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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, April 30, 1968
WHICH WAY NOW?
Jan Merrick, Shawnee Mission sophomore and a member of Chi Omega sorority, skirts the line of East Hills defenders in the Greek Week East-West "powderpuff" football game. The final score: 0-0.
Albinos probably declining among Hopis,says speaker
Albinos are probably on the decline among the Hopi Indians of Arizona, said Prof. Charles M. Woolf of Arizona State University.
Woolf, in a lecture on "Albinism Among Indians of the South-west," said however that albinism among the Hopis occurs with a fairly high frequency. As of 1968 there were 28 albinos among a population of 2,000 in the three mesas occupied by the Arizona Hopis.
One of the main reasons for albuminism is the inbreeding among the Indians, said Woolf. They live in isolated villages that are "like turning the clock back 1,000 years." As a result they have little contact with other villages and tend to intermarry. Also, they are a promiscuous people and if one person carries an albino gene it may appear among several different families, he said.
He said albinos tend to be protected by the rest of the Indian population and have complete acceptance. There is some indication that there is a religious and cultural basis for this, in that the Indians may believe these albinos are representatives of a god they expect to come to them and take them to a better life.
However, albinism may become less common among the Hopis in the future, Woolf said. Inbreeding is being cut down by social structures. The people are starting to marry outside their own villages without a great feeling of guilt because the culture is breaking down. There also is a
Specialty is insults
Comedian Don Rickles, sometimes called "The Merchant of Venom," makes a specialty of insulting people—including celebrities—during his act.
One time he told Frank Sinatra, who was in his audience,
"Come right in, Frankie, make yourself at home. Hit somebody."
He remarked about Dean Martin:
"One of the most sentimental guys I ever met. For his birthday he asked for an ice machine."
genetic drift, where some people are moving out of their villages and children are going to schools in towns. Also, a population explosion is causing the populations to have more contact with each other as they move out, he said.
Journalists receive awards
Three nationally prominent journalists received the William Allen White Foundation award for journalistic merit Monday night during the foundation's seminar on "The Mass Media in a Free Society."
Courier-Journal; and Ernest K. Lindley, special assistant to the secretary of state and former chief of Newsweek's Washington Bureau.
The three are Irving Dilliard, former editorial page editor, St Louis Post-Dispatch; Norman E. Isaacs, vice-president and executive editor, Louisville Times and
Since 1958 the award has been made annually to the journalist selected to deliver the William Allen White Day lecture at KU. Recently, however, trustees voted to present the award to those who had made lectures before 1958.
Football card region possible next season
Lindley was the 1951 lecturer;
Isaacs, 1952; and Dillard, 1957.
KU could have a computer-controlled card section next fall during football season according to a graduate and undergraduate student at KU.
If a group could start organizing a card section now and working out routines for next fall, Meier said, it could be done. The real problem, Meier said, is finding enough people to sit in a card section. He said a larger group than the Frost Hawks was needed to work out a routine.
Swartz said card routines could be programmed by a computer, but the project would have to be financed and the group would need a programmer.
Rick Meier, Bonner Springs junior and head yell leader, and Dennis Swartz, Akron, Ohio, graduate student and supervisor of the user service at the Computation Center, say yes, if . . .
Meier said the yell leaders have tried working out routines with card sections, but have been unsuccessful because they did not have enough time to plan the routines and did not have people to do them.
The University of Southern California (U.S.C.) was the first school to use a computer to program routines for a card section.
Lindley, now a diplomat, headed Newsweek's Washington bureau from 1937-61. The former Kansas and son of a KU chancellor started his career on the Wichita Beacon, then went to New York where he worked for the World and Tribune before joining Newsweek. He is the author of several books on world affairs and American foreign policy.
At U.S.C., each routine is fed into the computer, which prints a picture of the routine showing whether it has been coded and key-punched correctly.
After the computer picture has been checked, individual seat instruction cards to be used in the stadium are printed. Members of service organizations tape the instructions to the seats the morning of the football game.
Isaacs began writing sports for the Indianapolis Star when he was 17. By age 27 he was managing editor of the Indianapolis Times, and eight years later editorial director of the Indianapolis News. In 1945 he went to the St. Louis Star-Times as managing editor, and from there to Louisville.
Dilliard wrote more than 10,000 editorials during his 30 years on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He is a faculty member of Princeton University, and a recognized authority on constitutional law and civil liberties. Dilliard also has served as president of Sigma Delta Chi.
All three are among the 15 journalists participating in the foundation's centennial seminar which opened Sunday and will continue through Tuesday.
Any student organization desiring allocations from the All-Student Council for next year's budget must have an itemized budget proposal and a list of this year's expenses turned into the ASC office by May 3. If there are any questions, Please call:
Clif Conrad VI 2-7162
Kyle Craig VI 2-8171