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Undergraduate Research Expands at KU
By Margaret Hughes
By Margaret Hughes A learned man once said that education and research are the two purposes of a university.
American universities have plenty of education; but research, at least on an undergraduate level, is often overlooked.
At the University of Kansas, undergraduate research is encouraged and supported under a program of grants-in-aid and individual supervision.
HERE IS HOW the program works; through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences office, outstanding students with specialized interests receive funds for a year or a semester of research. Described by the National Science Foundation as a "semi-professional junior colleague, not an hourly laborer," the student works closely with a professor, assisting him on a research project.
Dr. Frederick E. Samson, coordinator of the research program in science and head of the physiology and comparative biochemistry department, says, "There is really no administration — we just bring the student and the professor together and pass out the chews."
THE PROGRAM presently is supported by the Carnegie Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Kansas Heart Association, and the University Research Fund.
This year there are about 65 KU undergraduates with research grants. There will be 80 students next year.
Students' subjects range from predatory mites to banking in the early West, to learning and perception. Although much of the research is done in KU laboratories and libraries, several researchers will travel this summer.
UNDERGRADUATES in the science fields are directed by Dr. Samson and they hold monthly meetings to report on their research, exchange ideas, and read scientific literature. These meetings are valuable, Dr. Samson believes, as a means of communication and practice grounds for formal presentations of research papers. "Our researchers have become expert in the procedure of presenting papers."
Students doing research in the humanities and social sciences held similar meetings last year with Dr. Richard DeGeorge, associate professor of philosophy. Since Dr. DeGeorge is on leave this year, there has been no co-ordination of these students. "But we hope to resume the meetings next year," said Dr. Francis H. Heller, associate dean of the College. "They are a most effective part of the program."
Dr. Samson feels the ten-week summer session is the most fruitful phase of the program. Working at least 40 hours a week without classes gives the student a chance to become completely absorbed in his work, he said.
A TYPICAL STUDENT reaction to the research program came from John Atkinson, Topeka sophomore. Atkinson has been assisting Dr. Richard Johnson, assistant professor of zoology, for over a year. Their
project is a study of the breeding biology of purple martins.
"The program has stimulated my interest in science and research, said Atkinson, who plans a medical career. He added that the grant has helped him finance his college education.
Other students find the program a valuable preview of graduate school. Most of them are highly enthusiastic about their research.
There are several extra incentives besides the annual stipend for the student researchers. Each fall the Kansas Heart Association, one of the supporters of the research program, holds a contest for the best research paper. Gary Copeland, Martin City, Mo., junior, Steve Patterson, Shawnee Mission senior, and Hugh Dick, Zurich senior, won the top prizes last fall.
EVERY SPRING a student-faculty committee publishes "Search," a booklet containing outstanding research materials compiled by undergraduates. The third issue of "Search" will be published early
next month, according to Dr. Delbert M. Shankel, associate professor of bacteriology and faculty adviser. The 73-page booklet will contain nine articles and three abstracts.
"SEARCH" IS also a "public relations" device, used by the university to publicize the work of the undergraduate research program, according to Dr. Samson.
The history of the formal program is rather short. Dr. Samson said, "In a sense, undergraduate research is a very old thing. Formerly, however, was unorganized and unfinanced."
In 1956 the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences received its first grant from the Carnegie Foundation. Twenty students participated in the first program.
The Carnegie grant will expire this year, but support will be continued through funds from the University Research budget and the College office. The program is gradually expanding, limited only by the number of students who are able to assist faculty researchers.
60th Year, No. 131
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Tuesday, April 30, 1963
Douthart, Sellards Face Higher Costs
The Women's Scholarship Hall Committee has decided to raise the house bills of Douthart and Sellards women's scholarship halls from $35 to $40 a month next year.
Miss Emily Taylor, dean of women and chairman of the committee, said the increase would bring the payment more in line with actual operating expenses.
The decision was made last week, she said.
Bloch Art Exhibit Will Open Tonight
In Munich he became part of the Blaue Reiter movement, organized by Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky and later joined by Paul Klee. His style developed in relation to that movement.
Bloch, who retired as KU professor of drawing and painting and head of the department of drawing and painting in 1955, spent 12 years in Munich until 1921. He then returned to the United States, his birthplace, and taught at the Chicago Art Institute from 1922-1923.
His work has been described as independent and honest.
Because the Humanities Lecture at 8 tonight is on German expressionism, of which Bloch was a part, the exhibit will open tonight instead of Sunday.
BEFORE HE WENT to Munich, he worked as a political cartoonist and news reporter.
An exhibit of water colors, drawings and dry point of Albert Bloeh, former KU professor, will open with a reception and refreshments at 9 tonight in Spooner Art Museum.
ERNST SCHEYER, professor of art history and humanities and chairman of the department at Wayne State University. Wayne Indiana, will lecture on Bloch's historical position, and about the Russian and American members of Elaua Reiter. The Humanities Lecture will be in Fraser Theater.
'Cyrano' Production Opens Tonight, 8:30
"Cyrano de Bergerac," the final production of the 1962-63 season of the University Theatre, opens at 8:30 tonight in Murphy Hall.
The production, which runs through Saturday is a romantic melodrama about a man who is impeded in love by his large nose.
Identification cards may be exchanged for $1.20 seats.
Dean Taylor was asked about the house bills because of a letter sent to her. The letter, from Leanna Koehn, Dodge City sophomore who is a resident of Sellards Hall, said Sellards Hall residents had been assessed $25 each to cover "operational deficits" of the hall.
Dean Taylor said such assessments were ordinary procedure, if operating costs exceeded income.
She said each resident of Sellards and Douthart pays $35 a month. From this sum, all food, electricity, gas, and other bills must be paid, she said.
The University does not make up any deficits.
Dean Taylor said each girl who signed a contract for residence in either Douthart or Sellards agreed ahead of time to pay any necessary assessments.
Since the residents of the halls plan and prepare their own meals and assume all other responsibility for running the hall, the women themselves are responsible for any deficits incurred, Dean Taylor said.
The assessments were necessary because of the rising living costs, she said. The committee decided to raise the monthly fees to reduce the chance of extra assessments.
If operating expenses are less than income, refunds are paid at the end of the year, she said.
Men's scholarship halls operate under the same system, according to Harold Pontius, accountant in the dormitory office.
The amount of the assessments is determined by dividing the amount of the deficit by the number of residents in each hall.
Battenfeld and Foster each had assessments of $8 a man. Stephenson had a $6 a man assessment, and Douthart had a $38 assessment, Pontius said.
But Dean Taylor said she had looked over the financial statements of the two halls, and saw almost no chance for further economies.
Miss Koehn stated in her letter that the women have agreed to pay for any deficits incurred.
He said extra assessments were necessary in Battenfeld, Foster and Stephenson balls, as well as in Douthart and Sellards.
George Beckmann, professor of history has been appointed to the newly created position of Associate Dean of Faculties and Chairman of the Council for International Programs.
Prof. Beckmann Given New Post
He held Fulbright and Ford Foundation fellowships in 1952-53, another Ford Foundation fellowship in 1954, and a Fulbright Fellowship in 1960-61, all for research and study in Japan.
He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1948 in Eastern History and languages, and his Ph.D from Stanford in 1952.
The position was created by the Kansas Board of Regents in an effort to coordinate the University's expanding programs in international education.
BECKMANN, who is currently on leave as a staff member of the International Training and Research Program of the Ford Foundation, has been teaching at KU since 1951.
The programs which have made the Board of Regents feel Beckmann's position was necessary include the enrollment of more than 350 foreign students at KU, an extensive exchange program of both faculty and students with the University of Costa Rica, the Summer Language Institutes in Europe, foreign faculty members teaching at KU, and numerous exchanges, grants and fellowships from other foreign universities.
During World War II he served as a Japanese language officer in Naval Intelligence and later attended Tokyo Imperial University.
Orr Says Creation Wasn't Accidental
By Jackie Helstrom
Life was first generated from chemicals, but the creation didn't come about by chance, J. Edwin Orr, College Life lecturer said yesterday.
Orr was speaking to members of the local College Life group that is sponsored by the Campus Crusade for Christ.
In his talk he was supporting a theistic progressive creation theory as an explanation of the existence of life. This is a theory of interrupted evolution.
He also outlined five other beliefs that people hold and discussed each in the light of a Christian concept.
If life began with one cell and has developed into the complex organization of billions of cells, the process has taken some kind of organization. Ory said.
HE SAID that no Christian could believe either the atheistic theory of spontaneous evolution that asserts that life produced itself spontaneously or the pantheistic theory of eternal existence that asserts life has always existed and will exist through all eternity as it is today.
He said there are four theories that the good Christian can accept.
He can accept the theistic theory of immediate creation. By accepting this he believes man was created at 9 a.m. Oct.23,4004 B.C.
"This theory depends on a lack of scientific knowledge," Orr said. "All you have to do is visit the Grand Canyon or Lake Erie to know the earth has existed more than 6,000 years."
He said deism is contradicted by the scriptures, because Almighty God is the father of every man, whom he created for himself and in whom he takes a personal interest.
There is another thelastic theory that Orr outlined which draws its total support from a retranslation of the Hebrew text of Genesis. By this translation it asserts the world was in a state of evolution when a disaster occurred. God remade the world in six days.
"THE DEISTIC theory of mediate evolution asserts the idea that God set the ball rolling and hasn't interfered since. He sort of abdicated." Orr said.
At the end of his talk, Orr read from his Bible the creation story in the first chapter of Genesis and asserted after each phrase that he could not see anything said in the book that was contradictory to any scientific principles of evolution.
Corr will give the second lecture of his series, "Arguments for Agnosticism," a discussion of the fallacies of atheism and agnosticism at 7:30 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
OAS Team In Haiti To Work For Peace
FORT AU PRINCE, Haiti—(UPI)
A five-man truce team from the Organization of American States arrived today for on-the-spot efforts to stave off threatened war between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
THE PEACE-MAKERS, headed by Colombia's Alberto Zuleta Angel, were met on their arrival by representatives of the Haitian foreign office. They were scheduled to meet immediately with Haiti's Foreign Minister Rene Chalmers at the palace.
Truce team members saw no evidence of military movements in Port Au Prince, at least at the airport where their commercial transport landed. Two U.S. Marine Corps helicopters were on the field.
The helicopters were assumed to be here to aid in the withdrawal of the 30-man U.S. naval training mission which Haiti called on the United States to pull out last Friday.
ONLY THE usual handful of Haitian army transport craft was in evidence at the airfield. In downtown Port au Prince, apparent calm existed. There was no sign of unusual military activity.
The OAS group confirmed on its arrival that Haiti, as pledged, had withdrawn police forces from the Dominican Embassy, as demanded by the Dominican government.
Weather
The weather will be clear and cold tonight with frost likely in the northeast portion of the state. The low tonight will be in the 30's throughout most of Kansas. Wednesday will be generally fair and warmer. The high is expected to be in the 60's.
A late spring chill was rushing eastward out of the state today with clearing skies and warmer temperatures.