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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1949
As The Kansan Sees It . . .
He May Be A Sucker— But It's Catfish He's After
Every new year carries with it a windblown package of 31 days called March. Some persons have a hard time finding anything good about March except that it is the last month of a disagreeable winter.
Not so that perennial sucker for his piscine adversary, the catfish angler.
Each March brings out that hardy, persistent individual armed with well-oiled rod and reel, hip boots, a generous supply of clothes, a thermos of coffee(?), and an unbelievable quantity of lures and other gadgets.
Generally found among his hopeful assortment of "bite provocateurs" is a jar of odoriferous material appropriately called "stink bait." One sniff is quite enough to leave an innocent smeller soured on fishing for life. It is my personal conviction that this remarkable substance is eaten by a catfish only because he doesn't want the stuff giving,
the neighborhood a bad name.
use he doesn't want the stuff giving the neighborhood a bad name. Because of the nomadic habits of the catfish, who very seldom stays in the same spot from one March to the next, the angler must trudge the river banks for several of his precious days off, trying each likely-looking hole. Unfortunately no one has discovered a way to look at water and tell if catfish are lurking in its depths. In trying to determine this point most catfishermen develop an amazingly rounded repertoire of swear words—much of which was developed while picking themselves up from a muddy bank.
Dear Editor
It's A Hard Life
Eventually the catfish angler trudges home in a nasty humor and quarrels with the little woman for several days.
I have heard it said that a true university is a collection of books. I would like to make an addition to this: A true university is a collection of books to which the students have access.
Makes a guy wonder if there is anything good about March.
It is the old story of who you know and not what you would like to know. From experience, I have derived three possible means for a student to obtain an education:
1. Become a full-time member of the staff;
2. Have an intimate relationship with a full-time member of the staff.
3. Be blessed with the ability to master the contents of a book in one day.
Method number one is naturally absurd for the undergraduate. If it may be assumed that speed and ability to readily comprehend material result from practice (among other things) then, number three is excluded chiefly because of the one-day restriction on reference library books (except to staff members and their friends.)
Reductio ad absurdum, we have arrived at the conclusion that one must have an intimate relationship with a staff member. From the size of the University and the inclination of staff members, we are forced to conclude that a good many students will leave the Hill without a genuine education.
Robert J. Enright
Howard Wilshire, Engineering junior
Editor's note: Don't you think the picture you paint is a little too gloomy? How could the one-day restriction on reference books be lifted and still give the many students wanting to use these books a fair deal?
But the problem of library employees and faculty members abusing their library privileges is one which could be corrected. All it would take is for the library employees to explain to their friends that the library works on a first-come, first-served basis, and for the faculty members to make an effort not to keep a book out of the library longer than is absolutely necessary.
Chalk Talk
A series of explosion-like noises broke the serenity of the west end of Jayhawk drive Wednesday morning.
It seems a lady very effectively tied up traffic when a wheel came off her car and spun along beside the car creating a terrific racket.
Although the noise was disturbing to late sleepers, think how the lady would have felt trying to explain herself if she had gotten clear home with one wheel missing.
Students were delighted to read that Yvonne Josserand, journalism junior, has been "named to a mag board."
Five smudge pots were lined up in front of the Chi Omega house Thursday morning.
Since that sorority was selected as having the most beautiful girls by the Whoozlefinch society, the men of the University have been giving all their spare time to heckling the coeds.
Funny thing, though, the girls don't seem to mind it a bit.
Does the A.S.C. know about this?
One of the statues in the classics museum in Fraser has been smoking the same cigarette for the last month. Guess if you get to be a bust, the rules don't apply to you
University
Fine Arts Students To Give Recital
Does the A.S.C. know about this?
A program of piano, vocal and cell music will be presented by students in the School of Fine Arts Thursday March 9 at 3 p.m. in Frank Strong auditorium.
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Numbers in the recital will include:
Piano: "Rhapsody in C, Opus 11,
No. 3 (Danhanyi) by Georgiana
Bennington; "Novellette in E Major,
Opus 21, No. 7" (Schumann) by
Philip Hauser; "Gardens in the
Rain" (Debussy) by Billie George;
Opus 76 (Brahms) by Maxine Stetzler.
Editor-In-Chief ... Anne Murphy
Managing Editor ... Bill F. Mayer
Managing Editor ... Man E. Martin
Asst. Man, Ed. ... Richard D. Barton
City Editor ... Nora Temple
Asst. City Editor ... Gerald Reddoch
Managing Editor ... Harold Morris
Asst. City Editor ... James Morris
Sports Editor ... Marvin Rowlands
Asst. Sports Editor ... Bud Norris
Bud Night ... Bud Nutgi
Tel. Editor ... Larry Funk
Asst. Tel. Editor ... Russell Oleson
Bud Night ... Bud Nutgi
Society Editor ... Naomi Reddoch
Asst. Soc. Ed. ... Virginia Frost
Voice: "O Lovely Peace" (Handel) by soprano, Joan Ausherman and alto, Joyce Friesen.
Cello: "Sonata in D minor"
(Corelli) by Carl Bilger.
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Indians In Distress Call For Candy
Chadon, Neb.—(U.P.)-Shortly after the big blizzard of '49 hit northwest Nebraska and southwest South Dakota, an Indian family on the Pine Ridge, S.D., reservation displayed a distress signal.
A package of food was dropped.
"The next day every Indian on the horizon had out distress signals," said Sully Loft, Chadron pilot.
"One far-sighted family had tramped out signals for food, fuel and medicine, and in big letters the word, CANDY."
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
March 3,1949
Dear Reader,
When we started the Templin Hall Fire Fund on February 11th,we wondered how you would respond.
We knew you sympathized with our cause, but extra money has been kind of scarce here-abouts for quite a while.
Now look at that fund total on the front page! !
We can never thank you too much.
Yours daily,
University Daily Kansan
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