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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, MAY 16, 1945
Kansan Comments Election Thursday Will Be Success Only If Majority of Students Vote
At least a few people on this campus are of the opinion that tomorrow is a crucial day in campus history. It might very well be. The fact is, however, that the election will decide little or nothing, if it turns out to be the expression of the opinions of a very few hundred students. A good turnout, on the other hand, would make evident to those elected the interest which there is bound to be, in spite of professed disinterest, in student government.
There has been some question concerning the province of student government. That province is very real, and in the most restricted times, wide. The cynics and pessimists who protest that our All-Student council does nothing, and can do nothing, would be very surprised, indeed, if they should awake to find it abolished. Its influence is felt in every walk of University life; the influence is none the less real because it is not recognized.
The only way that the province of student government can be widened is increased interest and increased activity on the part of competent, far-seeing, and judicious leaders. Such leaders are to be found, to a greater or lesser extent, on the slates of candidates prepared by all factions for this election. Whatever may be wrong can be corrected only by student interest in the elected representatives, by contact with those representatives, and expression of opinion to those representatives.
The newly organized Independent movement on the campus is, to be sure, an influential faction. The Independent students cannot, however, be assured of proportional representation to the council on the basis of members enrolled, but must depend upon the voting majority. The Greek letter societies, as well, cannot be represented according to house memberships, but must produce the votes.
University students are, presumably, above the average in intelligence and in civic spirit and interest. perosity when in the last three elec It does not speak well for our sutions, a far smaller proportion of us took the trouble to vote than was true in state and national elections—from whose voters the "average" comes. The importance or unim-
portance of our problems is not the excuse. The point is that citizenship starts early, and at home.
Therefore, the urge should not be to "vote this," or "vote that" or (this year) "vote the other," but merely to be sure to VOTE!
Kufahl To Present Sixth Senior Recital
The School of Fine Arts will offer a senior recital at 8 o'clock tonight in Fraser theater, Kathinec Kufahl, pianist, and student of Jan Chiquenpo and Carl A. Prover will present the sixth senior recital of the season.
Miss Kufahl will open her recital with "Sheep May Safely Grace" (Bach' - Howe) followed by "The Cuckoo" (Daquim); "Ballet 'Des Ombres Heureuses'" (Glück-Friedman); and "Allegro Molto" (Sahubert).
The second part of her program will be a sonata by Beethoven played in three parts characterized by a farewell, absence, and the return.
Miss Kufah will conclude her program with "Concerto in A minor" (Schumann) accompanied on a second piano by Jan Chipapua.
The Warriors' Wives is the name of the University of Illinois service-men's wives club.
Official Bulletin UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Tuesday, May 16. B45
Applications for the position of editor of the student directory should be turned in at the Business Office before Friday. Applications should be in the form of a letter. — Doris Bixby, chairman of publications.
Applications for the positions of K-Book editor and business manager should be turned up at the Business Office before Friday. The applications should be in the form of a letter. Applicants will be interviewed later. - Doris Bixby, chairman of publications.
Rock Chalk Talk
By CATHY PILLAR
Sleep-talkers — People are amusing, especially people who talk in their sleep. Pi Phi's recently tried an old trick, putting Mary Gayle Marsh's hand in a pan of water. They told her she was in swimming and asked her if Oliver Samuels, her Phil Delt, was there, too. "No," said Mary Gayle. "Oliver isn't here yet." Was she getting tanned, they wanted to know "No, I don't tan very well, and Oliver only gets red."
Joan Woodward also amused sisters one night when she sat straight up in bed and demanded of Eleanor Pack that she give her some of "that bitter pop corn."
At the Phi Delt house Jim Burwell was quoted as saying in his leem "Say, isn't she a nifty number?拜, go on now—beat it!"
Just a little "billed" up. — Tuka Wright, Theta, recently received an invitation to a midshipman's ball in Chilea. She sat right down and in great excitement wrote out an affirms reply. But the boy was just a little startled when he got the
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--letter; part of the address was "Mid-
shipman's Ball."
Buggy?—When the Delta Gammas sent Dainty Small and Bobby Thiele over to the Military Science building to get their anchor light from the Pan-Hell dance, they didn't know what they were doing. Ardent students of entomology, the twosome spent more than a few minutes catching bugs. Proud of their prize insects, both of them rushed home—minus the sign!
Jim Johnston, Sig Alph, wants to learn just one thing from the Navy: how to escape the wiles of women (Nancy Slater). In the City Friday, Nancy asked, would Jin take a few girls downtown in his car? Jim said no. Nancy gave the look. Seventeen girls climbed in.
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And who is Waldo?—Belatedly we welcome Chancellor Deane W. Malott to our columns. He is "Waldo." Monday's contributor. He wrote the items 20 years ago as a student on the Daily Kansan.
Washington, (INS) — President Truman reversed Elmer Davis, director of the OWI, on the previously announced stand on the freedom of the press in Germany. The president declared that "a free press and a free flow of information and ideals should prevail in Germany in a manner consistent with military security."
Truman Reverses Elmer Davis
Word Received From Lt. Tompkins
Lieutenant Tompkins, a Phi Beta Kappa while at the University, wrote that Guerilla bands have been a big help in taking Pacific islands but are going to be a post war problem, "doing more looting, in some instances, than the Japs."
The Graduate Magazine reached him aboard ship in the Philippine islands area and was the next best thing to a letter from home, Lieutenant Tompkins informed the alumni secretary.
Lt. (ja) Wendell H. Tompkins, a College graduate in 1943, recently wrote to Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the alumni association, thanking him for the first mail that he had received in a month.
Former Grads Meet in Pacific
Dean Nichols, Dean Brooks, and David Francisco, graduates of the University's School of Medicine in 1942, 1943, and 1944 respectively, met recently in the Pacific area where they are stationed in the Navy aboard different ships.
Seven Seniors Elected To Business Fraternity
Seven University seniors have been elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, national honorary business fraternity, John G. Blocker, secretary of the Kansas Alpha chapter, has announced.
They are Mignon Morton, Margaret Charleen McCann, Helen Marguerite Stormont, Joyce Lee Hahn, Mary Tudor Hanna, Hazel Elizabeth Jones, and Elizabeth Anpile.
Prof. Leslie L. Waters of the School of Business was elected as a faculty member. Election is based entirely upon scholarship.
Ashton to Give Two Addresses
Prof. John W. Ashton, English department head, will make the commencement address at Lecompton, May 17, and at Council Grove, May 18. His topic is "Citizens of a Free World."
University of Kansas Summer Session
Regular Courses Will Be Offered
8 Weeks — Registration and Enrollment, June 26
103 Fraser Hall
" . . . and now I'm going to Summer School at K.U."
Dr. Frye Speaks to Rotary On Kansas' Mineral Resources
Dr. John C. Frye, assistant director of the State Geological Survey, spoke Monday on "Percentages of Mineral Resources in Kansas" at the Rotary club meeting.
In his talk, Dr. Frye pointed out that mineral production in Kansas has increased 75.5 percent from 1939 to 1943. This increase was greater than the total for the United States which was 64 per cent for the same period.
The Swiss confederation is made up of 22 smaller states.
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