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University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 9, 1958
A BROOM IS THE WEAPON—Roy Grammar, janitor in Strong Hall, uses a broom to combat the stalactites which have formed on the ceiling in the basement. Watching him work are Carolyn Marie Soice, Wichita sophomore, and John Lang, Arkansas City junior. (Daily Kansan photo)
Japanese Children's Art On Display
An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Japanese children is now on display in 109 Bailey Hall.
The exhibit is being circulated by the art education department. It was obtained through the courtesy
of James Drury, associate professor of political science at KU, who arranged an exchange show of American children's work at Sendai, Japan.
The exhibit will be shown until Saturday and is open to the public.
First Bugs In The Belfry Now Bats In The Balcony
There haven't been any mass outbreaks of exuberance on the campus this spring, but strange things are happening. Last week it was bugs in the belfry and this week it's bats in the balcony.
So far, without proof, the culprits have been narrowed to 'college antics' and 'spring showers.' Last week "Mr. X" confessed that he put the bugs in the campanile. But it's suspected that rainy spring weather misplaced the mammals that hover around the balcony above the rear entrance to Strong Hall.
The cave dwelling bats came when spring sprung some leaks in the balcony floor. As the rain drops oozed through the cracks, they took some of the floor through to the basement ceiling. The drops that didn't drip were left hanging in stalactites, the spire-like cave formations.
The white 'fingers' hanging from a two-foot strip along the ceiling are artificially formed, and not the same composition as real cave stalactites. However they look real enough to fool a few blind bats into thinking the damp, cool entranceway is a cave.
For several years students have been reporting that they "saw a bat"—a "small one." No bats have been captured there, but the reports are still coming in.
Stalagmites (which would build up spires from splashes on the floor) have been discouraged from growing because students' footsteps keep them worn down to chalky spots. It's not uncommon though to get splashed on the head while walking through the passageway. However there's no danger that stalactites would form fast enough to invite bats to get tangled up in pony tails or crew cuts.
Those chalky spots on the floor and the unusual location for stalactites prompted an 'investigation' by the State Geological Survey. Walter E. Hill, Jr., survey chemist,
made a spectrographic analysis which proved that the Strong stalactites aren't calcium carbonate, the limestone percipitate most stalactites are composed of.
Mr. Hill said the test showed that the chief elements were calcium, aluminum and silicon—the basis of portland cement. The investigation was started because there is apparently no limestone source for stalactites in Strong. The building is made of (or least covered with) terra cotta, a ceramic material.
Mrs. Bernice Loran Schear, Lawrence graduate student, won first prize of $100 in the annual William Herbert Carruth memorial poetry contest, W. D. Paden, professor of English, announced today.
Wins $100
PoetryContest
The floor of the balcony where the drainage system is located is, however, portland cement. Geologists said a further investigation would be necessary to prove the origin of the stalactites because magnesium, strontium and small amounts of copper, iron and other minerals were found. But now it seems as though they came from a solution of cement during rainy seasons.
Second prize of $50 was awarded to Warren Klierwer, Topeka graduate student, and third prize of $35 went to Mrs. Karen Dolten, special student.
Honorable mention went to Keith Denniston, Independence, Mo., and to Stanley Solomon, Brooklyn, N. Y. Both are graduate students.
International Club Sets Farewell Dinner
International Club will hold a farewell dinner for the members and foreign students at 6 p.m. Sunday in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room.
There are 212 foreign students on the campus. More than half of the students will be going back to their countries when the semester is over.
Elections will be held after the dinner. Tickets for the dinner are on sale at the Kansas Union ticket booth.
The world's first concrete stalactites? Well, not quite. After the geologists became interested in those at Strong Hall they discovered others on the campus—right over a back door at Lindley Hall, the geology building.
Pershing Rifles Elects Officers
Six new officers for Pershing Rifles, honor ROTC society, have been installed.
New officers are:
Thomas Kennedy, Wright-Patterson, Ohio, junior, company commander; Avrom Rosen, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, executive officer; John Nowlin, Holton sophomore, personnel officer; Edward Reilly, Leavenworth freshman, public information officer; Robert H. Davis, Leavenworth sophomore, operations and training officer, and Morris Johnson, Caldwell sophomore, supply officer.
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