1958 New
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
54th Year, No. 94
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 1957
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girls were selected by the chairmen of Rock Chalk Revue committees from entries submitted by the organized women's houses. The girls will introduce some of the in-between acts at the Rock Chalk Revue.
ROCK CHALK GIRLS-Jane Idol, Robinson sophomore; Diana Guyot, Arkansas City junior; Polly Peppercorn, Lawrence junior, and Annette Willis, Wichita freshman, have been chosen to appear on the Rock Chalk Revue program. The
Oregon Vacation Available To KU Scholarship Winner
A week's vacation in a cabin on the slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon awaits the University student making the greatest improvement in scholarship between the fall and spring semesters.
Owen Edgar, Truman Harding,
and Mrs. Gertrude Beaty, proprietors of the Acme Bachelor Laundry and Dry Cleaners, and Simon Hurwitz, owner of the Lawrence Sanitary Milk and Ice Cream Co., are sponsoring this scholarship improvement award.
The cabin is located two miles from Rhodedendron, Ore., and 40 miles southeast of Portland. Facilities include living room, three bedrooms, toilet, shower, firelace, combination wood and electric range, electric hot water, and refrigerator.
The winner also will receive $100 toward transportation costs and $50 toward the costs of meals. He may have guests with the consent of the award sponsors.
Any University student may enter if he or she earns grades for twelve or more semester credit hours in both the fall and spring semesters of the current year. A 1.5 grade point average must be earned for the spring semester.
Basis of selection will be the greatest improvement in grade point average from the fall semester to the spring semester. In case of tie, the student earning credit for the greater number of credit hours will win.
Entries in the contest will consist of two parts. The first, a self- nomination, must be filed with the Aids and Awards office, 222 Strong Hall, by May 10. The second part, a report of fall and spring semester grades, must be submitted to the office by June 8.
Entry blanks may be obtaine from route men of the companies sponsoring the award and at the Aids and Awards office.
Nuclear Research Project Receives $23,000 Grant
The National Science Foundation has made a grant of $23,300 to the University for the support of a 2-year research project in the field of nuclear physics. L. W. Seagondollar, associate professor of physics, is directing the project.
During the course of his experiments, Dr. Seagondollar hopes to find additional information that may be applied to the general problem of determining how nuclei are constructed.
The grant will be used to partially support the operation of the Van de Graaf generator, or some new equipment and for the salaries of the graduate research assistants who will work with Dr. Seagadollar. The assistants are Joseph A. Weods, Onaga; William A. Glass, Winfield; Heitor Souza, Brazil; Lakchmann Ruhagan, India; and Lars Kaid, Norway. All are graduate students in physics.
The work will be done in an underground laboratory in Malott Hall. Eighteen feet of earth over the laboratory shield the building from the X-rays emitted by the generator. The scientists are protected by a concrete wall three feet thick. A radiation pen worm in the shirt pocket measures the amount of radiation received during a day's work, thus enabling the wearer to avoid over-exposure.
Liquor Sales Up For Vote
Residents of Lawrence will vote on whether to allow the continued sales of package liquor in the city at a general election April 2. The election will be held three days after the University spring vacation berins.
University Veterans Elect New Officers
The action was taken Tuesday by the City Commission after a petition with 3,211 valid signatures had been filed with the City Clerk. Under the formula set by state law, a little more than 3,000 signatures were needed.
Norman E. Blessman, La Cygne sophomore, was elected president of the University Veteran's Organization Monday.
To be eligible for the vote, a person must have lived six months in permanent residence and 30 days in a precinct in Lawrence. Students who have given a home address other than Lawrence will not be eligible to vote.
Unless the person voted in the November, 1956 election. he must register at the Lawrence City Hall.
Other officers are John J. Kiefer, Independence, Mo., vice-president, Richard A. Boehm, St. Petersburg, Fin., secretary, both sophomores, and James L. Herron, Cimarron junior, treasurer.
In the 1948 election, Douglas County voted 7,519 to 6,561 to repeal prohibition for the county. In Lawrence the vote was nearly half again as much for repeal of the law. Election observers said the 1948 outcome might have been influenced by the heavy University turnout.
More than 20 women will be honored at the dinner sponsored by the Inter-Residence Assn. at 6 tonight in Douthart Hall.
The women, chosen on basis of their grade point average of last semester, have the highest scholastic records in their halls.
Dinner To Honor Women Today
A coed was taking the customary afternoon study break in the Hawk's Nest and was waiting in line at the snack bar for a coke.
Halls represented are Sellards, Douthart, Watkins, Miller and the upperclass section of Gertrude Sellards Pearson.
That's Important These Days, Too
The girl behind the counter asked, "Do you want a 20-cent sundae or a 25-cent one?"
She heard the girl in front of her order a hot fudge sundae.
"What's the difference?" asked the hungry coed.
Fair east this afternoon, partly cloudy west. Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. A little warmer west and central portions this afternoon, over state tonight and southeast portion. Thursday. Cooler northwest Thursday. Low tonight 20-35. High Thursday 50-55.
Weather
"The price" the waitress answered blandly.
Rifle Teams To Compete In El Paso Meet
Members of the combined Army and Air Force ROTC rifle teams left today for El Paso, Tex., to attend the eighth annual Southwest Invitational Small-bore Rifle Meet at Texas Western College Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Eight AFROTC cadets, Army ROTC cadets and three staff members are attending the meet. The cadets are divided into two combined teams of five men each, and the remaining cadets will serve as spotters and rifle handlers.
The cadets will stay at Ft. Bliss while attending the meet. They left from Grandview Air Force Base, Grandview, Mo. this morning aboard an Air Force plane.
Staff Members To Attend
Staff members attending the meet are Capt. Samuel P. Davis, assistant professor of military science; Maj Herbert C. Birkhead, assistant professor of air science, and Sgt. Robert K. Bumpardner, Air Force.
Cadets on the Air Force first team are Donald L. Johnson, Hickman Mills, Mo. senior; Larry L. Rice, Hoisington sophomore, and Dan F. Schrepel, Pratt junior. Rifflemen on the army team are Omar G. Conrad, Overland Park junior, and Middleton W. Tompkins, Long Beach, Calif., freshman.
Cadets on the Air Force second team are Gerald E. Brown, Kansas City, Mo., Donald W. Catlin, Olathe, Ronald D. Strong, Abilene, freshmen. On the Army team are G. Riekenberg, Topeka junior, and Frank A. Williams. Olathe freshman.
Other cadets making the trip are John L. Bourret, Mission sophomore, Peter D. Couture, Osawatomi freshman, Air Force; Arthur H. Ackerman, Fairbury, Neb., freshman, Stanley R. Ausemus, Madison senior, Nicholas W. Classen, El Paso, Tex., junior. Donald N. Johnson, Hays sophomore, Tom J. Knorr, Wichita junior, John N. Maddux, Kansas City Mo., senior. Army.
'Use Persuasion Woodruff Tells Integration Unit
"Mixed feelings on methods" to be used by the Group for The Improvement of Human Relations in trying to desegregate Lawrence restaurants were expressed by Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, at a meeting of the group in the Student Union Tuesday.
The dean advised "quiet persuasion" and "non-violence," emphasizing that "overt action might crystalize the few who are against us."
Dean Woodruff told a gathering of over 200 that although he was "pleased and amazed beyond measure of the progress we have made in the past six months, I have mixed feelings about where we go from here."
"I would hesitate to do anything that smacked of violence," Dean Woodruff said.
Situation Greatly Improved
Situation Greatly Improved Dean Woodruff said that the segregation situation in Lawrence has improved greatly in recent years after receiving a "serious setback" about 10 year ago because of the quasi-violent activities of a group of University students.
Earle A. Cross, Chicago graduate student, said that so far the group has succeeded in persuading "several" Lawrence restaurant owners to serve mixed groups.
"We figured that those restaurants had about 100 per cent student tronage." Cross explained, "and that 90 per cent of the student body would get behind us if we could get the group started."
Cross said that the most resistance to the efforts of the group has come from restaurants in the business district, but that even in the best restaurants the group has recieved some "encouragement."
Cross said the group began at tempting to desegregate the restaurants by sending groups of Negro and white students into the restaurants on the hill.
He pointed out that while most of the students may be interested in desegregating the city, some of them display prejudice in their own organized houses. Schulz said that these organizations should aim to strike segregation clauses from their constitutions.
Suggests Support
James Schultz, Salina junior and president of the All Student Council, suggested that other organizations on the campus support the activities of the Human Relations Group by inaugurating racial education programs.
(Related story, "Segregation Made Him Leave Alabama U." Page 9.)
REHEARSING FOR SUNDAY—Bonnie Dinsmore, Oklahoma City, Okla., junior, as the mother, and J. C. Kliewer, Lawrence graduate student as the father, rehearse for "The Prodigal Son" to be presented as a part of the Opera-in-the-Round in the Student Union Ballroom.