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University Daily Kansan Wednesday,Dec.18,1963
Defiant Students Typified KU's Past
By Charles Corcoran
By Charles Corcoran KU has, since its beginning, treated all of its students equally.
When the University opened in 1866, it was under law which provided for a separate female department, but no provision on the campus was ever made for such a department. Men and women—boys and girls, rather, for they were all of sub-college academic achievement and (usually) age-entered classes on a parity.
THE UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan of Feb. 1, 1938, recalls: "That women at the University early felt their independence is evidenced by minutes of the College faculty.
"In April, 1833, as appears from the record, the case of one Dora Stubblefield of Lawrence, and later of Coffeyville, came before the faculty. It appears that although registered as a subfreshman Miss Stubblefield had evinced a desire to appear on the freshman rhetorical program. The professor in charge, of course, told her she could not, whereupon, to quote the faculty minutes, she had spread the report among the students that she would speak anyway.
"On the appointed day, she took her place on the platform, and did give a declaration, whereupon Chancellor Lippincott promptly suspended her. The faculty concurred in the action, and the young
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woman was duly suspended until the latter part of the month."
MEN OF KU, however, were no
laggards.
A 1937 edition of the Kansas recalled that, "Street fights became such a nuisance that fines were issued against all participants. Seven sophomores were severely fined by $5 fines after a street fight with some freshmen. The boys couldn't understand why they were fined as they had only given the frosh a much needed egg shampoo, poured some flour on their clothes and tied up some 32 of the despised first year men. Of course, two of the freshmen were rather badly injured, but the sophs were sure that that had only been accidental.
'In April, 1870, three young women were cited for 'disorderly conduct in the class room,' and were dismissed.
'OH, I KNEW those girls; there were none finer. Two of them were daughters of Lawrence ministers. But, then, they were sub-freshmen. One of those girls, I recall, used to amuse her fellow students by making faces, and once Professor Robinson caught her at it.
THE SAME STORY goes on to recount the earliest recorded case of KU discipline metted out to women students.
"The minutes are silent as to the nature of the 'disorder,' but Miss Hannah Oliver, professor emerita of Latin, and a student in those days, gives this explanation:
'We really appreciated our opportunities in those days,' continued Miss Oliver. 'There wasn't much levity, for we were all anxious to get as much as we could from our University education.'
KU women were well recognized in the student press even back on September 16, 1878. The University Pastime, KU's first student newspaper, ran this short paragraph to let the ladies know that they were well thought of: "The young ladies will receive due attention and we especially solicit articles from
them."
"Even debates caused battles back in 1902. After one debate with Baker, the defeated Lawrence students met the Bakerites at the station and gave them one grand send-off. The result was numerous injuries for the visitors, several black eyes for the KU men and some rather nasty editors in the Journal-World on the rowdyism of University students."
IN ANOTHER 1937 paper (February 18) the following tale was retold: "The M.S.C. (Men's Student Council) suffered a classic setback in 1934 when the whole body was arrested and put behind bars because they had tacked up dance posters over the campus. All but
three were freed before the day elapsed."
Even the University Daily Kansan had its share of "extracurricular activities."
When the young reporters of the early 1900's first tried their hands at presenting "all the news that's fit to print," things sometimes went bad.
A GARDEN CITY editor wrote of the paper: "It is bad enough to be inflicted with anarchists, Mikado songs and the bellyache, let alone a college paper."
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