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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1943
New Music Room Opened Sunday
With thepartitioning off of a portion of the women's lounge in the Memorial Union building into a music room, University students may again listen to recorded music. Marrian Smith, music chairman, said that the programs will be conducted regularly each Sunday hereafter, as well as in the evening during the week.
When the Navy Machinists Mates school was established on the campus the past summer, the old music room in the Union building was taken over by the Navy for an Officers' Club. The music room was moved into the English room but dinners held by groups interfered with the music schedule.
A new door has been cut from the main lounge of the building to the new music room. The room will be padded so that the acoustics will be the best possible.
Arrangements for continuing the music programs are part of the Memorial Union "reconstruction" program. Newell Jenkins is the new president of the Student Union Activities committee. Work on other projects for adequate student entertainment has been postponed until the opening of the next semester to see what changes will be in the University setup.
Coeds To Be Trained For Press Vacancies
A hurried conference of newspaper publishers and journalism school directors at which the University will be represented by Prof. Elmer F. Beth, chairman of the department of journalism, has been called for tomorrow and Saturday in Chicago. They will endeavor to solve the problem of newspaper manpower shortage which has become so acute in the past few weeks and which is threatening the existence of the press.
Training of women and available men through highly concentrated courses and accelerated programs will be a matter of consideration.
Unable to Meet Request
The department of journalism here has been unable to meet the urgent request for trained men, and especially trained women, since last April.
(Editor's Note—The recent deliverymen's strike in New York which left the metropolis without newspapers for two days brought home to the nation the disastrous effects upon the war in the lack of newspapers.)
The conference was called by the acting chairman of the National Council on Professional Education for Journalism. Representatives of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association; Inland Daily Press Association; Southern Newspaper Publishers Association; and National Editorial Association which have been conducting surveys and investigations will confer with the representatives of the Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism from 20 leading educational institutions, an organization headed by Dr. Chilton R. Bush, Stanford University.
Olson Explains Conference
Dean Kenneth E. Olson, Northwestern University, serving as secretary-treasurer of the national council, explained in the summons of conferees that some of the schools have already established accelerated programs and have increased their quotas of women students being trained for newspaper work, but that they were not meeting newspaper needs.
"It has been necessary for the newspapers and schools to sit down together to decide what should be done to meet this emergency." Olson said.
Blocker Asked To Serve As Publisher's Consultant
John G. Blocker, professor of accounting in the School of Business has been asked to serve on the board of editors of the Ronald Press company as consulting editor in the preparation of the "Cost Accountant's Handbook" which is designed as a complete reference book or encyclopedia for accountants.
Prof. Blocker is already author of two textbooks published by McGraw-Hill. "Cost Accounting" was published in 1940, and "Essentials of Cost Accounting", was published in August, 1942.
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Cornhusker Rally Whips K-State 41-32 In Big Six Opener
Erratic Nebraska finished strong to defeat Kansas State 41-32 in the opening Big Six cage contest of the season at Manhattan Tuesday. K-State led 19-11 at halftime and up to the middle of the second period before the Huskers took over the lead. Thompson, Husker forward, led scoring with 13 points.
In other games this week, Missouri will meet the Olathe Clippers at Kansas City Thursday, Nebraska will play Great Lakes at Lincoln Friday, Kansas goes to Oklahoma and Kansas State travels to Iowa State Saturday.
Serving "Real" Cokes
Saturday Evening
Announcing the Opening of
The Cottage