WATER WATER EVERYWHERE-Charles D. Roberson, left assistant resident director, and James G. Middleton, resident director at Joseph R. Pearson Hall, sweep out the water from the sprinkler system after a small fire last night.
Tuesday, March 3, 1959
Fire at J.R.P. Proves Sprinklers Really Work
A small fire at Joseph R. Pearson Hall last night proved at least one thing—the sprinkler system installed for just such an emergency really works.
The fire began in a waste paper chute in the north stairwell of the men's dormitory. Paper which had been dumped into the chute after the janitors left the building for the day ignited, and water from the sprinkler quickly extinguished the blaze.
Cause of the fire was unknown. Dormitory officials said a lighted cigarette could have been dropped into the chute.
The sprinkler nozzle is located on the sixth floor of the dormitory. Water ran down the chute and onto the basement floor in the stairwell
Although no damage was reported, residents with rooms on the north end of the dormitory had to open their windows to let out the smoke which seeped into their rooms.
Dormitory officials had some trouble finding the valve to shut the sprinkler system. Water from the system covered the floor before the valve was found.
World Events Breed Anger
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Daily Hansan
By United Press International
By United Press International Angry men across the world loosed their wrist today on rock and roll music, the United Nations, the Philippine Navy and an atomic cannon.
Congress was urged to do its bit to curb the spread of rock and roll music.
Rep. Torbert H. MacDonald (D-Mass) charged that a new postoffice policy is subsidizing "the purveyors of this musical nonsense."
Unless the post office department has the "good sense" to change the policy, he said, Congress should write a law revising it.
The Soviet Union has requested the immediate release of five Russian fishing trawlers detained by the Philippine Navy since Friday, the foreign office announced.
The battalion was previously stationed near Stuttgart where the seventh U.S. Army has its headquarters.
A U.S. Army Battalion of 280-millimeter atomic cannon arrived in Nuernberg, Germany, in the face of sharp local protests.
The Philippines has no diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia.
Weather
Anti-Censor Bill Killed
TOPEKA-A Kansas senator was unsuccessful yesterday as he tried to kill movie censorship by deleting an appropriation for the board.
Sen. Fayette Rowe (R-Columbus) attempted to eliminate the censorship board's funds. His motion failed on a voice vote.
Fair this afternoon. Increasing cloudiness and not so cold tonight. Wednesday cloudy to partly cloudy. Low tonight 25 northwest to 40 southeast. High Wednesday 45 to 55.
"The thing that has worried us (architectural students) since last year was the fact that we thought there was a chance our degree might mean less due to the last accreditation rating.
"I believe, however, that the questions we had on the accreditation of the department of architecture were satisfactorily cleared up during the meeting we held with Dean McNown last Wednesday."
56th Year. No. 99
Chancellor Murphy, during an interview yesterday, clarified the matter with the following statement:
In an effort to clarify the situation, Dean John S. McNown, of the School of Engineering and Architecture, held a meeting with the architecture students last Wednesday. During the meeting, he explained that the school was fully accredited, but for a period of two rather than the usual five years.
Last March 24, rumors reached a zenith when a tombstone was found near Marvin Hall with the legend "KU School of Architecture 1869-1958" painted on its face.
Accreditation Questioned
3. Curriculum variances.
Chancellor Clarifies Architecture Rumors
By Ray Miller
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said the department was accredited for two years instead of the usual five year period.
John Woodford, president of Scarab, professional architectural fraternity, said:
Year long rumors about the department of architecture's accreditation status were clarified today.
The accrediting committee found these faults:
Rumors are again circulating that the department was not fully accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board after its visit here last year.
1. Inadequate physical facilities.
2. Dissent within the department.
"The accrediting committee, when it was here, felt that there were enough problems to require
Scientists said only a collision with a meteor could divert the robot from its charted course. Batteries in the robot are expected to last about 50 hours after passing the moon, 221,000 miles away.
Pioneer IV should pass the moon at 1 p.m., Lawrence time, tomorrow, and then streak toward its final destination in orbit around the sun.
U.S. Moon Robot To Have Big Orbit
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—The United States' Pioneer IV moon robot will go into an orbit around the sun that will be larger than the earth's orbit, scientists said today.
The moon probe vehicle will be closer than the earth's 39 million mile distance from the sun for a short period of time. The robot will pass inside the orbit of the earth once each year.
The effect of the lunar launching is that the robot will automatically retain all of the earth's speed of 66,000 miles per hour plus about 305 miles per hour by which the moon rocket exceeds "escape velocity."
the satellite was launched on the west coast Saturday, but was unheard from for 32 hours. The Air Force ballistic missile division in Inglewood, Calif., announced last night that sporadic signals were received yesterday by a tracking station at Annette, Alaska.
The signals came in bursts of four to six seconds, lasting for a period of about six minutes, the Air Force said. Stations of the worldwide tracking network have been relaying reports to the Discoverer control center at Palo Alto, Calif.
This morning, three of the biggest tracking stations in Puerto Rico, England, and Camp Irwin in the Mojave Desert were locked onto the Pioneer's radio signal.
its coming back ahead of time. These problems were inadequate physical facilities, personnel dissent within the department, and some question about the character of the curriculum."
The chancellor then explained the steps that had been taken to correct the problems.
"The committee has been assured that in the ten-year building program, provisions for adequate facilities for the architecture department will be provided. Also, some of the personnel tensions have been substantially relieved."
Board Questioned
"The curriculum," he continued, "has remained approximately the
same because our people are not sure that the position of the accreditation board is sound."
At this point, Chancellor Murphy pointed out that the board is composed of educators, and that differences of opinion on educational programs are very common among educators.
Chancellor Murphy then said, "I have no doubts that on their next visit, this matter will be cleared up to everyone's complete satisfaction."
During the interview, Chancellor Murphy was emphatic in pointing out that the department of architecture is fully accredited and always has been.
Female Students' File Contains All-Almost
Want to know all about women? KU women in particular? Just ask at the Dean of Women's office for the "modus operandi" (vital statistics) of a particular woman, and therein is contained a record minus only fingerprints.
The record does not contain quite everything. But every time a woman student's name appears in the Dail!
ASC Will Hear Reports Tonight
Committee reports will comprise the agenda for the All Student Council meeting tonight. Pat Little, Wichita senior and ASC chairman, said the secretaries will report on all of their department committees.
Little said the committee reports are made twice each semester and are expected to take the complete meeting.
the meeting will be held at 7:30 tonight in the Kansas Union.
The Committee on Committees is expected to report on ASC Bill 18. which would require all campus organizations to have a charter and a constitution registered with the ASC.
The Dean of Women's Office clips and preserves each article. Thus a woman student may build up quite an impressive "record" during her four years at the University.
Kansan, the item is certain to find its way into her record.
"We keep this information because we always like to know just what our women students are doing while they are in school." Karolyn Stacy, assistant in the Dean of Women's office, said.
The records are kept in the office for three years after graduation to be used as a source of information about the student.
Vandals went about their dirty (?) business last night and made a clean getaway.
Dirty Vandals Make Clean Getaway
Campus police reported that they found a stream of water running down Sunflower Road at 12:20 this morning. Investigation disclosed that someone had opened the hydrant across the street from the library, allowing water to flood the street.
ATTENTION!—Robert L. Aufdemerge, Leavenworth freshman, a member of the Pershing Rifles, stands smilingly straight as he is inspected by John B. Nowlin, Holton junior.