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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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APRIL 15,1946
Kansan Doesn't Print the News Is Criticism At Student-Faculty Meet
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That students "aren't getting news from the Daily Kansan" was one criticism voiced at the student-faculty conference held Saturday at the Lawrence Country club.
"Students have a right to say what goes into their paper," Duane Adsit, College freshman, protested. "The Kansan just isn't giving the campus good coverage."
Each campus group is seeking publicity and the Daily Kansan editors have to decide which stories have the most news value, Patricia Penney, the Daily Kansan managing editor explained.
"I think the Kansan has improved greatly during the past year." Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College, said, "but it should keep in mind its community responsibility."
"I have worked with metropolitan papers, Mrs. Christina Alford, Y.W.C.A. secretary, added, "and have never seen a paper so hardboiled about printing news of community interest such as the Red Cross and War Memorial campaigns."
"The all day conference was sponsored by Mortar Board and Sachem senior honor societies. The day began with an introduction by Clyde Jacobs, moderator, and continued with the discussion of the "Objectives of a Liberal Education", "Activities," and the "Counselling System." After lunch at 12:30 p.m. come the discussion of "Campus Governing bodies". "Curriculum Changes", and evaluation of the conference by Chancellor Deane W. Malott and Frances James, Mortar Board.
During the discussion of activities, it was recommended that no credit would be given for any activity, but that a record of each students activities would be kept with the student's transcript.
In the discussion of the counseling system the plan of having upper classmen as freshmen counselors was approved. Concerning the problem of a campus placement bureau, Chancellor Malott said, "There will be further consideration of this project, because of the student interest shown here today."
An A.S.C.-faculty senate organization with equal representation from both groups formed to handle emergency matters and to make suggestions to both groups was discussed in campus governing bodies.
The Curriculum committee suggested that "the foreign language requirement be changed so that less stress be placed on grammar and more on the study of the economic systems and culture of the foreign countries."
"Subjects should be more practical and less theoretical," the committee stated. "The proposed course in human relations, a two hour course to be required for all students, would teach us more about the affairs of the world."
"We at the University must continue to reach out, experiment, and discuss, if we are to solve the problems facing us," said Chancellor Deane W. Malott in his evaluation of the conference.
Kids Tear Up Butte
Butte, Mont. (UP)—Police were alerted today to prevent further vandalism and rioting by gangs of teen-aged hoodlums which has resulted in serious injury to two youths and thousands of dollars worth of damage to homes.
The disturbances were connected, authorities believed, to the six-day strike by the CIO Mine, Mill, and Smeltermen's union.
Baseball Game Postponed
The K.U-Kansas State baseball game scheduled for this afternoon has been postponed indefinitely, Coach "Red" Dugan said today.
Packers Will Be Investigated
Washington. (UP)—The Justice department joined in the government's fight against black market meat operators today by opening an investigation of reports that many packers have been making false subsidy claims.
Mott Endorses A.S.C. Recreation Farm Plan
Gayle Mott, equitation instructor, said today he would be willing to operate concessions on the proposed University recreation farm, as discussed in the All-Student Council meeting Tuesday.
Mr. Mott said he believed the four recreational possibilities for the farm—barn dancing, a golf driving range, picnic grounds, and bridle paths would work satisfactorily.
"All the barn needs is a good cleaning up and a dance could be given there the next day. The whole set up is a natural. The grounds are nice for general hiking, and as for a driving range, it just needs a little mowing down there. There's a bigger demand for recreation now than ever before, and if the students want this recreation and the University gives its O.K., then things could get underway soon." Mott said.
"I'm ready to start tomorrow," he added.
Mr. Mott also suggested that the barn with a nickelodian be used for short parties, and said he was confident that, with student help, the farm could be a success.
K.U. Delegates Back From Union Meeting
Problems of running Union buildings were discussed by delegates from 30 universities at the national convention of Union Building association members last week at the University of Minnesota.
Among problems discussed were operational difficulties, student organization, food services, lack of meeting rooms, the Union's responsibility in helping to draw the returning veteran into school activities and the relation between the Union director and the student board.
The famous Rock Chalk yell, "Tm a Jayhawk" and the "Crimson and the Blue" were led by Alberta Cornwell and Joan Woodward during a presentation of different universities songs and cheers.
Other delegates from the University were Byron Shutz, Dean Henry Werner, and Billie Marie Hamilton.
Carey Pottery Pieces On Display in Tulsa
Sheldon Carey, ceramics professor at the University, has a collection of pottery on display in three galleries of the Philbrook Art Center in Tula, Okla., Bernard Frazier, art director of the center and former member of the department of design at KU. said today.
Vases which are unique in their form and decoration, comprise most of the 18-piece collection. One of the pieces was displayed at the Golden Gate Exposition held at San Francisco in 1939.
Cleveland. (UP)—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower solemnly raised his coffee cup as 1,200 people drank a toast to him at a banquet.
Painted on the general's cup in bright blue was a rope-tenwined anchor and the letters "USN."
Then the crowd burst into a laugh.
A Bitter Cup
Art Instructors to Manhattan
Mike Andrews, Prof. J. Sheldon Carey, Prof. Maud Ellsworth, and Prof. Arvid Jacobson of the art department, and Mrs. Mary Warner, curator of Thayer museum, attended the joint meeting of the Kansas Art Teachers association and the Kansas Federation of Art at Manhattan Friday.
KANSAS RELAYS
Tom Scofield
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
John Hunter
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
QUARTER MILLER
Reiters Never Put Bananas In The Refrigerator—No, No, No
The papaw and orchid plants are both bearing now. Four papaya (they taste like cantelope) are on the only full-grown papaw, and the orchid collection boasts two flowers.
By EDWARD SWAIN
(Daily Kansan Staff Writer)
"Company for them would be nics," Mrs. Reiter says, but when the mates for both birds died not long ago, nobody knew which mate had survived."
Bananas, orchids, papaws, bread.
fruit—
Sounds tropical, doesn't it? But they're growing here on the campus.
The banana trees touching the top of the greenhouse have two bunches of bananas, one green, the other greener. They do ripen, though, and if you know the right people or have breakfast with the chancellor, you may get a few sliced with cereal.
The tropical atmosphere is made complete by an aviary containing parakeets, society finches, canaries, one dove, and one cockateel. The cockateel and dove present a problem. They get lonesome.
Mr. and Mrs. James Reiter, in charge of the greenhouse, say that visitors like the tropical greenhouse best, because it is different.
It's all part of the three greenhouses the University maintains behind Fowler shops. One, the Building and Grounds greenhouse, is for plain flowers like petunias, another is the botany greenhouse, now unused, and the third is the tropical greenhouse.
Orchids do a lot of blooming in October, and some in July and August, according to Mrs. Reiter.
If your date wants orchids, and you are a fast taker or a good glass cutter, you might be able to give her white, deep purple, or lavender blossoms, after they have bloomed. And the brooch fruit tree?
It's big and healthy looking, but—no bread.
Franco Puts Controls On German Firms
London. (UP)—The Franco regime today announced strict financial controls on German firms operating on Spanish soil, apparently to appease United Nations criticism, as London Communists claimed that German atomic scientists are working in a village five miles from Bilbao.
Elliott Writes
Boston. (UP)—Elliott Roosevelt expects to finish by fall his book, "As He Saw It," describing the late President Roosevelt's experiences at Yalta, Teheran, and Casablanca.
Shanghai. (UP)-Four Japanese army officers convicted of executing three Doolittle raiders of Tokyo were let off today with prison terms of five to nine years, by a U.S. military commission which acknowledged that they merely carried out orders from higher up.
Japs Get Off Easy
Geppelt, McJones Waugh To Compete For Engineering Head
The Engineering Student Council has nominated candidates for the three major offices of the council in the election to be held the first week of May. They are:
President: Elmo Geppelt, sophomore; Jim Waugh, junior; and Robert McJones.
Vice-president: Morris Borene, freshman; William Young, junior and Harry Dalb, junior.
Secretary-Treasurer: Ralph Moody, junior; Floyd Svoboda, junior; and Ty Schuerman, junior.
Additional candidates for the three major offices of the council may be nominated by petition signed by 10 percent of the eligible voters of the school and submitted to the council prior to May 1. Candidates for departmental and class representatives will be nominated in departmental and class meetings.
The newly elected council will assume office immediately after the lection an deserve for the 1946-1947 term.
A.V.C. To Hear Gibson At Meeting Tomorrow
Prof. Hilden Gibson will speak on "The A.V.C. Comes to the Hill" at a meeting of the American Veterans committee at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas room of the Union.
At the meeting a vote will be taken to determine opinion on the proposed extension of the draft that is now being discussed in Washington. A resolution embodying the chapter's wishes will be sent to the A.V.C. planning committee at national headquarters in New York. Similar decisions are being made in other A.V.C. bodies and the consensus of the local groups all over the country will consequently become national A.V.C. policy. Copies of the resolution also will be sent to Kansas congressmen and to the chairmen of both the senate and the House Military Affairs committee.
The organizational committee will offer for discussion, amendment and approval a statement of intentions defining and explaining the policies of the University chapter. This prospectus will eventually become a part of the campus A.V.C. constitution.
Because so many veteran's organiz- zations, unlike the A.V.C., will not accept merchant marine vets into their membership, former seamen are especially invited to tomorrow's meeting.
500 Senior Boy Scouts Will Visit Here Saturday
five hundred Boy Scouts from eastern Kansas will tour the campus Saturday as guests of Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity of the Boy Scouts of America.
Here for Senior Scout Conference day, they will attend the Kansas Relays, and see demonstrations and exhibitions arranged by the School of Engineering and Architecture, the departments of chemistry and entomology, and Dyche museum of natural history.
Petitions Are Due April 24 For Independent Election
The Independent primary election will be held April 26, Rosemary Harding, women's political chairman, announced today. Petitions for each candidate, requiring 25 signatures, are due April 24 at Miller hall, she said.
Offices open to women in the election are representatives to All-Student Council, vice-president and secretary-treasurer of the senior class, president of the junior class, and vice-president of the sophomore class.
Legion Initiation Thursday
Initiation services for approximately 150 persons will be held by the American Legion at the Granada theater at 7 p.m. Thursday. Following the initiation, which is open to the public, the picture "G.I. Joe" will be shown.