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Summer Session Kansan Friday, July 19, 1957
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AT EASE—Students in the theater division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, now hard at work on tonight's last performance of "Lute Song," take a brief rest in the South Lounge of the Student Union to swap tall stories.
Swimming Is Most Popular In KU Recreation Program
Swimming is one of the most popular forms of recreational activities on the department of physical education summer session schedule, and has been most popular during the recent hot weather.
Swimming is only one of the varied activities offered by the department for summer students and faculty members.
Henry Shenk, associate professor of physical education and recreation, has been director of the program for the past eleven years.
Aiding the program by sponsoring the playground and outdoor movies is Reginald Strait, assistant professor of physical education.
While not formally included in the recreational activities, the theater productions and concerts presented by the Midwestern Music and Art Camp are suggested as ingredients in a recipe for enjoyment.
Union Activities Listed
Another phase of recreation not specifically listed are those activities offered by the (completely air-conditioned) Memorial Union which include bowling, billiards, and snooker in the sub-basement; the books, magazines, newspapers, and classical records available in the Music and Browsing Room; the Craft and Hobby Room and Dark Room; and the Card Room. Frank R. Burge, director of the Student Union, is in charge of these activities.
The intramural program for the summer is drawing to a close with awards to be made to winners in individual events and to the winning teams of the softball tournament. The activities in this program include softball, tennis, horseshoes, golf, handball, and badminton.
Families and children of students and faculty have used the playground at Fowler Grove. It is open five days a week in the evenings until 9:30 p.m. Members of the class in Elementary School Playground Activities supervise the play of the youngsters. Playground apparatus and equipment for various outdoor games are available.
Also in the schedule of activities are horseback riding and golf.
Three trips to the Kansas City Starlight Theatre have been offered and a fourth is planned for Thursday, July 25.
Anyone interested in seeing the production, "By the Beautiful Sea," should make reservations (Phone KU 460) on a "first come, first served" basis. Ticket prices are $2.25 which includes transportation and $1.00 ticket to Starlight Theatre; $3.25 which includes transportation and $2.00 tickets to the Starlight
Theatre. Mr. Shenk emphasized the pleasure and convenience of this service since the trip is made by a bus which leaves Robinson Gym at 6:30 p.m. and returns to the Gym after the production.
The pool in Robinson Gym is open for students in the afternoon six days a week. Co-recreational swimming for adults only is Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
"Flying birds" are pitting the face of the sun, and because of them strange ghosts ride the airwaves of earth.
Sunspots Are Ghosts On Airwaves
Television images flicker, dissolve, or suddenly speak Spanish. Police broadcasts reach unexpected distances, or nowhere at all. FM radios occasionally tune in telephone calls. For all this, blame falls roundly—and rightly—on sunspots.
The phenomenon of sunspots, now at the peak of an 11-year cycle, holds nearly as much mystery today as when ancient Chinese saw flying birds on the sun, the National Geographic Society says.
Rash On The Sun
When the sun erupts in its periodic black rash, unseen storms of magnetic force sweep the earth's atmosphere. In the electrified layer known as the ionosphere, radio transmissions go astray.
At the same time, over high latitudes, skies blaze with the glowing night fireworks of the auroras, or polar lights. Barrages of cosmic rays bombard the upper air, seeming to come in great streams from the sun.
Mass To Be Said For French Student
What is a sunspot? Scientists do
A KU graduate student from France, Emmanuelle Homet, was killed in an automobile accident near Rabat, Morocco, July 4. Miss Homet was driving the car in which she and her mother were killed and her father and brother injured.
Miss Emmanuelle attended KU last year and was to return to KU in September on a teaching assistantship in the Romance language department.
A Mass will be said for her at 7 a.m. next Monday at the St. John's Catholic Church.
Through their cycle of coming and going is both regular and long-known, there are few clues to why or how sunspots form. They seem to be simply dark holes that suddenly appear.
not agree. Most describe it as a storm in the sun's atmosphere, a whirlpool or eddy in the swirling outer layers of that gaseous furnace.
Despite their modern sun instruments, astronomers remain much like pilots flying in the stratosphere above a tornado. They can look down into the storm but cannot see how deep the dark funnel goes
Once sunspots were thought to be cooler than their surroundings. But now they are regarded as much hotter, vents of energy so intense that much fells outside the visual range. Hence the spots seem dark.
They are not absolutely black. If all the sun were blanked out except for a single large sunspot group, the earth would still receive as much light as from 100 full moons. 25 Times Earth Floor
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Until the eruptions of 1957 the largest sunspot occurred in early 1947, during the last peak period. It spread 200,000 miles across the sun's face, nearly a quarter of its
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diameter. Billions of square miles were dimmed.
Such bleismishes, plainly visible to the naked eye through light overcast, fog, or dark glass, have fascinated man for countless centuries. Chinese astronomers recorded sunspots as early at 28 B.C.
Between 500 to 600 years is required to build up one inch of topsoil.
A huge sunspot about A.D. 807 was thought a portent of the death of Emporer Charlemagne seven years later. Sunspots have been blamed for war, bad weather, plagues, and even in modern times, for man's unrest.
The first truly scientific study of sunspots was made by Galileo. He saw them forming and dissolving on the sun's surface and noticed that they moved. Thus he deduced that the sun, like the earth, rotates.
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