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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 10, 1947
Students Inform Faculty Of Opinions On Courses, Standards, Prejudices
Ninety students and members of the faculty discussed common problems at the all day Student-Faculty conference sponsored by Mortar Board and Sachem at the Country club Saturday.
They discussed issues of student polls; better student representation and participation in activities; unnecessary prerequisites and new courses; race discrimination on the campus and in
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The conference had no legislative power, but aimed at giving suggestions to the faculty, and informing them of student opinion.
Research by the committee on student polls was presented by William Conboy who said, "Polls should prove useful in determining student opinion, since it is impossible to have a completely representative student council."
"Polls in the past have told us only what we already knew." Chancellor Deane W. Malott, said.
The immense amount of work in conducting a scientific poll was pointed out by Dean Henry Werner.
Differing opinions on student participation were expressed by Chancellor Malott who said that students are well represented on committees, and by George Caldwell who felt that machinery is lacking for adequate participation by the average student in University affairs.
Larry Miller, moderator, appointed Austin Turney, William Tincher, Robert Thayer, and Bruce Bathurst to do research on student participation and representation in activities.
Barbara Ford emphasized the need for more survey courses and fewer prerequisite for junior-senior courses.
Robert Ready opened discussion on curriculum by declaring that "there is too much stress on vocational training and not enough on citizenship training."
Robert Campbell and Robert Ready were appointed to investigate history requirements, and Alamanda Bollier, Arthur Partridge, George Caldwell, William Conboy, and Lois Thompson were appointed to meet with the faculty for inter-school co-operation.
No conclusions were reached on pre-enrollment, the system of enrolling in the spring to avoid adjusting schedules because of closed courses.
Prof. Calvin VanderWerf of the onemistry department, favored the system, saying it "places a premium of responsibility on the student and enables the professor to give better advice."
Chancellor Malott opposed pre-enrollment saying it was impossible to predict the number of students in advance, and the cost would be too great.
Professor VanderWef, Robert Thayer, and Emmalouise Britton were appointed to draw plans for pre-enrollment for consideration by next year's conference.
A report of faculty standards was given by Elizabeth Evans stating:
ONE 105 instructors have no degree whatsoever, excluding fine arts instructors who have had equal professional training;
TWO The University is losing many professors because of the low salary scale.
"I'll agree with you that assistant teachers are undesirable." Chancellor Malott asserted, "but what can you do—tell 2,000 young people that they can't come to school? This emergency situation is happening in all institutions, we aren't losing relatively," he said.
Race discrimination was reviewed by George Caldwell and the conference emphasized the need for better Negro housing and a clarification of the position taken by the coaches toward Negro athletes.
Add 4 Physiology Instructors
Dr. John McDonnell, Dr. Robert A. Jordan, Mrs. Dorothy Stucker and Dr. William Brownell have been added to the staff of the physiology department this semester as assistant instructors.
Mrs. Stucker received a bachelor of arts degree from the University with a major in physiology. Doctors Jordan, McDonnel and Brownlee are graduates of the K.U. School of Medicine.
Germans Want Student Letters
A group of University students in Hanover, Germany, has sent Chancellor Malott a letter requesting that students of the University be informed that German students wish to become acquainted with American students.
Through letter writing, the German group hopes to speed the exchange of ideas, to reinforce the work of the United Nations, and to remove some of the misunderstanding of the war years.
The writer for the German students. Ulrich U. Bessvua, said:
"After the late, long years, we have to learn much and want to know much. We are interested in the exchange of opinions and views about all kinds and branches of science, politics, and everyday life."
Students interested in writing to the German group which includes both graduate and undergraduate students in law, medicine, industrial organization, physics, and political science, should use this address:
12 Gartenstrasse
(20 b) Goettingen, Bez Hanover,
Germany, British Zone.
Marian Minor Heads National Pep Group
Marian Minor, College junior, was elected president of Phi Sigma Chi, national university women's pep organization at a convention held at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Saturday.
The national convention will be held here next spring Miss Minor said. The group is planning to have all Mid-West conference schools represented by then.
About 65 persons attended the convention. They represented the Tassle chapter from University of Nebraska, the Purple Peepsters from Kansas State, the Twisters from Iowa State, the Feathers from Omaha University and the Jay Janes. Miss Minor and Carolyn Nigg, Collee junior were the Jay Jane delegates.
Miss Minor will attend a chapter installation ceremony at Iowa State college at Ames, next month.
Presidents of the five Kansas state schools are meeting here today as guests of Chancellor Deane W. Malott. The administrators are discussing problems common to all state schools.
President Milton S. Eisenhower
Kansas State college; President L. D.
Wooster, Ft. Hays Kansas State
college; President David L. MacFarlane,
Kansas State Teachers college, Emporia;
and President Rees H. Hughes,
Kansas State Teachers college, Pittsburg are present.
State College Presidents Are Meeting Today
Must Meet Party Deadline
For Authorization—Habein
Many parties have not been authorized recently because of the failure on the part of organizations to meet the deadline, according to Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women. All parties must be turned in to the Dean of Women's office by 5 p.m. on the Tuesday before the weekend of the party. The authorization slip must also contain a complete list of the chaperones.
Daily Kansan Will Offer Bibler Caricature, Strip
Bibler's at it again.
Soon the Daily Kansan will blossom with a special BMOC, a caricature of well-known students and faculty members.
All you athletes, politicians,
Don Juans, and popular professors
will soon see your leering
likenesses in the pages of the
Daily Kansan.
Bibler has another idea, which will appear soon in a cartoon strip. He won't say exactly what it'll be like, but admits few curves will be in it.
The name will be published on the day after the caricature appears.
If students like the strip, it will become a regular feature of the Daily Kansan.
Seniors To Vote On Class Gift
A bathing beach for Potter lake or a trail marker for the Oregon Trail are among possibilities for a senior class gift to the University.
Seven suggestions will be put to a vote of the entire class in about three weeks. A committee is considering cost of the following projects:
ONE. A fountain to be placed between the Memorial and Frank Strong hall.
TWO. Furnishing an observation tower on top of the Memorial.
THREE. Furnishing the rotunda of Frank Strong hall as a lounge, with heavier desks and tables for study.
FOUR. A formal garden in one of the quadrangles, similar to the one west of Fraser hall.
FIVE. New meeting rooms in the south addition of the Union, or the outfitting of a lounge for the new Union ballroom.
SIX. Bathing beach at Potter lake.
SEVEN. A Trail marker for the Oregon Trail.
These suggestions were presented by both faculty and students.
Members of the committee working on the suggestions are: Elaine Wells, Perry T. Schuerman, William Ellis, Scott Harvey, and Donald Ong.
K.U. Tops Quota In Red Cross Drive
The drive on the campus ended Saturday. The city drive, however, will continue the first part of this week. Influenza, bad weather, and the city election were the reasons given for the extension. Contributions are turned in at the Round Corner drug store.
Contributions totaling $246.16 on the last day of the University Red Cross drive raised the total amount given to $781.66. The quota for the campus was $600.
The Careers Conference on March 18 and 19 will be a legitimate excuse for women in the School of Education and in the College to miss classes, Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, said today.
Girls May Cut Class For Careers Clinic
The conference is sponsored by the Women's Executive council, the Y.W. C.A. and the University Women's council.
Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, former congresswomen from Connecticut, who is now instructor of economics at Connecticut Women's college will be one of the speakers.
Others are Dr. Clara Nigg, bacteriologist; Mrs. Zula Bentington Greene, journalist, and Mrs. William C. Menninger, wife of the director of Menninger clinic in Topeka.
News of the World
Objections Delay UN Island Action
Lake Success, N.Y.—(UP)—Unexpected British and Australian objections threatened today to delay prompt United Nations approval of the United States claim to the 623 Pacific islands formerly mandated to Japan.
Authoritative sources disclosed that the S. now wants to give international agents the right to search every part of the world for even minor weapons—not just atomic bombs.
Big Four Begin Treaty Conferences
Moscow.(UP)—The big four convened late today in the Soviet house of aviation industry for the diplomatic conference dedicated to the task of forging treaties of peace for Germany and Austria and guaranteeing the security of Europe against aggression.
The meeting was called by Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov shortly after he had met with Secretary of State George C. Marshall who renewed the American bid for a fourpower 40-year treaty to keep Germany disarmed and demilitarized.
Truman Will Broadcast
Wednesday On Greek Loan
Washington — (UP) — President Truman will address the nation and a joint session of congress Wednesday to present "in detail" the matter of a loan to Greece.
This was announced today following an extraordinary conference between the president and congressional leaders of both parties.
Lewis Opposes Request To Halt April 1 Strike
Washington. (UP)—John L. Lewis and the United Mine workers today opposed a government request for an immediate supreme court mandate directing them to withdraw their strike notice within five days.
the government would complete its court victory over Mr. Lewis by forcing him to cancel his April 1 coal strike signal before the week is out.
YMCA Will Elect From 14 Candidates
Fourteen students have been nominated as candidates for the Y.M.C.A. spring election March 20 by the nominating committee.
The list was presented to the Y.M.C.A. cabinet at a meeting Friday.
The candidates will be presented at an all association meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Little Theater, Green hall. A panel discussion on the possibilities of future Y.M.C.A. work will be held.
Students nominated were president, Bruce Bathurst, College sophomore, and Wilbur Noble, College sophomore; vice-president, Donald Baumkun, business junior, Richard Pfister, College sophomore, and Edgar Thomas, engineering sophomore; secretary, Robert Davis, College freshman, Orin Wright, College freshman, Arthur Johnson, engineering freshman, and Roger Arnold, engineering freshman.
All Student council representative, Robert Franklin, College sophomore, Robert Thayer, engineering freshman, and Keith Wolfenburger, College sophomore; and regional representative, Dean Smith, medical student, and Dale Rummer, engineering junior.
On the panel are Donald Pomeroy, Arthur Partridge, Roswell Wahl, Dean Smith, Edgar Thomas, Erwin Fliotti, and the Rev. Richard Boyd, Westminster foundation worker of the Presbyterian church.
American Crew Faces Punishment In Palestine
Jerusalem. (UP)—Twenty Americans accused of aiding and abetting illegal immigration to Palestine in serving as crewmen in military camps near Gaza, the prime target, Ben Hecht, faced the technical possibility of wrison terms and stiff fides today.
However, it is believed the Americans would be sent back to the United States. A Jerusalem attorney was reported without confirmation to have been engaged to seek the release of the crewmen, whose names were not disclosed.
Formosa Under Martial Law
Nanking.(UP)—The Central News agency reported today that martial law had been instituted on the island of Formosa to put down an armed rebellion against Chinese authority. A series of clashes resulted from an attempt to put a new cigarette tax into effect.
Laryngitis Postpones Debut
Washington. —(UP)— Margaret Truman, whose radio debut as a singer was postponed for a week by a laryngitis attack, was reported "much better" today by a White House spokesman.
She returned from Detroit Sunday aboard the presidential four-motored plane, the Sacred Cow, and was met at the airport by President and Mrs. Truman.
Prague. — (UP)— Czechoslovakia and Poland today signed a 20-year treaty binding each to give assistance to the other in case of attack by Germany "or any other state allied directly or indirectly with Germany."
Czechs, Poles Sign Treaty
Both countries obligated themselves to develop relations in economic, political and cultural fields and not to enter into any alliance or coalition directed against the other party to this pact.
Salem, Ore.—(UP) — Rep. Jack Bates has introduced a bill in the Oregon house making it unlawful for motorists to drive vehicles which make more than 90 decibels of noise at 25 feet. Bates says 90 decibels of noise is about equal to the roar of a full grown lion 15 feet from the listener's ear.
No Roars From Cars
The property possession suit brought last fall against the University by Mrs. L. H. Menger and others of the Lawrence Women's club was decided in favor of the University Saturday by District Judge Hugh Means.
The suit was filed by club members who protested that the club board had acted without the consent of a majority of the members in leasing the house at 1941 Massachusetts street to the University for use as a women's residence hall. The house is now known as Briar Manor.
Judge Meens based much of his decision on the grounds that the University, as a branch of the state, cannot be sued without its permission.
Student court will meet at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday in Green hall court. Cases of traffic violations charged against the following will be heard:
Property Suit Decided In Favor Of University
Jean Campbell, Dick Ashley, Forest Davis, Albert Hocken, Lc Harris, Harold Herriot, William Hough, Frederick Hullett, Ernest Izard, William Jones, Wilbur Koelb Bill Lentz, Bryce Logan, Robert McCubinn, Clifford McDonald, John Mahoney, Albert Olivero, Owen Peck, and Eugene Reinhardt.