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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Sept. 29. 1955.
Schedule Not Aid Co-ed Surprised To Student Pep By Own Talent
Last week a campus organization passed out a one-page folder containing songs and cheers of KU, which were to be used at football games.
Passing out a copy of some of KU's songs and cheers to new students is a pretty sound idea, but what has upset the whole idea is the time schedule included with the songs.
The big gripe is that a University organization should have the nerve to set a schedule for cheering and singing. The establishment of the schedule would be the worst that could be done in attempting to aid a seriously lagging school spirit.
Having seen former students at the University turn out en masse for the 1947 Orange Bowl squad, we know that spirit is an inherent, unexplainable object that certainly cannot be put on a timetable by a pep club.
Possibly what is needed is a reorganization and reaffirmation of the policies of the University pep organizations—that's if they can do no better than a timetable regulated cheering section.
It is obvious, from watching the assembled pep clubs at last Saturday's game, that somewhere along the line since 1947 the pep clubs have run out of spirit. Just as obvious is the fact that the cheer-leaders ran out of spirit and enthusiasm during the second half of the game.
If the cheerleaders are going to lead the supposedly time-table spirit of the student body, they should do so instead of turning their backs on the students to watch the game.
But what really pains the bones of a long-time University student is the complete loss of the traditional standing of the world famous Rock Chalk yell. The tradition has it that the yell, which was taken to Europe by Fred Waring and his group in the 1930's, was used to end the game, not to start it.
It is highly probable that few University students today have ever heard the Rock Chalk presented at the end of the game as the fans are leaving the stadium. The echo throughout the entire Kaw Valley is one of the most impressive and spirit-moving sounds ever heard.
Last year, seven officials, who have been working in the conference for at least 20 years, registered surprise and mild anger when they heard the Rock Chalk presented just as the two teams prepared to kick off. We would rather see the National Anthem presented just prior to kickoff, with the Rock Chalk ending the game.
Whether presenting the Rock Chalk at the end of the game would boost poor student spirit is doubtful, but it at least would re-establish an old tradition which has made the University famous the world over in things other than athletics.
Sam Jones
"Careful, Charlie—Almost hurt yourself!"
What seemed to be her first real flash of inspiration was parlayed into a $200 check from Cosmopolitan magazine by a young and promising writer Beverly Harvey, college junior from Wichita.
Bv DON LANDES
During last summer's session at Wichita University, Miss Harvey was inspired by a Walt Disney short to write the story of a schizophrenic Swiss goatherd of a primitive family and a day of his seven year life. Spending little time on the manuscript, she submitted it without a proofreading and almost without a title.
The check was the result.
The closest she has been to Switzerland was when she took 10 hours of college German during her freshman year.
Actually, fame has come to Bev late in her writing career. She has been an author looking for a bent most of her 20 years. Soon after her fingers could form words, she composed new and imaginative nursery rhymes. In high school, she worked on the school newspaper and did much creative writing.
She is at KU on a Watkins Scholarship.
After trying both music and sociology in her first two years at KU, her interest was captured by the writings of Clare Boothe Luce. She switched to political science. Later, she thought of the Business School.
Last year, after changing her course four times, Bev decided she belong in English, her first and real love. She changed, and
BEVERLY HARVEY
there she has remained. In spite of her erratic college program, she has maintained a 2.6 grade average in all her courses.
Writing and cheng ng, majors have taken only part of Bev's time. She is treasurer of Delia Gamma social scorify, chairman of the Associated Women Student House Committee and a contributing member of Quill Club.
Next on Beverly's creative list is a play she is writing for her Writer's Workshop course "Master of Things." is the work's title. It concerns an atomic scientist, his discovery of a bomb powerful enough to blast the earth out of the universe and the discovery's effect on his family
Police commissioner Timothy J O'Connor asked the chief of detectives to prepare a list of the 10 "most dangerous men" every month.
Chicago Has 'Enemies Of The Month' Club
The list, suggested by the Chicago Daily News, will be published in the police department's daily bulletin and submitted to news-papers.
CHICAGO — (U.P.) Chicago has its own "public enemy" [a]st.
Citizens will be asked to notify the detective chief, John T. O'Malley, if they have any information regarding the men on the roster of "top Chicago public enemies."
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"BETTER JUST SMILE AND SAY 'HELLO.' "
P-D Has Answer To The Hat Crisis
Disdain for hats has spread from the male to the female of the species. After having seen thousands and thousands of cartoonists' potboilers about women squandering the family fortune on concoctions of straw, feathers and flowers, we would not believe this except that the millinery workers' union is passing up a pay raise to devote the money to a campaign against hatlessness.
But the ladies—why, the cartoonists had convinced us that they would abandon all else before they passed up a hat. But those union members must know. For them even more than for funny cartoonists, hats mean bread and butter.
Also, like raincoats and umbrellas, hats get lost. So after a while all but the persistent, the true fashionplates and exemplars of what is right, just give up.
We can understand why men give up hats in summer. The things, even when made of straw, are hot and sticky. And no matter how they look on the other fellow, they always look egregious when you put one on in front of the store-mirror.
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
And we would like to be helpful. Can it be that the ladies forgot about hats because the milliners kept making them smaller, reducing everything but the price tag almost to the vanishing point?
Swimming Pool Has Built-In Zoo
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —(U.P.)— John C. Maas, who loves animals, runs one of the few swimming pools in the country with a built-in zoo on its shore.
Mr. Maas' zoo bonasts a lioness, bear cubs and monkeys because of the study he made of animals while a prisoner at La Grange State Reformatory. He purchased most of the animals for $200 from a "small but hungry zoo" going out of business in Ft. Wavne, Ind.
Patrons of his swimming pool stroll around the zoo area between dips in the pool. He hopes to add to his animal collection and some-day to present it to the city, which lacks a zoo. At present, he is looking for a bargain in an elephant or tiger cub.
RICHLAND. Wash. — (UP) — L. W. Vail. Pasco contractor, learned it doesn't pay to be too ambitious. He was wined $25 in justice court on a charge of "Sabbath breaking" after his firm continued a paving project on Sunday. The law had been on the state statute boks since 1831 but had not been used in "many years."
No Sunday Work
The largest national park is Yellowstone, with 2,215,207 acres, and the smallest is Platt National Park in southern Oklahoma. 912 acres.
'Do It Together' Fad Dailyjransan
Many commercially inspired slogans are very deserving of abrupt and decisive disposal, but we hope the "de-it-together" trend will be around for some time.
Certainly no family member who has wistfully waved good-by to a loved one boarding a plane or train will quarrel with the family travel fare reductions. Railroads and airlines are making it easier for all to hop aboard and do it together.
The motorboat industry also is capitalizing on the do-it-together longing. Quiet motors and attractive color schemes are being emphasized in the hopes of enlisting the support of women.
"Do-it-together" is far from challenging the current supremacy of "do-it-yourself." But the growing number of "do-it-together" supporters quickly point out that many "do-it-yoursel" projects, such as boats, summer camps, and playrooms, enable the family to do it together.
Perhaps we need a new slogan, something like "do-it-together, yourself."
—Christian Science Monitor
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