TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22; 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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SEVEN DAYS
Xmas Vacation Stretched
★★★★
Joy Reigns
BY TOM CADDEN
Eureka! There is a Santa Claus after all!
After struggling, sliding, slipping, and sprawling all over the icy (and extremey hard) sidewalks and streets of the campus, and with the spectre of a diminutive Christmas vacation staring them in the face, the students of K.U. were beginning to wonder if there really was a roly-poly gentleman with white whiskers and a bag of toys.
Still there was a spark of undying hope that the vacation might be changed yet and most of the students were half-praying and half-expecting to hear such an announcement at any moment yesterday.
Rumor Is Confirmed
And then it came! The latest rumor about the Christmas vacation had been confirmed! Tuesday evening until Wednesday morning of next week.
And how did it affect the students?
Here is what happened at a few of the organized houses:
At the Sig Ep house, the pledges became so enthusiastic that they were contemplating ushering the actives from the house. The actives had a different idea about things.
The Phi Gam's "just yelled."
Corbin Hall experienced a "regular riot." The women gave forth with such ditties as "One More Day Until Vacation," "Home Sweet Home," and "Show Me the Way to Go Home"
At the Alpha Delta Pi house, the coeds broke into excited shrieks and immediately two of the more jubilant students entered a dorm.
plant ones raced upstairs and returned with a battered trumpet and a trombone. They "never had a lesson in their lives." Needless to say, the rest of the women were aware of that fact and attempted to stifle the source of the far from melodious strains.
The Phi Delt's were preparing for a Christmas stag party when they heard the news. The effect was so stimulating that the boys hopped into their tuxes instead of suits which they were originally planning to wear.
Falls Downstairs in Excitement
The Gamma Phi's were also in the midst of a celebration. The occasion was their Christmas kid party. As the news was received on the first floor of the house a much excited young lady was so flustered that she came tumbling down two flights of stairs. This was regarded as a minor spill after some of the grotesque positions students managed to assume yesterday on the icy hills of the campus.
Dyche Receives New Paleontology Display
A display that will probably be of interest to all students of paleontology, and the sociological sciences is scheduled for Dyche Museum, as soon as the artist is available to paint the background.
The project will consist of a tree showing the development of the primates from early man to the present. The evolution of man is shown in casts of seventeen skulls from the originals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Skulls of the Peking man, the Piltdown man, the Heidleberg man, the Neanderthal man, and the Cro-magnon man are included in the collection.
The display will be placed in a case as a background to the display of the Lansing man. The Lansing man is a pre-columbian indian skeleton that was found near Lansing, Kansas in 1902. For some time after its discovery, there was much controversy over the age of the fossil. Theories of its age ranged from the Pleistocene to the recent.
E. E. Haworth, former professor of geology of the University, was one of the authorities who examined the excavations where the skeleton was found. The skull and part of the body is in the United States Natural History Museum, the rest of the skeleton is in Dyche Museum.
The coeds at Miller hall said that the "roof was raised" and that some of them even forgot to come to dinner.
Battenfeld hall reported that things were "pretty hilarious."
The Kappa Sig's apparently tore down their house because a reporter was unable to contact them by telephone.
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Th big need at present, the committee believes, is adequate dance space. Plans are made to convert the main lounge, mens' lounge and lobby into a dance floor for all-university use. This space will not be available for use by special groups because, as Jenkins stated, "the lounge is for all University use, and to limit it to the use of special groups would be to deprive the majority of the students of something which belongs to them.
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Still another suggestion for additional dance space was to refinish the floor of the Union cafeteria and open it for dining and dancing at times permitted by Union regulations.
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Newell Jenkins, new Student Union Activities president, is formulating what he calls a "reconstruction policy" to provide recreation facilities in the crowded space of the Union building. The entire recreational set up, he believes, must undergo some modification because students' needs in war time have changed. Interests will be weighed, and space allotted on the basis of student demand.
Half of the women's lounge is being converted into the music room so that students who have missed this service during the past semester may again enjoy it.
The Kansas room, when not scheduled, will be available for dancing also, if the present plans are carried out. The committee is making arrangements for the purchase of two nickelodeons, one of which will be set up in the Kansas room.
Seek Dancing Space In Union Building
Pan-American League Postponed
Phone 598 Phone 650
Working with Jenkins in formulating the new Union program are Dick Royer, newly elected vice president; Marion Smith, chairman of the music committee; and Bob Hodgson, chairman of the intramural committee. The Union operating board will select the chairman of the forums and clubs committee soon.
Owing to the extended Christmas vacation the scheduled meeting of the Student Pan-American League will not be held tonight as originally planned. An announcement concerning the next meeting will be made after the Christmas holidays.
BUY WAR STAMPS
Travel Restrictions To Be More Drastic
If Jayhawkers think the rationing of coffee, sugar, tires, and gasoline has been a hardship, they has better hold their ears when Donald M. Nelson's latest statement is repeated. Here is what the chairman of the War Production Board has to say:
"The mobility of consumer of necessity and by consumer due for restriction much more drastic than that obtained today. Travel by common carrier will be increasingly inconvenient and in some instances not permissible. Reduced variety of goods, rationing, price controls, the value of time to the individual, and the general level of consumer incomes are among the factors which will reduce consumers' desire to 'shop around' or to buy at a distance from home."
The statements upon further curtailment of automobile travel and the possibility of the denial of the use of common carrier facilities to civilians will be of special interest to University students.
Travel home this Christmas with all its inconveniences may be the last one offered to students for some time. The University's speedup program will, without a doubt, cut down on future vacations, and there is no guarantee that, on those which will be offered, the students will be able to reach their destinations.
There is a distinct possibility, however, that special consideration may be given student traveling needs. Students in the past have received such consideration from the railroad companies when company
Graduate Magazine Features Camouflage
The current issue of the Graduate magazine will be mailed out to the alumni of the University today, Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary announced. A story on war's new art, camouflage, is featured in this issue along with numerous articles of interests and goings-on on the Hill. The magazine is a publication of
The magazine is a publication of the Alumni Association of the University and is published monthly.
Texan Editors In Service.
Austin, Texas, (ACP)—The last five editors and three recent former associate editors of the Daily Texan are in military service.
HERE'S WISHING YOU
A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
THANKS A MILLION FOR PAST FAVORS
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will be greatly restricted, both choice. Travel by automobile is
passes are restricted during holiday seasons. Students holding passed have been allowed to travel.
Whether the cancellation of civilian transportation means is near or in the distant future, the possibility of such a move will provide still another incentive for students to make this Christmas vacation a pleasant one.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS