THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1944
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Students to Bid V-12's Farewell At Navy Dance in Hoch Friday
A farewell dance for V-12 students who are completing their work at the University this semester, will be given by the students in the V-12 unit from 9 to 12 p.m. Friday, at Hoch auditorium.
Those on the planning committee include Jerry Wilden, chairman, Clinton Sloan, Harold McSpadden, David Whyte, Bob Turner, and Bob Stewart.
Music will be provided by the V-12 dance band under the direction of Don Cousins. There will be a short intermission for a program arranged and given by the men in the V-12 unit.
The dance is to be informal and approximately six hundred boys and their dates are expected to attend. Members of the Ship's Company, Electricians' Mates School, navy medical students, officers of both schools, Dr. J. O. Jones, dean of the Engineering School, and Dr. Leonard Axe, University director of Veterans Service Training, have been invited
Closing hours will be 12:30 a.m for women, and 1 a.m. for navy students.
The Welfare Fund of the Navy is financing the dance and the refreshments.
Bohan Announces K.U. Calendar Staff
Beverly Bohan, managing editor of the K.U. Calendar, has announced the appointment of the following students to staff positions on the calendar: Frank Wendlandt and Anna Jeannette Young, associate circulation managers; Dorthe McGill, advertising manager; Patricia Penney, assistant advertising manager; Bert Kintzell, photographer; Elaine Wells, Catherine Piller, and Patricia Rolley, secretaries.
Others who will assist with the selling and distribution of the calendar are: Marjorie Shryock, Allison Jones, Nancy Stephan, Rebecca Vallette, Eleanor Churchill, Jane Miller, Sally Fitzpatrick, Tom Eberlin, Maynard Terry, and Bonnie Jean Holden.
Glancing Around
Colorado Politics Continue
Students at the University of Colorado have just finished a riproaring political campaign that coasted all of the trimmings of prevarc elections held at other universities. The Silver and Gold school newspaper, carried front page editorials on the event. An election committee guaranteed that there would be no checking to see who was voting how and that everything would be secret. Qualifications of candidates were scrutinized carefully.
Iowa Needs Men, Too
'ojan Have Poor Spirit
The Music department at the Iowa tate campus is desperately in need 'men for use in choral and band ork, school officials say. They need en to sing tenor and bass and to ay cornets, trombones, and barinns in the band. Well, what colge doesn't?
The Trojan, newspaper at the University of Southern California, is living school spirit troubles. Said paper in a front-page editorial: "Southern Cal might well do a little conscientious blushing this week and a little serious thinking out its football team, too, for aier display of poor school spirit." Trojan indifference has seldom am so obvious as it was at Friday's opening football rally at Saturday's game." One thing from last year's Ra
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lw champions!
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Pharmacy Students To Get Acquainted At Dinner Tonight
An informal get-acquainted dinner will be given at the Hearth at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14 by Kappa Epsilon and Kappa Psi, the sorority and fraternity of the School of Pharmacy.
All pharmacy students, and the faculty and their wives will be present to welcome new students into the school and to congratulate the students who will be graduated this semester. They include Dewey Nemee, Lucille Baker, Francis Blair, and Wilson E. Davis.
Dewey Nemec will preside as toastmaster, Dr. J. Allen Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy, will introduce the graduating students, and Dr. Roy A. Bowers, associate professor of pharmacy, will be the main speaker of the evening.
Prof. J. O. Jones of the School of Engineering is going to Chicago to attend a meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, October 24-26.
Jones to Attend Chicago Meeting
Freshman Cap Opinions Vary Among Students
Jeanne Cooper: "I think they're cute and, as long as they don't over do it, I think wearing them keeps up a tradition."
Bobette Sellers: "All right as long as they don't overemphasize it."
Here are the opinions:
Betty Jo O'Neil: "No, I think if it were any other time, it would be all right. Everyone goes around saying that the freshman are deprived of all of their fun, but they're old enough to realize that times are different than when all these traditions originated."
Of the fifteen persons interviewed, five were in favor of the practice, five were more or less indifferent, four said no, and one didn't know what they were.
Evelyn Abelson: "What are they?" Bob Freeto: "It's all right with me."
Alberta Cornwall: "I think they're a good idea. They're part of college life."
With the All Student Council passing a resolution banning physical enforcement of wearing freshman caps and the K-Club reviving the cap tradition leaving freshman war veterans exempt, the lowly headgear of freshmen fiinds itself a center of interest and heated discussion on Mt. Oread at the present time among various groups.
George Nettels: "It doesn't make any difference to me. If they're going to ask freshmen to wear the caps, they ought to really enforce it"
Carol Stewart: "Yes, I think they should. The more we can do to make college more like it used to be the better it is. All these little traditions will help to do this."
As a public service of one kind or another, the Daily Kansan sent opinion reporters to test public opinion on the matter. The result of a public survey ranged the scale from yes to no with an equal amount of indifference.
Authorized Parties
Robert Bayles: "Freshmen should definitely be required to wear freshmen caps. It is an important part of college and makes for more school spirit. I flink that KU should keep up her old traditions even in war time."
Friday, Oct. 13. 1944
Bill Jean: "I guess it's all right."
Maximino: "Marquez: 'Sure they"
Navy, Oct. 18, 1944
Navy V-12 unit, dance-party.
Hoch Auditorium, 9 to 12 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 14, 1944
Delta Gamma, dance, Kansas room,
9 to 12 p.m.
Corbin hall, formal open house,
Corbin hall, 9 to 12 p.m.
Alpha Chi Omega, party, 1246
Oread, 7:45 to 11:30 p.m.
Sigma Alpna Epsilon, hayride, 8 to 12 p.m.
Sigma Kappa, dance, 1625 Edgehill road, 9 to 12 p.m.
Miss Elizabeth Meguiar. Adviser of Women.
Campus Society
Watkins Hall -PT-7 and 8 were uestas at an hour dance last night.
Mary Wynne Ziegelach, of Topeka who is a junior at the University of Washington, was a guest.
Kappa Alpha Theta — V-12 students of PT-6 were guests at an hour dance for the pledge class last night.
Kappa Kappa Gamma—Members of Phi Delta Theta fraternity were guests at an hour dance last night. Founders' Day will be observed tonight with a buffet dinner for Lawrence alumnae.
Band Organized at McPherson
A student pep band is being organized at McPherson College.
should wear them."
Joan Veach: "I think the wearing of freshman caps promotes school spirit and tends to pull the freshman class together. The boys overseas won't think that it is silly to keep up a tradition like that."
Donna Jean Nickols: "I never have been for the hazing of underclassmen. If the ASC wants to keep traditions, it should revive the induction of new students with its bonfire on North Hill and finale in the stadium which seems far more important to me."
Marjory Stroup: "Freshman caps! It's the silliest, most childish thing I've ever heard. If the Student Council would spend half as much time on the subject of closing hours, we might be able to get late leave when out-of-town guests come."
AAUW Executive Board to Honor State President at Luncheon
K.U. Choir Will Sing By Campfire Tonight
The eighty-seven a cappella choir members will attend the organization's first social event of the season tonight. An outdoor picnic with a weiner roast starting between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m., has been planned, Eugenia Hepworth, social chairman, said today. The picnic will be held at the Valleyview, home of Dean and Mrs. D. M. Swarthout, Miss Hepworth said.
Entertainment before the weiner roast includes a treasure hunt, the chairman reported. After eating, the picnickers will play baseball and join in group singing.
Members of the planning committee for the picnic include Betty Duecmke, George Yeckle, John Baker, and Elaine Talley.
Jan Chiapusso Plays On First-Built Piano In New York Museum
Jan Chiapuso, professor of piano at the University, who is on a short leave preparing a book on musical history, is now in New York doing extensive research work.
In a letter received by Chancellor Malott today, Professor Chiapusso writes:
"My days are packed with events and study. Only today, through my old acquaintance with a curator of the Metropolitan museum, I was shown a collection of ancient instruments which are not on exhibition. I actually played on the Cristofori piano, the very first pianoforte ever built (1709). I also was allowed to play on one of Mozart's instruments. I cannot tell you what a delight that was, and what a revelation!"
Professor Chiapusso will return to Lawrence Nov. 1 to resume his work at the University. Max Hughes has been teaching his piano pupils during his absence.
Allen Speaks in Mound City
Dr. F. C. Allen spoke on "Life Is a Real Struggle," at a combined 4-H Club meeting at the Linn County farm bureau, Mound City, at 7 p.m. yesterday.
Preceding the membership tea to be given by the Lawrence branch of the American Association of University Women Saturday afternoon at the Gamma Phi Beta house, a luncheon at the Union building for members of the executive board will honor Mrs. Justus Fugate of Wichita, state president. "Mrs. Fugate at 3 p.m. and to which all women will speak at the tea, which starts eligible for A.A.U.W. membership are invited," Mrs. E. F. Beth, public chairman, said today.
After she received the bachelor and master of arts degrees at the university, Mrs. Fugate was on the faculty for four years as an instructor in the mathematics department. She is a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, Pi Lambda Theta, women's honorary education fraternity, Sigma Xi, honorary science fraternity, and Phi Mu Epsilon, honorary mathematics fraternity. She is now a member of the board of regents of Wichita Municipal University and has held many branch, state, and national offices in A.A.U.W. While in Lawrence, Mrs. Fugate will be the guest of Mrs. F. P. OBrien, 612 Louisiana street, branch president.
Registration for study groups for the year may be made at the tea or by calling Mrs. C. C. Williams. Child study, creative writing, book reviews, social studies, international relations, and the legal and economic status of women are among the study groups being organized.
Hostess chairman for the tea are Mrs. Fred Ellsworth and Mrs. Emory E. Johnson. Their committee will be assisted by the members of the executive board and of the membership committee.
Kappa Phi to Pledge Methodists Tomorrow
Kappa Phi, Methodist organization for women will have pledging services for all Methodist women or those with Methodist preference, at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the home of the sponsor, Mrs. Edwin F. Price, 1209 Tennessee, Jean Born, publicity chairman, announced today.
"All girls interested in pledging are invited to come to the meeting." Mrs. Price sad.
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