University Daily Kansan
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence. Kansas
Atomic Expert Talks Thursday For Sigma Xi
A man who was present for the world's first atomic bomb explosion will deliver the third lecture in the Sigma Xi atomic energy series. Dr. Worth Seagondollar, assistant professor of physics, will speak on "Nuclear Fission and Atomic Bombs" in Strong auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
Dr. Seagondollar is an experimental nuclear physicist. As a member of the Los Alamos laboratory staff, he was present for the first A-bomb explosion at Alamogordo, N. Mex., on July 16, 1945. Dr. Seagondollar, stationed behind a bunker with other scientists, didn't see the explosion as he followed instructions and looked the other direction. But he heard it and was among the first to survey the results.
For his lecture Dr. Seagondollar will draw upon many personal experiences. Although much that he knows remains classified information, security regulations permit him enough freedom to interest both the scientist and the layman.
He will deal with the discovery and history of nuclear fission, its application to the atom bomb, and some discussion of the much-discussed hydrogen bomb.
Dr. Seagondollar is a Kansan and completed his undergraduate work at Emporia State Teachers college in 1941. His graduate training was at the University of Wisconsin. He came to K.U. in 1947.
Dr. Seagondollar supervised the building and now the operation of the 2,500,000 volt electrostatic generator at K.U. It is the only atom-splitting machine in the plains states.
Moscow Peace Meeting Urged
Washington, March 1—(U.P.)-Sen.
Brien McMahon called today for a special United Nations meeting in Moscow to study new approaches to world atomic control and peace.
The Connecticut Democrat, who is chairman of the house-senate atomic energy committee, said the world must move quickly to prevent war with what he called atomic "horror" weapons.
These new approaches, he proposed in a senate speech would be worked out first at a conference of the senate. The senator should be convened immediately.
Unorganized Women Can Be Candidates
After the Atlantic powers produced the proposed new A-control and world peace plans, McMahon said, Russia should be asked to play host to a special UN general assembly.
Women living in unorganized houses wishing to be candidates in Associated Women Students spring elections can obtain petitions for candidacy at the dean of women's office until Thursday. The signed petitions are due then.
A tea for candidates will be given from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 7.
Petitioners may contact members of the election committee concerning study grades for candidacy quizzes. The election committee is as follows: Grace Gwinner and Bernice Brady, education seniors; Mabel Conderman, business senior; Helen Piller, College senior and Lorraine Ross, College senior.
Today Is Deadline For English Exam
Students must register today for the English proficiency examination to be given Saturday, Juniors and seniors in the College, education, and journalism, who wish to take the exam, must register in the office of their respective school or college.
When the student registers, he is assigned an exam room and given a registration slip. The student is required to bring this slip with him to the test. The test will be given at 2:00 p.m. in the different rooms of Fraser hall.
Stuffed Leopard To Be Displayed
Oklahoma City, March 1—(U.P.)-Leo the leaping leopard will be stuffed and put on display to commemorate the state's greatest wild animal hunt, authorities said today.
The rebellious, 175 - pound jungle killer died yesterday of an overdose of sleeping pills about 16 hours following his return to the Lincoln Park zoo, where he made his terrifying escape in an acrobatic leap from a pit Feb. 25.
He sneaked back to the zoo under cover of darkness to eat horsemeat bait which had been treated with narcotics. He was then returned to a cage by the zoo director. Roy Roberts, a zoo attendant, noticed the leopard was dying when he made a routine check shortly before dusk yesterday. He pulled the big cat from the iron-bound crate-cage and pumped its legs several times. The leopard died a few minutes later.
Dr. W. D. Bowerman, a veterinarian who examined the leopard about 4 p.m. Tuesday, said he was "sick about his death."
"He was breathing fine when I saw him," Dr. Bowerman said. "I turned him over on his other side and he kind of growled at me. I was glad to see he could make a noise. I though he was out of danger."
Dr. Bowerman performed an autopsy on the spotted beast's body last night and said he died of an overdose of drugs. The narcotics—chloral hydrate and neumbutol—took unusual effect because the leopard's lungs had been weakened, Dr. Bowerman said.
Park superintendent R. R. Murphy said the cat's body would be stuffed for display "as a trophy to Oklahoma City's most intensified leopard hunt."
YMCA Will Change Name Of Y-Orpheum
In response to Ross Miller's letter to the editor in Tuesday's Daily Kansan, the Y.M.C.A. is sponsoring a contest to select a name for its variety show.
A cash award of $10 will be given for the most unique and catching name. Suggestions must be submitted in the Y.M.C.A. office of the Union building by Monday, March 6.
"The plan of a competitive variety show has been a tradition at Kansas State for the past 30 years. It is the biggest show of the year, and the trophy is one of the most coveted on the campus." Wonder said.
"No one school has a monopoly on the plan of a competitively produced variety show including Kansas State college. We here at K.U. gathered ideas from all of the Big Seven schools and added a few of our own."
Miller is the producer of the Kansas State college Y-Orpheum. Regarding his accusations that KU, is stretching things too far by borrowing not only the idea for the presentation, but also the name, Roy Wonder, business senior, said "We did not realize that we were so closely related to anything that Kansas State used. We wish to have an entirely independent show in name at least.
Gene Courtney, speech instructor, will be unable to act as advisory director. He has been chosen for a part in a road show which will require more time than he has to spare.
English Film Next In Foreign Series
The English movie "Great Expectations" will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Hoch auditorium.
The film, a J. Arthur Rank production, will be the third in the series of foreign films shown this semester under University sponsorship. Admission will be without charge to students and faculty members.
This is the first picture in the series in which English subtitles are not used. The first movie was French and the second German.
The plot of the movie is adapted from the novel of the same name by Charles Dickens.
Students Fined For Smoking, Parking
Fourteen students were fined in the Student Court Tuesday, ten for traffic violations and four for smoking in no smoking areas inside Watson library.
Three students fined for traffic violations appeared to defend themselves in court. They were James Hopkins, Jr., fine arts senior; George E. Bischoff, engineering junior; and Elden Edwards, education senior.
'Sex Neglected By Educators'
Sex education is neglected, the Rev. Charles Edward Brubaker told students at the first in a series of seminars on "Christian Love and Marriage." The seminars will also be conducted today and Thursday at 4 p.m. in 206强 hall.
An attempt to "practice a morality that is not understood" is a dilemma of modern society, the Rev. Mr. Brubaker pointed out.
He blamed a "hangover of Victorian prudery" for too often preventing education necessary for Christian love and marriage.
So called rules of sex are designed, not to inhibit, but to enrich spiritual and physical bonds in marriage, students were told.
"Wild oats and marriage do not mix," the Rev. Mr. Brubaker continued. "Men and women must decide which they want. Suspicion, loss of trust, and loss of spiritual and physical meaning in love and marriage may follow where rules of sex are not practiced," said the former U.S. Marine chaplain.
Dating, the period of engagement, and marriage, will be discussed by the Rev. Mr. Brubaker at his scheduled seminars during Religious Emphasis week.
German Instructor To Talk On Swiss Carnival Thursday
Miss Marties Kornfeld, assistant instructor in German, will speak to the German club at 5 p.m. Thursday, in 402 Fraser hall, on "The Carnival at Basel, Switzerland."
Miss Kornfeld is a native of Basel and has attended the carnival frequently. Students interested in German language, art, and culture are invited to attend the meeting.
'Men Lack God's Wisdom, Judgement'
Man has the knowledge of God without the wisdom of God; man has discovered God's secrets but lacks His judgment; and man has abundant techniques but he lacks the techniques of daily living.
These facts were stressed by Nathan Hershfield, assistant rabbi at Congregation B'nai Jehudah, Kansas City, Mo., and Herman Will, Jr., administrative officer in the Methodist commission on World Peace, in a joint lecture on "Religion Here and Abroad" Tuesday.
Today is an age of great building and great wrecking, Rabbi Hershfield commented. People have witnessed a transformation in society in the last 50 years. They praise man's inventive genius, but they forget in the last half-century there have been two world wars, hunger and mass executions in Europe, and poverty and prejudices in the United States.
The United States government must work more effectively before it is preached abroad, Mr. Will stressed. He noted that the American people are beginning to be hated in Europe. European's spotlight the bad points of the American system, he remarked. The reason for this is that the people have never known individualism and freedom as United States citizens have. They are more set against us when they learn of our faults, he explained.
The formula for life is love God, love man, be God-like, be Christ-like, Mr. Will told the group. He remarked how appalling it is to realize that this formula has been before the
The United States doesn't have much to sell Europe in some fields, especially that of racial democracy, the lecturers pointed out. Communism is going to spread more rapidly if American racial prejudices don't stop, as Europeans hold this against Americans constantly. Mr. Hershfield and Mr. Will feel that the United States should realize what other countries are saying about racial democracy in America and try to do something about it.
yes of man for thousands of years and he has failed to employ it.
The lecturers feel that society and religion have been compartmentalized, and that there is no correlation between the two. Religion is limited to specific hours of the week. There are several organizations set up that sponsor good will and good deeds. Most of the members of these are good people trying to gain an understanding and attend meetings with good intentions, but they are satisfied with lip service and do not apply it to their daily lives. Mr. Will cited some societies that didn't even have lip service.
The speakers feel that Americans stress anti-communism rather than pro-democracy, and that Americans are always trying to checkmate communism instead of spreading democracy.
These three cases dealt with students who had parked in zoned areas this semester after their first semester permits had expired. The Court pointed out that notice was given in the University Daily Kansan that first semester zone permits would expire Feb. 1, and according to parking regulations, parking in zoned areas is not permitted unless a permit is on the back license plate. Also the court said that persons affected by the parking rules should read the Daily Kansan for changes in regulations and expiration dates of permits.
Seven other students charged with parking violations who did not appear in Court were fined. They were Floyd Temple, education senior; Warren A. Baker, graduate student; Richard A. Hunter, journalism senior; Robert Atchley, College freshman; Alexander Jacobus, engineering sophomore. John R. Mattner, College freshman; and Joseph W. Steel, engineering senior.
Smoking violators were fined $2 each. They were Donald Lowell, College freshman; Robert Asbury, engineering freshman; Richard Blasdel, College junior; and Virginia Griffin, graduate student.
Four convictions were reversed and the cases dismissed. They were: Richard Gyllenborg, engineering junior. His car, though overparked, was stalled. He made reasonable efforts to have it removed, the Court decided.
Wallace Foster, second year law, who moved his car from one space to another before one-half hour elapsed was not fined. The Court ruled that the 30-minute parking limit should apply to each stall only
Noah Eberhart, education junior, was found not guilty because the zoned area in which he parked was not marked and he had no way of knowing that it was a restricted area.
W. Dean Robertson, business junior, was not guilty the Court held, because when the date of a parking permit says "expires Jan 1," for example, the permit expires at 4:30 pm of that day and not the day before. The Court pointed out, too, that the zone in which Robertson parked was not marked and the parking office misinformed him as to where his zone was.
Two traffic violation cases involving James O. Smith, first year law student, and Jacob Roseman, graduate student, were moved up until the next Court meeting.
The Student Court found that it had no jurisdiction in a case involving Aaron Wilson, third year law student.
Stanley England, engineering senior, and Marie Schumacher, education junior; associate justices of the Court, were absent from the Tuesday meeting.
Jefferson County Students To Elect Chairman Tonight
Jefferson county club of Statewide Activities will meet at 7:30 in Brown in 210 Strong hall, Allyn Today, College junior, announced today.
A new chairman to replace Mary Anne O'Neill. College freshman, will be elected.