Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Jan. 10, 1957
54th Year, No. 72
KUOK-TV Will Give Limited Newscast Today
The University enters the oncampus television field for the first time today, but only on a limited scale.
Journalism students majoring in radio and television will gain practical experience in actual TV production in two shows scheduled for 4 and 4:50 p.m. today.
The shows will be the "KUOK- TV Newscope," a 10-minute news program complete with commercials.
The shows will be produced in Room.205 in Flint Hall by students in television courses. The shows will be given for the benifit of students enrolled in Speech I at the University.
The University-owned television equipment will be set up in the large lecture room in Flint Hall so that the speech students sitting in the theatre-type seats will be able to see the entire production of the program.
A capacity crowd of about 150 is expected to be on hand for each of the performances. At the beginning of the semester, students in Speech I were assigned to attend any two of four events pertaining to speech activities. With the semester drawing to a close, it is estimated that only about half of the 600 speech students have fulfilled the assignment.
Dr. Bruce Linton, associate professor of speech and journalism, said that interested students who were not enrolled in speech courses also would be welcome at the demonstration "if the room isn't filled with speech students."
Bill Harmon, Topeka senior, will write and present the news program, and Ralph Butler, Leavenworth junior, will do the commercials.
The production will be directed by Paul Culp, Overland-Park senior. Nancy Wells, Kansas City, Mo. is senior, is the assistant director.
Other students who will take part in the program include Charles Drew, Kansas City, Mo., senior, sound director; John Branigan, Kansas City, Mo., senior, floor director; Dee Richards, Lawrence, and John Stephens, Stafford, both seniors, cameramen.
Terry Purcell, St. Joseph, Mo., junior, is the chief engineer for the production. He will be assisted by Karen Hancock, Sunflower senior. Jim Kohlenberg, Louisburg senior, will be stagehand.
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COMPANY OR SOLITUDE? dents have difficulty in finding in the undergraduate library, Lawrence, Augusta graduate
- Some stu-
a vacant chair
but Daivd A.
student, finds
plenty of space as he takes advantage of his "stacks" privilege. As final week approaches, the librarians are finding requests for books more numerous.
'Survival Of The Fittest' Better Than Entrance Exams
The restricted admissions method of handling the crush of future college enrollments has been rejected by Dr. George B. Smith, dean of the University of Kansas.
"The universality of college or university education seems to be subject to Darwin's theory of 'survival of the fittest,'" Dean Smith said. "It could be contended that this is a far more democratically arrived at end-product of elimination than a system of entrance examinations would insure."
The KU dean's views are contained in the current issue of the Kansas Studies in Education, which published his article, "Who Would Be Eliminated? A Study of Selective Admission to College."
To find the answer to his question, Dean Smith collected data on 1,006 graduating seniors of the KU class of 1955. He checked scores made on the American Council on Education (A.C.E.) Psychological Examination and the Cooperative English Test.
208 Score Below
Of the 1,006 graduating seniors for which entrance examination scores were available, 208 scored below the 50th percentile on both the A.C.E. and the English examinations upon their admission to the University.
been applied through the two tests used in this study, 208 graduates would not have been admitted as freshmen if the cutting score of the 50th percentile had been in operation, Dean Smith pointed out.
"The loss to the state and nation would have been 40 teachers, 22 engineers, five journalists, seven lawyers, seven doctors, seven pharmacists and 96 graduates from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Business who majored in areas where the supply of trained manpower is in equally short supply."
"If restriction for admission had
Honors won by the 208 should be carefully studied by all who wish to "cast the first stone" at any group below the cutting score, Dean Smith believes. The honor roll record taken from the official transcript shows 29 were on a dean's scholastic honor roll one semester, while two were for six semesters.
Students with perseverance, drive and determination, even though they have low entrance test scores, seem to succeed in all fields of academic endeavor, the study showed.
Moving Plans Occupy New 1st Lady
By JANE PECINOVSKY
(Daily Kansan Managing Editor) Two leading citizens of Lawrence will move into a new home in Topeka Saturday, but they will take only some dishes, pictures, a desk, a radio-phonograph, and possibly some small pieces of furniture.
The new home has three floors, numerous rooms, including a ballroom, five bedrooms, a drawnig room, and a library, and is already furnished. The white stone and frame structure is located only a few bloks from the Statehouse.
Mrs. Docking to old women representatives of the press, radio, and television at a coffee given in her honor Wednesday
To Rent Lawrence Home Gov.-elect and Mrs. George Docking, who have lived in Lawrence since 1931, will leave their home at 1604 Stratford Rd., which they will rent furnished, and will move into the governor's mansion.
To Rent Lawrence Home
The governor-elect's wife, who is 5 feet tall and wears her dark hair in a chignon, will become the new first lady of Kansas in four days. She will barely get settled in her new home before her official duties as a hostess begin.
She will wear a black wool suit with black velvet trim when she watches her husband being sworn in as the thirty-fifth governor of Kansas in the inauguration ceremony at noon Monday.
morning in Topeka that she has no plans for complete redecoratio of the mansion. Following the election she said she didn't want "to do anything that would cost the taxpayers money."
Luncheon After Inauguration "We will have our first chance to entertain in the mansion after the ceremony." Mrs. Docking said. There is a luncheon planned for the members of the Kansas legislature, state officials and their wives."
Mrs. Docking said she will wear an imported white silk and net formal for the ball. Highlighting her floor-length gown are iridescent sequins which edge the many tiers of ruffled net.
The day's activities will end with a reception at 7 p. m., followed by the inaugural ball at 9:30 p. m. in the Community building in Topeka.
Houses Praised At WUS Meet
To Entertain Clubs
To Entertain Clubs
Anxious to have "old friends"
visit in Topeka, Mrs. Docking said
she plans to invite her various Law-
rence clubs and organizations to
meet at the governor's mansion.
"While the legislature is in session, I plan to entertain the members' wives at receptoins and teas, and we have some evening parties scheduled also." Mrs. Docking said.
"But later we hope to be able to invite all our friends in the state to visit us at the mansion."
Organized houses were praised for their work in helping foreign students adjust to their new environment at a meeting of the World University Service meeting Wednesday.
Presidents of the organized houses were invited to the WUS panel discussion to discuss problems in introducing a foreign student to American life. Russel Riley, director of international exchange of education from the department of state, was a guest on the panel.
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Anton Burzle, professor of German and chairman of the scholarship committee, said that 49 of 60 organized houses either have given living space to foreign students or plan to give it.
"About six thousand people are exchanged yearly under the department of states, international exchange of education program," said Mr. Riley.
Four thousand come to this country and two thousand go abroad. There are also six to twenty thousand people exchanged under various private projects.
Other members on the panel, composed of Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, and William R. Butler, assistant dean of men, pointed out some of the problems students from other countries face after arriving here.
Debaters To Attend Meet
The University debate squad will send three teams to Liberty, Mo. for the William Jewell college debate tournament Saturday.
The teams will debate the topic "Resolved: that the U.S. should discontinue direct economic aid to foreign countries." Wilmer Linkugel, instructor of speech and drama and assistant debate coach, will accompany the teams.
Abraham Gorelick, Kansas City, Kan. and James Riley, Ottawa, juniors, will compete in the senior division. The two junior division teams are Arly Allen, Lawrence, and Scott Stanley, Kansas City, Kan., freshmen, and William Sheldon, Salina freshman, and Neal Logan, Garden City sophomore.
Ike Asks Unity, Effort For Sake Of U.S., World
WASHINGTON — (UP) President Eisenhower called today for a new measure of American unity and effort to continue prosperity at home and meet the continuing threat of "a strongly armed imperialistic dictatorship" abroad.
In his annual State of the Union message, Mr. Eisenhower asked not only for the cooperation of Congress but "a personal effort of dedication," by every American to help establish "a secure world order."
Gives Message Personally
Gives Message Personally Mr. Eisenhower delivered his message in person before a joint session of the House and Senate.
On the domestic front, Mr. Eisenhower found America enjoying an "unprecedented peak" of prosperity. But he said there is a continuing threat of inflation which can materially damage the current economy.
He called on business to avoid "unnecessary price increases" at a time when demand in many areas "presses hard on short supplies."
Peace Of World Threatened
He also said that wage increases and other labor benefits should be "reasonably related" to productivity. He said that pay boosts that outrun prices and productivity contribute to inflation.
In the troubled international field, the President said the existence of "a strongly armed imperialistic dictatorship"—obviously Russia and her satellites—threatened the peace of the world and, consequently, the security of the United States.
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Duo Pianists Will Perform
Vera Appleton and Michael Field,
piano duo who will perform at 8:20
p.m. Monday in Hoch Auditorium,
will include compositions by Bach,
Schubert, Brahms, Ravel. Bartok and
Lizst in their programs.
The overture to "The 29th Cantata" by Bach, will open the concert. The other two numbers in the first section of the program are "Duettoi Concertante after Mozart" by Busoni and "Marche Caracteristique," a duet at one piano, by Schubert.
The remainder of the numbers before intermission will be "Variations on a Theme of Haydn" by Brahms, "Searamouche" by Milhaud, "Jeux de Plain Air" by Taillefere, and "Feria" by Ravel.
Four pices from "Mikrokosmos" by Bartok will also be played. The compositions were given to the musicians by the composer before he died. They were performed for the first time in 1950. Two excerpts from Copland's "Billy the Kid" will follow and the "Mephisto Waltz" by Liszt will conclude the program.
Presented by the University Concert Course, the duo has made numerous coast-to-coast tours, has appeared on radio and television, in a movie short and in a recent series of three Town Hall recitals in New York City entitled "Two Pianes Through Four Centuries." The latter was transcribed by the state department for worldwide hearing.
Weather
Fair today and tonight. Friday increasing cloudiness. Continued cold today. Warner west tonight and over state Friday. Low tonight 5-10. High Friday generally in 30s.