Crisis Spreads Strange Hush In Local Tavern
By Dennis Bowers
The world waits, strangely hushed and tense as if slapped unexpectedly for some unknown wrong.
Countless anonymous faces of the world are abruptly somber as if a weird magic spell has settled down over them. They seem hesitant, as if the collective pitching and tossing of 20 ships in the Atlantic had sapped them of their will to move.
Behind the mask-like faces are mixed emotions. Awe-filled uncertainty ebbs up, disintegrating bit by bit the casual objectiveness of two days ago.
THE SPELL TRAVELS FAST . . as fast as the news media can carry it and the mind can grasp it. The preoccupied life of the student is jolted as the spell hits the campus.
On the eve of a crisis for humanity, 20 persons are gathered at a local tavern. The juke box is still. So is the noise of beer cans opening and glasses clinking. So are the pin ball machines. So are the chattering voices.
An occasional attempt at an indifferent guwaff is heard, but is half-hearted. And again the unfamiliar silence.
Two girls sit behind the mute juke box. Their voices are low.
"But there are ships on the way now. Tomorrow some time... what's going to happen then? The Russians said they weren't going to back down either. One of us has to give."
"WELL, IT'S NOT going to be us. Kennedy means what he said."
"So what's going to happen? If anything is started, how will we stop it. I mean, if they plow right on through will we blow them up? God ... that'll be all it would take right there. Tomorrow."
"But what other way out is there."
"I kind of wish I were somewhere else than here. Really, I honestly wish I were in South America or something. I feel trapped in a big mistake. And it really . . . well . . . sort of shakes me.
I KNOW . . . . . SEEMS kind of ridiculous to be afraid like this. But I just can't seem to laugh about it any more. The objectiveness is gone. Tomorrow might even bring a nuclear war. For all we know there may not be a next week. It isn't far away any longer. It's here and I'm scared.
The glass of beer went unsteadily to the girl's lips and back to the table silently and the blank look of worried thought crept over her face, setting it in the mask once again.
The campus joined the world in waiting last night.
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With a last nostagic glance at the Campanile, the football stadium and the Student Union, members of Pi Beta Phi sorority Sunday evacuated Kansas University's oldest sorority house. The members moved to their new home next to the Nuclear Reactor building.
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Despite frequent rumors that the old house was condemned by state fire authorities, the old Pi Phi house at 1246 Mississippi St., will continue in use. Irvin E. Youngberg, executive secretary of KU Endowment Association, said University Extension offices in Fraser Hall will be moved there.
Aided by family members and boyfriends, the girls moved into the new French Provincial, $350,000 house at 1612 W. 15th Street.
Ph. VI 2-3416 or VI 2-1537 Office — 1912 W. 25th
BEFORE moving into the house, the Pi Phi's, the first sorority here, lived in the building now called the Baptist Student Center at 1245 Oread.
Pi Phi's Abandon KU's Oldest Sorority House
Dragging trunks up the winding front stairway and carrying arm loads of hangers, dresses, and sacks full of school books, a common remark was: "I can't believe we're finally moving in."
During the early fall the girls led a "suitcase existence" because most of the furniture had been sold. Only beds were left in many of the rooms. The more fortunate girls had access to one dresser drawer.
ORIGINALLY, the house was to have been completed by September, but construction setbacks delayed the moving several times.
THOUGH some of the surroundings in the new house were strange, the old swing that had hung from the porch of the old house since the
Though chapter alumna offered to buy a new metal swing, the girls insisted on keeping the old one. Susie Neil, Abilene senior, said, "It (the swing) is as much of Pi Phi as we are."
1920s was rehung at the new residence.
Sue Hardisty, Salina senior and chapter president, said, "I'll miss standing on the porch watching the crowds of people walking to the football games, and hearing the loud concerts of the Campanile on Wednesday and Sunday afternoons."
'Quill' Extended To Three Issues
"Quill," the KU literary magazine, will publish three issues this year.
The decision to change from the previous two issues a year was made this summer by the magazines sponsors, the English department and the Quill Club.
The change was made in hope of enlarging the magazine and its audience.
Charles Nicol, Blue Springs, Mo. graduate student, editor of the magazine said, "The new policy will allow us to include more fiction and poetry and to continue our experiments with prints and drawings."
Manuscripts for the first issue should be submitted to the English department office, 203 Fraser, or to the Quill Club, by November 15.
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