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VOL. 26 NO. 10
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
LANDING STATE
NUMBER 64
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1943
40th YEAR
KU To Be Center Of Exam System
The University has been selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a center for administering the Graduate Record Examination System to college and graduate students of this area, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced today. Dr. W. S. Learned, director of the Carnegie Institute for the Advancement of Teaching, will be on the campus tomorrow to discuss with University officials plans for staging these examinations.
Tests Designed For Comparison
The graduate record examination is a series of tests designed to show the nature and extent of a student's actual equipment in knowledge in comparison with other groups having similar training. Its results supplement the college record with an objective inventory of a student's present mental resources, however those resources may have been acquired.
Dr. A. H. Turney, of the School of Education, pointed out today that these tests were significant, and important particularly for three groups—graduate students, students finishing this year, and for sophomores in the University. Particularly for post-war adjustments.
Tests Measure Attainment
As a practical service at a time when students may find their college careers interrupted, he said, or their curricula narrowed for war purposes, the record examination will furnish an authoritative measure of attainment. Such evidence against standard norms based on peacetime conditions should assist the student and his university in reaching an equitable understanding in case college work should be resumed after the war, or in case the student should seek admission to a graduate school without actually obtaining a bachelor's degree.
Friday only Date For President's Ball
In order to end rumors about the time and place of the President's Ball, Dr. Forrest C. Allen announced today that "the only President's Ball in Lawrence will be held in the Community building from 9 to 12, Friday evening, with Danny Bachmann's orchestra furnishing the music."
Several students, Allen said, were under the impression that the Ball was to be in the Union building; others believed that the Ball would be Saturday night.
Dr. Allen's Community Recreation class is contacting organized houses in the drive for the sale of tickets for the Ball. Tickets are on sale in the various University School's offices at $1 a couple.
The slogan for the Fall this year is "Dance So That The Little Fellow Can Walk."
Get Parking Permits In Werner's Office
All students who wish campus parking permits should make application in Dean Werner's office before the end of the week, Carl Unruh, chairman of the MSC parking committee, said today. Application for the permits must be made by anyone enrolled in the University in any course, he said.
WEATHER
Kansas warmer today and tonight
Mid-weeks
Juniors and seniors enlisted in the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps who are majoring in electrical engineering or electronic physics may apply for transfer to the Electronics Training Group and continue college until graduation, according to information received from the War department by the registrar's office yesterday.
Budget Dances At Long Last
Those w use applications are accepted w will be required to take courses in electronics, vacuum tubes.
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Bachmann and Pope's band will play for the Mid-week from 7 to 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Memorial Union building. Admission will be free to dates and ten cents for stags.
Dancing will be in the main lounge if labor can be procured to clean the floor afterward. Otherwise it will be in the Kansas room.
"Scotch Varieties" were last year's version of the Mid-week.
The schedule of mid-weeks planned for this semester are: Jan. 27 Feb. 3, 17 and 24, March 10, 17 and 31, April 14 and 28, and May 12.
AERC Faces Call; Some Are Exempt
Editor's note: The winter term referred to in this story is that which, due to the accelerated program, has just ended on this campus. KU enlisted army reserves will be subject to call at the period stated, immediately following the date on which the first semester normally ends.
Washington (INS) — College students who are members of the Enlisted Army Reserve today faced call to active duty as soon as the present winter university term ends.
War Department officials revealed that the Adjutant General's office has instructed all army service commanders to call the student reserves to duty.
Exempted from the call are medical, dental, and veterinary students, pre-medic students, engineering students of senior or junior standing, advanced ROTC students (juniors and seniors), sophomore, junior and senior students in military schools, aviation cadets, and students in the electronics training group.
Kettering Will Address Legislators At Dinner
Charles F. Kettering, this morning's convocation speaker, will be the guest speaker at a legislative dinner to be served at 6:30 on the roof of the Hotel Kansan in Topeka. The dinner was originally scheduled for the municipal auditorium, but difficulties in preparing and serving the food made a change necessary.
Weekly Classes For V-7 Seniors
The University will arrange for an instructor to meet with the class at all time. Instruction will be given in mathematics, navigation, international codes, and other important naval subjects.
Dell Perry, College senior and chairman of the Navy "V" group organized at the University, announced today that plans are now underway for weekly class meetings of the V-7 seniors. Beginning Wed. Feb. 3. the class will meet in the auditorium of Marvin hall from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Perry pointed out that this class will be only of the V-7 seniors because this group will be the first to be called to active duty and will benefit most from this program. Next semester the V-7 men becom-
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Two Plans Offered For Summer
The three-semester plan suggested by the Navy, and the eight-week session similar to last year's plan are being considered for the coming summer session.
The 16-week semester would be open to women, men deferred by draft boards, students in engineering and in medicine, and those interested in accelerating their programs. May 24 is the tentative date set for this schedule to begin.
Graduate students, teachers, and students eager to take part-semester work may start June 10 on an eight-week course.
Miller, Farneti Win Awards In News Contests
Joy Miller, College junior, and Milo Farneti, College senior, won honorable mentions in the 1942 news story competition sponsored by Pi Delta Epsilon, national honorary collegiate journalism fraternity, according to an announcement made yesterday by W. Emerson Reck, of Colgate University, contest director. The University students competed with 93 writers from all parts of the country, by submitting a combined story headed, "Students Take Vacation After Pep Convocation." Rewards were bronze letter openers.
Ralph L. Stehley, Gettysburg (Pa.) College, won first place; Klyph Kruse, University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Ia., was second, and Thomas Davis, University of Pittsburgh won third.
Writers from Creighton University, Omaha; Loyola University, New Orleans; University of Maryland, College Park; Midland College, Fremont, Neb.; Union College, Lincoln, Neb.; Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., and Westminster College New Wilmington, Pa., also received honorable mentions.
Judges were Erwin D. Canham, managing editor, The Christian Science Monitor; Ralph Ingersoll, editor of PM; and Dr. Ralph D. Casey, director, School of Journalism, University of Minnesota.
Army Bomber Crash Kills Ten of Crew
Topeka, (INS)—Ten men of the twelve aboard an army bomber were killed when the plane crashed on the Mescalozer Indian reservation near Ruidoso, N.M. Topeka air officials reported today. The other two parachuted to safety. The dead included Sec. Lt. Merel Brock, Wichita, and Flight Officer Robert D Long, Kansas City.
World Awaits Disclosure of Allied Plan
By International News Service
A world at war today awaited with keen expectancy an announcement promised for 9 o'clock tonight that seems certain to chart the future course of the conflict and raise even higher mounting Allied hopes that complete subjugation of the Axis is solely a matter of time.
Global Strategy Complete
For reasons of security, nothing in regard to the forthcoming announcement can be disclosed until the stipulated time.
But it is a matter of common knowledge that consultations of unparalleled importance have been in progress among representatives of the United Nations for some time, and it is no secret that all problems of global strategy have been not only discussed but solved in their entirety.
Thus the wave of jitters that afflicted the German press and radio yesterday took on a new meaning and emerged as a less of a propaganda move than a genuine admission on the part of Hitler and his henchmen that the hour of Axis disaster is approaching.
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Open Jayhawker Queen Contest
The annual Jayhawker magazine beauty queen contest was opened yesterday by John Conard, editor, who announced that all college women are eligible to submit their photographs in the contest.
"The field is not limited," said Conard, "as organized houses and independent students are free to enter as many photographs as they desire."
Photographs must be submitted not later than Feb. 15 to the Jayhawker office in the Memorial Union building, which Conard said would be open from 2:30 to 5 o'clock every afternoon to receive contest entries.
A local board of judges will narrow the field to 15 contestants who will then be re-photographed by a professional Topeka photographer at the Jayhawker office.
These fifteen glamorized photographs will then be sent to some person who will choose the queen and six or seven runners-up. The winners will be featured in the commencement issue of the Jayhawker with a picture of the queen receiving a full page display.
Conard also announced that the mid-winter Jayhawker, featuring men's organized houses and a story of the Navy "V" programs, would be out about Feb. 20.