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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1942
In a recent feature story carried in the University Daily Kansan, Dr. Forrest C. Allen, chairman of the department of physical education, told of how students, inspired by a moral victory scored by the Kansas football team over the Nebraska squad in 1920, in their enthusiasm began a campaign that blossomed into the Memorial stadium-Union building drive. The building and stadium were to serve as a memorial to the University's dead in the first World War.
Students Have No Voice In Disposal Of Facilities Of Union Building
Under student direction that first drive was tremendously successful, and $200,000 was brought in from student contributors. The Jayhawks then began the task of soliciting among alumni, business men, and faculty members. Funds began to pour in from all over the world. Such tremendous figures as $33,000 were raised by students in a single week, and by 1923 the grand total had reached $960,000.
Each fall the students returned to school and made additional contributions to the cause. Each fall still more former students were solicited for subscriptions. Time was taken from classes for physical labor upon the project, and the students and instructors worked hard and willingly.
Finally in 1921 the stadium was begun. It was not until 1929 that the Union was built for the purpose of "enriching the lives and education of K.U. students by providing a recreational center for them." For nine years they had worked, and scrimped to contribute, and at last they had seen their efforts come to a successful conclusion. The cost of the building was met by cash gifts and pledges without any legislative appropriation, whatsoever.
Then came World War II, and the students were told—not asked—that their sound-proof music room in the building would be converted into an officers' club. They were told that their lounge was to be used by Naval trainees. They were told they couldn't have dances in the ballroom during the week. And then finally they were told by Miss Hermina Zipple, director of the Union, that their Saturday night dances could not be held in the future. Increased Naval enrollment had forced an earlier breakfast hour, and there would not be time to replace furniture for the sailors' breakfast in the ballroom following the close of the dance.
That's fine, Miss Zipple, but just whose building is it? Are the words—"Student Union"—misleading?
Letter-Writing Emphasis Urged For English Department
University departments not closely tied up with the nation's war efforts have made attempts to bring their courses more in line with the country's immediate needs. Some language courses have been slanted for their future value when the students will be over-seas in uniform, and other departments have taken similar steps.
Among those College sections encountering the most difficulty in bringing their offerings into focus is the English department. "Mathematics instead of Chaucer" seems to be the
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Why some of the ping pong and billiard tables are not moved from the abandoned game room in the Union building upstairs to the spacious men's lounge, where they could again be put to use by table tennis and pool addicts.
trend. The University English department, therefore, should pass up no opportunity to bring its courses within the new war-need emphasis. Such an opportunity is presented by one of the war's more serious problems—service morale—for there is no superior method in the maintenance of this morale than correspondence with civilians at home.
The rhetoric I course could be remodeled so that letter-writing, slanted to meet the service man's needs, would receive increased attention. If such material could not be added to the basic rhetoric, perhaps a new letter-writing course could be established. In it not only the elements of good correspondence, but also the fundamentals of wartime censorship and postal problems, could be studied.
—M.B.
Even now University English faculty members are seeking means to bring their department into line with the school's wartime program. A letter-writing course would seemingly offer them one of their best opportunities.
Approximately one-third of the college men of the nation are in their eighteenth and nineteenth years, according to authorities.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Latest advices from Washington declare that teen age men in colleges will not be able to obtain deferments until the end of the present school year. That is not news here, for the exodus has already begun.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Publisher ... John Conard
Editor-in-chief ... J. Donald Keown
Associate Editors ... Bob Coleman, Bill Feeney,
Ralph Coldren, Dean Sims,
Matt Heuertz
NEWS STAFF
Feature Editor ... Joy Miller
Managing Editor ... Glee Smith
Campus Editors ... Dale Robinson, Scott
              Hookins, Eleanor Fry
Sports Editor ... Milo Farneti
Society Editor ... Ruth Tippin
Rock Chalk Talk
BETTY LOU PERKINS
BY JIMMY GUNN,
SUNDAY COLUMNIST
When ignorance is bliss: Darrel Stalder, John Moore Co-op, didn't know until just the other day that Lord Privy Seal is an office in the British cabinet and not a person. Darrel is afraid that his grade in Social Science Survey might drop if Prof. Hilden Gibson gets wind of it.
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Lo! How the mighty have fallen: Dean Gilbert Ulmer was striding along the basement corridor of Fraser hall last Wednesday on his way to his 10:30 analytical geometry class in Blake hall when a light bulb burst behind him. Dean Ulmer glanced back to see the wires of the light sputtering and flaming from a short circuit.
With several of the other teachers who had gathered around, he tried to extinguish the blaze with a glass of water. Deciding the matter took more thorough methods, they found a fire extinguisher and, turning it upside down, began playing it on the ceiling.
When the fire was out they tried to extinguish the extinguisher and came to the sad realization that a fire extinguisher cannot be turned off. Out of Fraser they marched, with dampened spirits, carrying with them the effervescent can.
Triolet on the Consolations of a Short Christmas
Triolet on the Consolations of a Short Christma.
Christmas will be short this year.
So, gather 'round the flowing bowl.
Gather 'round and shed a tear.
Christmas will be short this year.
But we'll be merry, never fear.
Christmas cheer will be our goal.
Christmas will be short this year.
So gather 'round the flowing bowl.
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Sight of sights: Six-feet-four Harry Johnson, 1334 Ohic, "luxing" his undies the other evening. Thus does necessity (and the exigencies of the war) come to all men.
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This want ad appeared Nov. 20 in the Boston Evening Globe:
WANTED—2 women to learn reproduction business; must be strong; good pay to start, with increase as soon as able to produce. M 61, Globe office.
BILL WASN'T HEP The Weaker Sex Isn't The Male Reply
Editor's Note: The following pithy retort is in reply to the editorial feature appearing in the Friday issue. Mr. Coldren thought Miss Betty Lou Perkins' article debunking men was vituperative, unwarranted. To give complete coverage to homo sapiens, Mr. Coldren was asked to write his opinion of campus women.
By RALPH E. COLDREN
The greatest fallacy of all times was committed by our good friend Bill Shakespeare when he wrote that women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. Old Bill wrote some fine and fancy verse, but his knowledge of women—ugh! We can't condemn Shakespeare too severely for way back then; women were a bit different than we know them now. After all, there was no nineteenth amendment when Bill was a boy.
The modern college woman is a complex being to be looked
The modern college at (from a distance) with mixed portions of awe, fear, and sympathy. There are probably more "types" of women on a campus than any other place.
Man to man: Have you ever called up a gal for a date and have the conversation go something like this? . . . . "Hello, Sue, this is Bill . . . . Are you going to be busy next Friday night? . . . . "Oh, I'd love to go with your Bill but . . . .
"How about a date Saturday, March 23, 1943?" This type of girl is the scourge of the campus. She is suffering from a popularity complex, and unless she is dated up anywhere from three to six weeks in advance she feels that she is missing part of the higher education.
Then there is the "simply too too" type—alias, "Bird Brain." She is usually on the outside looking in,
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and nothing can be said about her that hasn't already been said. She's the type of girl a fellow wouldn't even wish off on his worst enemy. Ten minutes with her and you're tearing your hair and frothing at the mouth!
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President of Alpha Psi Psi, president of Squill and Croll, chairman of the Mortum council, etc.-this girl is definitely a joiner and a "career woman." She is so engrossed in activities and with keeping her "clipping book" up to date that she forges the sky is blue and that trees have leaves. Somehow, we always think of her as "Eleanor."
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"Jim, you're a nice boy, and I just love to have you buy me cokes, and smoke your cigarettes. but . . ."
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