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University Daily Kansan Friday, Nov. 15, 1957
'Down With KU' Movement Lowers Educational Level
There's a sneaky little creep on Mt. Oread who is active in a "down with KU" move that will lower educational standards to the level of the football field. Authorities are aware of the undermining plot, but cannot halt the move or capture the creep. The stealthy worker has no regard for higher learning and is busy night and day in a slow, continuous downhill shove of classrooms.
This creep is not a soap box anarchist or any kind of person. Creep is a very real force which is literally moving every building on the campus downhill. Creep is a type of mass earth movement that slowly carries soil and superficial material downward in response to gravity.
Creep is an active fellow for his age. He moves very slowly, but gets his work done. He was busy on Mt. Oread when KU was founded, and he isn't thinking of retiring yet.
Because he's an enthusiastic football fan, he never did like the idea of having the football field so far from classrooms, so he's shoving the classrooms down to the football field. He moves so slowly that no one has ever seen him working, so homecoming fans won't notice the greater emphasis on athletics this year.
Dr. H. A. Ireland, professor of
geology, says in a matter of a few thousand years creep will have pushed every building on the campus downbill from where it is now.
DR. H. A. IRELAND
According to Dr. Ireland all buildings are subject to the downhill slide, but the row of dormitories west of Lindley Hall will stay on top of the hill longer because they are built on a more resistant foundation. Stur-
"The KU summer school session for 1964 may very well have to conduct classes in soundproof rooms," said Dr. R. E. Beer, associate professor of entomology.
17-Year Locusts To Rise In 1964
"That will be the year of the eruption of the Kansas periodical cicada or 17-year locust. The eruption occurs every 17 years, the last one being in 1947." he said.
"The male produces a song which is a high pitched howl and is very penetrating. When they occur in droves, as they usually do, the air throbs with the noise, and their incessant buzzing affects people to the point of causing psychoneuroses," Dr. Beer said.
The cicada, which is commonly known as a locust, is two inches long and has red eyes and legs. The female lays the eggs in the slits of trees in late spring or early summer. The eggs hatch in six to eight weeks. The young drop to the ground where they burrow and grow. They stay there for 17 years, the period of full development.
"Right now the soil is loaded with them, and when they erupt they will persist for many weeks," Dr. Beer said. "The strength and clearness of all the notes vary with the weather conditions, and are loudest when the air is dry, warm and clear, or between the hours of 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
If those summer session instructors expect to be heard, they had better start making arrangements for soundproof classrooms.
"Even at that, we aren't as bad
dents living in these dorms may take to sled travel in winter to get to classes down under the hill.
When the Campaina goes it will probably still be playing 20-minute excerpts, but instead of "Country Gardens" the bells will chime out "Down in the Valley" or "... the halls come tumbleh" down."
DR. R. E. BEER
Long periods of drouth followed by rainy seasons are responsible for the more spectacular movements, but creep is always working along helping to crack and shift foundations.
off as the people in Borneo. Over there, they have a cicada with an 8-inch wing span. The people attract the cicadas by clapping their hands and then knock them into a open fire. They are supposed to be very tasty roasted," he said with a grim.
C. G. Bayles, superintendent of buildings and grounds, said that one day during the rainy spring of 1928 students were astounded to see that the landscape and light posts had slipped downhill from Corbin Hall. Trenches were dug into the hillside and street lights were anchored back into place with steel rods.
Mr. Bayles said that in his 31 years at buildings and grounds he has never been concerned with creep as a real problem. He feels that it would be a waste of state funds to go to the expense of building a hall to last for hundreds of years when it would become obsolete in 40 years
Allen Field House designers wanted to make sure that basketball wouldn't become obsolete in Kansas so they had the building constructed on concrete filled pilings.
Dr. Ireland said that creep's helpers, drench and rainy seasons, will probably get to the field house before creep does. This type of movement would settle and sink the hard wood floor rather than push it down and out in a creep movement.
Great Britain imports half its food supply and two-thirds of its raw materials.
Morse Code visual signalling was first used by the U. S. army during the Navajo campaign in June, 1860.
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