UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MAY 10,1946
New President Has Long Record Of Leadership
Howard Engleman, president-elect of the All-Student Council, will bring a wealth of experience to the presidency when he takes office this spring.
Engleman came to the University in 1837 from Arkansas City where he'd made an outstanding record in high school athletics and scholarship. In his sophomore year at K. U, he was a regular on the varsity basketball squad and broke a longstanding record set by Coach F. C. Allen by scoring 27 points against Oklahoma.
In his junior year he was a starting player on the Jayhawk squad which went to the N.C.A.A. finals before being beaten by a red-hot Illinois team. After that tournament he was chosen captain of the N.C.A.A. all-star team.
In his last year of competition, 1940-41, he was conference high scorer with a sizzling 16.5 point average a game.
He was graduated in 1941 from the School of Business. During his four years at the University, he was elected a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary business fraternity, was on the Dean's honor Roll, and was elected to membership in Sachem, senior men's honorary fraternity. He was also president of the Business school during his last year here.
Following graduation he went to work for Phillips Oil company and played on the independent Phillips Oilers. Later he was given a lieutenant's commission in the navy and during his three years service saw action in Philippine waters and was wounded in an engagement off Okinawa.
Engleman, a tall blond, returned to the University to study law, at the beginning of the spring semester
10 Students Honored For Union Activities
The Union Activities picnic, rained out of Dean Paul B. Lawson's yard, was held Thursday in the Elbow room of the Union.
Members of committees were honored for their work during the past year. They were LuAnne Powell Martha Yingling, Terry Herriott Keith Wilson, Lucille Mahieu, Rosemary Alderman, Mary Longnecker Joan Warton, Virginia Joseph and Dorothy James.
Members of the Union Operating board and guests were Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Waters, Dr. and Mrs. Lawson, Dean and Mrs. Henry Werner, Mr. and Mrs. Karl Klooz and Miss Hermina Zipple.
Not a bat-like monster from another planet, but a super-modern airplane is the Northrop Flying Wing shown above as pictured in the May issue of Science Illustrated, new science magazine. Closest approach yet to an aeronautical engineers' dream—a "dragless" plane—the Flying Wing is capable of non-stop flight around the world.
Believe It or Not, This Flies
K.U. Meets Tigers On Diamond Today
The Jayhawkers were to play the Missouri Tigers today in the first of a two-game series at Columbia. The second game will be played tomorrow. The Jayhawks need victories in both games to stay in second place in conference standing.
Coach "Red" Dugan still was juggling the lineup and batting order in an effort to strengthen the team Bub French probably will take over first base with Otis White returning to second base. Curly Hayden was slated to return to his left field position.
Probable Kansas lineup: Anderson, rf; Pritchard, ss; French, 1b
Hogan, f; Hayden, 1f; Morrow, 3b
White, 2b; Fcutz, c; Saffell, p.
Tom Saffell, who lost a tough game to Nebraska Monday, probably will hurt for Kansas today against the Tigers. Ray Ocamb will pitch for the Jayhawkers tomorrow.
Surplus Jeeps Sell for $523
Fort Riley. (UF)—An average price of $523 was bid here yesterday at the War Assets Administration surplus sale of 133 jeeps in which 350 registrants participated.
The total sales were only 90 per cent of the catalogue ceiling price, a check of the purchasers disclosed.
Divide Vote By One Number Greater Than Number To Be Elected—Complicated, Isn't It?
W. R. Lear, Hiawatha, bid the highest price at $621.
The proportional representation system of counting ballots used on this campus was inaugurated in 1934 to prevent a party that is slightly on majority among voters from swinging the election its way disproportionately.
The "bad example" of the proponents of the plan was cited many years ago when Tammany elected all 30 members of the New York assembly, when a proportional distribution of assembly members would have given it only 19 members.
Under the proportional representation system the votes are all taken out of the boxes and checked for voided ballots first rather than being checked for this one-by-one as they come out of the box.
The total valid vote is divided by a number one greater than the number. This increased quotient is the "quota" that each A.S.C. candidate must receive in order to be elected.
The ballots are then sorted into
quotes according to the first choices. In the College this year, when four women were to be elected to council and there were 771 votes cast for women in the college, the quotient was found by dividing five into the 771 and adding one and the quota became 150.
A candidate is automatically elected, when the quota of 150 first has been reached. The remaining votes over the quota go to the second choice on the ballot.
When all the ballots have been credited to first choices, and the excess ballots credited, the one candidate who is then lowest on the poll is declared defeated and his ballots transferred each to an eligible candidate indicated for the next choice.
The low candidates are declared defeated one at a time and their ballots transferred. It may happen that the last person elected does not have a full quota of votes, but nevertheless will have more than those candidates defeated.
Miller, Theta Win In Women's Softball
Kappa Alpha Theta defeated Gamma Phi Beta, 22-12, and Miller hall beat Kappa Kappa Gamma; 7-4, in the women's intramural softball games Tuesday.
Kappa's Parker and Gunsolly, and Miller's Green and I. Rothenberger played a strong game backed by hard fighting teams. Gamma Phi's pitching-catching pair was Urban and Brown against Theta's battery of Fadler and Francisco.
Tippieray outplayed Alpha Omicron Pi, 8-3, Watkins hall defeated Sigma Kappa, 21-3, Alpha Chi Omega won over Pi Beta Phi, 24-2, in games played Wednesday afternoon.
'You Can't Win,' Price Tells Math Club
"You can't win." Charlotte Price, president of the Math club, told members Thursday afternoon at a regular meeting.
Miss Price showed students the futility of betting by explaining the playing of horses and slot machines. She gave mathematical proof that the "bookies" never lose, and demonstrated the workings of a model slot machine.
The essential disadvantage in gambling," she said, "is that a person can't gamble over a period of time and win because he keeps gambling whether successful or not, always hoping greedily for more."
The annual spring picnic will be May 22, it was announced, and a prize will be awarded at the picnic for the person who has given the best program of the year.
Lois Harkleroad and Dale Rummer were nominated for president and June Montgomery and William Stoner for secretary - treasurer. Election will be at the picnic.
Alpha Delt, Kappa, Pi Beta Phi Left In Tennis Tourney
Four tennis teams will be matched in the semi-final women's intramural tournament to be played May 21. Winners will compete for championship honors.
Former Student Dies Of Accident Injuries
Joan Anderson and Gwendolyn Harger will play against Lucille Land and Teresa Norton, both teams of which will represent Alpha Delta Pi. Barbara Heller and Carrie Arnold, Kappa Kappa Gamma, will be pitted against Mary Varner and Joan Gardner, Pi Beta Phi, in the second match.
Mrs. Ross Relph, 25, died Thursday night in Hillsboro from injuries received in an automobile accident Tuesday morning. Her husband was injured in the accident, but is not in critical condition.
Mrs. Relph, the former Louise Jewett, DeSoto, attended the University from 1939 to 1942. Mr. Relph was enrolled in the School of Engineering and Architecture from 1939 to 1941.
Gas Explosion Kills Kansas City Men
Hutchinson. (UP)—A chain of accidents brought death Wednesday to Louis E. Gilchrist, fireman second class, Raleigh, N.C. He was killed when a Hutchinson Naval Air station truck overturned in answering an alarm near the station.
Six other sailors and one civilian suffered minor injuries in crashes which led to the alarm. After two cars collided head on, a third machine struck the wreckage and kindled a fire which destroyed two of the cars.
Housing Discussed By 22 College Deans
"Where will we house more students and faculty members?"
This was the major problem discussed by Dean Paul B. Lawson and the deans of 22 other state universities last week, at their annual meeting at Columbus, Ohio.
In roundtable discussions, the deans learned that many more students are applying for entrance than any state university can hold.
"Just how the universities can give the veterian the fair chance he deserves," Dean Lawson said, "and how they can supply the much-needed additional faculty members with sufficient salaries and houses for their families are problems being met by colleges and universities throughout the country."
Dean Lawson returned to the campus Wednesday.
Proficiency Grades Today
You can stop plucking daisy petals and chewing fingernails—the grades on the English proficiency examination given recently will be posted outside the College office today, Miss Veta Lear, assistant to the dean of the College, has announced.
Jav-Janes to Give Rush Tea
Sigma Chi came from behind to defeat the Old Timers, 7-4; in an intramural softball Thursday to move into undisputed possession of first place in Division III. Sigma Chi is undefeated.
Sigma Chi, V-12 Kappa Sigs Win Softball Games
The Jay-Jane rush tea for Independents-at-large and Delta Delta Delta will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday in the Kansas room of the Union, Virginia Wickert, president, announced today.
Kappa Epsilon, professional pharmacy sorority, will have its annual Founders Day dinner at 6 p.m., Monday, at the Hearth. The dinner will be formal. All members and associate members are invited.
In games played Wednesday Phi Delta Theta, Kappa Sigma, Ten Eycks, Delta Tau Delta, and Battenfeld came out on top.
Bob Beeler, Sigma Chi catcher, was injured trying to field one of the Old Timer's bunts. Beeler, in an attempt to pick the ball from the ground, stepped on his finger with a spiked shoe. The finger was broken and the skin torn in several places.
The Tekes won from the Sig Alphs 7-4. in a Monday game.
Phi Delta Theta outscored the Jaycees, 10-2. Battenfold defeated V-12 (B) 12-10 in a high-scoring game, and the Delt's came from behind to beat Delta Upson, 6-3. The Ten Eycks swamped Fi Kappa Alpha, 15-5.
Votes for Boyd Raeburn—those K-Club varsity stickers were effective—served to relieve the tension among glassy-eyed counters gathered in the smoke-filled room in Frank Strong hall last night.
Beta Theta Ki, Pappa Sigma, V-12 (A), Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Phi Delta Theta also won games Thursday.
Kappa Sigma defeated Beta Theta Pi, 7-5. The Beta's took the lead in the first inning, but Kappa Sigma came back in the second to tie the score at two-all. A five run rally in the third provided the winning Kappa Sirs runs.
The Beta's had to rally in the fifth inning to defeat the Ten Eycks, 6-4. The Ten Eycks took an early lead, but sporadic scoring enabled the Beta's to keep within reach.
"It looks like a long night, doesn't it?" an observer taunted, surveying "the people's choice," waiting in rows of plain wooden boxes, carefully padlocked. (He was then put to work.)
Earl "Round Man" Stanton and his co-worker couldn't seem to make things tally, but kept repeating cheerfully, "Well, let's try counting them once more. We're only 20 off."
By MARIAN MINOR (Daily Kansan Staff Writer)
Kappa Epsilon Dinner
Kibitzers moved between tables, keeping party leaders posted on the latest count in the race for student offices.
Kappa Sigma shut out Pi Kappa Alpha, 10-0, in five innings. The Kappa Sig's scored almost at will in the short game. Carruth forfeited to the TKE's. and Battenfeld forfeited to the Phi Delt's.
"All the women are voting for Nickell. . . Engleman's leading in this district. . . "
Buffdilled Nancy Hulings counting thoughtfully, "36, 36, 36, . . . oh,
yeah. 37 . . ."
A Greek, an Independent, a Greek,
an independent sitting side-by-side
at the long tables, nervously
cooperating on the counting processes.
Counting Takes Longer Than Voting, Weary Workers Discover
Loud murmurs, then hub-hub as the tide of voting changed . . .
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A sneeze at one table and sympathetic sighs of "Gesundheid!" from two tables over . . .
Ballots became slightly soggy and
sugary, when doughnuts and cakes were distributed around 10 o'clock, courtesy of the A.S.C. Try passing stacks of ballots sometimes with a coke in one hand, a doughnut in the other, and a cigaret dangling from your mouth.
"Migosh, what do I do now?" Rosemary Harding would 'wail' in her attempt to keep the fascinating proportional representation system of vote-counting working properly; Prof. E. O. Stene, political science, was kept hopping from table to table in answer to S. O. S.'s on the procedure.
Counters had to soothe Elizabeth Nevin's nerves, when she suddenly had the urge to calling out class offices backwards . . "President, Vice-President, Secretary—Treasurer" can get monotonous.
Noses began to shine and collars were jerked open, as the counting dragged into the last stretch. Party groups gathered as results came in, party strategy was cussed and discussed, and immediate party celebrations were planned.
"Things are looking up," glowered Delores Custer, while Bonnie Chestnut chewed her pencil and hummed, "It couldn't be true, it couldn't be true, or could it?"
Then came weak shouts from tired but jubilant winners and determined, "There's always next year," from the losers.
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