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University Daily Kansan
Thursday. Feb. 20, 1958
BERNHARD VON BOCKELMANN
He Has Many Viruses But Still Can Fence
By AL JONES (Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
Down by the power plant is a little pretab called the virus lab. Several bacteriology students spend much of their time there, working on projects toward their graduate degrees.
Among them is Bernhard von Bockelmann, a German student from Kiel, who is working for a master's degree. He is at KU on a research assistantship and will finish his master's work this spring.
Von Bockelmann is a short, muscular man who looks as much like a middleweight boxer as a graduate student. He uses his athletic physique by being an active member of the fencing club.
He has also found time in 18 months at KU to become a dangerous bridge player (particularly for new partners, he said), and to teach several American students the German beerhall game of skat.
Von Bockelmann's room in the virus lab is about 15 feet by 20 feet and is lined with shelves which are crowded with bottles, flasks, and distilling and titrating equipment. In the refrigerator by the door he keeps some of his supplies-normal human serum, rabbit serum, and triple-precipitated serum.
Not Hatching Bugs
He's not hatching out new bugs for germ warfare or anything as dramatic. Rather, his research is supposed to give him a better working knowledge of some processes used in immunolovv and bacteriological research.
In his work, von Bockelmann
does precipitation, titration, purification and isolation of antibodies, immunization of rabbits, nitrogen determination, and many other similar processes which laymen fail to understand.
Host-parasite Study
As we got it, the things and processes he's working with may be used to determine something about host-parasite relationships.
To explain why we don't go further into this, here is part of what von Bockelmann said: "I am working with anti-human-rabbit gamma globulins, conjugated with isocyanate, a fluorescent dye."
About Americans and American beer, von Bockelmann said, "I don't want to give out statements regarding a whole group. I have become acquainted with a lot of Americans I like very much. There are 160 million Americans, and I know perhaps 50 or 60, so any statement I made about 'Americans' would be pretty outrageous, wouldn't it?"
"As for American beer, about the only thing that can be said is they certainly make a lot of it."
AWS To Pick Candidates
A state of candidates for the Associated Women Students Senate elections March 5 will be announced February 27, according to Joanne Beal, Lawrence senior and AWS election committee chairman.
A total of 73 candidates took a test conducted by the AWS election committee last week. The number of candidates will be selected on the basis of the test, and on petitions presented to AWS by the candidates.
presentatives and ASC independent representatives. Six runners-up in the election will head committees in the AWS.
The March 5 election will be at election polls in Fraser, Strong, the Kansas Union, and the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
Twelve women will be elected March 5 to fill positions of AWS president, vice president, secretary, treasurer. All Student Council rep-
Ginseng roots raised in Arkansas are shipped to China for medical use.
- George Washington was inaugurated in New York City, the first capital of the United States.
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Found guilty of parking violations, non-registration of vehicle, or both were Tom Brannan, Crete, Nebr. and John Wesley St. Clair, Kansas City, Mo. seniors; Marvin M. Seperson, Kansas City, Mn. junior, Gloria
Student Court Hears 7
The Student Court Wednesday found four students guilty and three not guilty as charged.
Mrs. Edith H. DeLong, board clerk of local board No. 18 in Lawrence said those students who take the examination cannot be guaranteed a deferment, but it would be wise for them to have a test on file.
Deferment Tests Soon
The deadline for filing applications for the May 1 Selective Service college qualification tests is set for April 11. This is the only test scheduled for the 1957-58 school year.
"Some boards will give a student classification on grades or tests alone." Mrs. Delong said, "the Douglas County board grants deferments on a combination of the two.'
To be eligible for a student classification the student must pass his qualification test with a score of 70 or higher and be in the upper one-half of his freshman class. Sophomores must be in the top one-third and juniors in the upper one-fourth of their classes.
James K. Hitt, registrar of the University, said, "Anyone called while in college must be deferred until the end of the school year." He said the student deferment will be granted only once. The student who takes the test has everything to gain and nothing to lose, he said.
Application forms will be available at the Registrar's office later this month.
Leopold Granted Freedom By Board
SPRINGFIELD. Ill. —Nathan Leopold, sentenced to both 99 years and life for the slaying of Bobby Franki in 1924, today was granted freedom.
The State Parole Board gave him a parole despite the injunction of the trial judge that he was never to be released.
Austin, Great Bend freshman.
The board three times previously had denied Mr. Leopold a parole.
Not found guilty of these charges were Patricia McLaughlin, Lemoyne, Pa. graduate student; George Blackburn, Joplin, Mo. and Kenneth Harris, Kansas City, Mo. seniors.
John Grant Napier, Wichita third-year law student and chief justice of the court, acted as presiding judge at the session. Victor D. Goering, Lawrence second-year law student, served as prosecuting attorney and David G. Arst, Wichita fourth-year law student, was attorney for the defense.
Civil Service Tests Announced
The U. S. Civil Service Commission has announced examinations for the following positions: agricultural marketing specialist, fishery marketing specialist, and agricultural market reporter and management analyst-budget examiner.
Applications are still being received for substitute clerk-substitute carrier for the Lawrence Post Office. Information and application forms may be obtained at the downtown post office.
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