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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 14, 1964
NSF Science Grants Excite Sociology, Anthropology
Bv Karen Haney
Exploration and research endeavors are being spurred on campuses by National Science Foundation Grants.
One of the several NFS-supported projects at KU is the undergraduate research participation program in anthropology and sociology.
The KU program received a grant of $24,500 from the National Science Foundation April 8. The project will terminate May 31, 1966. Its director is James Clifton, assistant professor of anthropology.
This Negro Has Direct Interest In Segregation
By Tom Coffman
The successful young businessman -Lugene Jasper, age 25. A Negro,Jasper has a direct financial interest in segregation. On the side, he invests himself in the Negro movement.
Three years ago he was graduated from college. Three years ago he laid out a five-year plan to be making $50,000 annually. So far, he's running ahead of schedule. Each year his income has tripled.
Jasper is a photographer. He has a studio above Doe Bagsby's drug store, which sits on the railroad tracks in the downtown Negro district of Pine Bluff. Ark.
JASPER DOES portraits, but the bulk of his work is with school kids—class pictures, identification cards, yearbooks. With the integration of Arkansas schools, much of his work could dry up.
Several schools in northeast Arkansas, for instance, have gone together in a plan to take bids on a $60,000 photography contract. If Jasper gets it, he believes he will keep up with his five-year financial ambitions. The problem is that the schools he is attempting to negotiate with are no longer all Negro.
It is a strike against him in getting the contract and he talks now of finding a white photographer to hire as an assistant.
In spite of this worry, he works indirectly in the Negro movement. When demonstrators are in jail he goes in with friends to find them a lawyer and go their bail, which is often fantastically high. He talks with the movement people, sometimes feeds them—either just to be sociable or because he knows they are hungry.
AT 25 HE IS comfortable and confident, already identified with success as Americans usually think of it. Jasper has a pretty wife and two children. He drives a blue Thunderbird and lives in an air-conditioned house with hardwood floors.
At home he listens to the hi-fi set for relaxation—Percy Faith, Harry Belfalo, the Norman Luboff Choir, and for flavor a country westerner, Marty Robbins.
He is short and squarely built, a sharp dresser. His skin is light, and if the sociologists are correct, this gives him an added prestige in the Negro community.
WHEN FRIENDS are in he is breezy and entertaining and tells jokes like a natural; he can pull out the drabbest old stand-by stories and get a roar. He tells one on his friend Claude King, a high school teacher, then the cigar-puffing Doc Bagsby, then on to Mildred Jones about the time she was in jail for demonstrating in the streets. For diversion he goes to Grice's—the town's best Negro club—and sips Champale at 50 cents a bottle.
Unlike many Negroes, he does not doubt himself or his ability. He does not pander to the white man for a living, and he can laugh at the attempts of the majority race to segregate him and his family, to make them untouchable.
The schools are integrating, slowly but inevitably. He worries a little, but not often. He's busy planning. Next year he plans to enter the ice cream business, and he's looking for a white photographer to work for him.
SIX STUDENTS are involved in the summer phase of this project. Their investigations into scientific problems take some only as far as KU laboratories, while others are led to remote places in such distant areas as Iran.
One of the participants whose research has taken him into the field is Gary Gossen, Wichita senior, who is aiding Robert M. Squier, assistant professor of anthropology, in an archeological survey near Vera Cruz, Mexico.
They are searching for specimens and information pertaining to the pre-history of the Olmec culture. This is a continuation of prior work done by Prof Squier. It is hoped that the answers to many questions concerning the development of this culture may be concluded.
WHEN ARTIFACTS are uncovered they are sent back to the University, where they receive further attention from another NSF grant participant, Bobby M. Gilbert, Lawrence senior.
Gilbert is also doing research work under William Bass, assistant professor of anthropology. In this portion of his program he is determining the age, race and sex of skeletal material found in Illinois by the Skelly Oil Co. This is accomplished primarily through knowledge of the structure of peoples of different races and the development of bones at different age levels.
In the division of sociology Janice L. Jones, Kabul, Afghanistan, senior, is working on a study of comparative organizations. This involves the collection of systematic comparative data on large number groups and associations.
INTERVIEWS are conducted with various people affiliated with organizations within communities, and information is collected relating to the problems of leadership continuity, forms of leadership, and activities in different kinds of groups. The data are then compiled and analyzed.
Several years ago excavations were started at a mound in Hasanlu, Iran, by the University of Pennsylvania. This mound consists of ancient cities which were built on the ruins of others combined with the refuse of their inhabitants.
In a building which had been destroyed during an invasion of one of these cities was found an elaborate gold bowl and beside it the skeletons of two men. It has not been determined whether the men were invaders trying to steal the bowl or townspeople attempting to save it.
Prof. Bass and research participant Ted Rathbun, Lorraine senior, are in Hasanlu hoping to obtain skeletons from the grave sites of the townspeople so that the racial type of the persons living in the area can be established. Once this is done the origin of the two men beside the bowl can be concluded by comparison.
BILLIE ANN Searcy, Cupertino, Calif., junior, another member of the NSF program, is assisting Clifton in a study of the sociat structure of the Potawatomi Indians near Holton, Kan.
This study involves the collection of information regarding the attitudes of different people of different personalities and backgrounds toward sex. This material is then fed into programming machines and then transferred to graphs and charts for analysis.
An investigation into the attitudes of different people toward different codes of sex ethics and sex practices is being conducted by Lawrence Bee. professor of sociology and home economics. Assisting him in his research is Marcilee Wilson Bierlein, recently graduated.
They are living among the tribe, participating in the Indians' social life, and observing their religious practices. These people live much as small farmers, but their social structure still retains much of the original Indian system of values.
KU Graduate Works For Maytag Company
NEWTON. Iowa-Larry Hickman, KU graduate, has joined the Maytag Company as a market analyst in the market research department.
Kade Grant Draws German Professor
Material for neither a quiz program nor a mystery, the question nevertheless fascinates many persons at KU because Max Kade, through the Max Kade Foundation, will provide more than $4,000 next year to help bring to KU a distinguished visiting professor in German.
Who is Max Kade?
The grant will be added to the regular salary of a professor and make possible the presence of an outstanding German scholar on the KU campus for a year or a semester.
Kade (pronounced Kah-day, in the German fashion), the founder and president of the Max Kade Foundation, Inc., came to this country in 1905 at the age of 22 as an immigrant from Germany. But he was no ordinary immigrant, and his success story was not typical Horatio Alger material.
tion in the German "gymnasium" at his birthplace in Hall, Wuertemberg, and apprenticeship in his father's machinery and structural steel business there. These personal qualifications and a valuable German formula for relieving coughs, which was acquired later by Mr. Kade, provided the basis for the business he started in 1911, and the cough remedy, "Pertussin," became the foundation of a flourishing pharmaceutical company, Seeck & Kade, Inc.
HE ARRIVED in New York with two major assets: a classical educa-
In 1944 Mr. Kade and his wife established the Max Kade Foundation as the culmination of his program to serve humanity by encouraging the mutual exchange of knowledge across national boundaries and by promoting better relations between the people of Central Europe and the United States. At the age of 75, still youthful and energetic, he retired, donated his company to the foundation, and turned his full attention
from business to philanthropy.
One of the foundation's major concerns has been the encouragement of university residence halls for students in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. A provision reserving a preference of quarters for U.S. students is part of every grant for such dormitories.
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