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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
JUNE 3,1946
Next Year Will Be Biggest, Maybe Best, In K.U. History
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attend summer session in other col- include opening the cafeteria now used by navy students for use by students who don't board at their rooming houses.
Absent from the scene during this coming year will be the navy uniforms which have been around the campus for more than four years. The navy is either transferring or discharging all navy personnel who have been attending the University while in service and all fraternity houses being used for navy P.T.s will be returned this summer.
Most noticeable of all changes in student activities will be the presence of men. Most groups will be headed by men, with the exception of for-women-only organizations. Student government will be led by Howard Engleman, first male A.S.C. president in several years. Top positions of each University student publication will be held by men. Veterans' organizations probably will be more active and with more members to be added this coming year will be more powerful.
Student government will be under the direction of the A.S.C. with the Greek Pachacamac-N.O.W. having the majority of seats. Freshman election will be held early in the fall semester to complete the roster of student officers elected this spring.
A feature of the fall semester will be the return debate with the West Point debate team which was defeated by K.U. this spring at West Point. Date for this event has not been set.
Several outstanding musical events have already been scheduled for the coming year, topped with the performance on May 5, 1947, by Gladys Swarthout, radio, movie, concert and opera star. Her performance will open the annual May Music Week festival during which University organizations and guest stars will perform.
First of the music events will be the appearance on Oct. 28 of Marcel
Dupre, an organ virtuoso who was here in 1393. Dupre, whose home is in Paris, will be assisted by his daughter, Marguerite Dupre, in several organ-piano numbers. Dupre has made himself popular by his trick of taking a short theme and improvising on it before an audience, something like Alec Templeton's favorite pastime, but only Dupre uses his feet as well as his hands.
On Armistice day, the Icelandic Singers, a male chorus of 36 voices from Iceland, will perform in the second of the concert series. The Icelandic Singers were in the United States once before; their tour this time will be only two months long, during which time they will hit most of the major cities and a number of universities.
On Jan. 13, Isaac Stern, a violinist who was featured in the film, "Humoresque," will make his first appearance at the University. He will be followed on March 10 by Leon Fleisher, a 17-year-old pianist.
The dramatics department will have a good year and the day of all-women casts probably is gone for good. With a record number of students, the play managers may be forced to use Hoch instead of Fraser auditorium to take care of the crowds.
Hoch auditorium undoubtedly will
be called more names when basketball fans are turned away from home games, but it probably will be more than ample for other student activities. Balconies may have to be called into use during the freshman psychological exams unless the exams are run in two installments.
Aeronautical engineers will be given a chance to see where their training is leading them when the University gets delivery on six army surplus planes. The type of plane isn't known yet, ad the planes will be for inspection only.
A Religious Emphasis week will be late in October or early in November. The week of religion will give the ordained ministers now teaching in other fields a chance to renew old friendships and the Y.M.-C.A. and the Y.W.C.A. will have a chance to use their record membership.
The two Y's will sponsor another love-marriage forum series next fall.
All-University dances probably will show bigger name bands than ever before because of the increased enrollment which means more students to buy tickets.
Campus politics will hit an alltime high for activity. New rules for campaigning and electioneering probably will be set up, and with
THANK YOU...
the average age of students higher than ever before, campaign tricks will get away from high school schemes and get into adult campaign knavery.
for your many favors during the past year and extend our best wishes for the holiday months.
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With the war well past and possibly the peace well started, the lawyers may start carrying canes again, the Business school students may begin wearing their straw hats again. Engineers undoubtedly will continue carrying slip-sticks.
The United Nations (mock) conference will be much better attended than the one this year. More students who have kicked away several years of their life fighting for a peace will realize the value of the conference in aiding them in understanding the difficulties the United Nations has in settling problems.
Next year's graduating class probably will be the largest in K.U.'s history. It also will be the cleast with the most interest in learning not only how but also why things in the world go the way they do.
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