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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1941
The KANSAN Comments...
HORROR ON THE HILL
"COLLEGE men make the best movie villians, writer says." This headline appeared in the Kansas City Star movie section Sunday. The story that followed explained that while many of the prominent heroes and heroines have only high school educations, the top-flight meanies all possess a college diploma.
However, most of these screen monsters did not leave the cloistered halls of college and go directly to the pre-fabricated haunted houses on the movie lots. Instead, they cast about in other fields, and movie goers were for a time deprived of many gruesome thrills.
Perhaps these veteran villains can aid college men now wandering aimlessly about the campus: the natural-born ogre trying to become an engineer, or the perfect mad butcher wasting his time in the School of Education. We propose that a School of Movie Villainy be established, and suggest the following faculty and curriculum:
Chairman: Karloff.
Assistant professors: Lugosi, Lorre, Rathbone.
Instructor: Mr. Hyde
Instructor: Mr. Hyde.
1. Elementary Horror. Theory and practice. Simple murders, and a study of the methods of Typhoid Mary and Jack the Ripper. Staff.
2. House Haunting. Prerequisite 1. Field trips and lectures. Karloff and Lugosi.
10. The Villain in Society. A non-technical course. Rathbone.
25. Advanced Murder. Prerequisite, 1 and 2. Open to majors only. More complicated murders, and study of the theories of Bluebeard, Genghiz Khan, and Ivan the Terrible. Laboratory fee, $2. Lorre and Hyde.
51. Principles of Poisoning. Prerequisite, two years of high school chemistry . Karloff.
121. Torture I. Open to juniors and seniors. Investigation of the methods of the Gestapo and the Ogpu, and research work. Staff.
150. Torture II. Clinical work and field trips.
Rathbone.
236. Seminar. Grave-robbing, black magic, seances, etc. Karloff and Hyde.
No red-blooded, industrious manic-depressive or schizophrene should overlook this opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a sadistic profession.
AT LONG LAST—CONVOYS
THE decision of the American government to place the navy on active convoy duty, although it should have been done long ago, is a good stride forward in the battle against the Axis.
The boys on the back fence, Wheeler, Lindbergh, Nye, et al., will bustle about trying to hire halls in which to denounce this move as a warlike act. And they will be correct. For that matter, sending ships laden with food and munitions and implements of war to England constitutes a warlike act. A naval convoy merely insures their safe arrival.
A moderate amount of clamor has been raised over attacks recently staged on American ships by German U-boats and planes. These attacks probably would not have occurred had these ships been given adequate protection instead of being allowed to travel unarmed and unescorted, an easy prey to roving submarines. The subs have shown a decided reluctance to attack a protected convoy, preferring to lurk about and pounce on stragglers. But too many
ships loaded with vital materials for Britain's war effort have gone down because the British navy, what with its losses in line of duty and its need of ships for patrol duty over an erormous expanse of ocean, simply is not large enough to provide a defense for every group of supply ships trying to get across the ocean.
According to naval experts, the American navy is splendidly equipped to do battle either with surface raiders or U-boats, so Herr Schickelgruber may have some sleepless nights in the near future.
"The free man is the broad-minded man," declared William Lindsey Young, president of Park college at the opening convocation. "The man who is liberally educated will never be imposed upon by political demagogues, nor will he succumb to the cheap and subversive propaganda of pressure groups."
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Wednesday, Sept. 24,1941 No.8
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 BETA PI: Meeting will be at 8:30 tonight in the Pine Room of the Memorial Union building.-John Harkness, secretary.
WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB: Last try-outs tonight. Wednesday, 8:00 p.m., room 306, Frank Strong.-Virginia Gsell, president.
Swiss Flag Swingers see Mr. Wiley, Room 302 Frank Strong Hall, Wednesday through Friday, Sept. 24-26, between hours of 1:30 and 5 p.m.
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.
A. S.M.E.: The A.S.M.E. Smoker will be held on September 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Men's lounge of the Union Building. All mechanical engineers are cordially invited. Refreshments will be served.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: Rev. E. J. Weisenberg, S.J., will be at room 415, Watson Library every Thursday from 1:00 to 5:00 for personal conferences.—Bernard Hall, vice-president, Newman Club.
MATHEMATICAL COLLOQUIUM: Dr. R. S. Pate will be the speaker at the first meeting of the Mathematical Colloquium on Thursday, September 25, at 4:30 in 213 Frank Strong Hall; his subject will be Multigroups: General Theory. The colloquium is open to all who are interested.-G. Baley Price, for the Colloquium Committee, Mathematics Department.
FRESHMEN: All Freshmen interested in the Freshman Commission of the Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. will meet in the Pine Room of the Union Building at 4:30 on Thursday, September 25.-Ed Price, chairman of joint Y.M.-Y.W. Freshman Commission Committee.
ENGLISH PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION. The first examination of the four to be given this school year will be held on Saturday, Oct. 4, at 8:30. Candidates must register in person at the College Office, 229 Frank Strong Hall, Sept. 29, 30, Oct. 1. Only juniors and seniors are eligible. Seniors who pass this examination may qualify for graduation in June, 1942—J. B. Virtue.
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Last night while the Phi Psi's were downstairs holding pledge court, the Theta active chapter (their freshmen were on walkout) invaded the parlor. Followed an hour of friendly conversation, another episode in the Psi-Theta jeud turned buddy-buddy.
Before the girls went back into the Theta house after their walkout last night, they and their Phi Delt pledge A.W.O.L. dates did a bit of serenading back and forth. Students in nearby houses quit the books, listened carefully, and reported the singing to be good but pledgey.
It comes out now that one Sigma Nu pledge was absent from the yell-in last Thursday night. After the buffet supper Bill Rolfe and his Kappa freshman date took a stroll down the new Sigma Nu drive. While they were looking the situation over, they suddenly realized that the yell-in ceremony was already in progress.
Riders on a hay ride given last weekend by John Gage, Sig Alph, are still talking about what a natural is Bob Kiscadden on a horse. They say he had all the long and lanky requisites for a Saturday night movie idol, answer to a Kansas cowgirl's prayer.
Miss Joie Stapleton was surprised when prospective members of the Archery Club assembled for practice last Sunday afternoon. The club has a mixed membership; and although all campus Dianas had been urged to come, those who showed up were almost all William Tells.
Inhabitants of West Campus road agree that anybody who thought he or she heard any Sig Alph rumpus on Tuesday morning, following their walk-out, was either having bad dreams or listening to the voice of Doom. No such paddling scene as was mentioned in this column yesterday really occurred.
Persons who try to explain his origin ornithologically say that he is a hybrid composed of half parts blue jay and sparrow hawk, two famous home wreck-4
Like most famous mythological characters, the Kansas Jayhawk is a fable no one can explain satisfactorily. The only thing of which Kansans can be reasonably certain is that he did not, under any circumstances, spring full grown from the brow of Jove. But since his place in Kansas hearts is high, his shady past does not threaten his place in affairs of state.
ing birds of the Missouri Valley. There is no denying the fact that his 19th century reputation was poor, being the local god of plunder, but in the last 75 years his morals have been on a strictly Salvation Army plane.
In the folk lore files the following story has gotten a lot of house with first settlers. Some of the migratory Joads who were passing through the Missouri Valley on their way to the California gold rush called themselves Jayhawks, since it was their custom to steal anything which might help them on their way.
The Jayhawk first went to college in 1884 when the name of the bird was put in a college yell by Prof. E.H.S. Bailey. Our nasty tempered friend remained a purely mental image until 1911 when Henry Maloy, a student at that time, drew his conception of the Jayhawk for the student annual. Kansas historians say that all later conceptions of the Jayhawk have been taken from his early efforts.
In 1856 an Irishman named Pat Devlin took a little foraging trip over into Missouri to see what he could pick up at the expense of his next door neighbors. When he returned home to Kansas after his expedition and was asked where he had been, Pat pulled out his loot and said, "Oh, I bane jawhawkin' over in Missouri."
Kansas Jayhawk Comes From Legend and Myth
If you've got to be scientific about this thing, there is really a bird which does look like our own Elmer. The toucan, which is a
black and yellow native of British Hondoura looks enough like the Kansas branch of the family to make a scientific explanation plausible.
Another existing theory pertains to a Colonel Jennison of New York who forsook the bright lights to come out to the plains. He organized a band of free state fighters which carried the name of "Jayhawker." His gun toting friends called Col. Jennison a "Gay Yorker" since he was from the foreign east, and home town philologists say that the word "Jayhawker" is a corruption of "Gay Yorker."
So you may pick any of the tales about the Jayhawk as being authentic and be absolutely correct, only please, no cracks about his family tree. He's sensitive about it.
There used to be a live toucan on the campus circa 1928, but it seems he died a sudden and humiliated death after a cyclonic Missouri victory over Kansas.
Five Seniors Take Over Home Ec. Practice House
As part of their work in the home administration course, five college seniors, Mary Jo Gerdeman, Margaret Anne Reed, Kay Stinson, Margaret Neal, and Mrs. Helen H. Wilson, will take over the operation of the home economic practice house for the next six weeks. They will be under the supervision of Miss Olga M. Hoesley, associate professor of home economics.