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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1950
Science—This Time A Kiss-Tester
By Arthur Schaaf
A kissing trophy is just the thing
on your trophy room.
Sunday afternoon at 3 the electrical engineers are offering a kissing trophy "in the interest of more and higher quality kisses" to the men's organization amassing the highest team score.
Fraternity teams, pick-up teams, or single couples may enter, but every man must provide himself with a partner.
The bussing contest will be held on the second floor of the electrical engineering laboratory during the Engineering Exposition. Visitors and sightseers are welcome even if they don't want to try for the prize
So step up and pucker up at the Engineering Exposition where the electrical department's kiss-testing machine—the Nuclear Transmutational Oscilometer-carefully scores the passion potential of caressing lovers.
Built from parts of five old pinball machines, plus incidental bells, flags, relays, and wires, the contraption classifies curious kissers into five categories—experts, lovers, reckers, buddies, and lousy.
IF A BODY KISS A BODY—Running up a big score on the Nuclear Transmutational Osculometer (kiss testing machine) are Mary F. Hercules, business senior, and Theodore W. Tober, pharmacy senior. In the center, with an unidentified bystander peeking over his shoulder, is Richard H. Harris, engineering junior, who is operating the machine. Maurice M. Mandelkehr, graduate electrical engineering student and designer of the osculometer, beams proudly on the left. Mandelkehr will award a trophy Sunday, April 23 to the men's organization getting the highest team score in the kissing competition.
An "expert" rating entitles the lucky couple to a triumphant sainte of banging and clanging, a brilliant display of flashing light bulbs, a two flag tribute, and a signed certificate designating the holder an "Omnipotent Osculatory Operant."
The 1950 model has been completely rebuilt and Mandelkehr proclaims it a complete success. Built by Bert D Gordon, engineering sophomore; Allen Edward Green, Jr., engineering senior, and Mandelkehr, the new model made its debut at the Kansas City Electrical Progress show March 9-12.
Designed by Maurice M. Mandel-Pear, graduate electrical engineering student, the first model of the machine was assembled three years ago. Difficulties and short circuits set in to prevent it from being a success. A second edition was put together just before the Engineering Exposition last year. It didn't work either.
A couple being kiss-analyzed both hold an electrode in each hand as they embrace. When their lips touch the circuit is closed, a small current flows between them, and the score mounts.
The secret of a good score lies in the eagerness with which the partners enter into the embrace, Mandelkeir pointed out. A bashful peck will net the participants a derisive "lousy" on the sensitive machine. The harder the couple kisses, the more current flows between them, and the higher their score.
An apprehensive attitude toward the contraction can boost a couple's score, Mandelkehr said. That is, if the anxiety causes the partners' hands to perspire. The perspiration serves as an electrical conductor and ups the count.
up the couch. Big, hulking he-men needn't think they can run up a high score over their skimmer, shorter compatriots.
"At Kansas City Electrical Progress show," Mandelkehr said, "a tubby little sailor had one of the best scores of all. He was nervous, and afraid he wouldn't do very well, so his hands perspired and helped him get a terrific score."
Lipstick tends to lower the score by acting as an insulator. The greasier the lipstick, the better the insulation, and the lower the score. For best results excess lipstick should be removed before taking the test.
In 1925 Dr. Henry Gibbons scientifically defined a kiss as, "The anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicular oris muscles in a state of contraction."
Science gallops on, hup, hup!
Plug me in and pucker up!
(Editor's note: This is the first in a weekly series of questions and answers appearing in the University Daily Kansan pertaining to campus problems about which students may desire to express opinions.)
This week's question was: "Should the chancellor have veto power over the All Student Council?" The following answers were given:
Carol Crow, College junior: "Yes. I think that the chancellor should have power to veto the All Student Council bills. So many of the proposals that are put before the A.S.C. are so trivial and unimportant, and so many of them would be passed if there were no one to check on them, that I am glad there is a power of veto. Besides, I'm sure that Chancellor Malott must have good reasons for vetuing the bills. Students are not as likely to use good judgment in matters concerning themselves as an adult is."
Mrs. Shirley Bannigan, special student: "I do not think that the chancellor should have the veto power over the A.S.C. With the absolute veto that is now in effect, the Council is a farce and 'rubber stamp' instead of representing the will of the student body as it should. Any absolute veto is dictatorial and has no place in a democratic institution. If the chancellor is to retain this power, let's dissolve the Student Council and stop being hypocritical. Of course, the junior politics will be frustrated, but I think the school will be better off."
Kenneth L. Allen, College junior: "Certainly, it's impossible for any form of government to function effectively and fairly without some system of checks and balances. This is especially important in the case
override the chancellor's veto. I believe if the Council were to be granted this power it would not abuse it. It would add strength and unity to the organization on the Hill."
James Lowman Childers, College sophomore: "It is necessary to have a more mature mind to keep things from getting out of hand. In view of the youth of present freshmen and the relative youth of the upper classmen, I don't believe they are able to govern themselves as well as the fading veterans could."
Kansan Photo by Bob Blank
William Taggart. College sophomore: "I think he should have a restricted, but not a complete veto power. With veto power similar to that of the president of the United States, the chancellor would be able to prevent legislation by a small majority which might be regretted later. However, with a decisive majority (three-fourths of the Council) the Council should be allowed to
of the A.S.C. which is composed, for the most part, of representatives who are not quite mature enough to efficiently carry out their duties without some type of guidance."
MEMBERS OF THE CAST of "West of Abilene" to be given Tuesday, May 2 through Friday, May 5 in Fraser theater are left to right: Roy Hadley, Hugh Eberle, Donald Little, Louise Lambert and John Wesley; center: James Hawes.
Miss Lambert, owner of the Last Chance saloon, is trying to find out whether Hawes, the bartender, is Snake McCoy.
Sorority Urges Safe Driving
By BILL CHAPMAN
There is a lesson being taught at the University.
There is a lesson being taught at the University. It's not a lecture by one of the professors, but a series of talks by some of the students.
It's not a course and there is no grade, but if you flunk, it may have a final ending.
The lesson is "Drive safely—it can happen to you."
Ever since an auto accident on March 14 in which two members of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and their escorts were killed, the women in the house have felt they ought to do something about it.
Money was given by the chapter to a memorial scholarship fund, in memory of the girls; Joyce Diller, College freshman from Salina, and Janice Kollmann, College junior from Kansas City, Mo.
Still the chapter members thought they hadn't done enough. They felt they ought to do something more.
A delegation called on Chancellor Malott. They wanted a letter sent to the State Highway commission at Topeka. He wrote requesting that the scene of the accident, the intersection of U.S. 50 and K-10 highways just west of Kansas City, be better marked.
Still they had the feeling they hadn't done enough. That was when they decided to start teaching safety.
For the past few weeks members of the sorority have been called in pairs on women's organized houses on the Hill. There they chat informally with members of other organized houses and remind them that it isn't always the other person who gets hurt or killed.
"We want to make people conscious of the fact that it can happen to them. When some one close to you in your everyday living dies in such a horrible way it makes you stop and think," said Carolyn Weigand, president of the K.U. chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta.
"The reason we are visiting the women's houses is to make them remember what can happen the next time they are out riding.
"We feel that if the girl asks her date to slow down to a safe driving speed, he will out of respect for her. It is better to be late getting in than to have an accident and not get there at all." she went on.
"Before we are through, we want to talk to all women on the Hill. It is our idea that maybe our talking to them will prevent other women from losing friends as we have."
Art Ford,ROTC Captain And ASC Committee Head
lord was born in Louisiana but moved to Kansas City, Kans., several years before entering the University in 1946. He is a captain in the R.O.T.C. and has been named a distinguished military student. This honor entitles him to a commission in the regular U. S. air force pending graduation in June.
He likes the University and Kansas but feels that there is room for improvement in some respects. As far as racial discrimination goes, "there isn't enough difference between Kansas and Louisiana for Kansas to brag about."
Being chairman of the smoking committee may not be the most popular job on the Hill, but after all, rules do have to be enforced believes Arthur Ford, College senior, who became the smoking committee head last fall. He represents the Negro Student association on the All Student council.
"In Louisiana the Negroes say 'yes sir' to the white man," he said, "but so what? Right here in Lawrence in the movie theaters we are set off in reserved sections as if we were on exhibit."
The smoking committee has studied old smoking rules and surveyed old buildings which might be hazardous if smoking were allowed in them.
A bacteriology major, Ford hopes to do research in bacteria warfare if he joins the air force.
Ford said that discrimination by University students and faculty members is practically nonexistent as he knows. "It's after we leave the Hill that we run into trouble. Outside the Union there is only one decent place we can go for entertainment and relaxation."
When Ford was president of the Negro Student association in 1948, he and some friends talked personally with several cafe operators near the campus about allowing Negro students to eat there. "One owner was worried about the social relations between the Negro men and the white women," said Ford, "but he did propose opening a place in the basement for us.
Ford says that cafe owners in Lawrence seem to think that if Negro trade is accepted their business would fall off. "I don't believe this is valid, at least where University students are concerned. Students don't stay out of classes or the Union when we are around. If the eating places would drop the
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racial bars, people would soon used to it. You can tell that to the owner but he always counters with, I don't want to be the first to try it.'
"Certain of the student organizations at the University exclude Negro students from membership. The Pan-Hellenic and Inter-fra-ternity councils are both closed to Negro students. In some campus organization, however, the Negro takes a back seat, not because he is denied membership, but because of lack of interest."
Ford said that he has heard of discrimination in the class room against the Negro students but that he has never run into it personally and doubts that much prejudice is displayed in the K. U. classrooms.
Woman Bags Biggest Deer
Augusta, Me. — (U.P.)—A woman nimrod bagged the biggest deer shot in Maine during 1949. Mrs. Merle Dwyer of Orient used only a single shot to set the record—a 12-pound 358-pound buck.