Scholarship halls
Coeds 'sleep with books'
BY LINDA STEPHENS Kansan Staff Writer
Scholarship Hall women are often pictured by KU students as intense, bespectacled females with fantastic IQ's and empty wallets.
"People see us with long, gray skirts—and sleeping with our books," says one Miller Hall woman. Another coed was labeled a "computer" when she told a classmate she lived in Miller Scholarship Hall.
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Sellards Hall women, paired with seventh floor Templin Hall last year for a social function, were asked if they knew how to dance.
"Oh. You must be smart," is the remark most frequently heard by a schoolship hall coed when she tells a male where she lives. A guy may have been attentive previously, but when he finds that out, one Watkins Hall woman says, "he starts to back off."
But according to some guys who date them, the stereotype is false.
"You can have as much fun with a scholarship hall girl as you can with anyone," one Pearson Hall man says.
"I like going out with scholarship hall girls," another said.
Photo by Mike Frederick Boy meets girl
Lilly Shieh, Kansas City freshman, and Alan Birdsell, Jewell sophomore, enjoy a recent scholarship hall barbeque—Chinese style.
The stigma attached to living in a scholarship hall is less significant to male residents because guys meet on a personal, rather than scholastic basis, one male scholarship hall resident explained.
And if you think all scholarship hall resident holds a 3.0
Group to study dissent; Chalmers on Nov. panel
KU Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. will take part Nov. 2 in one of a series of discussions on "Dissent: In or Out?"
Sponsored by the University Christian Movement, discussions will include lectures, or panel discussions on four successive Sundays (Oct. 12, 19, 26 and Nov. 2), with study groups meeting during the week at a time and place determined by group leaders.
The emphasis will be on "Recent Dissent Issues" in the Oct. 12 session with Robert Shelton, assistant professor, School of Religion; Ambrose Saricks, professor of history, associate dean of the Graduate School; Richard Von Ende, graduate student, vice chairman, Senate Executive Committee.
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The Oct. 19 session will feature two KU Law Professors, Martin Dickinson and Lawrence Velvel, discussing "Appropriate Response to Dissent."
The major objective of the series, said the Rev. Rafael Sanchez, Presbyterian campus minister, is to facilitate communication on the matter of dissent between all members of the Lawrence community. Depth education groups will provide for the exchange of differing views among non-university residents of Lawrence and persons within the university.
"We hope to create two things," said Rev. Sanchez. "We hope to create an understanding of issues which lead to dissent in the University and we hope to bring about better communication between the university and townspeople."
Art Pearl, professor, School of Education, University of Oregon, will keynote the Oct. 26 session of "How Do We Effect Change?"
A panel discussion on "The Role of the University in Society" will highlight the Nov. 2 meeting. Panel participants will include the Chancellor; David Awbrey, Student Senate president; and Dolph Simons Jr., vice-president-publisher, Lawrence Daily Journal World.
GPA, you're wrong. Residents must maintain a 1.5 average to stay in the halls. A scholarship hall grade average sometimes is not much higher than the individual grade requirement, one resident said.
"Fraternities and sororites put more emphasis on scholarship than we do," said one women's hall president. "We have no enforced study hours."
KU's eight scholarship halls, located east of campus off Lilac Lane and Alumni Place, are based on cooperative living to reduce expenses. The approximately 50 students in each hall do their own cooking and cleaning. Duties are assigned in shifts which average an hour a day.
During orientation week scholarship halls plan a street dance and each autumn the traditional All Hall Fall Ball is held, featuring athletic contests and an egg toss.
Legendary intelligence of scholarship hall coeds is not all channeled towards study. Douthart Hall boasts a sophomore honorary called Frumps. Members are chosen for excellence in playing practical jokes. Members of Cwens, the KU sophomore women's honorary, can be only honorary members of Frumps.
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