Page 6
University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Feb. 21, 196
IFC Plans Rush Week For Spring Semester
A men's spring rush week, never tried before at KU, will take place late in April the Inter-Fraternity Council has decided.
The rush week will be directed toward independent freshman and sophomore men who are interested in fraternity living and not to high school men as in the fall.
Specific plans for the rush week were postponed until results from a questionnaire to all students involved are determined. The questionnaire will be sent out with the information about the weekend and an addressed postcard on which the independents may indicate their interest in going through the rush week.
A TENTATIVE DATE for the weekend is set as the week of April 28-May 5. Every person participating in the rush week will visit each fraternity house for a total of 30 minutes on Saturday afternoon and evening, April 28, and Sunday afternoon, April 29.
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, an outspoken leader in the field of intellectual warfare, yesterday launched another attack on one of his favorite targets: American education.
Rickover Attacks U.S.Education
HE FURTHER contended that American education takes a back seat to the European system in general.
Rickover charged that the American educated in "how to be likeable, lovable and datable" is no match in the cold war for his Russian counterpart who is educated in technology and the fundamentals of his nation's political system.
Rickover, known as the father of the nuclear submarine, expressed his views in the March issue of McCall's Magazine. He supported his argument with:
—The average European child has a working vocabulary of 7,000 or more words by the sixth grade while the average American high school graduate has a working vocabulary of only 3,000 to 5,000 words.
—A EUROPEAN LEARNS arithmetic in the fourth grade that American students do not get until the sixth grade.
—European children have more academic knowledge by the time they complete grade school than Americans when they receive high school diplomas.
The Russian system produces more scientists, linguists, and technicians of all types.
"Few Americans understand democracy well enough to put up an effective counter-argument" against Communists who question it, Rick-over said.
Mencher to Be Judge
Melvin Mencher, assistant professor of journalism, has been named to judge entries in the Associated Collegiate Press newspaper competition.
Judges are selected from among working newspapermen and teachers of journalism with a professional newspaper background.
The Associated Collegiate Press is the critical service which awards the "All American," "First Class" and other ratings for newspapers and yearbooks.
Numbers Confuse Cop
ELMIRA, N. Y. — The traffic cop who stopped a man yesterday for driving with five people in the front seat of his compact car called headquarters for advice.
Advised to be sure that all five were in the front seat, the officer replied he was absolutely certain — because seven more passengers were in the back seat of the tiny auto.
JIM'S CAFE 838 Mass. GOOD FOOD DAY and NIGHT
The week following will be open rush in which the respective houses will entertain the rushees they are interested in pledging. Cards will be distributed to the rushees much the same as in fall rush. The cards will allow both the fraternity and rushee to indicate their interest for each other respectively.
Pledging will follow on Saturday afternoon, May 5.
Paul Ingemanson, Topeka junior and president of the IFC, said that there are about 150 vacancies in the fraternity system at present.
OTHER ACTION in the meeting:
- The IFC voted to make it mandatory for one of the IFC representatives to be the president of the house. This action will be in effect after one of the present representatives of each house graduates or decides he wishes to discontinue being the representative.
- Meeting night for the IFC was changed from Monday to Thursday night, the time to be set by the president.
It was moved that the fraternities be allowed to deplegate men after six weeks grades come out, without having their grades count on the total grade average of the respective house. The motion was tabled for two weeks.
Dean Alderson, told the IFC that a meeting between University officials and alumni of the Greek houses will take place in Kansas City. Dean Alderson said that about 110 alumni will discuss the fraternity system at KU.
Asked whether the meeting had been called because of any definite problem, Dean Alderson said, "No. I would say this is a meeting that could have taken place any time in the last 10 or 12 years."
He also stated that the University would write every man who applies to the University to find out about his interest in fraternity living. He said that the University will make up cards on which information about prospective rushees would be placed, these cards to be given to the fraternities every two weeks.
NASA Scientists To Quiz Glenn
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Government scientists say they are eager to question astronaut John H. Glenn about the "little luminous particles" he spotted outside his space capsule.
Until Glenn reports more about his sighting, scientists of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) declined to hazard a guess as to what the particles might be.
FOR THE TIME being, astronomers ruled out the possibility that the particles were some of the millions of hair-thin needles the Air Force launched recently in a space communications test. The needles were supposed to form a belt around the earth.
A NASA spokesman said the needles were too small to be seen by Glenn. Anyhow, he added, scientists do not believe the wires ever were ejected from their package.
Some scientists have complained that the United States jeopardized future space observations by launching the needles.
NASA ASTRONOMY experts said they were anxious to ask Glenn about the speed of the particles he saw, whether they were traveling faster, at the same speed or slower than his capsule.
They also want to know more about their appearance. The scientists want to find out whether they appeared as flashes, lines or some other shape.
NEW YORK - (UPI)—Textured yarn-continuous filament synthetic yarns that have been manipulated to make them look like spun natural yarns-have shown a production growth from 3 million to 28 million pounds in 10 years. They are used mainly in carpeting.
Yarn
Scotsman Falls Into Soup
GLASGOW, Scotland — (UPI) — Michael Denness was dining in a restaurant recently when he found a man in his soup. The man was Peter McCulloch, who slipped while working on the roof and plunged through a skylight into Denness's dinner.
SUA
PICTURE LENDING LIBRARY
Thursday & Friday, Feb. 22 & 23 8:30-5:00
CRAFT SHOP, KANSAS UNION
Hollow Stemmed
Champagne
Glasses
Peggy's - on the Malls Only $1.00
R F
WA speech Presic Progr ure urgen Latin as it
AF billior social ditior startie admii Mosc Club speece Kennr
TH
that
not u
er re
to fu
the
next
faith
be c
tors.
kill,
the
Re
chai-
tions
juris
prop
izes
Hou-
door
Stati-
tion
land
upon
To
said
sigre
gate
essa
fortur
Am
Moe
feat