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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Some Call It Apple Poors
Some call it apple polishing—some call it common sense, to get to know your professors as individuals. But, whatever you call it, it isn't such a bad idea! Contrary to fairly general opinion, none of the professors at this University have been known to bite when sincerely approached.
Students who have been graduated with honors from the University — honored by friendships as well as by academic honors— have estimated that at least one-third of their education came from contact with their professors outside the classroom. Ask any University alumnus what he remembers about his college ten years after graduation and almost invariably he will recall some personal incident involving a favorite professor. If friendliness is apple polish then why not polish?
Whatever the reason for student stand-offishness, the result is not to be admired. It has resulted in a faculty versus student situation too many times. Such a division was apparent in the Jayhawker Board meetings this year, the same was true in the W.S.G.A. council discussions of an appointive council for women. This situation is one of the gravest faced by the Council-appointed "Unity" committee.
Is it fear of being called an apple polisher that keeps a student from making the first move toward friendship? Is it laziness, or a "don't care" attitude? Is there a faculty antipathy to such an approach?
This situation can be remedied—to the advantage of you as a student and to your University. The first move is up to the student body—give your professor a chance to show you that he is human. In so doing you can't help but gain. When you profit, so does the University—by having an enthusiastic and cooperative school community. Learn to know your professors—even though some may call it apple polishing.
Too Many Commentatlish
Politics is a new and interesting field for women observes Elizabeth Bussing in a current magazine. Miss Bussing could have seen her theory in action here on the Hill last week when 851 women voted in the W.S.G.A.election. K.U. women should have a head start in this field.
During the last two years, with the tremendous increase of interest in international affairs, there has suddenly sprung up, like mushrooms all over the country, a crop of radio commentators. Almost every man of normal intelligence who reads the newspapers regularly and possesses a passable voice seems suddenly to have envisioned himself as an authority on world problems, and to have been overwhelmed by the desire to distribute his great knowledge over the ether.
Thus one of our most learned and most recent professions has become corrupted. There was a day when years of experience and an exceptionable insight were prerequisites for members of the field. Then the commentator's words carried weight, and he was serving a useful function because this civilization has become entirely too complex for the untrained mind to grasp or comprehend.
There is still today a small group of reliable international authorities in the radio world such as smooth-tongued Raymond Gram Swing, energetic Edward R. Murrow, keen-
minded Elmer Davis, and much-traveled William L. Shirer. Even Hans Kaltenborn, despite his recent unjustified attacks upon labor, still holds a large following. However, these reliable voices are being drowned out by the almost unintelligible babblings of authorities sans authority, whose only contribution to their audiences seems to be confusion.
These erstwhile "experts" are the perpetrators of one of the worst frauds in radio history. Why should their opinions carry any more weight than the voice of the semi-informed man on the street? It is time that radio realizes that the public can be fooled just so long. Radio should clean up this mess itself!
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Thursday, April 9, 1942 No. 116
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.
Professor William A. Owens of Texas A. and M.
College will lecture on American Ballads and Folk-
songs in Fraser Theater at 4:30 on Friday, April 17,
under the auspices of the English Department. The
public is invited.-J. W. Ashton, Chairman.
Applications for Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. cabinet positions are available at Henley House and in the Y.M. office in the sub-basement of the Memorial Union building. Everyone wishing to apply see the secretaries, Roberta Tucker and Harry O'Kane. Applications must be turned into the respective offices by Tuesday, April 14.—Margaret Learned, Pres., Y.W.C.A.
A. ICh.E. will meet April 15 in the Kansas Room of the Memorial Union building at 8:00 p.m. Professor E. E. Brush will speak on "Magnesium Alloys." Plans will be made for spring party. All chemical engineers attend.-Richard Mankin.
TAU SIGMA will meet at the usual times this week—Anna Jane Hoffman, President.
Prof. Bernard Weinberg, of Washington University. St. Louis, will speak in the Pine Room, Union Building, 3:30 p.m., Friday, April 10, on "Balzac." This is the second of a series of lectures on the French Masters, presented under the auspices of the Department of Romance Languages. The public is urged to attend.
STUDENT DIRECTORY. All those interested in applying for the position of manager of the student directory for 1942-43 should do so before April 15. Applications should be filed with the secretary of the Men's or Women's advisor.Dave Watermulder, MSC President.
DANCE MANAGER. Anyone interested in applying for the position of Varsity dance manager for the year 1942-43 should make application before April 13. Applications should be filed at the office of the Men's or Women's advisor.-Dave Watermulder.
PREMEDICAL STUDENTS NOTICE: The premedical aptitude test will be given this spring on the afternoon of April 24. Those who plan to enter a medical school a year from this fall should register at once in Room 10, Frank Strong hall. For those who desire it and who pay the fee of one dollar at the time of registration a practice sheet will be available. All others will pay the fee at the time of taking the test. For any further information inquire of, Parke H. Woodard, Room 8C, Frank Strong Hall.
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DEAN SIMS
John Conard, college junior and journalist, is a darn good guy—but he does some funny things that often make us wonder about him. The note that was intercepted on its way to Saralena Sherman, also a college junior, follows:
Dear Saralena:
I ain't got no pin. I ain't got no money. But we can have an understanding. I ain't even got no money, but they tell me you can live on love. I realize that I ain't worth anything. I can't even keep my nails clean. We can grow a little garden. We can eat lettuce in the summer time. And store squashes in the cellar for the winter. Tell me, sweetheart, will you marry me.
P. S. I love you. And I want you to be my little bride
It's terrific news when one finds a couple of "boiled" Kappas walking around the campus—but I did. Shirley Wasson and Susie Wieder owe their baby-pink complexions to an excess of sun-bathing atop Gower place.
Bill Ellis, 1325 West Campus Road, recently wrote to a girl in Joplin, Mo. and requested an engagement for the coming week-end. In addition to the regular routine of asking for the date-he added a few pages of sentiments to sort of help things along.
A few days later he received a letter, not from the girl he had written to but from her mother.
"My dear Mr. Ellis," the letter read, "My daughter has been in the hospital with a nervous break-down for more than three months now. Might I suggest you get acquainted with her and then write those mushy letters."
Ellis now has a red face to go with his red hair.
The K.U. kids are hep to solid music, according to band leader Bob Crosby, who played for the Junior Prom of last year. In the current issue of "Music and Rhythm" Crosby lists the crowds he has played before that were most appreciative of "hot" music. K.U. is ranked as number six, following Boston, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
In the chemical engineering department a student came in yesterday and filled out a personnel data blank for future reference. He answered the first three questions with:
"My parents are of English ancestry, 20 years of age, and unmarried." (tch, tch).
Students at the University of Kansas buy approximately 5,000 theater tickets each week. This represents an average of more than a ticket a week for every student enrolled since the present enrollment is somewhat less than 4,000.
Students Serve As Guinea Pigs for Movies
A college campus offers an almost unlimited field for motion picture promotion and movie men go all-out to establish good will and attract the student patronage which amounts to nearly 50 per cent of the total busi-
During the nine-months of the regular school year Lawrence theaters sell 10,000 admissions per week, but during the summer months this figure is almost cut in half. Of course part of this difference is due to the fact that the best shows are released in the winter time when competition from outdoor recreation is less.
Students are a little more sophisticated and critical than the average citizen and are correspondingly more difficult to please. This is one reason for the use of a college city as a test tube for movie drawing power but a second important reason is the fact that there is undoubtedly a larger percentage of show-goers among students than among any other class of people.
University students are often used as guinea pigs for Hollywood productions. When film companies are uncertain as to the appeal of the picture to the general public, they often release it in a small college city before releasing it generally in the larger cities. Movie taste in a city such as Lawrence is unfailingly good; that is, the movies which go over in a small college city are almost certain to draw large crowds throughout the country.
Opportunities for movie promotion are multiplied tremendously on a college campus because of the large
number of campus activities which can be tied in with a current show.
The weekly Fine Arts recital was held at 3:30 this afternoon in Frank Strong auditorium.
Attendance records show that students like action pictures best with light musicals and comedies close behind. Semi-classical musicals are the least popular of all types of movies with campus movie-goers.
Fine Arts In Recital Thursday Afternoon
The program included Betty King, playing two cello numbers, Adagio by Breval, and Minuet by Becker. Arlene Nickels sang "Shepherd, Take Me by the Hand," and Betty Haney played the Bruch "Adagio from the Concerto in G minor."
Martha Dooley rendered the piano concerto in C minor No. III by Beethoven with orchestral parts on second piano by Prof. C. A. Prever.
The recital closed with a string ensemble composed of Marvin Zoschke, and Doris King, violin; Don Michel and Leora Adams, viola; John Ehrlich and Glenn Royer, cello. The selection was the first movement of Brahms' Sextet in G major.
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