University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, April 27, 1949
46th Year No. 132
Lawrence, Kansas
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
College Adopts Several Changes In Curriculum
A recommendation to allow students to attend a professional school and the College concurrently, and changes in Western Civilization were adopted at the April College faculty meeting Tuesday.
The administrative committee of the College passed a recommendation that new arrangements be made between the College and other schools which would allow students to work on two degrees, in the College and the professional school, together.
Dr. Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, cited four conditions under which the program could run.
"To get a College degree all requirements for the College degree must be met; at least 30 hours of work must be taken in addition to all courses required for a degree from another school; at least 30 hours of non-professional work must be completed at the University, and the student must have had a joint registration and enrollment for the past 30 hours of work." he said.
"This is as yet only a recommendation by the College," he added. "It will not work unless the other schools agree to this plan."
Beginning next fall the credit option for juniors and seniors on Western Civilization will be dropped, Dr. Lawson commented.
"The juniors and seniors will not have the option of taking it for
The juniors and seniors will not have the option of taking it for six hours freshman-sophomore credit, nor four hours of junior-senior credit, as at present," he said. "Next fall freshmen and sophomores taking the course will get six hours credit, to be divided so that two hours credit be placed in each of the three fields of division three. Juniors and seniors will get four hours credit, being divided into one, two, and one hours for the three fields respectively."
General Anthropology 158, a department of sociology course, has been renumbered 58. This enables students, for the first time, to take an anthropology course without a prerequisite.
Three new courses were approved for the summer session:
Home Economics 180, a three hour course in development of school age children through adolescence; Interviewing I and Community and Group Relations, both two hours in the department of social work.
"Requests were made for a number of new courses, which were referred to the administrative committee for recommendation at the May meeting." Dr. Lawson said. "These include courses in economics, biochemistry, drawing and painting, speech, and mathematics."
New Oil Field Found In Kansas
Alma—(U.R)—Bids as high as $25 an acre were offered today for oil leases within a five mile radius of a sensational new test well near here.
The Carter Oil Company said a 90-minute test run at their new well had brought in 18 barrels of water-free oil an hour. With nearest producing fields 50 miles to the south, oilmen speculated that the Carter concern had discovered a new reservoir under Waubansee county.
Drillers said they first hit oil at 1,520 feet. Lime was entered at 3,202 feet and drilling stopped at 3,206.
Carter discounted claims the well was a continuation of existing fields
Magazine Sales Start Tomorrow
The Bitter Bite, campus humor magazine, will go on sale tomorrow, Thomas K. Milligan, editor, said today.
The 28-page magazine will feature a parody on the University Daily Kansan and a section of campus photographs.
"The Bird has been changed to meet the requirements of the All Student Council," Milligan said. The advisors appointed by the Council for the magazine are: Mary J. Breidenbach, business senior; Don V. Plantz, instructor of economics; and William E. McEwen, assistant professor of chemistry.
The magazine will be sold at Marvin hall, Watson library, Frank Strong hall, and the Union.
Mathematical Society To Meet
About 200 mathematicians are expected here Friday and Saturday for the 447th meeting of the American Mathematical society.
The Biometric society, an international society devoted to mathematical aspects of biology, will meet with the mathematics society
The two-day meeting will begin with a tea at 4 p.m. Friday in the Union. After dinner, which will be at 6 p.m. in the Kansas room, the members will attend the presentation of "Hamlet" at Fraser auditorium.
Twenty-two papers will be read Saturday morning.
Dr. G. W. Smith, professor of mathematics, is chairman of the committee of arrangements. Other members are Dr. Wealthy Babcock, associate professor of mathematics; R. G. Sanger, professor of mathematics, Kansas State college; Paul Eberhart, professor of mathematics, Washburn university; J.W.J. Youngs, associate secretary of the mathematical society.
University speakers will include Dr. Israel N. Herstein, instructor in mathematics, and Philip O. Bell, professor of mathematics.
Other speakers will include Prof. F. J. Mickle, Ohio State university; Prof. R. M. Thral, University of Michigan; Dr. A. S. Householder, Oak Ridge National laboratory; Prof. John Wishant, Cambridge university and the University of North Carolina; Prof. J. W. Turkey, Prince-ton university.
Dr. Edward Hughes Pruden, pastor of the First Baptist church Washington, D.C., will address the more than 2,000 members of the class of 1949 at the baccalaurate service Sunday, June 5. Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced today.
Pruden To Speak At Baccalaureate
Dr. Pruden has held the Washington pastorate since 1936. He was called from the University of Shanghai where he was a guest teacher. Previously he had served the First Baptist church, Petersburg, Va.
The services will be followed by the 77th annual commencement exercises Monday, June 6. Weather permitting, both programs will be in Memorial stadium starting at 7:30 p.m. In case of rain, the exercises will be in Hoch auditorium. It has been the custom to give each senior two tickets for his parents if Hoch is used. This year, the University graduating class would more than fill half of the auditorium and only a fraction of the parents will be able to see the exercises.
During Dr. Paden's Washington pastorate his membership has grown from 775 to more than 2,000.
13 Chairmen Of Union Groups To Be Chosen
Chairmanship applications for 13 Union activities committees must be made before Wednesday, May 4, at the activities office in the Union.
The following committee chairmanships are open: announcements, art, coffee and forums, decorations, entertainment, K-Union, publicity, public liaison, secretarial, social, special projects, and sports and organizations.
The chairmen will be selected by the executive officers: Craig Hampton, fine arts junior, president; Margaret Granger, College sophomore, vice-president; Marjorie Crane, College sophomore, secretary; Jack Howard, College freshman, treasurer; and the vice-presidents of public relations and society which have not yet been chosen.
Students wishing to submit applications should include such information as age, class standing, past Union experience, grade average, amount of time which thev.can donate, and suggestions for improving the operations of Union activities
Senior, Diploma Dues May Now Be Paid
Forms for the payment of senior class dues have been received, the business office announced today. Seniors may now pay their dues of $3.95 at the student organizations window, business office, Frank Strong hall.
The dues covers the cap and gown costs, senior luncheon, and the contribution to the class memorial. Payment of the dues may be made at any time before commencement week.
In addition to the dues seniors may make a $2 payment for membership in the Alumni association and for a one year subscription to the Graduate magazine.
Diploma dues may also be paid at the business office.
Kansas—Partly cloudy West and cloudy East today with occasional showers or thunderstorms Southeast; cooler south Central; clearing and cool tonight.
WEATHER
Publication Jobs Need Applicants
The deadline for applications for the positions of editors and business managers of the 1949-50 K-Book, University calendar, and the Jayhawker has been extended to Saturday.
Letters from applicants for KBook and calendar positions should be sent to William Conboy, All Student Council publications committee chairman. The letters should state experience, status in school next year, and reasons for desiring the work. No letters of recommendation are required.
Similar letters from applicants for positions on the Jayhawker should be submitted to Karl Klooz, University bursar, or Dean Miller, Jayhawker business manager Names of three persons from whom letters of recommendation can be obtained should be included.
Two Instructors Leave Suddenly
University officials refused comment on the resignation of William Bracke and Thomas Leflar, English instructors who left Lawrence after resigning recently.
"It is not customary to comment upon the resignations of faculty members," said Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University.
"Their classes are being conducted by other members of the staff," said Dr. M. D. Clubb, chairman of the English department. "Students should be reassured that full credit will be given for their semester's work regardless of the change in shares." The rumor regarding less
class grade books is false and should be stopped. We have both grades."
Mr. Bracke was reached by the University Daily Kansan at his home Atchison. He said he was working on a manuscript, "Wheat Country."
"My publishers want the book completed by the first of May," he said. "I didn't think I could finish it by then, and I was not returning to K.U. next fall."
"I am trying to branch out into the field of writing," he said. "I have obtained a publisher's option after I wrote it." After *Wheat, Country* is completed.
Mr. Leflar's home is in Florida. He could not be reached for comment.
Hamlet Players Return Successful, Tired, Satisfied
By MARY LOU LANE
"We're ready to do it again, and the sooner the better," seemed to be the prevailing opinion of the "Hamlet" cast on their return to Lawrence Sunday afternoon. The cast also agreed that their accommodations, mostly in private homes, had been excellent and the audiences very receptive
"The most profound and significa Allen Crafton, chairman of the sieve department, "was made by a high school girl in Clay Center after the first performance. She said, 'Why, it wasn't at all like it sounded when our high-school teacher read it'"
The most profound and significant comment on the play," said Prof
"The biggest audience was at McPerson, the best at Beloit, and the most interesting at the Saturday matinee a Fort Riley," declared Mrs. Frances Feist, instructor in speech.
"The performance that I'll never forget," said Jeanne Hardy, graduate student, "was a teaser that some of us put on for a high school group. Herk Harvey, with malice aforethought, gave not only his own speech, but mine too and left me flounderder for several minutes. I finally managed to gasp. That's all
I have to say,' and sat down."
After doing a show tonight in Kansas City, the cast will return and give the final performance of "Hamlet" at 8 p.m. Friday in Fraser theater.
"I just happened to mention to a Clay Center assembly," said Dan Palmquist, graduate student, "that I was from Buhler, thinking that the group might be familiar with my old high school. They nearly tore down the walls. I later learned that Buhler, their arch-rival, had recently trounced them in a basketball tournament. That night," added Mr. Palmquist sadly, "the audience cheered happily when Hamlet stabbed Polonius, the Buhler boy."
ASC Delays Vote On New Amendment
Those members who were present exhibited an apparent disregard for party lines by approving the proposal, which would give the same "duties, powers, rights, and responsibilities" to both groups. Seventeen of the 29 members attended.
A proposed constitutional amendment designed to put organizational representatives on an equal basis with elected representatives was tabled by the All Student Council Tuesday because two-thirds of the members were not present.
The proposal will be brought before the Council again at the next meeting. If it is approved by two-thirds of the total Council member, it will be submitted to the student body at the next general election.
Ernest Friesen, recently elected A.S.C. president for next year, approved the motion, stating that organization representatives "have ideas as good as those of elected representatives." Robert Bennett, College junior, said organization representatives should be allowed to vote because they should have "all or nothing at all."
A. S.C. bill number 2 states: "Group members on the A.S.C. shall vote on all issues except those on which an objection of 25 per cent of the elected representatives is voiced." A resolution read by Dorothy Scroggy, secretary, phobitizing members of the Council from appearing before the finance committee or the full council "to request or actively support" appropriations for any organizations of which they are participating members was defeated by a 13 to 3 vote.
Bennett, chairman of the finance committee, pointed out that most Council members are elected because they are active in other or related financial committees. The finance committee had not been influenced by members of the Council.
Miss Scroggy replied that Bennett was naive if he believed no member influenced the Council. Floyd Thuston, education senior, supported her and added that the Council should be interested in the bad impression created when members push appropriations requests.
Samuel McCamant, chairman of the elections committee, gave a brief summary of the general election. He estimated the total number of ballots discarded because the numbers had not been clipped as less than 10 per cent included a recommendation that more polling places be provided.
Official results of the vote for A.S.C. president are:
Ernest Friesen, Pachacamac 1,556
Robert Bennett, Independent 790
Betty van der Smissen nonpartisan ... 5
'Laliberte ...
aldoromma," write-in
A request from Alba Phi Omega, service fraternity, for $200 to provide storage space for lost and found articles and to finance a rummage sale of unclaimed articles was denied.
Harold Shigley, fine arts junior, represented the organization. He estimated the number of unclaimed articles as near 6,000.
The finance committee opposed the request because the organization had received $200. It was believed the rummage sale would take in enough to provide necessary equipment.
Bennett gave the finance report for 1948-49. The balance on hand after all bills have been paid and cash receipts received should be $782.46. The committee recommended closer correlation between the auditing and the finance committees.