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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 5.1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the school year except on Wednesdays and Sundays, University holidays, and examination periods. Attendance is a second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1987.
Reason Backs the Blow
Whether the Inter-fraternity council made a mistake Tuesday night by legalizing paddling as a purely disciplinary measure is a question that cannot be decided now. What can be determined, however, is the reasoning which prompted this action taken by fraternity men at the University.
From some quarters, the council has already received severe criticism for its move. But it is unjust to accuse the group of unintelligent reaction without studying all of the details. Certainly it is unfair for those who have never participated in or fully understood the Greek fraternity situation to be among the loudest objectors.
Agitation against the Greek fraternity system has been rising steadily during the past decade. One of the most strenuous complaints directed at the system has concerned the childish practices exhibited by members in their pledge-active relationship.
K. U. fraternity men recognized the legitimacy of this complaint and in a sweeping action last January banned all hazing, all hell-weeks, all boarding from the campus.
With this action, the Hill Inter-fraternity council stepped on the national council's band wagon which had just started rolling in an all-out campaign to renounce pre-initiation horse-play and hazing.
Even after Tuesday's decision K.U. fraternity men are still on this wagon. They still stand as firmly against "pre-initiation horse-play and hazing" and they have clamped down on that activity with a measure which has the power to make it stick.
As for the use of paddles over and above "hazing," that, too, may go completely before long. Most fraternity men on the Hill now seem to feel that as soon as an effective disciplinary system can be worked out to take the place of paddling, paddles should go.
But a majority of them are convinced that paddling is needed now for one reason and one reason only—to enforce pledge and fraternity rules within the chapter house.
They feel that their organizations are going through a difficult period of regeneration following their more or less inactive status during the past emergency. Reinforcing rules and traditions is a hard enough job, they feel, without striking out all previous methods of government.
Fraternity men on the Hill are agreed that the humiliation and mental and physical torture involved in hazing are a menace to the welfare of their organizations as well as of educational institutions. They have recognized this menace and have taken an admirable step to defeat it.
The fact that it has not proved expedient to them to effect now the complete abolition of paddling is not an indication that they are unsympathetic toward the national reform. It simply means that they are aware of their individual organizational problems and realize the necessity of meeting them and rebuilding strong campus groups.
Just as soon as other measures of discipline can be effectively evoked to meet the problems at hand, there seems little doubt that all fraternities will gladly accept them and toss disciplinary paddling out the window as they have tossed out hell week and hazing.
April 5,1946
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
April 5, 1946
Veterans who filed certificates of eligibility and entitlement at the office of the K.U. Veteran's Training Service and have not received subsistence allowance checks by today are requested to report to room 2, Frank Strong, immediately.
Y. M.C.A. organizing committee and board of directors members will meet at 6:15 p.m. Monday in the English room of the Union.
All men interested in attending a week-end Y.M.C.A. conference today through Sunday at Kansan Wesleyan university, Salina, on the subject "Our Nation, Our World- Whither Bound," are asked to call Luther Buchele, 205.
Physical Therapy club will meet at 7 p.m., Monday at the hospital.
Swimming Pool Open
The Robinson gym pool will be open to University students for swimming from 5 to 6 p.m., Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; and from 2 to 3:30 p.m., Saturday.
Taylor Confers in Lawrence
PHOTOS WHILE YOU WAIT!
Col. George H. Taylor, U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C., is in Lawrence this week, V. C. Fishel said today. Col. Taylor will confer with members of the Geological Survey department regarding ground water investigation in the Missouri valley.
The largest collection of Abraham Lincoln manuscripts, including 200 autographed letters, is housed in the Illinois State Historical library, Springfield.
Granada Building
Rock Chalk
By TINA FOTOPOULOS
Who do you think you are? Beta Bill Cole from his lodgings in the Malot home was connected in phone women's houses down the Hill.
Someone kept lifting up a receiver.
Assuming the offender to be one of her sisters in another phone booth, Bill's about-to-be date said, "Please use the other line."
The receiver clicked again, and she repeated her request—politely.
But the third time—well, that was too much. "For heaven's sake," lashed the sorority woman, "can't you tell we're talking? Get on the other line."
The chancellor, attempting to call on his upstairs phone, was properly squelched.
And there's ping pong right across the hall. Drop in at the Union activities office any afternoon you can't find a tennis partner. Bill Brewster, Phi Psi, Bill Wellborn, and Bud Chalfant, Phil Delt, are always available for a swift game of hop scotch. (It's easier if you have a car.)
An eye for an eye. Retaliation took the field twice at the Phi Psi house Tuesday night. The Phi Psis, wolfish gleam in eye, invited the Pi Phi's over for a dandelion digging party. Enjoying their company the Sigh boys invited the Arrows to watch them beat the Sig Alph's at volley ball. Upon returning to the Phi Psi house the boys discovered showing the Chi O's on a raiding party showing their disapproval of the invite to the Pi Phi's. In further retaliation the Sigh's squirited the Chi O's-very thoroughly with H2O and painted Phi Kappa Psi across their foreheads with shoe polish. (Bangs are in style again.)
Crime does not pay. Bill Passell, Pete Pedersen, Willy Reeves, Mary Neel, Alpha Delt, Jan Burkholder, SK, and Jean Preston, Alpha Delt, had a sign from a Kansas historical marker attached to the back of their car, Chug-A-Lug. Monday night they all received a visit from the chief of police. Tuesday morning they had a caller from the state highway commission. Wednesday morning they had a visit from the state police to inspect the car for traces of more signs. Sorry!!!!
Washington, D.C. became the national capitol in 1880.
April Fool. Someone tipped off Gamma Phi actives that their pledges were cooking up fiendish things for April 1 recently, so by way of self-defense they planned a little party for the darlings Sunday (about 2 a.m.). The little GPs were roused from bed, blindfolded, led downstairs, and told to sit without moving a muscle or a tongue 'til they were told otherwise. It didn't take the youngsters more than an hour to discover that the actives had gone back to bed.
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Wheeler Speaks at Sunflower
Dr. Raymond H. Wheeler, department of psychology, spoke on "Psychology of the Child." before more than 100 mothers at Sunflower Village this week.
Landscape Artists Here
Memorial drive landscape artists are on the campus today to present landscaping plans to the Memorial executive board for approval, Kenneth Postlethwaite, director, said today.
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