University Daily Kansan
Birds First Legend
Wednesday, February 14, 1973
Roman Sagas Create Valentine's Day
By MARILYN GIBSON
Kansan Staff Writer
When exchanging valentines today, keep in mind that the first observance of Valentine's Day celebrated the mating of birds.
Legends of Valentine's Day are many, but one of the oldest concerns the ancient Roman festival of Luciaria. The festival was observed in mid-February each year to celebrate the mating of birds. Young Roman males would draw lots for the names of girls and then would court the girl whose lot they chose for an entire year.
The Christian tradition of St. Valentine's Day came from a legend of an imprisoned young priest named Valentinus, Valentinus was befriended by a jail keeper's blind
According to the legend, Valentinus was being executed for refusing to renounce his Christian faith. Just prior to the execution, Valentinus had received a letter from a daughter and sent a farewell message to the
Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, the loss of anticipated revenue.
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Martin Jones, budget officer, said the drop in fees also was due to a reduction in tuition. The ratio of nonresident students to resident students and an increase in the number of students enrolled on an hourly basis account for part of the drop in the average student income.
At the same time, inflation has chewed away at the funds departments do have. In the past three years, price increases in the annual inflation rate of four per cent, combined with a 10 per cent budget cut, means a 14 per cent drop in purchasing power.
Because of the unexpected decrease in overall enrollment, most departments received a 10 per cent cut in their supply and equipment budgets this year. J. K. Lee, assistant chairman of the department of business administration, supplied and equipment budget had been cut a total of 27 per cent over the last three years.
The pattern of enrollment has shifted in recent years so that some individual schools and departments must cope with the increase in the face of budget cuts and inflation.
The number of students in the School of Social Welfare has risen from 90, when the school was founded in 1969 to 345, an increase of nearly 400 percentage points, according to Arthur Katz, dean of the School of Social Welfare.
Kiesler outlined what the shift in enrollment has meant to the psychology department. The department has 17 per cent of the majors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and non-majors have between 2.9 and 5 per cent of the College's resources.
He said a redistribution of resources had to be achieved by supplying additional funds and faculty members to needy departments because it would be difficult to actually decrease allotments to some departments.
However, decreases in state funding do not reduce the budgets of departments nearly to the degree that backups in money do, according to several professors.
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Six red and blue trash cans were placed on the KU campus during semester break by Buildings and Grounds employees, accustomed to the supervision, supervisor of building maintenance.
Wiley said that the cans were a six-month experiment, and that more cans might be needed at that period. However, he said, if any of the cans were stolen, they would not be replaced.
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girl. He signed it "from your Valentine." The legend says that he was executed on Feb. 14, 270 A.D., and that a pink almond tree bloomed near his grave. This, according to the legend, is a symbol of abiding love.
Another story is that Emperor Claudius of Rome issued a decree for bidding marriage. Married men were being called to war and they did not, according to the Emperor's notion, make good soldiers. Claudius decided that matrimony must be abolished.
The good priest Valentine heard this and was sad. He invited young lovers to come to him.
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The Emperor learned of this and had Valentine dragged to prison. It was here that the "friend of lovers" died, a martyr to love. This was on Feb. 14, 270 A.D.
The first Valentine's Day card supposedly was sent by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife in France. This was in 1415 while he was imprisoned in the tower of London.
It is no wonder that Roman youths and
some whom he gave his life set apart
this day to be martyrs.
The craft of making valentines came to America in the 1840's. Comic valentines date back to 1809, but their popularity zoomed late in the 19th century. Through the 1850's and 1660's valentines were often gaudy and very long.
Photography has become popular on cards in the last few years. The verses tend to be shorter and more direct. It is not unusual to find cards that take on the conversational approach and that use bright and varied colors.
Hallmark Cards Inc. works hard each
year to develop new ideas for their Valentine's Day cards. The Schultz characters, Charlie Brown, Peanuts, Lucy are all popular.
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Hill said that the Valentine's Day cards make up the second largest season for baseball.
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