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University Daily Kansan Monday, February 13, 1961
The Campanile in Spring
'Spring' Is Here Even Though Not for Long
By Marty Moser
Spring came to the KU campus yesterday, proclaimed by its traditional herald, the robin. One of the spring's first arrivers, the redbreast sat high in the bare limbs of a redbud tree and sang of being back from his southern vacation.
Tiny buds are on the trees promising a myriad of pink blossoms the first of May. Everywhere there is a first twinge of green in the lawns, and rabbits hop across them looking for tender shoots unmindful of campus dogs.
In a nook of a big oak tree by Strong Hall, a squirrel nibbled an acorn he had frugally hidden last fall and forgotten. A red squirrel and a gray squirrel forgot their usual animosity to play hide-and-seek on Sellard's lawn. Two more frolicked across the vines of Fraser Hall.
The sparrows' spring song drifted down from tree tops. Nature was alive with the first breath of a new season.
And the ground hog was noticeably absent from the campus scene. Having seen his shadow Feb. 2, this furry weatherman predicted six more weeks of bad weather and scurried back to his warm burrow.
The mournful to-whit-to-woho of the wise old owl, mating only in the winter months, was heard courting last week behind Blake Hall.
But is this pseudo-spring going to stay? February may be a mild month but March can roar in with the force of an angry lion. Every Kansas student must remember an April blizzard.
Mr. Robin, are you sure spring is here?
Rats Eat, Stay Slim; People May Do Same
NEW YORK — (UPI)— Will human beings ever be able to eat as much as they want without getting fat?
Whether people can do it safely is another question.
Laboratory rats have done it under complicated experimental conditions.
In the laboratory experiments, a new chemical compound was used to inhibit the autonomic nervous system or the cores of the adrenal glands. It is not known just what effects resulted.
GROUPS OF RATS were permitted to eat as much as they wished as often as they wished. Into some this chemical compound was injected several times a day. The others were injected but only with a harmless chemical substance.
The latter rats ate and got fat. The former ate approximately as much but did not get fat, or at least not nearly as fat. In one experiment, the chemists measured the contents of a body fat "depot" common to rats. In another, they measured all deposited body fat.
The chemical compound is phentolamine. It "blocks" the secretions of the cores of the adrenal glands into the blood stream. These secretions include the hormone epin-
ephrin which has vast powers to contract blood vessels.
Phentolamine also acts on the secretions from nerve ends. In chemical concert with epinephrine and its by-product norepinephrine, these have powerful influences on the body's utilization of its food which are not yet fully understood.
THE EXPERIMENTS were done in the Lederle Laboratories, Pearl River, N.Y., by a team of scientists headed by Dr. C. R. Boshart. The rats were young and the chemical did not affect their growth. In general it did not seem to suppress their appetites.
The experiments are continuing, in rats whose adrenal glands have been removed. The hope is to pinpoint the sites of action. At this time no one can say how safe or unsafe this interference with fat conversion would be over the long range.
The chemical interfered with the normal conversion of food into deposited body fat but the scientists were uncertain how phentolamine brought it about.
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The executives are Edwin R. Jung, vice president of the Clark Controller Co., Cleveland; Lewis J. Burger, General Electric general manager, Fort Wayne, Ind., and George E. Burens and William S. Ginn, GE vice presidents from Schenectady, N. Y.
They are among seven top echelon executives given 30-day jail terms in U. S. District Court in the sentencing of 44 individuals and 20 heavy electrical equipment manufacturers resulting from the government's largest anti-trust case in history. The defendants pleaded guilty or nola contendere to 20 indictments and were fined a total of $1,924,000.
PHILADELPHIA — (UPI) — Four electrical equipment industry executives were scheduled today to begin 30-day jail sentences for their part in price fixing and bid rigging schemes over a five-year period.
Electrical Execs Start Jail Terms
Two of the seven executives began their terms in the Montgomery County jail at nearby Norristown, Pa., last Friday. They are Charles L. Mauntel, 60, of Drexel Hill, Pa., sales manager of Westinghouse Corporation's steam division at Lester, Pa., and John H. Chiles, Jr., of Sharon, Pa., vice president of the transformer division of Westinghouse.
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Just North of Student Union CURTIS NELSON
A check Friday morning at the KU-Y office showed 42 delegations had registered. Last year, 70 countries were represented in the mock convention.
The seventh man, John M. Cook,
vice president of Cutler-Hammer,
Inc., Milwaukee, Wis., will begin his
sentence Feb. 20.
"They register at the KU-Y office for their delegation and they are eligible to participate," he said. "The maximum for all delegations is four students, but a delegation may consist of two or three, its just a matter of choice."
"Ninety nine countries are in the UN." said Bennett. "This means there can be 99 delegations and counting the six observer nations, there will be room for 105. We believe there will be more interested this year than last."
Lawing said that the same element, which he refused to identify, is preparing another attempt to cut the college clubs down to a single vote each at the state convention February 25 and 26 in Huchinson.
At present each club of five members or more has three votes. When the membership passes 50, another vote is added.
"They are more interested in patronage than in some of the issues that may come up before the Democratic Party in the state and nation," Lawing said in describing the group.
"THEY TRIED to cut the college clubs down to one vote each and raise the county clubs to five votes each." Lawning said.
Paul Milner Lessig, Leavenworth sophomore, has been appointed to the U. S. Military Academy at West Point.
He said there had already been one attempt at the state convention of the Young Democrats last year in Topeka.
INDEPENDENT students don't realize the UN is for them, too. Bennett said.
A misunderstanding on Mock United Nations Convention registration was cleaned up today by George Bennett, Lawrence senior, secretary-general of the convention.
COUNTRIES are admitted on the first-come, first-served basis. Each bloc will have a faculty adviser who will answer questions on theory and
"Some students misunderstood and thought registration closed last week. Due to lack of publicity, they were not notified. Organized houses announced the date and asked for delegates last week, however," he said.
Jim Lawing, Okmulgee, Okla. graduate student and secretary of the KU Young Democrats, charged yesterday that certain county chapters of the Young Democrats are trying to destroy the campus chapters of the organization.
Lawing Says Young Demos Try to Cut Campus Chapters
KU Student Wins USMA Berth
Operation 'UN'
Registration continues until Saturday at the KU-Y office in the Kansas Union, he said.
Sign-Up Continues
In colleges where there are no fraternities Communism flourishes. —Sen.Barry Goldwater
"I HEAR they've been organizing clubs with the minimum five members," Lawing said. "The county people who organized these new clubs will probably dominate the convention. I think it's possible for them to ramrod the resolution through."
Lawing has urged all members of the KU Young Democrats who can go to attend.
"My main purpose in having them go is to see how a convention is actually run and to meet some of the leaders of the Young Democrats." Lawing said.
Lawing emphasized that all the county clubs were not involved in the attempt to cut the college clubs' votes. He felt that if the college group was well represented at the convention, it could gain the support necessary to prevent the resolution from being passed.
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"If spirit isn't great, it might be every two years, and if not, well, who knows what will happen," he said. "It's future depends upon this year's popularity."
foreign policy of the country. The adviser will guide students during the preliminary and bloc meetings, but when'the delegates are on the floor the adviser cannot answer questions.
This is the second consecutive assembly at KU. It will be in Hoch Auditorium April 14-15. If there is good support and interest it may become an annual event, Bennett said.
"The faculty advisers and professors are most enthusiastic about the meeting." Bennett said. "They are willing to help and they do a good job of it."
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