Lack of Intellectual Scientists, Panel Says
The scientist's responsibility to society is greater than the average layman's, said Dr. Calvin VanderWerf, professor of chemistry, one of five panelists at the Chemistry Club meeting Thursday.
The scientist has a responsibility both as a scientist and as a citizen because he can better interpret the potentiality for good or evil of scientific research, Dr. VanderWerf said.
Scientists have not taken then responsibility seriously, added Dr. Max Dresden, professor of physics. A scientist should explain to the public what is known, doubtful or unknown in scientific knowledge, he said. There is a serious lack of good, popular scientific writing, though. Prof. Dresden said.
There is a lack of intellectuals among scientists, faculty members, and industrial men, the panel agreed. Intellectuals he said are unpopular.
On the campus they are "the guys who raise the class average," said Dr. Dresden.
School Slows Curiosity
School Shows Curiosity
Drs. VanderWerf and Dresden agreed that children have intellectual curiosity which diminishes as schooling continues. Dr. VanderWerf believes "the thrill of educational activity should be perpetuated through school."
Dr. Dresden said the rigid control of hours of instruction plus required examinations decreases much of the interest which students may have in learning.
It was agreed that scientific attitudes should be encouraged in students who are not science majors.
AFROTC Students Tour Boeing
Members of the Arnold Air Society toured McConnell Air Force Base and Boeing Airplane Co., in Wichita Friday.
Maj. Herbert Birkhead and Capt.
Donald T. Hawkins, assistant professors of air science and 17 cadets flew down in a C-47 with Maj. Birkhead and Capt. Hawkins at the controls.
Art Fraternity Elects Officers
James R. Hamil, Mission junior,
has been elected president of Delta
Phi Delta, national honorary art
fraternity. Other officials elected
were Virginia Jennings, Independence,
Mo., senior, vice president;
Anne Gillespie, Kansas City, Mo.
junior, secretary; and Barbara
Holt, Russell junior, treasurer.
3 On KU Staff Seek Office
Two faculty members and the director of dormitories will be among the 11 candidates for positions on the Lawrence School Board and City Commission in the city election April 2.
Candidates for School Board positions are Howard J. Baumgartel Jr. assistant professor of psychology, business administration, and human relations, and J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories.
E. Gordon Ericksen, associate professor of sociology, will be one of six persons seeking three seats on the City Commission.Prof Ericksen placed fifth in the primary contest Tuesday.
The election polls will be open from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. April 2.
Law Fraternity To Initiate 12
Phi Alpha Delta, professional law fraternity, will initiate 12 members at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Douglas County Courthouse.
The initiates are Edwin A. Stene, Hans Peterson and Kermit Beal, all first-year law students from Lawrence; Dr. Oswald P. Backus, associate professor of history and a special law student, and Jason Ott, business senior from Lawrence.
Others include Emmanuel Aikens, Detroit, Mich., Richard Coffelt, Topeka, James Nero, Kansas City, Mo., Joseph Roesler, Claflin, Donald Schaper, Glasgo, Robert L. Smith, Marysville, and Edward Wall, El Dorado, all first-year law students.
A dinner will be held at the Holiday Inn following the Initiation. Speakers at the dinner will be Nicholas J. Nero, vice-president of the Commerce Trust Co., of Kansas City, and William R. Scott, associate professor of law.
3 Entomologists Get Fellowships
National Science Foundation Fellowships have been awarded to three graduate students in the entomology department.
The fellowships consist of a grant of money to assist graduate students in education and research. They are awarded through competitive examinations.
Students receiving the follow-
ships are Howell V. Daly, and Carl W. Rettenmeyer, both of Lawrence, and Gunther Schlager,
Woodside, N. Y.
Daly is doing research on the mechanics of bees in flight and the evolution of the features of the bee's wings.
Rettemeyer is studying the different guests that live with colonies of the tropical army ants. These guests consist of several varieties of flies, mites and beetles. Rettemeyer has just returned from eight months in Panama studying the army ants.
Schlager is working on the probable origin and evolution of DDT resistance in insects. He is studying the interreaction between environment and hereditary characteristics of the insects.
KU-Y Tourists Set For Mexico Trip
Twenty students, accompanied by an instructor and chaperones, will leave by bus Friday for Mexico City, Mexico. The trip, which has been an annual affair for two years, is sponsored by the KU-Y.
The group will spend five days of their spring vacation in Mexico City and will return April 7. Sponsors for the trip are Vernon Chamberlin, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student, and Mrs. Chamberlin, and Miss Sara Guy, KU-Y adviser. Chamberlin and Sam Anderson, instructor of German, will serve as translators.
The sardine was christened for the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, whose coastal waters swarm with the tiny but toothsome fish.
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FRENCH GUEST—Dr. Jacques Leate, director of the newly founded School of Journalism at the University of Strasbourg, France, was the guest of the William Allen White School of Journalism faculty Saturday at a luncheon in the Student Union. Dr. Leate is on a tour of American journalism schools.
Women Engineers Banquet
Theta Tau, professional engineering fraternity, will hold its annual Female Engineers Banquet at 6 p.m. Thursday at the chapter house.
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Scot To Speak On Existentialism
One of the more controversial of recent philosophical movements - Existentialism-will be the subject of a speech by Dr. John Macquarrie of the University of Glasgow, Scotland, at 4:30 p.m. today in Bailey Auditorium.
He will speak on "Bultmann's Existential Approach to Theology."
Dr. Macouarrie, a lecturer on systematic theology at the University of Glasgow, is in this country for a short time under the auspices of the Union Theological Seminary of New York.
The lecture is sponsored by the department of philosophy.
Edward S. Robinson, associate professor of philosophy, said that Rudolf Bultmann, professor emeritus at the University of Marburg, Germany, is one of the most influential contemporary theologians to be affected by existentialist thinking.
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