THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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The KANSAN Comments...
Something New Has Been Added
When you leaf through your activity book this year, you will find something new has been added. The University Daily Kansan has been added to the activity fee.
Upon the recommendation of the Chancellor, the Board of Regents decided to include the Kansan on the activity book. Such action has long been proposed, and the University is the last state school to include the student newspaper in the activity fee.
Sailors who are quartered on the campus for their specialists training and University faculty members will be allowed to purchase the Kansan at a dollar a semester; all others will be charged last year's rate.
In order to start delivery, each student must present the activity book Kansan coupon at the Kansam business office in the Journalism building with the address at which the paper is to be delivered.
Under the new arrangement, the Kansan will be offered to the students through the medium of the activity book at one dollar a semester whereas in past years it.cost one dollar and a half a semester.
The addition of the Kansan to the activity fee not only assures every student of the paper but also promotes a better paper. The Kansan's financial status will be alleviated so that some new services may be added to give the readers a more complete and comprehensive coverage of Hill events.
What War?
The activities of rush week, registration and enrollment give the impression that the war, the rubber shortage, and gasoline rationing are merely something the University students occasionally read about in the newspaper.
New luxurious convertibles and club coupes seen dashing aimlessly about the campus, and the boisterous crowds of coeds and Joe Colleges, burning cigarettes and consuming cokes at the various Hill hangouts, all seem so incongruous of the far-flung battlefields where our soldiers are fighting for the American Wav.
Naturally the Sigma Pis's want to pledge Jim, and the Kappa Chis's want to pledge Betty; and the "there are more and faster cars in our house" approach is one angle. Those students who aren't encumbered with rush week want to squeeze as many miles as possible out of father's car before school starts and the wheeled mode of transportation is returned to the home grounds; a few trips to Topeka and Kansa City is the result. The curriculum of the University is being geared to the war effort. Now that we have mastered the art of making the streets unenable for pedestrians, let's turn to the more serious business of making the world unenable for Hitler, Hirohito, and their ilk.
Beep Beep for Victory
One of the soundest ideas we've met in a month was hatched this week by the National Safety Council-a simple suggestion of a way in which we can help save gasoline, oil, rubber, and necks.
Suggested the Council: every time you see another motorist who is thoughtlessly wasting gas or rubber, give him three shorts and one long on your auto horn—the international code for V for Victory...—
Any time some fuzzy-fluff passes you while you are trying to hold the old family fliver down to 32 m. p. h., don't just burst into blasphemy—give him three shorts and a long . . .
When some vacant-puss clips into an intersection and makes the retreads squeal before the stop sign, don't be afraid to add to the dim — give him three shorts and a long . . . —
When you're lined up waiting for the green light, and some peewee-brain makes a jack rabbit start, don't just feel sorry for the poor boob—give him three shorts and a long . . . —
Whenever you see any smart aleck gambling with his car, or his tires, or even his 4-F neck (after all, we need manpower)—by passing on a hill, or by failing to signal for a turn, or by taking a corner too fast, or by backing without looking, don't just wish there was something you could do about it—give him three shorts and a long . . . —
Well, at least give him that!
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Publisher ... John Conard
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... Alan B. Houghton
Editorial Associates ... Maurice Barker, Mary
Elanor Fry, Bob Cole-
man, J. Donald Keown
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor Bill Feeney
Campus Editors Virginia Tieman, Dean Sims,
Sports Editor ... J. Donald Keown
Society Editor ... Barbara Batalche尔
News Editor ... Joy Miller
Sunday Editor ... Ralph Coldren
BUSINESS STAFF
Social highlight of Freshman Week activities will be Saturday night when new students will eat, and meet other new students at the Jayhawk Nibble at 7 p.m. in Marvin Grove. Free food and entertainment will provide the main attraction. Following the Nibble a dance will be held in the Memorial Union ballroom for all students. John Pope and his orchestra, composed of members of the two former Hill bands. Russ Chambers' and Clayton Harbur's, will provide the music. Sidney Dawson, colored vocalist, will sing with the band.
Business Manager Oliver Hughes
Advertising Manager John Pope
FreshmanWeek
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Tuesday, May 19, 1942 No.139
Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism, at 10 a.m. on day of publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
STUDENTS wishing to enroll in Reading for Honors in English may consult Miss Burnham in 24 Fraser Hall between 9 and 12 or between 2 and 4 on Friday and Saturday, the days of enrollment. Please read the relevant statement in the University Catalog, and if feasible bring transcript.-J. M. Burnham, for the Committee.
Monday will be a full day, with the beginning of classes that morning, the first All-University convocation at 10 a.m., and meeting of new students with student counsellors in the afternoon.
Tuesday evening, the New Student induction will take place on North College hill and Memorial stadium.
Forty University of Pittsburgh coeds from Johnstown, Pa., offer to write to every soldier, sailor and marine who communicates with the club at Pitt's Johnstown center.
Rock Chalk Talk
DEAN SIMS
You can dispell from your minds the rumor that has made the rounds concerning earlier closing hours for women this year. Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser to women, said yesterday that there had been no thought of such a thing.
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One fellow in western Kansas became panic-stricken this summer when the rumor got to him that all university men were to have 8 p.m. closing hours.
The news of the very latest in fraternity pledging technique comes from one of the Hill's own fraternity houses. It seems that the house was playing host to one of its 1-A rushees, and the said rushee decided to take a shower in the middle of his being "rushed" by the active chapter.
The bather left his clothes in a kindly active's room, went to take a shower, came back, and dressed himself.
The cleaned rushee on his way down stairs when one of his hosts stepped up with a big camera, and, with a flash, took his picture.
A while later the rushee was presented with a nice picture of himself. In the picture he noticed something new on his coat lapel—a pledge pin. Evidently given him while he was in the shower.
The new pledge was so intrigued by the unique style of pledging that he kept the pin. "Such slick boys," he said, "surely must have something on the ball."
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New students to the Hill shouldn't miss the Jayhawk Nibble affair in the Memorial Union building after the football game on Saturday. Planners of the annual reception state definitely that this year will see the tops in food and entertainment.
Fellowing the Nibble, open only to new students to the University, John Pope and his new dance band will hold open house in the ballroom for all students, new and old.
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Last spring a swarm of bees made their home in one of the trees in front of the Teke house. Dean Mitchelson, Teke lost by graduation, climbed the tree to disperse them. He wound up in the hospital suffering from practically a "jillion" stings.
When the chapter returned to the house this fall, they saw and sighed in great relief that no longer did the bees live in the big tree in front of th house.'
The relief lasted only until the returning Teke's reached the front porch —new home of the bees.
Any bee lover (like poor D. Mitchellson) who will volunteer to work on getting them back to the tree should call the house immediately.
We Wish You a Successful Year 1942-1943
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