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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Jan. 10, 1963
Assignment Book Is Key To Inscrutable Woman
By Linda Machin
Say fella, would you like to know if that cute blonde sitting in the desk next to you is busy Saturday night?
You can check on your competition as well as her personal habits, whims, and desires quite easily without her knowing — that is, if you can swipe her assignment book unnoticed.
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According to 18 assignment books belonging to KU women picked at random in Watson Library and classrooms, it seems that the female counterpart to the male's legendary little black book is the dark blue. KU assignment book.
A QUICK SCAN of several assignment books revealed the names or initials of the escort for the evening, or simply the note, "date" jotted down in the appropriate day.
One embarrassed, but systematic young woman, when questioned about the peculiar symbols following the names in her assignment book, explained, "They're part of a rating system I have."
According to her, "C" indicates he was "sort of a clod," while a "C" with a circle around it denotes "he was really a clod and I broke the date."
The lucky males having no marks behind their names, had their names and telephone numbers listed in the address section in the back.
SOME BOOKS indicated several dates planned in one day. The entry for Friday, January 14, in one read:
10:30—Coke date—Stev
12:30—Beauty shop
10:30—Coke date—Steve
12:30—Beauty shop 5:30-Dinner with R.S.
3:30 -- Dinner with IPS
7:00 -- B-Ball game -- Bill
Some inscriptions showed the progression stage of courtship. For instance, listings for four successive days in a book of one young woman who was dating a student of the University of California read;
"Ben calld, I called him back.
Telegram arrived. Engagement ring
arrived. I called Ben, again."
Another young woman whose wedding date is near, showed a list of things she had to do in preparation for the big day — a bus schedule to Manhattan (her fiance is a student at Kansas State), and several empty white envelopes, which she said she kept handy in her assignment book in case "I have time to write him in class."
In addition to several recipes and a fragment of a grocery list in the book of a recently married young woman was the following:
Friday, Sept. 14 — Nancy and Buddy for dinner
Menu
cocktails
starter
main course
(cokes)
canned soup
peanut butter
Alla Grada
ice cream bars
dessert
WHEN ASKED what "Alla Grada" meant, she replied, "Oh, I don't know. I made it up, but I thought it sounded sort of French."
Generally, a preoccupation with the opposite sex was shown by various other items, such as letters to and from boyfriends, verses to fraternity songs, and doodles of Greek letters.
It is apparent that fewer men students carry assignment books than women. However entries in one book belonging to a campus politico contained lengthy lists of telephone numbers of campus party officials, members of the administration and the Chancellor's office.
Another young man, a freshman, had blacked out the space for Fridays throughout the book and inserted the letters T.G.I.F. by the dates.
Don't get too confident about Saturday night if the girls whose assignment books you are looking at have only conventional notations such as lectures, meetings birthdays
and, even class assignments. She doesn't date.
The final meeting of the Africa Study Group to be held tonight will feature Aldon Bell, assistant professor of history, who will address the group on the "History of the Former French Colonies in Africa." The meeting will be at 8 p.m. in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union.
Africa Study Group To Hear Aldon Bell
LONDON — (UPI) — Bertram Russell, 90, resigned today from the Ban-The-Bomb "Committee of 100" which he founded and headed.
Russell said he had become involved in a "somewhat different" kind of work "directed toward similar ends." He would not say what it is.
He said that because most of his time is spent at his home in Wales he could not "take part in the action of the Committee or follow in detail its work or the reasons for this or that policy."
"This makes me reluctant to accept responsibility for decisions in which I have had little or no part," he said.
Enrollment On Rise In Schools, Colleges
Bertrand Russell Quits Committee
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The census bureau reported today that total enrollment in U.S. schools and colleges reached 48.7 million in the fall of 1962—a 2.1 per cent increase over the previous year.
It said the upward trend in enrollments recorded in recent years was continuing but that the rate was slowing down.
The report said school and college enrollments increased by 27 per cent in the five-year period from 1952 to 1957, but by only 18 per cent from 1957 to 1962.
It said the decline in rate stemmed from a drop in the population age groups 7 to 13 years, and 25 to 34 years.
Question of the Day: 'Who Is Dr. Zhivago?'
Western Civ Studies Could Be Alarming
Poet Robert Frost Improved, But Still Remains In Hospital
Dr. F. Lloyd Mussells, director of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, said Frost "is doing well and will be able to sit up today."
If you hear groups of students enthusiastically discussing the Marxian economic system far into the morning, don't be alarmed.
Some students who hope to graduate in February will be taking the examination in a last-ditch effort to receive their diploma. Students required to take the test are those in the College of Liberal Arts, the School of Education, the School of Journalism, and the chemical engineering division of the School of Engineering.
The test will consist of three parts: two essay questions for which students will be given two hours; 10 short answer questions; and a group of objective, multiple choice questions. An hour will be allotted for each of the last two sections.
They are not revolutionaries. They are just preparing for the Western Civilization comprehensive examination which will be given Saturday.
The examination, which will cover writers ranging from Barry Goldwater to Karl Marx and the time period from 1500 to "1884," will be given from 1 to 5 p.m. in assigned class rooms across the campus. The students will be given a 20-minute break to ease their writer's cramp.
A Daily Kansan reporter called the circulation desk at Watson Library recently to verify the spelling of "Doctor Zhivago," the title of a novel which won the late Russian author Boris Pasternak the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature.
BOSTON—(UPI)—Ailing Poet Robert Frost, hospitalized since Dec. 10, was reported improved today.
The woman who answered the phone said she didn't think she could help.
Frost was hospitalized Dec. 10 for a urinary obstruction. He subsequently suffered a heart attack. His recuperation later was impaired by a series of blood clots.
"That name doesn't seem to be in the Student Directory," she said.
JERRY'S Phillips
BRAKE ADJUSTMENT
The examination follows two semester discussion groups on the readings. The comprehensive examination may be taken at any time before graduation, thus leaving some determined seniors who are trying to remember material which they have not studied since they were sophomores.
The students will finally have time to sit back, relax and study for finals without the worry of the Western Civilization comprehensive. At least, not this semester.
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