PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS HURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1944 THE KANSAN COMMENTS Although the picture may look black, it has its advantages. This year, for instance, at the end of the first semester many freshmen packed up and left school. The glamour, the gay life, which they had expected, has been traded in for a sterner, less-exciting brand of college life. Although dances are still being held and activities still go on, yet the enthusiasm for them is slight. If a girl comes to college for fun and no studying, one semester is enough to convince her that college isn't what she is looking for. The fact that many high school seniors realize this, may be instrumental in weeding out those who would waste their money coming to school just one semester. The war took a dig at college life when the army called for its reserves and left colleges with a manpower shortage. The supplement of ASTP's, naval reserves and air cadets enabled the institutions of higher learning to continue in creditable fashion for some time. But the army's reduction of its college training programs cut the student population down to about half or one-third its normal size. Collegiate Life Is Thing of the Past It is hard to convince high school seniors to come to college this year. They know the situation which exists on all college campuses. The boys either are, or expect to be drafted, if they aren't already in the army or navy reserve. The glamour of high wages and, in some cities, the men in uniform, attract many high school girls, while a college at which women outnumber men doesn't appeal to them. In pre-war days many high school seniors looked forward to college life as a gay round of football games, weekend parties, and bull sessions. Studying was only a minor item in their minds, for, as most college students know, studying doesn't amount to much in high school. The lack of active school spirit and the general lack of interest in activities are evidently contributions which college makes to the war effort. High-school students can't be blamed for not being thrilled over college life. It just isn't like it used to be. But the high school graduate who realizes that college is running on a wartime schedule and who isn't expecting a gay round of parties, would probably like college life better than any alternative offered now. Education is increasingly important in these days of scientific skill and technical jobs. Dean J. O. Jones, of the School of Engineering and Architecture, gave a short talk on the life of Professor A. H. Sluss at his funeral yesterday. The body was sent last night to Tuscola, Ill., for burial Friday. Jones Is Speaker At Sluss Services Professor Sluss died Tuesday. He had been ill for four months. The veteran faculty member had taught at the University for 36 years. KFKU PROGRAM Today— 9:30 p.m. School of Fine Arts Gala Concert, Rossin's "Stahat Mater" with University A Cappella Choir, University Symphony Orchestra, and soloists. 2:30 p.m. Mu Phi Epsilon Concert, The home economies practice house was built in 1930. Rock Chalk Talk BY MARY MORRILL V-12's in Dr. H. H. Lane's zoology class got original before their lecture period and propped a skeleton up on the platform. When the professor entered, his bony usurper, notes in one hand, cigarette in the other, was leaning earnestly on the desk, his vacant stare trained on an unusually attentive class. This is collech: In addition to getting one of their brothers pinned and killing a junior boa constrictor, (all previously related in this column), the Fhi Psis put many of their new methods of wooing, as compiled in the chapter publication "How to Crash Hearts and Houses," to practical test at the Theta house Saturday night. The boys brought a large supply of their own plates and glasses, all of which were dropped and broken during the meal. As one tray after another, laden with what they assumed to be their good china, crashed to the floor, the Thetas grew more and more tense. *** Posing as waiters, the boys brought in dilute Jergens lotion for milk. Fortunately, most of the brew spilled before poisoning any one. Between courses they swept crumbs from the tables with a bath tub (?) brush. The great coup d'etat of the evening, however, was the act of mislaying the trunk (size approaching that of a small elephant) in which chapter members brought over the supposedly buried hatchet of the Theta-Phi Psi feud. A search by all the boys, in all parts of the house resulted in the mislaid article's being found in an upstairs shower room. The next lesson will be on etchings: At a Methodist youth social, Ben Welch. PT2, talked Marge Easter of Watkins hall, into trying her ability to, in the vernacular of one of the better organizations, fly blind. The trick was to walk twice around two chairs, placed several feet apart and tied together with a towel, step over the towel, and then crawl under it. Marge was blindfolded and the chairs were removed. After walk-around nothing, Marge started squirming under the same. Just then her blind was removed and she was embittered to find herself reclining a La-mour on a cleared floor in the middle of a questioning group of Methodists. *** BUY U.S. WAR BONDS Can You Picture KANSAS without Newspapers? Headline news of overwhelming interest to everyone in our state is being made hourly. Without our newspapers we wouldn't know what local boys are back on furlough — how the war goes—what the ball scores are—who're being married or what's in the comic-strips. Overland Greyhound depends upon such newspapers as this one to carry information on bus service to travelers Overland Greyhound, in turn, carries many newspapers to rural areas not served by other transportation systems. Newspapers are doing a fine job. Ours is a strong, free press, serving free people — the first thing dictators would suppress, if they could! As fellow citizens of this state, Overland Greyhound Lines link the communities they serve to each other and to the rest of the country, as newspapers do. Phone 707 & 708 OVERLAND GREYHOUND UNION BUS DEPOT LINES 638 Mass. Operated by INTERSTATE TRANSIT LINES OFFICIAL BULLETIN Thursday. April 20. 1944 Notices due at News Bureau. 8 Journalism, at 10 a.m. on day of publication. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS The certificates for those who finished the Red Cross First Aid class last semester are now available. These may be obtained by calling for them at the Medical School office in Haworth Hall. Parke Woodard Pre-Medical Students: The Medical Aptitude Test administered by the Association of American Medical Colleges will be given on Friday, April 28, at 2:30 p.m. in room 101A Haworth Hall. Those who wish to take it should appear at that time. A fee of one dollar will be collected from each one taking the test. Parke Woodard Kansas has a 10,000 gallon alcohol distillery plant. University Daily Kansan University Daily Kansai Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief JEANNE SHORER MARK Editorial associates JEAN JONES NEWS STAFF Managing editor VIRGINIA GUNSOLLY Assst. editor ANNE LOUSE ROSMAN Campus editors DENECE MCCULLiffe THEILLE, JOLI FANNE COMMON Socialist editor HANNA HEDRICK Sports editor CHARLES WILSON Web editor WILMA THRELL News editor JACQUELINE NOLDER The Kansas Press Association 1944 Member National Editorial Association A Free Press in a Free Nation Subscription rates, in advance, 3120 a semester. 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