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Ohio Chemist Says Science Misunderstood
Science and technology are becoming a major part of the cultural affairs of modern nations, but they are greatly misunderstood.
Prof. Thomas Lippincott, professor of chemistry at Ohio State University, said yesterday science and related fields must be presented to the public in terms easy enough for all to understand.
PROF. LIPPINCOTT called for educating and informing the public on science and matters "so citizenry will learn to use the ideas and facts of science with as much ease and confidence as they do mathematics and arithmetic."
He said he is in full agreement with G. K. Chesterton who said "I find it hard to believe that scientists are . . . harmless old men pursuing their hobbies."
Prof. Lippincott said that science is "really growing" and that trained personnel through formal education are needed to deliver such to the public successfully.
He said a general knowledge of science is widely spread through the United States but not deeply understood. He said many persons have heard of satellites, but have never heard of radio-activity.
Prof. Lippincott said mass media is "the second predictor of scientific information; after the school years, most of the increment of scientific knowledge comes from the press."
THE MASS MEDIA do not always apply the high standards in reporting scientific news as they would to otherwise factual news, he added.
"The more sensualized a scientific article or program is," he said, "the larger its audience is." He listed television as being the uppermost offender in falsifying scientific data.
Prof. Lippincott said the National Science Foundation has spent close to $1 million on scientific grants since 1960. He said areas studied have been adult education, educational television, history of science, and mathematics study.
HE SAID THE AGENCY also publishes literature specifically prepared for newspaper editors and television managers to help them in presenting scientific news.
"But formal education is still one of the most effective ways of being prepared," Lippincott said. He suggested two years of science at the
college level for the student not majoring in science to get a sufficient background.
Speaking again for formal education, Prof. Lippincott said "the major weakness still lies in teacher education." He said, because teachers have not been "kept up to date."
He said a "potential catastrophy lies in store for the grade schoo pupils, because their teachers usually have had only one year o science, and are "scared to death to teach it.
"Television looks like the only hope here," he said "since the teacher problem has not been faced realistically."
Bridge Tourney Begins Tonight
The annual Intercollegiate Bridge Tournament sponsored by the Association of College Unions, begins tonight in the Kansas Union.
Graduate and undergraduate students who maintain amateur standing are eligible to enter.
The scores will be compared by mail with those of other schools in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska.
The scores of the regional winners will then be compared on a national basis. Traveling trophies and plaques will be awarded the college participants winning the national titles
All hands have been analyzed by William Root, contract bridge authority, who will determine campus, regional, and national winners.
KU Women Report Pilfering of Purses
Four KU women lost a total of $95.80 last night when someone pilfered their purses.
Police said the four women had gone to the Kansas Union to have their pictures taken for the Jayhawker Yearbook. They left their purses and coats on the counter of the check room just outside the ballroom on the second floor.
Police said the theft took place about 8:30 p.m.
History Professor To Discuss M. L. King
W. Stitt Robinson, professor of history, will deliver a lecture on "Martin Luther King, in the historical American context," at 8 to night in the Trophy Room of the Kansas Union.
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1963 University Daily Kansan
Professor Robinson teaches a course in the history of the South.
The lecture is sponsored by the Great Men of the Twentieth Century Discussion Group.
Miss De-Icer Wants To Thaw in South
The local winner in the Miss Deice contest hopes to spend her spring vacation in a warmer climate.
Nikki Lewis, Overland Park sophomore, said yesterday she intends to use the $50 prize to meet gasoline expenses on a trip to New Orleans with her roommate.
THE MISS DE-ICER contest was sponsored by an anti-freeze company. Ballot boxes were distributed around the campus and ballots were printed in the Daily Kansan.
Miss Lewis won the contest by a wide majority and is now elegible for the national competition. First prize is a Bermuda weekend for two.
SHE AND SOME FRIENDS in Hashinger Hall voted and solicited aid from outside, including boyfriends, the laundry man, and a campus policeman.
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