mineral would probably become more important as the need for fissionable material increases.
He then described the characteristics of the two principal uranium minerals, pitchblende and carnotite, and quoted some of the known production figures from the four primary sources of the world's uranium. Up to 1940, only between 4,000 and 5,000 tone of uranium had been produced, mainly for the radium content.
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