University Daily Kansan 45th Year No.154 Friday, May 21, 1948
Friday, May 21, 1948
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Noted Musicians To Be Guests At Music Camp
Highlighted by the appearances of Percy Grainger, conductor-composer, and Thor Johnson, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra, the Mid-Western Music and Art camp is expected to meet at the University this summer. The camp opens June 21 and closes Aug.1.
The two musicians will be guest conductors at two of the six concerts given by the 85-piece symphony orchestra starting in Hoch auditorium June 27. Algo to be organized is a 150-piece band and an a capella choir with 150 voices. The band will give weekly Sunday night concerts. Only about half of the choir will be music camp members. Dean D. M. Swarthout will conduct the choir.
For the first time an art camp will be held in connection with the band camp. Miss Marjorie Whitney, director of the design department, will be in charge. This year art enrollment has been limited to 25 students. Courses in commercial art, design, pottery, metal and jewelry, and water colors will be offered.
This is the 11th season for the band camp. Students from 14 states attended the 1947 session. Russell L. Wiley is director of the music camp. He will be assisted by Gerald M. Carney, assistant professor of music education.
In addition to the three large music groups there will be a complete program of small ensembles in instrumental work. Members of the School of Fine Arts will instruct courses in elementary music theory. Private instrumental and voice lessons will be offered.
Other guest conductors for the summer include Gerhard Schroth from the University of Chicago; Burnet C. Tuthill, director of the Memphis College of Music; James P. Robertson, director of music at Springfield, Mo.; and C. J. McKee, Topeka.
Speak Before State Group
Dr. John C. Frye and W. H Schoewe, both of the state Geological Survey, and Ogden S. Jones of the state Board of Health, will speak at a meeting of the Kansas Well Drillers Association which is being held at Larned today and tomorrow.
Dr. Frye will speak on the relation of the state Geological Survey to the well drillers of Kansas. Dr Schoewe will discuss the geology of the state, and Mr. Jones will speak on the brine contamination of fresh water.
Others attending the meeting are Glenn Prescott, Howard O'Connor, A.R. Leonard, William Connor, and V.C. Fishel, of the state and federal Geological Surveys.
The purpose of the meeting is to adopt a constitution and to discuss the water problems of Kansas. The president of the organization, E. J. Jungman, has extended an open invitation to all interested persons.
Women's Party Elects Officers
Helen Heath, College junior.
Thursday was elected president of N.O.W., women's political party.
Other officers are Donna Munn.
College sophomore, vice-president;
Marybelle Shepherd, sophomore,
secretary; Marie Schumacher,
freshman, treasurer; Marilyn Steinert, junior, and Marjorie Darby,
sophomore, members of the executive council.
Observatory Open To View Planet
the planet Venus in its crescent form may be observed at the K.U. observatory on the roof of Lindley hall between 7 and 9:30 p.m. today.
Dr. N. W. Storer, associate professor of physics, explained that Venus is now 40 million miles from earth. It is bright enough to be seen just before 7 p.m., although it is too low to be observed later than 10 p.m.
Men Will Help New Students
More than 150 University men will be counselors for freshmen who will enter the University next fall.
The counselors will have two meetings with the new students during the week of registration and enrollment. They will also attend a dinner meeting Sept. 15, the day registration and enrollment begins.
Dale Judy, College senior, said the purpose of the counseling is to assist the new students with their problems and make them feel at home at the University.
The counselors will introduce themselves by writing to the freshmen during the summer, giving the time and places of the guidance meetings.
Bitter Bird Will Expand
"Shock appeal" is in store for the subscribers and the advertisers in next year's Bitter Bird, Leland Norris, recently appointed editor, said at the annual dinner Thursday.
Norris said he plans to expand the magazine next year to emphasize more jokes, pictures, and cartoons, and to put out seven or eight issues instead of four.
"It will be an enormous job and we'll need an enlarged staff, Norris added. "The list in Thursday's Kansas was by no means an indication of the entire staff."
Byron Shutz, retiring editor, thanked the staff for their co-operation and wished Norris "a successful year and no editorials."
ASC Committee Appoints Slate Of Cheerleaders
The traditions committee of All Student Council today announced the election of Leslie Roenigk, sophomore in education, as new male cheerleader, and re-election of five cheerleaders, and the election of three alternates.
Gair Sloan, College freshman; Norvell Osborn, Richard Wintermote, and Dorothy Scroggy, junior, and Bernadine Read, fine arts sophomore, will lead the Jayhawker yells again next year.
Patricia Perkins, fine arts freshman, Dorothy O'Connor, sophomore, and Paul Coker, Jr., freshman, were elected as alternates.
New cheerleaders are elected by the traditions committee every year. They were selected on basis of performance during tryouts which began Tuesday.
Elmer F. Beth, acting director of the William Allen White School of Journalism, has been succeeded as editor of Journalism Class and Lab by Keen Rafferty, director of the division of journalism at the University of New Mexico.
Beth Resigns Editor Post
The magazine is the quarterly publication of the American Association of Teachers of Journalism. Mr. Beth resigned as editor when he was elected secretary-treasurer of both A.A.T.J. and the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism, and director of the teacher placement bureau of A.A.T.J.
Journalism Class and Lab is a new name for the publication, called Journalism Bulletin since its founding at K.U. in 1942. The paper was established to replace the round-tables and shoftalks of the annual A.A.T.J. conventions, which were not held during the war years.
Kansas—Partly cloudy today and tonight. Not quite so warm northwest today. Tomorrow fair and warm. High today near 90, low tonight near 60.
WEATHER
Fraternity Finances May Be Controlled
Former Professor Tells SAM Members Of Plan For A University Consultant
"I am glad that the University is recognized as an institution that has given complete freedom of speech and ideas to its faculty and student body," Chancellor Deane W. Malott said today. The chancellor commented on a recent Henry Wallace column in the New Republic in which Mr. Wallace complimented the chancellor on his broad-mindedness.
Malott Answers Wallace Praise
Mr. Wallace said, "I honor Chancellor D. W. Malott, head of the University of Kansas, for apparently having given complete freedom to his faculty and student body. I am sure that Chancellor Malott disagrees with me on many things, but Kansas will never be completely reactionary as long as men like him are around to fight for freedom of expression."
Chancellor Malott said that, although he did not see Mr. Wallace during his Midwestern speaking tour, he knows him quite well and considers him a personal friend afteroking with him on the advice of the department of commerce when Mr. Wallace was secretary.
There is a danger that finances of Greek organizations on the campus will come under direct University control, J. Alden Trovillo, former Society for the Advancement of Management adviser and associate professor of industrial management, told members of S.A.M. at the annual senior banquet Thursday.
"I hope the University will always recognize its responsibility as an educational institution that must allow freedom and universality of ideas," Mr. Malott said.
To Install Officers
Officers of the Baptist Student fellowship, the Roger Williams foundation, and the college Sunday school class will be installed in a candlelight service at 5:30 p.m. Sunday in Danforth chapel. The Rev. Charles W. Thomas will be in charge.
Palm Room Designed For Comfort
Comfort with a touch of cafe society atmosphere describes the Palm room, new Union annex, which will be open from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday.
The open house is being held so students leaving the University may see the room before the end of the semester. All students, faculty, and friends are invited. The Palm room will not be officially opened for meal service until the summer session be vins.
To the immediate left of the entrance is a large flower box filled with tropical plants, acquired for the Union by James Reiter, campus
The color scheme of the room and its indirect lighting is designed to give the room a restful atmosphere. The walls are green and deep yellow. The furniture is covered in red and buff leather with quartet tables which are linen-finished Formica. They are trimmed in stainless steel and have a chromium base.
The window draperies are green with yellow figures. Misses Mariorie Whitney and Dessa J. Bush, professor of design, and Miss Hernina Zipilla, director of the Union, selected the color scheme for the Palm room.
Seats along two sides of the room have pull-up tables. The floor is grey asphalt tile, matching the grey terrazzo steps leading into the room at both entrances.
People in gay '90s costumes are in proper character to the words below the paintings. "Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now," "Casey Would, Waltz With The Strawberry Blond," "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now," and "Down By The Old Mill Stream," are some of
gardener. The plants are monsters, diefferanbachias, and pedeleanthuses.
To the right are steps leading into the fountain. Modern doors of red leather on the Palm room side and blue on the fountain side divide the two rooms.
Potted palms stand in front of the three pillars which are located on either side and in the middle of the fountain entrance. The room is named for these.
Several murals are painted on the walls. Dale E. Oliver, fine arts junior, who painted them, once worked for Walt Disney.
Next to the Palm room are two small rooms. Candy and fresh fruit will be sold in one. The other will be an office for Mrs. Mary Strain who will be in charge of the "Palm room."
The kitchen equipment is all stainless steel, and is custom built. It is small, compact, but complete. It consists of a toastmaster roll and food warmer, assembly table which is partly refrigerated, four waffle irons, a slex coffee table, a stainless steel enclosed fountain, electric dish and glass washer, a partly refrigerated cook's table, two grill top ranges with ovens, one hot top range and baking oven, electric french fryer, electric mixer, baker's table, two sinks, spice cabinet, and a utility table.
The class of 23 will have its reunion dinner there June 6. This will be the room's first activity.
them.
The fountain, Palm room, and main cafeteria will be air conditioned.
It is hoped that many University functions will be held in the Palm vivium. After the opening of the summer session, meals will be served daily.
Mr. Trovillo, now industrial adviser to the Wichita Chamber of Commerce, said that a "University administrator" told him Tuesday of a plan for establishing a financial adviser for campus sororities and fraternities. He refused to name the administrator.
“This,” said Mr. Troville, “could easily lead to collective purchasing by the fraternities and sororites, and hurt businesses considerably.”
Mr. Trovillo told a University Daily Kansan reporter that "the plan, I am told, is quietly being set up and will be put into effect before anyone really realizes it."
By such cooperatives, many persons would be put out of work, he continued, and in time these people would include graduates of the University who were in need of jobs.
The adviser would examine the financial records and advise the Greek societies about money matters. Mr. Trovillo said that the adviser could become "over-bearing" which would then place the Greek organizations under direct University controls, he added.
In statements this morning to the University Daily Kansan, four faculty members expressed various reactions to Mr. Troville's statements
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to-Chancellor Deane W. Mault, this morning said, "according to the policy and tradition of the University, we wouldn't consider any rule that would disrupt and disorganize any organized group."
L. C. Woodruff, dean of men, said, "It's a good plan because a number of our organized houses need help in financial matters. The idea of the financial adviser becoming a collective buyer is no more valid than the idea of the United States going Communist."
Mr. Trovillo's main topic was opportunities in the midwest, and he told the 69 S.A.M. members and their guests that "there are plenty of openings for young men who are willing to seek employment.
Paul McCollum, S.A.M. adviser and economics instructor, can "see no harm in such a plan. It is the same principle that is used in industry where consolidation of groups sits down costs."
"That is the reason employers don't come to the University hunting men to work for them, even when they need them. They want their employees to show some initiative."
To Be Examined For Ph.D. Degree
Rollin H. Baker and Henry W. Setzer, graduate students, will be given final public examination for the degree of doctor of philosophy today and tomorrow. Both men will be examined in 113 Dyche hall.
Mr. Baker, an instructor in zoology, will be examined at 1:30 p.m. today. He received his B. A. from the University of Texas in 1937, and his M. S. from Texas A. & M. in 1938. His thesis is on the birds of Micronesia.
Setzer will be examined at 9 a.m. tomorrow, He received his B. A. in 1942 and his M. A. in 1945 from the University of Utah. His thesis is on sub-species of a particular species of kangaroo rat.