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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, May 7, 1968
Knight newspapers awarded 3 Pulitzer Prizes
NEW YORK - (UPI) - The Knight newspapers Monday were awarded an unprecedented three Pulitzer Prizes for journalistic achievement. The prizes covered editorial writing, local reporting and editorial cartooning.
The Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to author William Styron for "The Confessions of Nat Turner," an account of a Negro slave uprising.
For the 10th time in the 52-year history of the Pulitzer Prizes, there was no award given for drama, apparently reflecting the opinion of the Pulitzer board that no outstanding play was produced during 1967.
Toshio Sakai, 26, a combat photographer for United Press International in Vietnam, won the award for feature photography, a new category introduced this year.
The awards to the Knight newspaper group went to John S. Knight, editorial chairman of the papers, for editorial writing; the staff of the Detroit Free Press for coverage of last summer's riots;
International club officers were elected Monday night in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
New officers elected by International Club
Officers who will be serving next year for both semesters are Zuhair Duhaiby, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, junior, president; Tom Wilson, Acra, Ghana, sophomore, vice-president; Kathy Reed, Lawrence junior, secretary; Saleh Arfa, Buraidh, Saudi Arabia, sophomore, treasurer; and Irene Benjamin, Kansas City sophomore, social chairman.
The club, which meets every two weeks, is an organization whose purpose is to familiarize members with different ways of life and create a better understanding among people.
and to Eugene Gray Payne of the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, for editorial cartooning.
Precedent set
It was the first time since the Pulitzer Prizes were first issued
Highway cyclops to be phased out by new headlight
College students, whether jalopy jockeys or drivers of Dad's new car, are subject to the same perilous frustrations as millions of other Americans—the "one-eyed menace," an automobile with a burned-out headlamp.
About 34 million auto headlamps burn out every year.
Now the industry has a "faillsafe" headlamp that could end the reign of terror those highway cyclopses create by burnouts. The new lamp has a standby filament that remains lit after a main filament fails, providing a low-candlepower warning glow to oncoming cars.
Developed by Wagner Electronic Corporation, the new lamp has been called "the most significant advance in auto headlamps since introduction of the sealed-beam lamp in 1939."
The new headlamp is identical to conventional types with the exception of an extra "safety" filament that burns at low wattage for the entire life of the lamp. The extra filament is placed within the lamp so as not to interfere with driving illumination. When a burnout occurs, the safety filament remains lit—not to provide illumination—but merely to glow so as to indicate that the vehicle has two lights.
The "glow" has an intensity approximately that of a car's parking light and is visible in excess of 500 feet. The safety filament's longer life results from its burning at much lower temperature than the main filaments.
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in 1917 that one newspaper organization won three in the same year.
for a series of articles, "Crisis in the Courts." Nathan K. (Nick) Kotz of the Des Moines Register won for reporting unsanitary conditions "in many meat packing plants, which helped insure the passage of the federal wholesale meat act of 1967."
An associate professor of English will become director of KU's Pearson College, one of the five Colleges-within-the-College.
Associate prof named director
—J. Anthony Lukas of the New York Times received the special local reporting award for "the social document he wrote in his investigation of the life and murder of Linda FitzPatrick." Miss FitzPatrick, daughter of a wealthy Connecticut advertising executive, was slain in a hippie haunt in New York's East Greenwich Village.
Dennis B. Quinn, a member of the KU faculty since 1956, will fill the position formerly held by William M. Balfour, now dean of student affairs.
National reporting
There were two awards for national reporting.
In 1966 Quinn received the $1,000 H. Bernerd Fink award for distinguished classroom teaching. The previous year he was cited by students of the College Intermediary Board for his "dynamic lectures and ability to make every lecture sound as if it were a new intellectual discovery."
Quinn holds A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin.
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FROM THE HALLS OF PROTOZOA
So today, foregoing levity, I give you a quick cram course in the subject you are all flunking. I refer, of course, to biology.
This column, normally a treasure house of twinkly quips and slapdash japyre, has now been appearing in your campus newspaper for fourteen years, and if I have learned one thing in these fourteen long years, it is not to try to be funny in the last column of the semester. With final exams looming obscenely close, you don't want jokes; you want help.
Biology is divided into several phyla, or classes. First is the protozoa, or one-celled animal. Protozoa can be taught simple things like bringing in the newspaper, but when shopping for pets it is best to look for animals with at least two cells, or even four if your yard has a fence around it.
Another popular class of animals is the peripheria—a shadowy category that borders often on the vegetable. Take, for example, the sponge. The sponge is definitely an animal. The wash-cloth, on the other hand, is definitely not.
Next we come to the arthropoda, or insects. Most people find insects unattractive, but actually there is exquisite beauty in the insect world if you trouble to look. Take, for instance, the lovely insect poems of William Cullen Sigafoos—Tumbling Along with the Tumbling Tumblebug and Fly Gently, Sweet Aphid and Gnats My Mother Caught Me. Mr. Sigafoos, alas, has been inactive since the invention of DDT.
Our next category is the mollusca-lobsters, shrimp, and the like. Lobsters are generally found under rocky projections on the ocean bottom. Shrimps are generally found in a circle around a small bowl containing cocktail sauce. Personna Super Stainless Steel Blades are generally found at any counter where Personna Super Stainless Steel Blades are sold.
I mention Personna Blades because the makers of Personna Blades pay me to write this column, and they are inclined to get edgy if I neglect to mention their product. Some get double edgy and some single, for Personna Blades come both in double edge style and Injector style.
Mind you, it is no burden for me to mention Personna, who is it a blade that shaves quickly and cleanly, slickly and keenly, scratchlessly and matchlessly. It is a distinct pleasure to shave with Personna Blades and to write about them but sometimes, I confess, I find it difficult to work the commercial into a column. Some years ago, for example, I had the devil's own time working a Personna plug into a column about Alexander the Great. The way I finally managed it was to have Alexander say to the Oracle at Delphi, "Oracle, I have tasted all the world's pleasures, yet I am not content. Somehow I know there is a joy I have missed." To which the Oracle replied, "Yes, Alexander, there is such a joy—namely Personna Blades—but, alas for you, they will not be invented for another 2500 years." Whereupon Alexander fell into such a fit of weeping that Zeus finally took pity and turned him into a hydrant . . . Well sir, there is no question I sold a lot of Personnas with this ingenious commercial, but the gang down at the American Academy of Arts and Letters gave me a mighty good razzing, you may be sure.
But I digress. Back to biology and the most advanced phyllum of all—the chordata, or vertebrates. There are two kinds of vertebrates: those with vertical backbones and those with horizontal. Generally it is easy to tell them apart. A fish, for instance, has a horizontal backbone, and a man has a vertical backbone. But what if you run into a fish that swims upright or a man who never gets out of the sack? How do you tell them apart? Science struggled with this sticky question for years before Sigafos of M.I.T. came up with his brilliant solution: offer the creature a pack of Personna Blades. If it is a fish, it will refuse. If it is homo sapiens, it will accept—and the more sapient, the quicker.
And now you know biology. And now, for the fourteenth time, aloha.
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