Photo by Sam Green
... and it comes out here.
Cindy Cross, tett, and her instructor, Barb Shankin, are shown cooling a piece of ceramics just out of the kiln.
Tale of name tag is a troubled one
By GEORGE DeTAR
Kamper Kansan Reporter
I'd done some weird things
while at camp before but this
was probably the weirdest.
It all started when I lost my name tag. After finding that I couldn't eat or cross the lobby without it, I had no recourse but to go to Russell Brandon, the dorm supervisor at Lewis, and request a new name tag.
After questioning me to satisfy himself that I had not sold my old name to an evil outsider trying to get into the dorms, Brandon started to make out a new one. He was about to staple it together when he realized that he had neglected to fill it in with my name and division. Then was when I opened my big mouth.
"I doubt if anyone would notice a blank tag anyway," was the statement I probably shouldn't have made.
Brandon sat there and thought a minute. I knew I was in for something.
"When he had finished the difficult process he sat back and said, "We'll see about that. Take this tag and wander around in public until a counselor spots you." On second thought he took out his marker pen and wrote out "BLANK" on the tag in capital letters. With that he sent me out.
Walking out of Brandon's room, I noticed a heavy-set counselor with mustache and glasses reading a newspaper. With my "blank" tag in plain sight at all times, I walked around him two or three times, leaned over him to get a magazine, sat down in a chair in front of him and read the magazine for five minutes. The counselor not only didn't notice my name tag, he didn't notice me.
Frustrated in my first attempt to get the whole thing overwith early, I decided to go over to Mc-Collum and try there. As I walked away from the counselor over to the door, the camer at the dorm desk looked up, noticed my tag immediately, and said, "What the ... are you trying to do?" I shrugged and went on out the door.
On my way over to McCollum,
I met several campers, all of
whom noticed my odd ID. I also
saw three counselors, none of
whom seemed to notice anything.
While walking around all the dorms I got several cries of "Hey Blank" and "What's that for" from the campers. There was no response from any of the counselors.
Finally I hit upon a plan. I would try to get into the dance.
I went up to the door at Templin where the dance was being held. A counselor was sitting in a chair facing the door and eating potato chips from a bag. I went through the door, confident that I would finally be stopped and questioned. He went on feeding his face as I walked past him. Nothing happened. In desperation I wheeled around, went out the door and came back in a few minutes later with the name tag in my pocket.
"Name tag," he mumbled, through a mouth full of potato chips. Standing five feet in front of him, I took out the name tag and pinned it on my shirt. He barely glanced up and nodded me on.
Five minutes later I gave up and went back to Brandon's room. After reporting everything that happened, I asked him to make out a new name tag. After he had done this, he asked me whether or not I would do it again sometime for him. I mumbled something about a busy schedule and a lot of homework and left the room.
Flick fans comment on camp films
And then the picture starts! Feet placed on the chairs of the people in front of them, the campers get comfortable. They brace their necks to see between the buffant hairdies ahead. Or the girls lament, "Why did that hunk (he's 6'4", broad shoulders, dark hair, blue eyes) have to sit in front of me!"
Campers straggle in early in order to get a seat by the aisle. (Couples also come early, hoping for those choice chairs back in a dark corner . . . maybe behind a nice big post. . )
Kampe Kansai Report.
When it's movie night at KU,
scores of campers swarm to the
McCollum Hall Cafeteria. Chairs
are lined up in a massive semicircle, on top of tables and peeking out from behind posts.
By CAROL DORGE
And then it is all over. The campers rise, stretch, and dust off the dirty footprints on their backs.
Kamper Kansan Reporter
Art division ends session of 18th year
By PHIL BURGERT
Kamper Kansan Reporter
Art has been a major division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp for 18 years. Arvid Jacobson, director of that division, has been with the camp every one of those 18 years and thinks that "It's been a wonderful camp."
This year's art program is basically the same as was begun 18 years ago. Jacobson said "We go into areas that aren't attempted in high school."
Jacobson maintains that the good things about the Art Division are the five weeks of emphasis on art, two-hour class periods, and working under college conditions with aid from professional artists. He compared this to the basic high school art programs of 50-minute sessions five days a week.
Jacobson believes that the best point of the camp is "Being on your own five weeks and mixing with people from all over the United States."
Director Jacobson sees another advantage in the fact that each school has one or two exceptional art students. He says, "Here you're thrown in with a whole flock of them." Although no grades are given, students are challenged to improve through criticism made by other students.
This year there are 201 campers from 32 states enrolled in the Art Division full-time. Fifteen campers from other divisions are also taking art courses.
Art history, two dimensional design, and drawing are required for all art campers. Art Division electives are three-D design, painting, calligraphy (lettering), weaving, ceramics (pottery), printmaking, and jewelry.
Talks about careers in art also are part of the Art Division. Art campers are encouraged to discuss colleges and careers with instructors.
This year, for the first time, the Art Division has a guest instructor, Werner Cuvelier of Belgium.
The Art Division also has held three art shows of campers' work. After being displayed in Murphy Hall the works are returned to the students.
But Jacobson is quick to emphasize this point, "Our goal is not exhibition material. We want the campers to have fun."
Science camp ends studies
By GINGER LANE
Kamper Kansan Reporter
To most high school students science courses are dreaded and feared, yet, the 98 science students of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp feel differently. Rocio Hernandez, a student of microbiology and cellular biology, is one of these. Though she feels her English is not always clear, her excitement about biology certainly comes across.
One of the reasons, no doubt, for excitement is the fantastic courses. Eight courses are offered. After a week survey of all of them the science campers chose two, which they attend two hours daily.
One of the most unusual courses offered is radiation biophysics which is taught by Dr. Evan B. Douple. Divided into three major areas of study, this course is designed to introduce students to the diverse field of radiation biophysics and to study the basic principles and concepts.
The physics of radiation and the interaction of radiation with matter is the first topic of concentration. This included the physics of atoms and structure.
Next, material concerning the structure of living systems was presented. This included reviewing discoveries of modern biology, especially those relating to cellular structure, metabolism, and molecular genetics. Experiments were conducted with radioactive tracers, which followed carbons in plants and iodine in rats.
With this background behind them, the science campers then proceeded to study the effects of radiation on living systems with emphasis on man, other mammals, plants and even microorganisms.
Microbiology, another subject offered, had the largest enrollment after the weeks survey. Therefore, only the 40 campers which listed it as their first choice were admitted.
The second half of the microbiology course involved identifying unknown bacteria. Also included were experiments on the genetic effect of ultra-violet light on bacteria, the mutations causes, extradition of DNA out of bacteria, the effectiveness of antibodies on bacteria, and how viruses react with bacteria.
Coordination chemistry, taught by Prof. Richard Middaugh is defined as studying the effect of chemical groups that are strongly associated with metal ions. He includes quantitative analysis, how metals act as catalysts and why some metal ions may have a different color in a different compound. Atomic structure also is delved into deeply.
Dr. Robert J. Friauf and Dr. Robert Stump have combined to give science campers a survey of the ideas of modern physics. Beginning with motion and forces, the campers worked their way through gravity and special relativity, that is, notion when velocity approaches light.
Mr. John Simms course, cellular biology, is the study of cellular structure and their functions and presents the latest theories and models describing cellular events. The topics considered are cell membranes, DNA, protein synthesis, cell movement, cellular metabolism, cell differentiation, and cell death.
Probability and number theory are the two mathematics courses, both taught by Prof. Philip Montgomery. In probability, the class has been studying simple experiments such as coin throwing, dice rolling, picking different color balls out of a box, and the world series. Number theory includes the properties of the positive numbers, the Pythagorean triples, and "Nim," a game.
McKinney talks on environment
Ross E. McKinney, KU professor of engineering and an expert on environmental pollution, talked to journalism campers Friday, July 17, on the problems of pollution in modern society.
Dr. McKinney, who has studied pollution for many years, said he believed "education is much of the answer for pollution. When we educate every individual to his responsibility to maintain the environment, then we will have done something."
After finishing his lecture Dr. McKinney answered questions from the audience.
Photo by Sam Green
... and add a pinch of salt Bob Buttke stirs up his brew in a chemistry class in the Science Division.