Freshman-Barring ASC Bill Not So Bad'in Right Light
The All Student Council has proposed a bill prohibiting freshman women from running for Homecoming and Jayhawker queens. The senate of ASC has passed the bill and the house of representatives is still considering it.
Much concern has been shown by the ASC as to how freshman women would feel about such a bill. The freshman women feel the privilege should be open only to students who have been on campus for a year.
In a meeting recently at which representatives from ASC explained the proposed bill and how queens are selected, the freshmen voted overwhelmingly to allow only upper class women to be candidates for Homecoming and Jayhawker queens. But they also voted that transfer students should be excluded from the contests.
Freshman women may be beautiful but they have not been on campus long enough to participate actively in University activities. Beauty may be important but activities and personality should also be considered.
Alumni may be disturbed to return to their old alma mater and find a girl who had only been on campus for two months reigning as queen. Imagine, a girl who had been on campus such a short time
reigning over them, the alumni. They, who slaved their way through four long years of school. They, who have such deep feelings and hold such high reverence toward their school. True, the reverence may be only to the athletics teams, but . . .
A queen usually holds some fond feeling toward the group over which she is reigning. It is doubtful that a freshman or transfer student has acquired any feeling, except possibly disgust, discouragement, and homesickness, after only two months. They are new and it takes time to get adjusted. In the rush of getting orientated many of the freshmen did not at first realize how even this bill would affect them.
The bill only prevents them from running for two queen positions. There are plenty of other queen contests on campus to allow them a chance to show their new and fresh beauty, so they are not excluded entirely from being campus queens. They still can be candidates for the KU relays queen, Student Union carnival queen, ROTC queens, and fraternity sweethearts, to mention a few.
BOOKS: Empire-Building Moguls Live Again in New Book
Because of the many chances to be queen, a freshman will not be discriminated against if she is not allowed to be Homecoming or Jayhawker queen. —Elizabeth Wohlgemuth
The history of the United States does not include the reigns of any political kings. But we developed our own special brand of "bobility"—the kings of finance and industry. These were men who built empires in oil, steel, railroads, automobiles, copper, banking, ect., in the days before taxes spoiled the fun. Stewart H. Holbrook tells about these men and their times in The Age of the Moguls (Doubleday). Vanderbilt, Du Pont, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, Morgan, Hearst and the others march across these pages in all their pomp and power.
Holbrook's account of how each got his money and what he did with it is as fascinating reading as you can imagine. The Age of the Moguls is the first volume of a new series, edited by Lewis Gannett, which will present American history from earliest days of exploration to the recent past. Well-known writers like Carl Carmer, Bruce Catton, John Dos Passos and others will deal with a specific period each in subsequent volumes . . .
Lelia: The Life of George Sand, by Andre Maurosis (Harper): A biography of singular power and beauty. Here is the glory and scandal that were Sand's, furnishing a new understanding of the woman whose pen was as bewitching as her cold eyes.
Sand captivated, intrigued, shocked
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and disgusted France about 100 years ago. She was said to devour young men. Her taste for men's clothing and cigars created vulgar tales. Her wild hunt for love was recorded not only in her own novels but in those of her contemporaries and enshrined in barroom doggerel and vicious jokes. Her romance with Chopin is history. Her thinly-disguised autobiography novel, Lelia, was a franker confession than ever she realized.
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Maurois has gathered the truth and the fiction about George Sand, and has written a masterful biography of one of the most fascinating women in history . . .
The Civil War is still being fought, according to Ben Ames Williams, who deplored this North-South schism in his posthumous novel. The Unconquered (Houghton Mifflin). He begged both sides to forget hurt prides, wounds and fears and consider the other fellow's problems.
That was the plea of his character, Lieutenant Don Page, Union officer who stayed to marry a southern girl and learned to love her Southland. A gentle but determined New Englander, Don worked at uniting "the connoisseurs" in north and south the white and the Negro—through education. He succeeded in a minor way before mob bullets stopped his mission.
The Man In The Queue, by Josephine Tey (MacMillian) is a detective story recalling a more relaxed and gentle era. It boasts no nude blondes, no brutal beatings and only one murder—solved by the voluntary surrender of the murderer after Scotland Yard had saddled guilt solidly on the wrong man.
For readers who want action, not preaching, there is plenty of it in 689 pages of murder, love, gambling, and new Orleans. The book was a New Orleans of the carpeltang era.
absorbing and convincing book for all its shortcomings in the eyes of the Spillane school. It is so thoroughly believable an account of Scotland Yard procedure that it might have been inspired by Sunt. Robert Fabian's recent memoirs—if it were not for the fact that Miss Tey's book was first published here 24 years ago.
But Williams also used every kiss, every shot to drive home his peaceful theme . . .
The Man In The Quine is the first of a series of "distinguished mysteries . . . that deserve a longer life" to be republished by MacMilian under the general title of "Murder Revisited" . . .
The late Josephine Tey, fondly remembered for Brat Farer and The Franchise Affairs, makes it an
A full-dress revival of the tale that ranks as one of the great love stories of the world is encompassed in The Enchanted Cup (Appleton-Century-Crofts), Dorothy James Roberts' masterful recital of the romance of Tristan and Isolde. Tristan was of heroic physique and bearing when at 18 he won knighthood by slaying a great champion in defense of his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall. In Ireland Tristan meets Isolde and for her fight the Saracen king Palamides, although it costs him his sanctuary in the Irish courts.
A treacherous cousin arranges marriage between King Mark and Isolde and forces Tristan to escort the bride to Cornwall. On the voyage the young lovers drink a love potion prepared for Isolde's wedding and then on are lost to each other.
Their stolen love arouses kingdoms against them, breaks the heart of a French princess and closes all doors to them except that of the great knight Launcelot. Moving through King Arthur's court and the pageantry of tournaments and the Round Table, this is a stirring presentation of an ageless story. A Book-of-the-Month-Club selection.
Tree farming in the south is now profitable, according to W. C. Hammerle, forester for the Southern Pine Association. Increases in timber volume per acre and in net growth will very shortly double the present average growth per acre, he said.
Page 2 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Oct. 15, 1953
"Isn't that sweet! Joe broke our date to help some of the pledges with a math problem."
Gripes: Union Totsie-rolling Extravaganza for Engineers
To the Editor:
It is a dirty shame the way KU students treat the beautiful furniture in the Union, especially in the main lounge. They obviously are uneducated in matters of public cleanliness and it is appalling. I know that the chairs and divans are built for hard use (and they are really getting just that), but how do you think a person feels when he sits down to look at television and gets up with "neolite" or "Cat's Paw" imprinted on the seat of his pants?
Do you think it is difficult for the student to relax in the already comfortably built chairs, or is it a matter of a physical defect, or is it that they just don't give a damn?
People are constantly visiting our campus and the Union is one of the major points of interest. I'm sure our parents and friends enjoy seeing a typical KU student as they would see him at home—with his feet spread over the furniture as if he owned the world and had a million dollars in his pocket. Just ask him to wipe off the chair after he has misused it, and he would feel as if someone were picking on him or mistreating him.
We helped to pay for the Union and everything that goes to make it. I feel that a few filthy people shouldn't destroy in a few months what it took years for us to build. If the other can get it, any other user will be put out soda pop cases in the Union just so our friends can be comfortable.
Shannon Bennett college junior
I must say that the person who wrote the article "Enroll in Engineering—Name Your Own Price" did a fine job of composing a text to carry out the theme of the headline. However, that same writer was too interested in carrying out a theme to worry much about accuracy in salary quotations or his use of the half-truth, an old journalistic device which I am sorry to see used in the Daily Kansan.
Bum manager is fired, the headline said. We'll go along with that after losing the Series point-pot for two years.
To the Editor:
I don't dispute the fact that some engineering graduates receive substantially more than $350 per month when they go to work for industrial concerns, even those not involved in military contracting. However, whatever amount over this nominal average they receive should not be attributed to academic labor but to practical field experience.
We-have-a-solution dept: Bombtrowing in Kansas City and interest in KU pep rallies both seem to have died out. We hereby invite the KC crew to set a few off under our pep clubs, and we'll all keep in practice.
The girl with her arm in and her pledge pin on a sling probably also wears earmuffs over her Sunday hat.
If a graduate has done no work in his particular field of engineering he will get the base salary of the company who hires him. Therefore it is a sure bet that the fellows who are pulling down the salaries which the article would like you to think are typical, are not only sharp cookies with two-points-plus g.p.a., but they also have had a good deal of engineering experience.
Don't get me wrong. I like engineering, and would certainly encourage capable people to study it. I hope this letter doesn't discourage anyone to whom the Kansan article brought visions of treasure chests. However, the reporting of this situation was inexcusably incomplete. It is analogous to the report of a track meet which states that an athlete defeated his opponent in a dash and crossed the finish line with a ten yard lead. To be complete the report should also state that the winner started with a fifteen-yard handicap.
Lawrence C. Kravitz engineering senior
We've always known it, but a Kansas story has confirmed it . . . "Success Isn't Always Based on Scholarship."
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HERE'S A PAPER (WRAPPED
ROUND A FISH) AUG.29 1953-
BURY THINGS? LOOK
WHERE THEY PUT DETROIT IN
THE STANDING ..SEVENTH
PLACE! 40 GAMES BURIED!
THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN IN MY
DAY, FRIENDS!