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University Daily Kansan Friday, May 1, 1959
300 Gather for Academy Confab
The 91st annual Kansas Academy of Science meeting began last night in Bailey Auditorium with the address of Edward Zeller, associate professor of geology, on his Antarctic expedition.
Over 300 Kansas science students and teachers are gathered on campus for the meeting which will un through Saturday.
Most of the Academy activity is scheduled for today with registration starting at 8 a.m.
Sectional meetings of botany, chemistry, experimental biology, geography, geology, mammalogy, physics and zoology were held this morning for the purpose of discussing scientific research completed by members of the academy.
More sectional meetings started at 1:30 p.m. this afternoon in all of the above listed fields. Scientific papers will be read throughout the afternoon.
A banquet at 5:30 tonight in the Kansas Union Ballroom will close the activity of the Academy except for a meeting tomorrow of the Kansas Entomological Society.
The Academy was established in 1868 and every fourth meeting since that time has been held on the KU campus.
T. F. Andrews, president of the Academy, will deliver a lecture entitled "The future of the Kansas Academy of Science" following the banquet.
All of the meetings are being held in the Kansas Union except the physics section, which is meeting in Malott Hall.
Ernest Griswold, professor of chemistry, is serving as chairman of the local committee.
Summers on Ice Cap 'Warm'
The weather of Antarctica in the "summer" months is near perfect—the high temperature about 20 degrees. This observation by Dr. Edward J. Zeller, associate professor of Geology, is contrary to the opinions of most regarding the southern ice-cap.
Dr Zeller, sent to Antarctica during International Geophysical Year, collected samples for measurement to determine the age of the Antarctic ice cap. His job was to preserve these samples and brin $ ^{a} $ them to Kansas for experiments.
Dr. Zeller gave the address on "Antarctica" as a part of the 91st annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science at KU. The conference will end today with a presidential address by T. F. Andrews
Switchmen Arrested
HALE, Mo—Two railway switchmen, the fathers of 10 young children, were charged today by the FBI with the $22,813 robbery yesterday of the Farmers Merchant Bank of Hale, and the $12,086 robbery last September of the Tri-County Bank of El Dorado Springs, Mo.
The federal charges, filed before the U. S. Commissioner in Kansas City, were based on written and signed confessions given by the men following their capture by a single Missouri highway patrolman yesterday.
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Fine Free Program May Last
The chief of the library reader service said today that the University will consider extension of the library "Fine Free" program after its success can be judged.
Librarian Robert L. Quinsey said:
"We have no basis for a decision yet. After the present program is finished, we will then consider another."
Starting tomorrow, overdue library books may be returned on Saturdays without a fine.
Mr. Quinsey said he thinks the fine free program will provide a greater stimulus to return overdue books than the present penalty program.
The purpose of the program is to make possible the easy return of overdue and lost library books.
Books may be returned at any of the public desks in Watson Library and at the branch libraries—Green, Lindley, Marvin, Malott and Music.
Alpha Phi Omega, national
service fraternity, will work with the library tomorrow to put the program into operation.
Fraternity members will collect library books from any house or individual. Jay Lamb, Kansas City, Mo., junior, is chairman of the fraternity program.
"Every book received will be carefully sorted and redistributed to the proper library," Mr. Quinsey said.
"The KU library staff will mail back books to any other
college library or public library."
Persons returning overdue books returned any other day will carry the usual penalties.
"The library operates on an assumption of honesty and good faith among all students." Mr. Quinsey said.
"Most overdue books are accidental or result from carelessness. Very few books are deliberately kept out overdue by conscious chiselers and still fewer are stolen," he added.
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