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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 20, 1956
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ON THE WAY—Progress continues on the new music and dramatic arts building in the southwest corner of the campus. The fine fall weather has helped construction workers, who have been able to continue work on the exterior part of the building. The structure is scheduled for completion sometime next fall.
Foreign Students Reminded Of International Festival
A reminder was given to foreign students to get ready for an international festival next spring at the third foreign students orientation meeting Wednesday in the Student Union.
W. R. Butler, assistant dean of men, told the foreign students of the international festival, or foreign students' festival, which has been an annual KU function for the last several years.
Mr. Butler also introduced Dr. and Mrs. John Gullahorn and Mrs. Mary Williams, who last pring began conducting a research project on how foreign students adjust themselves to American life.
Bill Allaway, KU-Y's general secretary, was also introduced. He outlined the Y's activities.
Mr. Butler, who answered questions on fee payment and registration with Immigration and Naturalization Service, said 20 to 25 more foreign students are expected to arrive soon. A list of all foreign students would be made available next month, he added.
It was decided at the meeting that, although no more orientation meetings would be held, foreign student advisers would arrange meetings with faculty members.
Debaters To Hold Tryouts Today
Tryouts for the University Debate Squad will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in 105 Green Hall.
Kim Giffin, associate professor of speech and drama and squad coach said interested debaters should prepare a three to five minute resolution on the topic: "Should the U.S. discontinue aid to foreign countries?"
Although applicants will be judge on presentation and organization, Prof.: Giffin stressed that debating experience is unnecessary.
“Primarily, we are looking for talent and potential talent. Our tournament schedule is heavier than ever before, so there will be ample opportunities for the novices as well as the more experienced debaters,” he said.
The first meeting of the Froshawaks, freshman men's pep organization, will be held at 7:15 p.m. today, in the Pine Room of the Student Union. All freshmen men who are interested in joining are urged to attend.
Froshawk Meeting Today
The unpleasant fluid ejected by a skunk is more than a mere annoyance, it is a form of poison. There is one authentic case on record of a boy who was killed by a skunk scent.
Time To Unpack— Fall's Almost Here
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A cold blast of Arctic air covering the Great Lakes and a light snowfall in northern Michigan were advance warnings today that autumn was almost here.
Weathermen said fall would officially arrive Saturday at 7:30 p.m. CST.
A trace of snow fell at Houghton, Mich., where temperatures dropped into the 30's as cold air moved southward across the Great Lakes region. The season's first snow flurries also were reported at Wausau, Wis., and Traverse City, Mich.
W. J. Argersinger, assistant dean of the Graduate School, outlined the role of the Graduate Club at its welcoming meeting Wednesday in the Student Union. About 30 attended.
Graduate Club Purpose Outlined
Speaking to about 30 graduate students, Dean Argersinger listed three purposes of the club:
1. To enable graduate students to share the ideas of their specialty with others.
Exchange Students Arrive From Europe
3. To serve as an action group to implement graduate student opinion.
President James Schellenberg Newton, reviewed the club's organization and its activities last year.
The first exchange students from the University of Kiel and Westphalian Wilhelms University of Muenster, both in Germany, have arrived at KU.
2. To give graduate students a social organization.
The student from Kiel is Bernard von Bockelmann, who will study microbiology during his year here. Muenster's representative is Helmut Benning, a student of English literature. He also will serve on the staff of the German department.
John Irwin of Indianapolis, Ind., a graduate student in mathematics last year, is KU's exchange scholar to Westphalian Wilhelms University. No selection was made for the University of Kiel.
Let's Give Them Help This Year
Directing the enthusiasm of the crowd into organized cheering is one of the many duties of the 10 Javhawk cheerleaders at the football games this fall.
The group, headed by Jim Bickley, Kansas City, Mo., senior, will cheer in the football season Friday at the annual night shirt parade. Saturday the 10 will lead the Jayhawker team onto the field for the game with Texas Christian University. During the afternoon they will lead organized yells and the singing of KU songs.
The cheerleaders for this year include Bickley, Judy Tiderman, Muncie, and Patricia Warnick, Wichita, seniors; Dave Wilson, Leawood, Tinker Marcum, Overland Park, and Vince Bilotta, East Orange, N. J., junior, and Mary Sue Poppe, Kansas City, Sandra Muntzel, Prairie Village, Dick Jones, McPherson, and Pat Little, Wichita, sophomores.
Six members of the University faculty returned to the campus this week after spending the summer at Boeing Airplane Company's Wichita Division, where they took active parts in multi-jet bomber production. They were among 31 professors and instructors from 14 colleges and universities throughout the country who participated.
They are Rudolph L. Leutzinger, visiting assistant professor of aeronautical engineering; John C. Lindholm, instructor of mechanical engineering; Edwin K. Parks, assistant professor of aeronautical engineering; Grant A. Snyder, instructor of shop practice; Howard F. Stettler, associate professor of accounting, and Robert C. Umholtz, instructor of engineering drawing.
6 KU Profs Return From Boeing Jobs
The members were told the purpose of the club is to bring pres nursing students together and to give them an idea of the different opportunities in nursing:
Ex-Instructor Has Exhibit At Baker
John Armstrong, former instructor in the K.U. department of drawing and painting, will display his work in a one-man show at Baker University. The exhibit of semi-abstract oil paintings, still life and landscapes opens this year's show schedule in the Elsie Allen Art Gallery.
Two new officers were appointed at the first meeting of the Prenursing Club Wednesday in Fraser Hall. They were Catherine George, Caldwell, N. J., junior, vice-president, and Marilyn Briney McDonald, sophomore, publicity chairman.
Pre-nursing Club Elects
Other officers, elected last spring, are: Barbara Peters, Merriam, president; Sharon Crawford Brown, Lawrence, secretary; Kay Jones, Overland Park, treasurer; Carole Means, Kansas City Mo., social chairman, and Mary Catherine Owens, Parsons, program chairman. All are sophomores.
The next meeting of the club will be 4 p.m. Oct. 3. Two students from the University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., are tentatively scheduled as speakers.
Mr. Armstrong was an instructor at K.U. in 1954. He now teaches in the Kansas City, Mo., Art Institute and School of Design.
William Howard Taft has been the only person to serve as both President and chief justice.
Entomology Picnic Held
Faculty and students of the department of entomology had a picnic Wednesday at the farm of Dr. Charles D. Michener, department chairman. About 60 persons were present.
Ice cakes upward of 200 feet thick and several miles wide drift in summer across the Arctic Ocean.
Insect Expert Meets With Entomologists
Dr. Hannes Laven, geneticist from the Max Planck Institute in Tubingen, Germany, is at the University this week. Dr. Laven, considered by many as the world's authority on mosquitoes, is conferring with several members of the entomology department faculty who also are specialists on mosquitoes.
Dr. Laven, who lectured earlier this week to faculty and students in the biological sciences, will be honored at an entomology department coffee at 3:30 p.m. Friday in 323 Snow Hall. The coffee is open to anyone wishing to meet the guest.
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