6A
Friday, April 21, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Chancellor Malott Joins Nightshirt Parade
Chancellor Deane W. Malotl waves enthusiastically to students in this nighttime show from the mid-1940s. The tradition was initiated by Chancellor Dean D. Chancellor.
utneutic victory. It was continued for many years. Malotit was KU's Chancellor from 1839 until 1951, when he accepted a position at the University of Cambridge.
Dandelion Problem in '42
By MARTY LYONS Kansan Staff Writer
In 1942 there was a different kind of student activism than there today, according to the magazine Money, KU had won a football game, perhaps the first one in two years. The university wanted the day off.
Suthi said that the students surrounded Chancellor Malot's house in hopes of having classes cancelled. Malot also said that he was according to Suthi, then he announced that there would be classes as usual.
This was one issue that students took action on in 1942, according to Stuhl.
"And the students went to class," Stuhl said.
CHANCELLOR MALOTH had
replaced Harrod. Stuh said that he
sponsored Dandelion Day as a
palm campaign to clean up
"Malotl had said that not only the grounds but also the buildings resembled City Hall rather than a university," Stuhl said.
Stuhl said that the Malott wanted to see a more distinguished look about the campus and inside the buildings. To achieve this Malott
took smoking privileges away from the students except when they were on break. Hall, according to Stuhl. Malot also had ashrets placed in all of the rooms.
"The whole community was impressed," he said. Said him that said on Damascus Day itself there were students and faculty members out digging.
"YOU CAN BET that
"YOUCEI Cmalott and his wife
were right out there with the
man in the pulling dandelions."
Stuhl said.
"The Chancellor's wife and the wife of John Nelson, graduate student at UC Davis, helped truck to make sure that the redbud trees were planted," she said.
Another student activity that was enthusiastically participated in this year's season was Arthur Lonborg, former athletic director, said that these parades were like pep pals before the first home football game each season.
"Students and faculty dressed in nightshirts joined hands and smaedaken down the hill into town." Lonborg said.
died out in the mid-fifties.
He said that these parades were well-attended but that they
WHEN ASKED about student activism today Stuhl said that he had been told than there was in 1945. After explaining the principle of Feedback to him, Stuhli agreed that he had a good organ of student opinion.
"Students do have a tendency to be too loud, overemotional and less reasonable." Stuhl said.
Suhl said that an antidote for this would be closer connection between the feeling of the student and the student's feelings for the student. He said that this
Stuhl emphasized that the atmosphere at KU was the friendliest and most cordial in the nation as far as the teaching
could be promoted by a higher degree of emphasis on affection for the student and the subject.
MALOTT THOUGHT that there should be a cordial atmosphere with a high degree of teaching efficiency, according to
Stuhl said that when Malotti walked down the sidewalk on campus he could call most students by their first names.
1910-20 Marked by Political Reform Night Shirt Parades, Men's Union
By PATTI O'NEILL Kansan Staff Writer
In the period from 1910 to 1920 student activism here at KU ran the gamut from frivolous night meetings to major social and the more serious issues of social and political reform. Times have changed, to be sure, but students today are voicing their opinions about the new curriculum; students did over 50 years ago.
The period from 1910 to 1920 was marked by student concern with the growth and development of the young University.
In 1910 students realized the need of a student union. State legislature passed a bill at that time, so after much work, in 1914, a temporary union was established. This union was called the Student Union and was open to men only.
THE MEN'S union failed because of financial insufficiencies. A plan for a co-education was then presented to the legislature, but it was not until 1974 that the union was finally founded.
Starting in 1911 the Women's Student Government Association (WSGA) organized to obtain a women's university. They held a Women's day rally which was attended by 500 women from all over the state and over 800 women students. At the rally they through subscriptions for the new dorm, with plans to collect $75,000 by the end of the school year. They never reached their goal and the dorm continued into the 1920's.
Women's rights are also very much in the news during this week, because the men prosecuted against the Men's Student Council (which made most of the rules) saying that the men had no right to KU women.
1912 the Women's Equal Suffrage League became active at KU. Women students took part in the movement to aid the growing movement.
Women students who didn't subragette to the views held by the subragettes started their own
Anti-Suffrage League because, according to a 1912 edition of the University Kansas, they didn't want to miss out on the good social times (teas, meetings, and the suffrages were having.
One of the more unusual, but practical demands of University women, was a plea in 1814 for a faculties to be established which seems the absence of such a facility was inconvenient for many students. It spent much time in the labs at Sapient.
Students were as much concerned then as they are today about the use and destination of their education. The student council started an effort to clean up campus offices, but money was going into the pockets of elected student officers instead of benefiting the betterment of the University.
IN 1912 KU students initiated a Legislature because fees were paid into the State Treasury instead of being directly used for the college.
Pacifists Active After WWI
They issued a statement to the legislature calling for the repeal of this law and in the fall of 1912 over 1000 students appeared before the legislature to voice their protest. Students worked tirelessly to petition the institutions in their home towns until the bill was defeated in 1915.
By ANITA KNOPP
Kansan Staff Writer
Pacifists and women were some of the more active student groups in the 1920s, former President James D. Carolynel Anderson said recently.
Anderson, who attended "KCU"
and set up getting over World War I at
he time and there was quite a
action as well. I attended church groups.
particularly a group sponsored by the YMCA that met every Friday.
"There was a widely held feeling against military training, but the Army had the time, but K-State, a grant college, did. I think that's why some of the boys came to KU and were sent to Manhattan." Anderson said.
Student Involvement . . .
Continued from Page 1
Similar feelings continued in 1921. One student asked, "Why study when I'm going to get killed?" The teacher responded that year's yearbook wrote, "Maybe this war isn't being fought for democracy, but does."
Those students who did not volunteer for war service objected being forgiven. The anatomy building burned, but the origin of the fire was never known On Monday they "jammed" the hallways outside Chancellor Malolt's office in Strong Hall and demanded longer time to reassemble scheduled four days. The limited length of the vacation was a result of the University Senate's effort to "-speed up" the school week.
THE PROTEST was reported to have ended in a 'riot.' The next day eight students represent campus organizations that had been sensitative of the whole student body and asked the Senate to reconsider its action of voting down two resolutions granting an ordinance for the vacation two days later, the vacation was ordered at seven days.
After World War II the weary apathy at KU was representative of the post-World War II Lawrence, though, were aware of the fact that if they could be called upon to fight in wars, they would have a responsibility in other areas also.
Korea, "Commie-hunts," shorter skirts and easier lifestyle styles were represented in 1953. The skirts were also peaked such as "Are Our Teenagers Rejecting Our American Heritage?" and "Teenage Good or Bad?," the director of the 1953 Jayhawker wrote that the "new awareness is due to changes in technology, science, fashion." Lawrence was aware but quiet.
The Kansas River flood of 1981 the
students united. Seven hundred Greeks appeared in "Life"
magnesium cleaning up the flooded
river.
STUDENTS AT KU were like most in the United States in the early 1960s. New music, new
courses and new habits were en joyed.
On Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennett and the Jawkower of that year reflect the horror and grief of that day and the respect students have for them.
"U.S. News and World Report"
"The Journal of Autumn 1964 is considered the birth
of the U.S. student revolution. At the time,
demonstrations erupted in a few cities."
The 1966 Jayhawk had pictures of "stop the war" posters, students of the University, many students at colleges and universities across the country, and KU was no exception. The fear of speaking out no longer exasperated them.
In 1967 a "protesting group." Voice, was created at KU. It called for more student representation in campus affairs. Most students backed the organization because it was the first Council toward a compromise
In April 1988 action erupted a Columbia University in New York. Students, led by the SBS, took control of part of the campus for a week and then forced the close of the entire university for the reopening. The action was taken after peaceful petitions and protests concerning student rights and the war. We need you to listen."
Black students in America were among those wanting to be heard. In 1969, after quiet pleas with no results, guns were枪杀。In 2014, a Cornell University in Rhaca, New York. No shots were fired.
AND THEN there was 1970. Students and others in the United States were criticized for drug use, and they were also perceived as appearance, draft evasion and worthless protests. The war continued and the explosions were heard again and again among them. President Nixon's announcement of the invasion of Vietnam.
For once, the trouble was not only at a few radical colleges and universities, but erupted with varying degrees of destruction. From the University of Wisconsin, University of Calif., to the University of Maryland, Dennison, Jackson
State, Kent State and the University of Kansas.
In April and May many buildings on campus burned. As the Jahayawk of that year states, the buildings will often be misunderstood.
In the fall 1969 semester, students requested more responsibility and power and improvements of the Senate Code. On Feb. 23, 1970 black unrest resulted in the University of Kansas.
Student Body President Dave Awrey asked support for a student strike in protest to the Red Cross and the NRA. Promotions of Velvety and Littie
Velvel had criticized Judge Julius Hoffman for his actions at the Chicago 7 trial. Litton had criticized which Congress had criticized.
IN EARLY April the Board of Regents delayed the promotion of associate professor Lawrence Darden and assistant professor Fredric Lutton.
AMONG THE publications read by the students. Anderson and Squire learned newspaper, and the Sour Owl which was banned at one time for obscurity. Anderson said he wanted to help the students. She said the jokes in the Sour Owl which caused it to be banned could be termed "medical" humor.
John Spearman Jr, chairman
of the firm himself as arm
themselves since they had
been receiving threatening calls
since asking funds for a Hoffman
During this period many lingering traditions were repeated, bonfires enjoyed active student participation. In 1910 the first shirt parade was held KU men, in their nightwear, in the student district, down Massachusetts Street and stopped at the school's snake dance was started that would become the traditional event to work up enthusiasm for Kansas-Missouri football game.
Abbie Hoffman was in Law rence for the strike.
There was trouble at Lawrence
High School. The Kansas Union
basketball team had trouble at the Rock Chalk cafe,
gunshot, national guard are
HENRY BUBB, Regent, said,
"Instead of writing resolutions,
those kids should be standing up
for the flag."
Anderson was personally involved in the women's group on campus. The group, composed of non-sorority members, was recruited from all schools for the girls in the Women's Self Governing Association (WGSA).
KU 1S once again quiet and as are most universities. According to "Newsweek" magazine, stud- ing teams are forced for change "within the system."
Anderson, who was the leader of the non-sorority group said, "we organized women scattered throughout the town into groups left we had elected four women, from our group the WGSA."
Professor Cowley and many others believe that student activism will always continue on varying levels. Cowley said, "There is no stopping student activism in the workplace those who expect to be as influential 'outside' the campus as 'inside' are naive indeed."
The media often ask what is the role of universities. Could such actions as those in 1970 occur again? Are students not politically apt to be recruited?
"The Dean of Women had forbidden women to smoke and I still smoke, but we knew that she smoked. The faculty women who smoked had also smoked."
The question of blacks' rights was not a big issue at the time, Anderson said.
"The thinking about it was there, but we were not militant about it. We looked at it in a calmer way." she said.
One of the most debated issues at the time was the restriction of smoking on campus.
Anderson couldn't remember that there were any black teachers at the time, but there were quite a few black students. She said she was described downtown against the Blacks.
ANDERSON SAID that the first woman she remembered seeing smoking in public were not residents of her house late in the evening.
They had to sit in the second balcony in the剧院 downstairs. She did not think they were discriminated against on campus. The only thing they were not allowed to do was take the swimming pool that was a homework for a bachelor's degree," she said.
"Among the most active groups on campus were the church groups which met every Sunday," Anderson said. "This was the only school activity by the school on Sunday."
DRESS CODES were also regulated by the University when Anderson was here.
Overall, Anderson said, there was a feeling among students that they were privileged to be getting higher education. She said students were generally satisfied with things as they were
"Of course our dresses were knee-high and above already," Anderson said. "The most striking difference was that in 1920 it was that we had a hobo day once a year and now they have它 every day."
"We had a lot of respect in most cases for our professors. We stood in awe of them almost. We just felt privileged to be here."
student who was ill with typhoid fever. In the same year they took up a fund to provide a brighter home for the aging jannie who was paralyzed
IN 1919 KU students started a Loyalty Movement designed to increase school spirit. Loyalty convocations were held, loyally arm bands sold and fund raising drives held to raise money for a charity. That was at this time that the KUKU pep club was originated.
However, students of that time were not wholly concerned with pep rallies and good times. Continual willingness to help the community pervaded the period between 1810 and 1920.
In 1910 students took up a collection to pay the medical expenses of a destitute fellow
IN 1919 THERE was a coal strike. The University was in danger of closing down because of fuel shortages. More than 50 KU men went to Scammon, who workers in the coal mines there.
When war broke out in 1917, a new kind of student involvement arose. Women students were hired to work in the Red Cross and working for the Red Cross.
Fraternities and Sororites adopted war orphans. Students saved war stamps.
Along with the war came the usual protest to war. The War in Europe that all men must participate in military training while at the University. Many men withdrew from classes in protest to this
In 1917 the Army investigated the distribution of cards on campgrounds. You have nothing to gain and your life to lose." The distributor went on.
For fast service come to Burger Chef this Relays weekend. Try our Super Chef, or the Big Chef, or the Roast Beet Sandwich, or all three.
- 100% Pure Beef -
9th & Iowa
Let's All Go to Burger Chef
The Clog Brigade, most spectacular in town.
We'll make the final curtain give you a happy ending. If feet could applaud they'd shout 'encore' for Nina, who always put fashion first.
Vina the happy ending shoe