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NUMBER 126.
LAWRENCE KANSAS THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1941.
Prep Meet Opens Kansas Relays
High Schoolers To Tour Hill On Interscholastic Day
Prepsters To Cover Hill On Guest Day
Twenty-two high schools will have their eyes on Lawrence tomorrow when they send student delegations to the first annual Interscholastic Guest Day, sponsored by the extension division.
Visitor will tour the campus, watch the Relays, hear a special concert, feast on barbecue beef, and dance in Memorial Union building ballroom.
For the big day an excursion train will bring students from Alexander, Bazine, Dodge City, Hutchinson, La Crosse, Larned, Partridge, Rozel, and Stafford.
Traveling by car or school bus, groups are coming from the following towns: De Soto, Eudora, Gardner, Goff, Hamilton, Huboldt, La Cygne, Lebo, Melvern, Oskaloosa, Waverley, Wellsville, and Zook.
Most high schools are sending their senior class, H. G. Ingham, director of the extension division, said.
Breakfast for the visitors will be served cafeteria-style in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building. Then University student serving as guides will take groups on tours of campus buildings and exhibits.
Those who do not attend the Re-lays in the afternoon will have a chance to get a bird's-eye view of Lawrence from the top of Fraser hall.
At 4:30 p.m. a concert featuring five musical organizations—the Orchestra, Men's Glee Club, Women's Glee Club, A Cappella Choir, and
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PARTY PLATFORMS Hill Politicians Speak Campaign On
PSGL PLATFORM
Extension of Housing Facilities for Men PSGL wishes to emphasize the interests of independent men in relation to men dormitory housing and to the interests of the fraternity party—yet for political reasons they pretend to be a minority group and deeply appreciate the benefits of housing. Consequently it has always been and our policy encourages the University to urge the Student Council to aid in the establishment of more cooperative houses by the purchase of shares of stock in the University of Kansas Student Housing Association.
Through the efforts of PSGL a plan for a credit-hour Freshman Orientation aimed to acquaint students with the services they make their study more profitable, is now before the university administration. PSGL will be offering a real value to the incoming student, promises to do everything possible to make sure students are reliable and to cooperate in administering it.
Orientation of New Students
PSGL has always been vitally interested in lowering the price of books to the students. This year it gave its whole-hearted support in the reorganization of the Book Exchange on a non-profit basis. In conjunction with this, it also willingly oppose any attempt to locate a privately owned monopolistic book store in the proposed new wing to the Union Building; rather it will demand the establishment of a non-profit book store there.
Bend every effort toward reconditioning or replacing many of the existing tennis courts. The cost of this work has been lowered as a consequence through the use of stabilized earth.
Set up a lost and found box for the University to be located in the Union Building.
improvement of Food, Housing Regulations PSGL recognizes the many defects of the housing set-up and removes them. As a first constructive step it proposes to combine the University Housing Commission with the University Housing Commission to ensure a more efficient and effective administration of the food and housing regulations.
Cooperate with "Pho" Allen in his efforts to obtain new handball courts and impact the sport.
Create a student labor board, which will serve as a protection to all working students, and will set up minimum wage standards and maximum working hours. This board will consist of representatives chosen from: working students, local employers, faculty members, and student council.
PACHACAMAC'S PLATFORM
Exert influence on the administration to open all possible jobs on proposed university building projects to working students. Specifically:
(a) To execute the announced policy of using student labor on the Mineral Industries Building and the Engineering Laboratory.
(b) To supplement WPA labor on the ROTC building with student labor so far as university funds permit.
(c) To insist that student labor be employed on the proposed Union Building addition.
Give student opinion a voice on all important issues before the student council through a straw vote. Such a poll would furnish the student council with definite facts regarding student sentiment on important issues.
High School Athletes Will Perform Tomorrow
High school athletes from throughout the state will have their day of glory tomorrow as they perform in the thirty-seventh annual University of Kansas Interscholastic Track and Field Meet in Memorial stadium.
Preliminaries in both track and field events are scheduled to get under way at 9:30 a.m. and will last throughout the morning. Finals will begin at 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon with the
U.S. Army Sends Company For Exposition
Powerful trucks of the United States army will rumble onto the campus tomorrow morning when a light ordnance maintenance company from Ft. Riley moves in to participate in the department of military science and tactics' program for the Engineering Exposition. It will also be exhibited in connection with the Lawrence Trade Show.
More than 25 trucks and 100 men will move in behind Marvin hall and demonstrate the operation of their unit. Welding and forging equipment and repairing machines are part of the equipment carried on the trucks. Rifles, machine guns, and other types of military equipment can be repaired by the unit in the field.
Lieutenant Boyd L. Bryant, a University graduate in 1938 and formerly a cadet major in the R.O.T.C. is one of the company officers. Other exhibits by the military department will be shown in room 210, Marvin hall. The department plans to exhibit a machine gun and an automatic rifle, a range finder, and other field equipment.
WEATHER
Warmer with scattered showers tomorrow.
120-yard high hurdles leading off the program.
University students will be admitted to the track carnival on presentation of their activity books at the west gates of the stadium.
It will be first come, first served at the Kansas Relays for University students, with no reserved seats. The south half of west side of Memorial Stadium will be open to students.
ticipating in Class A and all others in Class B. The entries this year included 45 Class A and 93 class B schools, making a total of 138 schools entered.
At the same time the high school meet is taking place, the decathlon contestants in the Kansas Relays will be starting their long grind. With the addition of Leo Cross and Darold Dodge, of Manhattan, yesterday, the entry list now numbers 11.
Among the prep stars who may send records tumbling are Warren Fleandt, javelin toser of Wichita East; "Doc" Love, Hutchinson spriter; Albert Woods, Coffeyville broad jumper; and Bill McCrae, spinter from Blue Rapids.
Class A schools entered are:
Abilene, Anthony, Argentine of Kansas City, Arkansas City, Atchison, Aitchison County Community, Bonner Springs, Clay Center, Council Grove, ELdorado, Ellis, Emporia, Eureka, Fredonia, Garnett, Great Bend, Hiawatha, Highland Park, Hutchinson, Humboldt, Independ-
Exposition Will Unveil Latest In Mad Inventions
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Engineers To Compete For Trophy
If you notice the engineers walking about in a trance, blame it on the Engineering Exposition to be held here tomorrow and Saturday. Some of the boys have sprained their cerebellums concocting novel stunts for the show in competition for the Sigma Tau trophy for the best exhibit.
The very latest is a monstrosity by the boys of Theta Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, an invention which is designed to keep students
awake in class. How it works—the students sits in class with a rope around his neck. When he nods, the rope jerks, opening a trap door, from which rolls a ball, which knocks over some tpins, finally a tack comes up through the seat of the chair and arouses the dreamer.
The emphasis this year seems to be on novelty. Similar to the Goldbergian creation of the Theta Taus, the mechanical engineers have a popcorn machine which pops 1 kernel at a time. The applied mechanics are going to make three tons of candy in a few seconds. The electricals will cook hamburgers on ice. The chemicals will freeze and boil water at the same time. The architects will have surrealist drawings on exhibit.
The show has a serious side, too. Many of the latest wonders of the world of science will be shown. The department of chemistry will demonstrate liquid air, so cold that it can
freeze a rubber ball and make it brittle as glass. The department of mathematics will have a mathematical typewriter in operation.
Newest features of neon lighting will be displayed by the department of physics. The electrical engineers will demonstrate the latest thing in radio, a frequency modulation transmitter which will reduce radio static to a minimum.
The Exposition will take place in four University buildings: Marvin hall, Haworth hall, Bailey chemical laboratory, and the Engineering laboratory. It will open at 9 a.m.
Friday morning and last till 5 p.m.
An evening show will be given Friday from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday's
show will last from 9 to 12 a.m.
Amateur photographers are invited to enter a contest held in connection with the Exposition. Pictures taken at his show are to be turned in to the dean's office not later than April 30. First prize will be $7.50, second $4, and five consolation prizes of $1.50.
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