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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1942
Snooping Around News and Views from other colleges
Hoops and Hats Identify Pledges
Kansas State pledges to Steel Ring, honorary engineering fraternity were being initiated last week by wearing iron hoops hung around their necks on ropes and brown gnome hats. They also acted as doorrien during the noon hour, and carried wooden paddles, candy, gum, and cigarettes which they gave to acives upon request.
South Goes Western
Bronco-riding soldiers from Harding field joined Louisiana State University students in presenting their annual Block and Bridle club rodeo Friday and Saturday. The show, which has formerly featured only student talent, had a touch of professionalism this year, because several of the Harding field riders have appeared in wild west shows. The student-soldier rodeo featured steer riding, bronc and mule riding, calf scramble, wild-cow milking and musical chair contests. The musical chair contest is a competition in which coeds riding to the music of the L.S.U. band leap from their horses and race for seats. Prizes donated by Baton Rouge merchants were awarded the winners in each feat.
Band Will Entertain Service Men
The Loyola University band is planning a series of concerts for army and navy camps in the vicinity of New Orleans. The programs will consist of a variety of popular songs, military marches, and symphonic selections.
California Revises Terms
An eight-week summer session has been scheduled for 1943, extending from June 28 to Aug. 21 at the University of California, Berkeley, Calif. Previous plans were for three 16-week terms with continuous instruction throughout the year, but under the new arrangement, there will be a three-week vacation between the end of the spring term and the beginning of the summer session and two weeks between summer and fall terms.
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'South American Schools Are Political--Minded'
"Where students in the universities of the United States are sports-minded, students in South American colleges are political-minded," Ernesto Montenegro, South American journalist speaking Friday afternoon at Fraser theater, told a small crowd of students and faculty members.
Montenegro explained the South American interest in politics as being due to the location of universities in the center of
cities, so that students are constantly in direct contact with civilians and civic problems. Instructors, he declared, are often dismayed by the inadequacies of the present educational system, and in their desire for change, swing toward the left, and indoctrinate their students with those principles.
The journalist described recent attempts to remove the universities from political scenes. "They are breaking the schools into pieces," he declared. "A portion of the university—such as the medical school—may be in one part of the city, while the law buildings are clear on the other side of town. Thus there is no 'alma mater' spirit in the South American institutions of higher learning," he said.
French Influence Strong
Montenegro stressed the influence of Paris upon South American culture. American writers known in South America have primarily reached that continent through French translations of their work, he said. The writer named as american authors popular in Latin America Longfellow, Poe, Hawthorne, Lewis, Steinbeck, Hemingway, and Frank.
"In South American literature the importance is not on what you say, but how you say it." Montenegro declared. "The Latin American writer cannot hope to make his living merely from his writing, but must also teach for a living. Poverty prevents sufficient patronization to make feasible writing as a singular profession." According to the speaker, the general run of South American books, despite an inexpensive price, will sell only approximately 5,000 copies.
Friday evening Montenegro addressed members of the University Club in the University Club room of the Memorial Union building on "The March of Democracy in Latin America." Friday morning he addressed journalism classes in the Journalism building.
Dramatic Workshop To Present "This Thing Called Love"
The Dramatic Workshop's three-act play, "This Thing Called Love," by Edwin Burke, will be presented in Fraser theater Dec. 15 and 16. The play is being produced by an all-student management, under the direction of Edith Ann Fleming and Bill Kelly, college seniors.
Miss Alvaraz, played by Betty Rowton, college senior, and Normie DeWitt, by Danny Bachmann, college sophomore, are the other woman and man in this strange marriage. The play climaxes when DeWitt, quite drunk, threatens to shoot Collins.
The play deals with two persons, Ann Marvin and Tice Collins, played by Edith Arm Fleming and Bill Kelly, who are in love but dislike the prospect of marrying because of the unhappiness and quarrels that seem to be a part of marriage. They finally agree to get married on a strictly business-like basis. Naturally, many humorous situations occur as a result.
Dolly Garrett, played by Ethel Mary Schwartz, college junior, amuses the audience as the garrulous and confused wife of Fred Garrett, played by Bob Hutchinson, college sophomore.
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Fraternity To Plan Christmas Charity
Alpha Phi Omega, national men's honorary service fraternity, will meet tomorrow night in the Pine room of the Union building to plan their annual Christmas service project. Don Pomeroy, member of the organization, said this morning.
Last year the service fraternity raised money for needy Lawrence families at Christmas time by sponsoring a penny pitch project in the center of Frank Strong hall. A bucket was suspended below the balcony and students exhibited their skill in hitting it by tossing spare pennies.
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Since Jack Smith, president of the fraternity, who was a sophomore in the school of engineering, has left school, members of the fraternity will probably elect a new president at the meeting, Pomeroy said.
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All-Girl Band Rehearsal Postponed Until Dec. 16
The all-girl band will rehearse in Hoch auditorium at 7:30, Wednesday evening. Dec. 16, instead of tomorrow evening as previously planned. Russell L. Wiley, director, said today, because the University Symphony Orchestra will use the auditorium and equipment for rehearsal tomorrow.
The all-girl band is still open to new members, and Mr. Wiley said girls who are interested may try out at the next rehearsal. Any instrument will be considered, especially French horns, trombones, cornets, and clarinets.
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