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DOG DAYS—"Sig," the St. Bernard mascot of Sigma Chi, begins to feel the heat under his wooly coat. Comforting "Sig" is Bonnie Lou Burdorf, Emporia freshman. The temperature was in the 70s by mid-morning.
Dames Await Derby Day
Sorority women will return to the sports of yesteryear and the picnic games of the 1920s tomorrow at the sixth annual Sigma Chi Derby Day.
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The events include such games as leap frog, flour grubble, three-legged-race, and musical buckets. Participants will also try their talents at sack racing, fishpole racing, grapefruit racing, and ice-cake sitting.
For the more active entrants there are egg throwing contests and pony express.
The events will start at 1:30 p.m. at the tennis court in back of the Sigma Chi house, 1439 Tennessee.
Certificates will be given to individual winners and trophies to team winners. The best athlete will receive an individual trophy.
The fraternity has provided coaches from the house for each of the sororities entering. The rules state that each contestant may enter only three events and each team may enter only one contender in each event.
Co-chairmen of the Derby Day planning committee are Fred A. Rowland, Short Hills, N. J., junior, and Paul F. DeBauge, Emporia junior.
Twelve sororities are expected to enter contestants. Alpha Phi was the 1958 winner and Alpha Delta Pi the 1957 winner.
Mrs. Culbertson pointed to the present course in physics being taught on Continental Classrooms as one of a national need.
Cities Seen as Better For Educational TV
Educational television should come from the desire of the individual communities, rather than be supported by the state, the producer of NBC's television show Continental Classroom, said today.
Mrs. Dorothy Culbertson told a Daily Kansas reporter today that when educational television is university oriented, it does not feel an obligation to the community to fill its needs. "Educational television becomes responsible to only one group fi it is state supported.
"I think the educational station focusing on adult educational programming, that is a non-instructional type of program, should be community oriented and the community should feel a need for it and support it."
Mrs. Culbertson said that NBC expects to continue Continental Classroom next year and take in the fields of chemistry and mathematics in the future.
"At this time, network educational television should be limited to the subject areas in which there is either something of tantamount importance in a national emergency or those subjects which we (the network) could teach better than anybody else.
"An example of the latter is a course in Shakespeare," she said.
"Mostly educational TV should be in response to local needs. Only the individual community can know what its own needs are."
She attributed the success of Continental Classroom to filling a realistic need.
Mrs. Culbertson said that in spite of the broadcast hour of 6:30 each morning, Continental Classroom holds an estimated audience of 400,- 000 persons.
"I think the biggest reasons our program has been a success is that it actually fills a need in American education and it is being taught by a superb teacher."
"Actually, 6:30 is when most of our intended audience can look at the program. Most of our viewers, teachers, students, and engineers, for example, are persons who are otherwise employed." she said.
"They aren't too tired for 'hard thinking' early in the morning, and it doesn't tie up their social life as it would if presented during the evening hours."
Today's Kansan Has Picture Supplement
A picture story on the Grant Wood retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Art is featured in the picture supplement which appears in today's Daily Kansan.
A photographic interpretation of Dylan Thomas' poem, "Fern Hill." also is included. Copyright permission to reprint the poem was granted by New Directions Books, N. Y. The supplement is published by the advanced news photography class of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
56th Year, No.133
Two KU students were awarded prizes yesterday in the third annual Taylor student book collection contest sponsored by Watson library.
Book Collection Contest Honors Go to 2 Students
Friday, April 24, 1959
Ize E. Sedricks, Topeka junior,
was awarded first prize of $85 for
her collection of books on Oriental
poetry, philosophies, and religion.
The two collections will be on display in the foyer of Watson library.
Miss Sedricks, a Latvian student who has been in the United States for seven years, said she began her collection about three and a hall years ago.
Kent H. Wilson, Fort Worth, Tex.
graduate student, won the $40 second prize for a collection of butterfly books.
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"I am majoring in English and first became interested in poetry, and the religions and how they reflect the philosophy and attitudes of life." Miss Sedricks said.
"I plan to buy more books to increase my collection with the prize money, unless I have to pay a lot of it in library fines."
Buv More Books
Wilson, doing graduate work in entomology, said he began his collection of the butterfly books about 1936.
"My collection has slowly built up to be a professional type of collection. I also have books on other types of insects," he said.
Wilson said he entered a collection in the Taylor Contest last year which was based on books about entomology that would help people working in the field. The collection did not place, so he entered one again this year, he said.
Readv Talks
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Taylor, Kansas City, Mo., who donated the prize money, awarded the prizes to the two winners preceding a talk by William B. Ready, Marquette University librarian.
Other collections entered in the contest were on the subjects of natural history, English literature, sociology, biochemistry, Russian literature, paleobotany, mammals, birds, evolution, drama, anthropology, James Joyce and Thomas Wolfe.
The judges for the book contest were George Allen, Lawrence lawyer, Roy L. Kidman, science librarian, and Robert M. Mengel, research assistant, librarian, and zoology instructor.
Tennis Anvone?
Warm weather sport
All Women's Day Tuesday
"Our Fair Ladies" is the theme for the annual All Women's Day, sponsored by Associated Woman Students to be held Tuesday.
All women students and faculty members are invited to attend a fashion show in the morning and an honors program in the evening.
The fashion show, sponsored by the Ray Beer's Clothing Company, Topeka, will be from 10 a.m. to noon in the Kansas Union ballroom. Models for the show will represent each of the women's organized houses.
Women may register for the cashmere skirt and sweater set and three dresses which are being offered as door prizes by the company.
Drawing for the prizes will be held at the conclusion of the AWS Honor Night from 7 to 8:30 in Hoch Auditorium.
Announcement of new Morton Board members, Jay Sisters, and dormitory counselors for next year will be made. AWS Senate officers for next year will be installed also.
The program will be concluded with the announcement of women chosen by their individual houses as the most outstanding person in house activities.
Weather
Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Scattered light showers east tonight. Colder west and north tonight and over state toorrow. Low tonight 30 northwest to 45 southeast. High tomorrow 55s northwest to 60s southeast.
No Prosecution For Disciplined 11 Students
The owner of the apartment house damaged by a group of KU men during a party last Saturday night, said today she did not wish to prosecute the students because payment for damages had been made.
Mrs. Mary Stephenson, owner of the house at 1316 Ohio, said she decided to turn the problem over to the dean of men to get the matter straightened out.
Nine students were suspended from the University and two placed on probation as a result of the incident which occurred last Saturday,
$115 Paid
A total $115 dollars was paid by the student renting the apartment for a week last week. The student said Mrs. Stephenson said she would not prosecute because she was satisfied.
Melvin Hawk, Atchison graduate student, one of students suspended who plans to appeal the disciplinary action, said today he has not taken any action vet.
Hawk asserts that he was wronged because he had nothing to do with the party and was suspended on the grounds of doing nothing to stop the damage.
Still Thinking
"I have done nothing definite now about appealing, but I'm still thinking about it because I sincerely believe I was wronged." Hawk said.
Mrs. Stephenson said the apartment had been damaged last semester by some members of the group who were living there. She said she notified the students Dec. 8 to vacate the dwelling in a month to avoid recurring disturbances. They moved out after Christmas vacation.
Last week one of the students suspended rented the apartment for a week under an assumed name. However, Mrs. Stephenson said she did not feel the student who rented the apartment was a part to the damages.
Talked Into It
"I think he was talked into renting the apartment for the other fellows," she said.
"I understand all the boys chipped in and paid the amount of the damages to me," Mrs. Stephenson said.
At the time the students vacated the apartment last semester Mrs. Stephenson said they forfeited some rent money in order to pay for earlier damages.
Noted KU Zoologist to retire
Edward H. Taylor, 70, professor of zoology and an internationally recognized herpetologist, will be retired to emeritus status in June Prof. Taylor has served on the faculty for 33 years.
He will be honored at the all-University Faculty retirement dinner at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Union. He is the only faculty member being retired to emeritus status this year.
Prof. Taylor will be presented a certificate of service marking his long connection with KU, which began in the first decade of the 20th century when he was an undergraduate.
Prof. Taylor earned the A.B. degree from KU in 1912, the M.S. degree in 1920, and the Ph.D. in 1926. He became an assistant professor in 1926, and in 1934 earned the rank of full professor.
"I am very happy about retiring. I am going to spend probably the next year in Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand doing largely study and some collecting," said the quiet, polite scientist.
Prof. Taylor said he would be completing preparation of a scientific paper on the amphibians, reptiles, and crocodiles of Thailand for the government of that country.
Edward H. Taylor
His other scientific publications number thousands of pages. Three years ago he completed a 1,100 page, 4-volume study of the reptiles and amphibians of Costa Rica that required 10 years of study and writing.
Few scientists have spent as much time in the tropical jungles of the world-from India, Ceylon, Southeast Asia, and the Philippines to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean Islands-as Dr. Taylor has.
He went to the Philippine Islands in 1912 as a supervisor of schools. Later he was chief of the division of fisheries in the Philippines. During the winter of 1918-1919, he engaged in civilian relief work in typhus-affected areas of Western Siberia.
His field work took him over much of the island of Mindanao, at a time when that island was mostly unexplored and when some headhunter tribes still occasionally indulged in their forbidden practice.
Prof. Taylor considers his jungle experiences as just part of the work of accomplishing the scientific task.