University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday, January 14, 1947
44th Year No.68
Lawrence, Kansas
Fieldhouse Plans In Thinking Stage Chancellor Says
The proposed fieldhouse for the University of Kansas has not reached the planning stage—it's still in the thinking stage, according to Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
He said that he planned soon to confer with the athletic board about appointing a fieldhouse committee to consider the problems of size, location, and whether the fieldhouse ought to include such additional facilities as a men's gymnasium and a swimming pool.
The most probable site is the area south of the baseball field and across from and north of the Union building, he said. Advantages of this site which he mentioned are that it is not an out-of-the-way part of the campus and is near the Union building, there is parking space nearby, it is easily accessible to the heating tunnel, and would not necessitate the costly job of tunneling into the rock layers of the hill. An area south of the Military Science building has several advantages but is too remote, he pointed out.
The chancellor said that building conditions were not yet sufficiently normal to estimate a date for beginning construction.
Regarding the proposal that the fieldhouse include a men's gymnasium, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said that enrollment in 1906, the year Robinson gymnasium was completed, was about the present enrollment of women.2248.
A fieldhouse is a costly thing to heat and maintain just as a field-house and isn't used very many times a year," he said. "If it were also used as a men's gymnasium, then Robinson gymnasium could be turned over to women."
By Bibler
I.S.A. Announces Election Candidates
Candidates for the annual Independent Student's Association election, to be held January 27, were announced by Lois Thompson, I.S.A. election chairman today.
the names of the candidates and the offices they seek are: for president, Shirley Wellborn, College junior, and Patricia Graham, College junior; for business manager, John Sells, Engineering junior, and Laurel Leckron, College freshman, for Student Council representative, Margaret van der Smissen, College sophomore, and Robert Casad, College freshman.
For senior class representative,
Allan Cromley, College senior, Clifford Reynolds, business senior, Elizabeth Pratt, College senior, and Ruth Cawood, College senior; for junior class representative, Marylee Masterson, College junior, Leah Uehling, College junior; Wilbur Casement, junior in the School of Business, and Ira Jordon, College junior.
For sophomore class representative, Helen Havey, College sophomore, Kathleen McClanahan, College sophomore, Majorie Vogel, College sophomore, Austin Turney, College sophomore, and Robert Campbell, College sophomore; for freshman class representative, Donna Shimer, freshman in the School of Fine Arts. Dorothy Keith, College freshman, James Montgomery, College freshman, and Norman Jennings, College freshman.
Tenative plans are to have polling places in both Frank Strong hall and the Union building during the day and in the library at night. I.S.A. cards must be presented upon balloting. This year's ballot will be of the secret written type.
Little Man On Campus
"I understand there are three men to every girl here this year."
'Revue Of '47 In Fraser Tonight
"Revue of 1947" will be presented at 8 tonight in Fraser theater. The program, sponsored by the Forensic league, will be the first of its kind presented at the University. The revue will be composed of speeches the students have selected as the outstanding selections of the year.
The planning committee for the program is composed of Otis Hill, chairman. Dorothy Heschmeyer. Keith Wilson, Virginia Powell, and Oral W. Vandiver. Orville Roberts, a graduate student, will be master of ceremonies.
The program includes "How to Make Faces" by Elden Teft, "Mississippi Misery" by Kenneth Beasley, "Fire-Friend or Foe" by Ernest Wildhagen, "The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse" by Jean Moore, "How Not to Make a Speech" by Richard McGhee, "How to Act" by Bernice Brady, and "Democracy, What Chance Have You?" by Russell Mammel.
Election Of Officers
The Progressive Student Governing league senate will meet at 9:30 tonight in 200 Frank Strong hall to discuss election of officers George Caldwell, president, announced.
Senate meetings will be closed to non-party members until after election.
Names of students who have passed the English proficiency examination. required for graduation from the College and the School of Education, will be posted tomorrow, Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, English instructor, announced today.
Proficiency List Posted Tomorrow
You Don't Know When To Get Up In Alaska, K.U. Geologists Agree
The list of college students who passed the examination will be posted outside the college office and the names of education students who passed will appear on the School of Education's bulletin board.
Of the 410 students who took the examination, 372 passed Mrs. Calderwood said.
With 18 sunlit hours a day, it's hard to decide when to go to bed and when to get up, according to John Harvey, engineering senior, and Alfred Spreng, graduate student.
The two K.U. students faced this problem last summer while working for the U.S. geological survey near Mt. McKinley, Alaska.
Sleeping in tents was comfortable, they said, as the temperature often reached a high of 90 degrees during the summer.
The working season is short the men explained, usually from May to August. During this time many la-
Harvey left Seattle in May to join some geologists inspecting a lignite coal deposit at Donnellly Done, south of Fairbanks. After several weeks, they moved to Mt. McKinley, where they met Spreng.
Alaska is a great and beautiful country with wildlife and picturesque scenery, both Harvey and Spreng agree. Transportation difficulties have slowed mining progress but there still remains a wealth of natural resources.
"Alaskans are great flyers," commented Harvey. "They speak of going to some small town about 200 to 300 miles away as casually as one would speak of a trip to Kansas City. Alaska is still in the pioneering stage, but many of the miners and trappers fly from their location town and back for supplies."
poers come to Alaska from the U.S. and Canada but do not remain through the long winter season. A few of the old "trial and error" prospectors still exist.
Author To Speak
Walter Fowlie, yale professor of French, will speak on "Myth in Modern Poetry" at 7:30 tonight in the Kansas room of the Union. Professor Fowlie is a visiting professor of the humanities at the University of Chicago, a poet, critic, and author of "Clowns and Angels" and "Rimbaud." The lecture is sponsored by the English department.
Student Admits K.U. Dorm Theft
Charles Forrest Sone, 21, student at Central College, Fayette, Mo., is being held in the county jail on a charge of grand larceny which Police Chief C. A. Bliesner said resulted from Sone's admission that he had gluarized three men's dormitories at K.U., three at M.U., and one at Kemper Military Academy, Bonneville, Mo.
Sone was picked up at 9:35 p.m.
Saturday when Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity members reported seeing
him leave the fraternity house with
a pair of shoes, Blesner said.
Sone, according to Chief Bliesner admitted entering and ransacking the Phi Gamma Delta house previously as well as at Battenfield Hall, and the men's dormitory basement in Spooner-Thayer museum.
He was brought to the police station for questioning and admitted stealing nearly $100 in cash and clothing, radios, luggage, phonographs, cameras, watches, electric clocks, pens and pencil sets, and electric shavers amounting to between $600 and $700.
Bliesner also said that Sone confessed to burglarizing DeFoe Hall, the stadium barracks, and the new barracks, all at M.U., and a barracks at Kemper Military Academy, Booneville. Mo.
Sone, who told Blieser his parents are missionaries in China, said he came to Lawrence Saturday to visit a girl friend.
Vets May Reinstate Insurance Until Feb.1
Feb. 1 will be the latest date that veterans may reinstate their government life insurance, Dr. E. R. Elbel, director of the veterans bureau, announced today.
Veterans who have let their insurance lapse, need pay only two back premiums, and submit a signed statement that their health is as good as it was when they were discharged from the service to have their insurance reinstated.
The veterans administration office at 1035 Massachusetts street is assisting veterans in filling out the proper forms.
The Feb. 1 deadline should not be confused with the conversation period, Dr. Elbel pointed out. Veterans have until eight years after the insurance was taken out to convert it.
Court Will Hear Smoking Pleas
Nine students charged with violating the smoking regulations will be arraigned before the student court in Green hall at 7 p.m. tonight. If an alleged violators pleads guilty at the arraignment he will be fined two dollars. If he declares himself not guilty his case will be tried at the next court session on Tuesday.
After clearing the docket of the smoking regulation offences, the court will hear appeals from students who hold traffic violation tickets. If a student does not wish to appeal, he should pay his fine before next semester, as no offender will be enrolled until he has done so.
Union Annex Construction Begins March 1
"Construction of the new $100,000 Union annex will get under way about March 1, if the weather permits." Ogden S. Jones, chairman of the Union Operating committee, announced today.
"Re-enforcing and structural steel have arrived, and other materials have been shipped," he said.
"The contractor has received favorable replies on all other requests for materials," Mr. Jones added.
The re-enforcing steel is now piled on the grounds north of the Union, while structural steel is stored under the stadium.
The new northern addition, which will include a 60-by 80-foot addition to the fountain, new food service facilities, and roof-top dancing space, will be a one-story structure. If present plans are carried out, it should be complete and ready for use by this year's fall semester.
The annex will be financed by long term bonds to be paid off by student activity fees. A second addition, which will be a three-story structure on the south of the present building, has been planned but will be erected at later date.
Miss Hermina Zipple, director of the Union building, is now making a survey for the kitchen needs of the new annex.
Miss Doering said that she was pleased with the campaign which establishes an all time high in sales. Eloise Hodgson, Jannet Rummer, and Paul Briley, the student committee appointed by the All Student council, organized the campaign.
Union Gives Check To Tuberculosis Fund
The sum was a presentation of the Student union and was obtained from the money ballots used in the recent election for queen of the Student union.
A check for $150 which climaxed the tuberculosis seal campaign and brought the total to $1116.78 was given to Miss Kathleen Doering, faculty 'advisor' for the drive, Monday.
Jo Ellen Hall, Alpha Chi Omega,
was the candidate elected queen by
the money ballots. She was crowned
in a traditional Christmas mid-week
and attended by Isabel Faurot, Chi
Omega, and Dorothy Heschmeyer,
Alpha Micron Pi.
"The newly formed Progressive party, men's campus political organization, will hold its first organizational meeting at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas room of the Union." Donald Pomeroy, temporary president, said today.
He announced that a definite party policy would be adopted, and that election of officers for the coming semester would be held.
Pomeroy Calls Party Meeting Tomorrow
According to Pomeroy, the Progressive group is the first party in several years to attempt an Independent-Greek political union. The party is to be a non-secret organization and representative of all groups in the University, he said.
Anyone interested in student government problems is asked to attend the meeting, he added.
WEATHER
Kansas—Fair today and tonight.
Colder today and in east tonight.
Low tonight near 20 west border to
25 to 30 east border. Wednesday
partly cloudy. Somewhat warmer
west.