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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Dec. 17, 1957
Future Druggist: How He's Trained
By CAROL BURGESS STILWELL
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
A man wearing a white coat smiles through his glasses as you plunk down on the counter a piece of paper scratched with the usual doctor's hieroglyphics.
"Why certainly." comes the reply. "In just a few minutes."
"Mav I have this filled?" you ask.
To most of us the life of a pharmacist means filling prescriptions. But to students in the School of Pharmacy it means many more things.
For some it means a background for medical or dental school. For others it means a chance to earn money on weekends while studying in graduate school.
Many Work in Drugstores
For most it will probably mean a chance to fill one of the many openings in Kansas drugstores this year. (State law requires a pharmacist on duty every hour a drugstore is open.)
A few will work as salesmen for pharmaceutical houses. Still others may enter the field of pharmaceutical journalism.
For women the training may mean a chance to use it after marriage. For other women it can mean a good background knowledge for homemaking.
At KU pharmacy students receive a year of liberal arts background plus three years of technical training. Their courses include mathematics, chemistry, botany, zoology, physics, biochemistry, physiology, and bacteriology, plus speech, accounting, and marketing.
During the summer vacations they work for a week in the pharmacy department at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
5-Year Program Set Up
Starting in the fall of 1958, a 5-year program will permit pharmacy majors to spread their studies over a longer period. Now many students
must take an additional semester or a summer session to complete the course.
In their sophomore year students learn different ways of measuring drugs and the basic and physical principles of pharmacy. In their junior year they manufacture drugs in the school laboratory, and in other courses they learn the nature of drugs. In the pharmacology laboratory they test the effect of the drugs on animals.
In their senior year the students don the white coat of the dispensing pharmacist. They get experience in filling prescriptions in situations similar to those which face the graduate pharmacist.
Uses All Knowledge Gained
The druggist must use all the information gained from his study of the different fields of knowledge when he is compounding prescriptions.
If medical science is to advance, some pharmacists must work in the laboratory to find new drugs to combat disease.
At KU, pharmacy students may do graduate work in pharmaceutical chemistry under Joseph H. Burckhalter, professor of pharmacy. Dr. Burckhalter, while working for a pharmaceutical manufacturer, compounded effective drugs for the treatment of malaria and intestinal and extra-intestinal amoebic dysentery.
He encourages students to be original in their work.
"We think it is extremely important to be unorthodox," he explained. "They should have the curiosity of a child."
Relax, You'll Be Home In Less Than 4 Days
If you're counting the days until Christmas vacation, less than four remain before the holiday officially begins.
Vacation officially starts at noon Saturday and classc
8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 7.
Most of the students will leave Friday, although many will stay for the basketball doubleheader that night. KU plays the University of Washington and Kansas State the University of California.
Dormitory To Be Open
One men's dormitory will be open during the vacation, for any men who will stay on campus. Sleeping accommodations will be 50 cents a night. No meals will be served.
Dormitories will close at 6 p.m.
Saturday and reopen at noon Sunday,
Jan. 5, although some of them
will be used by delegates to the
National Methodist Student Conference
Dec. 27-31.
Watson Library will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays during the vacation, from 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays and will be closed Sundays, Christmas and New Year's Day.
Women To Attend Alumni Party
Four members of Theta Sigma Phi, professional journalism fraternity for women, will attend the Kansas City alumni chapter's annual Christmas party tonight in Kansas City, Kan.
Miss Tiara Farrow will show slides and tell about her trip around the world. Members of the KU chapter who will attend are Marilyn Mermis, Hays, Kay Hanson and Carol Ann Huston, Kansas City, Mo., all seniors, and Martha Crosier, Lawrence junior.
Reserve Book Checkout Hours
The basketball team will be busy during the holiday period, playing both Friday and Saturday of this week, then next week in the Big Eight pre-season tournament, and on Jan. 2 Oklahoma State in Allen Field House.
KU employees who are on civil service will be working during vacation, except for the afternoon of Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day, as well as some time for New Year's Day, although this hasn't been announced yet.
Reserve books may be checked out for over the vacation beginning at 10 a.m. Friday. They will be due at 9 a.m. Monday, Jan. 6.
Mrs. Ruth Nash, housing secretary,
said Thursday, apartments for married students are available at prices from $50 to $125 and rooms from $15 to $35 a month.
Apartments and rooms for the spring semester are plentiful now and new listings are being reported to the housing office every day.
Order Your Spring Housing Now
Union, Library Set Schedules For Vacation
Student Union and library facilities, operating on vacation schedules, will be open to students and faculty remaining in Lawrence during the Christmas vacation.
The housing office handles off-campus housing and vacancies in men's dormitories.
Watson Library will be open weekdays, 8 a.m.—5 p.m., and Saturday, Dec. 24 and 31, 8 a.m.—noon. The building will be closed on Sundays, Christmas and New Year's Days.
Departmental libraries will follow similar schedules with any variations posted in the individual libraries, said Robert Quinsey, director of reader services.
SDX Elects President
Reserve books in the education and undergraduate rooms, will be checked out for the vacation period beginning at 10 a.m. Friday and will be due at 8 a.m. Jan.6.
The Student Union will open at 7 a.m. every morning during vacation and will close at these hours: Dec. 22-26 and Jan. 1-5-9 p.m.
Dec. 27-30 -11 p.m.
Larry Boston, Salina senior, has been elected president of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity. He succeeds Bob Lyle, Kansas City, Mo. senior, who will be graduated in February.
Christmas Day----5 p.m.
Jan. 31----1 a.m.
Food service in the Union will follow this schedule:
Dec. 21-25 — Cafeteria open, Hawk's Nest closed.
Dec, 26-Jan. 1 — Hawk's Nest
open. Cafeteria closed.
Jan. 2-5 — Cafeteria open, Hawk's Nest closed.
"While we are serving persons attending the Methodist Church Conference Dec. 26-Jan. 1 in the Cafeteria, the Hawk's Nest will be reserved for the student and faculty," said Dwayne Hall, Student Union food director.
Gunshot Victim Reported 'Good'
Harold R. Van Gundy, Chanute freshman was reported in "very good condition" today by Watkins Hospital after receiving some buckshot in the right leg from a .12 gauge shotgun in a hunting accident Sunday morning.
The accident occurred while Van Gundy and two companions, Robert Williams, Lawrence RFD 1, and Ed Pauley, Kansas City, Mo., neither students, were hunting on a farm of Williams' father six miles west of Lawrence.
Van Grundy was brought by Williams and Pauley to the hospital immediately. Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the Student Health Service, said there were no broken bones and little loss of blood. Grundy is expected to be released in two days.
Williams said that while Van Gundy was reaching in a brush pile to get a squirrel, Pauley's gun fired accidentally. The sheriff's office ruled the shooting accidental.
A photographic exhibition depicting examples of the work of Milo S. Ketchum, structural consultant of Ketchum and Konkel Structural Engineers, is now on display on the third floor of Marvin Hall.
Shown also in the exhibit are photographs of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and the air terminal in St. Louis.
Photo Exhibit Shows Structural Designs
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Army Plans Flight Program For KU
The KU Army ROTC is making plans to begin a flight program in the spring semester.
Col. Ralph J. Hanchin, professor of military science and tactics, said Monday the program is designed by the Department of the Army to produce more pilots for the Army Aviation program.
Upon completion of the program a private flying license will be issued. The Department of the Army will pay the cost of the program.
He must pass a physical examination and tests and have the approval of Col. Hanchin and the dean of the school in which he is enrolled. If he is under 21 years of age, he must have his parents' consent.
Instruction will consist of 35 hours of ground school and 36 hours of flight training. It will be given at Lawrence Municipal Airport by civilian instructors.
To enter the program the applicant must be a senior Army ROTC cadet or a senior who has completed the Army ROTC program.
The cadet must volunteer for 3 years of active duty or 2 years active duty, plus additional flight training.
"The Role of the Atom in the Aircraft Industry" will be the topic of a lecture to the student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at 7:15 p.m. Friday in the Student Union Jayhawk Room.
To Explain Role Of Atom
The guest speaker, G. George Young, a member of the research department at McDonnell Aircraft Corp., St. Louis, Mo., will explain both the destructive and peaceful roles of the atom, using both slides and AEC films. The public is invited.
Graduate To Direct CBS Choir Concert
A 1931 alumnus, Karl H. Bratton, will direct the University of New Hampshire concert choir in its eighth annual Christmas radio concert on the CBS network Saturday.
Mr. Bratton is head of the music department at the school. The choir appears with the Boston Pops Orchestra every year, and has sung for several movies, including "Cinerama Holiday."
Col. Hanchin said the contract for the program is now being drawn up between the Department of the Army and the University.
Quota for Program
"I think it is just a matter of going through the mechanics to get the program underway," he said.
Col. Hanchin said about 12 cadets have shown interest in the program for the spring semester and 15 others for the coming fall semester. He said the quota for the program will probably be set at 15.
It is similar to a program being used by the KU Air Force ROTC unit for the second year and another course which has been offered by the aeronautical engineering department for several years.
Col. Hanchin said that, if the proper agreement is made between the University and the Department of the Army, 2 credit hours will be given for the course.
Rehabilitation Work Gets $4,200 Grant
The United States Office of Vocational Rehabilitation has made a grant of $4,200 to the University to conduct an in-service training workshop for experienced rehabilitation counselors. Dr. William C. Cottle, professor of education, is the director of the project.
The workshop, Jan. 27 through 31, will be attended by 35 counselors from the 7-state area of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. Gerald W. Green, instructor in education, will be workshop coordinator. University Extension will assist with administrative details.
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