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Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No. 7
Thursday, Sept. 24, 1953
Studio Theatre To Hold Tryouts For 3 Comedies
Tryouts for three short English and Irish comedies, the first production on the Little Theatre's schedule this year, will be held today and tomorrow, 4 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. in the Little Theatre, Green hall, Allen Crafton, head of the Department of Speech and Drama, announced today.
GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS—At a picnic Wednesday in North College hall 475 freshmen women met, for the first time, with 75 upper class counselors. Until now the counseling has been done by correspondence. The affair is conducted on sort of a "blind date" basis.
At least six bills of plays will be presented during the current year in the Little Theatre, which will be known this year as the Studio Theatre.
The active director of the Theatre will be James Wright, who scored a success with "Petticoat Fever" last spring, and the technical director will be William Means.
"The objectives of the Studio Theatre are three-fold," Mr. Crafton said. "First, to provide a number of evenings of interesting theater entertainment; second, to train actors and stage workers for participation in the University Theatre; and third, to give both department
ory for practical theater experience. We want every student of the University to feel that he is welcome to participate as an actor, director, or back-stage worker," he said.
The dates for the first production have been set for Oct. 20 through 23.
The total enrollment at the University for the fall semester now is 7,003, James K. Hitt, registrar and dean of admissions, said today.
Total Enrollment Increases to 7,003
Of the total, 6,317 are at the Lawrence campus and 686 are at the Medical School in Kansas City. Six of the ten schools of the university show increases and four have decreased from last year. The total enrollment at this time in 1952 was 6,666.
Broken down by schools the college of liberal arts and sciences leads with 2,654; engineering and architecture, 1,261; graduate, 845; medicine, 775; fine arts, 483; education, 443; business, 316; law, 138; pharmacy, 101, and journalism.
Radio Group Seeking 'Hams'
The Lawrence Amateur Radio club invites all persons interested in amateur radio to a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Friday on the second floor of the Community building.
Art Professor Gets Fulbright
A Fulbright award for study and lecture has been granted Dr. Klaus Berger, chairman of the history of art department and acting director of the Museum of Art.
An expert on French art, Dr. Berger will lecture at the University of Cologne in Germany next spring in courses on French art, emphasizing the 19th century. He will leave at the end of this semester.
A staff member for three years in the School of Fine Arts, Dr. Berger previously taught at Kansas City university and at Northwestern university.
Studying in Germany will be nothing new for Dr. Berger. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Goettingen in 1935 after doing earlier work at several other German universities.
Dr. Berger has taught in universities in Berlin and Paris. He has also published numerous articles and books, including "French Master Drawings of the 19th Century."
Changes in address and phone numbers for the Student Directory should be made at the registrar's office by Friday night, Jack Elvig, engineering junior, editor said.
Directory Changes Needed
Debate Tryouts Net Fifteen New Members
Fifteen students were chosen to the debate squad following tryouts last night, Kim Giffin, debate coach, announced today.
New freshmen members are John Ball from Wyandotte High school, fourth place winner in the '53 state high school debate tournament; Robert Bush from Shawnee-Mission High school; John Dusay, Russell High school debater who won first in the state extempore contest; John Eland of Topeka, winner of the '53 state high school debate championship and tri-state winner in the American Legion oratorical contest;
Don Gaumer of Oberlin, first place winner of the state high school informative speaking contest; Emil Haar of Dodge City, second place winner in the district high school tournament:
Robert Kimball of Wyandotte High school, winner of the American Legion district oratory contest; Gary Sick of Russell, second place winner in the state debate tournament; and Dennis Knight of Kansas City, Mo.
Sophomores chosen to the squad are Mary Ann Curtis, Ulysses, winner of the class A division of the 1952 state high school debater;ney; and Courtney Nelson, a Wyanate High school debater in 1950-52.
Juniors chosen to the squad are
Snuffly, Sneezy Season Starts -- Sob.
A new club is being formed on the campus. Its badge is the pollen grain and the Kleenex box. Its flower is the ragweed, and its tree the weeping willow. The motto for this organization is:
Bv LETTY LEMON
Never give up And someday we'll glean
The name of this select but unfortunate fraternity is the U.H.F.S.-the University Hay Fever Sufferers, and members are easily identified not by pin, but by schnozz of red-dish hue.
A truly cheerful Antihistamine.
And members greet one another with a sneeze.
Truly among the world's most unfortunately afflicted, the allergic individual receives the least sympathy, except from his compatriots in misery. His physiognomy is laughed at behind his heaving back by uninformed classmates, who gaze at his swollen eyes, his rosy proboscis, and his puffy visage and conclude that he has been on a two-week binge. The conclusion is a logical one to draw.
Charles Sparks, Goodland, past winner of the state key Club oratorical contest; Larry Tretbar at Stafford, a transfer debater from New Mexico university and former Class A state high school champion; and Daniel King, a Kansas City, Moe, who has had speaking experience in campus politics.
William Means of Kansas City, Mo., was the only senior chosen to the squad in last night's tryouts. Means has previously taken parts in several University theatre productions.
Additional tryouts will be held Thursday for students unable to appear last night, Prof.Giffin said.
He is abhorred by his roommates, for whom he makes rest impossible. A consistent wheezing sound and periodic gasps and sniffles and sneezes are not as sleep-inducing as a lullaby.
the plague. Repeated pleas that "I'm not contagious, really I'm not," only cause him to be pitiful in his repulsiveness.
Never give up
His whole personality changes, partly as a result of and partly causing his friends to shun him like
He is likely to flunk botany if he is foolish enough to be enrolled in the course, and he probably will lose the current love of his life after sneezing intermittently during romantic pauses.
He plies himself with pills which make him perpetually drowsy and lethargic in his studies.
He is anathema to librarians.
ID Cards Available In Strong Rotunda
He hates himself and would rather be dead.
Distribution of student identification cards began today in the rotunda of Strong hall and will continue through noon Saturday.
To get an ID card, a student must show his fee receipt which proves he is actually enrolled at the University.
But in the depths of his agony, he clutches to his bosom one beautiful, shimmering ray of hope: Someday —maybe soon—there will be a frost.
Some of the ID cards may be marked "retake", meaning the picture on the card did not come out. Retakes are to go to the photographic bureau, located in the basement of Watson library, to have another picture made.
Student ID cards are good for all home football games. half of home basketball games, appearances by artists and lecturers, and University plays.
KuKu Club to Have Smoker
The KuKu club, men's pep organization, will hold a rush smoker at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Pine room of the Union building. President Lloyd Kirk said that all sophomore, junior, and senior men students are invited.
The Associated Women Students' summer counselling program was climaxed at a picnic in the freshman dormitories last evening. Approximately 475 freshmen and transfer students met the 74 upperclass counselors who had corresponded with them during the summer.
AWS Picnic
Climaxes
Counselor Plan
During the summer, the counselors wrote to from 10 to 16 new women students, welcoming them to the University and briefing them on campus procedure, traditions, and activities.
The project is part of the AWS program to provide activities for women students and to foster school spirit. The counselors were schooled last spring as to the purpose of counselling and possible aid and advice they might offer their counselees.
Typical questions asked by counselees pertain to fashions, schedules, dating, working opportunities, and enrolling.
Cheerleaders Betty Lou Watson, college sophomore, Phillip Stiles, college sophomore, and Dan Baron, college junior, led the group in University yells and songs.
At the picnic, each counselor was assigned a room in Corbin where she met her counseles before joining with the others for the dinner, served buffet-style in the dormitory dining rooms.
Jan Gradinger, college sophomore, is AWS senate chairman of the project this year. During the summer Miss Gradinger was assisted by Sue Montgomery, college sophomore, in filling and sending packets of information about the University to the new women.
Many counselors called their counselees during the first days of orientation and some called at the dorms or made coke "dates" to meet the students and introduce them to their other counselees.
The counselors will keep in contact with the new women throughout the year, encouraging them to take part in campus activities and offering any needed advice.
Participating in the sessions on general education in the social sciences will be E. Gordon Ericksen, assistant professor of sociology; Rupert I. Murrill, instructor in sociology and anthropology and director of western civilization, and Nino LoBello, instructor in sociology.
Three members of the department of sociology and anthropology will give reports on the teaching of social science and western civilization Saturday at the annual meeting of Kansas social science professors at Emporia State Teachers college.
Weather
Three Sociologists To Give Reports
Light showers broke out in the Hill City, Stockton, and Concordia
are as today and widely scattered light falls of moisture are expected tonight in eastern and southern Kansas. State Weatherman Tom Arnold said
there is little chance of the showers developing into rains of drouth-breaking proportions. Slightly cooler weather is due tomorrow, he said. In the last 24 hours Kansas experienced 95 degree heat at Hill City. The pre-dawn lows this morning ranged from 51 degrees at Goodland to 65 at Wichita.