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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1943
—An Editorial—
State Department Offers Defense
The State Department is attempting to prove to the United States that it has not lacked foreign policy, and far from being unconscious of the situation, tried everything in its power to avert approaching catastrophes. It offers as proof 274 official speeches, messages, and memoranda, all handpicked documents, covering the last decade.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, for Secretary Hull and others in the department who mean well, the full story of the 10 years from 1931 to 1941 cannot become known for about 15 years, as it is a customary procedure to wait so long to publish State department papers in full. The 274 papers provide only a fractional evidence for the thesis of open-eyed awareness and attempted prevention the department claims.
If the contention is ever proved true, the only charge that can be made against the State department is gross incompetence. Certainly its face should even now turn a flaming red when such subjects as lendlease, Pearl Harbor, Munich, or Summer Welles are mentioned.
In trying to slough the blame off onto the shoulders of the American people by claiming it necessary to "closely approximate the prevailing views of the country," the State department has not only tried to pass the buck, but seemingly is ignorant of its being in the only position to know actually what is going on in the world.
If with all the facilities at its disposal for learning the truth, it still did not, how can the State department blame the consequences on the uninformed public who won't actually know for 15 years what happened? Certainly, a great part of that uninformed public was lulled into a feeling of false security and ivory-towered isolationism. But it shall be a moot question for 15 years about who lulled whom.
KU, OLE MISS.--- (continued from page one)
a two-year School of Medicine at Ole Miss, and no courses in journalism are offered. Mississippi is an agricultural state, and as a result, the majority of young men attend Mississippi State College, which has a much larger enrollment than Ole Miss.
Alma Maters Are Similar
When the K. U. band plays the opening strains of the Alma Mater, it might well be the Ole Miss Alma Mater, the opening line of which is "Way Down South in Mississippi." The melodies of these two songs were both adapted from the Cornell Alma Mater.
The symbol of the University of Mississippi is Colonel Rebel, while K. U.'s is the Jayhawk. The Ole Miss athletic teams are known as the Rebels.
Mississippi Stresses Football
School publications are similar except in the frequency of publication. The "Mississippian" is the weekly newspaper, the "Rebel" is the monthly magazine, and the "Ole Miss" is the annual. Unlike the Kansas annual which is published in magazine form, the "Ole Miss" is published under one cover near the end of the school year. Content of the publications of the two schools are parallel in that they feature student life and activities.
The two schools have approximately the same athletic advantages, though K. U. stresses and excels in basketball, while Ole Miss's chief interest is football. Ole Miss has had several All-Americans in the past few years.
Ole Miss Has Only Army
Ole Miss Has Only Army Both schools are active in intramural sports, and offer golf and
Rock Chalk Talk
By HANNA HEDRICK
There's something about a sailor: This tale involves a small and harmless snake which was captured alive and hauled aboard a PT boat. The victim was planted in the bed of the most squeamish sailor on the ship; the air was tense as all prepared for the night. When it came time, the squeamish one crawled into bed, pulled the covers up and was blessed with sound sleep. The next morning after he had arisen, the plotters dashed to his bed and pulled back the covers. The snake lay curved up in the middle . dead.
Dear Commanding Officer: Any resemblance of characters in this purely fictitious story to persons alive or dead is quite coincidental—and all that.)
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Why couldn't they have picked on a professor? Most recent object of the medics' experimental genius has been a large and ferocious-looking dog. When enraged, the creature bares his fangs, squints his eyes, and digs down for a deep gutteral bark. The general effect of this bark, courtesy of the medics, is "oop, oop." The dog has no vocal cords.
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Yagum to you sir! About three-fourths of the couples who attended the Battenfeld dance Friday night spent at least part of their time on the floor, legs crossed, mumbling the strange passwords of the V-Yagum club, Carol Lee Faucett, Delta Gam and a Yagum from way back, started it by initiating
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tennis Kansas Miss has an outdoor swimming pool, and swimming is a five-month activity. All other sports are participated in actively. Intercollegiate competition in sports at Ole Miss has been discontinued for the duration.
Jane Eby, Alpha Chi. And pretty soon everyone was willing to get down for the ritual because they couldn't dance anyway with the floor so littered up with the initiates. Although about 60 more people are now shouting V-Yagum at each other across the campus, the word still means absolutely nothing.
A man in their lives: The great crowds around one booth in the Union Monday afternoon (in case you were on the outside) had gathered to look at "Gus," Sigma Kappa mascot—a black cocker spaniel—that was being taken out for his first coke date by Sherry Wageman, Helen Todd, and Clara Lee Oxley. Ears pinned up with a bobby pin, Gus was sitting up to the table with a napkin in his collar, making the most of an ice cream cone.
This Isn't the Army: Betty Lou McLain, 1200 Louisiana, was startled to call her brother, a medic now stationed in the old Sigma Chi house, and learn from the officer in charge that he was an advanced student and had been in Kansas City some time. Betty had just seen her brother in Lawrence and as a result it was not long until the fog lifted and Kenneth was back on the officer's list as one of those here in K. U. Kenneth himself is beginning to think this was a big mistake. It certainly would be nice just to take a few days off and have the C. O. say, "Good old McLain—working up away there in the city."
While K. U. has both army and navy trainees, Ole Miss has only a small A.S.T.P. and S.T.A.R. program. Army students number about 1100.
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Great stress is placed on social life at Ole Miss. This is because Mississippi is made up of small towns—there are no big cities—and everyone knows everyone else. Students quite often spend their week-ends going to house parties and dances at other schools. In normal times, as K. U. empties out to Kansas City over the week-end, the students at Ole Miss vacation in Memphis.
Greek Houses Are Small
Sorority and fraternity life differ in that the houses are much smaller than those at K. U. and most of the students live in dormitories until their junior or senior years. There is room in each house for only 10
to 15 students, and all students eat in the University cafeteria.
Generally speaking, Southern girls are either beautiful or pretty, but Northern girls appear to be more intelligent, smarter looking, and they dress more attractively. Northern girls usually make use of their educations in a career, for a while at least, while Southern girls marry before or as soon as they complete their educations.
Pinnings Don't Mean Engagements Pinnings are just as common at Ole Miss as at K. U., but they do not mean formal engagements. There is no ceremony at the houses following the event—no "going down the line." The boy sends the girl's sorority a box of candy, and she sends his fraternity a box of cigars.
There are seven sororities and 12 fraternities at Ole Miss. Social organizations average about 50 or 60 members each.
There is definitely no emnity felt in the south for the "damn Yankees." All the bitterness and resentment have disappeared, and there remains now only a friendly rivalry between the two sections. The "War
Resentment Has Disappeared
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It might also be of interest to K. U. students to learn that the town of Oxford and the University of Mississippi were pillaged and burned during "the war" by a regiment of Kansas soldiers known as the Jayhawkers; but the Confederate Stars and Bars still flies with the Stars and Stripes over the old State Capitol in Jackson. "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
Between the States" is definitely over, and is now only a source of a great many jokes and kidding between the inhabitants of the North and the South.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Tuesday, October 12, 1943 Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism, at 10 a.m. on day of publication.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
The Snow Zoology Club will have their first meeting of the year Thursday, October 14, at 7:30 p.m. at Snow Hall. Old members and all newcomers are invited.
Independent students interested in KuKu pep organization are to meet Thurs., Oct. 14 at 7 in the Pine room. Read What's on.
Notice: There will be a regular meeting of the A.S.C. this evening at 7:30 in the Pine Room. Clarence Engle, See'y.
NOTICE
Any student who wishes to do practice teaching during the Winter Term should make application at once at the Office of the School of Education, 103 Fraser.
J. W. Twente, Dean.
LOST—Large Brown Leather Purse at Union Building Fountain, Identification papers, Activity book. $8.00 in checks and $2.00 in change. Please return to Arleen Hale, 1215 Oread Street. Phone 1783. 989-13
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WAA Pow Wow To Feature Fashions
The WAA sports Pow Wow to be held Thursday afternoon at 4:30 in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building, will be open to all university women, Jill Peck, vice-president of WAA and in charge of the Pow Wow, announced today.
The program will consist of a fashion show, in which sport clothes for all sports in which WAA members may participate will be modeled. After the fashion show, the announcement and presentation of last year's awards will take place.
WAA is taking this opportunity to welcome the new women students and urge them to participate in all sports and support the intramural program.
Editor-in-chief ... JOY MILLER
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