24,1941.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
38TH YEAR.
LAWRENCE KANSAS FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1941.
NUMBER 133.
PACHACAMAC IS IN
Mullen Is Honor Man
Announce University Awards
Scholarship, leadership, and character were on parade today as the University honored its leading students at the eighteenth Honors Convocation.
C. H. Mullen, second year law, was named "Honor Man of 1940" because of his outstanding qualities of leadership, scholarship, charac ter, and service to the University.
Mullen received his A. B. in political science in 1939. He was elected to Phi Bata Kappa, Phi Sigma Alpha, honorary political science
For complete lists of students on the Chacellor's Honor Roll see page. 3.
fraternity, and Sachem, of which he was Chief. He made the Dean's Honor Roll in his freshman, sophomore and junior years and received senior honors.
Former MSC Prexy
Last year he served as president of the Men's Student Council, and previous to that had served two other terms on the council. He was also chairman of Statewide Activities Committee. Mullen is now head proctor of the three men's residence halls.
Leighton McGregor, college senior received the Phi Sigma scholarship medal awarded for meritorious work in biological research (continued to page eight)
... new M.S.C. president by 25 votes.
Plan For Mineral Industries Start Building In Fall
The contract for the projected Mineral Industries building will not be let until August and construction is not expected to start until September, K. K. Landes, professor of geology and member of the building committee said today. Barring material or labor shortage, the building will be completed in 14 months.
Work on the building project is concerned chiefly with planning and
drawing complete specifications. The building site on the parking lot west of the observatory was staked out today and nearby rock quarries inspected for a building stone supply, Landes added.
It will be some weeks before complete specifications can be prepared, Landes said. The state architect and the assistant state architect have been inspecting the Mineral Industries buildings at Pennsylvania State college and the University of Illinois so that the very ideal ideas may be incorporated in the University's building.
Latest Ideas Used
Chancellor Deane W. Malott has appointed a building committee to cooperate with the state architect's office in drafting the plans. On the committee are K. K. Landes, professor of geology and state geologist, J. J. Jakosky, dean of the school of Engineering, and Eugene A. Stephenson, professor of petroleum engineering.
Landes Promotes Building
Landes worked hand-in-hand with the alumni association in securing (continued to page five)
Bob McKay Edges Into Presidency
The Pachacamac party led by Bob McKay swept into power at the men's election yesterday to end the two-year reign of the Progressive Student Government League. McKay won the presidency of the Men's Student Council with a 25 vote majority over P.S.G.L.'s Jim Burdge.
Judge M. E. Otis Is Speaker At Convocation
A pinch of talent.
An ounce of sweat.
A pint of midnight oil.
A quart of Chase and Sanborn's dated best.
A sprinkle of luck.
And Dale Carnegie's book on how to influence professors.
With this formula you are sure to make Phi Beta Kappa (if you make the grades) Judge Merrill E. Otis, judge of the United States District Court in Kansas City, told the student body in his address at Honors Convocation this morning.
As a graduate of the University of Missouri, Judge Otis remarked that this was not the first time he had confronted c KU. audience—he seemed to remember well the days when he debated against the KU. team.' He kept the students, faculty and visitors chuckling with reminiscences of his own schools days as a "rural" student in the little old school house in the country from which he graduated as valedictorian
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The party of the Rising Sun won 16 out of 26 offices, and carried three out of the four districts with safe majorities. District I, comprising the Law, Medicine and Graduate Schools, was all that the League was able to salvage. Burdge carried this district 133 to 96, and the League elected two out of the three representatives.
50 Vote Majority
Heaviest Pachacamac majority was recorded in the engineering district where McKay won with a 50 vote majority, and three of the four representatives were elected by the men of the Rising Sun.
Burdge, although he lost the presidency, will serve as representative-at-large on the Council and will be the leader of the minority vote. Each party elected 10 representatives, but since Pachacamac has the president they will have no trouble in getting things their own way.
Five out of six class officers were won by Pachacamac. Garland Landrith, who was elected president of the sophomore class for next year, was the only P.S.G.L. to win a class position.
The ballots were counted in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building, and a crowd of about 150 students waited anxiously in the lobby as reports were sent down and posted on a bulletin board. The crowd seemed to be non-partisan, (continued on page right)
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President of M.S.C.
Final Election Results
Bob McKay (Pach) ... 881
Jim Burdge (PSGL) ... 856
Representatives from District I.
Milt Sullivant (PSGL)—Mitt Allen (Pach)—Harold
Borgh (PSGL)
Representatives from District II.
Elden Beeber (PSGL)—Ed Linquist (PSGL)—Fred Lawson
(Pach)—Harry Johnson (Pach).
Representatives from District III.
Dorus Munsinger (Pach)—Dick Lee (Pach)—Dick Mankin
(Pach)—Herbert Hoover (PSGL)
Representatives from District IV.
David Watermulder (Pach)—Willis Tomkins (PSGL)—Bob Woodward (PSGL)—Donn Mosser (PSGL)—Hal Ruppenthal (Pach)—Joe Brown (Pach)—Jay Voran (Pach)—John Conard (PSGL)
Senior Class:
Pres.: Howard Rankin (Pach) 220; Ed Price (PSGL) 219.
Treas.: Norman Sanneman (Pach) 243; Bill Collinson (PSGL)
196.
Junior Class:
Pres.: Ralph Schaake (Pach) 180; John Waggoner (PSGL) 156. Treas.: Jack Bicknell (Pach) 169; Lloyd Svoboda (PSGL) 166.
Sophomore Class:
Pres.: Garland Landrith (PSGL) 229; Marion Haynes (Pach) 220.
Treas.: Don Pomeroy (Pach) 238; Jay Gunnels (PSGL) 165.
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