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The picture shows winter at KU as workmen clear the ice off the street behind Strong Hall, but if you think it's rough here, consider the plight of the South, as described to Elmer F. Beth, professor of Journalism, in a letter from a friend in sunny Alabama:
"Another damyankee invasion of the South—this time, your weather—has played hell with our usual activities. A howling northwest wind is blowing right now, and I think I detect a faint trace of the Kansas City stockyards in it. That cold wind has been so strong for so long that the Mason-Dixon Line has been blown back four degrees of latitude.
Think It's Cold Here?
"For five days arunnin' the spring branches were frozen, and we had to drink our bourbon straight. There are babies seven weeks old who have never smelled a magnolia! It snowed last week, and all children under 14 thought the angels were molting.
Friday, Feb. 14, 1958
"At first, we blamed it all on Sputnik and Muttnik, but now we're convinced that Grant and Sherman are back of it all. We know it's unconstitutional, but if we protest too loudly, we'll have the National Guard and the paratroopers looking down gun-barrels at us. "Tis a sad day for the Deep South, suh!"
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
55th Year, No.87
Big 8 Talent Show Begins At 8 In Hoch
"Stars for '88," the first Big Eight variety show, will be presented at 8 p.m. tonight in Hoch Auditorium. Thursday night the performance was presented at K-State College in Manhattan and Saturday night it will move to Nebraska University in Lincoln.
Two of the acts in tonight's performance, the Nightcaps, a vocal group from K-State, and Dipak Shah, a folk singer from Bombay, India, and student at Iowa State, have been featured on records.
KU's Roger Brown, Topeka senior, is master of ceremonies for the show. The traveling idea, begun this year, will become an annual practice. Three schools will host the show each year.
Delano Lewis, Kansas City, Kan.
sophomore, will tap dance and the
Don Conard Quintet, an instrumental
t Jazz group with Don Conard,
Garden City, string bass; Jay Fisher,
Marion, piano; Ron Allerton, Hiawatha, drums; and Norman Foster,
Lawrence, tenor sax, all seniors, and
Ron Thatatcher, Topeka junior, vibra-
phones and trombone.
Featured in the show are three acts from KU and K-State, two from Nebraska, and one from Missouri, Iowa State and Oklahoma.
KU is represented by The Triads, a vocal trio composed of Elaine Knupp, Washington, Iowa; Helen Lorson and Sondra McIntosh, Chapman, and Jan Rodgers, Paradise, accompanist. All are sophomores.
Tickets for the show are on sale at the Kansas Union ticket counter, the campus information booth, and at the door.
Weather
Partly cloudy and cooler west and central; slow clearing east with light snow ending extreme east. Fair and colder tonight. Saturday, generally fair, colder east. Low tonight 5 to 15. High Saturday 25 to 30.
What Do You Believe?
Discussions on religious beliefs will highlight Religious Emphasis Week.Monday through Saturday, Feb. 22.
"Man, His Mind, and God," the theme this year, will be the topic of a panel discussion at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Bailey auditorium.
On this panel are M. Eric Wright, professor of psychology; Dr. Paul W. Pruyser, clinical psychologist and research associate, Menninger Foundation, Topeka; and the Rev. Herbert P. Fritze, chaplain, Winter Hospital, Topeka, who has published articles on mental health and religion.
"Skeptics' Corner," a discussion to be led by the Rev. Merton Rymph, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church, Wichita, will be presented at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
Rabbi Lewis J. Cashdan, campus lecturer of the Jewish Chautauqua Society, will lead Monday's discussion. "Judaism and Christianity: Similarities and Differences."
"My Disbelief in the Evolution of Man" will be discussed by Dr. Evan S. Shute, medical director of the Shute Institute for Clinical and Laboratory Medicine.
Disbelief In Evolution
This and other coffee hours to be presented each afternoon are open to everyone.
Dr. Shute is known for his Vitamin E research. He preaches in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
A Unitarian minister, The Rev. Peter S. Raible, Lincoln, Neb., will conclude the coffee hour sessions on Thursday discussing "The Role of Liberal Religion."
All student forums will be held at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the alcove of the Kansas Union Cafeteria. These will be led by visiting lecturers.
A faculty forum will hear Rabbi Cashdan discuss "Religion in a Changing World" at noon Wednesday in the English Room of the Kansas Union.
H. William Myers, professor of sociology at Ottawa University, Ottawa, will be in charge of the discussion on Thursday.
"What Is Christian Science?" the first of the forums, will be led by Donald T. Bliss, professor of sociology at Principia College. Elsah, Ill.
Ewart G. Watts, pastor of the First Methodist Church, Topeka, will lead Wednesday's forum, discussing, "Why Religion Is Important to Man."
"Is Pacifism the Path to Peace?" will be the question discussed at the KU-Y campus forum, 7:30 p.m.
Faculty Forum Slated
Thursday in the Jayhawk Room Dr. Anne Wilkins and The Rev Peter Raible will be the discussion leaders.
A dinner will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday in the English Room for speakers, Student Religious Council members and presidents of the various religious organizations.
Faculty members or campus organizations who want one of the lecturers to speak should call Gerald Simmons, schedule chairman, at VI 3-4711, or Charles Platz, general chairman, VI 3-8153.
During the remaining days of the week, lecturers will visit classes, clubs and organized houses for lectures and informal discussions pertain to religious matters.
'Pill Pusher'
Gets Message
About a week ago a box containing several hundred little capsules was placed on top of the Kansas Union concessions counter. Within each capsule was a little piece of paper advising the reader to attend "The Seven Year Itch."
One curious student, upon opening his capsule, discovered the message, "Help! I'm being kept prisoner in the University Theatre publicity department."
Mitchell Sets 60,000 Goal
Sees Stadium Addition In 10 Years Or Sooner
Crowds of 60,000 at KU home football games is the goal of head football coach Jack Mitchell.
In a talk before a combined KuKu-Froshawks meeting Thursday night in the Kansas Union, Mr. Mitchell said:
"With a fair to average team we could get 35,000 to 40,000 people to the games. With a team like we'd like to have and will with hard work, we could average 60,000 people here for home football games."
It's Probable Lonborg Says
The athletic department has no definite plans to enlarge Memorial Stadium, but is seriously considering it, Arthur C. (Dutch) Lonberg, director of athletics, told a Daily Kansan reporter today.
"We would like to add a second deck, making the capacity somewhere near 50,000 persons," he said. "Any seats added on the south would only be temporary, because we don't want to spoil the view of the campus from the stadium."
Mr. Lonberg said football Coach Jack Mitchell was correct in saying that the stadium would "probably be enlarged within 10 years."
"Having a good team is certainly related to being able to add onto the stadium," Mr. Lonborg said, "but on the other hand, a larger stadium would make larger crowds possible. With a larger stadium we would have many more sideline seats."
KU Dean Elected
Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the School of Education has been elected vice president of the American Educational Research Assn.
In line with the association's policy, Dean Anderson will become president in 1959. He has been a member of the faculty for the past 10 years and dean since 1953.
He is director of the Kansas Institute for Research in the Education of Exceptional Children and was chemistry editor of School Science and Mathematics for five years and is author of a widely used standard chemistry text.
Dean Anderson has contributed to two volumes published by the A.E.R.A. and with Dr. Herbert A. Smith, professor of education, is coauthor of the science education section in the "Encyclopedia of Educational Research."
Collision Results In $300 Damage
A collision between two cars driven by KU students resulted in $300 damage shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday. The accident occurred at 11th and Missouri.
A 1954 Ford, driven by Donna Fink, Fredonia junior, struck a 1956 Studebaker driven by Georgine Schneel, Lindenwood, Ill. sophomore. The Ford is owned by John Napier, Wichita junior.
Miss Fink told police that the accelerator stuck on her car and she looked down at it while nudging it with her toe. When she looked up, she said, she was heading toward the Scheel car and didn't have time to stop. No charges have been filed.
Mr. Mitchell predicted that the stadium will probably be enlarged to hold 60,000 within 10 years, but said he could "see no reason why we can't have it within 3,4, or 5 years" with a rising team as a needed attraction.
He explained that as far as he knows, it is possible to add another deck to the stadium to make room for 8,000 to 9,000 more on each side for a total of about 16,000.
JACK MITCHELL
The coach pointed out that a million people live within 45 minutes of KU as a potential audience for sports events, with no other universities in the area.
On recruiting players, Mitchell
Want Top Prospects said the staff intends to work for "100 per cent of the top prospects from Kansas." He said that Kansas is rated academically as one of the top universities in the Midwest, and should also have a good athletic program.
"With all that KU has to offer, we should have no trouble getting top athletes." he said.
He pointed out that if KU can get the best Kansas athletes, it won't have to rely so heavily on recruiting out of state boys. He added that he expects about 5 to 10 per cent of the squad to be from out of state, not including those from Kansas City, Mo.
Out of state boys usually need, or should have, a special reason for coming here, such as having relatives or friends in Kansas, at KU, or most important, in athletics, Mr. Mitchell explained.
OU Still Tops
To the question, "What about Oklahoma?" Mr. Mitchell replied that "we're not in the position to beat them now."
"That'll take care of itself with hard work on our part," he said. "If we work like the devil, some-day we'll be on the same level with them."