University Daily Kansan
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Monday, Nov. 22, 1954
'Across College Campuses'
Fine System Pays For Scholarships
Park your car wrong at the University of Cincinnati and help a deserving undergraduate through college. After a year of enforcing the campus parking violation penalty system, the school has awarded seven $150 scholarships to undergraduates for the academic year 1954-55 from parking penalties of $2 for each offense. Not only have violations steadily decreased in number during the year, the system has been of considerable help in relieving the tight campus parking problem, according to Ralph C. Bursiek, dean of university administration.
The 16 sororities and 14 of the 23 fraternities at the University of Colorado have removed discriminatory clauses from their constitutions since the beginning of the strong anti-discrimination movement in 1950, according to Clifford Houston, dean of students. Dean Houston said fraternities and sororites at Colorado have complete freedom in choosing members, but steady progress has been made toward the elimination of discrimination clauses since a student commission in 1949 recommended to the university senate and board of regents that all social organizations whose charters contain a discriminatory clause should submit an annual report to a special faculty committee.
Freedom of the press got another boost on a college campus the other day. The board of regents of the University of Arizona and State Colleges admitted reporters to their sessions, thus breaking a 30-year tradition of closed doors. University of Michigan regents also opened their meetings to newsmen last summer. The move had been proposed by the Michigan Press association and was hailed as a "big gain in the fight against secrecy."
Kappa Sigma fraternity members at the University of New Mexico recently came up with a device which may eliminate the element of human fallibility from judging beauty contests, without removing any of the pleasure. The new criterion was a plastic cutout into which coeds competing for the title of "Miss Venus" tried to fit exactly. In planning the cutout the Kappa Sigs discarded the original Venus de Milo's measurements as somewhat too generous for today's college standards. Instead, they chose a shapely coed as the model for their cutout, then made enough alterations to disqualify even the model. Once made, the cutout was set up on the campus, and a line of wiggling and giggling coeds attempted to squeeze and stretch themselves into the "ideal form." The New Mexico winner was freshman Kajean Rumfelt (36-23 $ _{1/2} $ -36), who offered ample proof that none of the elements of pleasure had been removed through the Kappa Sigs' new aid to jittery beauty judges.
Vacation: Thank Heaven
Faster, you fool, faster.
Faster, you fool, faster. Footsteps heard beyond my wall. Tramping prison-like to school Faster, footsteps, faster.
Whistle blows. 8 a.m. Faster. No one waits. Shoes, socks, shirt, trousers, coat. Must hurry. Brush teeth. Comb hair. Won't lie down. Never mind. Faster.
Books. Wrong ones, Faster. No pencil. Here's one. Wrong book. Over there. Ready. Join the footsteps. Step with the rest. Scuffle, shuffle, bend, walk, run, but faster.
Can't stay awake. Push pencil. Take notes. Write, write, write. Faster. Sleepy. What did he say? No, not that. She doesn't have it either. Write faster. Who? Him? Faster. Whistle must blow. 8:30 a.m. Twenty minutes yet. What did he say? Write, write, write, write, faster. Whistle, thank God!
write, faster. Whistle, thank God.
Prison steps. March to class. Which class? Oh, yes. Students walking. Students talking. Students rushing. Faster. Sorry, didn't see you. Get out of my way. Dodge, spin, turn, push, grind, faster. Hi! Faster.
Exam. Can't think. Who? What? Why? When? Can't think. Write anyway. Faster. Write something. Erase. Write, scribble scrawl, scratch. Faster. Anything, but faster. Can't remember Whistle. Didn't finish. Forgot. Didn't know. Don't care.
Wake. Whistle. Walk. Write. Faster.
8 am, 9 am, 10 am, 11 am, 12 noon, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm
VACATION!
Phew! Thought it would never get here. —Gene Shank
Viewers Can Participate In TV Program
Have you ever wanted to be a member of The Silent Service, to share in the adventure of submerging, shouting "Up periscope" and "Down periscope" as you search out a freighter and sink it?
Or would you prefer to be the daring man who makes a spectacular plane crash into a house? You could have satisfied both ambitions if you were tuned to Art Baker's television show "You Asked For It" the past two Sundays at 6 p.m., and remained safely in your easy chair at the same time.
Truly spectacular, although not billed as such, "You Asked For It" is both unusual and notable. With requests to see the rare and uncommon coming from all over the country, Mr. Baker accomplishes enormous feats in bringing the realities to the screen.
The United States Navy cooperated in the submarine episode; and the stunt man, now a grandfather, came out of retirement to crash a plane into a house for the television audience.
You will never know just what to expect from this unique program.
One Sunday evening you could have seen them then, preparation and presentation of card tricks by the UCLA students—approximately 8.330 cards are used at each football game. Or you might have gone along as the human cannon ball was shot through space, or seen how a murder specialist operates in Hollywood style.
Occasionally, you may see an event you have seen before; or you may think there is too much bally-hoo for something not very great. On the whole, however, you will be entertained and intrigued because "You Asked For It."
Joyce Neale
... Letters . . .
To the Editor:
I wholeheartedly agree with the Daily Kansan, and Mr. Herrington in particular, for pointing out the need of contributing to the Campus Chest because in this way each student assists such worthwhile groups as the YMCA, YWCA, the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, the American Heart Association, etc.
On another, yet more important basis, this particular phase of the Campus Chest effort, in my opinion, has great appeal to KU students who are familiar with its content. Through their Campus Chest contributions, students lend a hand to fellow college students in underdeveloped areas of the world. WUS helps these students to obtain food, clothing, a place to sleep and work, and medical care. And, it assists them in meeting university fees, and in obtaining books and laboratory equipment.
The Daily Kansan, however, made a major omission—the World University Service—which on the basis of the percentage of proceeds allotted to it should have received major attention.
The University of Kansas is fortunate in that its students have the opportunity of meeting and getting to know fellow students from many parts of the world on their own campus. From such contacts they realize that they share common problems with these students. WUS asks that we assist our less fortunate fellow students everywhere in remaining in school, so that they may complete an education which means as much to them, or more even, than it means to many of us.
even, that it means that
It is unfortunate that this group,
It's an Old, Sad Story With a Safety Moral
The road stretched clear before our headlights. Why not step up our speed a little?
It was a lovely evening.
It was a lovely evening.
The thought of leaving school, of missing classes, of resting awhile without the strain of assignments due, quizzes coming, reports to give, exhilarated us. Why not step up the speed a little?
The highway was more crowd
But the thought of going home, of seeing our parents and friends, of eating turkey dinner with the family, of returning to a bed with springs, of having a room all to ourselves, made us impatient. Why not step up the speed a little?
The talk about the fine night for drinking, the talk about leaving school, the talk about going home, distracted our attention—a little—from the road. But why slow down?
Unwise? No. Simply exhilarated, impatient. Simply enjoying the thrill of driving too fast on a beautiful night.
But that truck—the one that's pulling off the road ahead—how fast is it going? Put on the brakes! Brace yourself!! LOOK OUT FOR THAT CAR COMING THE OTHER WAY!!! WE'RE SKIDDING!!!!
Unwise? Not perhaps to us. But our parents won't agree and neither will our friends, and neither will the police, and neither will the papers. "Pretty dumb." "How could they?" "Carelessness," they'll say.
Now, it really doesn't make any difference . . .
—Letty Lemon.
which will receive 40 cents out of every dollar we contribute, has not been more adequately described and its importance stressed during this drive.
Samuel H. Wilen Graduate student
A piece of radioactive material no larger than a grain of salt is the brain of a device used by Republic Steel Corporation to control exact thickness of sheets of steel emerging from the rolling mill.
One-third of the oil wells drilled in the United States in 1953 were drilled in Texas.
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