In The Editor's Eye
By ROGER YARKINGTUN
Tomorrow will mean the beginning of vacation for most of the students here and many are expected to travel home by auto.
Weather prophets have it that bad weather is coming and may cause tricky driving.
Bv. ROGER YARRINGTON
We have been running a number of news and editorial articles concerning safe driving. We would like to make one more effort before the stampede for the city limits begins . PLEASE . drive carefully for your own sake and the sake of those riding with you.
Bad driving conditions at Thanks-giving time resulted in auto accidents for six University students. Fortunately none of these have ended in tragedy but they remain as a warning of what may happen the next time.
AN AMENDMENT TO the Kansas board constitution has been proposed to straighten out the confused passage in that document which, according to some interpretations, prohibits editorializing in the UDK on political issues.
We consider that clause a very unfortunate piece of antiquity and are hoping that when the board meets again the amendment will be adopted. It was defeated at the meeting last Tuesday with 10 votes for and four votes against. An amendment needs 14 votes.
TUESDAY'S ASC ACTION creating non-partisan elections for class officers was split along the party lines we expected. Our good wishes go out for the idea but we are wondering if it might turn out to be a farce.
More cheers go to the appointment of a committee to study the Jayhawker situation. FACTS is going to make a similar study. We doubt, however, if the results will sound the same.
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THE SOUR OWL, campus humor magazine published by Sigma Delta Chi, finally appeared. Some think it was worth waiting for. It does have more jokes than last year's issues. The parody features we enjoyed so much are gone, however.
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BILL WILSON, ASC head, has sent us a letter attempting to clarify his position with the Kansan. We will publish it as soon as we have space.
His post script mentioned a piece published in this column last week which told about a campus politician visiting the UDK to complain about being misquoted. The piece also told what reply the politico received. Mr. Wilson's letter informed the editor just who made the reply to his complaint.
We didn't say in the original piece who the politico was that made the complaint. Besides, Bill, we know who told you where to get off.
Cate Dean's Friends Suggest Loan Fund
Approximately $200 in unsolicited gifts from friends and former students of the late Raymond A. Schwegler, dean emeritus of the School of Education, have been received by the KU Endowment association, Irvin Youngberg, secretary, said today.
The donors suggested that the R.A. Schwegler Memorial loan fund be established for students in education.
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1952 Has Its Quota Of Humorous Stories
This was the year of the big story, but along with the front page news of wars, deaths, and strife, there was the usual assortment of stories to make readers sit back and wonder just how serious life really is.
There were two contests this year, one held and the other threatened, that intrigued us. One was in Murmansk, Russia, where a Russian team won the 3,200-meter reindeer-drawn sled race at the 18th North festival.
The other, which hasn't taken place yet but has half the men in the world lined up to be judges, would be held in Hollywood. The contest would be between Corinne Calvert and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Miss Calvert has invited Miss Gabor to a contest which would prove that the French star is not flat chested.
Three perennials were back in the news again. In the marriage race, Tommy Manville and Artie Shaw still kept apace with each other. Tommy took his ninth wife, and Artie, trailing close behind took his seventh.
The third perennial, Winnie Ruth Judd, hit the jackpot this year by escaping from her Arizona asylum twice.
Calendar art came into its own this year. As soon as the story of Marilyn Monroe's posing in puris naturalibus for a calendar artist was released, the mad dash was on.
was released, the maid ushered in. Carefree bachelors received a severe blow. The ideal of all red-blooded American boys was trapped into marriage. Lil Abner and Daisy Mae were finally customers of Marryin' Sam.
Daisy Mae were many customers of Marys As usual, one doctor came out with a complete cure-all for any disease from bunions to dandruff. Dr. Robert Lincoln of Boston, for a price, let patients have a whiff of Bacteriophage. Patients too weak to walk could receive curb service.
As the year ends, the most intriguing story unfolds. We now have a horse who can discover bodies, name robbers, and answer almost any question. We have offered the owner $20 if she can get the horse here before finals. —Don Moser.
Olympics Win Top Spot In Kansan Sport Poll
This year was a big year for sports and the Editorial class voted the U.S. triumph in the Helsinki Olympic games as the top story of the year.
Following close behind were the achievements of the mighty Kansas basketball team that took the Big Seven championship, the NCAA tournament, and went on to fame in the Olympics.
Next in importance was the annual win of the New York Yankees over the New York Giants in the World Series.
Rocky Marciano put boxing in the fourth spot with his win over Joe Wolgott in a heavyweight championship bout.
The Olympics came into the rating again at the fifth spot in the poll. Emil Zatopek made headlines all over the world in winning three gold medals in distance events.
Sixth place went to the great Michigan State team which came through the season without a loss.
Troy Ruttman's victory in the Memorial day Indianapolis speedway classic took seventh place in the poll.
Golf took the eighth spot with the continued comeback of iron man Ben Hogan and Slammin' Sammy Sneed's victory in the Masters Tournament.
The team of Jones, Calumet, and Arcaro placed ninth in the contest, but first in the Kentucky Derby.
Last on the list was the Yale story of the year. Not only did old Eli beat Harvard, but the team manager made the last point of the game. D.M.
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Flashbacks
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DECEMBER 18
25 Years Ago
The Daily Kansan provided a Merry Christmas for three Lawrence families which would otherwise not have had one. The children received all of their desires, and the mothers were remembered with gifts.
Jayhawkers were anxiously awaiting the first basketball game of the season against the Kansas State Wildcats tomorrow night. The game will be the first played in the new Hoch auditorium.
University students held mass meetings outside the chancellor's office to protest the extremely short four-day Christmas vacation.
Draft boards throughout the nation today were ordered to defer from the draft until the end of the semester all medical, dental, veterinary, and engineering students who
10 Years Ago
had completed at least one year of college. (The boys were having trouble then, too.)
5 Years Ago
The College today set the 60 per cent passing rule. Students who fail in 40 per cent or more of their studies and do not meet the probation requirements will not be allowed to enroll the following semester.
A scholarship gift of $5,000 exclusively for use by the William Allen White School of Journalism has been donated to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Oscar S. Stauffer of Topeka.
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