University Dailu Kansan 47th Year No.107
Monday, March 13, 1950 Lawrence, Kansas
O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F K A N S A S
STUDENT NEWSAPER.
Groups Record School Songs For May Sale
Quiet please. Are you ready, professor? Selection number one. "The Crimson and the Blue," tape two. Terse, snappy statements like this echoed through Hoch auditorium for 5½ hours starting at 2 p.m. Sunday while 285 musicians recorded University pop songs.
The Recorded Publications company made the recordings from which the R.C.A. Victor record company will print the records. The University Men's Glee club, band, and chorus sang and played all of the songs recorded. The songs will be put on three unbreakable records in album form and will be on sale at the Union book store sometime in May.
The chorus, directed by D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, started singing at 2 p.m. from the stage. Microphones were sticking up on chairs all over the stage. The mikes all led into a closet-like room at the east end of the stage to the tape recording machine where the recording engineer, James Stewart, kept each section properly toned down if it became too loud.
When the chorus was to start, the engineer gave the go-ahead. The singing would begin with everyone tensely listening for the sound of scraping chair, a loud voice, or a dropped book. If any sound materialized, the singing would stop and the recording would start again.
The Men's Glee club carried the biggest load, singing three songs by themselves and three with the band.
After a recording was completed it was played back. If Dean Swarthout and the engineers were satisfied, all was well. I not, all was done over.
Mr. Stewart, one of the recording engineers, said the acoustics in the auditorium were not too good and this slowed down the recording time. The new $30,000 curtain in Hoch auditorium was lowered to within seven feet of the stage floor to aid in overcoming the acoustical problem.
The band and the Men's Glee club started on their numbers before 6 p.m. The students decided against taking a break for dinner. They finished work at 7:30 p.m.
Mr. Stewart said other universities are making the same type of recordings. His company has recorded for musical groups at Yale, Colgate Mississippi university, and Stenbens college.
The engineers said they would edit the tape recordings Sunday night and send the usable tape by plane to the R.C.A. Victor company in Camden, N.J. The company will make sample pressings and send the results on a record to a committee here for approval. The records should be back in 10 days.
Fred Ellsworth, Alumni association secretary, is head of the committee which has sponsored the making of the records.
Manuscripts To Be Read At Quill Club Meeting
The Quill club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the home of Thomas Sturgeon, instructor in English, who is faculty advisor for the club.
Manuscripts will be read by John Arnold, graduate student, Charlotte Shidler, special student, Jane Schmidt and Wilson O'Connell, College juniors.
Music Class To Take Trip
Students in Dr. Elin Jorgensen's class, Music Methods 163, will meet, 7:30 a.m. Tuesday in front of Strong hall for a field trip to Kansas City, Mo. The class will travel by University bus, and will visit general music classes and attend a radio performance.
Women May Vote For AWS Officers
All women regularly enrolled in the University may vote for Associated Women students senate offices today in the rotunda of Strong hall or Fraser hall. Voting booths will close at 5 p.m.
Contest Opens For Journalists
Entries from high schools throughout Kansas are being received for the 30th annual high school journalism contest sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information. March 31 is the contest deadline.
Material may be entered in any of 11 divisions: news story, editorial feature story, human interest story, interview, sports story, news and feature pictures, retail advertisement, service to school, business management and miscellaneous.
Instituted by L. N. Flint, professor emeritus of journalism, the purpose of the contest is to recognize and encourage the excellent work being done in journalism in Kansas high schools.
More than 400 entries from 58 high schools were received last year. Judges are the members of the faculty of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information and announcement of the winners will be made April 17.
Mortar Board To Meeting
Seven schools were represented at the district Mortar Board conference at Missouri university, Columbia, Mo. March 11. Mrs. Stanley Ginn, national president of Mortar Board, and Miss Eleanor Knoll, section director for the schools were speakers who attended.
Those who attended from the University were Mary Helen Baker, fine arts senior; Peggy Baker, education senior; Mabel Conderman, business senior; Ruth Keller, journalism senior; Louise Lambert, College senior; Edith Malott, College senior, and Joyce Rohrren, fine arts senior.
Other schools represented at the conference were the University of Illinois university, Kansas State college, Knox college, Galesburg, Ill.; University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, and Washington university, St. Louis.
Italian Operas Will Be Given At 8 p.m. Today
The Charles L. Wagner "opera a-la-carte" company will present the two operas, "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "I Pagliacci," at 8 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium.
A substitute concert to take the place of the late Ginnette Neuve, violinist who was killed last fall in an airplane crash, the two operas were chosen because of the enthusiastic reception to the "Barber of Seville" presented the past spring.
The two operas have been appearing together for almost 60 years. Both are short; "Cavalleria" is written in one act, and "Pagliacci" in two. Neither is considered "heavy" although both deal with a tragic plot. The themes are similar in that they deal with peasant life in Italian villages.
The leading roles are sung by young American singers, many of whom are performing opera for the first time. The scenery is new this season, and an experienced group of musicians is traveling with the company to provide orchestral accompaniment.
Season tickets marked Ginnette Neveu are valid for today's performance.
Top Scholars Hear Reports
The guilty mind of the criminal was the topic of the paper presented by Robert L. Davis, first year law, at the Summerfield banquet Thursday. He also discussed the defense tactics of showing insanity or irresistible impulse.
Students Buss,Fuse Blows As 'Kiss-O-Meter' Gives Up
Davis analyzed the Sander "mercy-killing" case and showed that the basic problem for the jury was one of causal relationship between the air injection and Mrs. Borroto's death. He also discussed Kansas law covering "mens rea" or criminal intent.
They remarked that many questions were asked about Clyde Love-lovelle, K.U.'s high-scoring basketball player, and the K.U.-Kansas
Edward Huycke, first year medicine, presented a paper on recent developments in medical science which permit nerves to be severed in order to relieve pain.
Dr. Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, was toastmaster.
Miss Myers and nine other Jay Janes acted as guides at the exposition.
KANSAS—Mostly cloudy, continued cold today with few scattered snow furries. Tomorrow partly cloudy, somewhat warmer.
THE WEATHER
Bells rang, flags popped up, and the fuse blew out on the kisso-meter as two University students demonstrated the machine at the Electrical Exposition of Progress in the Municipal auditorium, Kansas City. Mo.
The machine was part of the University electrical engineers' exhibit at the Kansas City show.
Margery Myers, fine arts junior, and Edward Green, engineering junior, were the guilty osculators. When told what had happened to the kiss-o-meter, Miss Myers replied, "I sure didn't know we blew the fuse." A picture of the couple appeared in the Friday Kansas City Star.
State game. Also, much interest was shown in the movie "Your University," which ran continuously, and in the K.U. architects' model house exhibit.
Two Jay Janes arrived at the exposition at 11 a.m. each day and worked until 11 p.m. Those who participated were: Miss Myers, Jacqueline Baum, Marian Graham, and Shirley Sondker, College seniors; Ruth Keller, journalism senior Yvonne Bryan, Joan Holazpfel, and Natalie Logan, education juniors; Jeanne Neihart, fine arts sophomore; and Katy Coad, College sophomore.
KU To Play Bradley In NCAA Game
By NELSON OBER
Kansan Sports Editor
When the first five-minute overtime period ended with the score standing Oklahoma 52, Kansas 49, the Sooner fans began to crowd their way out of the fieldhouse. Not all left though. The word had gotten around that the selection committee was going to meet immediately.
Gardner Moans As KUIs Picked
BULLETIN
Converging on the Kansas City Star office, they chanted: "we want McBride's hide," but their trip to see C. E. McBride, sports editor of the Star and one of three members of the committee which selected K.U. over the K-State team, was in vain.
Kansas City, Mo., A delegation of about 75 Kansas State college students made a hurried 120-mile trip to Kansas City, Mo., today to voice their disapproval over the selection of the University of Kansas to represent the Big Seven conference in the NCAA basketball playoffs.
Ringing cowbells and shouting for "justice and a playoff," the mixed crowd of students carried signs that told their story.
"K.U.'s most valuable player— McBride," read one. Another asked: "Is this politics or the Big Seven?"
Manhattan, Kan., March 13—(U.P.) - Basketball Coach Jack Gardner of Kansas State college today wanted to know why the N.C.A.A. district five committee snubbed his team in selecting the University of Kansas as the Big Seven conference's representative in a playoff March 20 with Bradley.
The only N.C.A.A. official authorized to satisfy Gardner's curiosity, Committee Chairman Bruce Drake of the University of Oklahoma, had gone fishing.
In a telegram to Drake, coach of Oklahoma's basketball team, Gardner asked:
"How can you ignore our record and arbitrarily select Kansas university? We ask that the committee either reconsider its selection to rectify this gross injustice or resign and place the matter in the hands of the N.C.A.A."
He took exception to the committee's argument that Kansas' strong finish in the conference entitled it to a national title in the N. C.A.A. tournament.
"If I read Saturday night scores correctly, Kansas State beat the first place team while Kansas was losing to a fifth place team," Gardner retorted. "Does this indicate Kansas finished strongly?"
Gardner scoffed at the committee's reference to the two conference games played between the two cams in which Kansas beat K-State by 10 points whereas K-State whipped Kansas by only five.
he said the committee obviously forgot that K-State, in averaging 67.5 points per game, had broken Nebraska's record set in 1949 by 11.3 points, and that K-State had whipped Baylor, Southwest conference champion and tournament representative of that section, 78 to 30.
He mentioned, too, that K-State had drubbed Drake's own Oklahoma quintet, 75 to 45, and produced a new conference scoring record in a single game by smashing Iowa State, 99 to 57.
can't help but feel if there is an injustice we will win out," andor said.
The score of the Kansas State-Nebraska game had been announced over the public address system earlier, so it was obvious there were three claimants to the Big Seven championship flag.
The Jayhawkers, in the dressing room, were resolutely going through the motions of showering and dressing. A hundred or so persons stood outside on the court floor waiting for the word from the selection committee. There were some doubts as to whether any final decision would be made that night.
Bruce Drake, Sooner basketball coach and chairman of the committee, was there. So was Artie Ellers, Missouri Valley conference representative of the committee. But C. E. McBride, sports editor of the Kansas City Star, was not present.
Coach Drake later issued a statement on the unanimous choice of the Jayhawkers by the three-man selection committee.
Small groups stood quietly talking over the game or speculating on who would be chosen to meet Bradley in the district five play-off.
A few got tired of waiting and left. Dr. Allen and the team came out of the dressing room, walked across the court and left the field house.
E. C. Quigley, athletic director stood with a group of other men talking with Reeves Peters, Big Seven secretary.
Then at 10:20 p.m. Bruce Drake appeared on the floor. Just one word went around, "Kansas."
Drake and Eilers had held a telephone conversation with McBride and had reached an unanimous devision as to which of the three conference winners would represent the Big Seven in the National Collegiate Athletic association fifth district play-off against Bradley university, Bradley is the Missouri Valley conference champion.
"After careful consideration of the records of Nebraska, Kansas, and Kansas State, the fifth district selection committee unanimously selected the University of Kansas to represent the Big Seven conference in the playoff game against Bradley university March 20 at Kansas City. Mo
Most of the people who had stayed in the field house were Jayhawkers. What little celebrating that was done was cut short when the field house floor lights were turned out.
"The Big Seven faculty representatives had previously voted unanimously that there would be no Big Seven play-off, thus leaving the decision entirely to the selection committee.
"The factors which led to the selection of Kansas were as follows:
"I. Kansas had the best team in the league at the close of the season, decisively winning five of its last six conference championship games.
2. In the 4 games Kansas lost in Big Seven championship play. Kansas was defeated by a total of only 11 points, Kansas State by 38 points and Nebraska by 45 points.
"3. Although all three teams divided their Big Seven championship series with each other, Kansas had a margin of six points over Kansas State in those two games, and had a margin of 12 points over Nebraska in those two games, and Kansas State scored only one more point than Nebraska in the two Big Seven championship games in which they met.
"Records of the three teams against opponents outside of district five were not considered. This is in keeping with the N.C.A.A. rules."