EXTRA
Daily hansan
EXTRA
56th Year, No. 143
Friday, May 8. 1959
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
LONG CANE OF THE LAW—Cane-carrying third-year law students line up this morning
during Law Fun Day. The lawyers are taking the day off for a beauty contest and a picnic.
ASC Wing-Clip Is Fatal to 'Fowl'
"Fowl," the campus magazine which was recently stripped of its status as an official publication by the All Student Council, will not be published again.
Bill Barr, Dodge City sophomore and editor of the magazine, inquired into the possibilities of continuing to publish the magazine without ASC sanction. He found he could not.
"Any publication on the KU campus must be approved and sponsored by the All Student Council of the University," he told The Daily Kansan. "This is according to the University's administrative policy.
At the time the ASC decided "Fowl" was not quite what it had in mind in the way of humor for KU students, Barr and Dick Pollard, Topeka junior and business manager of the publication, were preparing a new issue. Advertising had been contracted for.
"Therefore, it will be impossible to publish another campus humor magazine until the ASC reinstates and provides for it in the constitution."
Weather
Considerable cloudiness tonight with partly cloudy skies tomorrow. Low tonight in the upper 50s. High tomorrow in the upper 80s. Possible thundershowers late tonight and early tomorrow. Sunday weather forecast is for clearing skies with temperatures ranging into the lower 80s.
Barr said he and Pollard are in the process of notifying the advertisers that their messages could not be run. The men are also clearing up the magazine's official and financial statements.
"We do not intend to forget the magazine until all our responsibilities are taken care of," Barr said.
SAE Men Paddle Canoe From Drydock
The men of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity had to paddle their own canoe last night—from the sudeck of the Chi Omega sorority house.
The craft was found in drydock on the sorority sundeck about 11 last night. No one seemed to know how the canoe got there.
Just to make things legal, the Sig Alphs obtained permission from the campus police to climb to the deck and retrieve the craft.
2 Hurt in Blast In Campus Lab
An explosion during an experiment rocked a research laboratory behind Marvin Hall about 2:45 this afternoon, injuring two persons.
The injured persons were identified as Jerome Brewer, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student and Fred Kurata, professor of chemical engineering, who injured his arm.
Windows and part of the roof were blown out of the building housing KANU, FM radio station. A small fire was quickly extinguished by three fire engines which converged on the scene.
Brewer was standing beside a constant temperature box, experimenting with hydro carbons and hydrogen sulfide at a pressure of 1.000 pounds per square inch.
Brewer suffered second degree burns on his back and arms and third degree burns on his hands. His condition is described as good by Dr. Maurice Gross. Brewer is in Watkins Hospital.
Marcia Opperman, secretary in the Engineering School office, said she saw a maintenance truck drive off with the injured person who was wrapped in "a blanket or canvas."
Yearbook Bills Draw Protest
Protests descended on the Jayhawker this week from various campus organizations over the practices of the Jayhawker in charging and placing space purchased by the organizations. The last section of the magazine is due next week.
At least five organizations have complained of a sliding scale or prices for space, depending on the organization's ability to pay. Some groups also said they were billed for more space than they were given in the annual.
This year's Jayhawker business manager, Arly H. Allen, Lawrence junior, admitted mistakes had been made in quoting prices at the first of the year.
He said several persons selling space quoted wrong prices, causing
the Jayhawker to bill the organizations different prices.
"Everywhere this has come to our attention we have given the organizations the benefit of the doubt and charged the price they told us they were quoted," Allen said.
An example of the predicament was cited by Tom Gee, Leavenworth senior and president of Vox Populi.
He said he received a letter from the Jaghawker quoting a $25 half-page price, and received a bill for $45.
Larry C. Schooley, Kiowa junior, said Scabbard and Blade, honorary military fraternity, paid $45 for one-half page while the Pershing Rifles, another military organization, received a reduction from $45 to $25.
Allen said the price schedule as set up is complex and unorganized.
It's That Rodent Stork Again
Sigma Pi fraternity may be overrun by mice by the middle of final week if the stork arrives on time.
At 9:30 a.m., April 12, the old bird brought 13 gray mouslings to a newspaper nest tucked under a bed in the fraternity house. The fraternity's "expectant fathers" are looking for the long-legged bird again—this time during final week.
Roger D. Caudie, Troy freshman, and a member of the fraternity, makes this prediction for the future;
"Going on the basis of theoretical calculations, inbreeding could give us several thousand mice in a year's time," he said.
Caudle said he is planning to name the mice after the Greek alphabet as soon as he can tell them apart.
"I've learned the female is in heat every four days, and can produce a litter every 20 days," he commented.
"If I run out of Greek letters for names, I'll start on the Chinese alphabet," he said.
Only six of the 13 original baby mice are now living.
He and David A. Toland, Chanute junior, care for the family.
Caucle brought the black male mouse, Gussy, and his white mate, Pamela, to the house last St. Patrick's Day.
"One died and was thrown out of
the cardboard house. Another was kind of sick-looking'in, and they threw him out too," Toland said.
"As far as the other five are concerned, I'm afraid our mice are cannibalistic. They just disappeared," Caudle added.
He said their favorite food was wieners, but most of their diet is a special mouse food.
"We got the mice mainly for pets. They make a wonderful conversation piece for parties. Besides that, everyone gets a kick out of just standing around and watching them climb around in the cage," Caudle said.
Toland said the house residents find it is great fun to let the mice run free on the floor.
"...but they're heck to catch again," he added.
"Our housemother and cook don't exactly like the idea of the mice running around the house. Our housemother said she was moving out if they got loose," Toland said.
Caudle is concerned about the fate of the mice when he goes home for summer vacation.
"We're willing to share the mice with someone over the summer, but we'd like to have them back next fall. My parents don't see eye to eye with me on having mice for pets."
FRAT RAT—A white mouse, one of the rodents being kept in the Sigma Pi fraternity house, climbs out of the mousehold while a fraternity member gives chase.