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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, December 5, 1967
Strayer is average?
There's an office in Strong Hall most male students would much rather stay away from. The office, 228 Strong, is that of dean of men.
What is unusual about KU's chapter of this feared fraternity of rooms is a student who works there. He gets paid, but not for filing papers, answering telephones or typing inter-office memos. He's 25 years old and an assistant dean of men.
To put it bluntly, Jay Strayer walks with authority where others fear to tread.
When he's not in the office he treads on ground that has usually been pretty sensitive about who's treading. Liaison man between the Interfraternity Council and the University's 28 fraternities and the dean of men is a touchy job.
Strayer, however, seems to have lived up to it.
Fraternity chapters have always been sensitive towards outsiders who not only know of their particular problems, but who talk of them and offer suggestions.
For the past two years, Strayer has made a practice of taking a great deal of time researching into each houses' problems and associating himself with them. He visits the chapter houses, writes stacks of personal letters—all the while obtaining a sizeable amount of respect from presidents and pledges alike.
Interfraternity Council President Dennis Taylor attributes this respect to two reasons:
"First of all, Jay has a knowledge of the Greek system and the needs of the individual houses. Because of this, he is young enough to understand 1967-68, while at the same time he's mature enough to understand each house and the University.
"Secondly, he has an ability to show his enthusiasm to everyone. He does this by working overtime on a part-time job. People know that he's sincerely involved not only with their fraternity, but
also with the University, and more important, its students."
Strayer got the job last year when he entered law school after a two-year hitch with the Navy (NROTC). Before that he had his association with the dean of men's office through Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He was the SAE president in 1964.
Besides the four hours a day, six days a week, he spends in Strong Hall, Strayer makes trips to the hill's houses, attends IFC, house president's meeting, and any of the numerous Greek specials that pop up during the year.
When he's not involved with Greek affairs, he's a second-year law student. When he's not playing that role, he's just one of the husbands over at Stouffer Place.
All in all, it's a pretty dull way to go through law school.
Before roaring into Mt. Oread, Strayer, surprisingly enough, had what he calls a "pretty normal" background. Born and reared in Mission, Kan., where his father has been an attorney for years, he went to Rockhurst High School for what he terms the "normal four years, no unusual activities." He does remember winning an English essay contest. Of course he played football, basketball, and baseball.
After graduation from KU, he entered the Navy, and was the average supply officer aboard the U.S.S. Austin in the Caribbean and was involved in standard operations—like the Dominican Republic crisis.
He met his wife, Caroline, on a standard blind date set up by the standard fraternity brother. She now teaches fourth grade at the Pinckney School in Lawrence while working on her masters degree in education.
When he graduates from law school in the fall of 1970—"the year Bobby Kennedy will start campaigning" (he doesn't profess to being a fan of the Senator's), Strayer will start work on a Masters in Business Administration. He received his first degree in economics and is interested in corporation management.
He admits that the pace gets tight occasionally, "but usually works out if I stick to a strict schedule." He tries to be in bed every night at 10:30. Caroline claims he sleeps while studying between 7 and 10 the next morning. There are no children to keep him awake.
Strayer has been approached about a second outside job, but he says he turned them down because he feels he couldn't give the dean 100 per cent. He claims there would be "a conflict of interest."
So the next male undergraduate that walks by 223 Strong shouldn't really feel nervous about walking in—after all, there's at least one "average" guy inside (if it's after 2:30 p.m. and Jay Strayer is out of classes).
Japanese mime to perform at KU
A Japanese mime, Yass Hakoshima, will perform at the University of Kansas under sponsorship of the East Asian Studies Center at 8 p.m. December 12 in Swarthworth Recital Hall.
Hakoshiba's style of imitations blends both Western and Eastern art forms, and lacks the strict, detailed stylistic forms of more primitive pantomime. His repertoire includes numbers entitled "Fisherman," "Geisha," "Harikiri," "Duel," "Puppet," "Illusion," "Dream," "Labyrinth," "Eagle," and "Ecdysis."
'Martians invade KU'; Beatles plan KU concert
By Robert Entriken Jr.
Kansan Staff Reporter
That headline never appeared in the Kansan and probably never will. But it does appear on the Kansan's headline style sheet as an example of what a three-column, 48 point, tempo bold headline would look like.
"Martians invade KU" blares the three column, half-inch high headline.
The University Daily Kansan uses three different typefaces in headlines. Tempo bold is the straight vertical lettering and the lettering which leans slightly to the right is tempo bold italic. The third typeface, first being used in today's paper, is condensed gothic, like the headline at the top of this story.
Type sizes range from 14 point, 1/8 of an inch high, to 72 point, standing nearly 3/4 of an inch.
To illustrate how different typefaces and sizes would look as headlines, copy editors are provided with the style sheet which illustrates the various sizes and tells how many letters can be fit into a column's width at a given size.
All of the headlines, like the Martian headline, are fake, but some provide a source of humor or wishful thinking in the newsroom.
The Class of '68 would have been quite disturbed to read "Senior day banned from football game" which is the example given of a three-column headline in 24-point type.
On the other hand the example for a five-column, 72-point head
--might draw a collective horse laugh from the entire student body were they to read:"Regents close K-State."
Some headlines come close to events which have happened. "ROTC drill picketed by Student Peace Union" has almost become an annual event.
Memories of the sit-in at the Chancellor's office two years ago are raised by another five-column illustration: "Strong Hall is placed under police protection," although no police protection was required for the administration building at the time.
"Beatles plan Oread concert" would be a groovy headline were it to come true, but other heads no one would like to see in print, such as: "Chancellor rules out short skirts on Oread," "City of Lawrence outlaws students from downtown," or "University bans women in classrooms."
One other headline example many students and alumni may agree with, even considering possible shortcomings KU may have: "President proclaims KU is best university."
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