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76th Year, No.131
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Monday, May 9, 1966
-Staff photo by Bill Stephens
DISC JOCKEY SMASHES ANOTHER RECORD
Walker smashes broadcast record
The 48-hour consecutive broadcasting record in the midwest was broken by Cole Walker, Topeka junior, who lived in the Information Booth for more than 72 hours this weekend.
Starting at 10 a.m. Friday, Walker began a disc jockey program, "Walker's Weekend," for the first outdoor endurance marathon sponsored by KUOK radio station.
FRIENDS AND members of the KUOK staff ("Walker sitters") took three-hour shifts thinking of ways to keep him awake. Last night they took a run around the Chi Omega fountain and got soaked when the wind blew water and left-over soap suds at them.
"The wet clothes kept me awake another few hours," he said.
There was also a street dance with girl staff members of the station last night.
Walker said it was easier to stay awake if there is activity, even if he is not participating.
"We get all kinds of people. From two to three in the morning we get the 'night creatures.' I didn't know some of these people went to KU. One guy was convinced that it wasn't going to rain—this was in the middle of a downpour."
in a coke bottle "from girls in formals." and other equipment.
AFTER MORE than 58 hours his voice was getting hoarse and he said he had a problem with chapped lips. "I feel tired, not sleepy. There's a difference," he said.
"We have girls cooking dinners and pizza places have been sending over food," he said, eating a chocolate chip cookie.
In the booth with Walker are stacks of records, a record player, a stool, three roses and a daisy
See DJ RECORD p. 3
U.S. pours gas over Cong jungle hideout
SAICON — (UPI) — U.S. Army planes dumped 7,200 pounds of nausea gas on the suspected jungle political headquarters of the Viet Cong, paving the way for an assault by 2,500 gas-masked infantrymen, it was revealed today.
The drop occurred Sunday in the War Zone C stronghold near the Cambodian border, 70 miles north of Saigon. There was no
available word on the results of the infantry assault in terrain so thick GF's have to use machetes every foot of the way.
B52 BOMBERS from Guam, which often strike ahead of advancing troops, today pounded the vast region for the 11th consecutive day. Troops of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division have been
Red China tests bomb 'to save world peace'
TOKYO — (UPI) — Communist China today exploded its third nuclear bomb, radio Peking announced.
sweeping the former Viet Cong haven since mid-April.
The broadcast, heard early Tuesday in Tokyo, said the blast was touched off at 4 p.m. Monday.
The drop Sunday was not the first time U.S. forces have used nausea gas but it was one of the largest doses ever spread over Communist territory.
The Chinese tested their first atomic device on Oct. 16, 1964, with an explosive force estimated at about 20,000 tons of TNT. The second test was made May 14, 1985, possibly in a drop from an airplane.
The Communist Chinese do not
yet have an effective delivery system which would enable them to mount a major nuclear attack. Western intelligence believes.
Radio Peking said the bomb today was touched off in the air in Western China, the same region where the previous atomic blasts occurred.
The broadcast gave no details about the latest test, but said it was a nuclear bomb designed to strengthen the mainland's defenses for national security "and to protect the peace of the world."
A military spokesman also disclosed that U.S. jets flew through a record number of surface-toair (SAM) missiles and turned back a challenge by Communist MIG-17 jets to pound North Vietnamese transportation arteries and beefed-up anti-aircraft defenses.
Gemini craft faces pre-launch testing
TUESDAY, THE GEMINI and its Atlas-Agana rendezvous rocket will be put through a full-scaled dress rehearsal countdown designed to iron out any snags that might otherwise interrupt the actual countdown.
CAPE KENNEDY—(UPI)—The Gemini 9 spacecraft that will take astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan on a rendezvous and spacewalk flight faces a string of tests this week to clear the way for launch on May 17.
The capsule was bolted to its Titan 2 rocket Sunday after engineers resolved a problem with a leaky oxygen bottle in Cernan's special maneuvering unit without disrupting the launch schedule.
THE NAUSEA gas leaves no permanent effects but it immobilizes troops by producing violent retching or vomiting, which prevents their carrying on with normal duties. Like tear gas it also can induce blurred vision or even temporary blindness. It is widely used in many cities of the world against rioters.
If the exercise proceeds as planned, the Gemini 9 ship will undergo a long series of simulated flight tests Wednesday to give all the craft's flight systems a workout.
Draft test vital to grad students
Successful completion of Wednesday's drill will signal the start of final launch preparations. The preliminary "pre-countdown" routine is set to start Saturday.
A prospective or actual graduate student must be in the top one-fourth of his graduating class or make a score of 80 on the Selective Service qualification test to get a II-S deferment to continue in school.
According to a notice from the American Council on Education, "It would seem essential that currently enrolled graduate students take the test."
Dale P. Scannell, associate dean of the Graduate School, said a make-up test has been set for June 24, which will enable students who missed the first three exams to take the test.
"IT IS NOT ENOUGH for graduate students to enroll full-time and make good grades," Scannell said.
Official announcement of the registration date for this make-up test will be later.
MAKING THE GRADE - VI
Study: a house is not a library
(Editor's Note: This is one of a series of articles about gradeds and grading systems at KU and the problems they create.)
By Eric Morgenthaler
A fraternity man said he thinks he could study better if he lived in a scholarship hall.
A scholarship hall resident said he thinks he could study better if he lived in a fraternity house.
A RESIDENT of a large men's dorm said he thinks he could study better if he lived anywhere else.
An apartment dweller said he is happy, studying where he is.
Many students find that, no matter where they live, the atmosphere seems more conducive to study some where else.
UNIVERSITY FIGURES FROM the fall semester showed women's scholarship halls had the highest
overall group grade point average. Men's scholarship halls ranked second, sororities third, women's residence halls fourth, fraternities ranked fifth, and men's residence halls sixth.
But figures more often reveal capabilities of the individuals composing a group than of the influence of the group itself on scholarship.
"Nothing we do really has that much effect on grades. We have an academic atmosphere, but not as academic as some people might thing," a women's scholarship hall president said.
"I wouldn't say that this is the best place in the world to study," she commented.
A men's scholarship hall resident said, "We have quiet hours, but it's not very quiet."
THE PRESIDENT OF a men's scholarship hall, however, said that the "general atmosphere" of a scholarship hall promotes study.
"You're in a scholarship hall, and you know that a little bit more is expected of you," he said.
Some living groups,particularly Greek houses, have attempted to improve grades by a scholarship program to supplement individual effort.
ONE SORORITY SCHOLARship chairman said, "My idea of a scholarship program is getting everyone to form their own. We have no required study halls, no
However, the trend in many houses is away from a structured scholarship program to a program based on individual initiative.
required GPA, we leave it up to each person.
"If you put the scholarship responsibility on the shoulders of each person, then the house will come through," she said.
Another woman said, "The general trend in sororities is to get away from the structured program. It's more important to develop an attitude toward good scholarship.
"By having a structured program, you have reverse psychology with the members. They develop a poor attitude towards studying."
A fraternity scholarship chairman said that his house has a formal scholarship program, but it is seldom enforced. "It will be
See STUDY HAVEN page 3