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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. Oct. 7, 1958
Shoulder - to - Shoulder
Standing Stickers For Student Mob
Parking lots for people and a campus without cars. This may be the situation at KU in the year 2258 if population figures.released by the United Nations are correct.
The UN survey on population increases shows that 100,000 people are added to the world's total each day. At this rate, there would be only one square yard of land surface for every man, woman and child in the world at the end of 600 years.
If the present rate of growth continues, KU students would be standing shoulder to shoulder on every foot of Mount Oread. Cars would be useless—the streets would be jammed with pedestrians.
Without cars, the parking lots would be empty. With standing room at a premium, the lots would be converted to standing lots. Students would wear standing stickers issued by the traffic office at $4 each.
Will the freshmen of 2258 be faced with such impossible problems as these?
The UN in a special population report says:
What that "something" will be remains a mystery.
"It goes without saying that this can never take place; something will happen to prevent it."
Some kind of rigid birth control might be introduced or there might be mass migration to other planets.
But these speculations require international cooperation to succeed. Steps could be taken at the local level to prevent crowding:
The University could refuse out-of-state students. This would decrease the number by several hundred. A like number of suitcases would be eliminated—leaving the storage space as additional standing space.
Another solution could lie in a few minor curriculum changes. Fencing could be introduced with the use of real swords.
ROTC classes could hold field exercises simulating battle conditions. The key to this population reducer would be live ammunition for all hands.
However, these methods may prove inadequate. And the "something" predicted by the UN may not arrive to relieve overcrowding.
If so, and the rate of growth continues, biology, chemistry and sociology lectures could possibly meet in Memorial Stadium in 2258.
Swarthout Stage Gets First Play
Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, to open Oct. 9, is the first play to be given in Swarthout Recital Hall in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
The story, for an adult audience, is a 1-day visit to a Welch fishing village.
"It ranges from tender, poignant moments of personal, daily experience to a racy and raucous scene between the wives of a bigamist husband." Gordon Beck, managing director of the Experimental Theatre said.
Tickets are on sale at the Kansas Union and the University Theatre box offices from 1 to 5 p.m. Performances will be Oct. 9, 10, and 11. Students will be admitted at half price with ID cards.
IFC Court Decides Job
The Inter-fraternity Council's disciplinary court met last night in the Kansas Union Pine Room to discuss its role in KU's fraternity system.
Richard Peterson, Kansas City, Mo., junior and IFC publicity chairman, said that the purpose of the court is to hear and judge violations of the IFC constitution and any other action detrimental to the fraternity system. After the court holds a hearing on a case, it advises the IFC of the action the court feels should be taken.
The disciplinary court is composed of members of the executive council of the IFC. They are: Dick Jones, McPherson senior and IFC president; Hulen Jenkins, Kansas City, Kan., senior; Michael Johnston, Independence, Mo., junior; Lance F. Johnson, Wymore, Neb., junior; Donald A. West, Salina junior; Harry J. Reitz, Kansas City, Mo., junior; Alan S. Cohn, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; Lee McGimsey, Salina sophomore; and Peterson.
Professor Joins Staff; 3 Added in Psychology
Dr. Jay M. Jackson will join the psychology department under a training grant from the U. S. Public Health Service. He will be a full professor and director of the graduate training program in social psychology.
Dr. Jackson previously was an assistant professor and assistant program director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan.
He earned his A.B. degree in 1948 and his M.A. degree in 1950 from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. In 1949 he was research associate for the Defense Research Board of Canada. In 1950 he received his Ph.D. degree from Michigan.
KUOK to Broadcast Jazz Jam Session
KUOK, campus radio station, will broadcast the KU Jazz Club's first jam session at 8 p.m. from the Trail Room in the Kansas Union.
The Jazz Club, in cooperation with KUOK and the Student Union Assn., plans to present a similar program in the Trail Room the first Tuesday evening each month.
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Three new assistant professors have been added to the psychology department this fall. They are Dr. Helene Dunning, Dr. Maurice Huling, and Dr. Juliet Popper.
Dr. Dunning, who teaches clinical psychology, earned the A.B. degree from the University of Connecticut in 1948 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Rochester.
For three years she was a clinical psychologist of the Rochester Guidance Clinic.
Dr. Huling earned the A.B. degree from KU in 1950 and the Ph.D. degree in 1956. For the past two years he has been staff clinical psychologist at Winter Veterans' Hospital in Toneka.
Dr. Popper earned the A.B. degree from Swarthmore College in 1953 and the Ph.D. degree in 1957 from Stanford University. She held a National Science Foundation post doctoral fellowship at the University of Indiana last year.
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ATTENTION! Students一Faculty
You are cordially invited to a reception for Langston Hughes, Wednesday, Oct. 8, at 10:30 a.m., in the Kansas Union Book Store
Mr. Hughes Will Autograph Copies of His Works
Refreshments
KANSAS UNION BOOK STORE