UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, APRIL 25,1943
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Gap Exists In Phys Ed Program--Allen
Dr. Forrest C. Allen, chairman of the department of physical education and head of the University's physical conditioning program, today pointed out a gap which exists between the University's "commando" course, and the government-sponsored High School Victory Corps program.
Under the nation-wide high all boys are required to take work five days a week in equatics, gymnastics, combatives, sports, and games. Girls are required to take similar training in aquatics, gymnastics, sports, and games. However, the University program has been limited by the University Senate to men 18 years-of-age, or older.
Some Students Are Exempt
"Thus." Dr. Allen pointed out, "many students in college, who if they were in high school would be subject to physical conditioning, are exempt because of their age."
Dr. Allen also pointed out that the average age of the University students is rapidly decreasing, so that the percentage of students not preparing for the hardships of wartime living will increase during the coming summer and fall semesters. The department chairman indicated that the matter will be brought to the attention of the University Senate when it meets on May 4.
Dr. Allen emphasized that in the requirement that University women take two semesters of conditioning work no such age limit was fixed. Conditioning For Navy
Added to the physical education department's tasks this summer will be the work of handling the recently arrived naval aviation cadet contingent, which will be supplemented with still other groups of cadets during the summer. However, the machinists' mates school is expected to be drastically curtailed as to the number of trainees during that period.
The cadets will be handled in two daily classes of an hour and a half duration, Dr. Allen said. Present plans call for classes to meet at from 7 to 8:30 a.m., and from 5 to 6:30 p.m., five days a week. Dr. Reg-
school students training setup.
inaid Strait, physical education instructor, will handle both classes. Courses for H. S. Teachers
Refresher courses for high school teachers attending the summer session are still another possibility, Dr. Allen stated. With many of the athletic coaches and physical ed instructors of state high schools now in the services, the task of directing such activities will fall more and more upon the shoulders of men and women who have had no experience in those fields in recent years, Allen explained. The refresher course would serve to brush up such teachers in playground methods, Victory Corps instruction, first aid, and other similar fields.
"So far there has been no green light for such courses," Dr. Allen said," but if one comes, the department will be able to handle the work."
The department hopes in the future to bring more and more of the classes under faculty instruction, according to the chairman. This may be accomplished though the addition in the near future of L. L Boughton, professor of pharmacy, and Dr. Bert Nash, professor education, to the physical conditioning staff. Both faculty members have volunteered to aid the physical education staff—now down to three men—with the work.
"At present there is no assurance of anything other than that the service men will make an increasing call upon the facilities of the department," Dr. Allen declared. "The student situation is extremely unsettled."
Lt. Jack Gardner, in charge of naval physical training in this area, has been conferring with Dr. Allen over the conditioning setup for the naval air cadets.
Fear Shortage This Summer Of Women Teachers
A serious shortage in personnel for women's physical education instruction during the coming summer term looms, Dr. Forrest C. Allen, chairman of the department of physical education, announced today.
At present none of the three women members of the faculty plan to be here for the summer term, Dr. Allen revealed. Professor Ruth Hoover will leave immediately following the completion of the present school term to join the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The playoffs in men's intramural sports have reached the quarter-finals stage in tennis and the semi-finals stage in handball and horseshoes.
Professor Joie Stapleton will serve in the Lawrence municipal recreation setup during the first few weeks of the summer, and then will serve as an instructor at Camp Oak Opening in Michigan. Miss Stapleton has taught at the camp during past summers. Jean Bliss, instructor of dancing, will also teach elsewhere.
Playoffs Continue In Three Sports
The quarter-finals pairings in tennis are: Dale Lingelbach, Templin hall, vs. Kenneth Cates, Alpha Tau Omega; D. T. Smith, Phi Gamma Delta, vs. Judson Townley, Beta Theta Pi; Cal Briney, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, vs. Bob Jelinek, Sigma Phi Epsilon; Jim Roderick, Beta Theta Fi, vs. C. L. Roberts, Phi Gamma Delta.
The semi-finals pairings in handball are: Larry McSpadden, Phi Gamma Delta, vs. F. M. Hulett, Phi Gamma Delta; Bob Hodgson, Phi Gamma Delta, vs. Bob O'Neil, Beta Theta Pi.
Pairings in the semi-finals in horseshoes are: Max Kissell, Phi Kappa Psi, vs. W. C. Hartley, Beta Theta Pi; Orive Hempler, Phi Gamma Delta vs. Ray Helgesen, Phi Gamma Delta.
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A Municipal Recreation Program
Lawrence along with other war industry towns should adope the municipal recreation program which Dr. Forrest C. Allen outlined before the recent convention at Emporia of the Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers.
This program provides for a full time recreation director who has charge of recreation facilities which grade and high school students may use after they have been dismissed from their classes for the afternoon or for vacations.
Here in Lawrence as in many cities there are few municipal recreation facilities which children may use over the weekends. And when there is no recreation provided for them, they turn to whatever they can find; thus, many of the local boys flock up to Robinson gymnasium on Saturdays where they play basketball without permission or supervision—but we can't blame them for trying to find wholesome recreation. Other students roam the streets aimlessly, here and there, doing what satisfies them on a moments notice with a result that many of them get into trouble for petty thievery.
Children Have Rights Too!
If suitable physical recreation were provided for elementary school children, those children's desire to utilize excessive energy in a wholesome manner, could be fulfilled. Children have every right to grow up to become respectable citizens; therefore every municipal government should provide for them pastimes which are creative in body as well as in mind.
The welfare of future citizens should have a place in thoughtful municipal planning. Textbook education is not enough; recreational physical education must also be provided for the development of physically strong, emotionally stable, and mentally alert citizens.
Delta Tau Defeats Jolliffe Hall, 16-8
In the only softball game played this weekend, Delta Tau Delta defeated Jollife hall Friday afternoon, 16 to 8. Jolliffe opened the scoring with four runs in the top half of the first inning before an out was made. The Delt's retaliated in the last half of the first, and clinched the game by scoring seven runs before an out was made and two more runs before the third out.
Jolliffe scored another run in the third inning and three more in the fifth. Delta Tau scored two runs in the third, four in the fourth, and one in the sixth to insure their victory.
The other games were not played because most of the members of the teams left the campus to spend the Easter weekend at home.
Music Room Will Present 'Messiah'
Handel's "Messiah," an oratorio, will be presented as a special Easter program in the Music room of the Memorial Union building at 2:30 this afternoon.
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