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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 15, 13
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Ave., New York City.
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 Saturdays and Sundays, University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
Bull Session
The largest and most comprehensive bull session of the year is being planned for April 13.
Admittedly most bull sessions aren't arranged months in advance Admittedly they aren't held at the Lawrence country club, and their participants don't play baseball between subjects.
Once admitted to this general category, however, the conference can be set aside as a unique digression from the norm. Bull sessions are usually characterized by a great deal of speculation and very little actual fact. Mid-point in a rehash of the walk-out, no one goes to the phone (at 1.a.m.) and asks the Chancellor just what the hell...
None-the-less, the student conference, fast on its way to becoming an annual tradition, is purely and simply a bull session.
But it's different at the student-faculty conference. The Chancellor is there, and he not only gets asked, he answers.
Participants in the discussion are hand-picked by the conference's sponsors, Mortar Board and Sachem, women's and men's senior honorary societies. The two societies try to choose as student attendants, upper-classmen who are or will be the campus executives of next year.
From the faculty and administration, they strive not only to select key individuals in student affairs, but also to achieve a fair representation of all faculty-administration sentiment.
Once assembled the group takes up vital campus topics and discusses them thoroughly. Last year for the first K.U. student-faculty conference Mortar Board and Sachem members selected the issues to be considered. This year the discretion of the student body is doing this job for them.
A joint committee of the two societies is taking a proportionally representative poll of student opinion. In an attempt to discover just what is paramount in the student mind, it is interviewing 125 average numbers of various Hill groups-veterans, non-veterans; Independents, Greeks; self-supporting, non-self-supporting; upperclassmen, underclassmen; and so forth.
The interviewers are posting six questions which range from "Do you favor a placement bureau for graduates at the expense of increased tuition?" to "Have you been given a fair opportunity to part cipate in campus activities?"
activities:
From the answers to these questions, from extra suggestions those interviewed offer, and from complaints or recommendations of students who approach Sachem and Mortar Board members independently of the survey, the agenda for the day-long bull session will be compiled.
Last year's conference didn't pretend to accomplish anything concrete But it cleared a lot of air and put students on a more understanding working basis with faculty and administration.
This year's conference has the same goal-to extend the student-faculty horizon and pave the way for a constructive 1946-47.
A look at the constitution of the associated women students of Washington university in St. Louis and we begin to think K.U. women get away with murder. Washington co-eds are expressly forbidden to "wear blue jeans" on nice days, "to whistle out of the windows of the women's building," or "to lie down on the campus."
We see by the headlines—"Truman's Weekend Over; Mrs. Truman, Margaret Join the President." Tough, Harry, but we know it was fun while it lasted.
Darn It Anyway-Barefoot Boy Tries Cement, Tire Patches
Knit one, purl two. Well, it's one way to beat the socks shortage.
The clerk in the men's clothing store smiles understandingly and, wrigling his own bare toes above the counter, invites the limping college student to join him in a game of "this little piggy."
The student walks out leaving bloodstains on the floor.
He staggers sadly home and tries to mate all the odd socks he's acumulated in two years of college life.
But it is no good. The only answer is to darn.
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Model airplane cement will, if carefully applied, join the edges of the material together, but it is highly inflamnable and is apt to burst into a glorious blaze if some practical joker is in a hot foot mood. Also it has an abrasive effect on the wearer's sole.
Blowout patches, while they are easily applied and are practically non-skid, are rather uncomfortable as sock repairs.
Darning socks, he will find, is a complicated process. Quickly he will decide that there must be an easier way.
The only solution, then, is to darn Mechanical equipment required is a needle, thread, and an old light
bulb, or an orange.
The first operation is simple. The aspiring darner makes like Santa Claus and crams the orange into the sock. He then threads the darning needle, looks speculatively at the holey socks, and searches (probably in vain) for strong stimulant.
If he's really inspired the next thing he does is to wander over to the library in search of a domestically-minded female. After finding one he doesn't mention the sock until she is in the mood to say yes to almost anything. The stars are bright and the moon a thing of serene brilliance. He removes his unmended sock from his foot and takes her hand.
man's infection.
And then the darn fool probably forgets about the socks. The darn fool . . .
"Darling," he murmurs, "there's something I must ask ..."
"Yes," she says, borrowing Bergman's inflection.
Russell to Have New Depot
Russell — Union Pacific officials have assured the city that a new Russell depot is on the 1946 budget. The structure probably will be built east of Lincoln street and north of the tracks.
Sure Way to Start an Argument
From the St. Louis Star-Times
Rock Chalk
By SHIRLEY LEITCH and CATHY McBRIDE
Is Our Face Red. The Chi Omega's have developed a new technique. After a friendly visit Wednesday night several Phi Ski's, namely, Bob Brown, Clayton Kyle, Tom Dulof, and Don Sprinkle, left the Chi O house with lipstick smearing faces. Don't jump to conclusions! It was merely the outcome of a violent game of pinchy-winchy.
This One's On Me. Stan McCampbell, one of the Sigma Chi boys, proved himself the eagerest of the eagers. At the Sigma Chi party he was insistent that his date Diane Grider, Alpha Chi, have enough to eat, he gently dropped his own plate in her lap. Next time, Stan, try a custard pie in her face. It's always good for a laugh.
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Pardon Our Southern Hospitality.
After doing a beautiful job of serving dinner at the SAE house, six Chi O's, Jean Cunningham, Pat Strang, Pat Pearson, Mary Carolyn Daugherty, Marilyn Steinert, and Ann Alexander sang several songs of contemporary fraternities. The Sig Alph's answered this challenge with some melodies of other sororities; then picked the girls up cave-man style, and gave them a hefty heave into the briny deep (Potter lake, yknow). The next day, repenting their sins, they sent each girl a corsage of gardenias. That's what we like about the South!
Right Place, Wrong Night. One cold March night, Tom McGraw, Jack Robinson and their two unknowing dates hiked up 14th street hill and struggled down the campus to the Military Science building There they expected to cut a mean caper at the I. S. A. dance. But the building was dark. The dance was one week later.
Has been on a come back. Feeling it was about time to communicate with his old friend George Beeler Bob Beeler's dog, crashed the Sgina cat buret. All he needed was a lanfare and the entrance would have been complete.
In the early 1860's the Pony Express and the telegraph were extended across central Wyoming.
Letters to Editor
Enlisted Men Argue Rank Value In Officer-Clothing Controversy
'True Value Not Always Determined in Army'—Feeney
To the Daily Kansan: Recently appearing in the Daily Kansan was a letter by an ex-corporal, expressing disapproval of those ex-service men, officers especially, for wearing their "battle dress" for purposes of (for lack of a better word) showing off. From my interpretation of the letter, this corporal expressed no condemnation of officers as a class, "some are good and some are no good" as he expressed it; he also admitted the existence of a clothing shortage.
As an ex-T/5 (not even a corporal, mind). I should like to make a few remarks. Civilians may be deluded into thinking that in the army rank and ability went hand in hand, but anyone who ever went through a reception center knows differently.
It should stand to reason that if in civilian life capable people do not always rise to the top, how then, in a field where such an intangible property as "leadership" is the chief commodity, can true value be determined?
A flood of letters, in rebuttal, appeared more recently. Some of these letters were sensible explanations of the reasons for ex-officers' wearing their clothing.
With these letters, nobody can take exception. However, others directed barbs at the corporal as being repressed, drooling, victim of an inferiority complex, or incapable of attaining any higher rank.
Any sensible person realizes the need for leadership in combat or in any large organization; and such leadership should carry certain benefits as well as certain responsibilities.
I would like to call attention to the small re-enlistment rate (in spite of economic conditions that could easily drive an ex-soldier back into service) and the dissatisfaction prevalent in occupation forces.
I think I can find plenty of people who will agree that the abuse of privilege and the needless discrimination between officer and EM has much to do with both of the above conditions.
For those officers who wrote good, intelligent letters on the necessity for still wearing battle dress, my admiration. As for those who saw fit to poke fun at the anonymous corporal—well, gentlemen, ridicule is a good substitute for reason. As the street-corner gadget-vendor says of his products, "even a child can use it." W. J. FEENEY
Too Big, EM Suggests
To the Daily Kansan: May I suggest that perhaps the reason our ex-officiers still wear their pinks and insignia of rank is that they got too big for their pre-war civilian hats and pants.
The Engineering council has closed Saturday, March 30, to student activities not already approved. The Engineer's Hobnail Hop will be held at this time.
Notices must be typewritten and must be in Public Relations office, or in a mail box later than 9:30 a.m. on day of publication. No phone messages accepted.
June and summer school graduates call KU 32 or come to the Jayhawker Magazine office in the subbasement of the Memorial Union for senior picture appointments. The photographer will be here March 21, 22, 23, and 27.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN March 15, 1946
A FORMER NON-COM
Jayhawk Veterans — Regular meeting 7 p.m., Tuesday in Frank Strong auditorium. Attendance requested.
Applications for positions on Student Relay committee should be mailed by Saturday to Charles Eliott, Room 103 Robinson gym.
An amendment by addition to A.S.C. Bill No. III was passed by A.S.C. March 12, Section 4, (1): A faculty survey committee whose duty it shall be to make a survey biennially of student opinion of faculty and of curriculum.