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Edsel Ford's Talk to Open KU Writers' Conference
"Sit Down to Write, but Stand Up to Live" is the advice given in Edsch Ford's title for the speech which will open the University of Kansas Writers' Conference next Tuesday morning, June 25.
Ford is an Arkansas poet whose work is becoming widely known in both literary and popular periodicals. Verses by him have recently appeared in McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, New Mexico Quarterly, Country Beautiful and the Kansas City Star, among others.
TUESDAY afternoon's speaker will be Miss Frances Smith, University of Kansas journalism graduate who is now fiction editor of Boys Life and has written many books for young people. Her topic, "One Way or Round Trip?" deals with how to keep manuscripts from coming back.
Miss Frances Grinstead, associate professor of journalism, who is director of the conference, may be contacted for information at her home phone, VI 3-2429, or extension phone 372 at KU. Tuition is $30, part-time attendance, $5 for each half-day or evening session. All workshop meetings are held in the library of Gertrude Sellards Pearson dormitory, where conference enrollees will be housed.
Though the manuscript deadline has technically expired, Miss Grinstead said manuscripts are still being accepted for criticism in all categories except juvenile writing.
The conference is sponsored jointly by the University Extension and the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
ROTC Cadre Change Duties
Eight officers stationed at the University of Kansas during the school year have been sent to other posts this summer.
post this summer.
Air Force Maj. Harry A. Trevacthen has been sent to Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama for an academic instructors' course. Capt. A. L. Wagner is at Schilling Air Force Base at Salina, Kan., where he is training ROTC cadets at the summer camp.
ALL FOUR ROTC army instructors have been sent to Ft. Riley, Kan., for six weeks. Maj. Edward Paris, Capt. John Mizell, Capt. Paul Reed, and Sgt. Humphrey Jones will train cadets. Forty-seven of the 1,550 trainees at Ft. Riley are from the University of Kansas.
Capt. Richard Gruber and Lt. Jesse Coolbaugh, both of the U.S. Navy, are now at Northwestern University assisting in training officers for the ROTC program. Lt. Francis Dressen is engaged in naval aviation indoctrination for ROTC students. July 15, Maj. R. B. Moss will leave for the Marine Corps school at Quantico, Va. He also will assist in a ROTC summer training program.
Doctors Advise
Sun Bathers Beware
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Working toward a suntan? If you are, you are hastening the aging of your skin, report two authorities in dermatology.
"There' no question but that sunlight injures the skin irreversibly—at least in the light of our present knowledge, these changes are irreversible," said Dr. John M. Knox, associate professor, departments of dermatology and pathology, Baylor University College of Medicine.
THE SUN WORSHIPER who proudly displays a sleek tan is speeding up the skin-aging process, reported Dr. Robert Carney, head of the department of dermatology, at the University of Iowa.
Dr. Knox's outlook on sun as a wrinkle-builder was explained at a recent New York symposium on the psychology of beauty—a symposium sponsored by a cosmetic manufacturer.
Dr. Carney's views were in the current issue of the American Journal of Nursing, the official publication of the American Nurses' Association.
CARNEY STATED that a general thinning of the skin, increased dryness, fine wrinkles and inelasticity are inevitable as one grows in years.
But he said that other clinical acadies associated with skin-colored pigmentation — actually are due in most part to exposure to light.
Carney, admitting discouragement at trying to keep today's woman out of the sun, said skin aging is a deep skin process. He said he considers, because of this fact, that trying to remove wrinkles with ointments or creams is "fruiless." But they can hold some of the moisture in the skin, he wrote.
DR. KNOX commented that in skin types, "the brunette is much more preservable" than the blonde because she has more protective pigment. "A blonde of course cannot tolerate the sunlight . , ," he told the symposium.
He saw the vanity that causes women to wear heavy makeup in daytime as a "real blessing" because makeup has that protective pigment and blocks the sunlight to some extent.
Dr. Knox called the true suntan "a response to an injury—just like a callous is, on the hand."
DR. KNOX said that in technical terms, here is what happens when skin and sun meet: Ultraviolet wavelengths of the sun are electromagnetic, somewhat similar to X-rays, that "all of you recognize as being harmful if given in overdosages."
"It's the body's way of recognizing an insult and trying to do something about it to prevent further damage," he said.
"Therefore," he said, "the same thing happens but to a less degree by overexposure to sunlight. When this energy enters the skin, something has to be done with this energy, so it alters connective tissue fibers, and other structures in the skin, to the point of causing degeneration and alterations . . ."
"I hate to see disease in this generation, (and) sunlight is a disease," he said.
At the symposium, Dr. Knox was asked how it is that men who use no makeup and often spend more hours out of doors than women "do not show the signs of aging as greatly as women do?"
"Oh, they show it," he said. "It's just that they don't fuss about it the way women do."
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CARLENE HOWELL, assistant to the dean of women, pointed out that the number of women living in Corbin this summer is approximately the same as last summer.
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THESE ARE chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, comparative biochemistry and physiology, pharmacology, chemical engineering, mechanics and aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, metallurgy and materials engineering, botany, zoology, and microbiology (formerly bacteriology).
Dean John S. McNown, chairman of the committee administering the research funds provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), said $48,130 of 1963-64's available $100,000 would go to 18 faculty members in 11 departments.
Research by KU faculty members related to space science and technology will include such subjects as opalescence, energy transfer, radiation protection, cell growth, cavitation, fatigue failure, and immunology.
"Last summer we had 40 students in the nursing program living in Corbin, but this summer they are living in Kansas City. However, the number living in the hall has not decreased," she said.
Another difference is the women students themselves that live in the hall. During the regular school year, Corbin is reserved exclusively for freshman women. Currently there is only one floor of 18 first semester freshmen. The remainder of residents are underclassmen and graduate students, some of whom are older married women working on advanced degrees.
Space Agency Study Grants Awarded to 18
Two faculty members who participated in last year's initial funds from NASA received second grants and one an extension. The remaining 15 grants go to members who have not previously had NASA funds.
Dean McKnown noted that from the $50,000 that NASA gave KU last year, 17 awards were made. From these "seed" projects have come five new proposals that have been submitted directly to NASA. They total $370,000.
Closet Space Aplenty, But Dining Hall Closed
By Linda Machin
More space to live in, but no meals. One of the most obvious seasonal differences in living conditions in Corbin Hall is that there are less than half the number of occupants this summer as in the winter. Less conveniently, there are no meals served at the dormitory.
THE HALL ROSTER has dropped from approximately 400 to 185. This means that all the rooms are single or double, unless a special "three-girl" room has been requested.
This allows more closet space and some extra, unused furniture in the rooms. Several women students housed in previous "three-girl" rooms have reported using the extra bed in their rooms as a divan or lounge. "It makes the room seem homier or more like an apartment," one student said.
In the cafeteria, the tables are pushed to one side and the chairs stacked up. Though the vending machines in the concession area seem to have frequent use, Miss Judith Throm, assistant resident director and graduate assistant to the dean of women, said, "The girls don't seem to mind eating out. I don't hear any complaints. It's not usually inconvenient to stop at the Student Union cafeteria on the way home from classes. It's cooler there, than it would be in the cafeteria here. And,
of course, some of them order from drive-ins."
DESPITE THE mixture of students, Miss Throm said that very few problems had come up. "Closing up at night is much easier. There always are less people in the lobby and the living room than in the winter," she said.
One resident, a sorority woman said, "Actually, I really enjoy getting to live with some of the same girls I lived with as a freshman, and the extra space is great."
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