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MARCH 4, 1947
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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SOCIALLY SPEAKING
BEVERLY BAUMER, Society Editor
Pi Beta Phi Initiates 16
Pi Beta Phi announces the initiation of 16 pledges at the chapter house recently. The girls initiated were: Ann Learned, honor initiate, Louise Lambert, Sally Shepard, Mable Ellen Cable, Georgann Eyler, Elinor Frye, Constance Dean, Charlotte Boyle, Barbara Burns, Patricia Hamilton, Jacquelyn Herriott, Shirley Garst, Sally Pegues, Kathryn Pickens, Peggy Baker and Margaret Foster.
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Four Pledge Sig Ep
Sigma Phi Epsilon announces the pledging of Virgil Cooper, Lawrence, Alvin Ward, Chanute, and Maurice Gibbons and Arthur Roidran of Saint Mary's.
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Theta's Elect Officers
Kappa Alpha Theta announces the election of the following officers: president, Virginia Winter, vice-president, Margaret Eberhardt, social chairman, Virginia Joseph, treasurer, Martha Bonebrake, house manager, Sally Winterscheidt.
Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity initiated 21 new members in a three-day ceremony that ended Sunday. The initiates are:
TKE's Initiate 21 Men
Donald Allen, Wichita; Charles Boulware, Columbus; Ralph Brock, Sterling; Kenneth Brown, Newton; Zeno Gould and Robert Grissom, Syracuse; John Lo Pinto, Brooklyn N. Y.; Lawrence Mercer, Garden City; Donald Simonson, Great Bend; James Street, Independence, Mo.; David McCullough and Robert Ulrich, Wichita; Thomas Watson and Wa lt e r Yoakum, Leavenworth, Lloyd E. Brown, Charles Comstock, James Dudley, Eugene C. Kane, William Kirshern, Robert Line and Paul Zeh, Kansas City.
Independent Women Elect Party Officials
Kathleen McClanahan, College sophomore, was elected campaign manager and Wilda Hosler, Fine Arts junior, assistant campaign manager of the Independent Women's Political party at a meeting of the senate Monday night.
Other officers elected were: Marian Graham, College sophomore, treasurer; Lucile Ralston, College junior, publicity chairman; and Marylee Masterson, College junior, platform chairman.
The senate ratified the constitution and also discussed general platform policies.
Pi K. A. Holds Founder's Banquet
More than 200 couples attendee the annual Founder's day banquet of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity Saturday in Kansas City.
The banquet and dance were sponsored by the Kansas City alumni chapter and active chapters from the University, Kansas State college, and the University of Missouri.
Dr. W. W. Davis, professor of history at KU., spoke on the "Foundations and Future of Pi Kappa Alpha."
Women Smart, Men Say
South Bend, Ind.—(UP)—Notre Dame university's all-man debate team has begun a debate by mail with an all-girl team from the University of Wichita. The subject: "Resolved: That women are more intelligent than men." The men have the affirmative side.
Could Take His Pick
Scranton, Pa.—(UP)—Baby Robert Price could have had any one of 50 names if the authorities had been willing to release him. The 16-month-old infant was abandoned on the doorstep of the West Side hospital. After his discovery was announced, the hospital received a flood of offers of adoption.
Clothing, Cosmetics Help Native Icelander Believes
American girls compare favorably in beauty with Icelandic femininity, Ingolfur P. Steinsson, foreign student recently arrived from Iceland, said today.
After rounding out his first two weeks on the K. U. campus, the 22-year old Icelander has decided that American girls are "pretty okay", but attributes much of their attractiveness to the plentiful supply of clothing and cosmetics, a commodity which his country lacks.
"In the United States the girls are very pretty, but they have plenty of clothes to buy," he explained. "In Iceland we have no such variety of wearing apparel, so our girls depend on natural beauty."
A native of a small city on the southern coast of Iceland, Steinsson arrived in the United States only last month, after a windy ocean voyage from his country.
The blond Icelander is close to realizing his lifetime ambition of becoming an American-trained printer. During the seven years he worked as a printer in Iceland, Steinsson frequently dreamed of a journey to America and a chance to learn printing in this country.
Several months ago, Steinsson investigated the possibilities of attending the University and, after several futile attempts, finally managed to clear the way for his passage from Iceland.
Upon arriving in this country, he immediately came to Lawrence, where he enrolled in the University and completed arrangements for his job with the University Press.
Having only the limited knowledge of English he had managed to acquire at home before his departure for America, Steinsson finds his English class demanding much of his spare time.
"It's very hard to read and write your language," he remarked. "I can understand more than I can speak."
Besides Icelandic and his rapidly-growing supply of English, the foreign student speaks the Scandanavian languages, which he learned on numerous trips through Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
Steinsson intends to complete the remainder of the present semester here, and then expects to enter Kansas State Teachers college at Pittsburg as soon as a vacancy occurs.
Upon completion of his printing instruction at Pittsburg, he plans to return to his home in Reykjavik capital city of Iceland, where he believes his American education will be an asset.
"When I came to New York two weeks ago, it was much colder than when I left Iceland," he commented. "The seasons are different here also. In March it will be spring in America, but in my country that season starts in April."
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Don't Criticize Joan The Jerk; Careful Now, She May Be You
Joan isn't a cheerleader, or an editor of the Kansan, or a Phi Beta Kappa. She's just one of the four thousand who take Western Civilization and live from one Bibler cartoon to another.
She's the girl who always orders vanilla pudding at the Union and grumbles 'cause they only give her two crackers with her soup.
Life in a dormitory would be as dull as that of a church mouse if it weren't for her. Periodically she goes on a spree. She paints the soap with nail polish ties, she shirts herself around, swipes light bulbs, and all in the confusion, presents the most innocent face in the house.
Joan wasn't considered for the football queen last fall—she has a prominent forehead, receding chin, and hair that falls with the barometer. She wears a fuzzy white coat to class when she has a Spanish test and her morale needs a lift.
If she doesn't have a date, (she usually does.) she finds dance music on her neighbor's radio and waltzes and tangoes and two steps with the broom up and down the hall.
eggs, they're stale, and still she tells them. You say, "Gosh, I'm tired," and she pipes up with "I'm Joan".
And she falls over things. Her elbows and ankles are always bruised from bumping into her desk or her roommate's cello, or the bushel of grapefruit the girl next door got from Florida.
But you probably won't recognize Joan, even when she bumps into you while you're going into the library, unless you happen to remember the white coat. In fact, it would be quite difficult to pick her out because she's the girl-next-door in most of the houses and dormitories, and the directory is 99 per cent her name, and almost all of the fees in the business office are from her purse.
Her jokes are terrible. They lay
Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, will holds its open meeting for the spring semester in the Union building, 8 p.m. Thursday.
Lawson To Interview Teachers In East
Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, is spending this week in Boston where he will visit the Human Relations seminar in which E. O. Stene and Hilden Gibon, associate professors of political science of the University, have fellowships.
All scouts and scouters are eligible for membership.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott said that Dean Lawson will also interview professorial candidates in a number of eastern cities before returning to the University next Sunday.
APO To Hold Open Meet
The fraternity has one open meeting regularly each semester.
wisconsin conservation wardens arrested 213 persons for violation of hunting and fishing laws during April of this year and got 198 convictions.
Lawrence Sanitary Homogenized Milk
Network Analyzer Will Be Installed
A network analyzer, an electrical device on which power transmission and distribution problems can be set up in miniature and solved, will be installed at the University within a month.
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Prof. E.B. Phillips, inventor of the analyzer, is now calibrating the instruments. When this is completed the analyzer will be shipped from Tulsa, where it was constructed.
Cost of the analyzer is more than $25,000, but several electric power companies have made inquiries for use of the machine. The analyzer is expected to be self-supporting from fees paid by commercial users.
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