UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
The Stars and Our Courses
When war comes to a country, people try to forecast coming events and to explain past ones. This is a natural desire, but can not often be accomplished by natural thought processes. As a result, mystical procedures are quite often brought to the foreground.
Astrology is one of these mysticisms, and Britain, among other nations, is now experiencing an astrology craze. Frank Russell Barry, an Anglican bishop, strongly denounced this tendency last week, saying, "If this (astrology) gets a hold upon our people, it will bring defeat, ruin, and damnation."
We might use some astrology here on the Hill this week, though. The technique of predicting the future by the stars, could be a big help during final week. We might all be Phi Beta Kappa's if we knew just what stars to watch. Studying the textbooks would become a mere incidental.
Any student could pick out the geology star, or the logic star, or the thermodynamics star, observe it for a few nights, then consult his charts, and find out some time before finals what questions were going to be asked. With this information in hand, he could anticipate anything even the most depraved and fiendish professor could ask.
If the faculty could be persuaded to hold finals at night, things would be even simpler. In case the student's memory fails him, he could race outside, point his astrolabe skyward, take a few rapid-fire calculations, and scamper back in with the answer.-B.J.A.
Add tongue twisters—headline in Chicago Tribune, "War may rob wee folks of rubber pants."
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After the doings in Russia and Libya, Herr Schickelgruber might write a sequel to his best seller and entitle it "Mein Scramf."
Weather Forecast
There has arisen some consternation in connection with the shutting down on weather forecasts as a military and naval necessity. The favorite gripe has been, "Why in a world as big as this one does the Kansas City, or St. Louis, or Dallas forecast bear any importance to a war that is so far from this area?" The act was deemed by many to be a silly, unwarranted restriction designed merely to scare us into realizing the seriousness of the situation we are facing.
It can be explained in this way. Meteorologists in an enemy land, by having in their possession barometer and temperature readings and other weather data from the western and northwestern states, can foretell by three to four days what kind of weather will prevail over the North Atlantic. This is all done on the knowledge that high and low pressure areas move from west to east, generally speaking.
It is this information that governs plane and ship movements. By thus looking into the future and sighting danger before it strikes us squarely on the nose, the government is doing a commendable job in requesting that the newspapers and radio withhold certain types of weather data. In the event of unprecedented weather changes that might be detrimental to stockmen and shippers, warning forecasts will still be given out; under ordinary conditions, however, it is necessary that forecasts be on a reduced scale.
Go to the Ant
In a neck-and-neck race for survival, man is lagging behind the insect, according to Prof. William T. Heron, a University of Minnesota psychologist.
"It seems to me that up to now the small-brained insects have been winning the race," he says.
The reason for this, he explains, is that manmade civilization has gone in cycles while ants and similar insects—flies, social beetles, and bees—have continued steadily for 15,000,000 years.
Their survival is due, Heron says, to control of reproduction and strict divisions of labor, "more organized than man's in some instances." Man's civilization, however, developed because man's brain enables him to adapt himself to new situations, while ant instinct is sufficient only to meet all situations in the same manner.—Associated College Press
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Tuesday, January 20,1942 No.75
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.
The Corporate Communion and breakfast of the Newman Club will be held after the 9:30 Mass next Sunday. The 9:30 Mass will be a Low Mass. All Catholic students are urged to attend—Lloyd Svoboda, Vice-President, Newman Club.
Seniors in the School of Education may make appointments for early enrollment. Last day for early enrollment is Monday, Jan. 20.—A. H. Turney, Education Adviser.
TAU SIGMA will not meet until the first Tuesday and Thursday next semester.—Anna Jane Hoxman.
All students not now registered in the Teachers Appointment Bureau, who expect to use the services of the bureau in seeking teaching positions for the school year 1942-43, are asked to attend a meeting in Frank Strong Hall Auditorium, Wednesday, January 21, at 4:30 p.m. The services of the bureau will be explained and registration blanks will be ready for distribution. H.E. Chandler, Secretary.
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
The censors have at last caught up with Helen Rhoda Hoopes, assistant professor in the English department!
While broadcasting recently over KFKU, Miss Hoopes had occasion to read some poetry especially appropriate for the spring season. Apologizing beforehand, she jokingly commented, "It seems odd reading such a piece when we're having such terrible weather outside."
Almost immediately the telephone in the studio rang violently. It WREN, whose facilities KFKU uses. "No more mention of the weather they snapped. "Government regulations!"
As if the coke shortage were not enough to worry about, the Memorial Union fountain boys are currently troubled by a coat which hangs heavy on their hands. Apparently tossed aside by some campus wag with wraps to spare, the three-quarter length reversible is a perplexing problem. The fountain doesn't know whether to give it to Bundles for Britain or start a search for the Ford to match the car keys in the pocket.
Footballer Paul Hardman gets my vote for having the smoothest running political machine on the Hill (Bill Douce's included).
At the I.S.A. election dance the other night, Hardman's date, Norma Ash- (continued to page senen)
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