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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1942
Snooping Around News and Views from other colleges
Hawaiian Women Turn Athletic
Women at the University of Hawaii are going in for sports in a big way. Showing the men that they aren't the clinging vine type, the women started their activities with volleyball and are considering possibilities of forming a women's touch football team. For purposes of self-protection, they are taking the art of judo, and have also included pistol shooting in their sports.
Tragedy??
Loyola baseball players decided to observe a minute of silence for one of their former players, now a chief petty officer in the navy, who had just announced his engagement.
Make Way for the Navy!
Women occupying the four women's residence halls on the University of Washington campus. Seattle, received orders to move out by Dec. 16. Three hundred coeds were moved out of their dormitories as navy and university officials negotiated for the establishment of a pre-flight preparatory training school on the campus. If the naval training school is established, the dormitories will be remodeled to accommodate twice the number of navy men as coeds previously living in them.
Some Will Study Chinese.
The University of Washington will initiate a new course during its winter quarter. It will be an intensified course in Chinese, and students will receive 10 hours credit.
Money and Books in War Effort
A war services day on the University of Toronto campus netted more than a thousand dollars for the International Student Service and a truck-load of books for the armed services. Coed volunteers sold ribbons to raise the money. The day was made festive with street dancing, a "typical coed" contest, conga lines, and band music for the purpose of making the event successful.
Have Week-Long Defense Class
Thirty-one students, representing five different states, took the chemical warfare course conducted at Loyola University last week. Class members came from Louisiana, Alabama, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Nebraska for the week-long course in plant protection.
Gasoline Coupons Canceled In East
Washington. — (INS) — Federal price administrator Leon Henderson today cancelled all A, B, and C gasoline ration coupons along the eastern seaboard until further notice, but President Roosevelt gave assurance a short time later that the Henderson order would be effective for only a very few days.
Henderson's action—a most hit the American public—was gency demand for large quantities of motor fuel in North Africa, the President explained at his press conference.
Henderson ordered all gasoline sales except those to commercial vehicles which hold T coupons suspended at noon eastern wartime.
The demand for gasoline for the second front in Africa was a hurry_up order, the President explained. He classified the suspension of pleasure driving as a purely temporary measure. Affected by the order were some 7,200,000 motorists.
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STUDENTS PROTEST--decision had been made. Saving that these were serious times, more serious than the students probably realized, the Chancellor stated that the accelerated program was a necessary result.
The Chancellor declared that the three-semester a year program was necessary for many students to complete their education before going into armed service.
Malott then asked students to return to classes. The students remained seated. A small band played music.
Hoesly Speaks Before Topeka Club
Miss Olga Hoesly spoke this afternoon to the city Home Economics Club of Topeka. President of the State Home Economics Association, Miss Hoesly discussed the present status of home economics.
Visits Geological Survey
Dr. G. E. Abernathy of the Pittsburg district office of the state geological survey is visiting at the survey office here this weekend.
More than 3,500 students who have attended the University of Wisconsin are now in the armed services.
Wisconsin Has Many in Services
Snow in northwest, rain mixed with snow in the southwest beginning late tonight. Little change in temperature tomorrow and tonight, except colder in the east-today.
WEATHER
sweeping wartime move yet to necessary because of an emer-
Develop Magnesium For Air Production
The tempehamental lightweight of America's fighting metals, magnesium, is finishing a training course at Kansas University to qualify for war use.
Magnesium, one-third lighter than aluminum, has not been much used in American war planes. The Germans appear to have out-stripped us.
Temperament in qualities that make magnesium difficult to handle has made industry reluctant to use this metal.
It may catch fire in grinding. It corrodes rapidly in salt water. Hammering makes it brittle. It forges well only by subjecting the metal to great pressure, -65,000 pounds a square inch. That needs presses larger than anything which has existed in the United States, at least until recently.
However, another of these temperamental qualities is what makes magnesium promising in the Kansas University investigation. Magnesium can take a longer and harder pounding in wear stresses than the stronger and heavier aluminum.
This quality in magnesium has been overlooked. The reason was that aluminum is stronger in the breaking or yield test. Aluminum breaks at 38,000 pounds to the square inch, while magnesium yields at only 30,-000 pounds.
But when both metals are subjected to stresses under the 30,000 pound mark the story is different.
CAPITAL to CAMPUS ACP's Jay Richter Reports from Washington
Washington—(ACP)—As colleges and universities lose their young men to the services at an ever-increasing rate, more and more attention is being directed at post-war educational opportunities for those who will be veterans of World War II.
After the last war, the government financed the education and vocational training of only those veterans who suffered injury during the war. This time the government's intentions appear to be much broader.
When he recently appointed a committee to study the problem, the President said nothing about wound-stripe pre-requisites for the post-war education of veterans-to-be. He also referred to the educational policy of the last post-war period as "provisional, thus indicating he thought it quite inadequate.
He said that the plan this time should "enable the young men whose education has been interrupted to resume their schooling and afford equal opportunity for the training and education of other young men of ability..."
That approach gives many enlightened educators reason to hope that the war's aftermath will bring a revitalized educational system, with selection of students based on ability rather than economic privilege.
At any rate, it gives college students going into the army some hope that there will be a concrete freedom awaiting them at the end of "the road back."
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Already, the "President's Committee on Post-War Education of students," as it is officially called, is wringling about details of the program—which is a good sign. It indicates that there is something in the wind worth arguing about, and that the committee is active.
Points at issue appear to be the question of how the plan shall be financed, how long it shall be under the jurisdiction of the army, and then whether its administration should be under the Veterans Administration, the Office of Education, or some new government agency set up for the purpose.
Details of how college credits earned in pre-war days shall be applied to a student-veteran's record when he returns to school, have been worked out by the American Council of Education here in Washington.
A thin sheet of aluminium, for this purpose, is stronger and better than an equally thin sheet of magnesium. But add thickness to the magnesium, and while the latter sheet is still 20 per cent lighter than aluminum, it equals the strength and wear of aluminium.
Magnesium stands up longer than aluminum.
This makes magnesium better than aluminum for use in gun mounts, where the recoil shocks must be repeatedly absorbed. The same endurance applies to any parts which must take long repeated stresses. Magnesium under these conditions stands up about 25 per cent better than aluminum.
There are other special uses where magnesium would surpass aluminum. One is for cowlings, the coverings of engines.
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DRAKES
Salt water corrosion is probably magnesium's worst drawback. This has been met by protective coatings which the Kansas scientists believe will be sufficient to make magnesium safe in this respect for all types of aircraft except seaplanes.
The Kansas magnesium investigation was started under the direction of E. E. Brush, head of aeronautical engineering, who this summer went to Bristol, Pa., as chief designer for Fleetwings, Inc.
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