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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 22,1946
Blue Jeans May Be Comfortable, But Your Posture Is Better In A Formal
"Good posture is a 24-hour of the day need, every day of our lives," Miss Joie Stapleton, physical education professor, declares in an article of a professional education journal. On the campus this is just as true, she told the Kansan in a recent interview.
"The craze for blue jeans and other informal attire is not conducive to good body posture," she said. "Women in general are very careless, but a woman is enough of a showman to ^
want to take a formal evening gown she is quite different from what she is swaggering along in a pair of blue jeans.
"Even the veterans are slumping and letting down now that they are no longer under military discipline."
By "posture," Miss Stapleton means good body position for the task at hand, whether it is standing, walking, sitting, or playing a game, not the popular misconception of the "tin soldier" at parade attention.
"Changing habits of bad posture at college age is just like trying to reform a solid vase into a brand new shape," she declared. "The place for correction is in the primary grades or before. Some functional changes could be made, but very often bad posture gets so well established that changes in body structure have taken place."
Not all of the poor body alignment on the campus is the student's fault. Miss Stapleton believes.
Most of the chairs in the University are built to the same pattern and size, but students aren't. The practice of taller men putting their feet on the rungs of the chair ahead of them is undesirable, but not unexplainable, she said.
"Good body position depends upon a balance in which the least possible strain is exerted. When students sit for three or four hour a day in ill-fitting chairs conductive to poor body alignment, some negative results are inevitable," Miss Stapleton observed. "At college level, with the importance of other problems facing them, students make posture take a back seat.
"The whole business of personal appearance and what it means to an individual is receiving so much emphasis from Hollywood authorities and others that some are giving special posture training to their personnel who are required to represent the firm to the public," Miss Stapleton said. "Posture-trained personnel is more efficient," she added.
"You don't build a house from the second story down." Miss Stapleton remarked, emphasizing the feet as the base for posture. "To many persons, posture means 'inhale, chest out, stomach in, chin up, and look smug', she added.
In physical education classes, posture correction is indirect, consisting mainly of learning the difference between bad and good form required for a particular sport, Miss Stapleton explained.
"Posture has not been emphasized lately by physical educators," Miss Stapleton said. "Correct posture training must start with the very young child before he develops poor body position.
"At college age," she summarized, "it is too late to improve most poor posture without a real effort, but it can be done."
Wheat Harvest Jobs Available—Werner
Forty men have applied for work on the wheat harvest this summer and more are needed, Henry Werner, dean of men, announced today. The men will be paid $7 to $10 a day with room and board. Work in Kansas will begin about June 13.
The type of work most frequently chosen by applicants is tractor and truck driving. Other types are combine operating and wheat scooping.
Men will start with the Kansas wheat harvests and gradually work northward. "If they wish, they may work all summer and go on up to Canada." Werner added.
Applications may be made in the Dean of Men's office from which they are sent to Kansas State College at Manhattan. The survey is being made by Frank Blecha, state supervisor' of emergency farm labor.
Speaks Tonight
This is Merle Thorpe, first chairman of the journalism department at K.U., who speaks tonight at the annual Kansan Board dinner. The event honors outstanding student journalists, and is being held at the Eldridge hotel.
Math Club Picnic Tuesday
At Clinton Park
The Mathematics club will hold a picnic Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at Clinton park, Charlotte Price, president, announced today.
A prize will be given at the picnic to the student who has conducted the best program this year, she said.
The picnic will be the last meeting of the club this year.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
May 22,1946
American Society of Civil Engineers regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, room 207, Marvin hall. Professor Laudon of the Geology department will speak. Election of officers will be held. Also plans for picnic for Tuesday, May 28.
Tau Sigma practices will be as follows for tonight: 7 p.m., Cowboy Ballad; 7:20 p.m., Shostakovich; 7:35 p.m., Le Seecret; 7:45 p.m., Creed, Hungarian Dance, and Spanish Dance; 8:10 p.m., Golliwogg's Cake-Walk; 8:30 p.m., Baba Yaga; 8:50 p.m., Primitive ritual.
Guidance bureau announces that no University students can be registered after May 24 because of insufficient time to complete the cases, unless students intend to stay for summer session.
Seniors participating in the commencement exercises on June 17 must pay the diploma fee at the Business office by Saturday.
All students now in school who plan to enroll in the summer session or the fall semester may sign up at the Registrar's office, room 122, Frank Strong hall, during the month of May so as to guarantee themselves a place in the University under the priority system. To avoid congestion, students should appear at the Registrar's office according to the following schedule: (Letters are initial letters of students' last names.)
Students and faculty are invited to inspect the new Physical Therapy department in Watkins Memorial hospital today from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
American Institute of Electrical Engineers meeting will be Thursday.
May 22-25—F, P, A, Y, U, V, C, M
May 27 June—1 J, M, X, I, L, T, R
Mathematics club will hold its annual spring picnic at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Clinton park. Meet at the Mathematics office, room 209. Frank Strong. Reservations must be made in the mathematics office by Friday.
Socialite Joins Circus As Horseback Rider Despite Parents' No
New York. (UP) - Elizabeth Wight, pretty 19-year-old socialite from St. Louis, is an enthusiastic salesman for the circus among the social set of her home town.
"I think it's so wonderful I could talk anybody into it," she smiled.
But Miss Wight — Bunny to Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey—does more than talk. She acts.
acts.
The socialite - performer rides horseback, skips rope with the ballet girls and rides the elephants, and she's learning the "cloud swing", a tranzee act.
"But I don't want my mother to know," she whispered.
Mother, Mrs. Ira E. Wight, Jr., and father, a former lieutenant-colonel, were shocked when Bunny joined the circus.
"But mother came on and met all the wonderful people and saw what it was like and changed her mind," Bunny said.
Now her brother Ted, 17, wants to join the circus and her St. Louis friends who have seen her want to join.
Bunny came to New York two years ago after graduating from Garrison Forest, a girls' school near Baltimore. At first she took a secretarial course in the mornings and attended the School of American Ballet in the afternoon. The next year she worked a half day, mostly modeling, and studied ballet.
Last February she joined the circus in New York and was sent to winter quarters at Sarasota, Fla., as a production girl. Calling on her ability to ride, a training she received at the Wight farm near Clarksville, Mo., she proved she could get in the act.
Now she wants to tour with the big top. She will, too, "if mother will let me."
Study Flood Control
Silverdale. (UP)—A comprehensive army engineering survey and study of flood control on the Arkansas river, including irrigation and soil conservation, was underway here today. Ward Warren, vicechairman of a recently organized committee for Arkansas river flood control and conservation, said the group would seek the support of Kansas congressmen on its plan for controlling the river.
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