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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18, 1948
The Editorial Page
A Point System For Women
Plans for a point system to limit the number of activities that women students may participate in is now being weighed on the campus. It has long been a problem whether activities should be limited or how they can be curbed.
The Associated Women Students have written to 76 schools and have found that about one-fourth of them have a system to limit activities. They learned that all schools which have a point system feel that it is worthwhile. Some schools wrote that they had tried a limiting system, but they found it didn't work. There are three plans which the schools used with individual variations:
1. Each organization office is assigned a number of points, and students are limited to the number of points they may have each semester.
2. The organizations are classified as major, intermediate, and minor activities. Only the officers are affected, and they may have certain combinations of the three classifications—such as one major and one minor office.
3. An activity file system is set up during enrollment and students are asked to list their activities or interests. This file is available to beads of organizations, and from it they may select members or workers. An evaluation of work already accomplished is on the cards so that the officer does not have to take a pig in a poke.
The A. W. S. has not yet decided which system would be the most practicable for K. U., but they are eyeing the last one. The plans are only in the committee stage and will have to be passed by the A. W. S. senate.
Advocates of limitations believe that they are for the individual's good. They believe that a person's academic work suffers when the extra-curricular load is too great.
The chief cry of the opponents is that persons who like activities and are willing to work are those who will get into them. Others who don't like the politics and clubbing of university life won't participate no matter how smooth the path is made.
The idealistic viewpoint of such a situation is that by the time a person reaches college age he should be able to set his own limits and act accordingly. According to this view, the organizations are to be blamed for not censuring officers that have taken on more than they can handle.
It is a problem that has many sides. Limiting plans have shown both a measure of success and failure, if the A. W. S. undertakes this project, their biggest problem will be to educate the organizations to use the file cards. It is always going to seem easier to pick an officer whose merits have been proved than to dig for an unknown.—Marian Minor.
In 1769 a Frenchman built a three-wheeled wagon equipped with a boiler and an engine. In 1947 a California manufacturer built a three-wheeled car with radiator and engine. Time and progress march on.
The way the University is expanding, the annexes will soon need annexes.
Old Army Game
News that the army recently planned to buy 161,172 custom built chairs for officers is likely to bring loud guffaws from ex-GI's. The fact that the specifications for the chairs were so complicated they covered four typewritten pages will probably cause the laughter to be punctuated with knowing shakes of the head.
Men who were in the army can't forget the absurdities which army administration sometimes reached. Letters written in triplicate and covered with puzzling endorsements were necessary to get the slightest thing done. Such apparent inefficiency was often painful to the soldier who could see an easy short cut for doing the same job. Today these are the voters the army is going to have to convince that it needs more money and more men. It's not going to be an easy job. News stories like the one about the chairs don't help. Former members of the organization are too often reminded that the army still needs a lot of reforming.
Foot Notes
Say, are you the guy that has the unmannerly habit of putting your feet on the chair of the person in front of you? If you are, then you are not alone. In the hurry and scurry of school life too many of us forget the other fellow.
There is nothing more nervewracking than to have the person behind you vainly trying to rock you to sleep. Each individual seems to have his own style so the experience is varied somewhat from class to class.
First of all, there is the student with nervous energy who is constantly placing one foot and then the other on your chair in the manner of a ballet dancer.
Then there is the "rocking chair" type who insists on using your chair for a brace while he tilts back in his own chair somewhat in the manner of a "junior birdman in graceful flight."
The rugged individualist feels no pain as he plants his number twelves squarely and solidly against the back of your chair with a blow that sends you forward with a lurch. Only complete balance on your part saves the decorum of the class and keeps you from finding yourself face downward on the cold floor.
There are many more varieties, but the person with the new twist seems to be the most irritating of all until you become accustomed to his style. It's a good idea to keep up on your toes, but keep them to yourself—Dave Clymer.
Even the more timid souls are not to be excluded for they seem to be musically inclined. You can spot one in a minute as he incessantly taps out one of the latest song hits on the leg of your chair.
According to scientists, on the bases of animal life expectancy, man should live to be 150 years old. The way prices are going up, it would be much cheaper to die at the average mortality age of 68.
New York subway maps are made from a waterproof, stainproof plastic that is produced with rosin from southern pine trees.
12 Perplexed KU Students Fight 'Name' Double-Trouble
This seems to be "double or nothing" semester at the University, a recent survey conducted by the University Daily Kansan, indicated.
Six pairs of students currently enrolled at the University bear identical names, and the situation sometimes becomes confusing. Especially is it bewildering when the "identical" pair unknowingly enroll in the same class.
Daily Hansan
The parents of James Resson, College freshman from Kansas City, Kansas, and the parents of James Robert Wilson, College freshman from Meade, were startled last mid-semester when they received cards from the College office showing their respective sons to be taking courses totally different from the ones in which they had enrolled in September. Upon investigation they found that the mid-semester grades had been sent to the wrong parents.
Marilyn June Brown, College freshman from Kansas City, Mo,
became confused last fall when her date cards for rush week were scrambled with those of Marilyn June Brown, another freshman, from Salina. They later found themselves enrolled in the same Speech, Spanish, and English classes.
"The school records can usually be cleared up," said Patricia Ann Smith, College freshman from Great Bend. "But I know that the other Patricia Ann Smith, a College freshman from Lawrence, gets tired of receiving my telephone calls and mail."
Donald Eugene Greenhaw, pharmacy sophomore from Canton, and Donald Eugene Greenhaw, College freshman from Overland Park, have never seen each other on the campus, as far as they know. Donald Eugene Wilson, business senior from Hutchinson, and Donald Eugene Wilson, College freshman from Moscow, also reported little trouble with their common names.
The two William James Millers, one from St. John, and the other from Erie, Penn., have managed to confuse just about everybody. Since both are engineering sophomores, the Millers found that the only workable solution was to request instructors to refer to them according to their home towns.
Record Demand in 1947 For Automatic Controls
Minneapolis, —(UP) - Automatic controls which run machines without the human hand, and control devices for many other fields were in big demand in 1947. Harold W. Sweatt, president of the Minneapolis - Honeywell Regulator Company, said in a year-end interview.
Sweatt noted that demand for automatic controls in manufacturing has doubled from the 1955 total, and today is at a new high for the 100-year history of the controls industry.
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New Bridal Rings Worn On Ears
O. M, Resen, the designer, call them "wed-earrings," the "ear mate" of the wedding band is o white palladium, one of the platinum metals, which is light it weight and easy on the lobes Carved in a floral motif, the two mates dangle like hoops from pendant ear attachments upon which cobchon rubies gleam.
New York—(UP)—The newest idea in marital customs introduced here provides husbands with duplicates of the bridal ring to put in their wives' ears.
Brooklyn Sends Gifts
To Namesake in Holland
The dictionary definition of palladium is significant, Resen pointed out. Besides being a precious metal, palladium also means "a safeguard or protection." It stems from the palladim, or white statue of Pallas Athene. When ancient Troy held the palladium the Greeks considered the city safe from capture.
"Jealous husbands seem to like this additional way of telling predatory males "hands off," Resen said.
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New York—(UP)—The first postwar shipment of gifts has been delivered to Breukelen, Holland, from Brooklyn, N. Y., which was named for the tiny Dutch community.
Miss Marguerite A. Salomon founded the Brooklyn Adopts Breukelen project, which was taken up officially by the Brooklyn Heights Garden club.
At the suggestion of the Breukelen burgmeister, Dr. M. L. Holthe to Echten, the Brooklynites sent only necessities, with the exception of some candy for children and tobacco for men.
Stockings Decide Colors Of Lehigh
Rethickom, Pa.-(UF)-Of all the shades and colors to which American college men swear their allegiance, none owes its selection to a fairer inspiration than the Brown and White of Lehigh university.
The Lehigh colors were selected at a student meeting on Feb. 9, 1876. William L. Raeder, Scranton, Pa., a senior when the choice was made, revealed the behind-the-scene story of their selection.
He related that women of that day wore stockings with horizontal stripes of alternating color. Shortly before the meeting, a kindly wind revealed the shapely legs of a miss clad in brown and white hose.
$440 Buys Lincoln Wire
The sight lingered and when the question of colors came up, he proposed brown and white. The students assented.
"You will succeed. God bless you all."
Mary A. Benjamin bought the telegram, in which Lincoln told Grant:
New York—(UP) —A telegram sent by President Abraham Lincoln to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 84 years ago was sold for $440 during an auction of books, manuscripts and letters at the Parke-Berne galleries.
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