The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
NUMBER 101
--the University a progressive program for student government, according to Anderson.
on the SHIN
By JOE HOLLOWAY, c'35
We Receive Our Second Letter,
But It's From Blowers . . . Ash
Will Feed His Family . . . Prof.
Taylor Tears Loose.
Oh Boy, are we happy. We had a letter from Lyman and cow we've received one from Bill Flowers—we don't mean to compare Lyman to the blower, but they both wrote letters to us in a weak moment. Here's Bills.' "Dear Joe: It seems that the Pi Phi's were highly burned up when the sacred name of Peggy Am Landon, honorable Pi Phi pledge, appeared in my column of the Sour Owl. As editor of the glimpse 'Hillony we want' want to tell me more about the Pi Owl, are sorry about the grave mistlethance made in our recent publication concerning the statement that Peggy Am Landon did not make her grades and had to quit school.
"The report given to me was not authentic and was a faire. We understand that Miss Landon did make her grades and will be back in school just as soon as she recovers from her recent illness, and will be initiated."
"Hoping this shallow statement will again bring the Pi Phi's good will back to our most humble person—Very truthful, Editor-in-chief of the Sour Owl."
Awfully nice of you to apologize. Willy, but did you hear the same rumor that we did about the Pi Phi's having some new ruling passed which now makes it much easier for the gals to make their grades? Might have had something to do with you getting your stories mixed up.
Saw so many guys running after their bats yesterday as they sailed down the camps that pretty soon it wasn't the last bit funny any more.
We hear that the boys at the Delta Tau bounce have been piping about their meals lately and finally resolved to do something constructive about it. They elected Ed Ash "Supervisor of Meals" and the other day we found him in the library poring over a book entitled "Feeding the Family."
Read a story in the paper the other day chout a fellow whose car was stalled. Another machine came up behind him and he asked the driver for a push. The other man helped him very obligingly and the motorist found later that the men he'd asked to push him was the governor of the state. Loa, if your yellow peril stalks some time and you see a very distinguished looking fellow about six feet two, with snow white hair, don't ask him to push you—its the chancellor.
We were surprised and disappointed to see that no one came through this year with the usual load of food for the convenience of the cats who attended the annual black cat tea at 1118 Indiana
Attended a luncheon for S. K. Ratcliffe Friday noon—it was quite pleasant to hear someone speak English for a change.
As usual when the glee club comes back from a trip to the wilds of western Kansas, there are some funny tales to be related. Buddy Hanna told us last night that Prof. Taylor had a little accident with his trousers—pants to you. In fact, he tore them, run away in the cold. After taking him to a neighboring town to have them mended, he came back to Lawrence without them.
"Chittyz" Winslow, ATO, got taken in a game of itty bitty Sunday night at the Gamma Phi house. His date, Cora Queen Barber, plastered his whole face with lipstick on he realized what was going on. That last statement sounds a bit thick—maybe he wanted to play awkward.
KAPPA SIGMA COMPLETES
NEGOTIATIONS FOR MOVING
Kappa Sigma, social fraternity, yesterday finished final negotiations for moving into the house formerly occupied by Alpha XI Delta sorority, locate at 1045 West Hills. They have definitely decided to move on March 8.
Since the fire Feb. 17, 1934, which destroyed the former Kappa Sigma house, at 1537 Tennessee street, the temporary residence has been at 643 Tennessee Street. The building is razed. Also bids are open for redecorating and furnishing of the new house.
Le Carre Français Not To Meet
Le Carre Français will not meet on the first day of the meeting a special meeting which has been called for members of the College faculty.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1935
Smith Is in Favor Of Many Proposed Enrolling Changes
Faculty Chairman Says Students Are Unwilling to Take Entire Responsibility
Prof. Guy Smith, chairman of the faculty enrollment committee, expresses himself as being generally in favor of the Men's Student Council program for enrollment changes if those changes could be satisfactorily worked out.
Referring to the council's major pro- promise, that there should be pre-enrollment for all students except first-seemer freshman and other new students. Professor Smith said, "I think it would be an excellent thing if it could be done but there are too many difficulties in pre-enrollment. I have taught at a degree people but it has not been entirely satifactory. The students have shown an unwillingness to take the responsibility of enrollment upon themselves.
Pre-Enrollment Not Practical
The council's plan for permitting the student to enroll early and to take the responsibility of selecting his own courses regardless of the suggestions of his adviser would be practical neither from the standpoint of the student nor the professor. I do not think that the student will accept the responsibility
"However, I must admit that if this same plan could be put on a more practical basis I would be whitethrow in favor of it. I would like nothing to do against the student responsible for his selection of courses." Professor Smith said.
Professor Smith was in accord with the other suggestions of the council. He agreed that there should be changes in the group system and that certain pre-requisite courses should be abolished.
"But," he said, "the enrollment committee is not concerned with groups or pre-requisite courses. The college faculty must make the changes necessary along those lines. They are side issues to enrollment."
To Change Alphabet System
To Change Alphabet System
"We are considering a change in the alphabet system of enrollment to avoid the uneven distribution of the number of students at each institution. Rubicon is the character of enrollment that has been characteristic of previous semesters. That may help to avoid the confusion and to allow more time for the advisors to aid individual students."
Professor Smith declared.
"One of the more serious objections to pre- enrollment for the fall semester; as I see it is the fact that few students will be sure that they are coming back and even less certain of what courses they wish to take. Furthermore, the schedule of courses may change during the summer. This would result in more confusion than we have at present." Professor Smith concluded.
Eastwood to Speak Tonight
The Men's Student Council enrollment committee composed of Norbert Ansehuez, c36, chairman; William Beck, 'aunluck', c10; John Dearn, 1938; William Hazen, 137 and Lloyd Metcalf with the faculty committee to take up the matter of changes in enrollment within the next few weeks.
The second of a series of lectures features members of the departments of design, painting, architecture, and English will be held in Spooner Theater museum tonight at 7.30 p.m. The lectures are scheduled for tonight and every Monday night location except when holidays or important activities intervene.
Lectures in Spooner-Thayer To Arouse Interest in Exhibits
Dr. J. Rice of Kansas City Junio College will speak at a dinner to be given by the Snow Zoology Club at its regular meeting tonight. H. Peterson will speak each day yesterday. The club will attend at 6 p.m. in room 201, Snow Hall.
The purpose of the lectures will be to demonstrate and re-affirm the value of Spooner Thayer museum to the students and to the townpeople, all of whom are cordially invited. According to Miss Rosemary Ketchn, principal curator on the permanent exhibit in the museum through lectures on particular collections. These, and transient exhibits, which will be lectured upon, will be assembled by Miss Minnie Moine, director of the museum. Tonight at 7:30 Raymond Eastwood of the department will talk on paintings exhibited in Spooner Thayer museum.
SCHOLARSHIP TO BE GIVEN IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
D. C. Jackson, professor of electrical engineering, recently received a letter from H. H. Hellen national secretary of the American Institute of Electrical Engineering, New York City, announcing that Columbia University is offering a scholarship in electrical engineering for members of each class, freshman, sophomore, junior or senior, of universities and colleges of America.
Toward the annual fees of $345 to $360 in the electrical engineering school of Columbia for the scholarship pay $300. It allows students and university students such wear.
June 1, 1935, is the closing date for the list of applications. Information regarding the scholarship may be obtained vom Professor Jackson.
Ted Shawn and Troup Dance Here Tomorrow
Ensemble of Men to Appear in University Auditorium
Ted Shaw, internationally famous creator and interpreter of dance rhythms, and his ensemble of men and women, will be seen night at the University Auditorium.
Primitive rhythms, a labor symphony, a drama dance, and folk舞ases based upon classical music themes will be presented in solo and encrease creations. Shawn himself will give five solo numbers and he will also appear with the encrease in an Indian dance, a negro spiritual, a Spanish dance and themes by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. One of the outstanding solo舞ases presented by Shaw will be "John Brown's Body," a dance consuming 20 minutes and which required six months of planning before rehearsals could even begin. This dance should especially interest Kansas because it
Pleasure and interest in the evening's program find further corollary in recent and widespread discussion of the dance as a man's art. In ancient times and among primitive people, dancing was almost entirely done by men. In a large majority of the countries of the world today dancing is still predominantly European-American. It inhabits this country American-American civilization and here only in the last two centuries, that dancing has ever been considered feminine.
Shawn, pioneering for years to restore dancing for men to its rightful standing, has now organized and trained the first company in modern times composed entirely of men dances, and with them he presents a program essentially masculine in principle and performance.
UNIVERSITY PEACE ACTION COMMITTEE TO REORGANIZE
Activity tickets will admit students to this performance. Tickets for faculty members and township may be obtained at the Memorial Union Building.
At the suggestion of representatives of the Cause and Cure of War regional conference at Kansas City, Mo., the University Peace Action Committee is effecting a reorganization to establish a more practical organization, Elizabeth Casswell, gr, executive secretary of the committee announced yesterday.
CSEP Students
Prof. W. R. Warner will attend the dinner of the Kansas City section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers to be given tonight at the President Hotel in Kansas City. Dean George Shad, Prof. D. C. Jackson, and R. P. Stringham of the engineering faculty will attend the meeting following a show. R. C. Norman and others among the soner engineers will also attend.
Prof. R. F. K. Gloeffer, head of the department of electrical engineering of Kansas State, will talk on "Water Power for generating Electrical Energy."
All CSEP students must call at the CSEP office this week to register class schedules, addresses, and contact information. A mation must be filed this week.
Miss Caswell appointed a committee to outline a series of discussions and to obtain speakers for the roundtable. The committee includes Crichton Miller, c.35; Jennings Jennings, c.37; Nelson Fujon, gr. Guy Owner, c.38; and Dale O'Brien, c.37.
The Pease Action Committee plans to conduct a series of roundtable discussions for the purpose of familiarizing and engaging students in working toward world peace.
Diversified Work Done by Students On CSEP Projects
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS TO GO TO KANSAS CITY MEETING
Complete Many Jobs as Result of Money Sent Here by Federal Government
Many diversified projects were completed last semester as a result of CSEP work, according to Miss Mary Olsen, SEP secretary. Twenty-five-thousand insects were mounted for the department of entomology by six students who spent 1,207 hours of them. The specimens are now ready to be组培 nto family divisions. They will then secorporated into the museum.
Growth of 59 adult cats was studied in the department of anatomy for the purpose of determining the proportion of the adult. This work was done under the direction of Dr. H. B. Latimer, professor of anatomy.
Specimens of fossils have been un-packed, cleaned, filed, and accessioned for the geological museum. Work has also been done on rocks and 60 fossil plant collections have been labeled and catalogued. One student spent the entire semester cleaning skeletons for the Mammalian museum.
Make Traffic Survey
In the journalism department students compiled a list of scores made in athletic events during the last 40 years. This information was used for a book which is virtually a history of athletic achievements of this school and other midwestern schools. One student worked on an investigation of the early history of Lawrence. This includes historical research regarding Quannil's raid. Another student spent the entire semester working on the morgue.
Two surveys, have been made in the School of Business. One is of the traffic in Lawrence and the other was for the federal power commission. These were made under the direction of Prof. Bowers, assistant professor of economics.
The compiling of interment and record cards for Oak Hill and Maple Groves cemeteries has been the job of two students. This was done under the auspices of the city clerk of Lawrence. This is something which has been waiting for a long time to be done. Lack of funds has prevented before.
Work at Spooner-Thayer
Dr. A. H. Turure, associate professor of education, has been making a study of student achievements in relation to ability. He has compiled a correlation between mental ability and achievements in certain fields and correlation between reading ability and achievements in certain fields.
Two students have assisted Miss Minnie Wood in trimming, mounting, labeling, and classifying 1,000 photographs and color prints for the Spooner-Thayer museum. In the romance language department students have been cataloged fifty-litre litter boxes and the thousand eight hundred and fifty entries have been made.
A survey of health conditions and problems in Lawrence has been made in the department of sociology. Also a project of surveying recreational conditions under underprivileged junior and senior high school students, connected with this, sewing classes, handcraft classes, and parties have been held.
Twenty-two projects have been conducted in the department of psychology and 5,000 pages of data have been obtained. Six students have been used as subjects for experiments such as the analysis of guessing types of reaction in individuals. From data gathered Dr. R. H. Wheeler, professor of psychology, has published several articles and others are being prepared In the department of mathematics a study has been made of the correlation of achievements in mathematics and in other fields with intelligent ratings of 200 alumni who majored in mathematics.
Study Cancer Cases
At Bell Memorial hospital one student has worked the entire time on cancer cases. He has classified all cancer cases and sent out up- letters on all of them. Another student has analyzed the urine and blood of children. These studies are to be used in the treatment of infections of the kidneys. Experiments have also been done on bulk-laxatives, and a review of all the electrocardiograms of the hospital have been made.
Many more interesting projects have been completed and others are still being continued. New projects have also been started this semester.
Third Party Takes Shape
Progressive Student Government League Formed by Undergraduates Desiring to Bring to Mt. Oread an Organization Which Will Guard Individual Interests
The formation of a new campus organization was announced last night by Charles B. Anderson, 136, chairman of the group, which will go under the name of Progressive Student Government League.
Legislators Will Hear Kansas-Missouri Debate
University Team to Attack Unicameral System of Government
The group asserts that the present system fails to accomplish the true purpose for which student government was created, to guard the interests of the individual student and to promote liberal thought and action. The members of the group have broken all former alliances and forgotten party lines in an effort to give the students of
The University forensic team will debate the Missouri squad before the senate and house judiciary committees tomorrow evening in Topake, on the subject "Resolved: that Kansas should adopt the unicameral system of legislation, embodying the essential features of the Nebraska plan." Representative Oscar May is chairman of the house committee and Senator Reese is chairman of the senate committee hearing this debate.
Chancellor E. H. Lindley will preside and the Men's Glee Club will sing before the debate begins.
James Moberly, c'36, of Salma and Charles Hacker, 735, will argue the negative side for Kansas. Robert Nicder will take the affirmative for Missouri.
Prof. E.C. B. Cush伯 of the department of speech and dramatic art has announced that a schedule of debates for the university squad has been arranged
Four men will participate in the Delta Sigma Rhode debate tournament at Iowa University on March 1 and 2. Representatives from about 40 colleges and universities in the United States have been invited to attend. The subject will be "The Unicameral System of Legislation." Gunnar Mykland, c'33, and Lyman Field, c'36, will take the affirmative and Logan Lane, t33, and Alonzo Dempa, t33. There will also be extemporaneous speaking and anorical contests at the meet. Lyman Field will represent the University in both those events.
A series of debates with Texas University has been scheduled for March 4 to 6 inclusive, with the subjects "Resolved: that the federal government should regulate public utilities," and "The Unicameral System of Legislature." James Molby and Charles Hackler will represent the state legislature, who will debate at Temple, Texas, on the campus of Texas University, on March 5 at Austin, Texas, before the state legislature, and on March 6 at San Antonio over the radio. Other debates have been scheduled for March 6 and 8 with Creighton University and the University of South Dakota. The debate with South Dakota University will be before an all-student convention and will be broadcast. The H. W. Wilson publishing company of New York City will present the subject "The Unicameral System of Legislature." Kansas debaters will uphold the negative.
Entomology Club Initiates
Entomology Initiation services for new members of the Entomology Club were held at Sutro Hall afternoon. Inmates were: Charles Amyx, c;38; Alice Smith, c;38; Dale Lindsay, c;37; James Bicket, c;38; and Bruce Gleisser, c;37. Lyman Henderson and Juanita Stone were in charge of the meeting and Joe Hidalgo was chairman of the refreshments committee.
Kansas Graduate Dies
Lindley Speaks In Junction City Chancellor E. H. Lindley was in Junction City last night where he spoke at a dinner meeting of the Junction City Chamber of Commerce. His topic was "Two Civilizations."
Funeral services for Gretchen Gabriel, 31, who died of streptococcus poisoning, will be held at the Methodist church at 2:30, this afternoon. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E Gabriel of Lawrence, and had been in the nurses' training school at the Bell Memorial hospital in Kilkenny City, Kan.
Anderson was elected chairman of the League at its organization meeting held the latter part of last week. He has been known as an independent, and has participated in two Campus Problems speaking contests.
T. D. Williamson, e37, was chosen vice-chairman of the group and Logan J. Lane, 136, general secretary. Williamson is a member of Bain Theta Psi, social fraternity, and is active in the engineering fraternity. He is an active worker in the Y. M.C.A. organization, and is a member of the engineering council.
Lane is affiliated with Delta Upsilon,
Campus Political Leaders Speak
"Our opponents are doing what has been expected: They are disguising themselves under a new name. The Progressive League is beyond the shadow of a double a continuation of old political parties on the Hill, just as the Kayhawk was an outgrowth of the Independent party, which in turn had its beginning in the Black Market. Different different names for this political party durerum have been used for years it is certainly an indication of what may be expected of the Progressives in the future.
"Pachacamac have always maintained their integrity by refusing to hide behind camouflage. Our 22 years of liberal student government attested to the approval which men in Kansas have placed in Pachacamac students who manage change colors as often as a chameleon, Pachacamac intend to introduce its policy of keeping faith with the men students." - Lloyd Metzler, bd,35, President of Pachacamac.
"I hope that the Progressive Party meets with success in arousing and maintaining the interest of students in student government between as well as during elections. The student government will be no better than the students it governs, and the new party will do well to impress this on its followers."—Gumar Mykland, president of the Men's Student Council.
"I am not at all surprised at the formation of such a group with the aims that they set up. K.U has needed something like this for a long time. I only hope that they do not err on the side of becoming too idealistic, for they must remember that if they are going to accomplish these aims they need a spokesperson and a devious politician. The group that does not have as its aim 'politics for politics' sake is heartening to say the least."—Lyman Field, c36, Beta Theta Pi.
"It is certainly an interesting bit of news when a Beta, a D.U., and a Kayhawk get together with two Independents to hope to learn more about this League.
"It sounds interesting, but I would rather not make a statement until I learn more about the organization."—Johnson, president of the Kayhawk Club.
social fraternity, and is also an active member of the debate squad.
Two other officers elected by the charter members of the League were Alfred C. Ames, c36, recording secretary, and Herbert Sizemore, c36, treasurer. Ames is a member of the Kayhawk Club and is best known for his article, "Does K. U. Need a Third Party?" which application in the fall number of this year's Jyohawker, Mr Sizemore is an independent non-participated student politician. He has been active this year as an intramural manager for non-fraternity teams.
Lane, in a statement last night said,
"This new organization is not a political party; it is a movement for better student government. We are going to make student government a con-
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