Thursday, Sept. 25, 1952
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Committee to Plan Religious Week
Plans for Religious Emphasis week, scheduled for Feb. 15 to 19, were discussed yesterday at a meeting of the Student Religious council in Myers hall.
Plans for expanding the activities of the group to include an all-student program for Thanksgiving, were also discussed at the meeting. The Thanksgiving program would be in addition to the Universal Day of Prayer which the council supports annually.
According to Reinhold Schmidt Jr., college junior, president, a steering committee has been appointed to work out details of the event.
Members of the committee are; Calvin Vanderwerf, professor of chemistry, faculty chairman; Dr John H. Patton, adviser for Westminster fellowship, executive secretary; Ma xE. Valentine, college senior, treasurer, and Vernie Theden, college junior, student chairman.
The council also discussed plans for obtaining a well-known speaker who might be able to speak at an all-student convocation one day during the observance.
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By DIANNE STONEBRAKER
Women Today Are Not Making Progress; Closing Hours Take Them Back to 1943
They say the women of today are making progress, but with the change in this year's AWS rules regarding closing hours, the women at KU are right back where they were in 1943.
In Sept., 1943, closing hours for University women were set at 11 p.m. on Wednesday. In March, 1945, they were changed from 11 to 10:30 p.m. Here they have remained, until this fall, when Wednesday closing hours are again 11 p.m.
The 10:30 p. m. hour on school nights had its beginning in Sept. 1919. The rule was adopted so that students could remain at the library until it closed and still have time to reach their houses before closing hours.
A total of 114 students have been selected for the University A Capella choir, Prof. D. M. Swarthout, director, has announced. The choir's first rehearsal was held yesterday in Lindley hall auditorium.
But evidently this last half hour was still frowned upon as a time for dating, because a year later, when school opened in the fall, an edict came from the president of the Women's Student Government association: "The Date rule goes on tonight, and after 10 p.m. on week nights, girls, you can't even look at a man!"
Prof. Swarthout said that unusually good quality was found in the women's voices, while those of the men were a little below the usual quality. A few "first class" tenors and bases might yet be admitted to the choir if they apply soon to director Swarthout.
Members Selected for Choir; Rehearsal Held Wednesday
The first basses are: Larry Burt, Dave Dale, Dave Dale, Fred Kaufer, Fred Kaufer, Fred Kaufer, Bruce Maupin, David Moore, William Moore, John Rogler, Charles Sturfield, and Jack Weathered.
The first sopranos of the choir are:
Suzanne Armentrout, Gloria Baker,
Ronda Bakyr, Gloria Ball, Barbara
Mountain Shirey Bacarra, Gloria
Baker, Caryle Cerrin, Ferrie, Delina
Guest, Minerva Hayes, Patricia Howell,
Martha Humphrey, Janeice Keady, Marilyn
Kulp, Margaret Latimer, Janeice
Keady, Sadie Owen, Wilma Parsons, Greta Reitz,
Elizabeth Robb, Zora Robertson, Donna
Robinson, Virginia Roebach, Shirey
Robb, Jonathan Ward, Neighbors,
Southern, Mary Stewart, Judith Tate,
Jo Wellborn, and Shirley Woodhull.
Males of the species were allowed to accompany the young women home from the library, but it was announced that the path must be straight and narrow. Library dates were the only kind permitted after 8 p.m. in those days.
The second tenors are: John Biegert, Thor Bogren, Iry Hughes, Harry Hunt, Steve Jennings, Edward Kindley, and Richard Rhode.
Along about 1926 cars offered a new problem for the KU women,
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights were much different, however. Eleven o'clock was the "zero hour", except in case of dances, when midnight was the end.
The president went on to say, "Of course, inasmuch as the library doesn't close until 10 p.m., the women have a few minutes in which to walk home. The houses are sealed, lock, bar, and shutter, at 10:30 and all out after this hour sleep in the porch swing or climb the fire-escape." The women had common sense in those days, too.
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The second basses are: Dorsey Evans, Dale Hobein, Bill Hogan, Eugene Kasper, Mark Pfenninger, Ben Raines, and David Winter.
The first tenors are: Melvin Biggart, Richard Bells, Delbert Fillmore, Jack Fulke, Christopher Kullah, Leonard Oldham, Jay Oliver, Ethan Smith, and Leonard Wiebe.
The second sopranos are: Jo Ann Boswell, Clara Brown, Kathen Cottner, Margaret Howell, Martha Herre, Jessie Hunt, Mary Huyck, Shirley Jarrett, Rent LeNeve, Billie Mallory.
Wanda Matkins, Sally Rendigs, Suzanne Schwantes, Kathryn Jean Scott, Bertha Smith, Georgia Tipton, Carol Van Dyke, Norma Wahl.
The first altos are: Melba Beers, Teresa Cartwright, Carloyn Chard, Judy Crane, Mary Cinzcolz, Marjorie Englund, Karla Greene, Marianne Meyers, Susan Montgomery, Diana Nothdurt, Barbara Swisher, and Charlsia Von Gunten.
The second altos are: Ardella Anderson, Amy Kovach, Barbara Fischer, Elyzer Barbara Fischer, Barb Hampton, Alberta Johnson, Nancy Munz, Derek Stormont, Nancy Wolff, and Matheya Nevaeh.
BUST THE BRONCOS
and consequently a new date rule was made. This was that women who went out in cars after closing hours had to have the permission of their housemother and were to be chaperoned by someone approved by the dean of women. Why women were permitted out after closing hours is something that must have been peculiar to that day. Perhaps it was because the cars of the day just couldn't quite make it by 10:30 pm.
In the fall of 1928 a milestone was reached. WSGA made a new regulation. Women in dormitories and sororities could stay out until 11:30 p.m. instead of 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. This continued until 1932, when new closing rules allowed University women to be out until 12:30 on weekends.
In 1943 closing hours reached the point where they are today, except that on Saturday women had to be in by 12:45 a.m. Women of today, rejoice, for we have gained 15 minutes in 9 years!
In 1945 closing hours were changed back to 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday and 12:30 a.m. on Saturday. The reason for this is not apparent, unless there were more men returning to the campus by then.
Whether closing hours are an advantage or disadvantage for college women varies with each woman's opinion, but one thing all women will agree upon is this: boys may not believe the old headache routine, but they can not argue when it comes to closing hours.
From the fall of 1947 until last spring, when AWS made its new rule, closing hours remained the same. What the future holds for KU women and their closing hours is hard to tell from this brief history.
Murphy to Address Quarterback Club
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will be the guest speaker at the second meeting of the Downtown Quarterback club, 8 a.m. Monday in the Hotel Eldridge Crystal room
Dolph Simons, publisher of the Lawrence Journal-World, will introduce Chancellor Murphy. Following Chancellor Murphy's talk, movies taken at the KU-Santa Clara game will be shown to the club.
Following Dr. Allen on the program was football coach Jules Sikes who reviewed the highlights of the KU-TCU game for the club members.
Movies of the KU-TCU football game which were scheduled for the program were not shown because of a delay in arrival of the processed films.
Guest speaker at the first meeting of the club Monday night was Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen. Dr. Allen told a number of interesting stories about his trip to Helsinki and the Olympic games.
YMCA to Schedule Activities Today
A membership meeting of the YMCA will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in Myers hall.
The program will include the scheduling of the year's activities, organization of intramural teams, and the planning of the YMCA and YWCA conference which will be held at the University Oct. 10.
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