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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 25, 1963
Potpourri Subjects Range From Tarantulas to Rockets
The sex life of a tarantula—the reasons rockets go—and the super competitive Dobu Islanders furnished the subject matter for the three Speech I Potpourri finals winners last night.
The part one final winners were Kirk S. McConachie, Wichita freshman; Bob West, McPherson freshman, and Cindy Snyder, Bethesda, Md.. freshman.
McConachie's speech was titled "A New Kind of Pet." Tarantulas, except four or five of the 150 species, won't kill people, he said. They affect only cold-blooded animals, he explained.
NOT PARTICULAR about their food, they have to eat only every five to seven days. However, they need about five hours to take care of a grasshopper, and two days to take care of a mouse. It would take a tarantula two years and four months to starve, but only 30 days to die of thirst, said McConachie.
The tarantulas' courtship is a matter of life and death, he said. MeConachie explained that when a male tarantula goes calling on a female, he has to go to her hole in the ground and knock outside the silk curtains. She is then ready to leap out, kill him and eat him. If he's lucky, he renders her passionate by hitting her over the back of the neck. When everything is said and done, he has to make a quick getaway, before she eats him. Sometimes he takes along a grasshopper or some other morsel in the hopes that she will eat it instead of him.
"DESPIITE HIS fearsome reputation, bad table manners and crazy sex life, actually, believe it or not. he can be made into a very nice pet," McConachie said.
West spoke on "Rocket Propulsion." He began by explaining Newton's third law—for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction—with the help of two bal-
looms. The first was blown up, and then released—it collapsed. The second was punctured on one side. It went in the opposite direction from the puncture and landed in the lap of the evening's chairman, Mark L. Knapp, assistant instructor of speech. In this way, West demonstrated how Newton's third law works when gas molecules fire against a rocket nozzle propel it.
HE THEN described rocket fuel, liquid and solid, restricted and unrestricted, and mono-propellant and bi-propellant. He explained different methods of ignition and the kinds of thrust they cause.
When the rocket nozzle is narrowed toward the end, gas molecules enter the throat (narrowest place) at the speed of sound. West said.
Miss Snyder spoke about "The Dobau Society." If we think we have a cutthroat, competitive society she said, there is another society that of the Dobuans (of the Dobu Islands off the coast of New Guinea) that is much more cutthroat and competitive than ours.
This society has no chiefs, no political organization, no apparent legality, she said. One's virtue is determined by how well he can out-do others, out-plunder them, out-steal them, etc., Miss Snyder explained. They rely heavily on magic. Elevation of families depends on the number of magic powers known by them
The society is monogamous, but its favorite pastime is adultery. So competitive are the Dobuans, Miss Snyder said, that when a spouse dies, the living spouse is believed to be the cause of death—not the murderer, but the cause. So the Dobwan society is much more cutthroat and competitive than ours, Miss Snyder said.
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Other Potpourri speakers last night were Dale McGuinn, Merriam freshman; Fred Hoffman, Topeka junior; Nancy Shroeter, Shawnee Mission sophomore; Marilyn Robertson, Ottawa freshman, and Bob Woody, Bartlesville, Okla., freshman.
Tonight's speakers will be Robert Xidis, Wichita freshman; Robert Koetting, Prairie Village sophomore; Jeanette Jeffery, Tecumsah freshman; Caroline Richardson, Overland Park freshman; David Crandall, Denver, Colo., sophomore; Glenn Laney, Miami, Fla., freshman; Constance Fox, Dodge City freshman, and Barbara Croissant, Leawood freshman.
They will be speaking about Tolstoy, unidentified flying objects, Khrushchev, cannibalism, lasser, chemical warfare, sex, and Esperanto.
Again, three winners will be chosen. Of the forty-six original entries (one from each Speech I section), those three and the three chosen last night will be the six final winners. They are ranked for purposes of judging, but their rank is not made known.
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CRC Says Service-
"We can't serve anyone without an ID," she said. "And I don't hold a restaurant license. I am not obligated to serve anyone anything."
She said that at the time the students came in she was out of beer so she had closed up.
At the Huddle, the bartender reportedly seemed to be sorry that he could not serve the Negro students. He said that it was the manager's policy and he was only working there.
THE MANAGER refused to comment on the incident.
Ellison Sees-
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In discussing what can be done immediately to stimulate Negro support, Ellison said he felt that the CRC should concentrate on gaining the cooperation of the four Negro fraternities and sororites.
A temporary chairman for next year will be elected at the next meeting, to be held in two weeks.
"The tavern owners don't like to turn Negroes away." Warner said. "And in both places there were customers who said they would like to have seen the Negroes served."
The CRC decided that the next step for them to take would be to refer these cases to the county attorney through the Lawrence Human Rights Commission.
"This is just about all the active work we can do in this area this year," Warner said. "However, we can act as a pressure group to try to get the county attorney to take action."
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