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35 Toledo Coeds Stage Panty Raids
Toledo—(U.P.)—Thirty-five giggling bobby soxers stormed through a men's dormitory at Toledo university last night on a panty raid in reverse.
The girls in blue jeans and parka jackets made a whirlwind invasion of the three-story dormitory, startling half-dressed male students and stealing pairs of shorts as they raced from room to room.
It appeared to be an outbreak of the same underwear fever that touched off a series of pants raids on women's dormitories at more than a dozen colleges last spring. In this case, however, the men were on the receiving end.
The male victims at Toledo seemed to be more concerned about the damage to their dignity than to their wardrobes. They were literally caught with their pants down..
The raiders struck at bedtime when most of the students were either bathing or lounging in their bedrooms in their shorts.
"I guess we were lucky," one student said. "They didn't try to get the shorts we were wearing."
The girls raced through hallways on all three floors of the brand new million-dollar Down residential hall. One girl went straight to a student's bureau, pulled out a pair of blue stripped shorts, tore them to shreds and tossed them on the floor. Then she skipped out to raid another room.
Another student said he slammed his door shut when he saw two girls heading down his corridor
"But they opened it again and shouted 'Don't worry, you're too young' and then slammed it and left," he said.
Smith Professor Admits Joining Communist Party
Washington—(U.P.)-Prof. Robert G. Davis of Smith college today admitted to the House Un-American Activities committee that he joined the Communist party in 1937 while teaching at Harvard. Mr. Davis, balding and bespectacled English teacher at the Northampton, Mass., girls school, said he quit two years later.
The House committee opened its probe with its members sharply split over persecution of professors who flirted briefly with communism in their youth.
Chairman Harold H. Velde (R- Ill.), unmoved by a storm of protests from educators, clergymen and others, summoned two unidentified college professors to the first public hearings on alleged infiltration of education.
Two of four professors who testified at closed hearings last week were said to have told the committee that they joined the communist party for a short time while undergraduates, but left when they found out what it was all about.
Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.), the committee's ranking Democrat, said he had hoped the committee would not subject to public questioning the ones who admitted a brief brush with the party years ago.
"It serves no purpose to get public testimony about things that occurred years ago and which the committee knows all about," he said.
Rep. Bernard W. (Pat) Kearney (R.-N.Y.) said he is opposed to persecuting anyone by forcing them to tell in public that they strayed into the party as a youth but dropped out on discovering its real purpose.
FACTS Set Meetings Today
"We're supposed to be investigating the extent of communism in education today-not what it was 20 years ago," he said.
FACTS party will discuss and vote on a new constitution and by-laws, and 'elect a treasurer at 7:30 p.m. today in 306 Union building. Will Adams, graduate student and party public information chairman, said that refreshments and dancing will follow the business meeting.
But Mr. Velde, apparently backed up by a majority of the committee, was determined to push ahead with the inquiry.
He said six or seven present or former professors will testify during the next couple of days and that others will be heard later. The current hearings, he said, are "just a start—we'll be continuing on for some time."
Group to Discuss Kansas Engineer
The house late yesterday, by a 31b to 2 roll call vote, gave the committee $300,000 to finance its investigations after committee members promised that there will be no witch-hunt on the nation's campuses.
A meeting of new staff members of the magazine Kansas Engineer and its governing board will be held at 5 p.m. Monday in 111 Marvin hall to discuss policies for the coming year.
The new members were chosen recently by the Engineering council and will serve through March 1954. They are: editor, Gene L. Rogers, engineering junior; associate editor, Roger Graves Heiskell, engineering sophomore; business manager, Donald Eugene Lloyd, engineering junior; advertising manager, Bart M. Hoglund, engineering junior, and circulation manager, Arthur James Graves, engineering junior.
McCarthy licked LaFollette in Wisconsin's 1946 Republican Senatorial primary, and LaFollette took it hard. Business was a new and strange field to the man who became the youngest member of the United States Senate in 1925 after a career already rich in political experience.
Rites Scheduled For LaFollette
"Young Bob" killed himself in his home here yesterday with a single pistol shot in the head, 18 days after his 58th birthday. Ill health was the family explanation of the suicide. Casual and close friends, however, wondered about that.
Washington — (U.P.)—Former Senator Robert Marion LaFollette will be buried Friday at his home town of Madison, Wis.
The family decided against funeral services in Washington and arranged to send the body home to Madison late today. The Rev. John Keene will conduct the rites in Madison's Grace Episcopal Church at 10 a.m. Friday. Mr. LaFollette will be buried in* the family plot at Forest Hill cemetery.
Bob LaFollette's business connections were good and his income was ample. But he had spent his life in politics, literally, until Jan. 3, 1947, when he surrendered his seat in the United States Senate to a newcomer—Joseph R. McCarthy.
Mr. LaFollette's widow is the former Rachel Wilson. He also leaves two children, Joseph Oden and Bronson Cutting.
Janet Turk, assistant professor of piano, will present a recital at 8 p.m. today in Strong auditorium. She will play selections by Bach, Schumann, and Kodaly.
Pianist to Present Recital
ANNOUNCING . . .
the grand opening of the
PRE-THEATER SUPPER Sunday, March 1 in the beautiful new Kansan Room
Your Memorial Union has planned this new supper especially for Sunday evening show-goers.
MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS BY SATURDAY NOON.
5:30 - 7:00 CALL KU 265 $1.10 Plus Tax
Memorial Union Food Service
Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1953
Bucolic Theme Promised For Union's 'Boot-heel Drag'
The first big dance to be held in the new Memorial Union ballroom will be the "Boot-heel Drag," an all University dance, on Friday, March 6.
Admission will be free, and casual dress, blue jeans or skirts and sweaters, will be in order.
Decorations will consist of 500 feet of logs arranged in a corral effect, oxbows, wagon wheels, and western murals. Bob Fulton, education sophomore, and P. K. Smith, engineering senior, are in charge of decorations and Sam Van Meter, fine arts freshman, will do the murals.
Leon McAuliffe and his western swing band will provide the music. This completely electrified band plays everything from westerns to popular sweet and swing tunes. McAulife can be heard in an interview over KLWN at 4 p.m. next Wednesday.
The purpose of the affair is to further Greek-Independent and faculty relationships, according to Wesley Gish, college senior, who is in charge of the arrangements with Stanton Smith, college sophomore. The dance is sponsored by Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
henry Gerling, business senior.
Geologists to Hear Taylor
Edward H. Taylor, professor of zoology, will speak before a meeting of the Geology club at 7:30 p.m. today in 426 Lindley hall. The subject of his talk will be "Degradational Evolution."
and Nelson Perkins, college sophomore, are in charge of publicity.
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