MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE THREE
Socially Speaking
Chi Omega entertained the Sigma Chi's with a tea dance March 4.
Chi Omega announces the initiation of Priscilla Barron, Janet Morrison, Sue Boyd, Jane Kirchhoff, Barbara Nesch, Elizabeth Thomas, Joy Brown, Carol Terrill, Alice Terrill, Sue Sperry, Patty Edson, Lettia Engle, and Diana Sherwood. Joy Brown was chosen honor initiate. Diana Sherwood and Sue Sperry received the cup for the outstanding pledges, and Lettia Engle received the award for the pest pledge notebook.
The Rev. Dale Turner, of the Congregational church, was dinner guest and speaker of Alpha Kappa Lambda March 24. His talk was the second in a series of informal discussions at the chapter house.
Theta Tau Initiation
Alpha Kappa Lambda Speaker
Theta Tau, professional engineering fraternity, announces the initiation of the following: Glenn Anschutz, Thomas Brune, Dwane, Crowl, William Gartunit, Charles Walker and David Webber.
Sigma Alpha Iota Pledging
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Sigma Alpha Iota, professional music sorority, recently held pledging services for the following: Marilyn Barr, Peggy Circle, Sylvia Delicath, Evelyn Clough, Gretchen Freiburg, Joyce Friesen, Janice Horn, Jacqueline Kreider, Phyllis McFarland, Helen Shively, Arlene Williams and Roselle Yakle.
Alpha Kanna Lambda Smoker
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Alpha Kappa Lambda Smoker Alpa Kappa Lambda held a smoker at the chapter house March 17.
Phi Gamma Delta Initiation
Phi Gamma Delta announces the initiation of the following: Charles Crawford, Heywood Davis, Van A. Gillespie, Paul Gordon, Jr., Dean Groger, James B. Gurley, William Hougland, Kerwin Koerper, Richard Fenold, Thomas Payne, Tim Potts, Gene Rounke, Gwinn Shannon, Jack Shears, John Shields, Shelby Smith and Joe Strong. Heywood Davis was honor initiate.
Gamma Phi Beta Initiation
Gamma Phi Beta announces the Initiation of the following: Patricia Amers, Jean Embree, Margaret Herschberger, Suzanne Hoyt, Alberta James, Jacqueline Kreider, Lou Ann Lawrence, Althea Owen, Jo Ann Putney, Joanna Sargent, Shirley Sieftkin, Suzanne N Slyke and Delores Wunsch. Delores Wunsch was honor initiate and Althea Owen received the chapter activities ring.
Kappa Kappa Gamma Election
Kappa Kappa Gamma announces the election of the following officers: Josephine Stuckey, president; Mary Margaret Wolfe, vice-president; Joan Bagby, recording secretary; Mary Beth McNalley, corresponding secretary; Helen Eiller, pledge trainer; Edith Elam, house chairman; Zara Zoellner, treasurer; treasurer; Jeanne Hillyer, scholarship chairman; Corine Temple, social chairman; Arden Angst, activities chairman; Kathleen McKelvey, intramural manager; Shirley Sice, efficiency chairman; Barbara Hays, registrar; Yvonne Josserand, Key correspondent; Gretchen Freeburg, song leader; Nancy Ruthrauff, marshall; Jean Lutrick, transfer chairman, and Mary V. Douglass, historian.
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Sigma Phi Epsilon Dessert Dance
Sigma Phi Epsilon entertained
Delta Delta Delta sorority with a
dessert dance March 22.
Sigma Phi Epsilon Dessert Dance
Delta Gamma Pledging
Housewife Bluffs Bandit
Detroit — (U)P)— A bandit posing as a meter reader under-estimated the power of a woman and was forced to flee when Mrs. Esther Johnson shoved him out of her house and slammed the door.
Delta Gamma announces the bleging of Bobbie Dow, Wichita.
Better Run And Hide, Girls Dumb Beauties Are Out!
Yes, sir. The coid who snags the coveted "dream girl of Theta Chi" title at the University of Southern California tomorrow night will have to pass an I.Q. test first.
Hollywood—(U.P.)—Something drastic's taking place on college campuses these days. Now they're picking fraternity queens for the brains!
This is fine. But it also makes us feel powerful creaky around the joints. When we were hanging around U.S.C.-back in 1942—the coed cuties who grabbed off "queen" titles didn't have to worry about their brain power.
The boys aren't kidding about this. They say they want no "bubble-headed babe" for their queen and they called in their psychology professor to help draw up a list of questions.
They say they are out to let the world know they have their minds on "higher things."
Sweaters were the vogue then—and those gals filled 'em. No queen-picking committee we ever heard about bothered to look at their grades.
They probably couldn't have told you what a Phi Beta Kappa key looked like—but they had big blue eyes and they knew what to do with 'em.
But life isn't the same at U.S.C. The boys have discovered book 'larnin', and curves don't count any more.
Strictly in the interests of science
we sneaked a peep at the Theta Chi brain quiz—and the answers. They covered everything from what kind of dreams coeds have to how they feel about the normal scruples of policemen. With a lot of intimate stuff tucked in between, Like:
"Do you think many things are sinful?" and "Do you like to have your fortunes told?" and "Do you make important decisions yourself"?
They had to figure out symbolic charts, tell the kind of man they are "out for," and write down the recipe for their favorite drink, and just what that indicates in the way of "brain power" we can't quite say.
The would-be queens answered 'em all—including one that just asked "Do you?"
"Believe it or not," says Jim Davis, a senior and the gent behind the I.Q. idea, "the girls with the highest intelligence like a man who drinks a little.
"They also want him to pay a lot of attention to them and to get a little aggressive as the evening wears on. Nine out of 10 said they preferred wolves to prudes."
Postage Stamp Hobby Too Tame For Student Who Collects Teeth
Dancing and postage stamp collecting may be fine hobbies for some persons, but not for Verva Johnson, fine arts sophomore.
She collects animal teeth.
"Most persons raise their eyebrows, turn a little green, then don't say much more," Miss Johnson exclaimed, describing the customary reaction to her hobby. "But I think it's fun," $ \textcircled{2} $ ___ he added.
"While walking one day, I found a boar's skull. I removed the tusks, officially started my collection, and from then on just continued peering around the countryside whenever I had the opportunity," she said.
Included in her collection are teeth from a coyote, dog, mouse, horse, cat, pig, mole, elk, squirrel, snake, boar, and human teeth, supplied, in the main, from her own bridgework. Some of the human teeth, Miss Johnson admitted, were contributed by an obliging home-town dentist who wanted to straighten his cluttered office.
Miss Johnson started collecting teeth while in grade school.
"It originally was a collection composed of bones I'd picked up on hikes in the country around Bush City. When all the bones got mixed up and I couldn't tell one from another, I turned to teeth," she remarked.
"The process of getting the teeth from the dead animal sounds a little grisly." Miss Johnson hesitantly grinned. "Want to hear it? Well, you first try to pry the animal's teeth loose, but if they're too firmly set, the only thing to do is to tear the jawbone off. Then it's much easier to pull the teeth out. Teeth, like bone, need no preservative; they remain as they were in the animal's mouth for an indefinite period."
Accustomed to finding new specimens from animal skeltones around the countryside, Miss Johnson re-identified a mite once when hiking with a friend.
"When I saw the snake, I wasn't frightened, mainly curious and determined." she related. "I really wanted those teeth. We hit it with rocks until it was stunned, gradually approached it and completed the job. Was I relieved afterward! I consider this the hardest set of all to obtain."
"I wanted to make a necklace out of the smaller teeth," commented perhaps the only tooth collector at the University, "but my friends unsolicited advice prevented it." Most frequently heard remark was "Do you want people to think you're a cannibal?" This disuaded Miss Johnson; she now has part of her tooth collection decorating the wall of her room at Miller hall.
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German Club
Hears Kretschmann
"As individuals, the Russians are the same as you or I," Heinz Kretschmann, special law student from Germany, told the German club recently. He said that it was their form of government which caused the turmoil in Europe today.
"Food, clothing, and living quarters are the basic needs of students and the population in Germany," Kretschmann said. The tuberculosis rate is increasing rapidly, due primarily to malnutrition.
Seven to eight persons are required to live in quarters which ordinarily would house one or two, he said. Frankfurt was 65 per cent destroyed and rebuilding is progressing as rapidly as possible. The University of Frankfurt was 50 per cent destroyed, and where, before the war, there were over 4,000 students, the number now is around 1,000.
this condition, he added, they must be shown the way back to normal living.
"The young people have lost the will to fight for what they believe in," Kretschmann said. To combat
Mr. Kretschmann left Frankfurt in September, 1948 and entered the University in October. He received his law degree in Germany in 1939 and plans to receive an additional law degree here.
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