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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1941
The KANSAN Comments...
ARE WE SNOBS?
When you go home for Thanksgiving vacation next month, someone will probably ask you, "How's that 'Country Club' University this year?" Although this may make you hopping mad, you will probably grin and bear it. Then, that night as you drop your second shoe, you will begin to wonder what that person meant by his remark, and whether his comment was well-founded.
We have talked with students from southeast, north, central, and west central Kansas, and many report that they have to fight "Country Club" prejudice in their home towns. Prejudiced citizens believe that the University is an extremely class-conscious school, out for a good time, and perhaps even snobbish; that a dollar means a great deal more to a Jayhawker than a dictionary. Persons holding such an opinion may never have visited the University, even for a football game. Yet from somewhere they have picked up this view of student life at Lawrence. It is interesting to ask if students themselves hold such an opinion.
One independent student, no longer on the Hill, had so bitter an outlook on the K.U. social system that it colored his philosophy of life. He wrote an article for a campus publication which reeked with the idea, "All the fun, warmth, and fellowship are on the inside. I am on the outside. I am sick at heart."
Another independent student, who now lives in a University-sponsored cooperative house, feels that "The University is not class-conscious at all. We men in these halls get an absolutely even break with the fraternity men." A woman in a non-Greek organized house holds a similar view.
A Greek-affiliated student said, "This University may try to be sophisticated, but it definitely is not snobbish."
"I think it is a friendly school. Before I came here, I was told that Lawrence had a very democratic campus, and I have found this to be true," a sorority woman declared.
Still, can you convince that home town acquaintance that he should not tack his "Country Club" epithet on the University?
In the back of everyone's mind seems to be the slight suspicion that by looking more to individual merit and less to organized backing, campus activities and reputation would stand to gain. After all, we don't want to give anyone a reason to call us snobs.-H.V.
NATURE AND THE LAW
Judging from pictures that appeared in a recent Kansas City Times and K. C. Star, Frank Buck should be made chief of police there.
The Times had two pictures of the law-enforcement branch in action—one in which an officer was wrestling unsuccessfully with a belligerent-looking goat, and one in which a detective was looking apprehensively at a coot (a species of migratory waterfowl, to the curious) which had landed on a window sill at the station house.
Even more graphic was the photo in the Star. It showed the climactic moment in a battle between a housewife, a cat, a dog, a colored maid and two policemen on one side, and an opposum on the other. The only combatants visible were the two cops, one of them carrying a 2 by 4, and the possum, which was lodged in a wood-
pile and seemed to be giving everyone hell in possum language.
The police blotter must have looked like Chapter I of "Wild Animals I have Known." However, from the stories in the paper, law and order were done an injustice. Instead of getting a stretch for resisting arrest, the possum was taken to the country and liberated. The coot, instead of taking a vagrancy rap, was released and allowed to continue his way south. And William Goat, who was caught eating flowers, was returned to his owner unpunished. This will set a bad precedent. Pretty soon moths will be making daylight raids on occupied overcoats.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Friday, Oct.17, 1941 No.25
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.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The Christian Science Organization will hold a regular meeting Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine Room of the Memorial Union building. All students, graduates, and faculty members are welcome.Betty Charles, secretary.
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY EXAMINATIONS: Proficiency examinations in French, German, Latin, and Spanish will be given at 10 a.m., Saturday, October 25, in Frank Strong 107. Students who have had at least two units (years) of credit in any one of these languages are eligible for the examination in that language. Students who pass the examination are not required to take further work for the Bachelor degree. Dictionaries are permitted.
MEETING OF ALL UNIVERSITY WOMEN: There will be a meeting of all University women in the Union ballroom at 4:30 Tuesday, Oct.21, for the purpose of voting on the revised W.S.G.A. constitution.
Registration must be made at the College office by 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 23—W. H. Shoemaker.
The next regular meeting of the Men's Student Council will be on Monday, Oct. 20, at 8:00 p.m. in the Pine room.—Fred Lawson, secretary.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB: Psychology Club will meet at 4:30 p.m. Monday, October 20, in room 21 Frank Strong hall. Judge Frank Gray of Lawrence will speak on the work of the Juvenile Court. Everyone interested is cordially invited to attend. A special invitation is extended to members of the Sociology Club.
NOTICE TO PREMEDICAL STUDENTS: Premedical students who are interested in making application for admission to the University of Kansas School of Medicine for the freshman class of 1942-43 should submit applications as soon as possible. Application forms can be obtained from the School of Medicine Office, Room 10. Frank Strong Hall. O. O. Stoland, secretary.
DIRECTORY: Copy for the Student Directory is now being prepared. Students who have not filed addresses and telephone numbers at the Registrar's Office should do so at once. James K. Hitt, assistant registrar.
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Latest words to a current "boogelie" tune—guess which one—are, "These little Jayhawks went to Marquette." Silly, isn't it?
Rock Chalk Co-op's trusty twenty are all out in their black-and-red shirts and Levi pants again today, as they plan to be every Friday. The only change this week is that two ingenious members, John Conard and Greer Zimmerman, are wearing their shirts inside out.
Kappa Sigma scored last night with a novel way of distributing invitations for a party to be held at the chapter house tomorrow night. A cigar-smoking quartette went from house to house during dinner hour yesterday to sing, "It's Only an Old Beer Bottle," and pass out beer bottles containing the invitations.
Men in the quartette were Larry Hensley, Merrill Jones, Roy Shoas, and Bill Phelps.
Hensley starred again later with his solo on the Kappa Sig serenade. It was souful. Campus women sighed.
The number two Miller hall girl friend of Johnny Anderson, Jayhawk Co-op, who came into the picture when Anderson's first choice at Miller was not on hand, sent him a gift yesterday. Since she believed the attentions of two women were having certain strange effects upon his character, she mailed him a box of aspirin with advice. "Maybe this will help decrease the size of your head," and a plea for him to send back to her any of the tablets he did not need. The involved affair has its worries for her, too.
At the Kappa-Alpha Chi volley ball battle Wednesday night, sidelines were entertained by Margie Tibbets, Kappa pledge, who was in the game—but seriously. By the time she came up to serve, "I'm a nervous wreck," she breathed to the crowd.
The Delt goat, Tau, was on hand for the Delta Tau Delta-Phi Gam football game yesterday afternoon, but did not get into the mascot groove until the second half. The first period went 26-0 in the Fiji's favor. Then, goaded by Harry Grimshaw and Bill Hancock, his keepers (the goat got down to heavy concentration and mental telepathy for the team. The second half score was 6-0, with the Delts making the touchdown.
"A Woolworth store in New York offers patriotic fingernails, the Stars and Stripes in decalcomania-you, transfer pictures. Be sure the stars are at the tip; that's the way the President wants it, the salesgirl warns."
Spice To Season Your Telephone Talk
“Across the river from President Roosevelt's Hyde Park estate, Father Divine's haven at Krum Elbow flaunts two signs. One announces 'PEACE'; the other, lit only when Father Divine is there, consists merely of the initials 'F.D.R.' This means, the caretaker explains: 'Father Di-*
vine in Residence'."
From the back files of The Reader' Digest:
"When one of the town's most important movie producers had his secretary call John Barrymore to invite him to a party, Barrymore politely murmered into the telephone, I have a previous engagement, which I shall make as soon as possible."
"A man named Finkelberger went to court to have his name changed to Kelley.
Why? asked the judge.
Business reasons, was the reply. So ordered.
In a year he was back, before the same judge. He wanted to be known as Murphy.
Why?
Because whenever I tell anybody my name he looks at me and asks: "What was it it 'ore it was Kelley?"
“At a party given in honor of Thomas Mann, a noted Glamor Girl found herself dancing with the eminent author and was duly thrilled. She smiled up at him and purred: 'I just love culture, don't you?'”
Tulane University has a scholarship for descendants of Confederate soldiers. Transylvania college, Lexington, Ky., is operated by the Disciples of Christ.
Students Report On Welfare Work
Sunday evening at 7:00 at Westminster hall, 1221 Oread, Fred Truxal, Peggy Osmond, and Paul Gilles, all juniors in the college, will relate various experiences they had while participating in church welfare work this summer.
Truxal served with the Friend's Service committee of Philadelphia in Americanization work concerning refugees of 12 European nations.
Gilles was counselor in a camp sponsored by the Grace Community Church of Denver. John Moore, former secretary of the Y.M.C.A. on the Hill, was director of this camp. The camp worked with underprivileged and delinquent boys of Denver.
Miss Osmond participated in a project in Colorado, under direction of the Lisle Foundation, which did community work in recreation, religious and cultral enterprises in a number of towns in the state.
Because of dangers of excess eye strain, children should not learn to read until $6\frac{1}{2} $ or 7 years old in the opinion of Dr. Helen A. Field, professor of education at University of Pennsylvania.
Roy