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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 10, 1958
Unrecorded Facts Concern Botanists
Unrecorded information, that which was formerly unknown to man, is the main concern of the research in the botany department. This is their aim as described by Ronald C. McGregor, associate professor of botany.
Prof. McGregor said that the botany department is studying a wide range of subjects with botanists in various parts of the world on field trips, both short and extended.
RONALD C. McGREGOR
For example, he explained, one man is in South America studying a fungus which grows on coffee and another is studying fossil plants in rocks.
These researchers are not necessarily trying to effect cures for the fungi or to plot the course of an oil company with the knowledge of rocks. Rather, he said, it is their intent to simply add to the known material on each subject.
There are two types of people performing research work in botany, he said.
Some scientists are working purely as fact-gatherers, supplementing man's limited knowledge of some species. Others approach study as a process whereby they work toward creating some practical public value from the present knowledge on the subject.
To illustrat Prof, McGregor said, "You can't control harmful plants—athlete's foot, a fungus—unless you first get the basic knowledge about the plant."
He added that one either accrues or reads the knowledge on hand about the subject before beginning experimental work.
Each individual must know the how and why of a harmful plant before it is possible for him to begin work on the cure, he said.
A plan to allow men a choice between military service and serving as technical assistants in programs in foreign countries is being worked on by the KU Foreign Affairs Council with the help of the U.S. State Department.
Prof. McGregor concluded, "There is so much unknown, that each of us realizes that he will only be able to scratch the surface of many subjects."
KU Council Views Plan
The plan is still in the early stages, but the State Department is working with the KU group in trying to work out a suitable plan that could be presented to the lawmakers.
The meeting was to elect officers and also to formulate mock policies represent the U. S. and applying to the Middle East.
The plan was formulated at the national convention of The Assn. of International Relations Clubs. It also would give a man, when he becomes eligible for the draft, a chance to work in giving technical aid to other countries.
national Relations Clubs. The results of the election won't be known for several days.
Don Gaumer, Oberlin first year law student, was nominated for president of the Assn. of Inter-
About 370 students from 111 colleges and universities attended the four day convention in Washington D.C. Four students from KU attended the convention.
Representing KU at the conference were: Scott Jarvis, Winfield sophomore; N. T. Mills, McPherson senior, and Gaumer, Jim Hodge, Jessup Maryland, freshman, attended the convention as an observer.
Yugoslavia is composed of six "republics": -Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia.
The highest peak of Killimanjaro,
in Tanganyika, is 19,340 feet.
Student Attending Advertising Meeting
Steve Schmidt, Salina senior, was chosen to represent KU at the eighth annual "Inside Advertising Week" in New York City.
The 5-day program which began Saturday and lasts through Friday, for students from about 60 colleges and universities provides on-the-spot orientation on many phases of the advertising business. The program is sponsored by the Assn. of Advertising Men and Women of New York, with the cooperation of numerous advertising agencies.
The U. S. flag flies over the capitol building day and night ever since the World War I. It is floodlighted at night.
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