THE EAGLE
VOICE FOR VICTORY
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
The Winged One
LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1942
NUMBER 37
40TH YEAR
College Adopts New Fine Arts Requirements
A complete reorganization of the requirements for a fine arts major in the College with a potential subsequent expansion of opportunities in the field for all college students, has been completed, approved by the college faculty, and announced this week by Dean Paul B. Lawson.
Goals of the reorganization as approved by the faculty, Dean Lawson pointed out, are cultural, training for those who wish to attain some measure of technical skill in fine arts, and provision of a background for some of those who wish to teach fine arts. Four Courses Required
Students electing the major in Art in the college are required to take the following four courses: Design I, 3 hours; Design II, 3 hours; Antique I (Freehand I) 2-3 hours; and Antique II (Freehand II) 2-3 hours. In addition, the major is requested to take at least 12 hours from the following group of courses in the field of history and appreciation of art:
History of Art (Ornament I), 2 hours; History of Art (Ornament II), 2 hours; History of Art (Painting) I, II, III, and XIV, each 2 hours; Graphic Processes, 2 hours; History of Architecture I, II, III, and LV, 3, 3, 2, and 2 hours respectively; Comparative History of Architecture, 2 hours; Green and Roman Sculpture, 2 hours; Aesthetics, 3 hours; and Stagecraft, 2 hours.
Mav Take 20 Hours.
After the 20 hours required for the major are completed, Dean Lawson pointed out that 20 more hours may be taken either in appreciation or professional courses with credit toward the college degree. Non-Majors in art may take up to 25 hours in either the appreciation or apprecia-
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Women Take Riding Trek To Topeka
Eighteen women of the equitation class left Mott's stables at 8 o'clock this morning on the first-woman horseback riding trip to Topeka.
A truck, wagon, and buggie replaced the cars generally used to carry feed, bedding, horseshoes, and other supplies for the trip.
Miss Marie Miller, assistant to the adviser of women, is acting as chaperon. The women will stay at the YWCA in Topeka tonight and return to Lawrence tomorrow afternoon.
Women making the equitation trip are Sue Elliott, Anne Lou Rossman, Virginia Gunsolly, Ruth King, Roberta Frowe, Lucy Burris, Katharine Horne, Mary Louise Laffer, Elizabeth Hall, Elizabeth Prentice, Jane Priest, Mary Frances Neidig, Jean Miller, Joanne Johnson, Margaret Whitfield, Mary Warner, Charlotte Topper, and Shirley Henry.
Faculty Members Businessman Will Broadcast Tonight
Two faculty members and one Lawrence businessman will discuss the topic, "Do the United Nations Foreshadow a Larger United States" at the University Roundtable broadcast over KFKU at 9:30 tonight.
The half hour discussion will be led by R. M. Davis, professor of law, who will serve as chairman. Hilden Gibson, assistant professor of political science, and George Docking, president of the First National Bank, Lawrence, will comment on the topic which is a part of the year's Round-table theme, "America in Crisis."
Don't Exploit Gas Tank Walking Will Win
BY MARTIN HATFIELD
In the few remaining days before gas rationing becomes effective we class A motorists have a lot to think over.
Perhaps the most important task that will confront us is to find out precisely how far our machines will travel on one gallon. Because every inch of the car that fails to get in the garage is an inch that has to be pushed. almost on us. No one is
The hour of dead reckoning is
Most motorists boast of the number of miles they get on a gallon, but informal tests have have shown that the American car owner is guilty of padding his stories. Try to recall the name of a friend who ever admitted he got fewer than 16 miles to a gallon. Try to recall when you ever admitted that your car wouldn't do that well. Sixteen Miles to a Gallon
Once the mileage is determined the next most important step is to measure the exact distances between our home and the places we visit most frequently. Better find out now, while you are still able to fill up your tank, that the steak frying grounds is a two-and-a-half-
almost on us. No one is going to believe a fellow who says his car gets 16 miles to a gallon when he continually is seen hitch-hiking the last eight.
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Brewster Heads Science Group
Prof. R. Q. Brewster, chairman of the department of chemistry was elected president of Sigma Xi, honorary society in the field of sciences, at the monthly meeting last night in Blake hall.
Professor Brewster succeeds R. C. Moore, professor of geology, now on leave who resigned the position upon his entrance into the army.
Calvin Vander Werf, assistant professor of chemistry, spoke at the meeting on the chemistry approach to the cancer problem. He discussed the chemical agents which produce cancer, the so-called carcinogenic hydrocarbons, and compared their structure with that of normal products of biological occurrence, such as the sex hormones, the bile acids, and cholesterol.
He outlined possible reactions that might occur in the body, by which these products might be converted into compounds which produce cancer.
He then discussed the theories which have been advanced to account for the actual mode of action of these carcinogenic compounds in producing cancer in the body of experimental animals and also in the human body. The chemist's theory, Vander Werf said, is that in may be possible due to some abnormality of body metabolism, either cholesterol, or certain of the bile acids or sex hormones may be transformed into one of the carcinogens.
University Reports Buildings Available For WAVE Trainees
University authorities have been making an investigation of campus buildings that might afford housing to a unit of WAVES in the event that the government should send some here for technical training.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the Chancellor. said that only a form report was turned in to the government and that there was no certainty at all that a branch of the Woman's Auxiliary Volunteer Emergency Service would be trained on the campus. However, there is some probability of this, since some colleges over the country will be used for the purpose.
Many requests for information as to the suitability of the University for military purposes have been received from time to time by the administration and no action has been taken as yet by the military authorities on some of the information that was supplied. There is no assurance at any time that any action whatsoever will take place, and the mere fact that investigation is made should not give credence to rumors, Chancellor Malott said.
Colorado Teaches Japanese
A school to teach the Japanese language to naval enlisted men is in operation at the University of Colorado.
No Blanks Car Owners Out of Luck
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Because many car owners used three or four gasoline registration blanks to get one filled out correctly. Douglas county ran out of official registration blanks yesterday. More blanks arrived this morning and registration continued until the deadline at eleven o'clock this morning.
Registration took place at the six elementary schools in the city and in the Community building. The total number of registrants has not yet been determined.
Those car owners who have not yet registered are urged to watch their newspapers and radio news broadcasts for the date on which they may register.
New Registrants To Be Classified Quickly
Brig. Gen. Milton R. McLean, state selective service director, stated yesterday that instructions had been sent to all Kansas draft boards instructing them to send questionnaires immediately to all 18 and 19 year-old registrants.
McLean said that some of these men would be inducted into the service before the first of the year.
Head of the national selective service, Lewis B. Hershey, announced Wednesday that the nation's youth in attendance at recognized high school level educational institutions would be deferred, providing they were enrolled in the 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grades.
However, he continued, no deferments will be granted to students on the ground that they are enrolled in elementary school or in a university or college.
War Psychology ★★★ On Microfilm
Microfilm copies of "The Psychology of War," written by J. F. Brown of the psychology department and psychologists from California, Cornell, and Dartmouth, are available at Watkins library.
The book was begun three years ago when the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues appointed a committee, made up of Professors Brown, Ralph Budlock of California, Ralph White of Cornell, and Ross Stagner of Dartmouth, to do a major work on the psychology of war.
The manuscript was scheduled for publication in the fall of 1940, but because the committee felt that a book written on war in peacetime would be misinterpreted by a nation at war the book was never released. It will be rewritten and released at the end of the war, Dr. Brown said. Meanwhile students may read the book as it now appears on microfilm, by calling for it at the main desk.
Parking Trial Sessions Begin Next Week
The student Supreme Court will begin sessions next week for traffic and smoking violations, Chad Case, chief justice, said today. Carl Unruh, chairman of the parking committee, has given Case the names of parking law violators to be tried.
Case. third year law, was elected chief justice by members of the court. Other associate justices of the five-man student judiciary body are Jim Borders, second year law; Art Black, business senior; and Oliver Hughes, first year law, who is also clerk of the cour, and Bob Barton, first year law, who was appointed last night.
Classen a Campus Visitor
George Classen, a graduate from this University in the spring of 1939, was a Campus visitor yesterday. Classen, a journalism major, was a former managing-editor of the Daily Kansan, and held other staff positions on the paper.
At present Classen is editing a weekly newspaper in Missouri. He expects to be called by the selective service in the next few weeks.
Color Discussed On Bull Session
Student ideas concerning problems of race prejudice were broadcast at 9:30 last night over KFKU by the Forums board. The topic: "Color: The Unfinished Business of Democracy" was opened by first deciding why "color" was the unfinished business of democracy.
The group believed that the Negro is discriminated against politically, economically, and morally. International aspects of the problem were introduced. John Waggoner, chairman of the group, cited the example of the Negro situation in Brazil, saying in that particular South American country the negro is first a Brazilian, second a negro. One speaker pointed out that Germany claims she learned the system of treating minorities from the United States.
Conflicting opinions were given when the students suggested solutions for the negro problem in the United States. One speaker proposed an immediate solution by moying more of the Negro race to the North. Another member of the panel believed that there must first be a social change.
John Waggoner, College senior, was chairman of the discussion. Betty Kafls, College junior, Jack Kendall, College senior, John Scurlock, first year law, and Merrill Peterson, College senior, made up the group.
Agricultural Infiltration By Air
Wheat seeds from the University of California were flown to Russia in a recent project to replant scorched earth.
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