Tuesday, May 14, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TWO QUEENS
Beverly Gibbs, right, Kansas City junior and former National Honey Queen, receives the winner's bouquet in Friday's Miss Lawrence-KU contest from Karen Schlapper, left, Prairie Village sophomore and 1967 Miss Lawrence-KU. The following day Miss Gibbs was chosen queen of the Law School's Fun Day.
CU renames grill
Convicted cannibal honored
University of Colorado students today will rename the University Memorial Center (student union) grill in honor of the only man in U.S. history to be convicted of cannibalism.
"The Roaring Fork" will be rechristened "The Alfred E. Packer Memorial Grill" in a ceremony which will include a breathing, belching figure of Alfred E. Packer and a brief lecture on Packer's life by the world's foremost Packer historian, according to the Colorado Daily, the CU student newspaper.
Colorado's student governing body recently voted to rename the grill as a jibe at the grill's al-
eagerly poor food and in retaliation against the manager who prohibited students from playing "Trivia Bowl," a favorite student pastime.
Packer was convicted in Lake City, Colo., in 1883 of having killed and eaten five companions caught with him in a blizzard while prospecting for gold.
A Democratic judge later sentenced Packer to die.
"There were only seven Democrats in Hinsdale County and you, Alfred Packer, you man-eating so-and-so, you ate five of them," the judge said. "I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, dead, dead."
CWC students plan experimental course
Students in North and Corbin Colleges are planning the subject matter to be included in a new experimental course which the American studies department will offer next fall.
Steven Sommers, a doctoral candidate in American studies, will be the instructor of "Problems in American Studies." Sommers has specialized in the american society at the turn of the twentieth century.
Two seniors get Fulbright scholarships
Two KU seniors have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships for the coming year and will study for one year in Germany and England.
Carolyn Johnson, Topeka senior majoring in German, will go to Germany for one year to study at the University of Mainz.
Al Martin, Shawnee Mission senior majoring in American studies, German, and political science, is planning to go to the University of London for one or two years. Martin faces the possibility of being drafted. If he does go, however, he said he would stay for two years to get a BA degree in law.
Sommers met with students May 9 to discuss the kind of course they would like to study. Since the timespan is relatively short, his students ought to be able to get deep enough into the problems of Americans at the turn of the century to get an understanding of 19th century Americans, Stuart Levine, chairman of the American studies department, said.
Urban problems, industrialization, literature, business history, and political history are possible topics for the experimental course. It is up to the students to choose the emphasis of the course, Levine said.
"Perhaps we perceive America at the turn of the century a little different or not different enough. That will be the point of the course," Levine said.
The new course is also an attempt to let graduate students teach where their enthusiasm is in the small fields, Levine said. The graduate students will have an opportunity to organize the courses and provide undergraduates with a kind of course that will hopefully give a wider perspective, than the conventional course, he added.
If the first sections of the course go well in the fall semester, the American studies department will expand the program.
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