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Thursdav. Nov. 6. 1952
University Daily Kansan Thursday. Nov. 6, 1952
Alma Mater Tune Lacks Individuality
Columbia, Mo., will soon be the scene of the football game where the fans get almost as much exercise as the teams.
During the half-time ceremonies and moments of natural exuberance when either the Kansas or Missouri band strikes up its respective "Alma Mater," which have identical tunes, fans will be jumping up and down all over the stands.
Let us, for example's sake, say that the KU band bursts forth with the refrain "Far Above the Golden Valley." Immediately all loval Kansens will leap to their feet.
At the same time all the Missouri faithful will be under the impression that the band is giving out with "Old Missouri, Fair Missouri," and they will be standing in solemn silence. It becomes quite embarrassing when one side of the field notices that the other side is standing at attention to the opposing alma mater. The glances across the field become quite fierce. A few fans, on both sides of the field, will sheepishly sit down thinking that it is the other school being serenaded.
Perhaps it is not orthodox to poke fun at one's Alma Mater, but somehow we always get a funny feeling when someone near us at a game mentions the fact that our anthem is identical to the one he used to sing in the Robert Louis Stevenson kindergarten for underdeveloped children. The same argument seems to come up year after year—why can't we have an Alma Mater whose music and words are not identical to those of half the high schools and colleges in the country?
The band finishes, the fans sit down, and peace returns to the stadium. Not for long, though. The rival band has been sitting there completely perplexed. Had its rivals been senading the MU or KU side? The only course left is to play it again, true and loud.
We admit the tune is very nostalgic; it probably sounded even prettier 100 years ago when Jennie Lind sang it in a tavern in Missouri. The tune arrived here circa 1893 for the glee club to harmonize on. The tune was one that assured the flow of salty tears into the beer.
Ever since then it has stuck. It was probably just easier to fall in line with Cornell, Missouri and the McNulty Oyster and Clam Splitters Marching band, than to find an original tune that could be identified with KU and KU only.
—Don Moser.
The Kansas City Times with their one-line heads have come up with another corker. A top story in Monday's issue is headed "War Stakes High." That is real news.
Short Ones
Despite the sign hanging in front of the Kansan newsroom Wednesday informing everyone "We've lost our lease," business will continue as usual.
Some of these stories reporting GI attacks on Jane Russell hill could bear a little explaining.
Mark Twain said everyone talks a lot about the weather but no one ever does anything about it. This beautiful Indian summer weather makes that arrangement seem very satisfactory.
POGO
Upperclass Men Also Need More Housing
Letters
It seems as if everyone is trying to emphasize the need for housing of upperclass women. I believe there is also a need for housing of men. If a freshman man comes to KU he has his choice of five types of housing.
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Oread and McCook halls are deplorable. They are fire traps that are nothing more than a place to sleep and study if you don't mind the noise.
Scholarship halls are fine if they are not full and a man is able to get a scholarship. Co-ops are also good but the number they can accommodate is pitifully limited.
Some men students cannot afford to live in a fraternity house or don't know how to get in, or don't want to live in a fraternity. Last and most undesirable are private homes. Some of them are filthy little cubbyholes that a student shouldn't have to live in. Others aren't bad but still there is the problem of eating.
The most important factor is that men in private homes are denied the social activities of men living in an organized house.
I believe this should be remedied. Will Gants
college freshman (Editor's Note: In University's 10-year building program, indefinite plans have been made to improve men's independent housing.)
FACTS Questions Pach Housing Effort
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Hurray for Pach! After two years they have finally agreed that FACTS is right in its desire to help improve student housing. The decision stands in interesting contrast to the statement by a Pach ASC representative that such action is "out of the Council's jurisdiction on the basis of the Constitution" when FACTS proposed to establish a housing committee at the Student Council meeting on May 15, 1951. Pach voted party line against the proposal.
On Sept. 26, 1951, the FACTS-controlled ASC did establish the housing committee, and it was active throughout the year. With the turnover in the election last spring, however, the Pach president of the Council failed to reappoint the committee, so its affectiveness has been lost.
Let us hope that Pach will be just as eager to do something about housing after the freshman election as they are now!
Will Adams
graduate student
FACTS Hopes Pach Does Not Forget
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
The announcement in Friday's Daily Kansan that two years after FACTS began campaigning for better student housing, and many weeks after the Daily Kansan opened its expose, Pach has finally jumped on the bandwagon is indeed interesting.
Will injustice never cease?!! Think that a lordly Pach member should be reduced to the lot of an independent! Let us hope that Pach does not become so involved with its drive to secure super-plush housing for themselves that they forget those who need it most.
Especially impressive was the comment by Pach party vice president that "there are some of us (Pach members) who still have to live like independents."
Dennis Henderson college junior
Swedish Girls A Big Help
Philadelphia (U.P.) - Blonde Swedish girls have been the biggest help to engineers at Minneapolis-Honeywell's industrial division here in their efforts to measure and control humidity in U.S. industry. A strand of blonde hair makes the best reacting element for humidity measuring devices. Brunettes and redheads rate low.
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Little Man on Campus
by Dick Bibler
"I knew I wouldn't like this dull,上课 course th' minute I got my 'mid-term paper back."
Collegiate Draft Bait Given Break by Gallup
Pollster George Gallup recently asked whether students making good marks should be allowed to graduate before being drafted into military service.
According to the answers, 69 per cent of the persons questioned felt that students should be allowed to graduate.
The first to be drafted, according to the poll, should be young men in defense industries, young men just out of high school, and farm hands. Last to go would be married fathers, and college students getting good marks.
getting good marks. Such a poll is, we think, representative of the public faith in education. It is encouraging that so many Americans have faith in the college student and want him to remain in school.
Perhaps we as a nation realize that the training of intelligent minds might someday aid in finding solutions to the many problems of our troubled world.
—Dean Evans.
One campus sage notes the return to a Republican president and the current dust bowl weather seem to coincide very appropriately.
Some guy just came into the J-School and picked up about a hundred copies of the special edition announcing Eisenhower's victory. Obviously he is either a Republican making a scrapbook or a Democrat starting a bonfire.
Working Late On Homecoming Decorations?
Well, just remember how relaxing how tasty a glass of milk can be especially if it is GOLDEN CREST milk.
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