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Students Jam Bookstore As Classes Start Again
Oooh!
Ugh!
These are two common cries heard from students during the first week of second semester classes.
Many of the cries come from students returning from "pud" courses of first semester which just had an unexpected change in instructors
If there is one place on campus where the cries of anguish may be heard the loudest and the longest, it is the Kansas Union Book Store.
Beginning with enrollment, students jam their way along the shelves and counters eager to get a fresh start on the new term. New clothes, bought during semester break, suddenly become wrinkled and look like they just came off the wash line.
the wash line.
James H. Stoner, director of the bookstore, said persons have fainted during the press of buying books.
"We have had persons pass out or faint," Stoner said, "but, we have never had anyone physically injured during the rush."
Aside from the usual rush on books, Stoner said spiral notebooks claim second spot in market rankings.
"We estimate the number of notebooks by finding out the number of students who have enrolled for the semester, and then assign so many notebooks per student." Stoner said
To save the student from any temptation of stealing and to eliminate the embarrassment of being accused of "borrowing", the store has tables outside where personal belongings (which are duplicated on the shelves inside) may be checked.
With this "check point," entanglements inside are eliminated, but a new one has been created outside. The hall is jammed with persons either trying to get in the store or trying to retrieve the articles which they had previously checked at the counters.
It is surprising how some people can remain calm under the constant harassment. They look like they were born and have lived in a subway their entire life.
The bookstore reports it does 60% of the year's business during the fall and mid semester enrollment periods. For these "hectic" days it hires from 30 to 35 extra persons.
"Actually, the rush is greatest during the fall enrollment." Stoner says. "There are usually less students coming in second semester."
Now one sees that the student's individual crisis does not begin with classes alone.
She Won't Come Home
THE HAGUE, Netherlands—(UPI)
—Princes Irene of the Netherlands,
the blonde whose conversion to Roman Catholicism and reported love for a Spanish nobleman touched off a political crisis here, defied her parents today by failing to return home.
ents today by hanning
A special plane sent to Barcelona to pick up the princess returned to the Hague today without her.
"In the name of the Lord, what has happened now?" asked an official court spokesman when he was informed that the green-eyed princess was not aboard the plane when it landed at Soesterberg airport.
University Daily Kansan
KU Given $841,107 In Grants, Research
The University of Kansas received $841,107 in grants, research contracts and research-related training programs during October, November, and December, William J. Argersinger, associate dean of faculties for research, announced today.
"In the first three months of the fiscal year beginning July 1, KU received $824,850 for research, making the total nearly $1.7 million for the six months period."
The largest grant, $279,098 from the U.S. Public Health Service, is the first of seven which will total nearly $2 million to support research in the area of communication disorders of mentally retarded children.
Other grants will make possible research in chemistry, comparative biochemistry and physiology, entomology, mathematics, natural history, pharmaceutical chemistry, and psychology. KU also has received grants for summer institutes in mathematics and physics for college teachers, science and math camps and a metallurgy and materials engineering camp for high school students, and training programs for students in molecular taxonomy, communication disorders, and rehabilitation.
Phi Psi's Break Ground For New 80-man House
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity broke ground yesterday for its new $340,000 chapter house at 1602 West 15th St.
The new 80-man red brick colonial style house is being constructed on an 180-ft. tract between the KU Nuclear Reactor Center and Pi Beta Phi sorority house. The project is to be completed by September.
Participating in the groundbreaking ceremony were W. Clarke Wescoe, Chancellor; Donald K. Alderman, Dean of Men; Thomas M. Higgins, Kansas City alumnus; Phog Allen, Lawrence alumnus; Greg Turner, Seattle, Washington senior and chapter president, and E. L. Winn, Sr., Shawnee Mission alumnus. Making remarks were Larry Winn Jr., Kansas City alumnus, Chancellor Wescoe, Dean Alderson, and Higgins.
All members of the Phi-Kappa Psi present broke ground for the new chapter house at the end of the formal ceremony.
Included in the attendance of about 100 persons were members of the specially invited sororities Delta Delta Delta and Pi Beta Phi. Pi Beta Phi is the fraternity's new
neighbor and Delta Delta Delta is the Phi Psi's partner in this year's Rock Chalk.
The rooms of the new house will have built-in drawers and wardrobes. The interior walls will be of concrete block construction. Members of the fraternity will sleep in sleeping porches. The 3-story and basement house will face toward the south and will be located well back from 15th Street.
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Wescoe a Token Donor
W. Clarke Wescoe, chancellor, donated five dollars yesterday to the Phi Kappa Psi building fund at the ground breaking ceremony for the new chapter house.
Wescoe said even though he is not a Phi Psi alum, he still wished to make a small donation.
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Tom Huck sought scientific excitement
He's finding it at Western Electric
Ohio University conferred a B.S.E.E. degree on C. T. Huck in 1956. Tom knew of Western Electric's history of manufacturing development. He realized, too, that our personnel development program was expanding to meet tomorrow's demands.
After graduation, Tom immediately began to work on the development of electronic switching systems. Then, in 1958, Tom went to the Beil Telephone Laboratories on a temporary assignment to help in the advancement of our national military capabilities. At their Whippany, New Jersey, labs, Tom worked with the Western Electric development team on computer circuitry for the Nike Zeus guidance system. Tom then moved on to a new assignment at WE's Columbus, Ohio, Works. There, Tom is working on the development of testing circuitry for the memory phase of electronic switching systems.
This constant challenge of the totally new, combined with advanced training and education opportunities, make a Western Electric career enjoyable, stimulating and fruitful. Thousands of young men will realize this in the next few years. How about you?
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