1941
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PAPER UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
39th YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1941
NUMBER 3
Malott Emphasizes Responsibilities
Enrollment Shows Little Change
Hitt Announces Registration Figures--4,008
This figure should be boosted slightly by late registrants on Saturday. The figure at this time last year showed 4,043 students registered. Last years total figure, including all late registrations, stood at 4,354 on November 1. The enrollment in 1939 established an all-time high when 4,613 students were regularly enrolled in the University. This was an increase of 20 over the previous record enrollment of 1936.
Registrations totaled 4,008 at the end of the formal registration period last night at the University, James K. Hitt, assistant registrar announced today.
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New Head of Y.M.C.A. Is O'Kane
HARRY O'KANE
Harry W. O'Kane, head resident of men's dormitories at Northwestern University for the past seven years, has been appointed director of the Young Men's Christian Association and campus religious work at the University of Kansas, Paul B. Lawson, dean of the college of liberal arts and sciences, has announced. O'Kane succeeds John J. O. Moore, who resigned last spring to accept a post in Denver.
O'Kane is a 1928 baccalaureate graduate of the College of the Pacific and received his B.D. degree from Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Ill., in 1933. He received his Master's degree from Northwestern in 1934 and has remained on the staff there since graduation.
Gamma Phi's Place Henry In Contest
Gamma Phi Beta is the first sorority to name its candidate in the Kansan's Holiday Excursion Contest.
Shirley Henry, college sophomore, will try to win the trip to Sun Valley, Idaho, at the Kansan's expense for the West Campus Road sorority.
So far votes have not been coming into the Kansan newsroom in any large quantities, although it is estimated that around five thousand votes have been cast for the various candidates.
This morning free ballots worth two votes lapiece in the contest were passed out to students attending the University convocation. Green stickers urging students to send the paper home were pasted on University cars.
Most fraternities and sororities are taking some time to consider who their most popular member is to run in the contest."
The Independent Student Association failed to reach an agreement upon its representatives in the contest last night, but propose to announce their candidates in the very near future according to Fred Robertson, ISA president.
The four large prizes in the contest include free trips to Sun Valley, and Miami Beach for University women, and free trips to the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl for the men.
Brush Appointed to Engineering Faculty
Edward E. Brush, engineer with the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif., has been named associate professor of aeronautical engineering at the University.
Word was received today from Rex Cowan, last year's business manager of the University Daily Kansan. He is now playing with Buddy Fisher's dance orchestra in Richmond, Va. The band will go to Atlanta, Ga., in a few weeks for an engagement there.
COWAN IN NAME BAND
A graduate of the Daniel Gugenheim School of Aeronautics at New York University, Brush has had wide experience in the field of aeronautical engineering. He has taught at the University of Minnesota and at the University of California.
Power Strike Blacks Out Kansas City
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 17 - (UP)
EDWARD BRUSH
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 17 — (UP) — Kansas City and its environs with a population of some half million people were 'blacked out' for four hours today by a power strike.
A sudden, unannounced walkout at the Kansas City Power and Light Co., plunged the metropolis into darkness and halted all those vital
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Apply Now For Permit On Parking
All students who wish to park cars on the University campus should make application for parking licenses immediately according to Joe Brown, chairman of the Men's Student Council parking committee.
Applications should be turned in at the office of the adviser of men before Friday, September 26. Tags will be distributed to applicants soon after that date.
Christian Youth Groups Meet For Two-day Forum
A two-day forum for all adult leaders of Christian Youth Groups will be conducted at the University of Kansas on Friday and Saturday, September 26 and 27. The program dealing with the problems of youth and the work of Christian leaders in regard to youth, features many Kansans prominent in youth work.
Appearing on the program will be Rev. James Chubb, First Methodist Church, Baldwin; Dean John W. Day, Grace Cathedral, Topeka; Rev. Harold G. Barr, First Christian Church and member of the University of Kansas School of Religion, Lawrence; Mr. Fred L. Miller, Superintendent of Schools, Washington; Mr. Russell Carter, Director of Religious Education, Haskell Institute, Lawrence; Mr. W. D Volfe, Superintendent of Schools, Atchison; Mr. Marvin Schadt, Principal of High School and Sponsor of Hi-Y, Osage City; Miss Roberta Tucker, Secretary of Y.W.C.A., University of Kansas, Lawrence; Rev. Paul B. McCleave, First Presbyterian Church, Osawatomie; Mr. Keith Martin, Student President of the Y.M.C.A., University of Kansas, Lawrence; Rev. J. R. Wonder, Executive Secretary of the Kansas Council of Churches and Christian Education, Topeka; Rev. C. O. Bickel, Evangelical Church, Holton; Mr. Leo L. Gessell, Program Secretary of Area Y.M.C.A., Topeka.
Miss Florence Stone, Executive Secretary of Kansas District Y.W.C. A., Wichita; Rev. Frank Funk, First Presbyterian Church, Marysville; Rev. Raymond Baldwin, Director of
Religious Education, Discipline Church, Topeka; Mr. Paul B. Lawson, Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence; Rev. Edwin F. Price, Dean of the School of Religion, University of Kansas, Lawrence; Rev. R. O. Taylor, First Methodist Church, FT. Scott; Mr. John R. Williams, Sponsor of Hi-Y, Emporia; Mr. Clifford Dean, Superintendent of Schools, Lawrence; Mr. Ray Nesmith, Associate Hi-Y Secretary, Topeka; Miss Pearl Carpenter, Sponsor of Girls Reserve, Lawrence; Rev. Joseph F. King, First Congregational Church, Lawrence; Miss Margaret Leonard, Student President of the Y.W.C.A., University of Kansas, Lawrence; Lee Gemell, University Extension Division, University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Before a crowd of 4,000 faculty members and students attending the 76th annual opening convocation this morning for the University, Chancellor Deane W. Malott emphasized the responsibility of facing alternatives, and consequently of making decisions basically important not only to themselves as individuals but also having a bearing on future international relations, as the chief problem for American students.
4,000 Attend 76th Opening Convocation
Drew McLaughlin, Paola, spoke to the group as the official representative of the state board of regents.
Following the processional. Joseph F. Wilkins, of the School of Fine Arts, sang "The Star Spangled Banner," (Key). Dean Edwin F. Price, of the School of Religion, led the group in responsive reading of Psalm 84.
The University Band, under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, made its first appearance at the convocation, playing the Invocation of Alberich from "The Rheingold," (Wagner).
The rush spirit reached into many states last week, pulling sorority and fraternity alumni back to the Hill to advise, entertain, lend moral support, and push favorites. Greeks warmly greeted their graduated brothers and sisters and pushed them into line. Quickly everybody caught the contagious fever contracted each year around September. Then came the mad whirl called rush week.
"The responsibility for facing alternatives and hence for making decisions will never cease for you as long as you live in a free world." Chancellor Malott told the students. "Some people have a fear of making decisions; they avoid choices and alternatives and prefer to be told what to do, to be guided by a formula, or specific rules. College training has little to offer such a person." The Chancellor spoke of the im
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To Hell With It
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Frosh Rejoice
Liberty, Mo., Sept. 16—(UP)—Hell week for freshmen at William Jewell college was relegated to the discard today to be replaced by a free picture show and picnic.
The abolishing of hell week, which has been a tradition at the school since 1849, was announced this morning in the annual "senior proclamation," providing rules and regulations for freshmen.
In place of the customary "snipe hunt" and other hazing activities, the freshmen will merely be required to wear a red skull cap for one week and attend special freshmen convocations and other events.