Nothing happens when an egg falls 50 feet?
By JOHN HILL
What happens when you drop an egg from 50 feet up?
Nothing, according to 10 students of Industrial Design II, and they proved it.
"Essentially, they were assigned to design and build a device which would prevent three uncooked hen's eggs from being broken when dropped from a height of 50 feet." Downer Dykes, professor of design and instructor of the course, said.
EACH OF THE 10 students designed and built his own device and these were tested last week by dropping eggs off the bridge just north of Eudora.
"We had about 50 per cent success for those that kept three eggs from breaking." Dykes said.
The egg-dropping assignment served as a brief, interim project between the two serious, major projects of the semester. Dykes said, but was given in complete seriousness.
HE STRESSED that the assignment was not representative of the course and that it had many other aspects to be considered.
"It was a fun project with no practical application." Dykes said, "but the same design considerations can be applied to a more directly applicable project.
"If nothing else," he said, "the students learned in a hurry that if you drop something from 50 feet, you're going to have a lot of
energy that must be absorbed somewhere."
DESIGNING A portable audiovisual unit to be carried and used in place of bulky demonstrations by salesmen was the major project for the class during the first part of the semester.
The egg-dropping devices, a project lasting only 10 days, was assigned as an interval project for a break between the audiovisual unit, and working to design agricultural devices, which carry into next semester.
Special equipment and furniture for handicapped children and a multi-purpose pediatrics table
LAST ONE IN'S A ROTTEN EGG .
Proudly displaying their various egg dropping devices, which they designed and built to be able to drop an egg 50 feet without breaking it, are 10 Industrial Design II students. Standing (left to right) are Bill Dale, Shawnee Mission junior; Mike Meister, Independence, Mo., junior; Joe Hustein, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; Bill Reavis, Mission senior; Clarence Glasse, Kansas City senior; Bill McElfresh, Osage City junior; Steve Smith, Arkansas City senior. Sitting are Kim Randel, Kansas City senior; Felix Banas, Westfield, Mass., junior and Don Hubbard, Phoenix, Ariz., senior.
Chutists to meet
KU sky-diving enthusiasts will have an opportunity to extend their activities this summer.
40 students placed
Tom Di Biase, Omaha, Neb. senior, and promotion director of the KU Parachute Club, said an organizational meeting for a summer parachute club will be held at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Room 210 of the Military Science Building.
Journalism majors get jobs
shop, Fordham University; Everold Hosein, Trinidad sophomore, KCMO, Kansas City; Gary Shivers, Kansas City senior, KLWN radio, Lawrence; Stephen Westrup, St Louis, Mo., senior, KLWN radio, Lawrence; Connie Myers, Newton senior, KFH radio, Wichita.
"During the summer we have access to aircraft seven days a week." Di Biase said.
are projects which similar classes have been working on in the area of industrial design.
"Basically, what students of industrial design are trying to become," Dykes said, "are creative problem-solvers."
"He considers his primary responsibility to give the right form to useful things that are made for people," he said.
"INDUSTRIAL DESIGNERS are primarily those in the fields of art and design," Dykes said, "whose job it is to establish the form and concept of useful things that are manufactured—whether it's furniture, appliances, or equipment for crippled children.
Collecting old clothes for needy
Large red and black stars identify cardboard boxes placed today in men's residence halls for the collection of good used clothing to be sent to the needy overseas.
The local American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is sponsoring the seventh annual clothing drive. Collection boxes will remain in the residence halls until June 3, when the clothing will be collected, mended and shipped to the AFSC national warehouse for overseas shipment.
Mrs. Thomas Moore, member of AFSC, said both summer and winter clothing for men is needed. She said no women's clothing is being collected because most shipments are made to Algeria and Jordan, where women prefer native dress.
KU journalism students will scatter throughout Kansas, the United States and abroad to fill summer positions on newspapers, in advertising and in industry.
Walker, Wichita junior, Armstrong Cork Co. public relations department, Lancaster, Pa.; David Finch, Carshalton, England, graduate student, Associated Press, Kansas City bureau; Richard Lundquist, Lindsborg junior, Osborne County Farmer.
About 40 students, most of them juniors, received their summer jobs as a result of the journalism school's internship program that brought representatives of major media and industry here to conduct on-campus interviews.
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SUMMER INTERNS in the news-editorial sequence and the papers for which they will be working are:
Daily Kansan Tuesday, May 23, 1967
Dan Austin, Salina junior, Wall Street Journal, Dallas bureau; Gary Burge, Lawrence freshman, Lawrence Journal-World; Linda Butler, Coffeyville freshman, Coffeyville Journal; Emery Goad, City Junction junior, Brazil Herald, Rio de Janeiro; Paul Haney, Shawnee Mission junior, United Press International, Kansas City bureau; Charla Jenkins, Emporia junior, Emporia Times;
Charles Rouse, Shawnee Mission sophomore, K. C. Kansan; Diane Seaver, Prairie Village junior, Wichita Beacon; Mike Shearer, Topeka freshman, Arkansas City Daily Traveler; Linda Kay Sleffel, Norton junior, Rochester (Minn.) Post-Bulletin; Irma Stephens, Pratt sophomore, Pratt Daily Tribune; Ned Valentine, Clay Center junior, Herington Advertiser-Times; Donald G
STUDENTS IN advertising and their summer posts;
Gerald R. Klein, Taunton, Mass., junior, United Press International, Dallas bureau; Richard Lovett, Neodesha junior, McPherson Sentinel; Monte Mace, Garnett sophomore, Ottawa Herald; Eric Morganther, Prairie Village senior, Detroit Free Press; Gary Murrell, Independence junior, The Kansas City Star; Allan Northcutt, Wichita junior, Wichita Eagle; Patricia Pruitt, Topeka junior, Marysville Advocate; Elizabeth Rhodes, Seattle, Wash., senior, Miami Herald; Merrily Robinson, Middleburg, Fla., junior, Florida Times-Union; Ruth Rohrer, Fort Scott junior, Salina Journal.
Mary Lane Ladewig, Leawood sophomore, Squire Publications, Inc., Shawnee Mission, Kansas; Tony Chop, Kansas City senior, The Kansas City Star; Dick Grove, Westminster, Calif. senior, public relations for Bozell and Jacobs; Chuck Stewart, Shawnee Mission senior, Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City; Jim Nichols, Belle Plain junior, Winfield Daily Courier.
Emmanuel Akuchu, West Cameroon junior, African American Institute communications work-
David Clutter, Larned junior,
St. Francis Herald; Jerry L. Bean,
Abilene junior, Clay Center Dispatch;
Robert H. Campbell, Topeka junior, House of Curtis Mathes, Denver; John Casady,
Wichita senior, Wichita Beacon;
Marsha Cromwell, Wichita sophomore, Derby Daily Reporter;
Joseph Godfrey, Topeka junior,
Muskegon Chronicle.
David Holt, Prairie Village junior, Boulder Daily Camera; Bill Jackson, Shawnee Mission sophomore, Des Moines Register-Tribune; Joel D. Klaassen, Hillsboro junior, Hillsboro Star-Journal; Roger W. Myers, Garnett junior, Burlington Hawkeye; Margaret Nordin, Manhattan junior, Manhattan Mercury.
RADIO - TV - FILM sequence students and their summer employers will be;
Michael Pretzer, Garnett junior,
Oklahoma City Daily Oklahomaan;
Marilyn Riseley, Maumee, Ohio;
junior, Kalamazoo Gazette; Randall R. Senti, Pratt junior, Armstrong Cork Co., James R. Way,
Independence graduate student,
Independence Daily Reporter.
The Classical Film Series Brings Back By Popular Demand Ingmar Bergman's
THE VIRGIN SPRING (Sweden, 1960)
with Max Von Sydow Birgitta Valberg Gunnel Lindblom
7:00 & 9:00 p.m. Wednesday—Dyche Auditorium Single Admission: 60c