University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday, June 3, 1947
44th Year No. 153
Lawrence. Kansas
Manuscripts In Writing Contest Sent To Judges
The best manuscripts submitted in the first annual $2,500 William Allen White contest in creative writing offered by C.P. Putnam's Sons have been sent to the final judge to determine the winner. Novels, short stories, verse, and a play were submitted. Only students enrolled at the University are eligible to compete.
Final judges are Chancellor Deane W. Malot, Frederic Babcock of the Chicago Tribune, and Kennett L. Rawson, head of the editorial department of G.P. Putnam's Sons.
The University committee which screened the manuscripts consisted of Prof. John Hankins, Prof. C. K. Hyder, Prof. Raymond West, and Prof. Elmer F. Beth.
"I say—how long do ya think it will take?"
Sabine Asks For Year's Leave
Professor Sabine expects to complete requirements for a Ph.D. degree in political science before his return to the University in September, 1948. He will also lecture in journalism while there.
Gordon Sabine, assistant professor of journalism and varsity tennis coach, has requested a one year leave of absence for graduate study at the University of Minnesota. His application is subject to approval by the board of regents.
Professor Sabine was faculty advisor of the University Daily Kansas for one and one-half years, and has been tennis coach the past two years. His tennis squad finished second in Big Six competition this year, losing only to the undefeated Oklahoma squad. In 1946 he guided the Jayhawkers to the conference championship.
'New Writers' Book On Sale Tomorrow
New Writers, an anthology of fiction produced by the University Writers' Workshop, will sell for 25 cents a copy tomorrow in the lobby of Fraser, the Union, and Frank Strong rotunda.
The booklet will contain short stories by John Baird, Robert Hutchinson, Charles Nilon, Bonnie Oswalt, and Robert Taylor, plus sections of novels by Herbert Kauffman and Carolyn MacKinnon.
There'll Be One More UDK
OOps! Our mistake. There will be one more University Daily Kansan published tomorrow.
It definitely will be the last issue for this semester.
WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy today, tonight, and Wednesday. Few widely scattered showers and thunderstorms. Slightly warmer northeast and north central today. High today 75 to 80. Not quite so warm northwest half Wednesday.
West To Read Selections In Last Of Poetry Series
Ray B. West, Jr., associate professor of English, will present selections of modern English poetry at 7:30 p.m. today in room 110. Fraser hall.
This will be the last of the series of informal readings of English poetry presented this semester by the English department. Plans are being made for a similar series for the fall semester.
Smith, Thomas To Head Kansan
William T. Smith, Jr., College junior, was elected managing editor of the University Daily Kansan for the fall quarter by the Kansan board Monday.
Assistant managing editors chosen were Marian Minor, College junior, and John Finch, College sophomore. Clarke Thomas, College junior, will be editor-in-chief.
Smith, a married veteran living at Sunflower, was assistant managing editor this semester and city editor last semester. He is also a member of the Kansan board and president of Sigma Delta Chi journalism fraternity.
New Kansan board officers for the 1947-48 school year are Alan J. Stewart, chairman, and Elizabeth Schindling, secretary. Both are College juniors.
The new business staff for next fall is; business manager, Kenneth White. College junior; advertising manager. Elizabeth Schindling, College junior; classified advertising manager, Betty Bacon. College junior; national advertising manager, Ruell Reddock. College senior; circulation manager, Beverly Betz, College junior; and promotion manager, Bertrand Morris. College junior.
White was national advertising manager last semester, and is co-business manager of the Summer Session Kansan.
Arden Almquist Awarded $100 For Best Essay
The Hattie Elizabeth Lewis prize essays on applied Christianity have been chosen for this year. The first prize of $100 was awarded to Arden Almquist, freshman medical student, for his essay, "Christian Missions in One World."
Ronald D. Albright, College senior,
won the second prize of $75 for his
essay, "Japan—Challenge to Christian-
ity."
Duplicate three prizes of $50 each were given to Robert B. Hutchinson, College senior, who wrote on the topic "Christian Love and the Problem of Conflict," and to Isabelle F. Duncannon, fine arts freshman, whose subject was "The Responsibility of the Veteran to Society."
The judging committee was composed of Miss Lulu Gardner, professor of English, chairman; Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism; Miss Mattie Crumrine, assistant professor of romance languages; and G. L. Anderson, associate professor of history.
The committee reported an unusual interest in the competition. Seven essays were submitted, the largest number in several years, according to the committee.
The committee recommended that the first prize essay be printed. Plans have been made to distribute the printed essay to most of the major universities and colleges in the United States.
Six Have Applied As Dance Managers
Six persons have applied for position of dance manager for the 1947-48 academic year. They are Pen Webster, fine arts sophomore; Charles D. Johnson, special student in the School of Business; Robert J. Anderson and Donald Wind, College freshmen; Joe Moddrell and Ralph Moberley, College sophomores.
The applicants were interviewed by members of the A.S.C. social committee today.
We've Lived Through This But What Will Next Year Be Like?
Is the University becoming an impersonal, take-it-or-leave-it, big time institution?
Students who were here before the war say it has become more like an assembly line for learning than the University they knew in 1941.
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This year brought an influx of 8,800 students with their problems of housing, meals, crowded classrooms, $ \textcircled{1} $
More Crowded Quarters
And the new student next fall may see more people, more buildings, more crowded living quarters, and more cars than the bewildered freshman of 1946.
There's going to be one big improvement—more teachers. Raymond Nichols, the chancellor's executive secretary, says the University is hiring a "substantial number of new teachers" for two main reasons.
ONE. Smaller classes.
TWO. More classes.
The board of regents hasn't released the exact number of new teachers yet, but Mr. Nichols says classes should be less crowded than they are now.
Housing will still be the headache. Mrs. Faye Netzer, executive secretary of housing, expects the rinch to be in married students' housing.
Housing A Headache
Couples in Lawrence apartments either will be staying or they will have planned to turn their homes over to friends.
houses over the At sunflower a few of the 600 couples there will be leaving. It's going to be a bargain basement
scramble for vacancies, says Irvin Youngbenz, director of dormitories.
The single student will have a rough time if he hasn't made prior arrangement for high school where the Greek river has troubling into. Mrs. Netzer's office.
The 32 person capacity of Monchorsia, recently formed men's dorm, will be turned over to University women.
the veteran's bureau thinks there will be some growth from summer dischargees and persons coming back to school after quitting
More Veterans. Maybe
In any case, the local veteran's bureau will continue to be one of the busiest offices. It's moving into a new office that completed back of Frank Strong ball.
If you've been waiting half an hour in that noon cafeteria line, you can expect relief next year. The new addition is one more of the three restaurants to be finished by next fall, if glazed tile can be obtained for the interior finish.
The annex will make more serving and eating space in the lower cafeteria, plus more coke facilities on the first floor.
Politics As Usual
Hill politics will go on with its
imbecilities as well as its accomplishments. James Waugh, ASC president, will have the ulcerative job of trying to harmonize a council of false factions and juvenile political maneuvering.
Pachacamac, Progressive, and P. S. G. L. will fight it out for votes, while non-party members hold the balance of power.
As president of the Associated Women students, Shirley Wellborn will lead the group as a newly body for University women.
Byrnes, Marshall May Speak
The Intercollegiate United Nations conference will dwarf the one held in Hoch auditorium this year. Jean Moore, first year law student and national president, hopes to take on the role of co-offers as Secretary of State Marshall and James Byrnes. Students will come from 40 colleges.
Students and faculty will get together again to talk things over, sponsored by Sachem and Mortar Board.
Plenty Of Engineers
In Marvin hall, engineer enrollment may reach 2,200. The figure is now about 2,000. J. O. Jones, dean of the School of Engineering, says he will have a problem when the 1,000 freshmen who enrolled last fall start taking junior-senior courses. They may require more than the 11 classrooms now available in Marvin hall.
G. I. entitlement in many cases goes beyond the bachelor's degree.
Dean Jones believes that means more graduate students next year, and they need more laboratory space.
The building going up behind Lindley hall will give the architects more space for their drafting boards.
In a post-war trend, mechanical engineering has replaced chemical engineering as the largest department. This will probably continue while the G. I.'s roll in.
Fine Arts Has SRO
The School of Fine Arts now has standing room only. Dean D. M. Swarthout says there will be several new faculty members to handle the growing demand for majors in clarinet and flute, something unheard of 10 years ago.
Theory classes are growing, and more attention will be given to modern music. The art will be taught for College student. Lavish Music Course
The most lavish item is the Ballet Theater, to perform in Hoch auditorium in February. It'll have a seat of 60 persons with a 25 píchei *chest*.
The University Concert course will come out with more than a $10,000 program series, $2,500 more than any previous year.
The band will have 125 new uniforms, coats of crimson and blue and grey pants with a red stripe. Band members will no longer shiver in those cold rains at football games. The uniforms include
all-weather top coats.
May Have Big Grid Year
Football coach George Sauer has brought the University from the cellar to the top on the gridiron. He'll have everyone back from last year's squad, and all schools will be gunning for K. U.
Coach Sauer says, "Our club should be just as good as last season, which doesn't mean we'll win more games or even as many. We can't expect to take everybody by surprise this year."
But the road schedule's going to be rough. We play Oklahoma, Oklahoma A. & M., and Nebraska on their home grounds.
'Phog' Back On Job
The basketball team will lose Ray Evans and Charlie Black, but Phog's back on the job. Allen coached teams are always dangerous. Bob O'Brien's height and experience at center, plus Schnell-bacher and Jack Eskridge at forwards, means potent scoring.
But of course, Dr. Allen says,
"The outlook is always dark here,"
Next year will probably be as big and maybe bigger than 1946-47. Bigger in enrollment, bigger in curriculum, and bigger in University plant.
Let's hope for a better year, especially a return to the old friendliness that used to distinguish K. U.