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Monday, Nov. 19, 1956
54th Year, No. 49
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
'Highways Packed' Chief Urges Safety
Watch your speedometer, check all highway signs and obey highway regulations.
These are three "musts" for University students to keep in mind espare for trips home for the Thanksgiving holidays.
"Accidents are usually the result of disobedience of regulations by one party," Joe Skillman, chief of campus police, said today. "To sum it up, carelessness is the biggest factor contributing to our accident record."
Many of the accidents are the result of speeding and failure to observe passing and no passing regulations, he said.
To Much Speed
nations. The 1956 accident rate in Kansas is showing a high increase over last year's total. Fatalities numbered 574 by Saturday, as compared with 493 a year ago. This is nearly a 15 per cent increase.
The 1956 rate is well ahead of the fatal accident rate of 1954, one of Kansas' worst years, when 532 persons were killed on state highways.
Highways Packed
Highways Pictured "Tuesday evening, every highway leading from Lawrence will be packed with students on their way home, and we urge all of them to drive carefully," Chief. Skillman said.
Chief Skillman said he felt the new Kansas Turnpike might help keep the accident rate down by relieving the congestion on the other Kansas highway.
"We want all students to have a happy Thanksgiving, but this will not be the result if we let accidents mar our record."
"However, safety must be observed on the Turnipke just as on any other road," he emphasized. "I would like to caution everyone to abide by the speed limit which has been set at 80 miles per hour."
"The Turnpike was designed for maximum safety, but by driving over 80 miles an hour, you are extending the safety limit. Mechanical failures could happen to your car, and no matter how safe the road is, the accident will still occur."
Architects To Hear Panel
Visitor attending the national convention of Scarab, professional architecture fraternity, will hear a panel discussion on the relationship of art to architecture today. The meeting will follow a dinner at 6:15 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Union.
Leading the panel will be Charles Marshall, former state architect and now practicing in Topeka. Those from KU taking part in the discussion are James Sterritt, instructor; John C. Morely, assistant professor, and George M. Beal, professor, all of the architecture department and Bernard E. Frazier, sculptor in residence.
Delegates toured Kansas City Sunday to study the city's architecture. They attended a banquet at the Blue Hills Country Club and heard Angus McCallum, Kansas City architect, speak.
Weather
Occasional snow northwest today spreading over west and north tonight. Rain or snow northeast Tuesday. Scattered showers south central and southeast tonight and over southeast portion Tuesday. Cloudy west today increasing cloudiness elsewhere becoming cloudy over state tonight and Tuesday. Colder today and over west tonight. Continued cold Tuesday. High today 30 northwest to near 60 extreme southeast. Low tonight 15-20 northwest to near 30 southeast.
Lock Houses Police Warn
Joe Skillman, chief of campus police, asks all students who have homes in Lawrence and who will be gone for the holidays to see that they are securely locked up.
"We would caution all students to leave someone in charge of their homes during the vacation period if at all possible." Chief Skillman said.
"Keep the doors and windows locked because vandals know the houses will not be occupied during this time," he added.
Police will try to keep watch on the houses, Chief Skillman said, but it is impossible to be there all the time.
KU Gets Award For Rocket Work
The Picatinny Arsenal, a division of the Army Ordinance Corps, has awarded a contract for $7,648 to the University for basic research on rocket propellants.
The contract was awarded for the second year to William E. McEwen, associate professor of chemistry. He will conduct research to integrate the explosive groupings found in tetrazoles and TNT in one molecule, together with a polymerizable group. This will permit the synthesis of a large molecule having a high energy content.
Christian Students Seminar Series Set
The KU Calendar will go on sale Monday, Nov. 26.
Student luncheon seminars in preparation for the United Student Christian Conference will be held at Westminster House, Dec. 4-6, and at the Wesley Foundation, Dec. 11-13. Registration for the seminar series should be made with the student group advisers.
Calendar On Sale Nov. 26
Organizations participating in the USCC to be held in Stillwater, Okla.. Dec. 27 to Jan. 1, are Canterbury Assn., Lutheran Student Assn., Roger Williams Fellowship, Disciples Student Fellowship, United Student Fellowship, Wesley Foundation, Westminister Fellowship and the KU-Y.
Foreign Students Will Tour Manhattan
The Westminster Fellowship is sponsoring a free foreign students' tour this week-end to Kansas State College at Manhattan.
The tour will begin at 7 a.m. Saturday at Westminster House, 1221 Oread, with a get-acquainted breakfast.
The group will then go to Manhattan by chartered bus for a tour of the K-State campus. Special emphasis will be placed on the agricultural phase of the college.
After lunch the foreign students will go to Blue Rapids and tour the site of the flood control dam there. R.G. Thomson, a former state legislator, will explain the functions of the dam.
Once Sunday the group will return to Lawrence in time for supper at Westminster House.
By late afternoon the group will arrive at Marysville, where the students will spend the night with their host families.
This is the fourth consecutive year for the trip. The guides are the Rev. John H. Patton, Presbyterian student pastor, and five KU Presbyterian students.
Any foreign student wishing to make the trip should call at the dean of men's office or Westminster Foundation.
Vacation Tuesday; No Kansan Edition
Thanksgiving vacation officially begins at 6 p.m. Tuesday and classes resume at 8 a.m., Nov. 26.
The University Daily Kansan will not be published Tuesday. The next issue will be Nov. 26.
500 Attend Panhel Event
Nearly 500 freshman women attended the Panhellenic open house Saturday and Sunday.
The event is to help freshman and sorority women to become better acquainted.
"A large percentage of freshman women attended." Eleanor Hawkinson, Hutchinson senior and president of the Fanhellenic Council said.
March Of Dimes Poster Girl
NEW YORK—(UP) -Blue-eyed Arlene Olsen, who plays "polio hospital" at home while other children run in the sun, was named 1957 March of Dimes poster girl today.
Humanities Guest Is Literary Critic
A scholar specializing in literary criticism will give the second lecture in this year's Humanities series at 8 p.m. Nov. 27 in Strong Hall Auditorium.
Emergency Chest Drive
He is Dr. Bernard Weinberg, professor of French at the University of Chicago, but now at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton where he is completing a book on the history of literary criticism in the Italian Renaissance.
This drive is an emergency measure and will not take the place of the regular Campus Chest drive in the spring.
The Campus Chest steering committee is to be selected immediately to conduct the emergency drive. Students who are interested in serving on the committee may submit their names to Ralph Varmum, Kansas City, Mo., junior, by telephone at Viking 3-6400. No written application is necessary. The committee will be chosen by the Campus Chest chairman, ASC president and faculty advisers.
The Student Union Book Store has authorized the use of rebate slips as donations to the drive.
KU Debaters Place Third
The amount collected will be used to reimburse the World University Service which authorized $500 for immediate aid to Hungary and the Middle East. Contributions may be made at the booth in the lounge of the Student Union.
An emergency Campus Chest drive for aid to Hungary and the Middle East, sponsored by the All Student Council, will be held after Thanksgiving vacation.
KU debaters took third place in the Central States College Tournament Friday and Saturday in Edmond, Okla.
Southwest Missouri State College won first and second in the 19-school tournament. The debate topic was "Resolved: That U.S. should discontinue direct economic aid to foreign countries."
Bill Summers, Wichita sophomore and Ray Nichols, Lawrence freshman, competed in the junior division and lost three out of six in the preliminaries.
Kenneth Irby, Fort Scott, and Ray Riepen, Overland Park junior, were defeated in the semifinals to take third.
Debate coach Kim Giffin, associate professor of speech and drama, accompanied the squad.
Today's Annual A Depression Baby
"The only magazine-yearbook in the nation" is the title claimed by the Jayhawker, KU's unique annual. Kansas is the only college with a long-standing publication record of a yearbook in sections.
The annual in magazine sections was introduced in 1934 as an economy measure. The depression made it necessary for the Jayhawker to do something immediately to keep financially stable. The magazine format was chosen for this purpose
The annual is being distributed today and Tuesday at the information booth.
Sales of individual issues, added revenue from advertisements and increased student interest, brought in extra-money, so the form was continued. Several other colleges have tried the plan but were unable to make it work.
KU's annual has not always been
called the Jayhawker. The 1898 yearbook was called "The University that Kansas Built." The 1899 annual was "Oread." The name Jayhawker was first used on the 1902 book, and has been continued for 55 years.
The Jayhawker is a student-run, financially independent organization. Although there have been bad years, the long-term record shows that the Jayhawker has been able to meet its expenses and sometimes build up a reserve fund for the bad years.
Although the Jayhawker is not closely supervised by the administration, one issue was called in for abusing faculty members. This was the 1882 number, named the "Kansas Kikkabe." One section contained a series of jokes about the faculty which were considered overstepping the bounds of respect. Those issues which had been distributed were called in, the objectionable section was removed, and a new section with milder jokes was put in its place.
In 1941 the Jayhawker had its first woman editor. The Second World War cleared the campus of most male students. Both the position of business manager and editor were handled by women. Since the war there have been several women editors, but men have usually handled both the editorial and the business side.
The 1957 Jayhawker will make use of 2-color printing and modern layout. Features will appear on the building program, fashions of 1956-57, the Greek-Independent controversy and the coffee-break institution, plus the traditional house pages and coverage of sports and activities.
Speaking on "Changing Psychologies and the Art of Poetry." Dr. Weinberg will explain how successive conceptions of the human mind and passions lead to new and different kinds of poetry, and will give examples. Because of his approach to poetry, he has been called "The Chicago Aristotelian."
At 4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 26, the Humanities scholar will participate in an "open conversation" about "What's a Literary Critic For?" with Arvid Shulenberger, associate professor of English, and Richard Burgerener, visiting assistant professor of philosophy. The program will be in the browsing room of the Student Union, sponsored by Student Union Activities. Those who attend may join in the discussion.
During his 3-day visit on the campus, Dr. Weinberg will speak to two classes in history, three classes in French literature, and a journalism class in critical writing.
Dr. Weinberg has spent five years in study and research in Paris, London, Florence, and Rome, and he has held American Field Service and Guggenheim fellowships and a Fulbright research award.
His writings include three books, "French Realism: The Critical Reaction, 1830-1870"; "Critical Prefaces to the French Renaissance"; and "Critics and Criticism, Ancient and Modern."
He is also co-editor of "The Evolution of Balzac's 'Comedie Humaine'" and "French Poetry of the Renaissance." His articles and reviews have been published in France, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States.
He was born in Chicago in 1909 and received the Ph. D. degree in 1930 and the Ph. D. degree in 1936 at the University of Chicago. He received a diploma from the University of Paris in 1931.
Volleyball Teams Here
After five years as assistant in Romance languages at Chicago, he became an instructor at Washington University in St. Louis and there rose to full professorship in 1949. He then joined the faculty of Northwestern University and taught there until 1955, when he was appointed professor at the University of Chicago.
Three of the country's outstanding men's volleyball teams will compete in the Jayhawk Ten Volleyball Tournament Saturday afternoon in Robinson Gymnasium.
The feature teams are from Topeka, Wichita and Des Moines. Other entries are Omaha, Kansas City, St. Joseph and KU. Des Moines was fifth in the nation in 1955 while Wichita was seventh the same year.
Of particular interest to KU sports fans should be the return of two well-known sports figures. Otto Schnellbacher, former grid and cage great, will lead the Topeka YMCA sextet. Wichita's mainstay is Maurice Martin a former KU basketball player. The 6 foot 5 inch Martin has twice been named an All-American volleyball player and is considered by many midwestern coaches to be the best all around player in the country.