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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATION
39th YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12, 1941.
Start Work Anew On Sodhouse Lab
Hampered from its beginning by excessive rainfall and a shortage of N.Y.A. labor, the new Engineering Experiment Station Laboratory building is at last showing signs of visible construction.
Work on the fundations has been completed and forms are now being set for the pouring of concrete for the beams to support the exterior and interior walls, and for the walls and floors of the service tunnel.
Improved soil-cement building blocks developed by W. C. McNown, professor and head of the department of civil engineering, will be used for construction. Of 30,000 needed to complete the building, about 19,000 have been made. The use of these stabilized earth blocks resolves a development problem in low-cost housing.
Labor furnished for the project consists of 25 N.Y.A. youths spending four hours a day on construction and doing a night shift in machine construction for National Defense Training in Fowler Shops. Russell Sehon is the new supervisor of construction, and Bernard Benton, a student in the department of civil engineering, supervises work in the block plant.
Besides providing industrial research housing facilities, the building will be occupied by a new KFKU studio and audio equipment of the University Extension Division. The laboratory will be one story in height with the floor plan showing seven research laboratories, an office, a reception room, and the studio layout.
Site for the laboratory is south (continued to page eight)
The first Phi Beta Kappa election of the year will be held at the annual fall meeting of the council of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary society, tomorrow afternoon, Raymond Nichols, secretary of the council, said this morning.
Hold Phi Beta Kappa Election
The average number of new members taken each fall is usually four. Smallest number taken during the past ten years was two, and the largest, seven.
Candidates must be from the graduating class of the College of Liberal Arts and Science. They must have virtually straight "A" averages.
Another election will be held in March and a third in June. Approximately 40 to 45 students will be elected to Phi Beta Kappa of a class of about 600
The council of Phi Beta Kappa is composed of University staff members who are society members.
Announcement of the newly elected members will be made Friday.
Homecoming Leader Lists Committees
Gilbert Ulmer, Homecoming chairman, today released a tentative list of committee members for that event. Many of the committees named are already planning activities for Nov. 21 and 22.
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Committee chairmen, members, and organizations represented are as follows:
Central coordinating committee: Ulmer, chairman; Fred Ellsworth, Alumni Association secretary; George Hedrick, secretary of Lawrence Chamber of Commerce; Earl Falkenstein, financial secretary of intercollegiate athletics; Wade Pierce, class of '27; Bob Oyler, class of '35 and Albert Palmerlee, class of '33.
Homecoming queen: Bob Oyler, class of 35, chairman; and K. W. (continued to page eight)
Registration: Doris Twente, W.S. G.A. chairman; Genevieve Harman, Jay Jane; and Helen Naramore, fine arts senior.
KFKU radio program; Mildred Seaman, assistant program director, chairman; Genevieve Harman, Jay Janes, Roy Edwards, cheerleader; and Clarence Peterson, College senior.
GILBERT ULMER
Young Republicans To Meet Tomorrow
The Young Republican club will hold its first meeting tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building.
New officers will be elected. Bill Douce, present chairman, said today, and plans for attending the State Young Republican convention will be discussed. This convention is held every two years and is scheduled for Dec. 4 and 5 at Topeka.
Parade, Dance Cage Game Set For Homecomers
If the action already taken by committees headed by Sgt. William Kollender, instructor of military science, and Leonard Axe, professor of economics, is any indication, the night of Nov. 21 will not be lacking in Homecoming activities.
Axe revealed today that a "honky-tank" dance will be held in Robinson gym immediately following the Varsity-Freshman game already set for that date by Forrest C. Allen, basketball coach. A 25-cent ticket will admit one person to both the game and dance. Bartenders Serve Cokes
Lewis Midlin, business junior, has been placed in charge of obtaining a band for the Friday night dance. Other committee members include Virginia Gear, house president's council; Knute Kresie, K-Club; Roy Edwards, cheerleader; and Wendell Tompkins, College junior.
The gym will be decorated in true 'honky' style for the dance, with tables being arranged along the sides. Bartenders will serve cokes to the celebrators.
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The committee will also provide entertainment at the dance, and between halves at the game. The University band will play at the game.
Parade Route Selected
The University of Kansas Band will make its regular monthly radio broadcast over station KFKU from 6 to 6:30 tonight.
Band Plays Over KFKU Tonight
The program is as follows: "Caprice" (Coleridge-Taylor); three Negro dances, "Rabbit Foot," "Hoe Cake," and Ticklin 'Toes" (Florence Price); "I Am An American" (Schuster); "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" (Leon Jessel); "America, I Love You" (Gottler); "Love's Own Sweet Song" from the operetta "Sari" (Kalman).
If time permits, the band will present a special arrangement of "Alice Blue Gown" (arranged by Schultz).
Profs Are On Pan As British Kids Benefit
At long last, University faculty members will let down their hair and climb off their well-known dignity to give the students a laugh.
The occasion is the "Faculty Follies," which will be presented in Fraser theater tonight and tomorrow, beginning at 8:15 o'clock.
Given to raise funds for the Jayhawk British shelter, the show will consist of 15 acts of comedy, music, and dancing. For the most part, faculty members will do the acting, but professional teams and students will present a few of the numbers.
DR. E. R. ELBEL
Allie M. Conger, associate professor of the piano, will start the show off with her impersonation as the "Campus Songbird." Her accompanist will be Robert Glotzbach, fine arts senior.
A satirical dance entitled "Com-placent Halo" will be presented by Alice Sherbon Bauman, a former student who taught a dancing school in Lawrence for several years.
Next comes Dean Paul B. Lawson as Edgar Bergen and Prof. N. W. Storer as Charlie McCarthy.
"Musical Hobo" is the title Jan Chiapusso, piano professor, who will represent a mad musician, has chosen for his act.
Mrs. Myrtle Bair, of the extension division, will follow with an elocation act of the Gay Nineties entitled "Laska"
After intemission comes the "Don Kansa n Quartette." Chancellor Deane W. Malott, Dean Henry Werner, Prof. R. Q. Brewster of the chemistry department and Prof. E.
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Hill Billies to Pumpkin Carnival Midway Opens in Union
Twenty-four organizations will become barking, ballyhooing concession proprietors Friday night.
At the Pumpkin Prom and Carnival in the Memorial Union ballroom from 8 to 11:30 o'clock students will see in flashy panorama evidence of what Hill organizations do besides listen to gavel pounding.
Carnival proprietors will include eight sororities, eight fraternities, four halls, Jay James, Ku Ku's, I.S.A., and Alpha Phi Omega, national service fra been decided that a majority sternity.
Since there will be no duplication of booth ideas, carnival-goers are guaranteed a variety of temptations to spend the penny tickets they will buy at the door. Tickets will replace actual coin on the "fair grounds." All money will be taken in at the door.
Whatever concession has the largest patronage at the carnival will win the prize for having the best idea, Don Keplinger, special programs committee chairman, announced today. He added that it has
been decided that a majority student opinion would be more fair than a decision by picked judges to determine the prizewinner. The number of tickets taken in by each concession will be divided by the concession price to find how many customers have visited each booth.
Representatives of the various organizations reported to the Union activities office this afternoon to make a final check on the carnival floor plan. Concessions will be located in the east, north, and west wings of the ballroom. The center will remain clear for dancing.