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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 16, 1965
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Evening Din Signals Summer Recreation
The din of little children shouting can be heard atop Mt. Oread every week-day starting about 7 p.m. and quieting about 9:30 p.m.
The activity is a regularly held and supervised recreational session just east of Robinson Gymnasium, intended especially for the elementary age children of anyone who wishes to bring them and even to participate themselves, according to Reginald Straight, associate professor of physical education and coordinator of the activity period.
The children and other persons who participate are not the only
Heliopsis, Not The Helianthus
Laymen in this area might mistake the Heliopsis for the Helianthus, but KU botanist Dr. Andrew M. Torres wants the one that resembles the sunflower but isn't.
Helianthus is the sunflower family, and Heliopsis is a similar Kansas wild flower that is smaller and more orange. Torres will be gathering the Heliopsis around Lawrence to compare with Philactis seeds and stocks he collects later this summer in Mexico and Guatemala.
His purpose under a National Science Foundation research grant for $27,900 is to determine any relationship between the Kansas and Mexican Heliopsis and the Mexican Philactis.
Torres will culture seeds from the two species in the KU greenhouse and attempt to cross them genetically. He also will make biochemical comparisons to determine any common compound patterns. Determining the relationships between the two will lead to a more accurate taxonomy or classification.
In a three-year study, Torres will use techniques which have proved successful in his earlier research on zinnias and may tie in to a broader group classification from prior research.
Torres said the gross morphology and chromosome pairing numbers indicate the Philactis and the Heliopsis may be related.
He will be accompanied on the field trip to Mexico by Raymond C. Jackson, professor of botany, who is doing research on the evolution of the Haplopappus. The Haplopappus is a Helianthus, or member of the sunflower family.
Park Plaza一
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Icm could best be solved by working with all the apartments of the area collectively instead of individually. He pointed to an upcoming meeting of the Off-Campus Housing Placing Committee, and said he felt that groups like this could work better with the problem.
"Id be much more co-operative if CORE would work with all the apartments and not just Park Plaza South," he said.
VESTERING emphasized that he felt no prejudice against the Negro race. However, he also said that he believed he would have lost some other tenants if he had rented to Negroes.
Vestering also indicated that he believed the new managers of Park Plaza South could make a difference. Earlier, he had said the former manager, Mr. Amess, was a major block in the situation because of his attitude toward Negroes.
"If the situation could be worked out." Vestering said, "I'm sure they (the new managers) could be of help."
"This is a mutual problem," he concluded, and again emphasized that the problem was not peculiar to his establishment.
KU Graduate to Teach At Illinois University
Harold E Boyd, a June graduate, will join the faculty of Illinois State University at Normal as assistant professor of art in September. The school is near Bloomington.
ones who benefit from the activities. One purpose of the playground is to serve as a laboratory for elementary school physical education students under the direction of Straight.
The playground activities class, which numbers about 30, is separated into groups of six or seven students each. They receive experience in supervising and working with the youngsters as part of their class work.
The youngsters take part in games of low-organization, or those involving only a few rules and the basic athletic skills. Anyone else who wishes to participate, young and old alike, can take part in shuffleboard, volleyball, aerial tennis, badminton, horseshoes, or croquet.
A special feature of the playground is the outdoor movies held each Friday beginning at 8 p.m. The movies are of an educational nature, featuring a number of topics concerned with sports or travel.
The evening recreational activity is not a new activity on the campus scene. It was started about 30 years ago by former basketball coach and director of athletics, Forrest C. "Phog" Allen. Square dancing was an important and popular part of the program then.
ENDS TONIGHT — "OPERATION CROSSBOW"
Starts Saturday . . .
Tonight & Saturday
"MCHALE'S NAVY JOINS
THE AIR FORCE"
"World of Abbott & Costello"
GUF Recognized For Alumni Gifts
Starts At Dusk
Starts SUNDAY... BURT LANCASTER in "THE TRAIN" It will carry you to the peak of adventure!
The Greater University Fund of the University of Kansas has won recognition for the second time in three years from the United States Steel Foundation and the American Alumni Council.
TONIE & SAT...
"I WAS A Teenage Frankenstein"
"FRANKENSTEIN 1970"
DRIVE IN THEATRE · West on Highway 40
“THE GREAT ESCAPE” "McCLINTOCK"
TONITE & SAT...
Sunday & Monday —
The KU fund received an honorable mention award and cash prize of $125 for sustained performance of alumni giving among public institutions for the year 1963-64. Indiana University and Douglass College were other public institutions recognized for sustained performance.
In the 1962 national competition, the KU Greater University Fund won the grand award for improvement of alumni support among public institutions.
The American Alumni Council determines the honores through its Survey of Annual Giving and Alumni Support. The United States Steel Foundation provides financial support for the program.
Tonight's Movies
Three movies will be shown east of Robinson gymnasium at 8 p.m. today. They are "Ireland: Ile Sports," "A Million Lites Shall Glow," and "Fishing Fantastico."
Robert R. Sokal, professor of statistical biology in the entomology department, will be wearing thin the cement from the housefly genetics laboratory to the computation center.
Professor Will Continue His Study of Housefly
Luckily it's not a long campus distance between the two, and Dr. Sokal has made the trip often in past years to coordinate several different research projects at once.
This fall Sokal will continue study on the genetics of the common housefly. This 15-year project to determine heredity factors which make the housefly resistant to insecticide control has been largely supported by U.S. Army Research contracts.
In addition to this $19,636 renewal contract, Sokal has received a National Science Foundation grant of $6,900 for one year's study on the methods for the analysis of geographic variation data. The primary purpose of this grant is to bring K. R. Gabriel, lecturer in statistics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, to KU for three months' research.
IN 1956 the University and the office of the surgeon general, Department of the Army, established a housefly genetics laboratory on the KU campus. This is the only such laboratory in the United States, and only two others exist in the world, one each at universities in Japan and Italy.
THIS CONTACT was established when Sokal was a Fulbright lecturer at the Hebrew University in 1963. Although Sokal is primarily interested in geographic variations which apply to insects, he knows these variables can be applied as well to studies of human population, weather prediction and other research.
Already Gabriel's geographic rainfall variation studies have led to successful Kansas rainfall predictions, and they expect more applications after further computer analysis.
Sokal is internationally known for his pioneer work in numerical taxonomy, a statistical method of classifying biological species which has aroused much controversy in the scientific world.
He will be assisted in the housefly genetics study by Frank Sonleitner, assistant professor of entomology; Edwin H. Bryant, National Science Foundation pre-doctoral fellow, and two technicians, Mrs. Margaret Schweda and Mrs. Bernice Lillegrave.