Topeka, Ks.
WHOOPING IT UP—Cheerleaders and students urge the Jayhawkers to "ruff the Buffs" in a big pep rally held Friday in front of Strong hall. Athletic Director A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg spoke briefly to the students.
—Kansas Photo by Dop Moser.
University Theater Sets 6 Productions
The University Theater will stage six productions this season in Fraser theater. 6
The first performance of the season will be "The Morning Star" by Henry C. Haskell, Oct. 29 through Nov. 1. "The Morning Star" is a play about Abelard and Heloise.
Mr. Haskell is foreign news editor of the Kansas City Star and has written four successful plays.
The other productions of the season will be:
2. "The Lady in Dark of the Sonnets," by G. B. Shaw, and "A Phoenix Too Frequent," by Christopher Fry, to be given Dec. 10-13.
3. "The Merry Widow," by Franz Lehar, Feb. 9-13.
4. "An Inspector Calls," by J. B Priestley, March 4-7.
5. "The Contrast," by Royall Tyler, March 25-28.
Productions one, two, three, and six will be directed by Dr. John Newfield. The third production will be given together with the Light Opera guild. Gerald M. Carney, associate professor of music education, will share the directing.
6. "The Well," by Louis Mennini and "Primadonna" by Arthur Benjamin, May 7-9. Hans Schwieger, conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra, will be musical director for the final production.
Francis Feist and Tom Rea, speech instructors, will direct the fourth and fifth productions respectively;
Tickets for the season may be purchased at the ticket booth in the basement of Green Hall. Subscription rates for faculty and
WEATHER
Sub - freezing temperatures hit Kansas last night, about three weeks prematurely, caught many motorists without anti-freeze in radiators, killed fall gardens, and damaged late
planted row crops
The temperature plunged at Hill City, which had reported the Sunday high of 64. The weatherman said the low temperatures across the t a t e were as much as three weeks earlier than
COLD OF FAIR
normal. Temperatures will be about as low as Sunday night and moderate tomorrow.
staff members are $3.75 for six productions, or $1.25 for single admission. Students will be admitted by presenting ID cards at the ticket booth.
All productions are free to the student this season and seats may be reserved for the entire season anytime after Oct. 15.
Naval Air Captain Will Visit Campus
Capt. J. M. Peters, commanding officer of the Olathe Naval Air station, will visit Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, Wednesday.
Capt. Peters, Chancellor Murphy,
and Capt. W. R. Terrell commanding
officer of the NROTC unit at
the University, will be the guests of
Dolph Simons, publisher of the
Lawrence Daily Journal-World,
at a luncheon Wednesday noon.
Capt. Peters, who was formerly stationed in Japan, took over command of the air station last summer.
PARENTS ATTEND GAME—A section of 1,200 parents of University freshmen and new students watch a tense moment late in the Kansas-Colorado game Saturday. The game was part of the events of Parents day.
-Kansas Photo by Phil Newman.
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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
"I guess that makes me some sort of relative of that newspaper," the General said, "because I'm worst, too."
Eisenhower Hits Truman 'Bunk'
Spokane, Wash. —(U.P.)—Dwight D. Eisenhower, reiterating his personal attack on President Truman for firing "harmless, noisy blanks," promised his first audience of the Northwest here today that the GOP would continue reclamation programs—"guided by local wisdom"—if he is elected.
Gen. Eisenhower also remembered that this was the place in 1948 where Mr. Truman labeled the 80th congress as the "worst" in history and called the Spokesman-Review, the morning newspaper, "the second worst newspaper in the country."
"Pure bunk," he called Mr. Tru-
man's charges.
Mr. Eisenhower took cognizance of the fact that Mr. Truman went through here several days ago trying to convince the Northwest that the Republicans, if in power, would build no more dams and take away from labor its gains of recent years.
"I've been shot at by real artillery," he said, "and I'm not much concerned by these noisy, harmless blanks."
Monday, Oct. 6, 1952
Parents, Visitors Jam KU Campus
The University campus was crowded Saturday with Colorado students, parents of new students, newspapermen attending the Editors day program, high school debaters, and geologists.
More than 1,200 parents of new students were welcomed to the campus by students and faculty. Most of the parents sat with their sons and daughters at the Colorado-KU game.
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Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy,
Martha Peterson, dean of women,
and Dr. Laurence C. Woodruff, dean
of men, were in the receiving line
at the informal reception held for
students and their parents at the
Museum of Art.
Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment association, said only 77 parents registered late at the stadium booth. He said this indicated that parents of new students were interested in other phases of University life as well as in athletics.
A Parents' day halftime cere-
Faculty to Discuss Union
The new Student Union building will be discussed at the weekly meeting of the Faculty Forum at the Faculty club at noon tomorrow. The discussion at the meeting open to all faculty members will be led by Frank Burge. Union director.
Enrollment Rise Surprises Colleges
Bv UNITED PRESS
The nation's colleges and universities, expecting lower enrollment, were caught by surprise this fall when campus registrations increased instead, a spot check showed today.
College registrars attributed the increase, which set records at some schools, to various factors. These included the return of Korean war veterans, under the new GI bill of rights., and ROTC programs which allow youngsters of draft age to complete college before going into the service.
Paul Trump of the University of Wisconsin admissions office said that "the draft bill works both ways—boys enroll because they aren't drafted and others come because they hope to get deferred."
D. T. Ordeman, registrar at Oregon State college, attributed some of the increase to "a better understanding on the part of high school students of the importance of educational opportunities."
Indiana university officials attributed the trend to the increased birth rate in 1934, when many of the students now entering college were born.
Increased enrollment ranged up to almost 50 per cent in freshman classes.
The increase came as a surprise to many schools. Registrar C. E. Dammon of Purdue
termed it a "freakish thing." Donald M. Dushane, student affairs director at Oregon university, said it was "far, far" above expectations.
A spot check by United Press showed the following:
Purdue-2,300 freshmen, about 550 more than last year. Total increase in new students (freshmen and transferees) 46.7 per cent.
University of Minnesota—expected about 16,500 students and got about 17,500.
Indiana university----111 more first semester frosh than last fall.
Ohio State—about 18,000 instead of 17,000 as previously expected. Class of 3,700 freshmen creating a housing problem.
Southern Methodist—a 6 $ \frac{1}{2} $ per cent drop in upper classes, but freshman classes larger than a year ago.
Rice—freshman enrollment 400, about 5 per cent above last year.
Georgia Tech-40 per cent increase in freshman class attributed to return of Korean veterans and the fact that Atlanta high schools went from 11 to 12 grades last year, cutting last year's enrollment.
University of Michigan—2,418 freshmen, compared to 1,869 a year ago.
mony by the University band told the phases in the life of the student.
In his welcoming speech, Chancellor Murphy told the parents that the freshman class, largest since 1947, is "one of the finest qualitatively and quantitatively."
"Everyone has been extremely happy with the results of Parents' day," Mr. Youngberg said. "The day was so successful that we can be sure it will continue as a regular institution."
He thanked the Jay Janes and the Student Council for helping with the registration and with the open house.
About 300 Kansas newspapermen attended the annual Editors' day, and heard a talk by Louis LaCoss, editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat's editorial page and winner of the Pulitzer prize for editorial writing in 1951.
Sixty-five high school students and debate coaches from eastern Kansas were on the campus for a two-day clinic.
Eighty persons attended the annual joint meeting of the Kansas Geological society, the Kansas Geological survey, and the KU department of geology.
About 1,700 Colorado students and alumni traveled approximately 680 miles from Boulder to Lawrence on their annual "migration." The KU game was chosen for the 1952 trip.
B. L. Tomlinson, director of food service, said that about 1,600 persons ate their noon meal in the Union cafeteria and in the Hawk's Nest. Organized houses also served meals for guests.
Two Administrators On Meeting Program
When the State Association of Deans of Women and Advisers of Girls meets Friday and Saturday in Hutchinson, two University administrators will have places on the program.
Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women, will give a Friday afternoon report on counselor training programs in Kansas institutions of higher learning.
Miss Mary Peg Hardman, assistant dean, will speak Saturday morning on "Present Trends in Counseling for Freshman Women."