Homecoming Events Begin
Follies Scheduled At 8:45 Tonight In Auditorium
The 1953 Homecoming follies, featuring student talent, will be held tonight at 8:45 p.m. in Hoch auditorium following the freshman-varsity basketball game.
T. V. Highlights of 1953" will be presented by the members of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. The skit features "Bob and Ray," done by William H. Dye, college freshman, and David Hardy, college junior; "Sid Seizure and Energene Coco" Larry M. Baker, college freshman, and George N. Michale, business senior; "Stagnet" by Charles D. Belt, college freshman, Jay R. Swink, college freshman, and Charles W. Hedges, college sophomore. "Super Circus" will feature James W. Anderson, fine arts freshman as the juggler, and George Michale will imitate the late Al Jolson in "Mammy."
The Phi Psi "Sym-phoney" will be another feature of the follies with Phil Petitt, business junior, trumpet; Edmond Tucker, college junior, clarinet; James Berglund, college sophomore, bass; George Ira, fine arts sophomore, banjo and uick; Dick Gamlin, college sophomore, playing the "box and brush," and Dick Baker, engineering sophomore, piano. They will play "The Sheik of Arabi," "Five Feet-Two," and "When the Saints Go Marching In."
The members of the Delta Gamma sorority will present a skit which will include a "can-can" line.
The undefeated 1923 grid squair will be introduced by Lawrence Woodruff, dean of students, who was a center on the squad. The ten finalists for Homecoming queen also will be introduced.
The University Pep band, under the direction of Raymond Zepp, will play at the follies.
Background music will be furnished by William Kaltrider, organ
Quota Not Filled By Chest Drive
Today is the last day of the Campus Chest drive and only $2,465 has been collected toward the $5,000 goal Fred Heath, college sophomore and chairman of the collections committee, announced. "Yesterday was a slow day with only $215 being collected," he said.
A plaque will be given to the house contributing the largest amount per person. Five houses have over a $1 average. They are Kappa Kappa Gamma, $2.05; Kappa Alpha Theta, $1.29; Alarm Omicron Pi, $1.28; Hopkins hall, $1.11, and Phi Delta Theta, $1.26.
Heath asked that solicitors to private homes and in organized houses turn in all money and cards by 8 p.m. today at the Campus Chest office in the activities lounge of the Student Union.
Weather
The weatherman predicts low temperatures and cloudy skies for the football game and Homecoming festivities tomorrow.
Occasional r a i n mixed with snow should d end by early afternoon, allowing houses to put up traditional Homecoming decorations. No rain
1 predicted for tonight but skies will remain partly cloudy. The high temperature today and tomorrow is expected to be near 40 and the low tonight near 25. Yesterday's rainfall of .93 of an inch was the heaviest moisture fall recorded in this area since July 6, according to C. J. Posey, volunteer weather observer here.
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51st Year. No. 48—SECTION A
7 Debate Teams Meet at Emporia
Seven KU debate teams are competing in a tournament at Emporia State college this afternoon, and other debaters will appear at the University of Texas today and to morrow and at the University of Missouri tomorrow.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Debate teams in the Emporia State tournament will each debate four times, and the winning school will be determined by the percentage of total wins and losses. Last week KU novice debaters won a similar tournament at Kansas State college.
Schools expected to compete at Emporia State are the University of Wichita, Kansas State, Pittsburg State college, and other Kansas colleges.
Making the trip to Emporia will be William Arnold, Hubert Bell, Larry Tretbair, Richard Smith, and John Fields, college juniors; John Eland and Gary Sick, college freshmen; Kenneth Dam and William Means, business seniors; Letty Lemon, journalism junior; Margaret Smith, college sophomore; Mary Ann Curtis, fine arts sophomore; Marjorie Heard, engineering sophomore, and Howard Pavne, college senior.
William Crews, business senior, and Richard Sheldon, college senior, are appearing today in an exhibition debate before Texas high school students in Austin. Tomorrow they will debate against a Texas team in a convocation.
R. L. Brown and Dennis Knight, college freshmen, will debate tomorrow at a high school clinic in Columbia. Mo.
Debates this weekend complete the pre-Thanksgiving schedule. Four KU teams will enter a tournament at the State University of Iowa Dec. 4-5, and others debaters will compete in tournaments at Southwestern college and at the University of Arkansas. Both will be Dec. 11-12.
Deadline Set ForNavyExam
This test will be conducted Dec. 12 in numerous cities throughout the United States. Last year 29,000 students tried for the scholarships which are valued at $6,000 apiece. Of these 29,000 there were 2,000 that were chosen, these men are now attending school in one of the 52 universities that maintain a Navy ROTC unit.
The deadline for application for the Navy College Aptitude test has been set for Saturday, Nov. 21, it was announced by the Navy ROTC office at the university today.
Friday, Nov. 20, 1953
The exams in this area will be given at the Navy ROTC office in Lawrence. The applications for this test must be sent to the Navy Examination section, Educational Testing Service, P. O. Box 709, Princeton, New Jersey, on or before Saturday, Nov. 21.
Turnpike Official To Speak in Union
Gale Moss, director of the Kansas State Highway commission and chairman of the Kansas Turnpike authority, will speak on "Toll Roads for Kansas" at the dinner meeting of the Kansas section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, today.
The dinner meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in the Union. Members of the Kansas City section of the ASCE have been invited to attend.
HOLD THAT TIGER!-Missouri quarterback Vic Eaton, a real triple-threat man of the old line, will be seen in this pose quite often Saturday. A junior who has successfully taken over for Tony Scardino, Eaton, 20, is Tiger's leading passer; ranks high in punting and rushing.
Band Schedules Rehearsals For Concerts in Early 1954
The University band will start daily preparation Nov. 23 for two concerts to be given during the year, one in January and the other in April, and for two out-of-town tours which are being planned for the spring semester.
During the football season, the University band performed at all
home games, at the Oklahoma game in Norman, and the Nebraska game in Lincoln. The marching band will make their final half-time appearance at the Homecoming game tomorrow.
For the basketball season, the University will have a "basketball" band.
Game with MU Rallies, Queen Mark Weekend
A football game, a crowded stadium, a queen, bands, rallies, and returning alumni—they are all part of Homecoming.
By TOM SHANNON
An underdog Jayhawk will attempt to make the 42nd annual Homecoming a happy one by drilling a savage Tiger. They will play before some 35,000 fans in Memorial stadium tomorrow. Earl Falkenstein, athletic business manager, said today that only 2,000 tickets were left for the game. "If the day is nice, we expect to sell the other tickets," he said.
Three Homecoming queen finalists were selected last night. The queen and her two attendants will be presented tonight at the Jayhawk Homecoming Follies and at half-time tomorrow.
Last night University pep clubs gave the football team a boost at a "spontaneous" rally at the Varsity house.
Dr. Yak, traditional Homecoming physician, this morning officially opened the weekend's activities by handing out Homecoming pep pills at a student rally. A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg and Ted Cox, campus cop, spoke.
Rah! Rah! Georgi!
Old grads already have started invading the campus. Alumni registration opens at 4:30 p.m. today in the Student Union. Included are members of the 1923 football team, which is holding its 30-year reunion.
In a pre-game ceremony, members of the KU-MU chapters of Omicron Delta Kappa, senior men's honorary society, will hold a traditional peace conference. The MU chapter will show that they have brought the Indian tom-tom, which goes to the team that wins the game.
At halftime the KU band will combine with the 90-piece MU band, under the direction of Prof. George C. Wilson, to give a brief marching demonstration and spell out "Hi Alum." The bands will break into a heart formation—pierced by an "errrow" made up of pep club members. The queen then will be introduced to the crowd.
Dignitaries attending the game will include Gov. Edward F. Arm, Lt. Gov. Fred Hall, Rep. Errett P. Scriven, Rep. Clifford R. Hope, and members of the Board of Regents and the Kansas Legislature.
From Siberia It Is No Homecoming
By SAM TEAFORD
"Homecoming—such a thing is never happening in Rooshia because the people there are always at home and therefore are having no place to come home from," Alexander Georgi Dimitri Smith, Lawrence correspondent for Pravda, told the Kansan today.
"The only time people is leaving their homes is to take a short vacation to visit the scenic wonders of Siberia. Strangely enough," Smith said, "for these people is no coming home, undoubtedly because they like it so well there."
Smith was told that homecoming in the U.S. refers to a return visit paid by old grads and former students to their alma mater, and has nothing to do with home life.
Does the homecoming tradition as practiced by American colleges and universities have a similar tradition in the USSR. Smith was asked.
"Never that I am knowing about"
Smith said, "at least not at my school,
the University of Malenkov, which
previously is being known as Stalin's Supreme Soviet State college,
and before that is Lenin A&M, and also Trotsky Tech.
“At my school,” Smith explained, “is never time for frivolity. Instead we are always studying, first Marx and then Engels, then Engels and Marx, and finally only Marx. Needless to say, all Rooshan students are making good marx,” Smith punned.
What did Smith think of the American practice of choosing a homecoming queen?
"Always in Hamerica, someone is picking a queen for a day, a queen of the ball. a queen for apple blossoms—all kinds of queens are being selected, and is always great trouble to find pretty women for these queenships.
"Such a problem is never happening in the USSR. There, all the women are naturally beautiful if they t h i n k beautiful communistic thoughts, but none are becoming queens, because royalty is not allowed in our great democracy."
A football game is always the most important event of the homecoming weekend in the U.S., and thousands gather in the stands to watch a rugged gridiron battle. How does this compare with Russia?
"This football is nothing but foolish anti-Communist propaganda," Smith claimed. "This Saturday you are having the Tigers of Missouri playing against the Jayhawkers, and many of the proletariat are expecting the Tigers to win.
"To the Soviet peoples, this is ridiculous. In Rooshia the Big Red team is never losing."
Next Smith of Pravda was asked if any part of U.S. homecomings, such as rallies before the game, is duplicated in the USSR.
"We are having rallies, yes, but not for Jayhawkers. Instead we are having rallies for glorious party and comrades of the Politburo. Is fine time had by all, with many speeches and cheers. One of cheers is going, "Every man a bolshevik." Another is saying, "Hold that five-year plan," but the favorite is, "Stomp McCarthy, stomp McCarthy, rah, rah, rah!"
It was apparent that Smith was about to be carried away by his enthusiasm for his homeland. We left him there, waving a USSR pennant and wiping the tears from his eyes.