Page 5
Rally to the Call, Men— The Booths Stand Idle
The true competitive spirit at KU has made only a fleeting appearance in the midst of the turbulent tightly-packed world contest of today.
The campus phone booths have been strikingly, and perhaps significantly. empty.
Nu Sigma Nu, professional medical fraternity, has shown the only spunk and spirit in challenging
The Nu Sigma Nu competitors averaged 165 pounds.
of others, we finally packed 16 men (or segments of them) into our phone booth." Sills said.
On the Tuesday before spring vacation, the fraternity placed a want ad in the Daily Kansan challenging any other organization on the campus to rally to the cause and squeeze a few more
Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, has returned from a five-day short course in crime news analysis and reporting held at Northwestern University.
Prof. Studies Crime Analysis
The residents of Benton Hall for girls packed them in, but soon ran out of girls when 19 crammed in. A muffled voice from the back seat velled, "send in a couple dozen more."
Squeeze Game Shifts to Cars
Meanwhile, back at the campus in Long Beach, Calif., a fraternity said it would try today to put 50 of its friendly brothers in a small foreign car.
TOPEKA — (UPI)— Nineteen Washburn University women climbed into a Volkswagen here last night in the latest outbreak of the annual college silly season.
The girls set down two rules before they started piling in the small foreign car. Both front doors must be tightly closed, but the windows could be down for circulation. Both back windows must be closed.
He was awarded a Ford Foundation scholarship to attend the conference at which we registered about 50 newspaper reporters, 10 radio-TV news executives, and 9 professors of journalism.
the rest of the world in a contest to see who can pack the most men into a telephone booth.
The KU record now stands at 16.
The KU record now stands at 16. Ted Sills, Newton first year medical student and a member of the fraternity, said the world record is 34 men, achieved somewhere in South Africa.
Nu Sigma Nu invaded the Kansas Union March 17 with a carefully devised plan for filling the telephone booth on the second floor.
"We had a system. According to our figures, 24.95 men could fit perfectly into one ordinary phone booth; if they were perfect cubes, Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, KU men are not built this way." Sills said.
But when Kansas men get started, they don't give up easily.
"Our new plan was packing the men into the booth in a fetal position we stopped at six."
"We finally decided that someone had been cheating. All is fair in love and war, so with the head of one man and the arms and legs
The Daily Kansan will publish a special honors supplement the first week in May to honor students who have been elected to honor societies this year.
The supplement is designed to replace the honors convocation which was discontinued last year. The first honors supplement was published last year.
Kansan to Publish Honors Supplement
The supplement will include the fall honor rolls and lists of those elected to honor societies.
Thursday, April 2. 1959 University Daily Kansan
"The need to change or replace the historic coroner system in homicide cases was emphasized during several sessions." Professor Beth said, after a lecture by Dr. Richard Ford, state medical examiner for Massachusetts and acting head of the department of legal medicine at Harvard.
"Dr. Ford used case histories to show that a trained pathologist should be in charge of investigation at the scene of the crime if miscarriages of justice are to be prevented. If the crime area can be sealed off until a trained examiner makes his analysis, few murder mysteries will remained unsolved."
men a little more tightly into a little larger phone booth.
from $100
"At first it sounded like an interesting experience when two sororites responded to our ideas. But Dean Taylor put a stop to that."
"We have been disappointed in the lack of interest in our challenge," Sills said.
The Kansan would be happy to bear of any future bursts of initiative. But we request notice before the event, please—to see is to believe!
In a conversation with Prof. Beth, Dr. Ford said he believed that the Kansas-Missouri area, served by the KU Medical Center, should seriously consider adopting the medical examiner system.
The lectures and discussions in the short course dealt with important aspects of criminal law, including the identification of weapons, interrogation of suspects, courtroom photography, uses of blood tests, examination of questioned documents, access to police and court records, probation and parole, juvenile delinquency, crime prevention, libel and invasion of privacy, court reform, and ethics of prosecution and defence.
Onward and inward,men!
LP SALE $2.49 POPS and JAZZ
Richard Hayman
Percy Faith
Patti Page
Lee Wiley
Ralph Marterie
Bunk Johnson
Red Narvo
Art Tatum
Helen Merrill
Erroll Garner
Rusty Draper
Paul Barbarin
Rex Stewart
Kitty White
Sarah Vaughn
Bill Harris
Buddy Morrow
Jan August
Illinois Jacquet
Jimmy Palmer
Bargains at $2.49
BELL MUSIC CO.
925 Mass. VI 3-2644
Les Brown to Play For Relays Dance
Les Brown's "Band of Renown" will play for the annual KU Relays Dance April 17. The semi-formal dance is sponsored by Student Union Activities. Tickets for the dance will cost $2.50 per couple.
The dance will be held from 9 p.m. until midnight in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
There are still more than 8,000 miles of sled roads in Alaska.
Student Nurses To Present Show
Student nurses at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City will present a musical comedy at 8 p.m. April 10 and 11 in Battenfeld Auditorium in Kansas City.
The production is named "Caduceus Capers." This is the sixth year the student nurses of the Medical Center have written, directed and produced a musical comedy.
Tickets are $1.00 for reserved seats and 75 cents for general admission.
Tickets may be purchased from any student nurse starting today.
I'm a thrifty lass, and I know a bargain when I see one. And ThriftiCheck is it!
If you, like me, don't have ca$h by the hundred$ to keep on deposit, then THRIFTICHECK is for you.
No minimum balance is required with a ThriftCheck personal checking account. No charge for deposits. Your name quickly printed on checks-FREE. No fuss, no red tape. You can do your banking by mail if you prefer.
Millions of other canny Americans are using this simple, thrifty plan. Why don't you?
ThriftiCheck AMERICA'S MOST POPULAR CHECKING ACCOUNT SERVICE is available in this area only at
DOUGLAS COUNTY STATE BANK
900 Mass.
VI 3-7474