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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Oct. 28, 1948
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Union Group Plans Year's Entertainment
"After you've been here awhile you'll notice there's a co-ed shortage."
All committees of the Student Union Activities met Wednesday to plan student activities for the coming year.
The social committee appointed planning boards for the Varsity dance to be held Saturday, Nov. 13, and for the Pumpkin Prom which will be held Saturday, Nov. 20. The planning board for the Pumpkin Prom will meet again Monday, Nov. 8.
K-Union committee members announced their next issue will be published Friday, Dec. 10.
The decorations committee submitted suggestions for posters, advertising, and ballroom decorations for the two dances. Ideas for cartoons to be posted in the Student Union Activities office were also announced.
By Bibler
Sports and organizations committee members make final rules for the ping-pong tournament to be held Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 9, and 10.
The secretarial committee confined its discussion to methods of letter writing. Special attention was given to writing thank-you letters.
The special projects committee agreed to complete a "coming events" calendar which will be hung in the Union Activities office. A complete record of coming events will be listed on the calendar.
Transportation for students returning home before holidays was discussed by the public liaison committee. They plan to start a file which will list all bus, train, and plane schedules leaving Lawrence. These will be available to all students who wish to know the schedules before the Thanksgiving holiday.
Allyn Browne, College sophomore, was chosen as the Union Activities member who had done the most work for the past week.
This committee also arranged for a file which will list information and meetings for activities chairmen. No dates for coming events were decided, however, they will be announced soon.
Rally Will Be Behind At Gym Tomorrow For A and M Game
A 10-minute rally for the Oklahoma A. and M. football game will be held at 10:45 a.m. tomorrow in front of Robinson gymnasium, Dorothy Scroggy, head cheer leader, said today.
A whistle at 10:45 a.m. will end
10. o'clock classes.
Little Man On Campus
YMCA Will Raise Fund
The Y.M.C.A. will drive for a $1,000 increase in its fund this year. It was decided at a finance meeting Thursday that this much would be needed to replace the income from the football concessions which were lost to the Student Union Activities.
Justice Hugo Wedell of Topeka will contact previous Y.M.C.A. contributors in Topeka for contributions. Harry Harlan, Kansas City, Mo., Harold Herman, Seattle, and Harold Coffman, Chicago, will do the same in their respective cities.
The Y.M.C.A. membership drive which begins Wednesday, Nov. 3, is expected to raise the associations' membership to 600.
The Y.M.C.A. will be one of the hosts to the conference of the United Student council to be held at the University from Wednesday, Dec. 27 to Saturday, Jan. 1, 1949.
Will Irrigate 2 Counties
Ground water for irrigation in Republic and northern Cloud counties must be obtained from the Republican river, according to a study by the state Geological Survey at the University.
VA Checks Arrive Soon
Most veterans will receive their subsistence checks by Wednesday, Nov. 10, E. R. Elbel, director of veterans affairs, said today.
"I have a letter from the regional office in Kansas City which promises faster service on checks this year," he said. "The letter asks that we hold complaints down to a minimum until after the 10th of the month. When a veteran complains before this time clerks in the V.A office must stop work on out-going checks to handle the complaint."
Mr. Elbel advised veterans who have moved to go to their former address to see if the check has been left there. If it is not there it may be at the Lawnrie post office. Checks are held there 10 days, he said.
Kansas—Partly cloudy east, mostly cloudy west today, tonight and tomorrow. A few scattered shows southwest and extreme west today and tonight, and west and north-central tomorrow. Not so warm extreme west today and north-central tomorrow.
Med School Tests Set For Saturday
WEATHER
The Medical school admission test will be given at 8:45 a.m. Saturday in Hoch auditorium.
The University guidance bureau said 159 students are registered for the examination, which is required for entrance into the University Medical school.
The bureau said that pre-medical students, other than those attending K.U., may take the examination because the bureau is one of the state's examination centers.
IR Conference At KU Nov.18
A conference of industrial managers, personnel workers, and production executives will be held at the University Nov. 18-20, Dr. Frank T. Stockton, dean of University Extension, said today.
The first industrial relations conference to be held here will have "Industrial Relations in a Peak Economy" as a theme.
Co-sponsors of the conference are the Associated Industries of Kansas, the Kansas State Chamber of Commerce, the Kansas Industrial Development commission and the Industrial Council of Kansas City.
Instructors will be University faculty members and experts in general management, supervisory personnel, personnel workers, production executives, labor leaders.
Visual aids, panel discussions, and demonstrations will supplement lectures on management philosophy, management techniques, employee morale, and employee and public relations.
housing for those attending the conference will be provided at Robinson gymnasium annex. Meals will be obtained at the Union. Payment of the course fee will also entitle confeeers to attend the Oklahoma-Kansas football game Nov. 20.
Students Borrow $1,200 In Loans
Students have borrowed $1,200 from the emergency loan fund so far this semester, Karl Klooz, bursa, said today. The fund is maintained to help students through financial difficulties.
Mr. Klooz said that student loans this year have shown a slight increase over previous years. During the war, the fund was almost untouched because of the decrease in students needing financial aid. A few more loans were made after the war, but never approached the number made before the war.
Freshman Elections Will Be Held Nov 3
Election fever will still cover the campus Nov. 3, the day following the national election, as the freshman class goes to the polls to determine their class officers.
Up for election will be the men's and women's A.S.C. seats, class officers, and a representative seat to the A.W.S. senate. The president, treasurer, and men's A.S.C. seat will be filled by men while the vice-president, secretary, women's A.S.C. and A.W.S. senate seat will be filled by women.
Only men may vote on the candidates for men's A.S.C. seat and only women may vote on women's A.S.C. and A.W.S. senate seat. Both groups are permitted to vote on the class officer candidates.
Donald Guard will be the Pachacamac candidate for president of the class while John F. Leslie will oppose him for the Independents. Janet Gregory, Independent, will be running against Alice Ann Sellers. Pachacamac-N.O.W., for vice-president.
Gretchen Freeburg and Shirley Jenkins will run for secretary, Pachacamac and Independent, respectively. Charles L. Childers, Independent, and Thomas Payne, Pachacamac, are candidates for treasurer. Arthur O. Kaaz, Jr. and Janice Horn are the Independent candidates for the two A.S.C. seats against Pachacamac candidates James Martin and Jean Haussermann.
Polling places will be set up in the east and west wings of Frank Strong hall, east and west wings of Marvin hall, and Fraser hall. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Airline Official Gives Talk To SAM
Keeping business free of old expensive equipment and the business man's mind free of out-of-date ideas was stressed by Gordon R. Parkinson of the T.W.A., Kansas City, in a talk before the Society for the advancement of Management Tuesday.
Mr. Parkinson explained the philosophies and policies of business management. He cited the Carl Braum Oil Equipment company as an example of a concern using the most modern business methods. He said the company replaces machinery with the latest equipment. This enables them to raise their production and cut costs at the same time.
He advised a "housecleaning of modern business houses" and stressed the importance of "positive thinking" in the business world today.
Hamlet's Only A Scholar Who Got Into A Terrific Jam
BY ROBERT L. SIMONTON
According to Ophelia, Hamlet has the mind of a "courtier, soldier, and scholar," and Prof. Allen Crafton evidently agrees—especially about the "scholar" part.
He's directing "Hamlet," to be presented by the University players, Tuesday, Nov. 2, to Friday, Nov. 5.
"I want to present the play as the story of a student, probably a graduate student—a normal, intelligent fellow with a keen sense of justice, who gets into a terrific jam and has a hard time getting out of it." Professor Crafton said. "In fact, he gets out of it only through the acscrife of his own life."
Professor Crafton said that dialect will not be used because the University players do not know and could not get away with the British dialect.
"Modern British is as unlike
Shakespearean English as American Kansas is unlike modern British," he laughed. "The players will try to use good, plain, correct mid-Western speech. After all, we want our audience to understand us and feel at home with what we say.
"I predict that the reaction to the production won't be either unanimously favorable or unfavorable." he said. "Some Shakespearean students won't like our interpretation, they will say it's wrong. Some of our audience will say that our performance isn't as good as Maurice Evans', which will be true. But I believe that most of the audience will forgive our shortcomings because Shakespeare has written such a swell play, and they'll get the most of it."
Practice for the play is held every afternoon and conducted by Mrs. Franes Feist, Robert Calderwood, and Mrs. Crafton. Full scene rehearsals are held every night. Professor Crafton estimates that he works 16 hours a day on the play.
Costumes have arrived, scenery is in place, and the 40 light units have been installed for the play. It will be the most pretentious and difficult stage production by an all-student cast ever undertaken at the University.
The 50 costumes for the production
have been secured from Eaves, the New York costume house which outfits most of the Broadway shows. The scenery, which comprises six different sets and 10 changes have been constructed and painted. Crew rehearsals in changing from one set to another have been started.
The crew has to be rehearsed as carefully as the actors. Milton Commons, who has charge of the lighting, estimates that between 700 and 800 switches have to be turned on and off during the progress of the play.
Herk Harvey, who plays the important role of King Claudius, is just out of the hospital recovering from an emergency appendectomy and at present is speaking his lines from a seat in the auditorium. He expects to be back on the stage for
dress rehearsals which begin Saturday.
Season tickets and single admission tickets go on sale at the ticket office in the basement of Green hall at 9 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 28. Reservations may be made by calling K.I.U. 412. Because of the length of the play, it will begin a quarter hour earlier than usual.
Holders of student activities tickets may exchange their ticket stubs for reserved seats from 9 to 12 and 1 to 4 throughout the run of the play. All seats are reserved. Professor Crafton urged those who want to see the play to get their tickets for the first night as the house is usually sold out for the other nights.