1345 University Daily Kansan Page 2 Friday, Nov. 5, 1954. Campus Springs Alive withHomecomingVigor We wish that the students could show half as much enthusiasm at the beginning of the football season as they have in the past week in preparation for the homecoming festivities, especially the judging which takes place tonight. The campus has come alive with the noise of hammering, nails, and the faint roar of motors which eventually will have to give way to good old fashioned pledge power. It seems as if everyone is trying to make this homecoming the best ever. This enthusiasm could be attributed to several things. First of all, the bad showing that the team has made in the last several weeks has worked in the reverse—instead of giving up the fight the students have entered whole-heartedly into the task of showing the alums returning that even though we have a losing team we have the best in everything else. Not only are campus residents displaying the homecoming fever. Alumni from all over the state—and the nation for that matter will be returning once again to see the Crimson and the Blue in action. And that's part of the beauty of homecoming. Somehow, even freshmen (but especially seniors) know that they'll leave the University one day. They also know they'll return again and again. Homecoming will be something more than a football game. It'll mean returning to a phase in life called college, returning to something that is very much a part of us. Alumni tell us that the campus has changed since they went to school. We expect it to change when we leave too—a progressive change that will be something dear to come back to—when we come back "home" on homecoming. —Karen Hilmer New Editorial Staff Will Take OverMonday As the old saying goes, "Time flies." Here it is mid-semester already and time once more for the editorial page to change hands as a new editor and two new assistants take over for the rest of the semester. We'll be the first to admit that we've had bad pages and made some rather bad mistakes in judgment these past weeks, but we feel we've done some good at the same time. In embarking on a policy of remaining aloof from support of any candidate for political office in the elections just held, we kept uppermost in mind the general plan of giving as much objective information as possible to our readers about all the candidates. We felt it was more our job to stimulate thought and give students the proper information to help them make up their own minds, rather than attempting to push candidates in particular to our own political leanings and judgments. This policy had its strong points and its weaknesses. One of its main weaknesses apparently was that a lot of students felt our background stories about key candidates and political races were overdisplayed and oversold. Frankly, we readily admit that in many cases this was true. One point of great pride to us, however, is that we feel we have done a good job in keeping the editorial page free of surcastic, snide, uncalled-for digs. This has been a chief criticism of the Kansan editorial page in the past, and we feel we have definitely improved upon the past situation. Another chief criticism these past eight weeks has been that we have devoted too much space to national and international news and ignored some important campus affairs. There may be some basis for this argument, but in spite of it we feel we have commented and observed nearly all of the campus events worthy of space on our page. We don't believe in crusades merely for the sake of crusades, and never will. Therefore we have ignored some campus activities which we deemed trivial and not worth devoting space to. We are heartened by the fact that we have received criticism, some of it constructive and some not. At least this shows us that our page is being read. But we would really have great cause for concern if all criticism had ceased. This would indicate a stagnant page that just wasn't being read by the students. So although we feel some criticism we have received is unfounded, it's nice to know that our page is being read and opinions concerning it, both pro and con, are being formed in the minds of students. Letty Lemon, a most personable and charming girl from Kansas City, will be the editorial editor for the last eight weeks of the semester. Letty was an editorial assistant last spring, and has been forming many ideas and new policies which she feels will improve the editorial page. Her two assistants will be Amy De Yong and Dot Taylor. All three of these girls have demonstrated an intense interest in the editorial page and are all ready to give it their all to make the editorial page the best ever. We have tremendous confidence in these three girls, and know that together they will give you much worthwhile food for thought throughout these next eight weeks. —Court Ernst Overheard in the Hawk's Nest: I love thee like a brother, a fraternity brother. The alums in Kansas City, Feeling very mean, Tried to replace a football coach With an IBM machine. To the Editor; ... Letters ... They shipped it in to Lawrence To try to change their luck, From Massillon, Ohio They got a guy named Chuck. His job was to take this fabulous thing. thing And make it call the shots. The players, instead of being men Were cards punched full of slots. They started it in September With a rattle and some roars. It must have slipped a cog or two. Cause listen to those scores. KU lost its very first game And its next two in a row. Then they met the Sooners, It was 65 to "0." Chuck sorted out the pieces. It really was a wreck. They were playing their "country cousins," They called us "Silo Tech." Well, the silo fell on the Jayhawk, Chuck said, "that is that." The machine was tossed out in the Kaw. The alums were thinking scat. They didn't mean a "scatback," One that can really run. They meant for Chuck to scat. back Where football is played for fun. back Where football is played for fun. The machine may work in high school. But this is the Big Time now. It was a case of Meek over Mather, He showed the Boy Wonder how. So all you little Jayhawks, Don't take this loss so hard. To make you laugh and cheer you up. We'll punch your T.S. card. —A Kansas, State student Daily Hansan University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room, KU 251 At Room, KU 767 National Journal, N.J. Journal National, Editorial association, Inland Daily Press association, Associated College by the National Association representing the Madison area. N.Y. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a year (add at a conference) and $7 at a conference, Kan. every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays, University holidays and weekends. Postmaster class matter, Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence, Kan., post office under act of March 3, 1879. EDITORIAL STAFF NEWS STAFF Karen Hilmer Executive Editor ... Stan Hamilton | Stan Johnson Managing Editors ... Wohlgemuth | Elizabeth | Goodman Dot Taylor EDITORIAL EDITOR Court Ernst Editorial Editor ... [Carsa Press] BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager ... Dave Riley Advertising Mgr. ... Audrey Holmes Nat. Alv. Mgr. ... Martha Chambers Dog Director ... Donna Classified Mgr. ... Ken Winston Promotion Mgr. ... Bill Taggart Business Adviser ... Gene Bratton Telegraph Editor ... John Herrington Calder Editor ... Tom Lyons Asst. Sports Editor ... Tom Lyons Society Editor ... Nancy Neville News Editor ... Amy Jeffong Garden Editor ... Grand Jury Sports Editor ... Jack Lindberg Asst. Society Editor ... LaVerie Yates LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler "Ok, men, the next play is DX-83.—Now, Bolivar, when you hear me yell 'four,' I'll give you the ball, then you try to get through th' men wearing the yellow sweaters an' then head for th' posts painted purple and white." Midsemesters Are Upon Us Midsemesters are upon us... doesn't seem possible, but it's true. And here we are with an extra lot of studying to do. But before we start in let's take a look at our attitudes toward study. Maybe we can make our studying easier, quicker, and more profitable. Here are a few suggestions: Have a regular place for study, as comfortable and free from distractions as you can manage. Every distraction reduces your efficiency to some extent. Study alone if possible. Friends can help you later, but you will have to learn by yourself in the beginning. Avoid internal distraction. Common sense in eating, drinking smoking, amusements, and sleep will increase your efficiency and will make teacher, lessons, and all your surroundings seem friendlier. Don't quit when the subject becomes dull or tedious for a while. This is almost sure to happen, and if you deliberately look for interesting and surprising things, even in the dull assignments, you will usually find them. Georgia Wallace An atheist: One who doesn't care who wins the Notre Dame-SMU football game.