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Dr. Ball Grows Insects
Experiments with Effect of Light Rays on Size
Today, only squeamish per
sons are terrified by the
"size" of insects. If they
had lived in primitive times,
they would have had good
reason.
Thousands of years ago in
sects grew to monstrous size
as compared to twentieth cen
tury insects. For instance,
the primitive dragonfly had a
wing span of 29 inches; the
cockroach measured in feet,
Instead of inches.
Light Effects
Dr. Harold Ball, research
er in entomology at the Uni-
Pershing Works
On National Net
Pershing Rifles National
Headquarters in Lincoln is on
its way to reaching its goal of
setting up a national radio
network among the 12 regi
mental headquarters.
Pat Kuncl, national com
mander, established contact
with regimental commanders
in Tucson, Ariz, and Baton
Rouge, La.
The network, which is cur
rently using the facilities of
MARS, Military Affiliated Ra
dio Stations, is expected to be
ready by next year.
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(By the A vlhor of "Rally Round the. Fha, Boy!" and,
"Barefoot Boy with Cheek.")
THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SMOOCH
Back in my courting day (the raccoon coat was all the rage,
everybody was singing Good Morning, Mister Zip Zip Zip, and
young Bonaparte had just left Corsica), back, I say, in my
courting days, the standard way to melt a girl's heart was to
write poetry to her.
I don't understand why young vncn today have abandoned
this gambit There is nothing like portry for moving a difficult
girl. What's more, poems are ridiculously easy to write. Tha
range of subjects is endless. You can write a poem about a girl's
bair, hef eyes. her lips, her walk, her talk, her clothes-anything
at all. Indeed, one of my most effective love lyrics was called
To Maud's Pencil Box. It went like this:
In your dear little Itatiierette ptneU hot
A re pencil of yellow and rtd,
And if you don't ltd me you love mi toon,
I'll hit you on top of the head.
Honesty compels me to admit that this pown fell hort d
funce. Nothing daunted, I wrote another one. This time 1
pulled a switch; I threatened myself instead of Maud.
Oh, Maud, pray stop thi driil
Arid leU Pie you'll be mine,
For my sweetbread they do shrivel
A nd wind around my tpine.
My heart doth tease it bailing
My tpleen uncoil and warp,
My liver stops secreting
Soon I need be a corps.
When this heart-rending ballad failed to win Maud, I could
nly conclude that she was cruel and heartless and I was bettei
off -without her. Accordingly I took back my lli-Y pin, bade her
adieu, and have not clapped eyes on her since. Ijist I heard,
she was working in Galveston as a Plimsoll line.
But I did not'mourn Maud long, for after Maud camp Dorm
Doris of the laughing eyes, Doris of the shimmering hair, Doris
of the golden tibiae! Within moments of meeting her, I whipped
up a torrent of trochaic tetrameter:
Oh, my fneeet and dulcet Doris!
I loot you like a Philip Morri
With it mild and rich foWco
In it white and tcarlet pack-a.
Fd swim from LouusiiUe to S'olrhes
For Philip Morri and you and mulches.
Well, of course, the dear girl couldn't reit a poem like that .
what girl could? and she instantly became my slave. For
the rest of the semester she carried my books, washed my car,
and cored my apples. There is no telling where it all would
have ended if she hadn't been drafted.
So, men, you can see the power of poetry. Try it yourself. All
you need is a rhyming dictionary, a quill pen, and a second
hand DIUM.
Let' drop rhym and turn to reaton. The reaton Marlboro
ha on to the head of the filter cigarette clat is timple:
better "makin'" flavor that pleatte. a filter that work.
Marlboro from the maker of Philip Morri.
versity, is experimenting with
the effects of light on insect
growth and development.
He is growing some in
sects in total darkness, ma
turing another group in nor
mal room light and exposing
other groups to various light
waves.
"If total darkness pre
vailed, insects possibly would
become larger and approach
the size they maintained
thousands of years ago," Dr.
Ball said.
Three Species
He has been using three
species of insects from three
different insect orders the
German cockroach, milkweed
bugs, and spotted alfalfa aph
ids. Cockroaches and milkweed
bugs treated with daily ex
posures of "far red" and red
light responded with prema
ture death and smaller size,
corresponding to the length of
exposure. White light
produced similar but far less
damaging effects on the In
sects. Aphids tested in the s a m e
way produced by far the few
est offspring under "far red"
and red light.
Reds Inhibit
These experiment results
indicate the longer wave
lengths of red and "far red"
are especially inhibitory to
the insects tested.
This may be the reason that
red and orange porch lights
keep insects away from your
door, Dr. Ball said.
However, he continued,
some experiments point up i ty.
the fact that white light of These entertainers also
equal intensity appeared al- appeared last week at Kan
most as harmful as the long- sas University. Kansas statP
er wave lengtns sucn as red
and "far red." He explained
that this is because white
light is partially composed of
with
'. Mm (
I harmful longer wave lengths
and therefore logically can be
expeciea 10 proauce a iimu
ed inhibitory response.
Light Ignored
j The effect of the absence
of light on growth has been
studied in only a few in
I stances, Dr. Ball said. With
I one or two exceptions, the
effect of visible radiation on
growth has been ignored by
researchers.
Dr. Ball's project has been
running for about two years.
He plans to treat insects with
extremely short flash treat
ments of light in further ex
periments. Kaleidoscope
To Feature
Talent Acts
Several acts recorded on
the spot at the Student Union
Big Eight Talent Show Sun
day will be featured on KFMQ
11 p.m. Wednesday.
Kaleidoscope, a program
hosted by NU junior John
West, will included original
selections by ballad singer
Jim McMullan, Kansas Uni
versity. These songs are
soon to be recorded for na
tional release.
Also on the program will
be "The Aesthetic Reading
Society", a skit done by the
comedy team of Matt Flynn,
Emmie Goetz and Harvey Le
vine from Missouri Universi-
and Iowa State in the annual
Big Eight talent program.
Rischnuieller Is
Nursing School
Sweetheart
Nancy Rischmueller was
crowned Valentine Sweet
heart at the annual Univer
sity of Nebraska School of
Nursing Sweetheart Dance.
Attending the queen, who
was crowned by last year's
recipient. Donna Rigg, were
Ann Rogers and Donna MiU
sap. Miss Rischmueller received
her pre-nursing training at
the University and is a sen
ior at the School of Nursing.
Quartet to Begin
Musical Series
The Fine Arts Quartet, a
string ensemble, will feature
n it i
ueemoven selections in a
four -part series beginning
Feb. 25 over KUON-TV.
During the full-hour pro
gram starting at 6 p.m., pro
ducer Vincent Park will join!
me yuartet in analyzing six
Beethoven string quartets i
and asking questions which:
viewers themselves might:
asK.
This quartet includes Leon
ard Sorkin, violin; Abram
Loft, violin; Irving Ilmer.
viola, and George Sopkin, eel- (
lo. '
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Qn The Social Side:
Nancy Lewis Chosen
By Kappa
By Sue Healy
Crowned as Kappa Sigma
Sweetheart Friday night was
Nancy Lewis. She is a Delta
Gamma junior in Teachers
from Fremont.
Pinnings and engagements
Bizad
Hears
Group
Talks
Jack Wendstrand, assistant
attorney general of Nebraska,
was speaker at a Delta Sig
ma Pi dinner.
Delta Sigma Pi is a pro
fessional business administra
tion fraternity.
Wendstrand's speech con
cerned the functions of his
office and the recount of votes
from the recent election.
He asserted that any opin
ion coming from the attorney
general's office would be com
pletely non-partisan. Also he
mentioned that if Anderson
loses, he cannot appeal the
result. However if Brooks
loses, he may appeal to the
courts.
'Kintfs Row9 h
Sunday Movie
Robert Cummings and Ann
Sheridan star in "King's Row"
at the Union Ballroom 7:30
p.m. Sunday.
Admission to the movie and
tion from the novel by Henry
Bellaman, is set in the mit
western Unitet States at the
turn of the century.
At mission to the movie and
a color cartoon will be with
University identification only.
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Sigma
kept serenaders hopping Mon
day as the list ran to five
pinnings and five engage
ments. Pinnings
Judy Truell, an Alpha Phi
junior in Teachers from Oma
ha, to Bob Atkins, a Sigma
Alpha Epsilon junior in Busi
ness Administration from
Lincoln.
Angie Holbert, a Delta
Gamma junior in Home Eco
nomics from Lincoln, to Har
old Johnson, a Beta Theta Pi
junior in Business Adminis
tntion from Lincoln.
Laurie Abernethy, a Zeta
Tau Alpha freshman in Teach
ers from Lincoln, to Gary
Stevens, a Delta Sigma Phi
freshman in Business Admin
istration from Omaha.
Jeanne Davis, sophomore at
Wesleyan from Lincoln, to
Tom George, an Alpha Gam
ma Sigma junior in Engineer
ing from Lincoln.
Linda Harm, a Kappa Del
ta freshman in Business Ad
ministration from Lincoln, to.
Byron Kort, an Alpha Gam
ma Sigma senior in Agricul
ture from Blue Hill.
Engagements
Sondra Brauch from Diller,
to Dick Timmerman, a Farm
House sophomore in Agricul
ture from Diller.
Judy Zikmund, an Alpha
Omicron Pi sophomore in
Teachers from Wilber, to Karl
Bauman, an Alpha Tau Ome
ga junior in Arts and Sciences
from Revenna.
Marilyn D o n e I s o n from
Fullerton, to Lyle Vawser, an
Alpha Gamma Sigma senior
in Agriculture from Bloom
field. Dot Knippenberg, a sopho
more in Teachers from Lin
coln, to Rudy Stehl, a junior
in Teachers from Scribner.
Beverly Cox. Fedde Hall
sophomore in Home Econom
ics from Mullen, to Roger
French, Ag Men's junior in
Agriculture from Mullen.
KUON-TV
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6:30 TV CUiMroom
7 Vour Marruue
7:30 Community of CondnDrd
9 Children Crowing
ft 30 Conversation Piece
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Evening Prelude.
6:30 TV Classroom
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'Disease'
Victims
Number 28
Other Mono Cases
Still Undetected
Twenty-eight cases of mono
nucleosis have been diagnosed
at Student Health since Sep-1
tember. 1
Dr. Samuel Fuenning, di-
rector of Student Health, !
called this "a normal'
amount." The two year pe
riod from 1956 to 1958 saw,
73 cases. !
"These are proven cases,"
Dr. Fuenning said. "This!
number does not include the i
mild cases which are never
brought to our attention and:
are never diagnosed. We are
confident that there are many
such cases."
He explained that the dis
ease was so common among j
college student's that it was j
called the "student's dis-;
ease." i
"Another popular name for
it is the 'kissing disease'," he
said, "although it's debated
whether the disease is actual-;
ly transmitted in this way." i
This disease is common;
wherever a large group of
people congregate in a smalL
place, Dr. Fuenning said. I
There is no specific treat-;
ment for the disease except j
rest. Symptoms mimic other ',
diseases, he said. They in
clude sore throat, fatigue, j
swelling of the lymph nodes :
in the neck and aches and
pains.
Fatigue is the most com
mon symptom and usually
precedes the disease.
"The only thing I can rec
ommend for avoiding it is for
students to try to keep up!
their resistance," Dr. Fuen-,
ning added.
Redundant?
The Omaha World Herald
comes up with this observa
tion about the American
presidency.
Roosevelt proved that a
man could be president as
long as he wanted. Truman
proved that it could be any
body. And now Eisenhower
has proved that we didn't
need one anyway.
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