Daily Hansan
54th Year, No. 48
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Nov. 16, 1956
Importance Of Math To Grow In '57'
"Mathematics, a science which in the past has played the dual role of servant and master, will during the coming International Geophysical Year not only play an important part in the study of the earth as a planet, but will also see its own realm expanded as new theories are evolved."
This belief was expressed by G. Baley Price, professor of mathematics, who presented the second Geophysical Year lecture at the University Thursday.
Dr. Price explained how mathematics played the role of servant until the middle 1800's when it gained a new freedom with the discovery of hyperbolic non-Euclidean geometry.
Role Of Servant
During the coming Geophysical Year, Dr. Price said observations on the motions of artificial satellites will be used as a means of making various measurements on the earth, its size and its gravitational pull in certain places.
Now Master
Mathematics, he said, used a new freedom found in the 19th century to study a wide variety of new systems which were not necessarily suggested by the physical universe, hence the new role as master. Einstein's theory of relativity was a major consequence of this new freedom, he added.
Frank V. Rowland, professor of radio-chemistry, will speak on Radiochemistry and Geophysics," in the third scheduled lecture, Dec. 20.
It Takes So Little To Aid The Needy
The Roger Williams Fellowship of KU collected $429 for CROP in a short time Tuesday, illustrating the public's positive reaction to this charity drive, said Lowell Risk, city CROP chairman.
Collections for CROP have been received by volunteer door-to-door solicitors for several days, but, only 35% of Lawrence homes have been canvassed. This is due to a lack of volunteer solicitors, Mr. Risk said.
Volunteers should contact Mr. Risk, or the Rev. Dale Turner, county CROP chairman.
Architects To Meet Here
Fifty delegates will attend the national convention of Scarab, national architecture fraternity, to be held here Sunday through Tuesday. Scarab has held national conventions at KU in 1929, 1935 and 1946.
A panel discussion on "Sculptural Integration in Architecture" will be the feature of a dinner Monday night in the Student Union. Panel members will be James Sterritt, instructor, and Jack Morley, assistant professor of architecture; Bernad (Poco) Frazier, sculptor in residence; Jack Baker, professor of architecture at the University of Illinois, and Charles Marshall, former state architect, Topeka.
Included in the events are an address by George M. Beal, professor of architecture at KU and a visit to the hyperbolic paraboloid home built by Donald L. Dean, associate professor of engineering.
The convention chairman James Taylor, fifth year architecture student from Kansas City, Mo., who vice-president of the KU chapter.
Education's Goal Democratic Life, Women Told
"There is far more to a college than that which you get in a classroom." Mrs. Christine Hogin, dean of women at the University of Kansas City, told women in the Panhellenic Workshop Thursday.
"Education is to foster, promote and develop a democratic way of life." Mrs. Hogin said. "But a person must have more than just reading and writing. We would have no wars if reading and writing were the things that stopped them. The literate people start the wars."
"You can be a person of culture and still not be a cultured person," she said.
Group discussions of Mrs. Hogin's talk and officers' group discussions were held. House officers attending were presidents, pledge trainers; chairmen of rush, scholarship, social, intramurals and activities committees; treasurers, and house managers. Chapter advisers also attended.
(Related story, "Unusual Career Claimed by Visiting Dean of Women," Page 9).
The second in a series of lectures sponsored by the University Players on topics relating to the theater will be given at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Jayhawk Room of the Student Union.
Theater Lecture Slated For Sunday
Walter Meserve, assistant professor of English, will talk on "From the Books to the Boards."
He Was 'Queen' Of All Queens
Two husky senior class football players tugged and carried a reluctant "senior queen" on the field during the halftime of the senior-junior football game Wednesday in the stadium.
This queen was the most unusual queen to appear on the University campus. The queen removed her scarf and instead of one of the more common campus loveliess, John Ryberg, Salina senior, was revealed.
Three senior badges, a top hat, and a beret were the only other evidences of senior class spirit displayed at the game. A few cheers accompanied the senior team when it scored but the majority of seniors seemed to be quiet or absent.
KU Calendar Due Monday
The KU calendar will go on sale Monday, William H. Jackson, Florence junior and business manager, said today.
"The calendar makes a very,very fine Christmas gift," Jackson said. "This is a money-making project for the senior class who will use the money for the senior gift. The supply is limited."
The calendar sells for $1 and covers 12 months, Jackson said. It will be on sale in the Hawk's Nest and at the information booth.
The senior queen, Ann Straub,
Chicago, Ill., will be pictured along
with campus scenes and pictures of
athletic events and other activities.
Space has been provided for memoranda
and dates, Jackson said.
Staff members in addition to Jackson are: Harvey S. Bodker, Mission senior, editor, and William R. Hagman, Pittsburg senior.
Computation Center To Be Established
A computation center built around an IBM 650 electronic digital computer and supplementary pieces of punched card accessory equipment will be established here next spring, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said.
The huge "electronic brain" will greatly increase the speed of providing numerical answers to research and development problems by adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing almost instantaneously.
"The computation center will be used for teaching courses in mathematics, electrical engineering and advanced graduate work in accounting." Chancellor Murphy explained. "Its research applications will apply to all the sciences. Its need is evident in that since June, directors of a half dozen research projects at KU have had to obtain computation service at high cost in distant centers because existing computers here were too small."
KU already has several computers of the analogue type as a foundation for the computation center.
Director To Be Named The KU computation center is made possible by the IBM educational contribution program. A director, who will be an expert in numerical analysis, has not been named. The center will be located temporarily in 8-C Strong with permanent quarters planned in the new School of Business building.
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Beauties, Brass, Bands - All Will Be At Military Ball
Because brass and a band—thus is the formula for the annual Military Ball to be held Dec. 8 in the Student Union Ballroom for members of the Army, Navy and Air Force ROTC units.
The beauties will be the queen of the ball and her two attendants; the brass will be staff officers of the ROTC units, plus Maj. Gen. Lionel C. McGarr, commandant of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Riley, who will crown the queen; the band is that of Judy Conrad. Kansas City. Mo.
The Military Ball queen and her attendants will be chosen from 12 finalists following a coke party Nov. 28 at the Dine-A-Mite Cafe and a formal reception Dec. 5 at the Castle Tea Room, where the candidates will meet the commanding officers of the ROTC units.
Gen. and Mrs. McGarr will be guests at a Scabbard and Blade dinner preceding the ball. Scabbard and Blade is the 3-service honorary military organization sponsoring the ball.
Judy Conrad's orchestra, the Beguine Rhythms, has played for shows featuring Judy Garland, Jack Carson, Pinky Lee, and the Mills Brothers. The band features Billy Snider, called the world's smallest trumpet player (he is less than five feet tall), and vocalist Margie Ricard.
Fair tonight and Saturday. Warmer west and central portions today and over the state tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 25-30, high Saturday 50s east and north to 60 south-west.
Weather
CANDIDATES, ATTENT-SHUN!-The Military Ball queen and her two attendants will be chosen from this corps of the fairer sex to reign over the ball Dec. 8. First row (from left): Virginia Hancock and Judy Allen, Topeka sophomores; Sylvia Frost, Kansas City, Mo., junior; Beverly Sargent, Great Bend
—(Daily Kansan photo)
freshman; Barbara Hauck, Kansas City, Mo., junior, Second row: Virginia Kihm, Hutchinson freshman; Dana Hagland, Wichita sophomore; Peggy Garrison, Phillipsburg sophomore; Jane Embry, Omaha, Neb., freshman; Sharon Dye, Wichita sophomore; Marcia Hall, Coffeyville sophomore, and Shirley Burnham, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore.