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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Grand Finale
The curtain is about to come down on the fall semester of academic year 1941-42. Four more days of the hell on earth that is final examination week await a trembling, nervwracked student body, but plans are already being drafted for between-semeser activities. This is the last issue of the Daily Kansan for the semester, and reporters and editors can rest from further journalistic activity until February 4.
During this semester, both happenings at the University and events that have shaped and will continue to shape world history have moved with ink-stained feet across the pages of the Kansan. Some, unimportant little incidents or frothy features, scampered across the pages, left their tiny black marks, and were forgotten. Others tramped across with a heavy, military tread—graduates of the University under fire at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines; students dropping out of school to join America's armed forces; new names for placing on another bronze plaque on the Memorial Union building in some future time; a nation revising its way of living from peacetime to wartime, and the University revising its curriculum to meet present emergency and future needs.
The Kansan couldn't possibly print a lot of the things we would like to remember—the bull sessions, the steak fries, the pleasant sound of clinking beer glasses after that dull 3:30 class, the touch of pride as we watched the big shovels excavating for the new building, all the time we took to forget just for a while the cloudy future.
This was the fall semester, calendar year 1941-42, a semester we will remember for the holiday strike, for Pearl Harbor, for the thousand one little things that make up college life. When the semester began, America was at peace. In one of its first issues of the semester, the Kansan stated, in an editorial, that the spirit that made America a free nation, and developed a great state and a great university in the wilderness of Kansas could shine through any blackout. Now that the semester has ended, America is at war and the blackout is more than a figure of speech, but we still wish to emphasize our faith in the future of freedom and the progress of homo sapiens.
THE SUICIDE SQUADRON
In wartime there is a type of fighting force known as the suicide squadron. The aim of this military group is to deal out death and destruction without the slightest regard for the personal safety of its members. On Mount Oread there is also such a group. Perhaps it is not quite so deadly as the wartime suicide squadron but it can be just as annoying.
These patients have been tramping the campus all day sneezing and blowing into the
At Watkins Memorial hospital, dispensary hours are from eight to twelve in the morning and two to five in the afternoon. Those students who call for medical attention after the regular hours are called "out" patients, and their number has increased to the point where the night staff of the hospital has almost more than it can do. Although sufficiently staffed for emergency "out" patients, the hospital is not prepared to care conveniently for the others—the suicide squadron.
faces of their friends. Instead of reporting to the sudent hospital for treatment during the regular hours, they plod to class to infect everyone around them. What kinds of excuses do they give when they arrive at the hospital after dispensary hours? Usually they plead an important quiz that they couldn't possibly cut. This is supposed to elicit the sympathy of the nurse who is taking time from her bed patients upstairs to treat these colds. More often the reason is more elusive-an important midweek or a meeting of some kind.
Quite often an out patient is very ill merely because he has delayed reporting to the hospital. Then the interne who has been working all day, must be called to take care of the student. With finals just ahead, more and more students will be disregarding their sniffles and their headaches to muddle through exams, allowing the needed medical care to wait until they have more time. Is it any wonder that the hospital staff gets mildly out of patience with some of its out patients?—M.A.
Today's ode to futility: Emporia man married a widow with four children, explained situation to his draft board, asked for reclassification. He is still in 1-A.
Hollywood is producing another in a long series of horror pictures, this one to be known as "The Ghost of Frankenstein." This should be sufficient proof that you can't keep a good cadaver down.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Sunday, January 24, 1942 No.76
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.
TAU SIGMA will not meet until the first Tuesday and Thursday next semester.—Anna Jane Hoxman.
Men students who desire to apply for Templin, Battenfeld, and Carruth Hall Scholarships for the second semester should do so at once. Application forms may be obtained in Room 1, Frank Strong Hall.-Men's Residence Halls Scholarship Committee, Gilbert Ulmer, Chairman.
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS—Dr. E. T. Gibson is at the Watkins Memorial Hospital each Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 4:30 P. M. for discussion with students on problems of mental hygiene. Appointments may be made through the Watkins Memorial hospital. Ralph I. Canuteson, Director, health service.
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Rock Chalk Talk
DEAN OSTRUM
What better proof could there be that the Hill is engulfed in the throes of another hectic final week than the fact that the post office in Frank Strong reports the sale of more than 4,000 post cards. If you've taken your last final you might try worrying now about the $70 that will go into the purchase of an estimated 7,000 postals before the termination of hostilities Thursday.
Betty Jo Van Blarcom and Helen Lowenstein, Delta Gamma pledges taking advantage of the sunshine and warm weather the past few days exercise behind the D.G. house.
exercise behind the Deer house.
Activity consists of leaping over small bushes and shrubbery. For hour on end, Betty Jo and Helen, dressed in tennis shorts, race back and forth across the lawn hurdling the hedge. Betty Jo always dashes away first and Helen brings up the rear.
Pointless, isn't it?
A friendly wrestling match almost ended in tragedy for Sigma Chi pledged Danny Bachmann Friday afternoon. Playful Eugene "Blimpy" Mille picked Danny up, waved hi min the air, and dropped him o nthe floor. Only injury was a "very-nearly-broken" collar bone.
(If you won't press too hard, Lenny, George will let you pet the little rab bits.)
Tiring from her all-night study session, around 3 o'clock yesterday morning Mary "Scotty" Marrs slipped downstairs from her room at 1225 Oread t make a phone call to a friend. Hearing the noise, the landlady got out of bed and came out into the hall.
"Who's there?" she called.
"It's just Mary," Scotty answered, suddenly remembering the rule about to phone calls after one o'clock on a 12:30 night.
"Hmmm?" the landlady questioned.
"Oh, I'm just getting uh-uh piece of sheet music from the piano," stu tered Scotty. She stumbled into the darkened living room, fumbled for th music, and dashed back upstairs.
"Whew!" she breathed as she sank into her chair to get back to her studies.
On 2 her desk lay the sheet music. Brushing the scrap paper aside, she glanced at the title—"Why Can't This Night Go On Forever?"
Started in 1939
Co-op Dorms Operated On Scholarship Basis
The purchase of the Acacia fraternity house at 1515 O street by the Endowment Association brings to the University its fourth men's cooperative residence hall since the plan was first envisioned in May, 1939. In that month the Endowmer Association started a drive to raise $20,000 to purchase an equip the historic Brynwood place at the top of Fourteent street as the first men's dormitory.
Brynwood place, renamed A January, 1940, and restoration and furnishing the house was completed during the summer. On February 6, 1940, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced that the former chancellor's residence across the street from the first hall would be operated as the second unit in the new housing system. Battenfeld Added
Plans for the third hall were completed on March 28, 1940, and construction was started immediately. This was Battenfeld hall, erected by Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Battenfeld of Kansas City, as a memorial to their son, John Battenfeld, who had been killed in a motor car crash two months before.
The renovated Alumni place was namer Templin Hall in honor of the secretary of the Endowment association, Olin B. Templin. The old chancellor's home was named Carruth Hall, for Dr. W. H. Carruth, former vice-chancellor of the University.
Scholarships Awarded
Announcement of the Cooperative House scholarships was made in April, 1940, with prospective facilities for 118 men. The scholarships were to be granted on the basis of superior character and ability; inability to continue as a student without such assistance; sufficient resources to meet a share of the maintenance cost; and the
Alumni place, was purchased
applicant's spirit of cooperation. A far as is known, the University be came the only school in the country where scholarship is the basis fr admission to cooperative houses.
Through a year and a half of operation, the residence halls have proved their value to a university where 60 percent of the student contribute to their own support. At the end of the first school year 118 students had lived for $13.9 per month as the total expenditure for board, room, light, heat, power water, telephone, insurance, magazines and newspapers, house laundry, and salaries for the house mothers and proctors. This is be lieved to be a record low cost for housing in American colleges. This costs this year, however, are expected to be higher because of its creased expenses occasioned by the war.
Halls Self-Governing
Last spring a self-governing boo was established for the halls. The representative body, chosen for the three halls, formulates all regulations which affect the hall Known as the Men's Inter-Dor Council, the body has a membership of thirteen men. Each hall has fo men on the council, with the he proctor of the three halls as t thirteenth member. Each dormitory has as its representatives
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