University Daily Kansan 45th Year No.152 Wednesday May 19, 1948 STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wednesday, May 19, 1948 Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
13 Architects Given Awards For Excellence
Honors for 13 students were announced at the annual architectural banquet Tuesday.
The Gertrude Goldsmith prize for excellence in beginning courses in architecture went to John D. Miller. The Loerentz Schmidt prize for the most progress during the freshman year went to Peggy Jean Baker.
The Scarab fraternity awards for the best solution to an architectural problem went to Richard Beach, Don Lee Noyes, William Conrad, Donald Palmer, and Donald Robertson. Honorable mention went to Claude Mason. The Thayer medal for excellence in architectural design went to Jack Bradley, Jr. Lon Heuer received a Thayer medal for excellence in the first two years of architectural design.
The Alpha Rho Chi medal for leadership, valuable service to the school, and promise of professional merit went to John LoPinto. The first place American Institute of Architects medal, awarded on recognition of excellence in scholarly standing of students in architectural schools, went to Herbert Foster. Second place went to Lee F. Hodgden.
Announcement of the full accrediting of the department of architecture of the School of Architecture and Engineering was made at the banquet by Prof. George M. Beal, chairman of the department.
The approval was made on the basis of physical equipment, coordination of curriculum, content of courses, training, experience and capabilities of teachers, and achievements of graduates as well as entrance requirements.
Guest speaker at the banquet was Arthur W. Archer, central states regional director of the American Institute of Architects.
Dinner For Staff To End Bitter Bird
Members of the Bitter Bird staff will hold a dinner at 6:15 p.m. tomorrow in the East room of the Union.
The gathering will mark the end of the magazine which has been on the University campus the past three years. It was the successor of the Sour Owl, campus humor magazine, which was banned after 25 years of publication. Byron C. Shutz and Leland G. Norris will give short talks.
Staff members, who will attend the dinner are: Byron C. Shutz, editor in chief; William H. Braum, Hank Brown, Carol M. Muhler, Ruth Clayton, Paul A. Coker, Jr., Louis D. Duff, Jr., Myron W. Husband, Arlene L. Johnson, Ruth Keller, Louise Lambert, Ray E. Martin, James G. Mason, Leland G. Norris, LuAnne Powell, Marilyn Sweet, Elger L. Talley, Helen E. Ward, and William D. Waters
Guests invited are Karl Klooz, Ray B. West, Harold Swartz, and E. C. Buehler.
Court Duties Over For Semester
The final semester session of student police court was held Tuesday night.
A default judgment was entered against Charles Spencer for $1 for two parking violations.
In the case of Richard L. Ashley who had 10 tickets, four were reversed and six were affirmed. He was fined $9.
Plays Postponed To Friday Night
The two one-act Saroyan plays which have been scheduled for 8:15 tonight in Fraser theater have been postponed until Friday night.
The plays, "The Hungers" and "Comin Through the Rye," will be presented by the University Players. The public is invited.
AWS To Set Up Guidance Board
More University women will have an opportunity for positions of leadership and responsibility when a personnel board is established next fall, according to Betty van der Smissen, president at the Associated Women Students.
The board is made up of three committees, Helen Piller, College sophomore, is the keeper of the records; Emily Stewart, College freshman, is activities counselor; and Jean Dressler, College freshman, is chairman of the filing committee.
Miss van der Smissen, in announcing the system said, "by using a personnel board we hope to have at the University a personal relationship in which each girl feels she is an individual with a real place in the University."
The plan is to help each girl get into the activities of her choice, to keep an accurate record of work done by each individual with notations on the quality of the work performed, and to get women into activities.
The system includes a permanent activity card, A.W.S. double-file system, organizational reports, and interest lists. New women at the University will fill out forms which identify her, what she has done in the past, and what she would like to do in the future.
All of this information would be transferred by the keeper of the records onto a permanent card. A women's activities and the quality of work done would also be kept on this permanent card. After a woman graduates or leaves the University the card would be transferred to an inactive file which is kept for reference.
Engineers Attend Technical Meeting
Chemical engineers from K.U. Kansas State college, and the University of Nebraska attended a technical meeting in Manhattan May 15
W. W. Deschner of the J. F. Pritchard Co. of Kansas City gave the main talk of the afternoon. K. O. Maloney, professor of chemical engineering, and 16 students attended the meeting.
Hoyt, Kan., May 19-(UP)—The bank of this small Kansas town was held up shortly after 11 a.m. today by three men driving a 1941 Oldsmobile club coupe.
George Worrall, chemical engineering senior, and Aldo Aliotti, assistant in the romance language department, presented papers on "Soda Ash In Kansas" and "Technical Education in Europe."
Bandits Rob Bank In Lawrence Area
Witnesses said the automobile bore Kansas license number 3-4886. Two of the bandits were described as young men, the other about 60 years old.
Amount of the loot was not determined immediately.
Hoyt is in northeastern Kansas about 15 miles north of Topeka.
Bitter Bird Has No Place At KU Editor Says
In an editorial in the fourth issue of the Bitter Bird, the editor, Byron C. Shutz, said, "I sincerely hope this is the last issue of the Bitter Bird as a so-called campus humor magazine."
When informed that the All Student Council had granted permission for the publication to continue next year, Shutz told a University Daily Kansan reporter that he still maintained there was no place on the campus for the kind of magazine the Bitter Bird should be.
"Part of the success of this year's magazine," he said, "was because about 700 subscriptions had been sold to parents of students and that the magazine delivered differed in many respects from the kind of magazine intended at the outset."
"It is my idea," he said, "to publish a magazine containing news of social life, sports, and fashion, with little space devoted to humor. Such a purpose is being served at the University at present by the Jayhawker since it has been put on a quarterly basis."
Shutz said the current trend in such campus publications is away from such material as was contained in the Sour Owl, a publication banned on the campus three years ago.
Sachem To Initiate 16
Sachem, University chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa, national senior honor society for men, will initiate 16 members at 10:45 p.m. to-day in Battenfell hall.
Initiates are Richard Bertuzzi,
William Conboy, Wilbur Noble,
Charles O'Connor, Victor Reinking,
and Patrick Thiessen, College juniors;
Fred Gartung, John Irwin,
Ralph Kiene, and Warren Shaw,
engineering juniors; Robert Franklin,
business junior; Billy Lakey, fine
arts junior; Joseph McCuskey, eng-
signing mariner; Mr. Newell Jenkins, '43 a former member of Saehem; and I. C. Woodwuff, dean of men.
Dr. Woodruff will succeed Willis Tompkins, assistant dean of men, as one of four faculty members in the society. The others are F. C. Allen, professor of physical education: Frank E. Melvin, associate professor of history, and Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College.
Today Is Deadline To Buy SAM Tickets
New officers have tickets for sale. Reservations may also be made at the School of Business office. Tickets are $1.50 a person. Members may bring their wives or dates.
Tickets for the Society for the Advancement of Management farewell banquet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow must be bought today.
J. Alden Trovillo, former S.A.M advisor and associate professor of industrial management, will speak to the group in the Kansas room of the Union.
Student Treated For Injury To Eye In Handball Game
Evan D. Ritchie, engineering sophomore, is undergoing treatment at Watkins hospital for a severe eye injury received while playing handball Monday. Physicians report that his condition is improving
The condition of Ralph E. Russell, College freshman, is reported improved by attending physicians. Russell has been a pneumonia patient at Watkins hospital since May 4.
Woodruff Closes Union Activities
Closing of the Student Union Activities committee for an indefinite period was announced this morning by L. C. Woodruff, dean of men, following several violations of scholastic eligibility requirements by members of the cast of "College Daze."
ASC To Select Dance Manager
In a statement released this morning, Dean Woodruff
The All Student Council social committee will meet Friday to select a new student dance manager for the coming year.
Sue Webster, chairman of the committee, said that applications for the position are to be turned in by Friday. They should be forwarded to Miss Webster at 1625 Edgehill road.
Noble Takes 'Y For Summer
Wilbur B. Noble, former University Y.M.C.A. president, will take over the duties of D. Ned Linegar, executive secretary of the Y.M.C.A. tomorrow. He will serve as assistant secretary during the summer months.
Mr. Linegar has been granted a two-months leave to direct a training program in College camp, Wisc He will leave June 1.
Noble will direct the summer Y.M.C.A. program and will supervise the concessions at the summer recreation program. He will organize a picnic for new men students.
Mrs. Susan DeWater, office secretary, will supervise the service of the office in the Union building. The office will be the center for the University Extension in its handling of the conferences that will be held at the University this summer.
Elton Noble will develop plans for the freshman camp, Otis Hill, Jr. will work out the details of the student counselor program. Hugh Gibson and Noah Bigham will assist with the serving of refreshments at the summer recreation program.
Seminar Play Shows Young Married Life
Four actors and a narrator presented the play "Private Lives," a three-act comedy by Noel Coward, Tuesday night in the Little theater of Green hall.
The plot of the play centered around the private lives of two married couples on their honeymoon. The bickering and swapping of mates was the backbone of the plot.
Western Civilization grades will probably not be available until after June 5. The examination board is not certain of the length of time required to grade the papers.
Western Civ Exam Grades
Available After June 5
The play was the project of the graduate experimental seminar class. Mary K. Booth, graduate student, was director of the play and served as the narrator. The members of the cast included Elizabeth Brady, Sarah Jane Heil, Dan Palmquist, and Tom P. Rea.
The play was read by script as the members of the cast sat at a square table in the middle of the stage. The narrator sat at a small table on the extreme right side of the stage. The narrator described the scenes and physical actions of the players.
very much that this matter had to come up in connection with "College Daze," which was a splendid student production and a type which should be encouraged. However, I feel certain that basic policies of the Union Activities committee must be resolved to the satisfaction of all concerned."
Certain students in the cast of "College Daze" produced under the sponsorship of the Union Activities committee, had roles in the musical comedy, although their grades were not up to requirements.
"Both the Union Activities committee and the students concerned were notified last February that in order to participate they must conform to elegibility requirements," Dean Woodruff said. "It is the responsibility of any organization involved in scholastic requirements to check such scholarship."
Dean Woodruff will meet today with members of the Union Activities executive board, and the students involved in violations of scholastic rules. They will consider the action to be taken and the future plans of the Union Activities committee.
Unavailable for comment were Evans J. Francis, president of the committee; Jack Moorhead, author of the play, and Jess Stewart, who was in charge of production for "College Daze."
Speech Club Elects Hill
Otis J. Hill, College sophomore,
was elected president of the For-
ensic league at their annual banquet Tuesday.
Aldo G. Aliotti, engineering senior, will be vice-president. Other officers elected are Diane S. Stryker, College junior, secretary, and Curtis A. Nystrom, College sophomore, treasurer.
Three winners in the Forensic league intramural speech contests were guest speakers. Gene B. Courtney, College senior, spoke on "How to Improve Your Memory," and Doreen Wallace, senior, described "Quack in Psychology." Richard Bugler, engineering sophomore, repeated his first place after-dinner speech on "1948 Campaign Speeches."
League members recalled that approximately 300 students and 25 organizations had taken part in three intramural speech contests. The league has awarded eight gold cups to contestants.
Cafeteria Will Be Air Conditioned
A new water cooling tower is being erected on the south side of the Union.
The tower will provide cool air for the eight air conditioning units which have been installed in the cafeteria. The entire system, tower and units, weighs 70 tons. The air conditioning will make the temperature in the cafeteria about 15 degrees cooler than outside.
WEATHER
Kansas—Fair today, partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with a few widely scattered thundershowers west. Warmer extreme east today. Not quite so warm extreme west Thursday afternoon. High today near 90. Low tonight near 60.