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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 14.1946
Student Groups Hold Mock UN Conference Saturday
Plans Started More Than A Year Ago Materialize After Much Controversy
The question marks after countries are larger this year, but the peace conference that has had a long and controversial career will materialize here Safurday when student delegates make Hoch auditorium their Hunter college.
This conference has no connection with the ones planned last year, Donald Ong, committee chairman emphasized.
Plans were started a year ago April by the Student Religious council for a two-day student world security assembly to be sponsored by the Y.W.C.A., the American United groups, Forums board. and the administration.
This spring conference was postponed until fall, as the committee felt that plans could be more adequately prepared and sponsored later.
Plans for the conference were born again in a burst of enthusiasm in the fall. Each organized house was to fly the flag of the country it represented. Foreign students were invited to sit with the delegates representing their respective countries.
This, too, died quietly upon recommendation of the committee chairman that the Forums board and two members of the conference committee formulate a project to replace the one scheduled.
A series of discussion groups in faculty homes was substituted by Forums board this year, and John Ise, professor of economics, opened the first and only public discussion with his speech, "The Fundamental Requisites of World Peace," at the home of Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
The mock UN conference to be held Saturday is being sponsored by the International Relations club; Forensic league; alpha Phi Omega, national service society; Pi Sigma Alpha, national political science society; and Delta Sigma Rho, national debating society.
These groups set up an executive committee to organize the campus conference when the idea grew out of an International Relations club convention held at Emporia recently, Qag said.
Members of the committee are Ong, chairman; Shirley Wills, secretary; Virginia Neal and Richard Hawkinson, International Relations club; Orville Roberts, Pi Stigma Alpha; Jean Moore, Delta Sigma Rho; Charles Crowley, Alpha Phi Omega; Buford Tribleb, Forensic league; and H. B. Chubb, professor of political science.
Cheerleader Tryouts Will Be May 27
Cheerleader applicants may attend practice sessions at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Monday, and Wednesday, May 22, in the Kansas room at the Union, Lois Thompson, chairman of the A.S.C. traditions committee, announced today, Alberta Cornwell, head cheerleader, will lead the sessions.
Tryouts for next year will be held at 7:30 p.m., May 27 in the Union ballroom. The University pep committee will judge applicants on their ability to lead cheers.
"The practice sessions are to help the applicants and are not required." Miss Thompson said. She requested that anyone desiring to try out notify her.
Members of the pep committee are Miss Thompson, Sewell Mac Ferran, Jane Peterson, Caroline Morris, and Joan Anderson, of the A.S.C. traditions committee; Guy Aschcraft, Ku Ku; Virginia Wickert, Jay Jane president; Leroy Robison, K-club president; Dr. F. C. Allen, basketball coach; George Sauer, football coach; Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni association; and Miss Cornwell.
De Soto Students Visit K.U.
Thirty-one students of the Latin class of De Soto High School visited the campus Saturday. They were shown through the Wilcox Museum of Classical Antiques by Professor L. R. Lind of the department of Latin and Greek.
Lightning starts one out of 10 forest fires a year.
Miners Return to Work After Coal 'Truce'
Monday saw the beginning of a "truce" in the soft coal strike, and miners went back all over the country. The scene here shows them loading a car in the O'Kay mines, Marissa, Ill. Mine operators have agreed to a
demand by John L Lewis for the United Mine Workers on three million dollars in back pay, but balked at a new Lewis request for 70 million more in payroll checkoffs.
Now You Know-It's Those 'Dead Areas' In Hoch That Bore You, Not the Speaker
"I can't hear a thing!" a girl sitting under the balcony during a recent convocation in Hoch auditorium complained.
"Maybe you could if you'd keep still," answered a neighbor who was trying to hear the speaker.
But the girl's trouble didn't come from talking too much. She just happened to be sitting in one of the "dead" seats in the auditorium. Sound waves refract from the walls of the auditorium, bouncing back to the ears of the attenders. Sometimes, these waves meet at one point, making "dead" areas such as the one in which this girl was sitting.
However, the planning of the inside of the auditorium and the type
Signs of Spring: Studying . . . or Something
of sound absorbing material used in the walls has cut down to a minimum the dead areas in the room.
The big blue amphifier which hangs above the orchestra pit in the auditorium also is an aid to the audience. In use for over six years, it has been kept in constant repair by the building and grounds department.
During each convocation, a special monitor makes a "hearing" trip around the auditorium to determine whether or not the amplifier is pitched too high or too low, or whether the volume is good for the size of audience.
You know it's spring when happy couples get together on the University lawn to study . . . or something. Shown here are Mary Margaret Huse, College
freshman from Tulsa, Okla., and Ross Baker, also a College freshman from Peabody. (Daily Kansan photo by Ralph Andrea.)
"We could blast them right out of their seats," C. G. Bayles, super-intendent of buildings and grounds, stated, "or we could pitch the amplifier so low everyone would have to strain to hear what was going on."
Luckily for the audience, this doesn't happen. A pilot circuit, operated behind stage, prevents or remedies disorders of this kind.The monitor who makes the rounds of the auditorium to check the sound, carries with him a telephone. Whenever, he discovers an area in which the waves are pitched too high or low, he phones the pilot circuit, and the volume is increased or decreased accordingly.
So if you happen to be one of the persons who "can't hear a thing," don't complain. Just change seats, if there are any empty seats left.
Campus Raises $2,672 In Memorial Drive
A total of $2,672 from pledges, cash, and "Yucca Yucca" has been collected toward the $10,000 campus goal for the K.U. war memorial, financial chairman, reported this morning.
Ten organized houses have not turned in their contributions yet, Higdon said. The committee plans to keep the drive open and to try to teach unorganized students, he added.
Pharmacist to Meet Tonight
The first meeting of the University student branch of the American Pharmaceutical association will be held at 7:45 p.m. today in 305 Boiley Chemical laboratories, Donald Brodie pharmacy professor, announced today. About 20 out of town guests are expected at the meeting, Professor Brodie added.
Supersonic Planes To Fly Experimentally in 7 Months
Langley Field, Va. (UP) - Within seven months supersonic planes, built to exceed the speed of sound -750 mil es an hour, probably will be flown experimentally.
Well-informed sources made the disclosure during the first public inspection of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics laboratories since the war started.
If you do, you are one of the few college students who have such knowledge, according to J. Sheldon Carey, professor of ceramics, in a recent article in the Bulletin of the American Ceramics Society.
Do you know that glaze is not colored paint, or that show-card colors are not used for painting paitery and figures?
"Ceramics is more than the dabbling with a handful of clay, yet how many persons realize this?" Professor Carey asks. He maintains that teachers and students have not reached fundamentals in their study of art.
Ceramics Is Not Just Dabbling
This educational thought is directed toward the man in the street "who need not be an artist, but who must be given the opportunity to see, choose, and appreciate the beauty around him. The boy of today is the man in the street tomorrow and all efforts in ceramic education will be built toward and for him for complete success," Professor Carey explains.
The coming need for a more universal form of self expression is leading toward the development of a curriculum which will include ceramic art as a vital part of the educational program, he says.
Clay is an inexpensive medium with which a child can create, train his mind and muscles, and acquire sensitiveness in seeing the things around him. He has something tangible to work with and excel in as well as enjoying the feel of the clay. Clay provides a basis of thinking and creative together.
The inability of teachers and lack of enthusiasm for ceramic art has held back its growth in the modern school system, Professor Carey asserts.
If the individual is given the opportunity to approach ceramic art from a beneficial and appreciative standpoint, Professor Carey believes it will not be long before he will demand from the manufacturer different products with a greater variety.
VAN LOVE