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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 21, 1959
BUDDING CHEMISTS-Bill Pokorny, Halstead high school student is working in the apprentice program for graduates from last year's band camp science program. At the right is George Axelrad, New York graduate student.
Entomology Professor Plans Research into Crane Flies
Basic research on the biology and classification of crane flies in North America will be carried on under the direction of Dr. George W. Byers, assistant professor of entomology at the University of Kansas. The study is supported by a $7,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Byers will study the life history of the crane fly, its internal anatomy, and the incidence of the crane fly in North America. Assisting him will be Larry Mason, a graduate student at the University of Kansas.
During a six-week summer field
trip through 12 states in the Northwest. Dr. Byers, accompanied by three students, collected more than 50,000 insect specimens for the Entomological Museum. Among them was one crane fly type from the Black Hills, 500 miles from the nearest place it had been found before. Dr. Byers believes it likely that they are isolated here, and have been for several thousand years.
The crane fly presents no immediate economic problem in the United States. However, in Europe the crane fly is of great economic importance as it sometimes destroys as much as three-fifths of the hay crop.
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By Ethel Strainchamps
'Intellectual Snobs' Make Fetish Of Nonconformity for Its Own Sake
There is a serious flaw in much of the social criticism reaching us today by way of the mass media. It is written from the viewpoint of people who move in literary and academic circles and it is therefore irrelevant to the state of affairs in society at large.
(Editor's Note: Because of its timeliness and pertinence for University students, we are reproducing, in part, this article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.)
It is true, according to their critics, that the conforming pseudo-intellectual, upper-Bohemian, culturally elite nonconformists in their arcane haunts (not to be confused with Beatniks in Nirvana) are cool to television. They are said to accept only Edward R. Murrow, Omnibus, Sid Caesar and Leonard Bernstein
This is true, I think, of a spate of recent magazine articles that seem to have been aimed at undermining the self-confidence of intellectuals, or non-conformists, or nonconforming intellectuals.
academic intellectuals back into safer ways of behaving and thinking...
Also, besides liking Stevenson and disliking Nixon, they are as one in their distaste for American movies, best-selling books, James Gould Cozzens, Detroit cars and Madison Avenue ads. They live in old houses or new ones that they have helped some avant garde architect design.
Seemingly the criticism is directed against "pseudo-intellectual snobs," just plain "intellectual snobs," "conforming nonconformists" the "cultural elite" or "Upper Bohemians." The weapon being used against them is the threat of being typed.
Some body, probably Russell Lynes, editor of Harpers Magazine, discovered a few years ago that nonconforming intellectuals were identifiable by certain attitudes and tastes they had in common, and ever since they repeatedly have been charged with "following a line" and being no more independent in their choices than more conventional faddists.
They drive old model or European made cars, buy paintings or travel abroad instead of joining the country club; send their kids to Ivy League colleges; read the quarterlies and Reporter Magazine instead of Time and the Reader's Digest and prefer Beethoven, Each and Bartok to Rodgers and Hammerstein or Irving Berlin...
People outside the literary-academic circles...must be wondering
Not long ago on a radio panel show somebody asked Robert Frost if he thought anti-intellectualism was particularly prevalent today and he said, "It comes in waves. Right now I think there's a wave of it being started so as to defeat Adlai Stevenson again"
A snob must at least have the illusion that he has something enviable, and surely intellectuals are too smart to suppose that the world covets braininess. Writers and professors may do so, but they are deluded if they project this attitude beyond their own immediate circles
what all the dither is about. If "intellectual snobbery" is not a contradiction in terms anywhere, it is certainly an unimaginable attitude here in Missouri...
It seems rather far-fetched to think the social critics in question have this end in view, even though it is true that an admiration for Stevenson is a badge of merit with some intellectual liberals.
Of course much of the criticism has been written for the eyes of those who may need a little deflating. Unfortunately, editors of mass-eirculation magazines have picked up the scholarly chit-chat and are spreading it into other areas. For example, a neat knife-job on conforming academic nonconformists that appeared in American Scholar, the Phi Beta Kappa magazine, was gleefully reprinted by Time, apparently to shudder the budding non-
The logical deduction for an observer of this scene is that there may be an intrinsic superiority in certain ideas, activities, objects, people and methods, and that those who see it will sometimes say so, even at the cost of their reputation for nonconformity.
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