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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1950
The Editorial Page - Football Blues
Who said the football player at the University of Kansas gets a break? The old idea of college professors helping the school football heroes in their studies and easing their assignments no longer exists, if it ever did.
The problem faced by most of the Jayhawker squad is how to play the type of football demanded by the coaches and still remain in school with a respectable grade average. The large number of faculty members who don't have enough interest to buy football tickets is pretty strong proof that a good segment of these professors and instructors have only a slight interest in the outcome of Kansas athletics and the welfare of the athletes.
Players do not want their grades handed to them on a platter, but do want the professors to realize some of the obstacles the football player faces.
Take, for example, the amount of school missed by the Jayhawkers on their trip to Denver last week. The team boarded the train Thursday night, missed Friday's classes, spent Saturday in Denver, and returned to Lawrence Sunday morning. The sentiment of the entire squad was expressed by several players talking to each other as they stepped off the train.
"I just don't see how I am going to be able to get my studies done. I'm so damn tired, and yet I have to get three day's work done by tomorrow morning."
Monday afternoon the players did not scrimmage, but coaches require a great deal of running to get the stiffness out of muscles. After practice was over at 6 p.m., the boys ate dinner, and then reported back to the stadium to see the movies of the Denver game and hear the scouting report of Colorado, the team's next opponent. This was over at 8:30 p.m., and the tired, sore, and weary players headed for home to study before retiring.
Many people will say, "don't play football." If these same people would realize how many players on the football squad have scholarships to attend a university such as Kansas, they might change their attitude. If it were not for the scholarships, many of the boys who are now in school would not be able to go farther than the high school level.
Practice continued every afternoon until Thursday when the coaches began to ease off as Saturday's game neared. Few people realize how tired a player is after spending three hours on the practice field—running, checking plays, running pass patterns, and then the ten 100-yard "wind-sprints" at the end of each practice session.
Coaches want their players to get plenty of sleep every night so they will remain in excellent physical shape, and at the same time keep up their studies so they will be able to stay in school. What is the player to do?
A survey of Princeton graduates recently proved that football is worth the extra effort, and those late midnight hours of dead tired studying are justified. Surprising to many people who disdainfully "pooh-pooh" athletics was the discovery that former "footballers" at Princeton have been more successful in later life than those who had more time to study.
—Dolph Simons
Uncle Sam Beckons
If you're a male student, you may be finding a home in the army soon. But if you'd rather take your chances on the home front a little while longer (in the interest of higher education, of course) perhaps some "straight scoop" will interest you. It came from the national headquarters of the selective service system through the American Council on Education. . . sounds authentic.
A student who receives orders for induction while enrolled in school should request postponement of induction, not deferment. Postponement for the academic year is mandatory upon the local board—meaning, they have to postpone your induction into the service for the school year under the Selective Service Act of 1948. However, there are a few "ifs." You must be a full-time student and you must maintain a C average. Induction will be postponed until the end of the school year or until you drop below a C average.
Deferment is optional with the local board. The selective service bulletin that provides for deferment, reclassification to 2A, was primarily designed to provide for deferment of those who receive their "greetings" between Aug. 1 and the opening of school. Still, some boards are deferring students under the bulletin.
Better keep informed if you want to stay out of the draft until you breeze through another school year.
Bill DeLay.
University Band Elects Philip McCarty President
Philip McCarty fine arts junior
who was presented prestigious
winter award at Thursday's
A scholarship has been granted Harry Christoffers, graduate student, by the Atomic Energy commission, the chemistry department reported Wednesday. Christoffers is one of 148 scholarship winners who will study in fields closely related to atomic energy to fit them for employment in the atomic program. The awards apply to the 1950-51 academic year.
Other officers elected were: Mary Van Houten, vice-president; Mary Ryder, treasurer; Jacque Cook, social chairman; Deris Buddell and Betty Brown, delegates at large Robert Ausherman and Gene Johnson, student directors; William McCleland, field drum major; and Charles Childers and Raymond Rathert, librarians.
Scholarship To Student By Atomic Commission
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KU Band Banned From Prize Seats
Dear Editor:
Isn't it about time that we gave the University band better treatment? Every member pays his student activity fee. If he were not in the band, he could find a good seat in the stadium at the home games. As it is, he is made to sit in the worst possible place—on the ground—apparently just so a few more seats may be sold to cash customers. It certainly doesn't seem fair.
The band members practice daily, they add considerable color, pep, and spirit to the games, and they are always ready to help at rallies. They are entitled to seats in a reserved section high enough above the field that they can actually see and enjoy the game. I am NOT a band member, and I am sure that many others at the University feel as I do that we have not been doing well by our fine band.
A Rooter.
(Name Withheld By Request)
Cruelty Unanimous
Dear Editor.
In view of an editorial entitled "Distorted Duties" on Oct. 2 suggesting that human life seems worthless to Orientals, we thought you would be interested in the following quotation from the New York Times of Sept. 30.
"Fear of infiltrators led to the slaughter of hundreds of South Korean civilians, women as well as men, by some U. S. troops and police of the Republic. One high ranking U.S. officer condemned as 'panicky' the shooting of many civilians last July by one U. S. regiment."
One might also add that disregard of human life is not just peculiar to the military—whether Caucasian or Oriental. One need only to consider the numerous lynchings of Negroes in the South or the brutal mass killings in the race riots in Detroit and other places to realize that we Americans are also a long way from considering innocent human life sacred.
Walter and Helen Conrad 1036 New Hampshire
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CAMPUS CALLS are relayed back and forth as Mrs. Eva Cofer and Mrs. Capitola Fletcher push and pull plugs at the K.U. telephone exchange. Mrs. Mary Neustifter stands watching the intricate switchboard's operation.
How High The Moon? Ask KU Operators
By JOHN McMILLION
What is the elevation from Massachusetts street to the Hill? How big is Lawrence? How tall is the smokestack on the campus?
These and countless other questions are often fired at two women seated behind a switchboard on the second floor of the buildings and grounds office. The queries sound as if the office is an information bureau but, it is only the campus telephone exchange.
The two daytime operators of the exchange, Mrs. Mary Neustifer and Mrs. Capitola Fletcher handle the brunt of these questions from 8:00 am. until 4:00 p.m. However, the night operators, Mrs. Eva Colfer and Mrs. Bess Foster get their share of silly questions also.
Mrs. Neustifter is the chief operator and has been with the exchange for 21 years. She has answered all sorts of questions and handled thousands of telephone calls. In front of her on the switchboard she keeps a notebook with the answers to certain favorite questions. (For your information the elevation from Massachusetts and New Hampshire streets to the top of the Hill is 201 feet.)
There are 483 separate lines around the campus that operate through the telephone exchange. On an average day approximately 156 calls an hour go out or come in over these wires, according to Mrs. Neusifter.
The dial system at K. U. was installed in 1947. Contrary to popular belief the dial system is more work for the operator than the old "number please" method which is still in use in Lawrence and many other Kansas cities. On the dial an operator can handle only one call at a time whereas she used to take care of three. Also, persons need assistance because they do not know how to dial.
A small room of about eight feet
by eight feet houses the switchboard and is the home of the operators for eight hours at a time. One board looks like any other switch, covered with little holes with any other switchboard, covered with little holes with pegs sticking out of them, lines running everywhere, and red, green, and orange lights flashing.
In a room behind the switchboard the dial system is located. Here are hundreds of wires, all a different design in coloring, running in and out through the cylindrical dial mechanisms. Everyone of these wires is spliced and soldered in a dozen places.
The biggest traffic jam in the history of the switchboard occurred on the occasions of deaths of two of the University's top men. Chancellor Lindley and Professor Dill.
Fires always tax the telephone operator, and occasionally the blaze. Last year a pile of sawdust on the floor below the exchange caught on fire and filled the whole building with smoke. Mrs. Eva Colfer, who was on duty at the time did not even know there was a fire until firemen came bursting into her room.
The telephone exchange was installed in 1907 in the basement of Fraser. In 1929 it was moved to its present location. It operates 24 hours a day and handles calls to any extension on the Hill.
Government Bureau Has New Home
the quonset hut behind Strong hall, formerly the home of the Western Civilization library, is now occupied by the bureaus of government and business research.
The Western Civilization library has been moved to the Green room in Watson library.
The bureaus of government and business research were formerly located in Annex F, Strong hall. This annex has been converted into a hearing laboratory for students of Romance languages. Another part of the two-story frame annex houses a psychology laboratory.
The speech correction laboratory, formerly located in the basement of Green hall, has been moved to the annex.
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Sigma Tau To Be Hosts To Convention
Sigma Tau, national honorary engineering society, will meet as the guests of the local University chapter Thursday, Oct. 19, thru Saturday, Oct. 21.
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This will be the first time the University chapter has been host to a national meeting. A feature of the final day of the meeting will be an all-engineering school convocation.
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For a period, from 1924 to Potter lake was a much patronized swimming pool for University students. It was equipped with a diving tower, dressing rooms adjoined, and there were life guards on duty.