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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. April 7, 1959
Speech Contest Entries Wanted
An intramural speaking contest for amateur orators will start tomorrow evening in 112 Strong Hall and continue on April 15 and April 21.
The contest is open to all students except those who have been members of Forsenic League for more than one year, varsity debate, or Delta Sigma Rho.
In setting up the competition for which prizes and trophies will be awarded, E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, said:
"We want to give students who are not active in regular university speaking events a chance to use their talents.
The contest offers an equal chance to all participants. This is probably why it has been a popular event at KU."
The contest will be conducted on the point system and will feature three different types of speeches. Students may participate in one or all of the three divisions.
The first speech will be an instructional talk on how to do or make something.
The second speech will be informative and the third speech will be argumentative.
No more than four contestants from one organization may enter in any one event.
Registration for the contest must be mailed, telephoned, or delivered to Prof. Buehler in 116 Strong Hall before 5 p.m. tomorrow.
The Jerez district of Spain, which produces all of the world's true sherry wines, is about the size of New York City's Manhattan Island.
No Easter Eggs for Rock Hunters in Class
Twenty-nine KU citizens, for the most part members of the Historical Geology class, spent Easter vacation studying rock formations and "roughing it" in the Grand Canyon.
Space Men Are Chosen
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Seven candidates have been selected for the honor and the danger of being the first American in space. But the final choice won't be known until 1961.
Names of the seven candidates will be announced later this week by the Federal Space Agency. They soon will go to Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., for training as astronauts.
On that day he will be blasted into an orbit 100 to 150 miles high, whirled around the earth for about 24 hours, and—again, if all goes well—brought safely down at a predetermined place.
Some time in 1961, if all goes well, one of the seven will be told to get into his gear. Not until launching day will he know that he is the chosen one.
The seven were picked from 55 volunteers, all so highly qualified the experts had a hard time choosing the final team for the manned satellite program, dubbed "Project Mercury."
Special recoverable capsules for Project Mercury already are undergoing exhaustive tests in an effort to make the historic flight as safe as possible.
Under the direction of Charles Pitrat, associate professor of geology, the group spent its first night on the canyon rim until the following morning when it walked nearly seven miles down the Bright Angel Trail to the Colorado River and the canyon floor.
"We would have rather ridden a mule, but we weren't going to pay $32 per day for each mule," said Richard Bower, Norton graduate student.
The geologists took the trails in order that they could more easily observe seven different rock formations bared along the canyon walls.
The trip, entirely voluntary, was the first of its kind made by KU students and instructors. It may become an annual event, Prof. Pitrat said.
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H. A. Ireland to visit NU
Dr. H. A. Ireland, professor of geology, will speak Monday on "Oil Developments in the Middle East," at the annual meeting for awards to Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa members at the University of Nebraska.
Central City, Colo., now home of the famous summer opera festival, was once called "the richest square mile on earth."
Traffic Statistics
To Date Same Time 1958
Accident total ... 81 ... 56
Fatalities ... 0 ... 0
Injuries ... 2 ... 2
Parking violations:
Campus 8,361 10,777
City 1,051 586
Moving traffic
violations 95 8
THE CARE AND FEEDING OF ROOM-MATES
Room-mates are not only heaps of fun, but they are also very educational, for the proper study of mankind is man, and there is no better way to learn the dreams and drives of another man than to share a room with him.
This being the case, it is wise not to keep the same room-mate too long, because the more room-mates you have, the more you will know about the dreams and drives of your fellow man. So try to change room-mates as often as you can. A recent study made by Sigafoos of Princeton shows that the best interval for changing room-mates is every four hours.
How do you choose a room-mate? Most counselors agree that the most important thing to look for in room-mates is that they be people of regular habits. This, I say, is arrant nonsense. What if one of their regular habits happens to be beating a Chinese gong from midnight to dawn? Or growing cultures in your tooth glass? Or reciting the Articles of War?
Regular habits, my foot! The most important quality in a room-mate is that he should be exactly your size. Otherwise you will have to have his clothes altered to fit you, which can be a considerable nuisance. In fact, it is sometimes flatly impossible. I recollect one time I roomed with a man named Osage Tremblatt who was just under seven feet tall and weighed nearly four hundred pounds. There wasn't a blessed thing I could use in his entire wardrobe—until one night when I was invited to a masquerade party. I cut one leg off a pair of Tremblatt's trousers, jumped into it, sewed up both ends, and went to the party as a bolster. I took second prize. First prize went to a girl named Antenna Radnitz who poured molasses over her head and went as a candied apple.
But I digress. Let us turn back to the qualities that make desirable room-mates. Not the least of these is the cigarettes they smoke. When we wum cigarettes, do we want them to be shoddy and nondescript? Certainly not! We want them to be distinguished, gently reared, zestful and zingy. And what cigarette is distinguished, gently reared, zestful and zingy? Why, Philip Morris, of corris! Any further questions?
To go on. In selecting a room-mate, find someone who will wear well, whom you'd like to keep as a permanent friend. Many of history's great friendships first started in college. Are you aware, for example, of the remarkable fact that Johnson and Boswell were room-mates at Oxford in 1712? What makes this fact so remarkable is that in 1712 Johnson was only three years old and Boswell had not yet been born. But, of course, children matured earlier in those days. Take Mozart, who wrote his first symphony at four. O Titian, who painted his first masterpiece at five. Or Hanso Felbungg, who was in many ways the most remarkable of all; he was appointed chief of the Copenhagen police department at the age of six!
It must be admitted, however, that he did badly. Criminals roamed the city, robbing and looting at will. They knew little Hanso would never pursue them—he was not allowed to cross the street.
If you are allowed to cross the street, hit yourself to a tobaccoinist and stock up on Philip Morris, outstanding among non-filter cigarettes, or Marlboro, the filter cigarette with better "makin's." Pick your pleasure.