ER 5,1944
Publication Days Published daily except Saturday and Sunday by Students of the University of Kansas
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
Weather Forecast Fair and cooler tonight and Satur day. Sunday partly cloudy with moderate temperature.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1944
42ND YEAR
No Veterans' Administration Dictation Rep. Scrivner Assures Educators
Freshman Caps Are Not a Must ASC Decides
The All Student Council of the University took action upon the enforcement of wearing freshman caps at 1 p.m. today when it passed the following resolution:
"Be it resolved by the All Student Council that:
The All Student Council prohibits any form of physical coercion to be practiced on the campus of the University in retaliation for the non-wearing of freshman caps"
The wearing of the crimson and blue caps has aroused much controversy at the University. Approximately 200 caps have been ordered which should arrive shortly, it was announced.
K-Club members are in charge of the tradition this year. The organization is made up of University athletes who have earned varsity letters. Just how K-Club members all enforce freshmen to wear their caps has not yet been decided.
At this afternoon's meeting, Dolores Farrell, college sophomore, was approved as council representative for the rest of the six-term, taking the place of Beverly Waters, College junior.
Occupational Therapy Organization Holds Meeting in Topeka
The second meeting of the Kansas State Occupational Therapy organization, organized on the campus here last March, was held in Topeka Sunday at the Meninger's clinic.
Dr. Karl Menninger and Dr. C. R. Snipe were the outstanding speakers, Dr. Menninger speaking on the needs of occupational therapy in the state and Dr. Snipe on bibliotherapy. Other entertainments were tours of the therapy department in the clinic and a picnic lunch served to those present. During the business meeting Miss Sarah Roberts from K.U. was appointed vice-president of the club.
From a group of seals designed by students over the state a seal for he organization was chosen. Barara Barto, a sophomore in the University, was given the honor of hav- her seal chosen.
Forty-six delegates from over the state were in attendance. Those from KU were Miss Marjorie Whitey, associate professor of design, Miss Sarah Roberts, instructor of occupational therapy, Miss Maude Ellsworth, instructor of art education, Miss Dessa Bush, instructor of design, T.D.Jones, instructor of art and industry, Miss Margaret Everard, instructor in design, Lorraine apenter, Ann Maria Siewald, Shirley Oelshlager, Ruth Blethen, Pauline Rankin, and Janet Sloan, students.
Chancellor Malott Calls For Support of WSSF
- In the United War Fund Campaign, including the World Student Service Fund, the home front meets the battle front. It is a great, spontaneous tribute to our fighting men, in providing them with comforts, pleasures and morale-building activities * The people of Kandas will not fail in this opportunity of backing her fighting men. In the fight for freedom today they can carry on a tradition going back to stormy days of the founding of this state.
Deane W. Malott, Chancellor
University of Kansas *
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Fierce Tank Battle Takes Place Today North of Aachen
(International News Service)
(International News Service)
A fierce armored battle between Yank tank units and German Panzers raged today beyond the newest American breakthrough of the Siegfried line north of Aachen as Allied assault elements widened their drive to clear Holland of German defenders by smashing across the Dutch frontier north of Antwerp and Putte.
At the scene of the original penetration of the Siegfried line south of Ubach, American troops smashed their way slowly ahead against strong opposition while around Moschau, some 15 miles southeast of Aachen, heavy artillery fire balked American advances.
American armor and infantry units punched forward toward Cologne, as a forward spear-head slugged it out with defending Nazis four miles within the Reich border to widen the latest breech in the Siegfried defenses and to allow major units to the American first army of deploy on the plains before that industrial city.
Last EMs Class To Train Here Is Graduated
Fifty-eight Navy Electricians' Mates, the last class to be trained at the University before the navy closed the program, were graduated at 2:30 this afternoon in ceremonies held in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall.
Chancellor Deane Malott bid the graduating Navy men farewell on behalf of the University and told them how the institution had enjoyed training the men during the time the program was in progress.
Lieutenant A. H. Buhl, commanding officer of the Navy unit here, made the principal address at the graduation ceremonies, highly commending the group of men and those who had preceded them here for the work they had done and on their conduct.
Lt. T. R. O'Hara, executive officer, and Lt. C. V. McGuigan, division officer, also spoke briefly during the ceremonies.
William Keetan Manning was chosen honor man of the class with a grade average of 95.
The graduates will leave Saturday for assignment to duty in other stations.
Glassy-eyed Students Flounder Through Six-Week Session Quizes
Then there are the professors who gave examinations. Many students
Today's graduation ceremonies brought to a close a navy program that has been in existence since 1942 at the University. During the time, hundreds of Electricians' and Machinists' Mates have been trained and graduated here.
No other navy men will be trained here under such a program.
Our question for the day, "Was the yelling at the rally this afternoon really for our valiant team that will clash with the Tulsa Hurricanes Saturday night or was it just relief from the strain of mid-semmers?"
Many kind and considerate professors did not give mid-semester examinations. These few and far-between individuals usually are found to be disbelievers in the six-weeks session and do not think that their classes have learned enough in three weeks to be able to write intelligent answers on a quiz.
Want Organization Suggestions
Students at Oklahoma University have been urged to send in suggestions for a campus governing council which is being organized.
Yes this has truly been a hard week and every student on the Hill is an active member of the TGIF club (if you don't know what that is you must be a freshman!).
who hadn't studied since their las, final in June found it rather difficult to read 83 chapters, take notes, and memorize them. So, with blood-shot eyes, a giant light bill, and resignation, the students marched obediently to their examinations and promptly forgot everything they had learned. Well, that's life! Maybe they will read their ten-chapter assignments from now on.
Well, anyhow, it's all over now until finals in three weeks but cast away that horrible thought and have a lovely time this weekend. It won't be long til we are back in the regular term again where students are happy, professors are easy, assignments are short, and the old saying that "life can be beautiful" is the honest truth.
College Leaders Discuss Problems
Educational institutions are to be free of influence from the veterans' administration in their training of government-supported returning war veterans, Errett P. Scrivner, congressional representative of the second district, told Kansas educators and veterans administrators in their one-day conference here today.
Members of the coffee committee are Joan Ruese, Alice Wright, Joanne Hurst, Barbara Hindenack, Jean Fergus, Alice Goldsworthy, Polly Rae Staples, Dorothy Kentzel, Frances Schloesser, Shirley Corlett, Sara Jayne Scott, Gladys Blue, Rebecca Vallette, Joanne Wagstaff, and Irene Sewell.
Work Has Begun On Astronomy Building
The new coffee committee of the Student Union Activities will be active for the first time this afternoon from 4:30 to 5:30 in the English room of the Union building when Kansas educators and veterans' administrators meet to confer on veteran's training, Betty Bixby, chairman of the committee, announced today.
Committee to Serve Coffee in English Room
This committee is entirely new this year and its purpose is to arrange for coffees with any group that wants one. It also has the job of asking a certain number of students to be present at the coffee. Twenty students interested in veteran training will attend the meeting today, Miss Bixby said.
Representative Scrivner, a member of the committee th formulated the G.I. bill of rights, informed his audience of 10
Tearing down of the astronomy building has begun, and all of the lumber will be used for improvements around the campus. The 27-inch Pitt telescope which is still in the building will be stored for the duration of the war.
After the war the telescope will be moved to the observatory on top of Lindley hall where the six inch refractor telescope is now located. The new observatory was completed last June.
The astronomy building was built in 1920 on the present site of Hoch auditorium. In 1926 it was moved west of Marvin hall.
In 1930 the dome for the Pitt telescope was built on the west end of the building.
Browns Leading 4-1
St. Louis—After the Cards had taken an early lead with Hopp's score on W. Cooper's single, the Browns came back in the third with singles consecutively by Moore, Stephens, McQuinn, Zarilla and Christman and a wild pitch to score four runs after two men were down Smith replaced Wilks as pitcher.
Cardinals 100 0
Browns 004 0
persons that his committee considered the problem of returning veterans mainly one of readjustment and that education was merely one phase. Days of Shoring Our
Days of Shoving Over
"We want the veterans built up as individuals so that they will become useful citizens," he declared. "The days of shoving them around should be over."
He advised the educators to run their own institutions as always, setting up their own courses. He admonished them to accept the veteran as any other student and not to mark them or set them aside.
The purpose of education, according to Mr. Scrivner, is to make the veteran a happy citizen through the realization of his plans for life. He is to choose his own school, and his own courses with the government paying the bill. The congressman said the veteran may make mistakes, but such mistakes will be a part of his readjustment.
The speaker was introduced by Prof. L. C. Woodruff, registrar and chairman of the University's veterans' advisory committee, who presided.
Educators to Run Schools
"These veterans, some of them seeing four years of service, are no longer boys—they are men able to stand on their own feet and use mature judgment, and they should be treated as such," he advised. "The less supervision there is, the happier they will be."
Chancellor Deane W. Malott welcomed the visiting delegates with the explanation that educational institutions had passed through the whirlwind of the military stage in which educators had "devoted more
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Veterans To Attend Own High Schools?
Topeka—INS—A plan to establish separate high school in Kansas to enable returning service men to complete their high school education was proposed today by Karl Kunsemuller, vocational rehabilitation officer of the veterans administration.
A committee appointed by Governor Schoepel has reported that most educational institutions of the state are making plans to give education and vocational training to returning service men. The report shows that 22 collages and 339 tax-supported and 18 private schools have made plans to participate in the veterans training program.