KU has menagerie of furs and skulls
By PATRICIA PRUITT
Fur rooms and skull rooms are not too common. The KU Museum of Natural History, however, keeps its 1,000 furs and 500 large skulls from animals of the world for very particular reasons.
R. R. Patterson, preparator of modern vertebrae, explained, "These furs are stored for comparative analysis so that people can come back to see what the animals looked like. They are also to show geographic and time variations. This room is a visual chart of things as they are."
The skulls are kept to show typical species and records of size, he said.
KU'S FUR ROOM, especially, holds a woman's imagination spellbound. Immediately to the left entering the refrigerated room, is a shelf loaded with the heads of Bengal tigers, brown bears, black bears—all snarling.
Hung in bunches from the ceiling are pelts that would make a coed want to commit larceny.
White fur of an Arctic fox, the velvet of sealskin, an unbelievably beautiful eider-down blanket made by Eskimos, a zebra rug, a buffalo hide—all the exotic and beautiful furs of the world.
Of course, the collection contains also the roughness of a sloth's hide, and the plainness of the American opossum, and a variety of members from the monkey and cat families.
SOME OF the hides were salted by Prof. Lewis Dyche, for whom the building was named, and stored in the tower as early as 1888. Likewise, many of the skulls with antlers and racks stretching several feet across date to the turn of the century or even the 1880's. Most of the skulls belong to the deer family.
Also included in the collection are a pair of elephant tusks, each weighing 50 pounds; a walrus skull; a rhinoceros skull and tusks, and porpoise skull.
Former KU professor gets U.S. physics post
Dr. Arnold A. Strassenburg, a member of the physics faculty at KU for 11 years until this fall, has been appointed director of the education and manpower division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). He will divide time between this assignment and a professorship of physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Dr. Strassenburg's work for the AIP will be with the encouragement of the study of physics and better instruction in schools, colleges, and universities.
This is a continuation of activities begun by Dr. Strassenburg while at KU where he was for
eight years responsible for the organization and operation of introductory physics courses, organized an undergraduate research program in physics, and directed summer institutes for teachers and a science camp for high school students.
He was in 1061 the first recipient of the $1,000 H. Berned Fink award for distinguished classroom teaching.
He was on leave from KU for two years (1963-65) to be staff member for the Commission on College Physics, which was established to improve teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels.
"Many foreign students are living in over-priced cesspools," said Ken North, Mission sophomore and VOX president, at a VOX meeting last night.
DON'T WALK
Vox aims to close up 'cesspools'
VOX candidates and campaigners held a closed discussion on VOX's platform in the coming election.
One of the main planks is the "exorbitant charges" foreign students are paying for rent. VOX proposes a code to be drawn up to guide foreign students in finding reasonably priced housing.
NORTH SAID, "Apartments are being rented to foreign students which cost $20 or more than nonforeign students are paying."
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Discussion was also held on establishing a "fixed salary" for the student body president and vice-president. Several salary proposals were made, ranging from $500 to $1500 for the school year.
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One candidate complained that "students living on Daisy Hill have to walk miles to buy a tube of toothpaste."
Other subjects discussed were VOX's general university legislation proposals, and expected opposition from UP, in the election.
WHERE IGNORANCE WAS BLISS
KNOKKE, Belgium —(UPI)— Belgian army engineers have removed four German World War II anti-tank mines in a wood near this popular seaside resort.
The engineers figure that hundreds of thousands of persons must have walked over the lethal weapons, each containing seven pounds of TNT, since they were buried.
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Thursday, November 10, 1966
Vacation homes asked for foreign students
KU People-to-People is organizing home stays for about 80 foreign students over Thanksgiving vacation.
Dale Sprague, McPherson senior and president of People-to-People, said, "The dorms are closed over vacations and the foreign students don't have any place to go unless they have friends with apartments.
"ALSO, IT GIVES the students a chance to become acquainted with American family life and observe a national custom—Thanksgiving Day," he said.
Sprague added, "Every student misses the home atmosphere. American students don't miss it as much as the foreign students because we are not out of our culture."
MOST OF THE students will be placed in homes in Kansas City and the surrounding areas. However, some will go to different areas of the state or to other states.
"In the past, we have placed students in homes as far away as New York and California," Sprague said.
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