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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Jan. 7. 1959
Rhodes Scholar Tells How To Mix Activities, Study
David Ontjes, Hutchinson senior and Rhodes Scholarship winner, believes that a student's grades will suffer if he becomes involved in too many activities.
But a look into his own personal
David Onties
history seems to prove that it is possible to graduate with top scholastic honors and still belong to a long list of organizations and societies.
"Activities should be the flavoring, but not the main course in an
education program," he said. "Being in a few organizations and doing a good job is more important than being is so many that you lose yourself."
Ontjes is now vice president of his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. He has previously been scholarship chairman and chaplain. He has been president of KU-Y, a member of Quill Club, A Cappella Choir, Rock Chalk Revue committee, Wesley Foundation and the Chemistry Club.
However, a look at the honors he has won proves that he has not neglected the books while busy with outside activities.
Ontjes was named to membership in Phi Beta Kappa earlier this semester. He is a Summerfield Scholar and has consistently been on the honor roll of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
This year he shared the Paul B. Lawson award for the highest scholastic record by senior men in the College. His major is liberal arts. He received chemistry honors as the top student in his class. He is a member of Sachem and Owl Society, honor societies for senior and junior men, respectively.
He received his latest honor, the Rhodes Scholarship, during the Christmas vacation. He was one of four recipients named from a six-state area of Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota
Outjes said he had prepared to go to the Harvard Medical School before receiving the Rhodes Scholarship. Rhodes Scholarships are for study at Oxford University in England.
"I plan to study animal physiology during the two years I am at Oxford. It should be the equivalent of about two years of medical school," he said.
Ontjes was born in Lyons and attended school in Stafford. In high school he participated in football, basketball, track, band, chorus, dramatics, and was president of his junior and senior classes.
Late in September of 1959 the 32 Rhodes Scholarship winners will meet in New York City and go to England by ship.
"Oxford is not a unified university like KU," Ontjes explained. "Instead it is a group of scattered colleges."
"Under the English educational system a student studies on his own. Once a week he meets with his tutor, who suggests reading material. At the end of the year he takes a three-day final examination, consisting of 15 or 20 hours of writing long, broad essays."
Science, Math Camp To Have 2 Sessions
The fourth annual KU Science and Mathematics Camp will be offered in two sessions of two weeks each next summer.
Robert W. Baxter, associate professor of botany and camp director, said he hopes two sessions will allow more deserving students to attend the camp. Campers will live in University dormitories and eat at the Kansas Union.
Last summer more than 190 high school students applied for the single three-week camp session. Eighty from 12 states were chosen. This year 80 will be admitted to each of the sessions, June 14-27 and July 5-18.
Each camper will attend one or two demonstration lectures given by University faculty members in each of 16 sciences and perform laboratory or field work in each area.
The areas are: anatomy, anthropology, astronomy, bacteriology, biochemistry, botany, chemistry, entomology, geography, geology, mathematics, physics, physiology, psychology, radiation biophysics, and zoology.
High school students who are sophomores, juniors or seniors may
What does Ontjes plan to do after Oxford?
Tourists May Visit Russia This Year
Educational and economic summer tours of Russia have been approved by the Soviet Government's Intourist office for American students and teachers.
Tourists will travel by motorcoach, visiting Helsinki, Leningrad, Novgorod, Kalinin and finally Moscow. Included will be a Black Sea cruise.
The tourists will spend 31 days inside Russia.
The Maupin Tour, a Lawrence travel organization, can supply details of the tours.
"I would like to go to medical school and specialize, but I'm not sure what in. I am interested in teaching, research or surgery."
DR. WM. H. BRAY AND DR. H. R. WILLIAMS
Optometrists
919 Mass.
VI 3-1401
apply for admission to Prof. Baxter.
The $90 fee includes room and
board, tuition, field trips, recreation,
social activities and health fee. Some
scholarships are available.
"We hope no well qualified student will be denied attendance for financial reasons." Prof. Baxter said.
Non-Injury Crash Blamed on Ice
KU police blamed ice and snow for a collision involving three cars yesterday on Javahawk Boulevard in front of Marvin Hall.
Strong's car hit the rear of a vehicle driven by Danny J. Faulkner, Manhattan, Kan., and knocked it into the rear of a car driven by Leroy Farmer, KU employee.
There were no injuries.
Police estimated damage to Strong's car at $300 and to Frank Faulkner's car at $75. Farmer's vehicle received minor damage to a bumper guard.
Joseph S. Strong, Kansas City, Mo., junior, was driving his car west on the boulevard and failed to notice two cars stopped in the lane of traffic in front of him in time to stop.
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Reds Hit Quemoy Outposts
TAIFEI — (UPI) — Communist shore guns hurled saturation barrages at the Quemoy outpost islands today, reopening the "war on the Formosa Strait," the Chinese Nationalist Defense Ministry announced.
children by a Nationalist bombardment, started at 2 p.m. and went on for at least two hours.
The ministry said the bombardment, threatened in retaliation for the reported killing of a number of
A communique said that by 4 p.m. the Red batteries had hurled more than 12,000 shells at the tiny islands.
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THE DATING SEASON
The simple secret is simply this: A date is successful when the man knows how to treat the girl.
I have recently returned from a tour of 950,000 American colleges where I made a survey of undergraduate dating customs and sold Zorro whips. I have tabulated my findings and I am now prepared to tell you the simple secret of successful dating.
And how does a girl like to be treated? If you want to know, read and remember these four cardinal rules of dating:
1. A girl likes to be treated with respect.
When you call for your girl, do not drive up in front of the sorbity house and yell, "Hey, fat lady!" Get out of your car. Walk respectfully to the door. Knock respectfully. When your girl comes out, tug your forelock and say respectfully, "Good evening, Your Honor." Then offer her a Marlboro, for what greater respect can you show your girl than to offer Marlboro with its "better makin's," fine flavor and new improved filter? It will indicate immediately that you respect her taste, respect her discernment, respect her intelligence. So, good buddies, before going out on a date, always remember to buy some Marlboros, now available in soft pack or flip-top box at your friendly vending machine.
2. A girl likes a good listener.
Do not monopolize the conversation. Let her talk while you listen attentively. Make sure, however, that she herself is not a good listener. I recollect a date I had once with a coed named Greensleeves Sigafoos, a lovely girl, but unfortunately a listener, not a talker. I too was a listener so we just sat all night long, each with his hand cupped over his ear, straining to catch a word, not talking hour after hour until finally a policeman came by and arrested us both for vagrancy. I did a year and a day. She got by with a suspended sentence because she was the sole support of her aged housemother.
3. A girl likes to be taken to nice places.
By "nice" places I do not mean expensive places. A girl does not demand luxury. All she asks is a place that is pleasant and gracious. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, for example. Or Mount Rushmore. Or the Taj Mahal. Or the Bureau of Weights and Measures. Find places like these to take your girl. In no circumstances must you take her to an oil-cracking plant.
Come prepared with a few interesting facts that you can drop casually into the conversation. Like this: "Did you know, Snookiepuss, that when cattle, sheep, camels, goats, antelopes, and other members of the cud-chewing family get up, they always get up up hind legs first?" Or this: "Are you aware, Hotlips, that corn grows faster at night?" Or this: "By the way, Loverhead, Oslo did not become the capital of Norway till July 11, 1924."
4. A girl likes a man to be well-informed.
If you can slip enough of these nuggets into the conversation before dinner, your date will grow too torpid to eat. Some men save up to a half-million dollars a year this way.
© 1959 Max Shulman
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