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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. Oct. 27,1953
Blind Dates Popular on Campus But Not Always Successful
"How successful are blind dates as a way of making friends What do boys think of them? How can a girl make a blind date more successful, and what should a girl do with a blind date who turns out to be a wolf?" are all questions asked regarding the blind date system.
Blind dates are a common occur- ence on college campuses and are an excellent way to get acquainted.
If the person arranging the date does a bit of selecting they can be successful. All blind dates won't result in marriage but it is fun to meet someone else on the campus. These dates aren't supposed to guarantee you a boy's fraternity pin. Blind dates are a gamble some play and win, others play and lose.
To make a date successful a girl should just be herself. She should do her share to make the evening fun and not sit waiting to see what is going to happen.
Often if a girl makes a favorable impression her date tells his friends and they in turn become a good source of new friendships. Nice, uh?
Boys seem to have no objections
to being allowed to be as are
often favourable as unfavorable.
Girls should be sincere, honest,
and unaffected. Boys don't want to
hear about your many campus
activities, your class grades, or how
many other fellows you have man-aged to snare.
Blind dates are a nice way to get acquainted but if a girl really wants to make friends and meet people, look pleasant and smile. No one wants to be snarled at. If a girl sits with a lost look on her face as if to say, "Here I am, what are you going to about?" she will be sitting for a long time. Whether or not a girl meets new friends on blind dates or otherwise depends on how friendly she is toward others.
When a girl encounters a wolf on a date she should explain that she isn't interested and doesn't enjoy his type of entertainment. After all you aren't obligated in any way to accept a second date.
Theta Chis Entertain Oklahoma Pledges
Members of Theta Chi fraternity entertained the uplodge class of Theta Chi fraternity at Oklahoma A&M college last weekend.
The fraternity announces the pledging of Ray Berry, college junior; Roy Haws, education sophomore, and Benny McVicker, engineering sophomore.
Members of the fraternity will entertain North College hall with an hour dance tonight at the chapter house.
Delta Tau Deltas Hold Initiation Ceremony
Gamma Tau chapter of Delta Tau Delta fraternity announces the initiation Sunday at the chapter house of seven men.
Initiated were Clyde Leo Bulla, engineering junior; Robert Attkinson Creighton, college e sophomore; Charles Thomas Franklin, college sophomore; Terry Lloyd Gardner, college sophomore; Donald L. Hawley, college junior; William Morris Nofsinger, engineer senior, and Ralph Talbott Whiteside, business junior.
Acocias Pledge Ed Howard
Acacia fraternity announces the pledging of Ed Howard, college senior, from Kansas City.
Greeks Hold Exchange Fete
Greeks hold Exchange Fete Triangle fraternity and Alpha Omicron Pi sorority held an exchange dinner at the chapter houses Thursday. Chaperones were Mrs. C. A. Thomas and Mrs. Ross Cole.
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Yeomans to Head Alpha Rho Gamma
Morton Yeomans, fine arts junior, has been elected president of Alpha Rho Gamma, professional silver-smithing fraternity.
Other officers elected include Condon Kuhl, sophomore, vice president and pledge trainer; Joan Burleigh, sophomore, secretary - treasurer; Henrietta Montgomery, sophomore, chairman of the committee in charge of the organization's mission; Marcia Montgomery, activities chairman, and Donna Jean Johnson, junior, chairman of the display case in Strong.
The organization recently held pledge services.
The ten new pledges are Wendell Castle, Bill Wiglesworth, juniors; Mary Fischer, Isabell Goddis, Lee Hageman, Brent Kington, Lynne Livingston, Jane May and Ned Rose, all freshman, and Bob Fisher, sophomore. All are in the School of Fine Arts.
College Sophomores Announce Pinning
Gamma Phi Beta sorority announces the pinning of Wanda King to Louis Buck. Both are college sophomores from Kansas City, Mo. Buck is a member of Acacia fraternity.
100 Attend Fete Sponsored by TKEs
More than 100 persons attended the "Festum Romanum" party given by the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity pledge class Saturday night at the chapter house. Decorations were built on the theme of a Roman banquet.
Chaperones for the costume party were Mrs. Marie Trego, Mrs. Frank Baird, Mrs. J. I. Hollingsworth and Mrs. Leta Wilson.
Housemothers' Party Scheduled for Tonight
A party for housemothers will be given from 8 to 9:30 tonight in the Kansas room of the Student Union by Associated Women Students. Each housemother will be accompanied by members of her hall.
Members of the party committee are Sally Yoder, Wanda Sammons, and Kathleen Knaus, college juniors; Sheila Haller, Gretchen Poppe, PeoplePoint.com; Sheets, college sophomores, and Nancy Garrity, education junior.
A Halloween theme will be used.
Delts Entertain Sigma Kappas Members of Delta Tau Delta fraternity entertained members of Sigma Kappa Sorority at a dessert dance last Tuesday, at the chapter house.
Miss Dorothy J. Dunn, Alpha Phi sorority, governor for this district, will be guest of the Alpha Phi chapter this week. The local chapter has planned a program in her honor.
Alpha Omicron Pi sorority announces the pledging of Janet Hayes, fine arts junior, and Joann Jordan, college freshman.
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New York (U.P.) — Dolores Vilsoni of the Italian opera houses, is, it turns out, Dolores Wilson, a Philadelphia girl who made good far from home. What she does with the name role in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" is now on exhibit in records, well in advance of her Metropolitan Opera debut as Lucia, which is scheduled for next February.
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Miss Wilson (or Vilsoni) exhibits a strong, true voice whose emotional colorings are somewhat cool and whose exhibitionist coloratura warblings sound more mathematical than spontaneous. Yet it is a sizeable art and she is likely to learn to conceal better its deliberateness. The recording was made by Opera di Milano Franco Capuana, conducting.
The recording is brilliant Hi-Fi; the performance, acceptably professional. Gianni Poggi's hot-breasted Edgardo, contrasting Miss Wilson's cool-breasted Lucia, is particularly notable (Urania; three 12-inch LP's).
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How very Italian is Lucia and this performance of the piece, are dramatized by a complete recording of Massenet's "Werther" which Urania also issued.
It was made in Paris by L'Opera-Comique with George Sebastian conducting, and Charlotte's frigidity is made primary, whereas, to the Italians, Lucia's madness is incidental to her being an opera singer. If only there were singers everywhere who get access the validity of Charlotte and Werther as characters! This opera then would have the currency it deserves.
Massenet suffers from the dearth of performers who act with their vocal cords as well as sing with them. Suzanne Juyol as Charlotte and Charles Richard as Werth, with the supporting Opera-Comique company and orchestra, do very well but then they are French schooled in French metier. At least Americans can enjoy the French repertoire from such records as these, since it is not available in American opera houses.
RCA Victor has made Cavalleria Rusticana and "I Pagliacci" with more or less the same cast and is marketing them together, on three 12 inch LPs. Jussi Bojeroing is the Canio of "Par" and the Turiddu of "Cav". And Robert Merrill goes from Silvio to Alfio.
Victoria de los Angeles is the Nedda and Zinka Milanov, the Santuzza. But the orchestra is the same for both. Renato Cellini conducts both, and the Robert Shaw Chorale is the chorus for both. In short, it is another of Victor's studio productions, a couple of which have turned out superlatively. This one didn't. It's several cuts above the professional ordinary, yet it falls considerably short of the extraordinary.
Theta Taus Pledge Four
Theta Tau, professional engineering fraternity, announces the pledging of John Warren Stone, sophomore; Ivan L. Henman, sophomore; Benny Allen Anderson, freshman, and Larry Guy Davis, freshman.
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Da Campus Is Great! Just Ask The Veterans
"Will the University be hearing from its Korean veterans?" Tom Stewart asked in an editorial earlier this year. To find the answer the Kansan today contacted V. A. Jones, Korean veteran attending school under the G.I. Bill.
By SAM TEAFORD
Jones was located in a remote corner of the Hawk's Nest where he was idly dusting his United Nations service ribbon, while he sipped a cup of coffee.
"Diz mess hall makes lousy coffee," Jones began.
"As for da University hearing from us, there's only tree hunnert Korean veterans in school, and dey won't make much noise when dere's 6,700 other collegians around.
"But you got nothing to worry about us. We don't intend to cause nobody no troubles. All we're worrying about is seeing more of da feminines and making our $110 last for da month."
"Oh, yeah. You'll have ta excuse my peculiarities of convoising. I'm from Kansas, but dis ain't da way dey talk in my home town, ta tell da truth. Da men in my outfit in da army was all from Brooklyn and neighboring precincts, which no doubt explains at once why I talk dis way."
Jones was asked how the KU coeds compare to the beauties of the Orient. "Dere's no comparison," he said. "Da Far Easterners are lovely, but piously, if I want a girl from da East, it will be from no farther east than Tonganoxie."
Jones was definite in saying he was having a fine time here at the University. "Dis college life is good duty," he said, "although I wouldn't want to make it a career."
Veterans, because they're older, more mature, and occasionally more serious about their education, are usually not expected to have great interest in the "rah-rah" aspects of university life. Here's what Jones had to say:
"Now it is naturally a fact dat you won't see me doing cartwheels just because da Jayhawks runs up a foist down, but don't let me give you da wrong expression. I like to see da team win just as much as anybody, and I'm in favor of da Red Peppers and da Jay Janes, irregardless of whether dey are wearing dere sweaters when da team is elsewhere.
"But, like I said prev'ously, don't expect dis boy to lose any sleep worrying about da condition of school spirit, and if dere's a pep rally and I can't make it, dis may be on account of I think I got more important business."
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the halls of learning for at least two years, veterans often find it difficult to re-adjust to classroom routine. Was this true of Jones?
"By all means, no," said Jones. "I kept my mind sharpened for da school books by reading Mickey Spillane during da period of my toim in soiviice."
Before Jones could expound further, the 10 a.m. whistle blew, "If ya don't see me, write," said Jones, and he was off for class.
NeverSoCrowded KUNowHas7,105
Total enrollment now at the University is 7,105 James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions, said.
Of the total, 6,410 of which are on the Lawrence campus and 695 at the KU Medical center in Kansas City, there are 2,283 new students, an all-time high since World War II.
Registration by schools is: college, 2,660; engineering and architecture, 1,270; graduate, 880; medicine, 782; education 467; fine arts, 477; business, 319; law, 138; pharmacy, 102, and journalism, 53.
There are students from 105 Kansas counties, 45 states, the District of Columbia and two territories, and 45 foreign countries. This is another new high in geographical range.
Three Kansas Supreme court justices will be guests of honor at an initiation dinner given by Phi Delta Phi, law fraternity, at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas room of the Student Union building. They are Hugo T. Wedell, Walter G. Thiele and Robert T. Price.
Justice to Speak At Initiation Dinner
Justice Wedell will speak on "The Trial Lawyer." An outstanding jurist since 1835, he was president of the KU Alumni association in 1941 and in 1950 was cited by the University for outstanding service to the legal profession, to the state, and to KU
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