University Dailu Kansan
Tuesday, Jan. 10, 1950
O F THE U N I V E R S I T Y O F K A N S A S
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
Break Ground For Campanile On Wednesday
Construction of the World War II memorial campanile of the University will begin officially at 11 a.m. Wednesday. A ground-breaking ceremony will be held on the site north of Strong hall overlooking the stadium.
Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the K.U. alumni association and memorial board, said that no speeches or ceremonies are planned, however, Chancellor Deane W. Malott and a number of persons closely connected with the four-year fund raising campaign will attend.
The Constant Construction company of Lawrence, the campanile builders, will have a power shovel at the site which will start operating immediately after the first ground has been turned by hand.
The campanile, which will have a 48-bell carillon in the tower, is to honor the former students and alumni who served in World War II and especially those who lost their lives.
The structure will be 120 feet high and built of Oread limestone. It will cost considerably less than the original low bid of approximately $172,000. The memorial architects, Homer Neville a student from 1918 to 1923, and Edward B. Delr, conferred and cut the cost of the "basic" structure to the present figure of $157,000. The contract for the structure has not been signed with the contractors yet, but will be signed before the ground-breaking ceremony. The reduction in cost due to the rearrangement of the inside construction and the use of the random ashral method of stone cutting.
Accessories to the basic structure, such as doors, plaques, scrolls, and lighting, lacks between $7,000 and $8,000 of the amount necessary. Mr. Ellsworth said. The contract does not state a completion date, but requires continued building on the tower. Mr. Ellsworth declined to comment further on the completion date.
John Taylor and company, Loughborough, England will manufacture the bells and mechanisms for playing them. The company was selected by the carillon committee. The committee includes the following persons: Charles B. Holmes, "15 chairman; Donald D. Cummins, dean of the McGee's School of Fine Arts; J Wayne McCormick"; Kenneth Posthlwaite; "39; and Carl V. Rice," 18 vice-president of the executive committee of the memorial association.
In addition to Chancellor Malot, the following will attend the cere-
khy: Judge Hugo Wedell, '20,
president of the memorial association;
Edward W. Tanner, '16; Judge
John G. Sommers, '15; Charles
Marshall, state architect; Mr. Postlethwaite; Mr. Rice; Mr. McCoy;
and Mr. Holmes. Mr. Neville and Mr.
Delk will also attend the ground-breaking.
Members of the executive board of the memorial association, of the student memorial committee, and representatives of other student organizations will attend the ceremonies.
Inter-Fraternity Council Plans Winter Formal
Final plans were made for the annual Inter-Fraternity council's winter formal at a meeting Monday night. The dance will be held at the Lawrence Community building from 9 p.m. to midnight. Harlan Livengood's orchestra will play.
the election of officers, which to have been held at the Mon-meeting was postponed until Monday.
SAM To Hear Maurice Fager
Maurice Fager of the Kansas Industrial Development commission will speak at tonight's meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Management.
Officers for the spring semester will be elected at this meeting, held at 7:30 p.m. in the ballroom of the Union building. All engineering students with a business option and all School of Business students are invited to attend.
Mine Workers Strikes Spread
Pittsburgh, Jan. 10—(U.P.)The hit-and-miss strikes of United Mine Workers spread steadily today throughout the nation's soft coal fields.
The number of strike-ided swelled past 72,800. Production this week will be less than 40 per cent of normal levels. We expect alk-outs and the three day weeks.
The Western Pennsylvania Coal Operators association reported at least 13 more mines in its district closed this morning bringing the number Idle in that state alone to more than 30,000.
Major mines which worked Monday failed to open today as she no contract; no work" strike signal the miners passed from mine to mine.
Jones & Laughlin Steel corp. reported its three big mines in Western Pennsylvania were closed. Night at the Shannon pit to report at the Shannon pit.
However, the hit-and-miss character of the walkouts continued. Berwind-White, a large commercial producer in Central Pennsylvania, and Wilbur Coal Co., at Hooversville, Pa., reported full operations. In Ohio, two more mines closed
In Ohio, two more mines closed to bring the total down to nine with 3,400 miners idle.
Republican Ire Leveled At US Foreign Policy
Washington, Jan. 10—(U.P.)-Secretary of State Dean Acheson faced angry Republican charges today that the United States wrote off Formosa to the Communists three months ago, in a "very secret note."
He went before the senate foreign relations committee at his own request in efforts to stem G.O.P. protests that the administration's far eastern policy is "bankrupt" and opens the door to Communists.
He is expected to emphasize that while China's Nationalist government on Formosa will get no military aid-democratic forces in Korea, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines can expect American help.
Sen. Homer Ferguson, R., Mich., plans to question Acheson on what he described as a "very secret, official note" transmitted in October —long before President Truman's attack—in order that the Nationalists there would be no U.S. arms, military advice or intervention to save Formosa.
Ferguson told a reporter he learned of the note while in the far east recently. He said it reduced to "double-talk" Ambassador Philip C. Jessup's survey trip in Asia and next month's visit of the U.S. chiefs of staff to the Tokyo headquarters of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
He and Senator William F. Knowland, R., Calif., hope to learn from Acheson just what weight, if any, was given to the views of MacArthur and the military chiefs before the hands-off Formosa policy was adopted.
Two administration stalwarts — Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas, Ill., and Chairman Tom Connally, D., Tex., of the foreign relations committee — indicated Monday they believe MacArthur himself may be behind the G.O.P. criticisms.
KU Game On Air
On Station WREN
Station WREN will broadcast a play by play account of the Jayhawker game with Nebraska tonight. The direct broadcast will begin at 7:25 p.m. with Jerry Granger at the microphone. Station WREN is at 1250 on your dial.
ROTC Unit To Hold Smoker
University freshmen are invited to a smoker of the military science department from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. Thursday, in the Military Science building, Max F. Pachl, cadet lieutenant colonel of the R. O. T. C. unit. said today.
The purpose of the smoker is to enable freshmen students to become acquainted with the multiple advantages of membership in the reserve corps in the United States army.
There will be displays of latest technical equipment, films of armed forces in combat and in peace, small bore marksmanship explained by the Women's Rifle team, and displays of activities during the academic year.
A five-point program of advantages for participation in the R. O. T. C. unit has been drawn up, Pachi said.
The five advantages are: 1) Academic credits are accepted without reservation in all schools of the University except the School of Engineering and Architecture. 2) Cadets are draft exempt for the duration of their R. O. T. C. career. 3) Material advantages in the form of uniforms for four years and pay for uniforms. 4) An annual and senior years are offered cadets. 4) The advantage for professional men of possessing a reserve commission during national emergency. 5) The opportunity for the individual to obtain a regular commission through R. O. T. C. participation.
Study Time For Finals Arrives
The 1950 "quail" season opened today as cowering University students settled down to belated studying for the final examinations Thursday, Jan. 19, through Thursday, Jan. 26.
The Hill social merry-go-round has broken down under the strain of the coming week. Sober-faced, book laden students hurry home to burn the midnight oil after having burn their candles at both ends all semester.
An addled freshman skidded halfway across Potter lake on the ice after a running attempt to beat the finals by drowning. A confused medical students stayed up all night studying for a Wasserman test.
An old saying has been changed to "You can fool some the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool the faculty during final week." As unkind as a candid camera, those final exams paint a sordid picture of lax study habits and cut classes.
Examination time always catches a lot of persons short, and they all have their own personal methods of doing a semester's work in one night.
One woman student keeps her cribbons in her spectacle case, using her glasses only to read the questions. Another of the same species writes minute notes on the mirror
For instance, there is the hopeful soul who turns to the bottle, thinking he can pass his courses "high." And then there is the collegiate Jane who has 57 varieties of condiments on her plateage. She is much better prepared for finals than was her counterpart of 10 years ago. The advent of the "New look" has given her more hiding places.
of her compact, powdering her nose frequently.
At least one student was disgusted to find that, in preparing a deluxe notebook, he had learned the information and didn't need the notes after all.
—Photo by Bob Blank
But there is a large number of students who can't conscientiously resort to cheating. This group will probably study in class fairly, or study and flunk fairly.
Pictured in the throes of midnight study is John Amberg, Business junior and varsity halfback.
The business of studying for
exams is divided into two schools of thought: the devil-may-care school that says, "Relax and go to a movie;" and the self-punisher school that says, "You've loafed all year, now study all night." This latter school has two divisions: one that believes in studying until four in the morning and then going to bed for a few fast winks, and the Poor Richard's Almanac division that goes to bed early and rises at four in the morning to get wise.
Faculty members also have difficulties during final week. Final exams test the instructors as well as the students. Many a novice instructor has suddenly discovered while grading exams that he has failed to get the information across to the students.
Instructors also have the additional problem of determining examination policy. Most of them decide to place the students on the "supervised honor system." They space the students with a chair between them, give alternate tests to neighboring students, pace back and forth among the students while the exam is underway, and proudly announce that the students are "on their honor not to cheat." It works very well for the instructor.
Then there is the thankless task of grading exams. Instructors expend countless hours and numerous red pencils in correcting papers. The majority of the test graders do an excellent, unbiased job of marking papers. But occasionally, there are rumors that certain faculty members grade only by personal opinion
Peyre Will Give Humanities Talk At 8 p.m. Today
Henri M. Peyre, chairman of the French department at Yale university, will be the fourth humanities speaker at the University this semester. He will give his main public lecture today at 8 p.m. in Fraser theater when he will discuss "Existentialism and Contemporary French Literature."
Professor Peyre arrived in Lawrence Monday and spoke informally at the Museum of Art on "French and English Romantic Poetry." In addition to his address today, he will speak Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Fraser theater on "La Politique Francaise Contemporaine."
From Yale he went to the University of Cairo in 1933 as a professor where he remained for three years. He returned to Yale as department head in 1938 following a period of two years at Lyons university where he was professor of comparative literature.
The lecturer was-born in Paris and was educated at the University of Sorbonne in Paris and Cambridge university in England. He came to the United States as a teacher at a Freedman school in Bryn Mawr college and went to Yale university in the same capacity in 1928.
Payre has been a guest lecturer at the Universities of Chicago, Buenos Aires, Cornell and Bryn Mawr. He is the author of several books on French literature and authors. His latest book, published in 1944, is entitled "Writers and their critics."
Dorms Set Closing Hours
Closing hours and quiet hours during final week were announced at the Interdormitory council meeting Monday.
Miss Marjorie Austin, social director of dormitories, said that closing hours would be 11 p.m. from Wednesday, Jan. 18, until Wednesday, Jan. 28. As an exception, she closed hours on Jan. 21, during closing hours of 1 p.m. as usual. From Thursday, Jan. 28, until Wednesday, Feb. 1, closing hours will be midnight.
The council recommended that each women's dormitory observe 24 hour a day quiet regulations with an hour off for each meal. Quiet hours would take effect on Wednesday, Jan. 18. The council also recommended that no men be permitted in any dormitory from Thursday, Jan. 19, until Thursday, Jan. 26, except Saturday, Jan. 21, when they could be in the houses from 3 p.m. until closing hours, and on Sunday, Jan. 22, when they could be there from noon until 7 p.m.
Whether or not fines would be used as punishment for house violations during final week was left up to the decision of the executive board in each dormitory.
Television And Movies To Be Shown Engineers
A television show and two movies will be shown at a meeting of the American Society of Tool Engineers at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Fowler shops.
The movies are, "Tooling for Jet Propulsion," and "A Tale of Two Cities." Visitors are welcome to attend. George C. Hopkins, engineering senior, will be in charge of the meeting.
WEATHER
KANSAS—Today will have cloudy and colder weather with high temperatures ranging from 45 to 50 degrees. Low temperatures tonight will be near 25 degrees.