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Across the Campuses
Pants Advocated For N.C. Women
Down at the University of North Carolina, the campus newspaper advocates that coeds change their fashions to meet the conditions of a cold winter.
And from other campus newspapers, here is the latest from the University of Minnesota, the University of Texas, Kansas State college, and Brigham Young university:
NORTH CAROLINA—An editorial in the Daily Tar Heel advised a change in women's apparel to meet cold weather conditions. "Because of the dictatorial whims of the Great God Fashion, our coeds were freezing their pretty pink legs off running here and there in the wintry weather," the editorial said.
"We are as partial to Chapel Hill scenery as anyone else around, and we certainly feel that coed gams are an integral part of that scenery," the editorial continued, pointing out that "the coeds would be more comfortable and the infirmary less harrassed by the common cold if our distaff side denned slacks.
"To pants, ladies, to pants!" urged the Daily Tar Heel.
MINNESOTA- Two teaching assistants at Minnesota have been named Communists in a government hearing to determine whether Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell is justified in labeling the Labor Youth League a front for the Reds.
Editorially, the Minnesota Daily asked for public opinion to determine the truth of the charges, but reported "the tide of public opinion is rushing toward the stake and the rack."
TEXAS—Girls were being punished for being late for closing hours, and two Texas coeds complained in a letter to the editor of the Daily Texan.
Referring to a girl who was punished for being 25 minutes late because of bus schedules, they said their dormitory was supposed to be their "home away from home. Let us tell you that our homes are nothing like this."
are nothing like this.
"We each lived 19 long years before we came to Austin and we got along very well with our friends and our mothers and were never 'campused' for being 15 minutes late. Just what are these dormitories—homes or reformatories?" they asked.
KANSAS STATE—Residents of sororities and women's dormitories have eaten about 350 lbs. of chocolates since the semester began, the Collegian reported. The chocolates, of course, were passed to announce pinnings or engagements.
Judging by chocolate consumption, Alpha Delta Pi sorority has grabbed more men than other houses. That sorority has passed 65 lbs. of chocolates, compared with 50 lbs. for Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and 35 lbs. for Alpha Xi Delta sorority.
BRIGHAM YOUNG—A student at Brigham Young had a few things to say about the local coeds.
First he sounded off against a peculiar trait of the species. He said a friend had a girl who publicly called him such names as "Honey Lamb, Duckie Wuckie, and Sweetie Pie." This girl's body, he said, was found "buried in a sack of quicklime underneath a culvert."
The fellow also was mad at girls who keep their men waiting. "Here is a rule you can count on," he said. "She is going to keep you waiting before a date even if she has to do it by reading a 1910 copy of the National Geographic."
Congressmen Return to Find Refurbished Capitol Building
The reconvening 83rd Congress is finding improvements and embellishments at the Capitol, including a rotunda decoration that fills a gap left for nearly three quarters of a century.
Each year, between Congressional sessions, the nation's chief legislative building is cleaned, polished, and repaired. Some years there is extensive reconstruction.
Such maintenance and structural care are responsibilities of the Capitol architect. The 1949 - 51 program brought about the buildings' newest look in modern times through the remodeling of House and Senate chambers, and construction of new roofs for them.
In the recess period just ended, more and better facilities for radio and television were provided in the Senate Gallery and also in the subbasement on the Senate side.
The Gallery's radio and television area was partitioned and sound-proofed for special programs and interviews with Senators. Four more rooms in the subbasement were set aside and equipped for legislators wishing to record their speeches, discussions, and interviews for voters at home.
But the most interesting recent addition was the final section of the Rotunda's historic frieze, begun in 1877 by the artist Constantino Brumidi.
At the time of his death in 1880, Brumidi was working on the seventh of 15 projected panels depicting significant events in American history.
ical asylum, spent 25 years painting Capitol decorations, from minute medallions to the monumental dome canopy.
Brumidi, an Italian emigre who came to the United States for polit-
His successor, another fresco artist, Filippo Costaggini, completed the other eight sections, using Brumidi's
An old but far from forgotten issue will come again before Congress during the present session—that of statehood for the two U.S. territorial possessions, Hawaii and Alaska.
Statehood Footballs Appear Again
More than 100 years ago King Kamehameha II of Hawaii hoped to see his native land become one of the United States of America, and if he were still living he would still be waiting, although probably with not quite so much optimism.
The issue of statehood for Hawaii and Alaska has become one of our country's perennial political footballs. It first came up for action in 1916, and has come up every year since that time, with very little success.
In 1950 the House passed statehood bills for both territories by fairly large majorities, but the big block in the Senate remains.
A big objection to statehood for either territory comes from the Democratic party, but more particularly from the Southern Democrats. That group feels that, because of the large colored population in both territories, the four additional votes in the Senate would be in favor of civil rights legislation, and would be enough to swing the Senate in that direction.
Although, as Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-III.) pointed out, they would still have the power of filibuster, the Dixiecrats feel that the four additional votes might be enough to take away that power, which they consider their last line of defense.
One of the ridiculous things about the situation is that both parties include statehood for the two territories in their platforms.
This led Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me.) to say that "both parties might as well junk their whole platforms and not make any more, because they are fraudulently farces on the American people."
Even the late "Mr. Republican himself," Sen. Robert Taft (R-Ohio) was guilty of using the statehood issue in 1951 before the Presidential races got under full steam. His opposition to the measures caused many winks to be exchanged among Dixiecaters who realized that Sen. Taft's
stand was a bid for Southern support in the presi dential race.
Many reasons are given, pro and con, concerning the acceptance of the territories as states.
righ on the list at the present time concerning Alaska is its proximity to Soviet Russia and its consequent strategic location in case of a war. Proponents of Alaskan statehood claim that defense measures can't be brought to the necessary level as long as Alaska is just a territory.
Some claim that Alaska is being unnecessarily retarded in its agricultural development because it doesn't have senators to present its special problems before the upper house.
The population of Alaska is about 129,000, considerably larger than that of 20 of the present states when they were admitted, and it is argued that communication and transportation between both territories and this country are both quick and easy.
Opponents point out that both territories, particularly Hawaii, have large foreign population groups that know nothing of self-government in a democratic manner. In the case of Hawaii it is said that a large number of the Chinese residers and many of the natives don't even want to join the Union as a state, and would cause nothing but trouble if allowed to do so.
They also point out that Alaska's population is deceptive since only between 70 and 80,000 of the residents are non-native civilians, the rest being temporary armed forces personnel.
Other reasons brought out against statehood, a few of which apply to Alaska are poor economic development which would cause a financial drain on the country, representation in the Senate out of proportion to population with too much say of foreign policy, and that it is an unwise policy to make states of "disconnected areas."
All of these reasons are made to sound a little different, however, by former Sen. Fred A. Seaton (R-Neb.) who said: "These are all points which have been used against every territory that ever applied for membership as a state."
—Don Tice.
When the vagrant cow bird tries to take advantage of the little yellow warbler by laying an egg in its nest, the warbler generally refuses to co-operate. It simply roofs over the whole nest, eggs and all, builds a second nest on top of the first and starts all over again.
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original sketches. When the designs were carried out, however, they failed to fill the available space by 30 feet.
Congress rejected Costagini's suggested additions, as well as those of other painters. The unsightly gap remained until artist Allyn Cox finished the job in 1953 with three panels, the "Civil War," the "Spanish-American War," and the "Birth of Aviation, 1903."
by Dick Bibler
"Looks like we'll be writing research papers all term—I understand Prof. Snarf is writing a book on the orient."