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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 22, 1958
ROCK WALL RISES—John Reynolds, stone mason for Buildings and Grounds, completes laying another stone in the wall under construction at the Art Museum. The Wall-building project for the Museum fountain court should be completed in about a month. (Daily Kansan photo)
New System Aids Return Of Books
Students will have to change their book-returning habits now that the new book-drop at the west end of Watson Library has gone into operation. The modern, outside-hinged door opens from the east window of the undergraduate wing.
The new book slot went into operation Monday night. Formerly, books were dropped into a big gray box in front of the main entrance. Robert L. Quinsey, assistant library director, said the slide will be open only when the library is closed. Books taken from any part of the library may be returned through the slide.
After books are put into the slot, they slide down a chute to a book truck inside a blond plywood box in the undergraduate library. Each morning the truck is unloaded and books returned to the departments they were taken from. The outside opening will accommodate books up to four inches thick and 1 foot, 10 inches wide.
Under the old system, books were sometimes worn and frayed from dropping to the bottom of the box. The new return has a platform on springs which will prevent books from hitting the floor. The old system was sometimes complicated by final examination schedules. The library was closed on the last day of examination last semester. Students filled the box and then started stacking books on top of the box. There was no protection from the weather and a few books were slightly damaged.
Library officials said the new location for night deposits was chosen for the convenience of students, as well as for the protection of books.
Signs were put up in the library Friday to remind students of the change. The slot is plainly marked in black letters on the outside.
When the new system was installed in February, Robert L. Talmadge associate library director, said the undergraduate entrance was getting more student traffic than the mail entrance. John M. Nugent, head of the circulation department, said he preferred that over-sized art books be returned during the library hours. All books will be due at the same time as before.
Five Receive Foreign Study Appointments
Foreign study scholarship appointments for five University students were announced today by Dr. John H. Nelson, dean of the Graduate School.
Kenneth Dean Stites, Kansas City, Kan a graduate student, has received a Fulbright scholarship to study French at the University of Paris in France.
Noel McKinley Johnson, Kansas City, Mo., senior, will have a direct exchange scholarship to study in the honors section of zoology at University of Exeter in England.
Two students will go to the University of Kiel in Germany. They are Ruwal Freese, Topeka, and Terry Travis, Merriam, seniors.
Robert Skinner, Mission graduate student, has been named the exchange scholar to the University of Birmingham, England.
To Try Out For Cheerleaders
KU's cheerleaders will conduct a school to teach yells and gesture techniques to students interested in joining next year's group.
Sessions will be from 6:45 p.m. to 9 p.m. on April 28, 29 and May 1 in Robinson gymnasium. Dick Jones, McPherson junior and head cheerleader said no applications are being taken. Any student may register by attending the first session.
Tryouts will be held on May 5 for students who attended all sessions. The cheerleaders for the 1958-59 school year, five women and five men, will be chosen by a student-faculty committee after the tryouts. Members of the present squad will compete in the tryouts if they wish to serve again.
The newly appointed squad members will meet to choose a head cheerleader.
Potholders will stay clean longer if they are starched lightly after laundering.
Pizza 'Rings' Plot Exposed
An apparent "ring" of pizza thieves has been detected on campus. A local pizza house that specializes in deliveries reports that large numbers of their pies have been stolen from delivery cars in recent months. All of the thefts have been in two areas—both of them surrounded by fraternity houses and dormitories.
In an attempt to catch the gang in the act, employees of the restaurant accepted two obviously false orders Sunday night. With an employee hidden in the back seat, the delivery boy parked his car in the usual spot, and left a window open.
As suspected, the first order was to a non-existent person in a fraternity house. The delivery boy returned to the car and picked up the other false order, which was to be delivered to a room in the
dormitory. As he entered the lobby, a boy sitting in a chair raised a newspaper, apparently as a signal to an accomplice across the street.
The second boy, who had been hiding behind some bushes, ran over to the delivery car and reached in the window. Just as he was about to grab one of the remaining pizzas, he was surprised by the hidden guard. The would-be thief turned and ran, and disappeared before the employee could get out of the car.
The employee did, however, get a good look at the culprit's face, and could identify him. The owner of the restaurant said that a report to the police will not be necessary if those involved will settle with him for past thefts.
100 Years' Voting Compiled At KU
Extension of the tabulation includes total county vote, Democratic total and percentage of over-all total, Republican total and percentage, other parties total and percentage, percentage by party of Democratic —Republican total and party plurality.
Nearly 100 years of Kansas voting has been tabulated in a publication of the Governmental Research Center.
Titled "Kansas Votes, National Elections, 1859-1956," the work is co-authored by Mrs. June G. Cabe, former research assistant, and Charles A. Sullivan, Morehouse, Mo. graduate student.
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Freshman women who return to school next year will have to "make a choice to live by," Miss Hardman said. Whether they choose to "go Greek" or stay independent, they must "put something into a group" if they expect to benefit from group living," she said.
The KU-Y freshman commission sponsored the panel to "acquaint freshmen with the choices available." Mary L. Brown, Hutchinson freshman and co-chairman of the commission, was in charge of the meeting.
About 45 freshman women, representatives from sororities and independent houses and Miss Mary Peg Hardman, assistant dean of women, discussed the pros and cons of sorority and independent living last night at Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall.
Panelists Furnish Information Panel members were: Sorority seniors, Megan Lloyd, Hutchinson and Betty L. Douglas, Kansas City, Kan.; independent juniors, Gretchen Engler, Hutchinson and Joyce Isaacson, Macksville. The women explained and answered questions about expenses, scholarship requirements, social activities, duties and government of their houses.
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Miss Hardman said it is important to "realize that you do have a choice." "It is not the only choice that you'll make in your life, so you shouldn't worry about it. You should think it through. The choice should be yours alone."
The main differences as explained by the panel are house fees and duties. The similarities are in government and scholarship. Participation in "outside activities" is up to the individual no matter where she lives, they agreed.
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The freshman women were mainly concerned with expenses and pledge duties. Miss Engler, who lives at Miller scholarship hall, said the fees are "usually from 20 to 25 dollars a month." The women there share duties to help keep the costs down. If accepted, women must maintain at least a 1.5 grade average the first year and later, a 1.7 average.
Miss Isaacson said the fees are between 40 and 45 dollars a month at residence halls. The women there don't have house duties. There are no specific grade requirements.
Miss Douglas and Miss Lloyd said sorority living is more expensive because of the additional $20 a month chapter dues, initiation fee and cost of a sorority pin. They said the pins range in price from $6 to $50. The requirement
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Miss Hardman reminded the women of another living possibility that of going "truly independent." Women may live in University approved private homes.
"You can find what you're looking for in any group. If you make a choice that's right for you at the time, it will be the right choice." Miss Hardman said.
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