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University Daily Kansan
Quiet Campus, Local Issues Followed World War I
By BETSY MORGAN Kansan Staff Writer
The post World War One years formed one of the most extreme crises in American history, of Kansas history. Students' minds were turned from national school to school, activities, careless raising anxiety on the part of faculty and parents at the recklessness of the younger generation.
Robert Tafil, in his book, "The Years on Mount Ouret," said of the women of Paris who the deans of men and women had to face problems of dress, drink, sex, deportment and smoking, unprepared in the city.
Yet, the students were also quite active in working to promote KU and its traditions. In addition, the school's Chancellor E. H. Lindley in an effort to expand KU's budget to allow for additional teachers, classrooms and supplies. Their most recent university, Westerville, was best university in the Midwest."
EARLY IN 1921, the Kansas Legislature responded to their demands by appropriating over $3 million for the following two
In 1921, students launched a million dollar driver drive to raise money for World War I, who died during World War I. The average contribution among students was $60, and within the cohorts that were collected, Part of this sum went for the construction of the first football stadium in 1921 Stadium completed in 1921
In addition, a memorial to James W. Green, former dean of the KU law school, was built from the fund and was unveiled at commencement in 1924. The award was named "Uncle Jimmy" to students.
IN THE EARLY '20s, signs of women's lib are also beginning to sprout. Smoking had long been the accepted rule for men, but when women in the early '20s were more likely to authorities were quite upset.
One prominent faculty woman in 1923 said of the habit, "It is injurious to women who are not as temperate as best it is a horrible weed
... at best it is a horrible weed and should be left alone."
However, by 1930, the Kansan
was forced to admit that, "the practice is not merely a fad, but an established habit."
In 1928, after much discussion, women were also allowed to form debate squads for the first time in KU history.
IN 1924, the Dove, "a journal of liberal opinion," was published by KU students and graduates (near-red) paper, was not sanctioned by University Press, was completely financed by its authors.
was written by a Jap."
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Charles D. Ise wrote in the KU graduate magazine in 1930 that he is one of the greatest magazine editors and sociologists in the country as a product of genius and one of the best of brewing veridials in existence.
In 1925, the Dove published many editorials concerning the important campus issue of Negro rights. Negroes at KU during this period were working to be the junior and varsity dances and to have a representation in the Interfraternity Council. The staff of the Dove also pointed out that Negroes had to sit in a specific room in the gymnasium, and allowed to use the University swimming pool.
THESE EDITORIALS caused a quite a stir and prompted several debates about the role he held a different point of view. This remained a central issue throughout the country.
In 1927, the Dove began a series of articles which opposed ROTC on the KU campus. ROTC had begun under the National Defense Act as well as with other KU students, felt not ROTC "bred the spirit of militarism and its accompaniments."
One staff member of the Dove, Signo Ogiadone, a Japanese student, wrote an editorial against preparing for defense. The defense throughout reacted bitterly, and one paper noted that the story "evidently
In February of 1927 another student newspaper, the Hawk, was born. The aim, its editors felt, was to popular feeling at the University.
THE HAWK, in answer to the Dove's position on ROTC, said that ROTC was a "valuable element in college education." However, this argument claimed unsolved by either side.
Throughout 1927, the two publications continued to debate issues. Another joiing point for the two became the rating which was used by students in sorority from taxes. The Dove felt this plan was unfair to students not in houses, while the Hoyle felt it was necessary to students living in houses who could not afford the cost if the houses were forced to pay taxes. The issue remained unresolved and legislature ignored the problem.
The Hawk's career was quite short-lived, and, after a few issues, disbanded, while the Dove remained in existence until 1932.
IN THE SPRING of 1823, the entire student body was campaigning for liberalism. Women students were expectations to be home at 10 p.m. on week nights and would be expected to wear clothes. Women had to have written permission to go to Kansas City in a car with an earl, and had to walk to the school.
Students also wanted to be allowed to play tennis on Sundays, which authorities felt proper activity for the holy day.
These rules were gradually elaxed after much student complaining.
Freshmen in 1925 were beginning to question upperclass authority. For several years the tradition at KU was for freshman men to wear caps at all times on campus, and also at Thanksgiving, and to every home football game, with a ribbon in the band of the cap.
IN ADDITION, after the first home football game, freshman men were to perform a snake bite in Lawrence, Lawrence, wearing white
However, the freshman class of 1925 thought the tradition a mokery of freshmen, and after the big KU-University of Oklahoma, they huge bonfire and burned their caps. The student council, upset
nightshirts. The purpose was to show loyalty to the KU football team in the case of defeat and spirit in the case of victory.
by the incident, relaxed the rules and said that men were not compelled to follow tradition, as they as did they not burn their cups.
HOWEVER, IN 1926 women were made to wear the caps and men were "urged to tip their hats when they passed the KU flag,"
The 1928 freshman did not take much offense at the rules and the
little protest that followed came mainly from sophomores who urged freshmen to hold the council to its 1925 promise.
Throughout the decade, clothing was an example of women's fashion life. Authorities were quite upset at a woman's manner of dress.
One Dean of Women, in the
early '20s stated that, "Women shall not pass through the portals of our dining room unless they have a hostess's hosiery." By 1830, however, short skirts and bare tgs were as regular dress on campus.
THE DECADE from 1920-1930 wrought many changes, both in student attitudes and in the
attitudes of authorities in viewing students. Establishing their rights, students found that longer were they subject to and whims of the legislature and authorities. Students had created an active and effective voice in education and governed their University.
Pranks Common in KU History
Rv KEN HARWOOD
KANSAS STAFF WRITER
Student activism on the University of Kansas campus has not always involved mass participation, physical threats and public change. The history of the University suggests that student activism usually involved pranks with a general absence of social interaction.
Thomas Yee, an assistant to the director of the University of Kansas and a graduate Department and a 1939 graduate of KU, has a broad background on the history of the University and activity in a recent interview.
You said that in his days as a student, "it was not stylish to consider that we've just got to wear what we're going to wear, we've got weve to have change."
There was a much different concept of activism in the 1880s. Yoe cited the case of a KU Latin student who was shot through a relatively innocent act.
"Large numbers of student
students are at risk of being
recaf'ed and involving a
physical threat on our campus is
a phenomenon of the '60s." Yoe
Yoe said Professor Robinson
"There were people around the state who believed Mount Oread was the hotbed of subversion in those days," Yoe said.
"We did have people on the campus who were very sympathetic to worldwide revolution of the proletariat," he
"The best stunt I can perform in the Kansas State basketball game here about five years ago, is shooting a free throw and the game down unrolled some curtains over the big scoreboard in the field house with some big players."
Traditions also had a part to play in the activities of students. One such tradition called the Nightshirt lasted more than 30 years.
The game had to be stopped and the scoreboard lowered to take off the curtains so the score would not be shown to show for the rest of the game.
In October 1939, at a meeting of the Men's Student Council, a resolution was introduced to ban buildings in which students buildings except the Union
gathered at the home of Chancellor Strong hoping the Chancellor would come outside and make a speech.
would not have been a student at KU the next day.
The Nightshift Parade, Yea,
began one night in 1909 after
the University had won some
major sports event. The students
Chancellor Strong, though he was on his way to bed, did come outside and give a speech—in his nighthirtie. For over the next 30
years. Yoe said, students would
would go to Central Park in nigh-
ture, march around the campus and down to
Central Park where a bonfire was
One night, Yoe said, two see a professor at work. "The social call" to the professor's house. After a chaty visit and some hymns singing with a piano, they marched down the street.
Several campus organizations quickly approved the resolution: the Women's Self-Governing Association passed a rule banning smoking for women in the first and second floors of Strong Hall. The W.S.G.A. decided that women found
"People in those times were more tradition-minded," he said.
The Men's Student Council adopted this rule for men and appointed a committee made up of members of the faculty, Men's Student Council, and Women's Association to discipline smokers.
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He said considerable apprehension about Communists began to rise in the 1930s.
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The next morning, the professor noticed that the outside doors to his cellar had been tampered with, so he went down the cellar steps. When he looked up at the floor of his wine hine was poured out.
Expulsion Was Penalty Of 1939 Ban on Smoking
breaking the rule for the first time would be asked to refrain. The second offense would be called if the offender's name in the Kansan and the third offense would make him lose the loss of credit hours or expulsion.
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also was the victim of a prank in which he accidentally moved with temperature, movement, which urged the prohibition of alcohol, but instead his own wine in the polish galleried.
Peace movements and protests surrounding the ROTC Review happened on campus in the 1930s, but it was not a big part of the physical attempt for disruption
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