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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 13, 1958
Panty Raider's Trial Scheduled
One case scheduled for trial in the November session of the Douglas County District Court is that of Robert Ray Hopkins, former KU student charged with assault with intent to maim after he was caught with some 50 other KU men in a pany raid on the Baker University campus at Baldwin last spring.
Charges of removing property were dropped against five other students when it was found that the property was undamaged.
Hopkins was involved in the pants raid of May 22 in which several carloads of KU men charged onto the Baker campus. Hardest hit by the group was the Alpha Chi Omega sorority, where screens were torn, and several girls were molested.
Hopkins, a freshman, was dismissed from the University, as were the others apprehended. Maximum penalty Hopkins could receive would be five years in jail, with a minimum sentence of 6 months.
Modern Art On Display
A large exhibition of contemporary American art may be seen through September 21 in the Museum of Art and the south lounge of the Student Union.
Edward A. Maser, director of the Museum of Art, said the display includes work of some of the most widely acclaimed modern American artists and that this is the first display of their work in this community. Included are works by Stuart Davis, Jack Levine, Loren MacIver, Hyman Bloom, Lyonel Feininger and Jackson Pollock.
The American Federation of Art is circulating the exhibit which is sponsored here by the museum and the Student Union.
Biophysics Prof Added To Staff
Dr. Edward I. Shaw of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory will come to the University this week as assistant professor of biophysics, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy has announced.
The addition of Dr. Shaw to the staff results from the rapid growth of the undergraduate and graduate radiation biophysics program. His appointment also coincides with the start of the University's official participation in the fellowship training program in radiological physics sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission.
Dr. Shaw holds A.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of Missouri and the Phd. degree from the University of Tennessee. A specialist in radio-biology he has recently assisted in the research program of Dr. Alexander Hollander, director of the biology division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The editor of one of the world's best known newspapers, The London Times, will visit the University Oct. 2 and 3.
London Editor To Visit Campus
He is Sir William John Haley. He and Lady Haley will be guests at a dinner party Oct. 2. At 11 p.m., Oct. 3 Sir Wilah will speak in Flint Hall, the journalism building. All students are invited to attend. The talk will be followed by a daucheon for the editor and his wife.
Murray—It's A Boy
NEW YORK—(UP)—After 18 days of vigorously sheltering her new baby, Rose finally let everyone in on the good news—it's a boy. John Galam was relieved. The Central Park Zoo supervisor had not been able to get close enough to the infant hippo to determine its sex.
Scientists say that ten thousand years ago, men hunted camels in what is now the United States.
(Daily Kansan photo)
A Load On His Shoulders
Clifford E. Grosshart, (see above) city letter carrier No. 5, takes the load off his feet for a few minutes during his lunch hour while he refills his pack with more mail from a storage box at 14th and Ohio streets. With school opening again, Mr. Grosshart finds his load getting heavier, although most of his forwarding problems disappear.
A full mail pouch will weigh as much as 35 pounds, plus an additional 5 pounds for the pouch. Mr. Grosshart says he usually carries about six loads a day, making a total of something like 200 pounds. Figuring this as an average, Mr. Grosshart has probably carried something like 300 tons of mail during his 12 years on the route covering the east side of the Hill. This includes many of the University dormitories.
Thanks To Family Plan Specimens Are Added
A six-month field expedition to Central America that produced nearly 7,000 specimens for the University Museum of Natural History ended this week with the return of the Ray Alcorn family.
The wildlife specimens, mostly mammals, were taken in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico. Comparatively little collecting had been done in Nicaragua, so Mr. Alcorn's pioneer work helps to fill in a gap in the knowledge of American wildlife of that area.
Most animals were shot or trapped, but the iguana, due to circumstances, was literally pulled from a tree. The trees around Nicaraguan lakes are home for iguanas who, when startled or wounded, crawl to the farthest limbs of the trees and drop into the lake. The lakes' fresh-water sharks kept the Alcorns from going into the water for the iguanas. The specimen they captured was shot and stunned. Before it could topple into the water, the Alcorns maneuvered their boat directly under it and Alcorn grabbed the animal's tail and pulled it down.
Early this summer about 5,000 specimens were shipped to the Museum and the Alcorns returned with about 1900. Included are many societies of bats, monkeys, cats, small white-tailed deer, the rare tree mouse and a six-foot iguanaa.
Iguanas Tough To Catch
Mr. Alcorn, who operates a nursery in Fallon, Nev., when he isn't collecting for KU, took his wife and
15-year old daughter, Jean, with him to Nicaragua. His son, Albert, joined them this summer after completing his sophomore year at the University of Nevada.
Hit By Malaria
Insects, many of which are poisonous, were very annoying and trying, according to Mr. Alcorn. Malaria-bearing mosquitoes were a particular hazard. He was hospitalized twice with malaria during the past year.
The jungle, he said, is not teeming with life, as most people believe. He said there is more wild life, especially big game animals, per acre in the United States than in the jungle. Even snakes are not overly abundant. Boa constrictors are practically unknown in that area.
When the Alcorns have finished cataloging their Nicaraguan material, they will go to northern Durango and southern Chihuahua in Mexico, an area in which very little, if any, collecting has been done.
To stupify large fish and make them easier to catch, some South American natives use grated root of the poisonous barbacoa. Fish poisoned in this way will not harm anyone eating them.
Hillview Golf Course
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Present this od at clubhouse for free admittance
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John E. Scott, who replaces Henry Hastings as senior reference librarian, recently completed an advanced professional degree at the University of Illinois. From 1949 to 1955 he was librarian of the Kansas Technical Institute in Topeka. A graduate of Atlanta University, he was at one time circulation librarian at Virginia State College.
Dwight Howard, who for the past two years was librarian of Parsons Junior College, is the new stack supervisor. In addition to his professional training, he holds an M.A. degree in history from the University.
Six New Members Added To University Library Staff
Miss Joan Chao is a new member of the circulation staff. She comes here from the University of Illinois, where she completed her professional training this summer. Miss Chao was graduated from Ginling College in China and was librarian of the British Information Library in Chengtu, China, from 1942 to 1945.
The University library will open the 1956-57 academic year with six new staff members, Robert Vosper, director, has announced.
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Others new to the staff but whose appointments were announced last spring are Thomas R. Buckman, recently assistant librarian of Modesto Junior College in California, who will be head of the acquisitions department; Donald C. Dickinson, who comes from Ypsilanti, Mich., where he was assistant reference librarian at Michigan State Normal College, senior acquisitions librarian; and Miss Barbara Clason, cataloguer. She completed her professional library training at the University of Oklahoma last spring.
Circulation School Set For Sept. 28-29
Harold Hult, circulation manager of The Topeka Daily Capitol, will preside at the first general session of the newspaper circulation manager's school to be held Sept. 28-29 at the Student Union.
Newspaper circulation management problems will be discussed by students, faculty members, and newspaper staffs members.
"Getting Results With Circulation Promotion" will be discussed by Michael Tynan, country circulation manager of The Omaha World-Herald.
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Rehabilitation Plan Has Three Openings
Beginning its second year at KU, the program is supported by the U.S. Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, which has granted $5,832 for teaching and $12,800 for training. The training grant provides for eight persons who are working toward the master's degree in rehabilitation.
New aide to Dr. Cottle is Gerald Green, formerly a rehabilitation counselor for the Kansas Division of Services to the Blind. Mr. Green will be an instructor in education and co-ordinator of the rehabilitation program. He received the bachelor's and master's degrees from Emporia State Teachers College and taught there the summers of 1951 and 1952.
Airmen To Be Returned
HONG KONG—(UP)—The British consulate in Shanghai reported by telephone today that the bodies of two U.S. Navy Airmen recovered by Chinese Communists will be sent to American authorities in Yokohama, Japan, on the first available ship.
Three traineeship openings in the University program in rehabilitation counseling still are available Dr. William Cottle, director, said today.
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