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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THE KANSAN COMMENTS
Papers Read Infrequently by Most Students
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1944
How many college students actually read the newspapers? Not just scan the headlines and first paragraphs, read news of their acquaintances, and look at the pictures, but really sit down and read through stories of universal importance?
Many houses on the Hill do not subscribe to a newspaper, it is true, and, unless the individual takes one in his own name, it is often inconvenient to get hold of a paper every day. Corbin Hall, which houses approximately 150 women, is an example of such a case. Even if the house or organization does receive a daily paper, generally only one copy of it has to suffice for several dozen persons.
The excuse offered most frequently, however, is that the student "just doesn't have time." Unless he is enrolled in some class which requires him to keep up on current events, he gets into the habit of skipping over those articles which do not affect him directly, and before long, even stories of local interest no longer command a place on the individual's schedule.
Since a great many students do not have radios, either, their ignorance of world happenings is even more acute. Wendell Willkie's death last Sunday morning, for instance, was not known to many students until they got to classes the next morning and heard their classmates talking about it. The same was true of the outcome of the World Series.
Hometown papers, both those sent directly to the students and those in the periodical room of Watkins library, claim a big share of the students' attention and are eagerly awaited each day. This interest, however, is due, in large part, to news which they contain about the student's friends and events taking place in his home town, and not to a desire for knowledge of news of national and international importance.
Even the scant information which some students pick up while thus casually glancing through a paper is more than a great many others acquire. University students, who are expected to be more intellectual and intelligent than average, ought deliberately to cultivate the habit of reading newspapers daily and keeping up on world affairs.
Alumna Is Graduated In 16th WASP Class
Margaret Van Cleave Standish, a graduate of the University, was a member of the 16th class of women's airforce service pilots graduated from the AAF training command's school for women flyers at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, into brief active duty assignments with the army air forces, according to a report from the public relations office at Sweetwater.
The WASP, as directed by Gen. H.H. Arnold, chief of the AAF, will be inactivated Dec. 20, but until that time the women pilots will continue with present jobs.
Museum Has Rare Specimen
A mounted specimen of a rare species, the gray fox, was added to the collection in the Museum of Natural History during the summer. The animal, which was sent by Dr. George Rinker, a friend of the University, was found near Hamilton in southeastern Kansas. Among its unusual characteristics was the ability to climb trees.
Rock Chalk Talk
By JOAN HARRIS
Professor Laudon had been expounding the theory of evolution for an hour and the class still registered the blank expression of the unenlightened. Finally, the geologist resorted to exemplification—
"You know now how the ape developed his large arm muscles from swinging from tree to tree and how the snake lost the use of his legs due to his environment," he said—"Consider what some of your birds who sit around all the time are going to look like."
—STOP THAT CYCLONE—
The KuKu clubbers are giving their poor pledges a rugged workout this week. You can always tell a victim because when he is walking north his necktie is facing south and vice versa. Last night was the climax to the affair. On the east side of Fraser, the north-walking boys got a warming up on their south side. Favors for the party included Copenhagen snuff for to chew and fish oil solution for the hair.
Former K.U. Artist Exhibits in Oklahoma
An exhibition of twenty Cape Cod sand dune paintings by Staff Sgt Raymond Eastwood, formerly of the department of drawing and painting, will be on display in Oklahoma City Nov. 15, according to Karl Mattern, associate professor of drawing and painting.
Sgt. Eastwood, now an instructor in aerial photography at the Coffeyville air base, is probably America's finest painter of sand dunes, Professor Mattern said.
KuKu cubs were also required to run from sorority to sorority getting handouts of dishwater at each stop.
Letter to the Editor
A "Letter to the Editor," which was signed with a pen name, has been received by the Daily Kansan. If the author of this letter, which concerns the All Student Council, will sign his correct name to the article and condense it to 300 words it will be published, but it can not be under the present circumstances.
—STOP THAT CYCLONE—
Barb Nieweg, president, vicepresident, etc. of the LLA (Love Letter Agency) is now quite famous. The International News Service picked up the story of her organization, which appeared in this column several weeks ago, and printed it in various parts of the country. Nieweg fan mail arrives by the carload from everywhere from Toronto to Timbucktoo as a result. Imagine the constellation of the poor postman when he discovers a letter to the President of the LLA, Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas.
Phi Betes Jennison, Goldstitch, Nesselroad, and Halliday are the culprits the Cottage proprieter is looking for. It was their football that busted the neon sign which used to shine so brightly in days of yore over the Cottage door.
—STOP THAT CYCLONE—
New Kind of Wheat In State Wins Prize
Kansas City—Comanche wheat, a variety of wheat so new that only 600 acres of it have been raised in Kansas, was declared winner of the American Royal milling and baking contest for hard winter wheat here yesterday. It was developed by Dr. John H. Parker while he was at Kansas State College, and was entered by W. A. Long, of Fowler.
The wheat placed second in appearance and in milling and third in baking test, but its total points exceeded all others. It is a cross between Tenmmarq and Oro varieties and is smut resistant.
Prof. J. B. Smith, gn leave from the School of Law, has been promoted to lieutenant colonel in the army. He is stationed in Washington, D.C., in the judge advocate general department.
Colonel Smith's daughter, Betty,
is a junior in the School of Business.
Smith Made Lieutenant Colonel
Moritz Has Interest In Student Relief
Paul Moritz, honor man of the University in 1939, will be interested in the way his alma mater responds to the drive for World Student relief. He is the administrative secretary of China's National Student Relief committee which administers student relief in China. The committee has its headquarters in Chungking.
While at the University Moritz was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity, Delta Sigma Rho, honorary debate fraternity, Sachem, senior men's honor society, and president of the University Westminster Forum, University YMCA and the Rocky Mountain Field council. He was also co-chairman of the National Intercollegiate Christian council.
As special "student ambassador" of the Student Christian movement, Moritz sailed for Shanghai soon after his graduation in 1939. There he took an active part in the Student Christian union and the National Student Relief committee. His work disclosed to him the dislocation of Chinese student life as a result of the war.
Moritz brought a message of faith from the students of China when he made a trip to this country in 1940. Speaking at a University convocation, he said that the fact that Chinese students are discouraged from entering the army is proof that China in this conflict has the "long view."
Treece Replaces Ingham As Commencement Chairman
Prof. E. L. Trecee of the bacteriology department will replace H.G. Ingham of the extension division, as temporary chairman of the commencement exercises which will be Sunday, Oct. 29, Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni Association, announced today.
Eighty-six medical students, one of the largest classes ever to be graduated from the School of Medicine at the University, will make up nearly half the group. The rest of the graduates will be from other schools.
Quill Club to Meet Thursday
Quill club, campus literary organization, will meet at 8 o'clock tonight in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building, Addie Egbert, acting chancellor, has announced. Those interested in literary criticism are invited to attend the meeting, Miss Egbert said.
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