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Engineers to Study Problems As 5-Day Conference Begins
Approximately 22 engineering faculty members, representing the 11 schools of the Mid-American State Universities Association, began a five-day conference today in the Kansas Union.
The conference is designed to study a variety of projects and problems which will be of mutual benefit to engineering faculty members of all the MASUA member schools, Donald Metzler, associate dean of the school of engineering and architecture, said.
The conference is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
ONE OF THE featured speakers is Magnus Kurt, visiting professor of mechanical engineering at KU from Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart, Germany.
The other main speaker is Z. V. Rekiasius, of the Control and Informations Laboratory at Purdue University.
The conference, which will end Friday, will consist of talks by the guest speakers, followed by a discussion session and group studies.
The conference topic, "Nonlinear and Discontinuous Control Systems," includes aspects of use of controls in guidance of space vehicles and automation.
A SECOND CONFERENCE of MASUA engineering faculty members will be held next week at the University of Oklahoma.
The principal speakers will be Henryk Zorski, KU visiting professor of engineering mechanics at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, and Herbert Kolsky, a professor of engineering at Brown University.
The topic will be "Vibrations in Elastic Media."
MASUA is comprised of all the Big Eight schools and the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy.
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Four state high school students were named winners today of the high school Latin Tournament held here Saturday. The tournament was sponsored by the classics department.
Latin Tournament Winners Named
The top-ranking students in each of the four categories were Kathy May Binns, West Junior High, Lawrence, Latin I; Roger Keith Alexander, Wichita East, Latin II; Paul Vance Hyndman, Shawnee-Mission North, Latin III; and Gordon M. Sites, Wichita Southeast, Latin IV.
The winners were selected from about 192 high school Latin students who took achievement tests in Latin I, II, III, and IV Saturday afternoon.
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Bear Given Life Sentence
Austin M. Lashbrook, associate professor of classics, was chairman for the day.
LOS ANGELES — (UPI) — Ivan the polar bear has been sentenced to solitary life because he killed his mate, Lena, last week when she spurned his amorous advances.
"Ivan has just become a monk," said City Recreation and Parks Commissioner Leonard Shane yesterday in directing that Ivan be kept away from other animals and people. Ivan bumped off two other polar bears several years ago.
Ticket Sales Begin For Winter Concert
Tickets for the Paul Winter Sextet concert went on sale today. The Sextet will perform May 11 in the University Theatre.
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All seats are reserved. Tickets, which are $1.25, are available at the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard and at the information desk in the Kansas Union.
Dinner to End Social Work Day
A KU professor and a graduate student will speak at the Social Work Day dinner tonight.
Esther E. Twente, professor of social work, and Mary L. Wylie, Kansas City graduate student, will talk on "New Designs of Community Work with the Aging: The Marion County Experiment" at a dinner beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
Ex Nurse Takes 50 Mile Hike
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PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif. -- (UPI) — Residents of The Sequoias, a retirement home here, report that German-born ex-nurse Gertrude Ilksen, 70, decided to celebrate her complete recovery from a painful leg thrombosis.
So she went on a 50-mile hike.
The 'Meows' Have It
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — (UPI)— The Senate yesterday passed a bill making it illegal to abandon a cat. A response of "meow" during the roll call was interpreted as "aye."
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