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Figures Show Gals Smarter Than Men
Are women smarter than men? This age old question may never be answered conclusively, but the weaker sex does make better grades and it has the undergraduate scholarship report for 1953-54 to prove it.
The all-women's grade point average was 1.53, the all-men's average was 1.37, and the all-University average was 1.43. The men upped their average two points over that of the previous year while the women have fallen 11 points. This has dropped the all-university average from 1.49 to 1.43.
1.43.
A comparison of sorority and fraternity marks strengthens the position for women. The average for the 13 national social sororities on the Hill has risen one point from 1.71 in 1952-53 to 1.72 last year, while that of the 26 national social fraternities has fallen from an average of 1.34 to 1.30 last year.
The 40 members of Phi Lambda Upsilon, honorary law fraternity, averaged 2.67 to top all KU groups and tie the previous high by Pi Delta Phi, honorary French fraternity.
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Hill Co-op, organized houses for men, led all living units with 2.46, up from 1.87. It has eleven members. Miller hall was first a year ago with 2.15.
ago with 2.10.
Beta Theta Pi topped the fraternity list with 1.92. Pi Beta Phi led the sorority list for the second consecutive year, raising its average from 1.88 to 2.05. It is the only sorority with better than a B average.
Other groups boasting a B average or better were two organized houses for men, three scholarship halls for women, five professional fraternities and sororities, and 29 honorary fraternities and sororites. In general standings only the honorary fraternities, which include graduates, bettered a B average with 2.21.
Twelve of the 13 social sororities and nine of the 26 social fraternities had averages higher than the all-university mark, as did 18 of the 22 professional fraternities and sororites, the 38 honorary fraternities and sororities, the three scholarship halls for women, five organized houses for men, all five of the scholarship halls for men, four of the nine residence halls for women, and one of two organized houses for women.
In the case of apparent ties, the decimal has been carried out to four places to determine the comparative standings and the organizations have been listed accordingly and the decimal then rounded off two places.
The number in parentheses following the name of the group indicates the number of students in the group.
General Standards
Honorary Fraternities (Graduates included) ... 2.21
National Sororites ... 1.72
Honorary Fraternities (graduates)
Professional Fraternities (graduates) ... 1.70
All-Women's Average (under-
graduates only) ... 1.53
All-University Average (Under-
graduates) ... 1.43
All-Men's Average (under-
graduates only) ... 1.37
National Social Fraternities ... 1.30
National Social Sororites
Pi Beta Pi (58) ... 2.05
Chi Omega (59) ... 2.05
Kappa Alpha Theta (64) ... 1.85
Delta Gamma (62) ... 1.84
Alpha Chi Omega (88) ... 1.84
Delta Upsilon (82) ... 1.84
Kappa Kappa Gamma (64) ... 1.79
Gamma Phi Beta (66) ... 1.73
Gamma Phi Beta (66) ... 1.73
All Sorority Average ... 1.62
Delta Delta Pi (56) ... 1.56
Alpha Phi (51) ... 1.64
All-Women's Average ... 1.53
Sigma Kappa (53) ... 1.52
Theta Phi Alpha (61) ... 1.52
All-Kappa Kappa Average ... 1.43
Alpha Omicron Pi (37) ... 1.38
National Social Fraternites
Beta Theta Pi (65) ... 1.92
Phi Delta Theta (106) ... 1.55
Delta Upsilon (14) ... 1.52
Alpha Kaphus Lambda (48) ... 1.52
Alpha Kaphus Omega (80) ... 1.51
Sigma Nu (77) ... 1.53
Alpha Epsilon Pi (19) ... 1.56
Phi Gamma Delta (88) ... 1.64
Sigma Nu (83) ... 1.44
All-University Average ... 1.43
All-Men's Average ... 1.39
Phi Kappa Sigma (10) ... 1.39
All-Fraternity Average ... 1.29
Sigma Alpha (68) ... 1.29
Sigma Alpha Epsilon (82) ... 1.29
Sigma Alpha Epsilon (82) ... 1.29
Delta Tau Delta (76) ... 1.29
Tau Kappa Epsilon (67) ... 1.29
Delta Tau Delta (73) ... 1.29
Delta Tau (73) ... 1.29
Alpha (480) ... 1.29
Lambda Chi Alpha (66) 1.22
Phi Kappa Psi (73) 1.19
Kappa Sigma (75) 1.17
Theta Chi (31) 1.15
Sigma Pi (31) 1.15
Phi Kappa (56) 1.15
Triangle (57) 1.15
Alpha Chi Alpha (30) 1.09
Phi Kappa Tau (42) 1.09
Kappa Alpha Psi (14) 74
Professional Fraternities and Sororities (included)
**(Graduates included)**
Phi Delta Phi (37) 2.37
Phigma Gamma Tau (7) 2.17
Eta Kappa Ni (25) 2.10
Nu Sigma Nu (10) (Pre-Med students only) 2.04
Pi Tau Sigma (20) 2.00
Kappa Epsilon (7) 1.82
Phi Beta Pi (23) (Pre-Med students only) 1.81
Pi Mu Alpha (21) 1.77
Tau Sigma (25) 1.77
**Professional Faternity average**
Alpha RhoGamma (22) 1.69
Alpha Kappa Psi (30) 1.68
Alpha Kappa Kappa (29) 1.61
Sigma Chi (19) 1.60
Scarab (42) 1.56
Delta Sigma Pi (48) 1.55
Delta Sigma Ipsilon (34) 1.54
Phi Delta Phi (14) 1.52
Phi Alpha Delta (35) 1.51
**All-University Averages (Undergraduates only)**
Alpha Phi Omega (20) 1.42
Theta Chi (45) 1.40
Delta Theta Phi (27) 1.31
Phi Chi (16) (Pre-Med students
Only
Honorary Fraternities and Sororites
Contributors Included
Graduates Included
Phi Lambda Upsilion (40) 2.67
Pi Mu Epsilon (25) 2.61
The Order of the Cofi (3) 2.59
Phi Beta Kappa (24) 2.59
Sigma XXI (12) 2.55
Sigma XII (12) 2.55
La Confrerie (26) 2.54
Pi Kappa Lambda (6) 2.50
Phi Sigma (88) 2.48
Pi Sigma Alpha (35) 2.44
Omicron Nu (9) 2.43
Delta Phi Alpha (12) 2.37
Tau Sigma Delta (4) 2.35
Beta Gamma Sigma (21) 2.35
Delta Sigma Theta (48) 2.32
Delta Sigma Rho (15) 2.30
Mortar Board (16) 2.28
Alpha Omega Alpha (14) 2.25
Homunculus Fraternity Average 2.21
Alpha Chi Sigma (43) 2.21
Omicron Delta Kappa (43) 2.21
Tau Beta Pi (51) 2.11
Gama Gamma Epsilon (36) 2.11
Sigma Alpha Iota (28) 2.14
Delta Phi Delta (44) 2.11
Rho Chi (8) 2.11
Mu Phi Epsilon (42) 2.11
Omu Phi Epsilon (12) 1.96
The Quill Club (49) 1.96
Sigma Tau (143) 1.96
Gamma Alpha Chi (25) 1.96
theta Sigma Chi (28) 1.82
Kappapha Iota (7) 1.82
Phi Chi Theta (21) 1.86
Sigma Delta Chi (19) 1.64
Kappapha (1) 1.55
Alpha Delta Sigma (14) 1.5
Scholarship Halls for Women
Sellards Hall (57) 2.67
Miller Hall (54) 2.11
Velocity Hall (49) 2.01
All-Women's Average 1.5
All-University Average 1.4
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New York-U.P.-Martha Raye, the comeback girl of 1954, soon will be returning to the Saturday night television screens with her songs and comedy.
We have a fine selection of books of new fiction, biography, history, world affairs
As a prelude to the big event, Mercury has packaged four Martha Raye songs on an extended-play record. Among them are "You'll Have to Swing It," her hit song of the "Rhythm on the Range" movie which she made with Bing Crosby back in 1935.
Miss Raye belongs to the hollerin' school and "You'll Have to Swing It" is an ideal vehicle for her ton-silar calisthenics. The record also contains a couple of soft songs, such as "Once in a While" and "Melancholy Moods."
Books on Art and Architecture, Poetry and Philosophy.
Historical item: "Three Coins in a Fountain" has made the grade. That is, Wingy Manone (Columbia) has put Sinatra's song in the Dixieland repertory. Unlike Sinatra, Wingy "moiders" the lyrics by singing about "three kerns in the fountain." He loined that in New Orleans, not Brooklyn. A fine piece of jazz, backed by "Oh, Capri," Wingy's version of "Isle of Capri."
"Wailin' for Moondog" is Wilo Bill Davis' latest spinner for Okeh. Wild Bill wastes a wonderfully intriguing title because the tune has no lyrics.
The Complete Modern Library for class room use and for your own reading pleasure.
The Willie Mays' song "Say Hey" by Willie and the Treniens (Epic) is getting the juke box spins these days because of the Giants' pennant hopes, but the flipover, "Out of the Bushes" is the better song.
Children's Books for Birthday Gifts.
Tops in Pops: "More Then Ever" and "The Man That Got Away" by Georgia Gibbs (Mercury), "Anyone Can Fall in Love" by Doris Day (Columbia), "Danger Signs" and "Au Revoir" by Theresa Brewer (Coral), "Tell Me, Tell Me," by June Valli (RCA-Victor) and "How Blue?" by the Mills Brothers (Decca).
Album of the week: "Barrelhouse Boogie and the Blues," eight superbly styled numbers by Ella Mae Morse with Big Dave and his band (Capitol). They include "Have Mercy, Baby" and "Money Honey."
Books on Cooking, Interior Decorating, Etiquette.
A Rental Library of the new books everyone is reading. 20c for 5 days
You are cordially invited to come in and browse.
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Monday, Sept. 13, 1954
University Daily Kansan
Russia Ignores New Flat Look
New York—U.P. Russian dress designers are ignoring the fashion decrees of Christian Dior. They seem never to have heard of Dior's new "flat look." They haven't even caught up with the "new look" Dior brought out in 1947. The Russians are clothing their women in drab clothes in styles that went out of date 20 years ago in America and the rest of Europe.
This report on the Russian fashion trend, which seems to be standing still, comes from Charles Arnowicz, a New York furrier who just returned from a 10-day trip to Moscow and Leningrad. He found that French and American fashion influences either hadn't penetrated the iron curtain or were being purposely ignored.
models.
The New York furrier said he has offered to take some American models and American clothes to Moscow and put on a fashion show a la Fifth Avenue, but Soviet officials haven't let him know yet whether he can. ___
"The Russian styles are comparable to ours of the late 30's and early 40's," he said in an interview. "The shoulders on suits and coats are broad. They're padded like the ones Joan Crawford made popular back before the war."
Arnowicz attended the annual international fur auction at Leningrad and then visited Moscow, where he watched a fashion show. He didn't once hear the name of Dior, the Paris fashion arbiter, and if the Russians have a Dior of their own he must be an unhappy fellow.
tellow.
"The clothes aren't in the least feminine. There's none of the elegance we're used to. The cut is clumsy and the materials and workmanship are poor compared to ours." Arnowicz said.
Models for the Moscow fashion show, he said, looked like they had been recruited from a construction gang. "They were all the stout type, and sort of glum, not slim and gay and attractive like our models."
Europe broke the Oriental monopoly on silk making back in the sixth century when two monks risked torture to smuggle out a few of the forbidden silkworm eggs from Persia.
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