UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PAPER NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 18
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1941
39th YEAR
Will Make Air Test Lab Best in West
With the inauguration of a full four-year training course in aeronautical engineering at the University, blueprints have been drawn for construction which will give the department of engineering one of the most complete airplane testing laboratories in the middle west Dean J. J. Jakosky announced today.
In the laboratory, located under the west wing of Memorial Stadium the University already has the largest and most modern wind tunnel in the middle west. New construction calls for the erection of a torque testing stand for airplane motors and the installation of the most up-to-date laboratory equipment for testing fuels.
Director of the courses in aeronautical engineering is Edward E. Brush, associate professor of aeronautical engineering at the University, who resigned his post as an engineer with the Lockheed Company in California to supervise the air-minded engineers on Mt. Oread. Brush is a graduate of the Guggenheim School of Aeronautical Engineering of New York University, and of the University of Minnesota.
Nearly 100 students indicated aeronautical engineering as their major in the enrollment just completed at the University. Options in the subject, have been offered before in the School of Engineering and Architecture, but this fall offered the first opportunity for a full four year major.
Two Guest Speakers To Appear On KFKU
Bertram Maxwell, political scientist of Washburn college, and the Rev Joseph King, of the Plymouth Congregational church, Lawrence, will be guest speakers on the weekly KFKU Round Table discussion broadcast from 9:30 to 10:00 tonight
The subject for discussion will be "After Convoys, What?" Maxwell will take the pro side of the discussion and the Rev. Mr. King the con. W.E. Sandelius, professor of political science, will act as moderator.
Other members of the committee are A. L. Walters, economics; John W. Ashton, professor of English; J. O. Jones, professor of applied mechanics; H. G. Ingham, director of the extension division; Miss Esther Twente, assistant professor of sociology. The committee plans each program throughout the year for the round table discussions.
Professor Sandelius is chairman of the KFKU Round Table committee. The theme for the year is "America in Crisis."
Evans Falls From Lead
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WOMEN
Miriam Bartlett, Pi Beta Phi, 13.292 Shirley Henry, Gamma Phi Beta, 10.164
10,164
Ruth Kelley, Independent, 8,084
Georgia Mae Landrith, I.S.A., 7,187
Joane Basore, Delta Gamma, 4,804
Mary Beth Dodge, Kappa Kappa
Doepe, Kappa Kappa
Gamma, 4,300.
Muriel Henry, School of Pharmacy,
3.204
2,304.
Jean Moyer, Sigma Kappa, 2,241
Betty Austin, Miller Hall, 1,016.
Kay Sinnon, Kappa Akh.
Sunson, Kappa Alpha Theta, 200
900
Debate Squad Takes Twelve After Tryouts
After the freshman debate tryouts held last night in Green hall, E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, announced the names of 12 new squad members.
They are Laird Campbell, Bob Groom, and Edward Tihen, Wichita; Jack Moore, Salina; Phil Phee, Cunningham; Leta Nelle Marks, Lela Belle Marks, and Milton Reichart, Valley Falls; Vern Schneider, Bonner Springs; Richard Royer, Abilene; Gloria Goff and Seba Eldridge, Lawrence.
The list included all those who participated in the tryouts.
Each participant gave a five-minute speech, either affirmative or negative, on the topic, "Resolved: That all able-bodied male citizens should be required to complete a year of military training before the age of 21." After the speeches each debater presented a three-minute rebuttal assailing points in the opping speeches. A feature of the rebuttal speeches was the allowance of heckling from the floor. This resulted in several vigorous and sometimes humorous arguments.
According to Professor Buehler, the squad is slightly larger than usual and definitely more aggressive in speaking. This agressiveness may be due in part to the vital interest of the subject matter and partly to the extreme informality of the rebuttal speeches, Buehler said.
A total of 224 students took the first English proficiency examination Saturday. Last year at this time 211 students took the examination.
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224 Students Take Proficiency Examination
The examination is open to juniors and seniors. Twenty-four hours must be taken by each student after he passes the examination before he is eligible for graduation.
Three more examinations will be held this year. The next will be given December 13. Other dates for examinations are February 28 and May 2.
Skorga Bartlett Again
Ray Evans, Phi Delta Theta's heavily favored candidate, fell into second place today, as independent Henry Skorga again took the lead in the Kansan's Holiday Excursion Contest.
With the Contest due to close at noon on Oct. 10 the contestants were busy today urging all their friends to cast votes for them at once. To date 107,989 votes have been cast for the various candidates for the free trips to Sun Valley and the Rose Bowl.
On the women's side Shirley Henry, Gamma Phi Beta beauty queen, relinquished her one day lead to Miriam Bartlett of Pi Beta Phi.
If 493,000 more votes are cast before Friday then the second place winners will be sent to Miami Beach and the Sugar Bowl game.
Still in third and fourth place among the women are the two independent candidates, Ruth Kelley and Georgia Mae Landrith.
Two independents are also in third and fourth place among the men—Kenneth Ketchum and Eldon Beebe.
Mary Beth Dodge, candidate of Kappa Kappa Gamma, had an astonishing burst of voting today and
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Gear Will Be Vice President
Virginia Gear, business senior, was elected vice-president of the W.S.G.A. at its meeting in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building last night. With the new position goes the job of president of the House President's Council.
The council voted two money appropriations totaling $155. One hundred fifty dollars went to the Student Statewide Activities fund and five dollars to the cheerleaders fund for use in card displays and rallies.
Doris Twente, president of the W.S.G.A., stressed the point that the meeting next Tuesday night would be open to all women. The revised constitution will be read but not voted on at the meeting. The constitution will be voted on at a later date.
Nebraska Bound Women
All women students who wish to attend the Kansas-Nebraska football game Saturday in Lincoln, Neb. must sign out in the office of Adviser of Women, 220 Frank Strong Hall, and have their parents send letters of permission direct to the Office of Adviser of Women—Elizabeth Meguiar, Adviser of Women.
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MEN
Henry Skorga, Independent, 15.061 Ray Evans, Phi Delta Theta, 14.18 Kenneth Ketchum, Independent,
6.000
8,309 Eldon Beebe, I.S.A., 7,703 Kenneth Nicolay, Delta F.
Kenneth Nicolay, Delta Tau Delta,
4,106
4.106
Howard Rankin, Kappa Sigma
2.400
Dave Watermulder, Independent,
1001
Tommy Adams, Acacia, 600
Joe Brown, Sigma Nu, 200
Dean Phillips, Beta Theta Pi, 100
Students Must Direct Own Philosophy
"A college education and all learning is a loss and a failure unless it brings up to an adult level the conception of religion." Dr. Paul Weaver, professor of philosophy at Stephens College, told the assembled Y.M.-Y.W.C.A. membership at its annual banquet last night in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building.
So often students grow up in their ideas of literature, art, music, and science, while their religious conception of God and the universe is still that of a seven-year-old's. Weaver said. He holds that religion is the most important of all these because religion deals with the psychological center of living.
Weaver urged every student to look ahead from three to five years, to mark with a star what he wants to accomplish in that length of time, and to use these as values with which to guide and direct life. By anticipating these certain things, each person will be creating his philosophy of life.
More than 600 students heard Weaver speak last night. Preceding him, Miss Roberta Tucker and Harry O'Kane, Y secretaries, outlined the program for the year; members filled out sheets of activities during the banquet.
Margaret Learned and Keith Martin made the introductions.
Need for Priorities Sends J. J. Jakosky To Washington, D.C
Need for priorities on the University of Kansas' new Mineral Industries building was the reason for a flying trip to Washington, D.C., last week by J. J. Jakosky, dean of the engineering school.
The dean spent more than a week interviewing government officials in the Office of Production Management. He returned to Lawrence Sunday.
Nothing has been learned, as to whether the University will be favored in the priorities. Work on the building is at present delayed because of inability to get materials.
Constant Bid On Jolliffe Is Lowest
The J. T. Constant construction company of Lawrence was announced yesterday as the low bidder for the general construction contract for Jolliffe Hall, men's dormitory to be erected directly east of Templin Hall on the Alumni Place. The low bid, opened with 11 others in Topeka yesterday, was for $37,900.
Henry Werner, adviser of men,
and chairman of the faculty com-
mittee examining the bids, said to
day, however, that no contracts
had been awarded as yet.
Have Only $50.000
The committee is faced with the problem that the low bids for wiring and heating and plumbing make the total bids $51,474, while the Endowment Association has only $50,000 for the entire construction of the building.
Werner indicated that the contracts would be awarded within the next three days, a deadline set by the committee itself.
Structural steel has been ordered for the construction and will be delivered about Dec. 15. Of fireproof construction, the building will have three stories and a basement and will house 32 men.
The Eugene Brune company of Lawrence was low bidder, at $2,249, for the electric wiring contract. The Beck-Baer plumbing and heating company of Topeka submitted the lowest bid for the plumbing and heating contract. Their bid was $11,325.
Members of the committee appointed by Chancellor Deane W. Malott to award the contracts are:
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Play Tryouts Open To Student Body
The department of speech and drama today announced a new policy for tryouts and the casting of plays. Hereafter the department will make public plays an all-student activity. Public plays, sponsored by the department, will be presented not by the Dramatic club, but by the student body, and tryouts will be open to every one.
James Barton, instructor in dramatics, declared that the reason for the change was the inefficiency of the present system. Dramatic club tryouts at the beginning of the year have never proven satisfactory, and it is rarely possible to cast a play from Dramatic club membership, Barton said.
Instead of sponsoring tryouts for the Dramatic club at the beginning of each year, the department will make awards at the close of each season in March to all students who have participated as actors or in stage work in the plays.