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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 17, 1953
Bv MARY COOPER
As far as the records show only two times in the history of the University have date bureaus been officially established on the campus. The first was in November 1935.
Lonely Hearts Bureau Appeared Twice at KU
The date bureau also offered a special service. Anyone wanting a date with a special individual could send in this person's name, address, and phone number in addition to the information above. The cost for this service was 25 cents, and the results could not be guaranteed.
The originator of this date bureau tried to keep his identity secret and so his name was not used or any publicity material. He had anyone interested send his name, address, phone number, age, height, weight, color of hair, dancing ability, make of car (if he had one), and a photograph (if he could spare one) to the Date Bureau, Lawrence, Kansas. He was to specify the night he wanted a date and the type of date desired.
A fee of ten cents was charged for each application which covered the cost of registration. This fee entitled the applicant to one date. Each additional cost ten cents.
The boy behind this scheme seemed serious in his undertaking. He wrote and obtained information from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and the Occidental college in Los Angeles, where date bureaus had proved successful.
Numerous people on the campus were quite curious as to who he was; no one knew his identity except two school officials. The concensus of opinion was that he was a nonfraternity underclassman on the campus.
After his identity was disclosed by the Lawrence Journal World, Leo Gottlieb Jr. of Independence, Kan., made this statement: "I wish to announce that the date bureau is no longer in operation. I thought I had a gentleman's agreement that the newspapers were to withhold my name, but as the story in the Lawrence Journal World indicates,
Reporters Learn While on Job
Journalism in the applied form is supplied to all tyro-journalists in the William Allen White School of Journalism in an advanced reporting class.
Newspaper Reporting of Public affairs, more commonly known in the School of Journalism as Reporting III is a course designed to allow the students to learn newspaper work while he is on the job.
Each student must spend four hours a week working on one of the newspapers in the Lawrence area. It is while working on the newspaper that the student can integrate the knowledge he has accumulated in the class room with what is applicable to the normal operation of the daily paper.
Six daily newspapers in the Lawrence area are cooperating in the program. They are the Lawrence Journal-World, the Topeka Daily Capital, the Topeka State Journal, the Kansas City Kansan, the Leavenworth Times, and the Ottawa Herald.
Students working on these newspapers are treated like regular reporters and given assignments to cover in that city. Anything from a re-write to covering a major fire may fall into the hands of the tyroreporter to write.
in the classroom, the student learns about advanced methods of reporting of all phases of public affairs--as the name of the course implies.
He must cover sessions of courts and must become familiar with the legal terminology used in court. Throughout the other affairs of public interest, the cadet reporter must learn a working knowledge.
Students in Reporting III class usually are seniors, and they must have the two earlier classes in reporting and two courses in editing.
someone was not a gentleman."
Gottlieb continued, "I also have found it embarrassing to deal with practical jokers who have furnished me with two-thirds of my buisness, but I thank them for the 45 cents they sent in."
In 1948, the Independent Student association sponsored the second date bureau. The service offered consisted of an introduction and arrangements for a "coke date." From that point on, it was up to the individuals.
One week after the service began, this notice was seen in the Kansan.
The story was carried by the Associated Press, and so many requests came in that the date bureau was reopened in December and continued for a few months.
By ELJZABETH WOHLGEMUTH
To seek to know God and understand Jesus, to unite in a desire to realize a full and creative life, and to determine to have a part in making this life possible for all people is the purpose of the YWCA on the University campus.
YW Brings God to Campus Women
The YWCA was organized here in 1886. Its many contributions have included the origination of the K-Book, Student Employment service, housing bureau, freshman orientation program and a lounge for women.
In orientation week each fall the Y holds open house for all freshman women at Henley house.
At thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter the Y holds special services usually jointly with the YMCA.
The Y's many special projects include a rummage sale held each fall with the help of the YWCA advisory board. The advisory board consists of sixteen members selected from the community, the faculty and faculty wives.
"Wanted, more girls! This is the cry of the 30 male students who signed up for the date bureau, only to find that the women did not respond -- for only five women signed up."
Other fall projects are the selling of the crimson and blue pom poms at football games and the selling of mums at homecoming.
Before Christmas each year the Y holds a bazaar. Each organized women's dorm makes articles such as stuffed dolls, mittens, aprons, and Christmas candies to be sold.
Every spring male quartets participate in a Barbershop quartet contest sponsored by the Y. This year's contest was won by Jolliffe hall.
The Y holds all-membership meetings, cabinet retreats, and an annual all-membership dinner.
The Y has set up a special program for freshman members. They participate in a freshman commission, which is part of the YWCW. This means that freshmen may become acquainted and oriented to the Hill and to YWCWA work and activities. These commissions also serve as a leadership workshop.
Commissions are held Thursday afternoons for all upperclass Y members. In these commissions the women study campus affairs, comparative religions, the United Nations, community service, and the Bible. The commissions also participate in foreign student firesides and current event coffees.
Henley house is the center of all YWCA activities. It was given to the Y in 1922 by Mrs. Alberta Henley. It is a home where women can feel welcome at any time to use the phone, read a magazine, pound the piano, or just relax.
In 1945 Henley house became the first home on the campus for interracial cooperative living. The house was redecorated in 1951 and now is a home for graduate women students.
The YWCA recently moved its office to the student activity center in the Union. Mrs. Elizabeth Walz is executive secretary.
Wes Santee's anchoring 4:06.6 mile for KU's record - shattering four-mile team at the Texas relays was his fifth mile under 4:10. He set unofficial efforts at 4:06.8 and 4:07.2 in baton carries at Drake last year. He set a KU-Kansas State indoor dual record of 4:08.8 last May in Manhattan and a Big Seven indoor figure of 4:08.3 less than two months ago in Kansas City.
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