3,1947
University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday, October 9, 1947
45th Year No. 19
Lawrence, Kansas
Faculty Members To Get Salaries In 9 Installments
When some faculty members and employees get their first pay checks this month, they will be pleasantly surprised. The first check will be for a full month's pay.
The new method of payment will apply to all faculty members and University employees who are paid on a monthly basis. Those who are paid on an hourly basis will find no change in their checks.
Karl Klooz, bursar, pointed out that some employees think they are paid on a monthly basis when, actually, they are on an hourly basis.
Mr. Klooz also said that workers on a part-time basis will be included in the new plan, if they are being paid on a monthly salary.
Faculty members will now be paid in nine straight installments. Under the previous plan, they were paid in 10 installments for the nine-month school term with the first and last checks being half-checks.
The new plan will not bring any change in the withholding tax taken out of each check, and there will also be no change in the payment of summer school employees.
The first checks for this year are expected in a few days. After the system is established, checks may be expected nearer the first of the month.
Another Queen To Be Chosen
A Carnival queen will be selected at the Union activities Carnival dance Oct. 18 in the Military Science building.
Pictures submitted from women's organized houses or individually from women not living in organized houses must be at the Union activities office in the Union building not later than Oct. 10. Candidate photos will be displayed in the Union lounge next week.
Otis Hill, president of Union activities, said that the finalists will be picked from the pictures. They will be voted on at the dance.
Entertainment booths, sponsorse by organized houses, will encircle the dance floor. These booths will sell tickets entitling you to take part in the games and vote for the queen The organized house with the most original and best entertainment booth will be awarded a bronze cup
The music will be by Charlie O'Connor's orchestra.
Backed Cars To Be Tagged
The parking committee has reported that it will no longer tolerate the practice of backing cars into angular parking spaces. From now on, campus police will ticket all violators.
This action was taken after checkers protested their work was slowed when they had to weave in and out of parked cars to find the parking permit on the rear license plate.
Students started backing into parking spaces in an effort to get a "flying start" on their fellow drivers and scurry past Jayhawk drive before the rush periods started. In zone "A" was of Potter lake, shrubbery growing close to the parking lot prevented attendants from checking parking tags of vehicles backed into parking spaces.
"These long skirts have knocked out the only bright spot in my daily Hill climb."
3500 Tickets Issued On Campus
More than 3500 violation tickets have been issued by the University police force since the beginning of school, the office of the parking committee reported. The highest number of violations tickets issued in one day exceeded 350 but the number has dropped to an average of 100 a day and is still dropping.
Not all of these are recorded against students as visitors, unfamiliar with University parking regulations, have received more than their share of the tickets. Even though a large part of violation tickets have been accounted for by visitors, the total is still high in porportion to the number of parking permits issued, the committee said.
The program included selections sung by Katherine Walter, Fine Arts sophomore; piano selections by Bernadine Read, Fine Arts sophomore; two songs from the Broadway show "Brigadoon" by Haworth "Skip" White, College senior; and vocal harmony by the Phi Kappa Psi quartet, accompanied by Phyllis Fretwell, Fine Arts senior.
WEATHER
Make Music At Short Spin
Kansas—Partly cloudy and continued mild today, tonight and Friday. Low tonight $2 west to 55 to 60 east.
At the second "Short Spin" Wednesday night, members of Delta Delta Delta sorority and Phi Kappa Psi fraternity presented a musical program to highlight the evening.
The next "Short Spin" to be held October 22, in the Union ballroom, will feature two more organized houses,' in keeping with a policy set for the year. At the end of the year, a prize will be awarded to the group presenting the best program.
Eddie Brunk, College junior, was master of ceremonies. Music was played by the Charlie Steeper orchestra.
'Joan' Tickets Ready Oct.16
Activity tickets will not be accepted at Fraser theater to the performances of "Joan of Lorraine," Allen Crafton, professor of speech, warned today as he urged everyone to get tickets early.
Activity book slips must be exchanged for reserved seats at the ticket office in the basement of Green hall. The office will be open from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1 to 4 p.m. every day beginning Thursday, Oct. 16, through the last day of the play. Another ticket office in Fraser hall will be open from 7:30 to 8:15 p.m. each evening of the show.
"Joan of Lorraine" will be presented for three nights beginning Oct. 20. Curtain time each night will be 8:15 and the doors will be closed promptly at that time. No one will be admitted after curtain time until the first two scenes of the play are completed, Professor Crafton said.
Professor Crafton in urging early reservations, said that students who wait to get tickets the night of the play frequently find the house sold out. Fraser theater seats only 680 persons.
KU Whistle Not For Parade
One long blast on the whistle means a fire at Sunnyside and can not be used to announce 'no night shirt parade' as planned, Rodney Armstrong, president of Ku Ku club said today.
The whistle signal was suggested in case of rain, before the buildings and grounds officials were consulted.
The parade will start from the Union building at 7:15 p. m. Friday and a street dance will be held p. m. on 11th street between Massachusettsmount streets. Movie arrangements will be as previously announced.
If it rains, a raily will be held at 8:15 p. m. in the Union building. A dance from 9 p. m. to 11 p. m. will follow.
Owls Withdraw Plans To Share Class Day Fete
The Owl society: will not sponsor the Class day festivities planned for Homecoming day, in conjunction with the Ku Ku club, Patrick Thiessen, president, said today.
"We went at this project with a great deal of zeal when we first planned it," Thiessen said. "However, after very careful consideration, we have concluded that fraternity members would not attend the field day because the numerous buffet lunches and alumni events for the independent students, we wouldn't know how much food to prepare."
May Sponsor Hobo Day
"We have the money and it will be spent on some tradition for the students." Thiessen continued. "The Owl society wants to sponsor some tradition which will benefit more students. While looking through an old Jayhawker magazine, we came across an idea for a Hobo day. It would be an outdoor get-together held sometime next spring."
Rodney Armstrong, president of the Ku Ku's, said:
"The Owl society came to us wanting to help sponsor Class day, using the money from the sale of freshman caps to pay the cost. We were up against $200 for Class day and split up any money that was left over."
Owl Motives Not Clear
"I couldn't understand what the Owls wanted in the first place." Armstrong added. "They have only about 14 members, and only one or two of them showed up to help sell the caps in the enrollment line."
The two groups now intend to split the cap money evenly. The Ku Ku's have decided to spend their share to hire a band to play at the street dance which they will sponsor after the Nightshirt parade Friday night.
He Cain't Write And He Cain't Spell, But California Was Glad To Have Him
A lot of people who don't say "ain't," ain't eatin', and they ain't makin'
$30,000 a year either.
Edgar N. Cregg, 26, recently called at the home of Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopes, retired professor of English, to keep a 20-year-old appointment only to find hoops on vacation.
"I was a student of Miss Hoopes" English class in 1922, and at the end of the semester my chances of passing the course were somewhat in doubt." Mr. Gregg explained.
"Miss Hoopes told me I couldn't write, I couldn't spell, and I couldn't express a single idea on paper. However, she decided to pass me on the
basis of hard work and good attendance, and requested that I return in 20 years to tell her if she had done the right thing.
"Well, here I am. I still can't write, I still cannot spell, and I can't express a thought on paper—but I'm making $30,000 a year in California.
Seasonal Colds Here As Usual Canuteson Says
The seasonal epidemic of colds is here, with an average of 40 clinic cases treated a day, Dr. Ralph Canuteson, director of the University health service said today.
"Colds are most likely to spread during the first few days. Students should stay home at that time," Dr. Canuteson advised.
"It might be a good thing if the League of Student Voters which was in force before last spring's election in 2015 suggested Barke, *Progressive Education*.
Each person is immune only to his own type bacteria, Dr. Cunateson said. With so many students coughing and sneezing, other bacteria are spread rapidly and picked up by those not immune. Also, fatigue has increased the number of colds, he added.
"The use of vitamins aids in cold prevention only if the person has a vitamin deficiency. Most students receive enough in their regular diet," he said.
The present epidemic is one of three expected each year. The others usually are about the time of the Christmas and spring vacations.
YWCA Airs Campus Politics
The goal is the same; it is just a matter of agreeing on how to reach it. Participants in a round table discussion of campus politics Wednesday reached this conclusion.
First, students must have a better opportunity to get acquainted with all the candidates and their platforms. Second, each student should be weeded to choose his candidate on the basis of merit and not affiliation.
How to accomplish this seemed to be the problem.
It was the first of a weekly series of Y.W.C.A. sponsored discussions of campus problems. The present election system will be the next subject, Wednesday at Henley house. Margaret E. van der Smissen, chairman of the Y.W.C.A. campus affairs commission is moderator.
It was arraced that in order for campus politics to be more than organized mud slinging and block twoided defection and present system must be corrected.
No action was taken in this regard.
The motto of the league was "Vote for the student and not for the party."
"The Progressive party has four members on the All-Student Council and we hope to break up the system of Tennessee-West Hills anarchy versus Campbell-Beta Pendergast-ism." Barker declared later in the discussion.
Its activities were confined chiefly to publicizing all candidates and getting out to vote.
Sheryl Holland spoke for the Independent women's political party. She said that organization's chief interest was in adequately representing independent girls, especially those not in organized houses.
"Most girls aren't interested in politics," she concluded.
Presenting the viewpoint of the Independent men's political party, tentative agreement has emerged.
"Our main purpose is to stop the move of the new party to split the independents. It is a case of a minority trying to split a majority so that they can rule. We are not against cooperation, but the majority should rule."