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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATION
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24.1942
39th YEAR
NUMBER 91
MSC to Take Poll In Classes Friday
Students of the University will have the chance next Friday morning to tell what they think about war defense activities on the campus.
The Men's Student Council at its regular meeting in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building last night authorized the distribution of a questionnaire to every student in 10:30 classes on Friday morning. Answers will reveal the majority student opinion of the extended summer school program, compa-
puisory physical education, and Red Cross classes at the University.
The questionnaire has been instituted by the war defense committee of the MSC as a means of discovering student sentiment on several of the more important projects the committee is considering inaugurating at the University in conjunction with the federal administration. Or. ille Wright, chairman of the group, has listed 17 separate activities that the committee may promote.
Students in the library at 10:30 a.m. Friday will also be given the questionnaire.
The war defense committee has been in operation for two weeks. The members, Wright, Verlyn Norris, and Elden Beebe, have met with Chancellor Deane Malott, T. C. Ryther, University conservation chairman, and R. I. Canuteson, director of the University health service.
The prospective program of the (continued to page eight)
List 17 Projects
No ROTC SummerCamp
There will be no summer camp for R.O.T.C. students in 1942 so far as the University department of military science and tactics knows, Col. James Dusenbue said today.
Colonel Dusenbury added, however, that the R.O.T.C. unit here takes its orders from the war department. If the war department should request summer camp, the R.O.T.C. juniors would spend six weeks of the summer in training camp as usual.
Under the present set-up, R.O.T.C. men who are juniors in school will not go to camp this summer. They will be allowed to finish their senior year and then, after their graduation, will spend 10 weeks in some training camp before becoming commissioned officers in the U.S. army. At what camps they may receive training is not known.
New orders may be issued by the war department any time.
Prepare for WSGA Election
Members of the Women's Self-
Members of the Women's Self-
Governing Association, which includes every woman enrolled on the Hill, will hold their annual spring election on Thursday, March 12. Doris Twente announced.
Applications of candidates for offices to be filled by the W.S.G.A. election March 12 must be presented to a board of the W.S.G.A. council in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building between 3:30 and 6 p.m. Thursday.
To be eligible to hold office in the W.S.G.A. a woman must have a C average. In applying she must give her name, classification, and grade average.
DORIS TWENTE
After the committee has checked the eligibility of the candidates, their names will be presented to the students for balloting on March 12.
The offices open are: president, vice-president, treasurer, college representative, fine arts representative, and vice-president and secretary, of the sophomore, junior, and senior classes.
To Lecture On Nazi Terrorism
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Delayed Periodicals To Library
He spent two years in Norway and was there when Germany invaded the country in the spring of 1940. Even though he is an American citizen, he was arrested by the Gestapo and confined in the Mollergaten jail in Oslo for seven months, three of which he spent in solitary confinement.
Seventy-five German scientific periodicals which were held up at Bermuda by British censors have just been received by Watson library,Mr. C.M. Baker, director of libraries, announced today. These periodicals are for the years 1940-1941.
The University convocation committee will sponsor a lecture by Dr. Frank Nelson, former guest probiessor at Oslo University, at 4:30 Thursday afternoon in Fraser theater. Dr. Nelson will tell the inside story of Nazi terrorism in Norway.
Chekhov Employs New Technique For 12th Night
Produced by Michael Chekhov, actor and director abroad as well as in this country, the full production company which has recently had an engagement in New York is making its first tour through the Middle West. Chekhov, a nephew of Anton Chekhov, the famous playwright, was a member of the Moscow Art theater until 1923 when he became the leader and director of the Second Moscow
Dean Lawson has been here more than a quarter of a century. In the past five years, he has seen, through comparative studies of grades, a gradual upswing in the number of A and B grades given, and a reduction in the number of D's, incomplete, and failures. Last year's record indicates the highest percentage of A's, the highest percentage of B's, and the lowest percentage of failures in the five-year period.
These scholastic reports are now issued annually from the office of Dean Lawson. Prior to the inauguration of the annual report system in 1936-37, the last comprehensive report of this type w issued in 1929, and a comparison of the
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Presenting one of the most popular comedies by Shakespeare, the Chekhov theater studio adds "Twelfth Night" to the list of dramatic productions presented at the University when it offers this play at 8:15 to tomorrow night in Hoch auditorium.
College Grades Have Improved
Top Honors in Sight Jayhawk Nibbles At N.C.A.A. Bait
With the release this week of the tabular grade indices for students of the College for 1940-41, Dean Paul B. Lawson stated, "The College has the best students now that it has had since I have been connected with it."
All of this came about when the Iowa State Cyclones turned on the heat at Ames last night against the Oklahoma Sooners
'Charley's Aunt' Cast Comedy to Hill
Don't get too excited now (please save most of your rejoicing until next week), but last night our Jayhawkers slipped the joy stick into reverse and proceeded to practically back into the Big Six title and the right to represent the Fifth district (including the Big Six, Missouri Valley, and all comers) in the Western Division play-offs of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament in Kansas City March 20 and 21.
BY CHUCK ELLIOTT, Kansan Sports Editor
Rehearsals for "Charley's Aunt," farce comedy scheduled to be presented on the Hill sometime next month, will swing into action after the announcement of the cast today by Robert Calderwood, associate professor of speech and director of the play.
Ben Mantz, fine arts sophomore, has been cast in the role of Lord Fancourt Babberley, who plays the part of the fake aunt. Bill Kelley, college junior, will play the part of Jack Chasney, and Bob Hutchinson,$ ^{4}$
Ben Mantz, fine arts sophon of Lord Fancourt Babberley, waunt. Bill Kelley, college junior Chasney, and Bob Hutchinson, college freshman, will take the role of Charley.
In the part of Kitty will be Betty Rowton, college junior; and Gloria Goff, college freshman, will appear in the role of Amy. Brassett, the butler, will be portrayed by Spencer Bayles, freshman in the School of Medicine.
more. Dee Ellen Naylor, college senior, will take the part of Ela.
Although the play is over 50 years old, it has been revived by both professional and amateur groups in the past two years. Based upon the common idea of mistaken identity, "Charley's Aunt" was first produced in London in 1892, the first production continuing for four years.
Professor Calderwood explained that the remainder of the cast would be announced in a few days. A definite date for the presentation of the Branden Thomas play has not been decided.
The part of the real aunt, who is an English woman but takes on the Spanish name of Donna Lucia D'-Alvadorez after marrying a rich Portuguese gentleman, is taken by Edith Ann Collage, college sopho-
in the Iowa State Cyclones turned ht against the Oklahoma Sooners and blasted most of their title hopes by pulling out with a 46 to 43 victory.
Then to complete a perfect evening Eddie Hickey's Creighton Bluejays came through, as their coach predicted here Friday night, and knocked off those vaunted Oklahoma Aggies, 31 to 29, in the latter's special little den at Stillwater and thus threw the Missouri Valley into a two-way tie between those two teams.
Not In The Bag Yet
But it isn't as easy as it sounds. Those cagers of ours have a little work to do and it's going to take all of their brilliant ability and coordination to come through in the style that they are capable of displaying.
But to get back to what happened and what resulted last night, when the totals of the game at Ames sarted trickling in it couldn't have been sweeter than another all-school
The third proficiency examination of the school year for students in the College will be given from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. next Saturday, J. B. Virtue, chairman of the committee on proficiency examinations, announced today.
Proficiency Exam To Be Saturday
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To take the test Saturday students must register today or tomorrow at the college office. Students must bring their proficiency registration cards and pen and ink to the examination Saturday. Activity books must also be presented Saturday.
A passing grade on the examination is necessary before a student may receive his degree from the College. A student must also complete at least 20 resident hours after taking the examination.
The examination requires no specific knowledge of grammar or rhetoric, Professor Virtue said. The student will be required to write three short compositions on subjects suggested by the committee. Professor Virtue also announced that the fourth examination of the school year would be given on April 25 instead of May 2, as previously scheduled.