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Above, the candles are lit at the beginning of the program. Following this, members of the University A Cappella Choir and the University Symphony Orchestra joined to present a varied and interesting program.
Carols, candles and children. These are the things which have traditionally meant Christmas. The Christmas Vespers presented by the School of Fine Arts presented these traditions for an audience of more than 6,000 in their two services yesterday.
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Grade school children and University students formed colorful pictures in living tableaus of Christmas scenes.
Monday, Dec. 15, 1958
Women Bicycle Riders Seek Campus Approval
Bicycles may vie with automobiles for space on Jayhawk Boulevard if a current survey of University women proves two-wheeling socially acceptable.
Over 6,000 See Christmas Vespers
representatives from all sororities and women's scholarship halls are distributing a questionnaire within their houses.
Some women students living in the West Campus Road area want to pedal instead of hike their way to class.
He said nothing prevents students from riding bicycles to class, but that the women wanted the approval of a majority of their school mates before doing so. Results of the survey are expected to be in before the Christmas holidays.
"If the report is favorable, we may have a 'bike emphasis' week to get the thing going." Reed said.
They asked William L. Reed, Kansas City, Mo., senior and chairman of the All Student Council Traffic and Safety Committee to make a survey to get student's reactions to bicycle riding on campus. Reed said
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Miss Hanneman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hanneman of Junction City, will receive her degree in nursing this winter and will study nursing in New Zealand.
War in '64 Possible Says Physics Expert
She was recommended for the Fellowship by the Rotary Club in Washington, Kan. She was named outstanding junior and outstanding senior in theory and practice of nursing at the KU Medical Center.
Cuthbertson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Cuthbertson of Leavenworth, is a Summerfield Scholar. He will receive a bachelor's degree in June, then will study political science in Europe in preparation for a career in international relations.
Rotary Awards To Three Seniors
He holds the Paul B. Lawson Award for high scholarship, honor awards in political science, chemistry and German, and has been on the dean's honor roll every semester.
Three KU students have been awarded Rotary Foundation Fellowships for advanced study abroad during the 1959-60 academic year.
Dancers Needed for 'Carmen'
They are William Witt, Garden City; Gilbert Cuthbertson, Leavenworth; and Janet Hanneman, Washington, Kan. All are seniors.
Auditions for dancers for Verdi's opera, "Carmen," will be held tomorrow at 4 p.m. in the rehearsal room of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
The award is based on scholastic standing, leadership, interest in world affairs and ability to make friends easily.
He is president of the senior class and vice president of Delta Tau Delta. He has been named a Distinguished Military Student.
Witt, son of Mr. and Mrs. William G. Witt of Garden City, will study theology in Europe after receiving his bachelor's degree in economics from KU in June. In 1956-57 he studied in Pakistan on the Junior Year Abroad Program.
By Larry Miles
The nation with the first manned space platform could win World War III, and that "war could be in 1964," T. C. Helvey, visiting professor of radiation biophysics, said.
"By 1964 the big powers—Russia and the United States could have achieved such power that either nation could be destroyed in one move," he told an interested group at the weekly Current Events Forum.
Prof. Helvey heads the human factors research program in the Research Division of Radiation, Inc., in Orlando, Fla. He is the brain behind a new device which simulates vibrations which occur during launchings and flights of missiles. The device can be used to test physical and psychological reactions of man in space.
He is teaching at the radioactive isotopes research laboratory at the University and will be here until summer.
"New weapon preparedness by 1964 may make a new war feasible," he said.
"The world has been on the brink of war too many times. I believe that some time, after war becomes feasible, the world will fall from that brink," he said.
He pointed out that the Intelligence Digest, which gathers information and sells it to the British government, among others, predicts war for 1964.
Both Prof. Helvey and L. Worth Seagondollar, associate professor of physics, expressed fear of the terrible consequences of biological warfare.
"A rocket filled with bacteria shot to a nation. . . ." Prof. Helvey did not continue. He shook his head.
Prof. Seagondollar said, "One of the first steps Russia would undertake before launching a nuclear Pearl Harbor would be to evacuate from Moscow and other vital centers those people necessary to win a war."
He said that if Russia planned an atomic attack, she would seek to conserve enough industrial capacity and population to wage a war after United States retaliation.
Nuclear Attack Warning
An evacuation, he said, should
Allen Crafton Is Victim of Theater
The irresistible charm of that fabulous invalid, the theater, has claimed another of her innocent victims in Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama.
Prof. Crafton is unable to give a full interpretation to the mystical qualities that make up the theater. He calls it one of the "weirdest and most wonderful institutions" on earth.
"It is artificial. It is absurd. But it is a great cultural agent and institution and has, in its history, expressed and interpreted entire national spirits."
Anyone connected with the theater has probably been struck by the wave of warmth that floats from the audience to the stage—and back again. It takes more than just a little child-like faith to go along with so much make-believe. Show folk on one hand have to be hard-boiled and brassy in order to survive. Then each must have the heart of a child in order to succeed in his work. For the theater, as for baseball, one must have a good bit of the juvenile in him.
member of Phi Gamma Delta, then went to Harvard in 1914 to study
For Prof. Crafton, a theatrical career began before World War I. He received his B.S. degree from Knox College, where he was a
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under George Pierce Baker, then the theater wizard. Another one of Baker's students at the time was a young playwright named Eugene O'Neil. A later one was a huge
Prof. Crafton drifted into Boston vaudeville for a short time, then traveled to Galesburg, Ill., where he helped establish the Prairie Playhouse, the first small town community theatre in America.
young genius from North Carolina named Thomas Wolfe.
When he came back from the war, all his friends advised him against going into the theater. He followed their advice for a time. He went to Wisconsin and began to write. He soon discovered that he did not want to make a career of writing. The stage was then set for his entry into the world of teaching.
The war came along and he entered the army and did work in army shows in Europe with the Army Entertainment Forces.
His first teaching job was at Wabash College in 1919. But it was in the English department. He transferred to Carleton College in 1920, still in English, and then came to KU in 1923 as a full professor of speech and drama.
Prof. Crafton said there was a certain prejudice against speech and dramatic art in the early twenties. The field was new and untested at the University. What was needed was an active program to build up respect for the young department. Prof. Crafton said that he, E. C.
Buchler, now professor of public speaking, and Miss Margaret Anderson, now associate professor of speech, adopted a program of dramatics and forensics that soon convinced the skeptics that there was definite value in such training
The most famous of all Prof. Crafton's pupils is playwright William Inge, author of "Come Back Little Sheba," "Picnic," "Bus Stop," and the current, "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs."
Inge did not begin his writing until after he left KU, Prof. Crafton said Inge wrote for about ten years before he hit his stride.
"Bill told me when he had finished 'Come Back Little Sheba' that he would quit if it didn't go," said Prof. Crafton. "It went."
The University Theatre, with which Prof. Crafton has been associated for thirty-five years, is now big business. He feels the productions are more polished than they were in the twenties.
"But something has gone out of it," he said. "It is not as much fun anymore. There are too many demands on the time, of students."
He paused a moment, his mobile face quite sober.
"Even our rehearsals are rushed. The organization is too big."
signal the United States that a nuclear attack was imminent.
Both professors stressed the importance of the government's space research program.
"The country which puts up a man or men into space will have the same advantage that the United States had with the first atomic bomb." Prof. Helvey said.
"With a man in space we can see the target, and target finding increases a hundred-fold when the target is in sight.
"We cannot see the target when we shoot a guided missile from the surface of the earth. The distance
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Targets Can Move
to the target must be calculated, and there can be error," he explained.
He said further that it takes time to calculate distance and to adjust a missile to reach its destination. In time, targets can move. Missiles cannot "look around and find the target, for missiles do not have brains."
"In 1932 the neutron was discovered. In 1939 all the facts were known for basic development of an atomic bomb. In 1941 Congress appropriated $5,000 for research. In 1945 the A-bomb ended the war without an invasion.
A man in space who can see the target knows where the target moves. He can make the necessary adjustments to insure that the missile finds the targets, Prof. Helvey said.
Prof. Seagondollar traced the development of the atomic bomb and likened it to space research.
In 1943 the Germans were working on the bomb.
The Germans could have been first, and I "shudder when I think of what might have happened," he said.
"We must have more space research," he said, "for this nation cannot be second in the race for space."
On economic reasons for space projects, Prof. Helvey said:
"We may find something on the Moon, Mars and Venus which we
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Generally fair tonight and tomorrow. Warmer this afternoon and over most of state tonight. Low tonight 15 to 20. High tomorrow 30s.