Wednesday, May 8, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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College burnings show student strife
By United Press International
Fires destroyed college buildings in California and Pennsylvania Tuesday and student strife hit other schools across the nation, but at Columbia University, where it all started, it was the calmedest in two weeks.
Arsonists burned Stanford University's Navy ROTC building in a predawn blaze that resulted in an estimated $70,000 damage. It was the second arson attack on the building in recent months, police said.
An early morning fire destroyed
Members capped for Mortar Board
The 1968-69 members of Mortar Board were capped Monday night.
Juniors elected to be in the senior women's honorary are:
Lou Anernathy, Topeka; Beth Ballard, Shawnee Mission; Linda Boone, Kansas City; Linda Davis, Topeka; Martha Dalton, Wichita; Jo Durand, Bartlesville, Okla.; Linda Ewing, Independence; Linda Gilkerson, Mattoon, Ill.; Elaine Greenock, Quincy, Ill.; Kay Harris, Shawnee Mission; Nancy Hardin, Lincoln, Neb.; Nancy Hitt, Lawrence; Barbara Hodge, St. Louis; Barbara Lang, Tulsa, Okla.; Jane McLaughlin, Wichita; Marcia McMullen, Overland Park; Toni Morton, Shawnee Mission; Sue Beth Mothersead, Raytown, Mo.; Barbara Newsw, Wichita; Nancy Pinet, Lawrence; Linda Sollenberger, Hutchinson; Judy Strunk, Abilene; Sharon Watson, Emporia; and Georgia Willard, Webster Groves, Mo.
a 20-room building opposite the predominantly Negro Cheney State College at West Chester, Pa. College officials said the fire was not believed to be connected with a sit-in by 100 students at the school's administration building.
The Columbia University administration said Tuesday the New York campus was "rapidly returning to normal," after two weeks of student unrest.
Grayson Kirk, Columbia president, Tuesday night demanded that striking students return papers stolen from his office during a weeklong sit-in or face criminal prosecution.
Spokesmen for a campus-wide student strike—called after a police raid last week which resulted in more than 700 arrests and about 140 injuries—said the classroom boycott was about 80 per cent effective Tuesday.
But it was the quietest day at Columbia since April 23, when students, led by the militant Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), began the protest.
Forum is tonight
A forum to discuss candidates and major issues of the 1968 presidential campaign will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday in Miller Hall.
Sponsored by the KU for Kennedy Committee, the program will be led by representatives for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D.-N.Y.; Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D.-Minn; Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, New York, and former vice-president Richard M. Nixon.
Topics to be discussed include the full realm of issues concerned with this year's election.
A $1,000 scholarship for the 1968-69 year was awarded to a KU interior design student by the Celanese Corporation at the second annual Interior Design Symposium held at KU last Saturday
Coed gets award at KU symposium of interior design
The recipient is Aleta Spaulding, Hiawatha, chosen by the KU faculty as the outstanding junior majoring in interior design.
The student competition of the symposium was the design problem of living 100 years from now. The first-place prize of $150 went to Gary Harr, Kansas State University. The $100 second-place prize went to Gerald Brockelman, also of Kansas State. Jody Hetzke, Wichita senior at KU, won the $50 third-place prize.
Approximately 55 schools in the Big Eight conference states were represented at the symposium.
International Club vacations in Ozarks
Forty members of KU's International Club, representing 20 countries, spent May 3-5 in the Ozarks near Branson, Mo.
About half the group consisted of married couples.
"I really had a great time," said Ginny Moesley, Morristown, N.J., sophomore, one of the American students on the trip.
The group went water skiing, fishing, boating and horseback riding at Silver Dollar City, Mo., and visited Marvel Cave.
Masoud Moayer, Iran junior and International Club treasurer, said the purpose of the trip was to spend some of the money in the treasury for the club members. Each of those on the trip was given a free steak dinner.
Moayer said the club spent $800 for its members on the trip and
Zoology professor to study reptile metabolism with government grant
Michael J. Maher, associate professor of zoology, has received a $13,452 grant to aid his study of the similarities of thyroid secretions and their effects in reptiles and humans.
The grant was awarded by the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of the U.S. Public Health Service.
Because both reptiles and humans are vertebrates, studying the effects of thyroid secretions in one group may reveal clues about the other.
"We know that in humans certain thyroid secretions raise the metabolic rate," Maher said. "We want to find out the physiological
effects of thyroid secretions in reptiles and amphibians to see if they are similar to human reactions."
The optimal temperature range for a reptile's environment is about 86 degrees Fahrenheit, Maher said. He has found that thyroid secretions do raise the metabolic rate in reptiles when the animals are kept in this optimal temperature range.
Maher is primarily using two common varieties of lizards in his research—the "five-line skink," common to the Lawrence area, and the American chameleon, obtained from other parts of the United States.
received $300 from the $7 fee paid by each person on the trip.
There is $800 left which will be transferred to next year's treasury, Moayer said.
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