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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, APRIL 30, 1945
Kansan Comments Wartime Slumpers Must Abandon 'There's A War On' Inactivity Alibi
We need a swift kick in the pants. The time has come for students of this University to get out of the rut of lazy disinterestedness in campus activity. The war shouldn't be used as a mere excuse for postponement of campus events.
The Coed Volunteer Corps was organized two years ago so that University women could do their share in the war effort. Last year meetings were held weekly or bi-monthly, and CVC members were hard workers in the war drives. Plans were made early this year for its continuation, but the project seems to have died out completely. The war, certainly, was not the reason for the blackout of its activity, for CVC was created to promote interest in the war effort.
Recently the dramatics department cancelled production of plays for this semester because neither men nor women would take the time to try out for parts. Two-thirds of the Dramatics club failed to show up for tryouts. Not even a handful of the 1612 women or the 1165 men at this university were interested enough to promote what should be an outstanding part of college life. Why is it that men and women students at the University of Kansas City, at the University of Missouri, at all the other schools surrounding us, can find times to participate in school plays? If they can do it, why can't we?
What about the proposed student peace conference which was to be held The New York Times even endorsed our idea with a favorable write-up. Now we learn that the conference has been postponed until next fall, because "it is just a little late in the year for such things."
We have blamed our inactivity on the war long enough. If the excuse were rational, other universities throughout the country would also be sitting back on their laurels. And yet their worthwhile activities are going on as it did before the war. We must kick ourselves into activity soon; we've got it coming!
The idea of an all-University stunt night was excellent. Each house on the campus was to contribute entertainment. The whole thing, it was thought, would increase friendly relations between groups at Mt. Oread. It started out in a big way. It has now faded into oblivion.
Mathematics Oldest Science; Used More Than 2000 Years
Picture yourself in in a moth-eaten, bearskin "sarong," plodding, bure-footed, to your 8:30 class in Fraser hall each morning. That is, of course, ignoring the fact that Fraser hall, or any other of the campus structures, would be non-existent; that you would never have heard of an 8:30 class; and that you would be snoring away in the nearest and coziest cave.
The science of mathematics has that great an influence on our daily lives.
lives. "Our familiar newspaper would be comparatively empty, if originally, somewhere, a basic knowledge of geometry had not been known." Dean E. B. Stouffer, of the Graduate School and mathematics department, mused, "and there'd be no maps, either."
Even Slot Machines Are Affected Even the "one-armed bandit" of slot machine fame, which greedily eats up "small change" and rarely expresses its thanks, can be reduced to a formula.
"Slot machines are mechanically adjusted by calculating the field of probability—with the probabilities in favor of the machine." Prof. Stouffer explained.
Lacking mathematics, the alarm clock would be silenced to the immense relief of many early risers; the "Clock-watcher" group of humanity would be completely eliminated; and world affairs would be regulated by an hour glass. Though an extra period of uninterrupted sleep in the morning and a schedule less resembling a railroad timetable, sounds like the answer to the harried student's prayer, the disadvantages of the situation rather outnumber the advantages. Just as there would be no time limit on sleep and recreation, so there would be no method of blowing the "five o'clock whistle" after a "hard day at the office."
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Gasoline rationing would certainly present no problem for the eternal pedestrian of the mathematicless world; the tire shortage would be a myth; and the war effort, not to mention the war itself, would be non-existent, as they are known today.
The list is endless.
For more than 2000 years, mathematics has helped the world to be a scientific and luxurious—if not always civilized existence. Mathematics is not only the oldest science, but is also as new as any advancing by leaps and bounds in all directions.
Mary Margaret Smith To Give Recital
The second senior recital will be given by Mary Margaret Smith, pianist and student of Carl Preyer and Jan Chiapuso, 8 p.m. Wednesday in Fraser theater.
Her final number "Concerto in F sharp" (Rimsky-Korsakoff) will be done with Mr. Chiapusso assisting at the second piano. The program will also include numbers from Bach, Chopin, MacDowell, Debussy and Ravel.
Rock Chalk Talk
By MARY STUART
Big blow from Kaysee, Mo.—With all apologies to the song of similar name, Kenny Nohe, Sig Alph, has been dubbed, "Big Nohes blew in from Kansas City," by his fraternity brothers.
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What a query!—And then—there is the Sigma Chi pledge who asked Jack Schroll if he went with Ruth Prentice because he is an Ap-Prentice Seaman. This same inquisitive soul was heard inquiring, "Did you call Jack Button, Pledge button before he was initiated?"
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The man of stone—As an explanation to all those who have been wondering about the new statue that has been added to the front of the library, it's really only Jim Sanders, Phi Delt, who has decided that it's about time to do his little bit for the University, and so is holding the library up between classes.
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The bully!—Leading the fashion parade around the Shack is Prof. Elmer Beth, whose latest wardrobe addition is a fiery red tie, which he flips out for interested admirers, with the remark, "See, it's red all over, too!" Mr. Beth insists that the tie is the result of a bet. Students insist that it's to keep them from bulling in class.
--but Don would consent only if Bob would take off Don's shoes, borrowed the same morning. Which explains one farefoot Sig Alph, one sweaterless Sig Alph, and one skiweathered "Dainty" recently.
All four sons of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Leigh, 1700 Louisiana street, attended the University and are now in service. Three are overseas and one is stationed at Camp Leonard Wood, Mo. All are graduates of Lawrence High school.
Barefoot boy with cheek—Bob Resenbloom, Sig Alph, owns a ski sweater that "Dainty" Small, D.G., has always admired. The other day Bob told "Dainty" to go up to Don Frei and demand that he strip off the borrowed item, so "Dainty" could wear it for the rest of the day. "Dainty" proceeded to do just that,
Lt. Harold R. Leigh is stationed at Camp Leonard Wood. He attended the School of Engineering and Architecture from 1926 to 1928 and again from 1933 to 1934.
Four Brothers, All K.U. Graduates, Are Now in the Service
Capt. Lawrence E. Leigh is somewhere in Germany with the medical corps. In 1936 he received a bachelor of arts degree in chemistry from the University and his doctor of medicine degree in 1941.
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Capt. Edgar D. Leigh is somewhere in the Philippines after serving three years in the Aleutians before being assigned to his present location. He is an aviation engineer with the fifth air force. He received a bachelor of science degree from the University in mechanical engineering in 1939.
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T 5 Virgil J. Leigh is in ordnance somewhere in France. He was graduated from the School of Business in 1940.
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The Nu Sig Sirens—Nu Sigs who were awakened in the middle of the night by Bob Buchele, three friends, and a hand siren, have plotted revenge. For a week the four culprits will be awakened every night at half-hour intervals by their eager fraternity brothers.
Thayer Exhibit Shows Designs For Needlework
"Tomorrow's Neddlework," an exhibition of 47 original designs for needlework, and 104 adaptations of these designs in wearing apparel and home furnishings, is on display now in the basement galleries of Thayer museum.
The display is sponsored by Woman's Day and is based on a series of eight articles that appeared in this publication during the past eight months.
In the exhibit, such familiar forms of needlework untilized are:
Crochet, knitting, applique, and embroidery, in hats, bags, dresses, rugs, and table linens.
The original designs were created by such well-known artists as Norman bel Geddes, creator of Futurama at the World's Fair in New York; Winold Reiss, famed in this country and Europe for his paintings of North American Indians; Raymond Loewy, industrial designer of locomotives, airplanes, and architecture; Ionika Karasz, Gustav Jensen, Lucille Corcos, and William Bolin.
Adaptations into actual garments and home furnishings from the designs were made by Elizabeth M. Roth, needlework editor of Woman's Day.
The display is mounted on a series of panels, designed by Xanti Schawinsky, noted display designer, to set the principle that any woman can create her own needlework designs by adapting to her own purposes the form, pattern or motif of the things about her. She need not be limited to traditional needlework designs.
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Museum Given Books By Former Student
One hundred and thirteen books and pamphlets have been given to the Natural History museum, by Prof. James M. Sprague of John Hopkins Medical school, Baltimore, Mr., Dr. Claude W. Hibbard, curator in the Museum of Natural History has announced.
The books and pamphlets on vertebrate natural history, will be used to assist in research and teaching, Dr. Hibbard said.
Professor Sprague was graduated from the University in 1938 and received his masters degree here in 1940.
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9:30. Your Kansas Government,
Board of Agriculture, Jake Mohler
9:45. Excursions in Science
2.30. Stories Told in Music. Amer-
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