University Daily Kansan
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday, March 14, 1950
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Leland Stowe To Talk In Hoch On Wednesday
Leland Stowe, Pulitzer prizewinning reporter and lecturer, will speak on "Are We Wasting Our Billions Abroad?" at an all-student convocation at 9:20 a.m. Wednesday, in Hoch auditorium.
During World War II, Mr. Stowe served as a correspondent with the armies of seven nations while visiting 44 countries. He is now European editor for the magazine, The Reporter.
Mr. Stowe last spoke at the University in 1948.
Meeting time for Wednesday morning classes will be as follows:
8 a.m. classes meet from 8-8:30
a.m.
a.m. classes meet from 8:40-
9:10 a.m.
Convocation from 9:20-10:30 a.m.
10 a.m. classes meet from 10:40-
11:10 a.m.
11 a.m. classes meet from 11:20-
11:50 a.m.
12 noon classes meet from 12:00-
12:50 p.m.
Troupe To Give Plays In Fraser
"The Taming of the Shrew" and "Julius Caesar" will be presented by the Margaret Webster Shakespeare company, Monday, March 20 and Tuesday, March 21, in Fraser theater.
Louisa Horton, Kendall Clark, and David Lewis, professional stars, will be featured in the plays. Miss Horton appeared in the Broadway hit, "The Voice of the Turtle" and in the screen version of "All My Sons." Mr. Clark has played opposite such stars as Ethel Barrymore, Ina Claire, and Tallulah Barkhead. Mr. Lewis appeared in last season's production of "Macbeth," given at the University by Miss Webster's company.
Tickets are $2 each. They may be obtained by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope including choice of performance and seating arrangement, to the ticket office, Green hall. The ticket office will be open Thursday for those wishing to buy tickets in person.
The Margaret Webster Shakespeare company appeared at the University the past spring and presented "Macbeth." This season the company is appearing in 34 states, giving 300 performances.
Barr To Discuss Ministry Problems
Problems related to the ministry will be discussed at a pre-theological dinner meeting of the Y.M.C.A. 6 p.m. Thursday, in the Palm room of the Union. The Rev. Harold G. Barr, dean of the School of Religion, will lead the discussion. He will be assisted by the Rev. Richard Albert. Lutheran minister.
Students interested in attending should phone reservations to the Y.M.C.A. office by 5 p.m. Wednesday.
WEATHER
KANSAS—The weatherman said spring-like weather is on the way back to Kansas.
It will be fair and warmer tonight and Wednesday. The low temperatures tonight will range from 28 in the northwest to 35 in the southeast. Wednesday the high temperatures will be in the 60's.
Slides of Paris To Be Wednesday
Colored slides of Paris will be shown to French students at 4 p.m. Wednesday in 113 Strong hall. Commentaries on the slides will be made by R. G. Mahieu, professor of Romance languages.
The slides were only recently received in this country.
Anyone interested is invited.
Council Ruling Bans Serenades
Further fraternity serenades were banned Monday by members of the Inter-Fraternity council.
The proposal of banning serenades has been before the council for several weeks. To take their place an inter-fraternity sing is being considered. This would be held sometime this spring with an award being given to the winning fraternity. Two years ago an inter-fraternity sing was held, which Phi Delta Theta fraternity won.
A plan to change the procedure of rush week was also discussed. Under this plan rushing activities would be finished before the college aptitude and placement tests were given. It would also limit the number of times that a boy would be able to attend rush week ends at one fraternity during the school year.
The annual inter-fraternity stag party was scheduled for Friday, March 31. It will be held in the Big Seven room of the Eldridge hotel, and entertainment will be brought from Kansas City.
Barr Speaks To Delegates In District Church Meeting
Harold G. Barr, dean of the School of Religion, spoke to more than 100 delegates of the Northeast district convention of Kansas Christian churches Monday at the Lawrence First Christian church.
The general theme of his talk was "Let Us Go."
University Officials Hope For More Bradley Game Tickets
An Editorial
The Ticket Mystery
Once again the student has been pushed to the back of the crowd.
At 8 a.m. Monday 2,600 tickets to the Bradley-Kansas basketball game went on sale at the Robinson ticket office. There was no announcement of any kind made to students of the sale. By 9:45 a.m. the clerks closed the windows and put up a sign which read "Sold Out—There Will Be No More."
In addition to these through-the-window sales, tickets were at the same time being sold by telephone and mail orders were being filled. There was no attempt made either in the Robinson sales or the telephone or mail sales to distinguish student from outsider.
Here is the box score of ticket sales:
1600 sold over the counter in Robinson to anyone who wished two tickets. No attempt was made to identify ticket buyers or prevent them from re-entering the line.
500 sold by mail or telephone, presumably not to students.
200 reserved for the basketball squads, coaches, and athletic board members. (There are 18 men on the basketball team, 25 on the freshman squad, 14 board members, and 15 coaches.)
300 were sent to the Kansas City alumni.
There is an explanation due the students for this bilking on three counts;
1. Why was there no announcement to the students of the ticket sale?
In answer to the question, "Wha will the association do for me?"
2. Why were telephone and mail sales permitted without it at least explaining the situation in the open?
3. Why wasn't there proper identification required of the ticket buyers?
Two months later Marvin Small assistant alumni secretary, returned from Iola with the lost niece's address in his vest pocket. With a little snooping and a chat with a K. U. alum, the lost was found. The girl had been married and was living in a small Kentucky town with her husband and two children
It is to be hoped that in any subsequent games K.U. may participate in this year, or in the future, an attempt will be made at a fairer distribution. After all, ticket sales should not be well-kept secrets. Warren Saas,
Malone To Speak Wednesday
As the years passed Mr. Ellsworth received many letters from Illinois wondering if anything new had "turned up." This fall he noted in the latest query "One of her roommates lived in Iola perhaps-"
Advertising techniques will be discussed by John Malone, instructor in journalism, Wednesday. Mr. Malone will talk to pharmacy students in the drugstore management class.
Warren Saas Editor-in-chief.
Alumni Association Begins New Member Drive Today
To a senior graduating this spring, the idea of getting lost seems pretty absurd, and the idea of joining the Alumni association just a waste of time.
However the following story will illustrate the far flung duties of that organization which starts its membership drive this week.
Five years ago, the Alumni association received a letter from a man in Illinois who was searching for his niece. He hadn't heard from her since she graduated from K.I. in 1942. He had written everywhere including the state department in Washington, but with no luck.
By means of the association's address files Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, was able to contact the girl's former landlady and even found some of her professors, but finally he had to give up in defeat.
Marvin Small would probably say,
"It won't do a thing unless you want
to know what's going on around
here the rest of your life; unless
there's a place in your 'ol heart for
K. U.—"
If there is any reluctance Small continues, "Well, where are you going to be settling down? Some town in Kansas maybe? Did you know that there will be a K. U. club there that will be throwing dances for alums, bringing in movies of the K. U. football games, and just in general keeping that K. U. spirit around where you can get in on it."
"Besides that, you'll be getting the Graduate magazine every month during the school year. This way you'll be in touch with what's happening on the Hill, who's winning the football games, and each issue is crammed with news of your classmates and other K. U. friends."
Nixon Talks On Minerals
In the drive all organized houses are being contacted and seniors who live in private rooms will receive "Join Up, It's a Good Deal" literature this week. Seniors who aren't contacted should ask in the alumni office, 226 Strong hall, for further information about the Alumni association.
The production of non-metallic industrial minerals other than fuels in Kansas is increasing more rapidly than any other group, as Kansas becomes conscious of the desirability of increasing home industry to develop a sounder economy.
This was the conclusion reached by Earl K. Nixon, geologist of the State Geological survey, at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers in New York recently. In his paper entitled "The Nature, Value, and Age Relations of Kansas Industrial Mineral Products," Mr. Nixon gave current production figures and analyzed the potentialities of the mineral resources of Kansas, both in value and in usefulness.
He reported that the three major topics discussed at the meeting were: 1, the necessity of inventorying the mineral resources of the United States; 2, the present significant transition from solid to liquid and gaseous fuels; and 3, the suggestion by the government that percentage depletion in the petroleum and mining industries be reduced.
Chancellor Returns From Capitol Trip
Chancellor Deane W. Malott returned to the University Monday from Washington, D.C., where he attended a meeting of the business advisory council of the United States department of commerce.
The meeting was held Wednesday and Thursday. Chancellor Malott has been a member of the council since 1944.
By KEITH LESLIE
Officials of the University athletic office were conferring today with Kansas City Municipal auditorium officials in the hope of obtaining additional student tickets for the K.U.-Bradley basketball game.
E. L. Falkenstien, athletic business manager said today that no assurance can be given that tickets will be procured, but if they are, notice will be given through the University Daily Kansan to the student body. The game will be played Monday, March 20.
Mr. Falkenstien indicated that additional sales to the students would be given only upon sufficient identification.
Initial sales to the K.U.-Bradley playoffs were made to the students Monday on a first-come, first-served basis. No announcement was made before the sales.
Of the total of 2,600 ticket sales, 1,600 were sold to those persons who appeared in line Monday morning, 200 were allocated to players and administrators of the athletic office, 500 were distributed to persons who had phoned to the athletic office previous to the date of sale, and 300 were sold to K.U. alumni by phone and mail order, Mr. Falkenstien explained.
Members of the athletic board and players include 18 team members, 25 freshman squad members, 14 on the administrative staff, and 15 coaches.
Each person who appeared in line Monday was allowed two tickets, Mr.Falkenstien said. No attempt to identify the students was made, and sales were made to townspeople.
A number of tickets have been saved for band members, but it is hoped that tickets for them may be obtained in addition to the number received for other students.
"One reason why the number of tickets was sold to townpeople and alumni, is that the public feels that the K.U. student has been allowed to attend at least one-half of the home games and in many cases more," Mr. Falkenstien explained. "They feel that they are entitled to see the team at the play-off.
Bradley university, Peoria, Ill., also was allowed 2,500 tickets. Bradley university has a student enrollment of 3,600 as against Kanssa' $7,200
"No announcement was made because we believed that nothing would be gained by such. Students would still have lined up in large numbers and we still have the same number of' tickets, announcement or no."
"Decisio is on the number of tickets to be given to participating colleges and universities are made by the N.C.A.A." Mr. Fulkstenstien said. "Individual college annual university officials have nothing to say in the matter."
Co-op Discussed At YWCA Meeting
Henley house as an inter-racial project of the Y.W.C.A. was discussed by Mrs. A. H. Turney, president of the Y.W.C.A. advisory board, at an executive and cabinet board meeting Monday.
The installation banquet for new Y.W.C.A. officers will be held Thursday, April 6. Janice Horn, fine arts sophomore, is in charge of the banquet committee.
W. C.W.A. elections will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday in Fraser hall and the rotunda of Strong hall.