1947
University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1947
44th Year No.88
Lawrence, Kansas
The 'Bard' Had Less Than That in His Troupe
More students will take part in the production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" than in any other play in the history of K. U., according to Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama.
He estimates that 60 students will have a hand in the production of Shakespeare's fantasy.
"In addition to the original elves, we've added some more of our own," Crafton said. "You might say that these extra elves are of the Kansas variety. Their job will be to transport the audience from the plains of Kansas to Shakespeare's fairyland."
Along with the increased cast there will be a formidable array of technicians, artists, and assist directors.
By Bibler
Three graduate students are helping Professor Crafton to direct the play. They are Alice McDonnell, Ivan Sparling, and William Roberts. The cast has been divided into three groups, each working under the supervision of an assistant. Twice a week the groups unite for a complete rehearsal.
Jack Morton, sophomore engineer,
designed the set for the production,
and is helping with its construction
and painting. Special lighting effects have been worked out by Miss McDonnell and Ivan Sparling.
Aware that the state ways and means committee was present, last night's basketball ball through chorused at halftime. "We want a fieldhouse," to the amusement of the visiting legislators.
The stagecraft class, supervised by Donald Dixon, assistant professor of speech, has done most of the set construction and painting.
Legislators Hear Plea For New Field House
The ways and means committee arrived from Topeka yesterday afternoon on its biennial visit to Mt. Oread, but the legislators were unable to make as complete a tour of the campus as had been planned.
Members of the committee were conducted through the Sunnyside housing project, and some of them expressed the opinion that housing facilities here are better than at Kansas State college.
"We were at Manhattan last week to look over Kansas State college." Representative Paul A. Bailey said. "There isn't any doubt that K.U. is far ahead of K-State in housing. The buildings here are in much better condition and are far more comfortable for the occupants."
Chancellor Deane W. Malot spoke to the group in Danforth chapel upon their arrival. He told them of the crowded conditions here, and that the University expects as great an enrollment next year.
Dinner was served to the committee members and their wives in the Kansas room of the Union. They left for the state capital following the basketball game.
Army Men Eligible For Navy Reserve
Ex-army men are eligible for membership in the navy inactive reserve (V-6), Arnold Gibson, yeoman third class, stated Monday. A travelling V-6 unit in the lobby of Frank Strong hall will accept reserve enlistments until Friday noon.
Ex-navy men with two years of college may apply for a commission.
college they more than 46 K. U. men have been recruited in the V-6 program, yeoman Gibson said.
Little Man On Campus
"I'm afraid we'll have to shift that Haskell boy from the furnace room."
Home Ec. Classes To Move From Fraser
Classes in clothing design and textiles now being held in the halls of Fraser will soon be able to move back into class rooms, Miss Hill of the home economics department said today.
Work on the new labs is nearing completion. Setting up of tables and chemical equipment are all that remain.
Room 116, the new clothing lab, will have four sewing machines and four new plastic-topped tables. On one side will be a large sectional mirror and also a walk-up storage closet.
The textile lab, room 2, will be
set up with chemical equipment to test the various fibers in materials. A new cement floor has been put in, and the wainscoting all around the room will be given a natural wood finish. Walls above the wainscoting will be aqua, and the woodwork white. In addition to four plastic-topped tables here, there will also be individual desks nad chairs for students not working on research. Aluminum chairs, the first to be used in a campus classroom, will be used in the lab.
"The renovation in the home economics department, requested last year, was due to be finished in November," said Miss Hill.
Speaks Tomorrow
WEATHER
Justice Douglas L. Edmonds of the supreme court of California will speak in Fraser auditorium at 10 a.m. Wednesday in a meeting open to the student body. The subject of his address will be, "Obligations of Citizenship under Present Conditions."
Kansas—Partly cloudy and continued cold today, tonight and Wednesday. Occasional light snow flurries northeast today and tonight.
Appointed to the high California bench in 1936. Justice Edmonds is serving his second elective term, which will expire in 1956.
JUSTICE DOUGLAS EDMONDS
As a student at Kansas University Dr. Nigg was secretary to Dr. N. P Sherwood. She was graduated in 1921 with a major in bacteriology She studied the origin of the American Indians, through blood groupings of some 800 of them, finding that they stand alone as a third group in world races.
In 1941 Dr. Nigg was director of the Influenza Research laboratory, International Health division, Rockefeller Foundation at Minneapolis. She discovered a new pneumonia virus in 1942. During the war she was in charge of typhus vaccine preparation for E. R. Squibbs & Son in New Brunswick, N. J. She is now head of the virus laboratory for Squibbs.
Parking Tickets Must Be Appealed Within A Week
All students wishing to appeal parking tickets must file notice with the student court within one week from the date of receiving the ticket under a new ruling, which goes into effect today, the parking committee announced.
group in ww. In New York she was with the National Pathological laboratory, then the state board of health.
She returned to K. J. for her doctorate and worked as an assistant to Dr. Sherwood. She became associated with the Rockefeller Foundation through her work in blood groupings of Indians.
The new rule applies only to tickets received since the start of the spring semester. Any students who received tickets during the present semester prior to Feb. 25 must file the notice by March 3.
Upon receiving notice of a student's intention to appeal, the court will set a day for the hearing of the case. Any students who do not file the notice within the required week will be deemed guilty of the violation.
Nigg To Receive Service Award
Dr. Clara Nigg, bacteriologist, will receive the Distinguished Service award from the University for her work in blood grouping, typhus, and virus diseases. The award, voted in 1941, will be presented when she visits the campus to speak at the Careers Conference, March 18 and 19.
Roy Roberts Heads Star, Has Kept K.U. In Limelight
Roy A. Roberts, who recently became president of the Kansas City Star, after serving as managing editor since 1928, has for the last 19 years kept Mr. Oread before the eyes of Kansas and Missouri. He took command of the Star after the death of Earl McCollum.
A University of Kansas student in 1905 (with Alf Landon), Mr. Roberts left school, worked on the Lawrence Journal-World, and served as the Star's Washington correspondent from 1915 to 1928.
Florid, food loving, weighing 300 pounds, he is the extrovert who sits in shirtseeves in his city room, chewing a frayed cigar and talking to clergymen, pan handlers, bankers, and ward-heelers alike.
He stalks around the newsroom,
greeting the city-desk horse-player
as Seabiscuit and the Navy veterans
as Admiral.
Since the death of William Rockhill Nelson the Star has been a closed corporation whose owners are the employees, drawing up to $50,000 a year.
ear.
Staunchly Republican, the Star hae
a grey front page that is well-known to its readers all over Missouri and Kansas. Its conservative make-up has allowed an eight-column headline only 20 times since 1929. When one sees such excitement on the front page he knows that either the world has ended or the Republican party has landslid an election.
Recently after the close of the Star carrier strike, many students doubtless agreed with the man who sighed, "Life is getting back in the old groove."
The Star's sports page is kind to Jayhawker athletic misfortunes and plays up its victories. The high percentage of Kansas Citizens on Mt. Oread plus Mr. Roberts' schooling at the University insures good coverage of varied activities on the Hill.
Race Prejudice Hinders Policy-Baez-Camargo
Racial discrimination is discrediting the United States' foreign policy Dr. Gonzalo Baez-Camargo declared Monday afternoon, after his seminar in Westminster hall.
"One of the greatest points of misunderstanding is that the United States does not seem to have solved its race problems," he said. "In Latin America this is something that is being used to foster ill-will against the United States."
As an example, he cited a Mexican magazine that goes to great effort to publicize every known example of racial discrimination in the U.S. such as lynchings of Negros, segregation of Jews, and the anti-social activities of the Ku Klux Klan and similar organizations.
Dr. Baez-Camargo is professor of Christian literature at the Union Theological seminary in Mexico City, and editor of Luminar, a theological Spanish quarterly.
"It is very difficult for Latin Americans to understand this discrimination. We who are interested in good relationships between our countries feel that it would be a tremendous step toward better understanding between nations to find a solution to the problem."
A frequent visitor to the United States, he was a member of a group of Bolivian and Mexican journalists who toured the United States and Canada in November and December, 1942, under the auspices of the National Press club, the State department, and the Canadian government. He comes to K.U. from Texas university, where a similar Religious Emphasis week was held.
Lafayette, Ind. (UP)—Purdue University's fieldhouse was sealed today awaiting an investigation into the sudden collapse of bleacher stands which killed two students and injured 250 basketball fans Monday night.
Bleachers Collapse Killing Two Students
Purdue's President Frederick L. Hovde said the "newly purchased stands erected last November were not loaded beyond their rated capacity."
The 30 foot high wooden stands running the length of the basketball floor on the east side of the court collapsed in the middle and spilled 3,500 spectators to the ground a minute after the end of the first half of the basketball game. The half ended with Purdue holding a 35 to 34 lead over Wisconsin.
Many of the 250 injured suffered broken arms or broken legs or back injuries. A hundred injured persons were given first aid treatment at the scene.
Students Discuss Marriage At Paola
Courtship, moral standards, and different religions, problems in attaining a Christian marriage, were discussed in an inter-collegiate conference sponsored by the College of Paola Sunday.
KU. students attending were James Scanlan, College junior; William Hogan, education junior; Kenneth Dieker, college freshman; Bernard Domann, pharmacy sophomore; Cyril D. Steyer, engineering senior; and Paul Keenan, engineering junior.
Representatives of Kansas and Missouri colleges gave their personal opinions at the discussion, aided by a moderator, Father Charles Kelly of St. Louis University, who gave an explanation of the church's views.