University Daily Kansan
KU Women Consider Latest Kinsey Report
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By SHIRLEY PIATT
"My mother won't let me read it, but I hear it's shocking," a naive freshman woman remarked when asked her opinion on Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's second sex.
The subject of our interview is that most stimulating of contemporary books, "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female," which various sources of public information push at us as literature guaranteed to have great impact on the American population.
population. Here is what six KU girls think about what other women told Dr Kinsev.
An education sophomore said of the report, "I've read all the reports. While the statistics seem valid, I don't believe that 5,940 women can speak for the entire female population of the United States."
A chemistry senior, speaking with the intelligence of age, said, "Dr Kinsey has produced an astonishing set of statistics which positively indicates a certain scientific validity. However, I doubt that people would answer the questions honestly."
A geology junior exclaimed, "The information Kinsey dug up would be order to excavate than Stone Age soils."
A mathematics teacher remarked, "Many people will be shocked by this book. Obviously individual reaction depends first of all on the individual as do the statistics. I am aware that the statistics gathered can be averaged and cited as normal behavior. Here again actions are individual."
A fraternity housemother expressed. "It is surprising that a distinguished entomologist would attempt such a project," she said. "His statistics are so astonishing that I feel in some cases that they must be influenced by his professional experience in studying insects. The doctor seems to see normality in certain human actions because they are practiced in animals."
Care was taken in this interview to get a cross section of KU women as did Dr. Kinsey in his cross section interview of 5,940 women representatives of the U.S. Persian university educational levels, various schools in the University, and differing geographic areas of the campus.
These six women have given honest answers. Dr. Krinze conducted reinterviews knowing that only truthful replies can be consistent. An individual who remembers and tells the truth in answering questions of this type on one occasion is likely to remember and to tell the truth on a later occasion, Dr. Krinze alleged. an untruthful person probably will not remember precise details of his earlier answer.
To assure the accuracy of this Kansas mass interview, the women were requestioned after a period of at least ten minutes.
You may be sure that Dr. Kinsey's second sex will have a great impact on the American population, partly because it deals with women. And our mothers certainly are of interest to each and everyone of us.
KRUW Hall Wins
ISA Contest Award
KRUW hall was awarded the Independent Student association's membership trophy at the ISA fall picnic Wednesday.
Martha Wallace, college sophomore, accepted the award on behalf of KRUW, which had 100 per cent ISA membership this fall.
Approximately 350 students attended the picnic. Three-legged sack racks were held with the winners receiving tin can loving cups. Miss Mary Peg Hardman, assistant dean of women, and Mr. Donald R. Benson instructor in English, and Mrs. Benson were chaperons.
Always at Your Service
New York—(U.P.)-A special fact-finding board sends President Dwight D. Eisenhower its report on today on the walkout of 65,000 longshoremen that has sealed off trade for five days on Atlantic coast ports from Maine to Virginia.
LEONARD'S STANDARD SERVICE 9th and Indiana
Board to Report On ILA Strike
President Eisenhower was expected to act swiftly to obtain an injunction under the Taft-Hartley law sending the striking cargo handlers back to work for an 80-day "cooling off" period.
The President appointed the board last Thursday in a move to halt the strike under a Taft-Hartley provision allowing him to seek a federal court order prohibiting the walkout 80 days if it threatens the "health and safety" of the nation.
It was a foregone conclusion the board's report would justify a request for an injunction. Barring delays in obtaining the injunction from a federal judge, a back-to-work order could be expected late today or early tomorrow.
The International Longshoremen's association struck Thursday over a wage dispute with the New York shipping association. However, the strike took on added significance when the company card by the AFL to organize a new longshoremen's union to replace the crime-ridden ILA.
Monday. Oct. 5. 1953
The huge liner Queen Mary, originally scheduled to dock in New York today, was diverted to Halifax, N.S., with 1,834 passengers who were scheduled to complete their journey to New York by train.
New York's Grand Central terminal was jammed yesterday with 860 passengers from the liner Britannic who landed in Halifax Friday night and traveled to their destination in Boston. The bus drivers, officers set up temporary baggage-checking facilities in the railroad station.
The Brittanic was sent from Halifax to New York without passengers to await its Thursday sailing date. By then the walkout was expected to be ended.
The Mauretania, another liner arriving from Europe, was not diverted to Halifax and was due to dock at New York today without the aid of tugboats.
Ronald L. Olsen, a former University student, was killed in a head-on auto collision near his home at Delaffel, Wis., last Sunday.
RONALD OLSEN
Olsen, a junior in the School of Business last year, had enlisted in the service and was to leave Oct. 16. At the time of the accident, he was returning from a deer hunt in northern Wisconsin.
His sister, Nancy Olsen, college sophomore, accompanied Joe Woods, pharmacy senior and Olsen's roommate at Delta Chi, and Bonnie Metz, college junior, on the trip home.
Ronald Olsen Dies in Crash
The Kansan carried the story last Monday but all the facts were not known then.
Denver—(UP)—Dr. Ralph Swain, 40-year-old State department official slain by Mexican bandits Saturday, was a former Colorado university professor and holder of degrees from Colorado university and Colorado A&M college.
Slain U.S. Official Ex-CU Professor
Dr. Swain was shot to death before his wife and children in a robbery attempt in the mountainous wilds of southern Mexico. He was returning to his station at the American embassy at Managua, Nicaragua, after vacationing in Mexico.
Mexican army troops were holding seven Indians in connection with the death last night.
Dr. Swain resigned a professorship at Colorado university in 1938 to join the agriculture department.
Canada is second only to South Africa in gold production. Gold is mined in all but two of Canada's provinces.
Toots, Twirls, Hi-steps In Gala Band Day Fete
"Here they come!"
By JERRY KNUDSON
And here they did come: more than 3,000 high school band members trying valiantly to keep in step, keep in rank, keep in tune.
Saturday, Band Day, 1953—a color-
drenched, sound-flooded hour and ten minutes of 61 bands strutting down Massachusetts street.
It could have been the 4th or July in October as red-faced tooters and baton twirlers perspired freely because of the unseasonable heat.
And the male members of the curb kibitzers noticeably concentrated on the high-kicking antics of scantily clad drum majorette.
Some bands clipped along at a crack, professional pace. Others—smaller schools—rather moseyed along. There were good marchers—adopted in an odd humming movement to whatever tune was being played.
But they marched and played, and the spectators lining the street from the Kaw river bridge to South park watched and listened. People looked on from every vantage point, including windows, rooftops, and theater marquees.
The scene was one flowing stream of color, movement, and sound fused together. Photographers flitted into the street to snap pictures of oncoming groups, yielding only when determined majorettes flounced unconcernedly on.
Look at them: a six-footer playing a piccolo just in front of a short girl lustily whamming a bass drum.
Hawkers were selling mums, peanuts, programs, pennants. Grim-faced band instructors looked neither to right nor left as they stiffly walked beside their charges. There were spatterings of applause as the home folks rooted for their kids as they passed.
One bass drummer with one broken arm. A tiny, three-or four-year-old drum majorette kicking when her older colleagues whirled, whirling when they kicked, then just getting disgusted and watching the crowd.
There's the Tonganoxie band playing—oh, no!—the "Dragnet" theme with the instructor getting in a few hot licks on his trumpet. There are two Haskell students in ceremonial Indian dress, followed by their band marching with great dignity.
And look at that color scheme; the advance guard in bright blue and yellow, drum majorette and instructor in white, baton twirlers in red, and the band in navy blue trimmed with gold.
Now come six baton twirlers with SENECA spelled out on their sweaters. They twirl around and the crowd sees KANSAS. But as they pass by, it's SASNAK.
Yes, there's the usual number of batons dropped, of sour notes, of chunky majorttes, of self-conscious students out of uniform, of wheezy wind instruments.
But the crowd loves it.
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