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College Bowl Teams Hold First Rounds
Bv Lee Stone
Sweating hands. Nervous chatter. Flushed faces. Sixty-four of them, all crowded around the College Bowl scoreboard to see how the competition had come out.
Losers reproached themselves and each other, but a winning team's captain, with raised eyebrows, said, "You mean we're famous."
COLLEGE BOWL CONTESTS "serve the purpose of stimulating interest in academic learning," Robert E. Shenk, Lawrence senior and game chairman said. In these games, undergraduates teams of four challenge each other to answer sets of questions correctly. Specific time limits are allotted for each question.
Yesterday the first of three Sunday College Bowl contests was held in which teams of four students participated. Three times, sixteen teams challenged each other in pairs. "There were six triple-winners, according to Shenk.
"IT LOOKS LIKE there will be
more than eight teams for the final play off," Shenk said. This was an unexpected development.
Shenk said only eight teams would be competing in the finals.
Of the sixteen teams playing yesterday, two had high scores. One was an independent team organized by Charles Marvin, Lawrence senior, who calls it "Prose." Prose scored 395 points in its best game, and averaged 280.0.
Another highscoring team from Templin Hall averaged 253.3. That team's average ratio is 253.3 to 83.3.
Prose's average ratio is 280.0 to 51.7.
Here are some sample questions from yesterday's game.
"According to tradition, Socrates taught Plato, Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. What is the name of the little old lady who teaches high school in the comic strip 'Archie?' " Answer: Miss Grundy.
THE AVERAGE SCORE for all teams is 138.2.
U.S. Debt Increases
United Press International
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that after three months under President Johnson, government spending proceeds at about the same rate as under President Kennedy. The U.S. Treasury goes deeper in the red.
In three months since Johnson took over the White House, the public debt has increased by nearly $2.5 billion. The debt as of the end of last week was $310.1 billion.
It would not be fair to assess responsibility for this high-level spending and the debt increase against the new president. Three months are not enough to enable even the most determined economizer to reverse the big spending, deficit trend in which the U.S. government has insulged itself for 30 years.
But the time is approaching when LBJ must take the responsibility for spending and increases in the public debt. It is notable, therefore, that Republicans already are accusing the new President of substituting gimmickry for economy in government.
The Republicans do not spell it out well, or at all. If they expect to make effective presidential campaign
issues of government spending, treasury deficits and the rising public debt, the Republicans will need some facts and figures.
For example: Rep. Robert A. Taft Jr., R-Ohio, told a group of Republican women this week that Johnson had made no real cutback in spending in view of various new spending programs being advanced. Taft will have to do better than that. If he talks about new and costly spending programs, he should be prepared to name them and the sums involved.
One of the best publicized, best press-agented, political maneuvers of recent years was LBJ's revision of the Kennedy budget immediately on taking over. The new President and his aides carefully leaked to the press that the budget could not be reduced despite heroic efforts. The public was prepared for an increased 1965 fiscal year spending budget of $102 billion, perhaps more. The public also was taught to believe that this figure would be imposed on a protesting Johnson by spending commitments long since enacted into law by previous congresses. This, of course, was baloney.
Maybe so. But what the voters will want is some proof. Facts!
Graduate Discussion group, 7:30 p.m.
St. Lawrence Center, 1915 Strathford Rd
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth.
Catholic Mass, 5 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Rd.
TODAY
University Daily Kansan
Official Bulletin
TOMORROW
St. Lawrence Center, 1915 Stratford Rd.
Aquifer Class, 7:30 pm. Canterbury
Burberry
PARK PLAZA SOUTH
Inter-varsity Christian fellowship, 7.30
presentation of the
Beginners Inquiry Forum, s.
10.30
Catholic Masses, 6:45 a.m., 5 p.m.,
St Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Rd.
Western Cly. Discussion, 9 p.m., St.
Lawrence Center.
Ph. VI 2-3416
1912 W. 25th
Day or Night
Episcopal Holy Communion, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth.
Monday. Feb. 24, 1964
KU Botanist To Work Under Joint Program
Robert W. Lightwardt of the botany department is the first KU professor to conduct research with Japanese scientists under a new United States and Japanese cooperative science program.
The program, which operates under the National Science Foundation (NSF), was initiated last year by President Kennedy after he met
with representatives of the Japanese government. Its purpose, besides to further international understanding, is to help overcome duplication of research efforts.
Prof. Lichtwardt will receive a three-year grant of $3,700 from the NSF for a study of Trichomycetes, a type of fungus common to the Pacific region and the United States.
LAWRENCE LAUNDRY
if they didn't live in England.