UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1942
39th YEAR
Prof. Robert G. Mahieu of the department of Romance languages lectured on Voltaire, French author, in Fraser theater yesterday afternoon.
Arrangements for the forums were made by a committee composed of E. O. Stene, assistant professor of political science and chairman of the committee, L. L. Waters, assistant professor of economics, and J. F. Wilkins, professor of voice.
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Sunday afternoon, Professor Davis will give an address on the "Background of the War in the Pacific." For many years he has been a student of Oriental culture, and has traveled extensively in the East.
Mahieu Lecture Concludes French Masters Series
The address was the third and last in a series of lectures on the French masters which has been sponsored by the department of Romance languages.
Commencement Forums Planned
Saturday afternoon, Stockton and Brewster will discuss "Kansas in the War Economy." The economic aspect of Kansas' resources and their development to increase production will be covered by Stockton, Brewster presenting the technological side. They will also point out the importance of munitions plants in the state.
The first lecture was given on Moliere by Prof. J. N Carman. The second was on "Balzac" delivered by Bernard Weinberg, a member of the faculty of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
W. W. Davis, chairman of the department of history; F. T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business; and R. Q. Brewster, chairman of the department of chemistry, will conduct two forums in Hoch auditorium as part of the commencement program starting Saturday, May 30.
THEY WILL LEAD THE FORUMS
Initiate Recreation Plan for Summer
W. W. Davis, R. Q. Brewster, F. T. Stockton
In an attempt to provide recreation for summer school students and to better acquaint independents and Greeks socially, the I.G.A., Independent Greek Association, has been set up with Dean Henry Werner as faculty adviser.
Mary Gene Hull, president of the I.S.A., is temporary chairman and Mary Bea Flint is secretary. The membership committee includes three women from Pan-Hellenic Association, Mary Bea Flint, Marian Miller, and Doris Dunkley; three men from the Inter-Fraternity Council, Rodney Smith, Bill Cole, and Bill Purdue; and three men and three women from the Independent Students Association, Allan Cromley, Niles Gibson, Paul Hardman, Doroth
Harkness, Mary Frances Fitzpatrick, and Mary Gene Hull.
The proposed fee is one dofar and plans are being made to sell the membership tickets in the fee line for the summer session. All University students enrolled in summer school are eligible for membership, Miss Hull said.
The program grew out of the need for social recreation in the summer session. The I.S.A., feeling that there was no need to limit the summer activities to independent students since there will be no sorority or fraternity social set-up this summer, are merging with the two Greek bodies to form a program of social activities. An outline of the generation pre-
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K-Club in Costume Pretty Men
BY HEIDI VIETS
Initiates of K-club today made liars out of those who say "Boys will be boys." Today the new K-men traded their masculinity for skirts, scarves, and simping manners.
Then began a hectic day for the pseudo-femmes. In classes they caused muffled laughter, on campus they drew innumerable stares, and walking in front of Green hall merited a chorus of whistling.
Each husky initiate was required to wear a skirt reaching "not below the knees," a head kerchief, either silk stockings or no stockings at all. Each man lovingly carried a doll. Twenty-four skirted he-men reported this morning to the athletic office, where Mrs. Imogene Webster, secretary to Gwinn
Henry, athletic director checked them in
When Duane Smith, college sophomore, came into class late, students tittered for five minutes. Well-poised, Miss Mabel Elliott, associate professor of sociology, went on with class as though no interruption had taken place. When the disturbance had quited, she glanced at Duane and remarked casually, "Mr. Smith,
Community Meeting To Hear S.N. Dancey
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Capt. S. N. Dancey of Chicago and president of the Citizenship Foundation will be guest speaker at a community meeting Sunday night sponsored by Lawrence patriotic organizations and churches.
Dancey will speak on the subject of "Americanization." The meeting will be held at 8 o'clock in Hoch auditorium, and the Lawrence Memorial high school band will play from 7:30 to 8 o'clock. A women's patriotic meeting at 2:30 Monday afternoon in the Lutheran church social room and a men's meeting at 12:30 at the Varsity will be held in connection with the Sunday community gathering.
Dancey, a newspaperman and author of several books, and a veteran of the first World War, has addressed more than 26,000 meetings of schools, colleges, Rotary, and Kiwanis Clubs in 19 countries as a representative of the Americanization program.
Citizenship Foundation, a nationwide fact finding agency, which Dancey heads, is a clearing house for service, civic, and patriotic groups. It was founded in 1921 and works in cooperation with other organizations to find the most practical way of promoting the building of good citizenship.
The library will be open Sunday nights of May 17 and 24 from 7 until 10 o'clock, it was announced this morning.
Symposium Ends World at War
The final meeting of the World at War series in Fraser theater at 7:30 tonight will be conducted as a symposium. H. B. Chubb, associate professor of political science, W. W. Davis, chairman of the department of history, C. B. Realey, professor of history, and Frank T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business will take part in the discussion of "Requirements for Victory and a Durable Peace," conducted by Domenico Gagliardo, professor of economics and chairman of the group.
Following the discussion of current problems, the audience will be asked to participate by submitting questions.
The University wastepaper contest will close Saturday noon. By that time all check slips and the number of persons in each house must be turned in to Laird Campbell, chairman of the drive. No individual houses will be called; it is the responsibility of each house to see that its results are checked in to Campbell.
Board Will Pick Aviation Cadets Here Saturday
Capt. Fred May, advance representative of the aviation cadet board with headquarters in Omaha, Neb., arrived at the University yesterday to make final arrangements for enlistment of University men in the Air Force Enlisted Reserve. Enlistment will take place Saturday and Monday at 9 a.m. in Fraser theater.
Col. James S. Dusenbury, president of the board, and Lyrot. Myron Reed, recruiting officer from Kansas City, will be in charge of registration. Major Malcolm Green, Jr., and Lieut. Thomas C. Horn, both from Rogers Field, Okla., will be present to advise enlistees and to answer questions. Men between the ages of 18 and 26 are eligible.
Enlistment is open in two branches of the service; one group, the air crew, consists of pilots, bombardiers, and navigators; the other, a ground crew, includes armament, engineering, photography, meterology, and communications. When enrolled, the student is a member of the Army of the United States and will be given an (continued to page eight)
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SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS Reunion By Wire in 1916 Grads Climb Hill
Marching across the records of the University history for over seventy-five years has been a constant file of students and graduates, but with a pace equal to that of the outgoing classes, former students and alumni have been returning to attend anniversaries and reunions.
Climbing up the Hill once more, graduates who have scattered to all lands and regions during the years following school.
After the Alumni Association roll calls were made, the president of the New York association exchanged greetings with Chancellor Frank
and enjoy unique celebrations and traditions connected with the alma mater.
An alumni reunion on April 7, 1916, found former University students from New York to San Francisco in a trans-continental telephone conversation. With five hundred telephones installed in Robinson gymnasium, alumni from the middle western region gathered there to listen and add to the discussion of old times by former Jayhawkers on the extreme edges of the United States.
The telephone line was opened at 8:15 p.m. in Lawrence, at 9:15 p.m. in New York, and at 6:15 in San Francisco. In New York a wintery snow storm was raging outside the lighted banquet hall while the sun was shining and the temperature was above 60 degrees in San Francisco.
The Union Talent Bureau is getting a better response from the Hill talent all the time, Newell Jenkins, chairman of the bureau, said today.
Talent Bureau Gains Popularity On Hill
"We've had so many calls for talent for banquets and other occasions, that unless we receive more entertainers we will have to put a fee on entertaining next year," Jenkins said.
The Bureau will probably supply entertainment for the bankers' convention held on the campus in June and for the Jayhawk Nibble next year. It is also considering floor shows for the varies next year.
Two new acts have been added to the bureau. Joanne Johnson, harpist; and Sears and Rhoades, twirlers.
Students at the University of Tampa are being paid commissions by the city to collect delinquent taxes from 11,000 persons.