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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 30, 1963
Better Controls Business School Day Begins
Better Controls Found In New GeneticsTheory
A new theory on determining the evolution or variation of living organisms, called canalization, may revolutionize hereditary concepts, according to a noted geneticist.
Alexander S. Fraser, professor of genetics at the University of California at Berkeley, said at the University Lecture yesterday that the aim of canalization is to better explain and predict genetic variation.
The new method, canalization, is an extension of Darwin's theory of natural selection involving the modification of genes so that by various genetic routes similar-looking individuals develop.
PROF. FRASER, who studied at the University of New Zealand and the University of Edinburgh, said he has spent much of his time putting models of genetics in computers to determine their evolution, but his main work with canalization stems from dissatisfaction of geneticists in the 1940's.
THE PROFESSOR said this method can proceed in two ways. One way is a normal situation where there is a large number of genes which offer a wide variation. The other way is a combination of the normal and the rare mutations.
He said geneticists concentrate on the latter because there are less genes to deal with, each with its characteristic rate of mutation.
THE VARIATIONS in the more normal situation must be used in the process, he said, or the extreme mutations will form their own new norms.
"The new change which is obtained from canalization is constant, and in this constancy there is no variation, thus standardization," the professor said.
Prof. Fraser said stresses or changes can be inflicted upon these genetic norms with temperature variations and other means, which produces the effect of a complete character, yet an abnormal character.
HE SAID THE abnormal character can then be grown back on the norm, this time without stress. This will give an acquired inheritance, he added.
Canalization is not only of behavior elements, the geneticist said, but it is also of environmental elements.
Thus, the professor said, canalization can take all variations and make them alike.
"Having done this, these genes are now new norms. They have no apparent function and now new uses can be found," he said.
The School of Business Honors Banquet tonight will have as its speaker Ned Fleming, president ot Fleming Company, Topeka. He will speak about business opportunities available and potential for industrial expansion in the Mid-West.
The banquet, at 6:30 in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union, precedes tomorrow's annual School of Business Day.
The Aqua Tones, Lawrence female barbershop quartet which won second place in an international contest in Toronto. Canada, will sing.
Several awards will be presented, including the Alpha Kappa Psi Award to the outstanding male senior in the School of Business; the Delta Sigma Pi Award to the person having the highest scholastic standing in the School of Business; the Chi Chi Theta Award to the outstanding senior woman in the School of Business; the Wallstreet Journal Award to the highest ranking graduating senior who is majoring in finance, and the Haskins and Sells Award to the outstanding accounting major.
The Solon E, Summerfield Award winner, highest ranking junior at the end of his junior year, will be recognized at the banquet.
Names of the nine newly-admitted members of the Beta Gamma Sigma (national honorary business fraternity) will be announced.
Master of Ceremonies will be Gene Gaines, Joplin, Mo., senior, and new president of the Business School Council. Awards will be presented by Wiley S. Mitchell, professor of business administration and dean of the school of business.
No classes will meet in the School of Business after 10:30 a.m., when a
The first students to be graduated in the Ph.D. program in Germanic languages and literatures at KU have accepted professorial appointments at other universities. Instructorships have been offered to several master's degree candidates in the program.
KU Graduates of Germanics Accept Teaching Positions
The doctoral candidates are Walter Speidel, Lawrence, who will be assistant professor next fall at Brigham Young University, and Mrs. Erna M. Moore, Lawrence, who will be assistant professor at Texas Christian University.
Both have been assistant instructors on the KU staff.
Candidates for the master of arts
degree for instructorships are:
Darwin Daicoff, assistant professor of economics; Howard F. Stettler, professor of business administration, and Sidney P. Feldman, associate professor of business administration, will debate with Harry G. Shaffer, assistant professor of economics; Charles B. Saunders, associate professor of business administration, and John Ise, professor emeritus of economics.
Lothar K. Schweder, Wuppertal,
Germany, Washburn University;
Louise Miller, Chicago, Ill., Uni-
versity of Missouri; Glen Schoen-
fish, Lawrence, Wyandotte High
School in Kansas City, and Wilhelm
G. Grothmann, Hucker-Aschen,
Germany. Purdue University.
Judith, Wager, Port Washington, N.Y., another M.A. degree candidate, has received KU's direct exchange scholarship to Bonn University in Germany for next year.
The traditional faculty-student baseball game, accompanied by a "beer bust" at the schoolhouse on East Fifteenth St., will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
debate on planned obsolescence is scheduled.
Sharon Graves, Logan senior, will hold a teaching assistantship in the KU German department while doing graduate study.
At 8 p.m. there will be a dance at Heck's Barn.
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