TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Army Requests Entomologists Disease Threatens Men
Demands of the war are infiltrating farther into all fields of university training. This fact was again indicated today by Dr. H. B. Hungerford, chairman of the department of entomology at the University, who is being plied with almost frantic requests from United States Army officials for entomologists to enter the department of sanitary engineering in the army and the public health service.
Two letters were received yesterday by Hungerford from army officials for entomology majors to enter the sanitary corps of the army. The demand, Hungerford pointed out, has been made greater because American troops are being sent to foreign lands never before visited by American soldiers and that they face the threat of insect-borne diseases.
So far in the present war, the great problem has been the protection of soldiers, sailors and marines from malaria, a mosquito borne disease. Consequently the work of the sanitary corps has been to combat malaria through mosquito control, since the supply of quinine has been cut off by the Japanese.
Hungerford pointed to the fact that medical officers assigned to foreign duty are now being given special training in medical entomology, particularly those assigned to countries where insect-born disease offer a major threat to the health of American troops.
Alumnus To Witness Colgate Ceremonies
The University will be represented at Hamilton, N. Y., Thursday when Everett Case, former assistant dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Business, is inaugurated as Colgate University's ninth president. Edward M. Johnson, professor of journalism at Syracuse University, will represent the University of Kansas. He was graduated here in 1916.
One hundred and twenty-one institutions from 31 states, three Canadian provinces, and the District of Columbia will be represented at the ceremonies. Dr. Harold W. Dodds president of Princeton University, and Dr. James B. Conant, president of Harvard University, will be the principal speakers.
Courses in Siamese, Malay
The University of Michigan is offering courses in Siamese and Malay.
Plan War Forum "Bull" On Air
A nucleus of 10 members, largely recruited from the department of political science, will form a permanent part of each program. Outside authorities may be called on to participate, and other members will be drawn from the faculty and the student body at large.
Beginning Oct. 29, students may tune in on "The Bull Session," a Forums Board broadcast over station KFKU, from 9:30 to 10 p.m. each Thursday for six weeks. The broadcasts, a three-part series, will be informal round table discussions of current problems. The fall series, according to a schedule prepared by Forums Board members last night, is a discussion of "The Nation At War."
Because these broadcasts will be held in the KFKU studio, the student body cannot be admitted. Merrill Peterson, chairman of the board, added that Forums Board would schedule additional programs, such as those held in the past, which will be open to student audiences.
Members of the Forums Board are John Waggoner, Joy Miller, Peggy Davis, Reola Durand, and Laird Campbell.
WOI Will Broadcast Iowa State Games
The Kansas-Iowa State game, to be played in Ames November 14, will be broadcast over radio station WOI, it has been announced. The broadcast will begin at 2:45 p.m.
WOI will also broadcast the crucial November 7 game between the Missouri Tigers and the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Seven Cyclone games are to be carried by the station this fall. They are the Nebraska, Marquette, Drake, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Kansas State contests.
Home Ec Department Takes Up War Work
The department of home economies with an expanded personnel in the field of clothing and textiles, has gone all out for war as have all other departments of the University. Edna Hill, chairman of the department, has announced the addition of Miss Lucille Aust, of the University of Wisconsin, as instructor in clothing and textiles.
Miss Aust received her B. S. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1939, and her M. S. degree this year. She taught home economics in the Edgerton, (Wis.) high school in 1940 and 1941. While she was working on her master's degree, Miss Aust attended the University of Wisconsin on a research assistantship.
The department has taken on a distinct war slant particularly in the fields of nutrition and dietetics, and is supervising the Red Cross courses being offered this year. In addition, Miss Hill points out that training in the department this year is more important than it has ever been because of the nation wide rationing system being set up. A salient feature of the instruction received will be how to make the American household more efficient in view of war restrictions on foods, clothing, fuels, and other items.
For the first time this year, Miss Hill points out, the course in Foods I is open to enrollees without prerequisite. This is one step in the direction toward breaking down departmental barriers which is going through the whole University as a part of the war effort. Combined courses with other departments of the University are being featured, and majors in the department, or non-majors enrolled in home economics subjects, are urged to consult their advisers in this connection.
Miss Hill pointed out that the Foods I, would meet the requirements of the physical science group for University graduation.
In addition to the course in Foods I, which is open without pre-requisite, are Housing the Family, Home Decoration I, Elementary Nutrition, Clothing and Textiles I, Child Development, and the Red Cross courses. Every one of these courses, Miss Hill points out, is of universal interest to the women of the University, and every one will be slanted toward increasing the efficiency of the University and of the nation, in the war effort.
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Departments Are Moved To Accommodate Sailors
When University officials turned over the west wing and the entire top floor of Frank Strong hall to the U. S. Naval Training school (machinists mates) this summer, many departments were scattered over the campus or moved to other quarters. Classrooms were changed and in the case of one geology class even Raymond Nichols, executive secretary could not tell students where to go. Upper classmen felt like freshmen as they wandered over the campus in and cut of buildings. Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, Adviser to women and her assistant, Miss Marie Miller, director of the women's employment bureau, are now in in room 104, Fraser hall. The home economics department formerly in that room moved to the basement of the building. The School of Business has taken over Miss Meguiar's office on second floor Frank Strong hall. Classes will be held in the women's lounge and the north section of the center, second floor will be closed in to be used for their offices.
Musicians Irene Peabody,
Kuersteiner, Raymond Stuhl
History Moved Up
The history department has been moved from 108, Frank Strong hall to the conference room in the Chancellor's suite, second floor. The department of political science went to Green hall to occupy offices formerly held by law professors. Political science teachers will use class room space in Green hall. The department of sociology goes to the basement of Fraser hall.
Third floor dwellers in Frank Strong hall have scattered, also. The department of design will now be found in the basement of Spooner- Thayer museum, pushing the collections of birds located there to storage in the basement. The public school art methods class found a room in 402 Fraser hall.
Musicians Into Basement
Russell Wiley, who had office studios on the third floor of Frank Strong hall, went to the basement of the same building. Wiley, band director, has room 1A formerly used by business statistics students. The others have "pigeon hole" space with other Fine Arts faculty members, and will alternate in using studios for private lessons.
The Endowment Association now has its office in room 3, basement of Frank Strong hall, formerly used as a research room for graduate students in psychology.
Physiology to Haworth
The department of physiology was transferred from Frank Strong hall to Haworth hall. Dr. Stoland, Dr. Woodward and their staff took over the geology lecture room, museum, and library. Museum articles are in storage pending the opening of the new Mineral Industrial building The geology library is temporarily set up in Snow hall.
Facilities in every building are being cramped to make room for classes. The naval school has classes in Marvin, Snow, and Frank Strong halls. The signal corps began classes yesterday in the Electrical Engineering laboratories and in the attic of Blake hall.
Czech Composer to Teach
Ernst Krenek, noted Czech composer of the opera, "Jonny Spleit Auf," has been appointed professor of music at Hamline university, St. Paul, Minnesota.
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