University No.23 Dailu Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 19, 1048
Lawrence, Kansas
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STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Homecoming Celebration Friday Night
Friday will offer a big evening for Homecoming celebrants.
Bursts of aerial bombs at 7 p.m. will be the signal to gather in the Memorial stadium for talent show and rally. If rain interferes the program will be in Hoch auditorium.
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Miss Fuller will follow with a "Carribean Fantasy" solo dance. The band will maintain the peppy tone by playing a "Concerto in Jazz."
Henry Shenk, chairman for the event, today outlined a 75-minute program that he considers a good substitute for "the best homecoming parade ever staged."
At 7:15 the University band, directed by Russell L. Wiley, will begin a quarter-hour program designed to hustle everyone into the stadium. Official starter for the show at 7:30 will be a Mexican dance duo. Irene Rebula, Spanish instructor, and Dorothen Dee Fuller, College senior, will be the dancers.
John Cress will star in another high bar gymnastics exhibition, Cress is a former Big Nine gymnastics champ and missed the Olympic team by a narrow margin the past summer. Supporting him will be Brimer and Bob Timmons, education senior, and William Arnold, College junior.
Harriet Harlow, fine arts senior and soprano. will sing.
Many in the bowl will have their first look at a "trampoline" exhibition when four physical education students begin their skillful and graceful bouncing on a taut canvas. The performers will be John Cress, graduate student; Bill Brimer and Bob Gowans, education seniors, and Ernie Grice junior.
A 15-minute pep rally will conclude the show. There will be band music, yells and short talks by team members.
The annual basketball game between the freshmen and the varsity will start at 9 p.m.
The Veterans administration expects to receive definite information within the next two or three days regarding checks for veterans, E. R. Elbel, director of veterans affairs, said today.
VA Checks Arrive Soon
"The post office will not forward a veteran's check," he said. "Checks are held in the downtown post office for 10 days and if not called for are sent back to the Veterans administration. The veteran must register a complaint that he did not receive his check. This complaint is forwarded to the Veterans administration. In no case should the veteran complain before the 10th of the month," he said.
Mr. Elbel said that many veterans will fail to get their checks because they have not filed a change of address form when they last moved.
"If the checks do not come within a few days, then they won't come until between Nov. 1 and Nov. 10," he said. "I am sure, however, that most of them will be in by Nov. 10."
The Camera club will meet at 7:30 Thursday night at the Community building. The schedule and plans for the coming year will be discussed at the meeting, as well as various aspects of photography.'
Camera Club Will Meet To Schedule Plans For Year
New members and prospective members interested in photography may attend this meeting.
By Bibler
Little Man On Campus
"Your application for house mother states you've had plenty experience."
Louisiana Is The Capital Of New Orleans--N'est-ce Pas?!
Students who don't know the states of the Union don't surprise Walter Kollmorgen professor of geography.
At the beginning of each semester Dr. Kollmorgen tests his geography class on their knowledge of states by giving them an outline of the United States with state boundaries defined. He then asks them to write in the
A forecast on the development of the farm tax situation in Kansas will be prepared by the bureau of business research, Paul Malone, director, said today. The report is being made on the request of the department of agriculture.
Dr. Chai Yeh To Teach EE
Dr. Chai Yeh, on leave from Tsing Hua university, Peiyang, China, will arrive tomorrow to teach electrical engineering at the University, Chancellor Deane W. Malott said today.
Dr. Yeh will teach circuit theory and electronics to undergraduate and graduate students.
He has been doing magnetron research at Harvard university on a navy contract. He will arrive in Lawrence from Toronto, Canada where he has been delayed three weeks waiting for a "4-D" visa from the state department.
Dr. Yeh's student visa which covered his research work at Harvard was insufficient for professional teaching. He had to leave the country and apply for readmission.
Research Bureau To Make Forecast
Dr. Yer has been chairman of the electrical engineering department at Tsing Hua university since 1945. He did his undergraduate work in electrical engineering in China.
Mr. Malone said J. D. Morgan, assistant director, would go with him today to Topeka to obtain data on tax trends in agriculture from the commission of revenue and taxation.
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Dr. Kollmorgen said the New England states give the most trouble, followed closely by the Atlantic states. Then there are a number of students who identify states as cities, sometimes calling Louisiana New Orleans and stating that San Francisco is a west coast state.
This semester students averaged about 30 states correctly named. Statistics on these tests indicate that 5 per cent of the students will be able to name correctly all the states and another 5 per cent less than four. And every year there a few that get none of them right.
"There is no particular virtue in knowing the location of states, but in an age such as ours with so much emphasis on global events, students should not be ignorant of their own backyard." he said.
Kansas—Fair east and partly cloudy west today. A little warmer in south. Partly cloudy tonight except considerable cloudiness extreme west. Considerable cloudiness tomorrow with scattered showers southwest. A little cooler west tomorrow. High today 70-75, low tonight 35-40 except 45-50 south.
He concluded that news dispatches from foreign countries must mean very little to these students. "Economic and political problems of distant countries cannot be very real unless there is a realization of their setting."
Dr. Kollmorgen believes this inadequate knowledge of state positions is a direct reflection of the lack of teaching geography in the public schools. He said that no geography is taught in grade schools in Kansas with the exception of a few large cities.
WEATHER
Sigma Nu Denied Social Privileges
By WALLACE W. ABBEY
Managing Editor University Daily Kansan
Sigma Nu social fraternity has been denied its social privileges for the remainder of the semester, due to certain activities during walkouts, Dr. L. C. Woodruff, dean of men, announced today.
Results Bright In Chest Drive
Three other fraternities, Phi Gamma Delta, Triangle, and Delta Tau Delta, have accepted a "constructive program" set forth by the dean of
"Early reports from organized houses are very encouraging," Hugh Gibson, co-chairman of the Community Chest drive among University students, said today.
The largest amount given by a single house so far is $39.50, and several other reports are only slightly below this amount. However, Gibson emphasized that these reports were from large houses and that there is a wide variation in the amounts reported.
"We have a long way to go yet to assure success in the house drives," he explained, "but the Chest representatives in the houses are doing a good job and progress so far has been satisfactory." The end of the drive on the campus has been extended to 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Collections at the two booths in Frank Strong hall and the Union are coming in slowly, Gibson said. Personal solicitations not being made among students living in unorganized houses, and it will be necessary for htese students who wish to make contributions, to do at the booths.
Presbyterian Pastors Meet
Representatives from six states gathered at Westminster house Oct. 15 for a three day meeting of the executive committee of the association of Presbyterian university pastors.
They were the guests of the local Westminster group and the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. John H. Patton. The Rev. Dr. Patton is the University's Presbyterian pastor and vice-president of the committee.
Two student groups of Westminster attended the sessions Saturday night. Wilbert Lorimer, engineering senior, and Mary Lynn Lucas, Fine Arts junior, took part in a discussion defining the relation of students to Christian life.
Those attending the meeting were: The Rev. Kenneth Reeves, national executive from Philadelphia; the Rev. Cecil Hoffman, president of the executive committee of the southern California area; Mrs. Gladys Covert, secretary, from Iowa State university; Miss Elizabeth Manuel, Iowa university; the Rev. James Hine, University of Illinois; the Rev. James Boren, University of Minnesota; and James Nielson, assistant treasurer of the board of Christian education.
It was decided that chaplains from the 45 Presbyterian colleges will be included in the annual national meeting.
The Rev. Dr. Patton said the three main topics of the executive meeting were the allocation of funds, planning for the annual meeting, and the considering of the function of the foundation on the campus.
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He added that on Sept. 28 of this ear the Inter-Fraternity council was warned that certain walkout activities would not be condoned. After being warned, the fraternities continued these activities.
"The Inter-Fraternity council and some fraternities in particular were warned a year ago that fraternity walkouts had been becoming out of hand for a number of years," Dean Woodruff said. "They were told that it was their problem; if it were not corrected, the administration would have to do so."
Hinkle added that Dean Woodruff had told the fraternity that as a result of the violation of walkout regulations they had the choice of raising pledge grade standards from 1.0 to 1.2 or losing social privileges.
"The members of Sigma Nu are unable to submit to the proposal of the dean of men in the belief that it would violate the principles on which our chapter is established," Hinkle said.
Instead of strict disciplinary measures, Dean Woodruff advanced a "constructive type of program which we hope will prove so successful that fraternities in general will recognize its value in maintaining a healthy interest in scholastic affairs.
Dean Woodruff said that in proposing the raise in grade point averages he talked to the fraternity presidents and the presidents of the pledge classes in that the matter is directly concerned with the pledges.
The four fraternities left themselves open to this action by indulging in activities during walkouts which "violated the tenets of common decency, good taste, and the rights of other students." Dean Woodruff said. The violation was different for each fraternity.
"I want to recognize the three fraternities for their cooperation in accepting this program," he added.
Buddy J. Hinkle, Sigma Nu president, answered Dean Woodruff's statement today with a reply on the Sigma Nu stand.
E. Keith Wilson, Phi Gamma Delta president, said "The ban came out of the walked out. We were one of the first to walk out." He would not elaborate further.
Delta Tau Delta and Triangle fraternities refused comment.
ASC Award Is Unclaimed
Dan Gallin, Yugoslav student who was unable to get a visa into the United States to enter the University, is still trying to get permission for next year. Gallin was given the All Student Council foreign student scholarship.
Dean J. H. Nelson of the Graduate school received a letter from Gallin saying he hoped to enter the University in the fall of 1949. Dean Nelson said he could not assure Gallin entry into the University next fall as the scholarship appointments are made each year.
Gallin is studying in Lausanne, Switzerland, at the present time. The committee is selecting a student to replace Gallin.