University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, Sept. 15, 1947
45th Year No.2
Lawrence, Kansas
"In a case of this kind, Miss Flapper, I don't think your sorority would mind if you took your 'pledge pin' off."
VA Changes Leave Policy
New leave policies to permit unbroken subsistence payments to veterans going to college under the GI Bill after September 1 have been announced by the Veterans Administration.
The new provisions will not apply to veterans dropping their (training before the close of a semester. In this case, payments will end the date training was interrupted.
If there are no more than 15 days between semesters, veterans will receive subsistence payments for the full enrollment period. These leaves will be deducted from their entitlement time.
If a veteran's eligibility ends after the middle of a semester, he will be allowed to finish that semester and his subsistence allowance will be extended until then.
tended units, with the exception of the scholastic leaves offered by the schools to other students, no leaves other than the 15-day extension in training status will be authorized for veterans.
Senior Injured In Collision
Billie Dunn, college senior from Bethany, Mo., suffered minor injuries when the automobile in which she was riding with her parents yesterday afternoon was hit head on by a motorcycle near Lawrence. She was taken to Watkins hospital.
Work Starts Today On Watson Library Additions
Work was begun today on the $218,821 additions to Watson library. One of the additions will be at the west end of the library, the other at the southeast corner. The Huff Brothers construction company of Fort Scott is the contractor.
Jayhawker Needs Advertising Man
Candidates for advertising manager of the 1948 Jayhawker yearbook will meet at 4 p.m. Friday in the Jayhawker office in the Union, Larry Simmons, business manager, said today.
To be eligible for the position one must have sold advertising for the Jayhawker before or worked in the Jayhawker office, Simmons said. The candidate selling most advertising for the yearbook will be named advertising manager and will receive a commission on all advertising he sells.
He'll Probably Have To Sell His Car
He Could Sprinkle Broken-Bottles But—
Anyone interested in serving on the Jayhawker staff, other than as advertising manager, should attend a general staff meeting in the Jayhawker office at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Simmons said.
The yearbook, which is being sold in the registration line, will also be on sale at the Jayhawker office between 1 and 5 p.m. for the next three weeks.
Sure, it's crowded, but when a man can't slide his car into his own driveway, that's too much.
Els have a priority on the parking space at that end of Tennessee streets. "Have the students a right to park in front of my home and driveway so that if I'm out, I can't get ih, and if I'm in, I can't get out?" he asked the city council. "The police gave me three 'emergency—no parking' signs. Now the signs are on the walls of rooms in the TKE house."
V. P. Wilson, 1542 Tennessee street, has been parking anywhere but his own curb. It seems to Mr. Wilson that the Tau Kappa Epsilon members have a priority on the parking space at that end of Tennessee street
"I just want 24 feet of curb space," he pleaded. "The boys can have the other 120 feet."
The city council directed the parking problem to the police and street committees.
Enrollment Runs Smoothly As Classes Fill Up
With enrollment past the hairny mark, most students began to breathe a little easier this morning as they looked forward to the beginning of classes Wednesday.
Except for those unlucky persons scheduled to choose classes Tuesday, the beginning of the end was in sight for most.
All in all, enrollment this year was a very mild ordeal compared to the disorder and almost hysterical confusion which prevailed last year, a University Daily Kansan survey of enrollment supervisors revealed this morning.
morning
Paul B. Lawson, Dean of the College looked up from a pile of transcripts and enrollment cards and smiled.
"Enrollment has never progressed more smoothly," the College Dean said. "In sharp contrast to conditions last year, selection of courses this semester is running like clockwork."
Lines Move Swiftly
"Many students are being enrolled in 15 minutes or less. Of course there have been exceptions. I have not seen over 12 students in any one line so far. This is much different than our last enrollment, when long swarms of students waiting to select classes extended out the doors, down the stairs, and jammed the side-walks in front."
Dean Lawson explained that only a few new classes were being opened this year, and remarked that as soon as one section becomes filled, another is usually ready to take its place.
Anticipated Class Need
"We planned our classes to meet the anticipated demand this year," the Dean stated. "Provisions were made in advance this time so that we were not caught shorthanded. Therefore, few new sections need to be opened."
to be opened.
On the first floor of Robinson gymnasium, where 1,224 engineering students had filled out cards by Saturday night, freshmen were distinctly in the minority. Upper classmen outnumbered their kid brothers by a ratio of three to one.
The sharp drop in freshman enrollments in mathematical subjects was attributed by Professor Hanson to the difficulty of engineering as a major. Many freshmen who had intended to take engineering showed up deficient in math credits, he explained.
by a ratio of 3 to 1. P. L. O. Hanson, director of engineering for the engineers, reported that 246 freshmen and 978 upper classmen had enrolled in the school when final tabulations were made Saturday night.
D. M. Swarthout, Dean of the School of Fine Arts, said today that the enrollment had been the "smoothest in years."
"smoothing in here but not been so many there. Have you not been so many again?" GLL's this year who wanted to dabble with music for awhile," the veteran musician said. "Most of the veterans enrolling are older men, at least sophomores."
planned.
Fine Arts Goes Smoothly
Dave Swarthout praised the work of the enrollment supervisors and workers. "I think everyone feels that the entire enrollment process has been superbly planned, and is being carried out splendidly."
being carried
James K. Hitt, Registrar, refused
to comment upon enrollment and
gave no hint as to the total number
of students expected to report for
classes Wednesday morning.
WEATHER
Kansas-Fair. Cooler in southeast. Warmer in northwest today. High today 70. Fair and warmer tonight and Tuesday.
Concert Series Begins Oct.20
The Fine Arts concert series include ballad singers and symphony orchestras on the schedule this year. Concerts to which students will be admitted free will be marked in their activity books.
The concert series is as follows:
Oct. 20 Chamber Music Chorus
featuring John Jacob Niles, ballad singer
Oct. 17 Eleanor Steber, vocalist
Dec. 1 Walden String
Dec. 3 Arron, Pianist
Dec 3 Artom Pamir
Feb 11 and 12 Roth String
Quartet
Feb. 17 (tentative) Ballet Theater
March 2 Cincinnati Symphony orchestra
March 15 Patricia Travers, vocalist
April 7 John Charles Thomas,
vocalist
Traditions Show To Be Tonight
New students will get their first look at the K. U. traditions—young and old—at an all-University convocation at 7:30 tonight in Hoch auditorium, Betty van der Smissen, convocation committee chairman for the All Student Council, announced.
John Moorhead, College sophomore will encease the pageant which will consist of short two or three minute pantomines of such historical K. U. scenes as the origin of the famous Rock Chalk yell, K. U. during the war years, and the Engineering-Law school feud.
The program will be similar to the old traditions convocations. It will show the expansion of the University from its one-building stage to the present annexed and re-annexed campus.
The Sigma Nu quartet will furnish music for the program. It is composed of Warren R. Dougherty and Robert D. Seamam, Business seniors, Gerald V. Rickett's College sohomore, and Dick G. Williams, College junior.
junior new students are asked to bring their "K" books to practice school songs and yells, Miss van der Smissen said.
Governor Frank Carlson will help start the school year off with a bang when he greets new students and mingles with guests Tuesday night at an open house sponsored by the student union.
Carlson To Help At Open House Tomorrow Night
Richard Bibler, University Daily Kansas cartoonist, will draw caricatures of the guests, and music will be given by several campus bands
Heading the list of attractions at the open house will be exhibits by campus clubs and organizations in the Union ballroom.
The governor has promised to be present at the event "if at all possible," and Otis Hill, president of student union activities, expects a large crowd of new and former students.
Injured Instructor Doing All Right
be given by several women. Refreshments will be served throughout the evening, and free cigarettes will be on hand. Women will receive gardenias as they enter the building.
All students are invited to the open house, and Hill urged new students to make special efforts to attend.
Miss Higgs was struck by an automobile driven by a high school student at 13th and Massachusetts streets. She was taken to Lawrence Memorial hospital and transferred shortly after to Watkins hospital.
Get The Scissors, Men—
Ku Ku's Meet Tonight
Her home is in North Hampshire, Mass., and she has been living in Lawrence one month.
The Ku Ku's will meet at 7:30 p.m.
tonight in the Pine room to make
plans for the new student induction
being held tomorrow.
Miss Margeret Riggs, instructor in the psychology department, who was injured early Friday morning while riding on her motor scooter, is "doing satisfactorily" at Watkins hospital officials there say.
The Hemline Battle Is On!
Unfavorable attitudes towards the new vogue of longer skirts for women were expressed by officers of several men's houses. Their reactions;
Phi Delta Theta: "We've set no policy. We don't seem to give a darn either way."
Phi Chi: "We don't like those skirts, especially on big women. They look better on the skinnier type. But, they don't really bother us; we've got long memories."
Sigma Phi Epsilon: "We fell that long skirts are violating our unilienable rights and we are manning a scissors brigade immediately." The Good Ole' Twenties
Tau Kappa Epsilon: "There's nothing brewing here, but there's no saying; we just haven't decided what to do about them so far. The women look like something in the twenties."
Delta Upsilon: "We would accept it, darn it, but it would be fun to stage a formal protest against them. An idea."
An idea:
an owl with Sigma: "Our whole house faces the longer skirts with great disfavor. We might lower our cuffs and have our pants on the ground."
and have no business.
Nu Sigma Nu: "The salesmen say before the hemlines changed, business was looking up, but now—. We prefer the era when mother wore tights."
The Height Of Deception
Batterfield: "When they lower the skirts, it always hurts. The poor men are cheated then."
The Height Of Decapitation
Sigma Nu: The height of deception has been achieved, with dresses
five inches below the knees."
Spooner-Thayer: "We don't like it. Reminds us of a woman draped in a gunny sack."
Sigma Alpha Epsilon: "When your date shows up in one of these new skirts and dark sheer hose, you wonder whether your destination is a formal dance or a salvation army rally."
rany.
Wonder What A Knee Is?
Ft Kappa Alpha. "This is a step in the wrong direction. It would be fine if the neckline lowers as fast. So far, it has ruined a good hobby. Also, it's unconstitutional—it denies the pursuit of happiness. Ah well. I think I shall never see a poem lovely as a knee.
as a knee.
Delta Chi: "It's a little early to decide on our house reaction, but, we don't like them. That's definite. Maybe they'll pass, like the blue jeans did."
They're Hobbled Now
Phi Gamma Delta: "We don't care if they are longer because now they can't run so fast."
can't run Sigma Chi: "We're all for it if they wear red silk stockings and green perfume."