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New Humor Magazine Due
Two humor magazines, Squat and the Sour Owl, will be published on the campus this year.
A new publication, Squat, will appear four times during the school year and will be edited by John Nangle, fine arts senior. Nangle said that a successor has not been named for Jay Ott, who was to have been business manager but resigned.
Nangle said that present plans call for the first issue of Squat early in October. He said the magazine will include creative as well as humorous material.
The Sour Owl, publication or Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity, will be edited by Harry Elliott, journalism junior, with Alton Davies, journalism senior, as business manager, and Robert Lyle, journalism junior, as circulation manager.
At present, plans call for the Sour Owl to be published three times during the school year, Elliott said. Elliott said that the Owl will have a theme for each issue this year.
A new academic counseling program for athletes may return the "personal touch" in college education and if the program is successful it may be expanded to include students, in all departments of the University, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said at a banquet Sept. 9.
The program involves counsel by faculty advisors who help students plan their academic programs. The system enables the student to plan wisely, Chancellor Murphy said.
Present at the banquet for Jayhawker athletes were coaches, administrators, and the teachers who have volunteered their services to the counseling program.
Counseling For Athletes Study Aid,Murphy Says
Burden On Student
Chancellor Murphy said the program is not designed to make any phase of academic life easier, but better organized. The burden is on the student, he said.
"Contrary to some opinions, these men are not here to provide you any short cuts to acceptable grades and degrees—not to make things any easier." Chancellor Murphy said. "But they do know the ropes
and can show you the best roads to travel to achieve your goals with less wasted effort.
Dr. Murphy said the University is dedicated primarily to education—the development of the skills and attitudes that students may find useful in later life. What the student does here during his four years is not so important to KU as what the student does 20 years from now, he added.
May Be Expanded
May Be Expanded The Chancellor said that if the program proves successful in this field it is likely to be expanded to include all departments of the University.
"In so 'long,' he said, "we may be able to bring bark the warmth of the humanity, the personal touch that many say is impossible in big schools."
The S. S. United States set the world speed record for steamships on its maiden voyage in 1952. It averaged 35.59 knots (about 41 mph) crossing the Atlantic Ocean west to east in three days, 10 hours and 40 minutes.
For Fall '55
University Daily Kansas
Monday Sept. 12, 1955.
VI 3-5488
Gaston To Address Music Clubs Group
Dr. E. Thayer Gaston, professor of music education and chairman of the department, will address the national board meeting of the National Federation of Music Clubs at Odessa, Tex., on Wed. Sept. 21.
He will speak on "Music Therapy as a Vocation," and will also give one of his illustrated lectures on the influence of music on behavior. Dr. Gaston is a member of the research and education committees and past president of the National Association for Music Therapy. "
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For saying these kind things about their cigarettes, the Philip Morris Company will pay me money. This is the American Way. This is Democracy. This is Enlightened Self Interest. This is the System that Made
Perhaps it would be well in this first column of the year to tell you a little about myself. I am 36 years of age, but still remarkably active. I am squat, moon-faced, have all my teeth, and am fond of folk dancing and Lotto. My hobby is collecting mucilage.
I first took up writing because I was too short to steal. Bare-foot Boy With Cheek was my maiden effort, and today, fourteen years later. I continue to
write about college students. This is called "arrested development."
But I can't help it. Though I am now in the winter of my life, the problems of undergraduates still seem to me as pressing as ever. How to pursue a blazing romance with exams coming up next Friday in physics, history and French; how to convince your stingy father that life is a bitter mockery without a yellow convertible; how to subsist on dormitory food - these remain the topics that roll my sluggish blood.
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And in this column from now until next June you will read of such things; of dating and pinning, of fraternities and sororities and independents, of cutting and cramming, of athletes and average-raisers, of extra-and intra-curriculum, of textbooks and those who write them and those who sell them and those who read them and those who don't.
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