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University Daily Kansan Thursday. May 4, 1961
'Imagination '61' Begins At Murphy Hall Today
Murphy Hall will continue to function as a convention arena for the rest of the week as a theater conference takes the stage from a music symposium.
"Iimagination 61," a creative theater conference, has inherited the
Jury Acquits Frisco Rioter
SAN FRANCISCO — (UPI)— Robert Meisenbaeh, 23-year-old University of California student, was found not guilty yesterday of assault charges arising out of last May's city hall riots against the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
A jury of 10 women and two men deliberated less than three hours before returning the verdict in the court of Superior Judge Harry J. Neubarth.
(The Associated Press reported that Jack Berman, defense attorney, said the acquittal would "knock Operation Abolition" into the creek.)
(The House Committee on UnAmerican Activities sponsored "Operation Abolition," a privately-distributed film, as a report of the disorders at the City Hall hearing.)
The film implied that the riot was Communist-inspired and directed. Critics maintained that the disturbance was a spontaneous demonstration by students against the House Committee.
Police arrested 64 persons during the demonstrations. Charges against all but Meisenbach were dropped.
A Practical Law Seminar for attorneys will be held June 29-30 at KU.
Lawyers Seminar To Be Held in June
The program is open to any interested attorney, but has been prepared to emphasize attendance by recent admittees to the Bar, Robert C. Casad, assistant professor of law, said.
"This is a 'bridge the gap' type of seminar in which we hope to give practical advice, the kind law books don't teach, to recent graduates in hopes it may help them on their first jobs." he explained.
The program will be sponsored by the Junior Section of the State Bar Association to which Prof. Casad was recently elected a member of the Board of Governors.
Haugh Gets Grant
Iwan L. Haugh, Topeka, senior, has been awarded a $500 scholarship by the American Institute of Architects. He is one of the 20 undergraduate architectural students at 14 schools throughout the country who have received the awards for 1961.
fine arts spotlight from the third annual Contemporary American Music Symposium which ended last night.
THE THEATER CONFERENCE officially begins tonight with an informal coffee at 7 in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. Over 100 delegates from 10 colleges and universities are expected to attend the sessions whci. will last until Saturday afternoon.
Guest speaker and critic to be honored at the conference will be Margaret Webster, author and lecturer. She is co-founder of the American Repertory Theatre, and the first woman to stage opera at the Metropolitan.
Faculty and student panels are scheduled for Friday. Participants have been chosen from visiting delegations and include professors Arnold Gillette, State University of Iowa; Robin Humphrey, University of Missouri; Arthur Risser, University of Wichita; George Kernodle, University of Arkansas; Frank Whiting, University of Minnesota; and Ray E. Holcombe, MacMurray College.
Topics for discussion will vary from movement training and theater architecture to religious theater, children's theater and professional repertory theater.
PLAYS OR ACTS and scenes from plays will be performed Saturday. Following each presentation, Miss Webster will lead a critique and discussion of the play as presented.
Included in these presentations will be original plays written by instructors and professors from colleges in the Midwest.
Registration for attendance to "Imagination '61" is $1 which will admit a person to all meetings.
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Roy D. Laird, assistant professor of political science, and George Bennett, Lawrence senior, will discuss "Our Soviet Visitors" at the Current Events Forum at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
Forum to Discuss Our Soviet Visitors'
Phi Beta Kappa Hears Chemist
The amount of energy in the world remains constant, but the amount of entropy tends to the maximum said a KU professor at the Phi Beta Kappa initiation dinner last night in the Kansas Union.*
Arthur W. Davidson, professor of chemistry and chairman of the chemistry department, explained the concept of entropy to the Phi Beta Kappa members, initiates and their friends.
"THE SECOND LAW of thermodynamics is also called the law of dissipation or degradation of energy," Prof. Davidson said.
"Many energy-releasing processes are inherently irreversible; it is impossible to return them to their original state. This tends to increase the amount of "entropy."
He said that entropy was the maximum amount of work possible by a process subtracted from the amount of work done divided by the temperature of the process.
PROF. DAVIDSON worked an example process on a blackboard drawing the conclusion that energy goes from the more available to the less available.
Prior to the dinner, the new members of Phi Beta Kappa were initiated into the college scholastic honor fraternity.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else-Charles Dickens
TGIF
At The New
Seniors will discuss the agenda for the rest of the semester and receive all of the information on graduation procedure at the Senior Class Coffee at 10 a.m. Monday in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
"The Red Hot Continentals" — 5 piece
Club Rock and Roll Tavern
'61 to Discuss Events, Vote for Gift Monday
Band Every Friday & Saturday Night
8 to 12 p.m.
Frank Naylor, senior class president from Kansas City, said that this was the most important class meeting of the year.
Large New Room attached to the Original Tavern has:
Large Dance Floor
Modern Comfortable Boots and Tables
Soft Blue Lights
Lots of Free Parking
Come on out for an Enjoyable Evening
"The procedure of commencement will be explained in detail with printed bulletins at the coffee," he said. "This is the key meeting of the year, especially for graduating seniors as this is the only place they can get the graduation information."
Located ½ Mile East of Tonganoxie on Highway 24-40
Admission: Ladies 50c - Men 75c
THE SENIORS will discuss and decide the 1961 Class gift. The three choices are a statue for the Spooner-Thayer Museum Garden, a Centennial Loan Fund for juniors who will be seniors next year and trophy cases for Allen Field House.
The Gift will be presented to Chancellor W. Clarke Wesoe at the Senior Breakfast at 8 a.m. June 5. The seniors will also take their pipes to the breakfast for the traditional senior pipe smoking.
THE HOPE AWARD, Honor for the Most Outstanding Progressive Educator, will be presented at the coffee if the committee has decided on the recipient. If the committee, consisting of outstanding seniors from the various schools of the University—minus the graduate school, has not decided who will receive the award, it will be presented at the Senior Breakfast.
The class will also discuss the class picnic to be held from 11 a.m.
Admission: Ladies 50c — Men 75c
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IBM, 1400 Baltimore, K.C., Mo.
SPECIAL 2 WEEK COURSE
Three thefts totaling $290 were reported to the campus police this week.
DATA PROCESSING & SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
David Smith, Jackson, Mich,
freshman and Graham Moore,
Houston, Texas, junior, reported
two missing watches valed at $230.
The report said that the watches had
been taken from the Delta Tau
Delta fraternity house between 2:30
a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Monday.
The last item on the agenda is the senior reception. This is the last opportunity for faculty and students to get together informally. Seniors and their parents are urged to attend the coffee that will be held between 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. June 5 in the South Lounge of the Kansas Union.
Three Thefts Total $230
Open to all Junior & Senior math majors or any graduate students No Charge SIGN UP IN THE MATH OFFICE,217 STRONG
June 5th-16th
to 3 p.m. May 13. The place for the picnic will be announced at the coffee. It is undecided at the present time.
One watch was an Omega with a gold back and a chrysler leather band valued at $130. The other watch was a Lord Elgin valued at $100.
The third theft was a $60 brown leather covered General Electric transistor radio. Robert B. Williams, Edgewood, R. L., graduate student, reported that someone had taken it from his car while it was parked at 1345 Louisiana St. Tuesday morning.
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