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University Daily Kansan Thursday, May 8. 1958
WHO DEALT THIS MESS?—These students aren't taking bridge lessons, but find time to learn on their own during the day in the Kansas
Union. They are Doug Farmer, Pratt freshman, left; Mike Hays, Zenith, Sue Wesley, Hutchinson, Bob Anderson, Salina, all juniors.
Bridge Lessons, Anyone?
It's a widely held belief that a college education isn't complete until the student has learned all the finer points of contract bridge.
Despite the inroads of TV and perhaps of more demanding college curricula, bridge is still holding its own as a favorite student diversion. There is even a University course which teaches the game.
Now before you get excited and add Bridge I to your list of snap courses, let us say that the course isn't offered as part of the University program.
It's sponsored by Student Union Activities, and all it gets you is a good basic knowledge of bridge. No credit, no grade, no trading stamps.
Each semester, a series of ten lessons is offered, with sessions on Wednesday nights in the Kansas Union Card Room. For the first lesson, the novice bridge players learn some of the basic rules of the game, and have it impressed upon them that bridge—properly played—is a difficult name.
Most Time Spent Playing
Most Time Spent Playing In following lessons, the students spend most of their time playing the game, with the instructor, Larry Bodle, Lawrence, in constant demand to answer the most popular question. "What should I have bid?"
In addition to several semesters of teaching bridge on the campus, Mr. Bodle has taught classes for the Lawrence adult education program for the last four years.
For the KU classes, he suggests the students buy — and study — two bridge books by Charles Goren.
After reading the Goren books, the students are taken gradually into the finer points of the game. They are taught the methods of building and play, how to count the tricks a hand contains, and proper requirements for certain plays.
Mr. Bodle denied any intention of making bridge sharks of his students.
"The prime objective is to teach a beginner enough bridge so he will have some confidence at the bridge table."
33 Start Lessons
Mr. Bodle said this semester's class had started with 33 students, although several apparently dropped out after five of the ten lessons.
SUA serves coffee at most sessions from a portable urn that is wheeled into the room at starting.
Why does a bridge player, if not expert, at least quite good, spend his spare time teaching people who initially don't know an ace from a fourth-down lead?
Leg scratching, back slapping and bug cussing will soon be the accepted occupations of KU students and faculty as the mosquitoes and chickgers begin their annual onslaught of the Lawrence area.
Worms Blown In
Aimless strolls through Marvin Grove will have painful after-effects and students will be seen taking the long way around on a sidewalk rather than cutting across a bug-infested lawn.
The only insects that come to the KU campus in very great numbers are the canker worms, which hang down from elm trees on silk-like threads. Prof. Byers said that the Lawrence area has already had the canker worms this spring and that they were not very numerous.
"Two years ago we did have a great many black, worm-like insects—the oat thrips—on the campus," Prof. Byers said, "but they were here by accident. Strong winds blew them in from surrounding wheat fields, their usual habitat."
However, George W. Byers, assistant professor of entomology, said that people in this section of the country are lucky that insects present no more of a problem than they do. Chiggers are a constant irritation to people during the summer months, he said, but at least they don't cause any diseases.
There is no way to control the chigger population on the campus, Prof. Byers said. The only solution for those students especially bothered by chiggers is to apply a repellent to their clothes. Benzyl benzoate is a good chigger repellent, he added.
Black widow spiders are never too numerous in this area, Prof. Byers said, and the chances of a student
being bitten by one are rare because the spiders prefer cool, damp basements. He said that when outhouses were common, cases were numerous. An outhouse gives the spider a desirable place to live and affords him frequent opportunities for attack, he explained.
No Black Widows
There are areas of the world in which insects cause a great amount of sickness and death. One of every five people living in India have malaria, which is transmitted by the anopheles mosquito.
"Americans don't realize what a killer malaria still is." Prof Byers said. "Over all the world, one person dies every 10 seconds from malaria. That's more than three million people a year. We may grumble about bugs in Kansas, but actually we are very lucky."
Buenos Aires, the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere, covers more than 80 square miles and has the longest and widest avenue in the world.
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