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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1942
The Editorial Page
Nine Groups of Students Probably Will Be On the Campus In April
Yesterday's official release from Washington D. C. has left many students wondering just who will make up the University student body in April of 1943. According to the interpretations of one school official, the following can expect to be on the Campus in the spring:
(1) All medical students will be allowed to continue their educations.
(2) All pre-medics who specifically request that they be permitted to continue their educations will be allowed to do so. Those not making such requests, however, will be subject to call.
(3) All senior ROTC boys in the ERC will be allowed to continue with their school work.
(4) Junior, and probably senior, engineering students will not be called. Only juniors were mentioned specifically in the Washington dispatch, but school officials believe that seniors will come under the same ruling.
(5) Men under the age of 18, of course will not be subject to call.
(6) Men physically unfit for military service will continue their University work.
(7) All men in the V-1, V-5, and V-7 programs will probably still be in school on May 1, unless the Navy department changes its rulings.
(8) Men not in the ERC, and who are fortunate enough to have lenient draft boards will be able to continue in school. Freshman and sophomore engineers and pharmacy students, in particular, may receive deferments if they are under education-minded selective service heads.
(9) All women students are almost certain to remain at the University, for plans to draft women for industrial work have not as yet received anything like popular support.
Beginning in February, this University is likely to be receiving men from both the army and navy for secondary training, if the University is accepted as one of the technical training schools.
Men returning here would be those who have received their 13 weeks of basic training. Kansas men probably will be able to specify their desire to return here for that training. While fulfillment of that request is not guaranteed, University officials have received the impression that whenever fulfillment is possible, that policy will be followed.
Thus many of the ERC men called away may soon return to Mount Oread to receive training as technical specialists.
Reservists Warned Against A Last-Month Letup
Now that the war department has announced that the army enlisted reserve will be called at the end of the present semester, many University men in the ERC will be tempted to adopt the attitude, "To hell with school! Army, here I come."
Many of the men are anxious to go into training because studying has become increasingly difficult under the war-influenced atmosphere of uncertainty which has prevailed on the campus this fall. Now that the ERC men know they will be leaving soon, they might be inclined to forget about textbooks and grades and to concentrate on a last fling at pleasure.
Just Wondering
Why University concerts are not more carefully timed in rehearsal so that so many of them would not grow firesome because they are too long.
If those men slack their studies for the remainder of the semester under the illusion "It's all over now," they will undoubtedly regret it. Their job is only beginning and will require a lot more grit, fortitude, and endurance than they expend in passing college courses.
Time is valuable to the U. S. Army, and reserve enlistees have been granted time so they can better train themselves to become officers. The benefits of using this reprieve consciently may seem intangible now, but if a college student enters the army after a month of laziness, he will be a misfit.
The army intends to send a large number of the ERC men back to college for further training. Just as the ROTC selected its advanced students partly on the basis of grades in non-military subjects, so will the army probably choose its back-to-school men partly on the basis of former college records.
Most reserve men realize that they are actual members of the armed forces. What they should not forget is that they are marked soldiers. Today's college students are tomorrow's lieutenants, captains, and majors—the officers who must lead in battlefield victories in the toughest game devised by man.
This is no occasion to let up, fellows. This is the time to pitch in and prepare for hard work. War is still hell—and you are going to get plenty of it.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
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Rock Chalk Talk BY JIMMY GUNN
Condolences and the season's greetings: The Rock Chalk Co-op is hung with wreaths on the outside, it being the Christmas season and everything. George Harvey opened the door the other day to find a stranger there with a small black book in his hands. "I hate to barge in at a time like this," the stranger said, "when there's a death in the family; but would you like to buy a subscription to the Ladies' Home Journal."
Pranks and Practical Jokers: Melba Nininger, A O Pi, was working as cashier at one of the theatres the other evening when a young man entered the cage with a corncob pipe at full steam. He asked, very respectfully, to be allowed to use the telephone. Melba said yes, and the young man made his call. He then turned to Melba and explained anxiously that he had to run down to the drug store and would she hold his pipe until he got back?
"The pipes goes out easily," he said, "so please don't lay it down." And he left. And Melbt held the pipe for 25 minutes, tearing off tickets with one hand and an elbow, while little boys walked by outside snickering.
Triolet (figure it out for yourself)
Pale hothouse flowers,
Pallid and lifeless.
What are your powers,
Pale hothouse flowers?
Strangers to showers,
Smoldering, strifeless,
Pale hothouse flowers,
Pallid and lifeless.
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At the band concert—savoir faire: When David Lawson, 1127 Ohio, was singing his solo, Bob Jenkins, 1222 Mississippi was beating on the big bass drum. The drum stick flipped out of his hand into the band below. Bob nonchallantly kept on making the appropriate motions with his hand until the stick was handed back to him.
Join the Army and get meat, gasoline, sugar, tires, and pants: Dean Ostrum, Sigma Nu, is saying that he hopes the army takes him right away, because he only has one pair of pants left. The others he lost at the cleaners, and ones he has are getting a hole in them.
Built West of Lawrence Buttressed Barn
By CAROLINE SANDERS
Tornado Damaged Barn
If your gas supply permits you to drive a half mile west of Lawrence on 19th street, take time to look at an old rock barn built into the side of the hill on your right. The building does not stand out distinctly in winter, because its yellow limestone walls blend with the soil and dead grass of surrounding fields. But it is the walls which make the barn unique and arouse the curiosity of the passerby. Three buttresses stand out prominently and cast their jagged $ ^{ \textcircled{2}} $
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The barn did not always look the way it does now. There were no buttresses when it was built in 1875 by William Brown, who had come to this country from Cavan County, Ireland. According to his son, Elmer E. Brown, "the structure was poorly engineered, and it was not until after a tornado in June, 1879, that the buttresses were added."
The building is one hundred feet long and shoulders into the side of the hill, so that the second story opens on a level above. The hill afforded protection to the stock, but the freezing and thawing in winter weakened the walls which were disproportionately long, and the tornado inflicted further damage.
Later that year William Brown and his sons set themselves to the task of rebuilding and reenforcing the old walls, and constructing a vaulted cyclone cellar in one end of the barn. Rock needed for the work
was quarried on the place. Five buttresses were built inside to strengthen the wall next to the hill, and five on the outside of the south wall. Two of these have since fallen. The cyclone cellar now serves in winter as a smug nursery for the young calves.
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Elmer Brown was an infant at the time of Quantrill's raid. When his father's house on Louisiana and Twenty-first street was fired, a colored nurse carried him into a cornfield for safety. He points out that the popular idea that the present barn was once used as a hideout for slaves on the underground railroad, has no foundation, since the barn was not built until 1875.
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