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STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE KANSAS THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1941.
NUMBER 142.
38TH YEAR.
'No Cakewalk'--Dance Manager
'Successful Drive' Still $454.53 Short
Contributions solicited from students on the Hill yesterday for the World's Student Service Fund reached a total of $545.47, still $454.53 short of the $1,000 goal, John Moore, executive secretary of the Y.M.C.A., announced today.
"The drive was unusually successful," Moore said, "considering the innumerable handicaps."
Other drives, scheduled meetings, and delayed speakers interfered with the smooth progress of the Fund program during its pre-Tag day activities.
Several sources, who plan to do so, have not yet contributed to the fund. Three organized houses have not reported, many members of the faculty have not yet been checked.
"We will undoubtedly collect at least $800 by the end of this semester," said the secretary. "We expect to have $600 by tonight."
The profit from the midweek next Wednesday will go to the fund; Sigma Xi, science fraternity, is contributing; and proceeds from a church union service during the Seventy-fifth Anniversary celebration will be offered to the W.S.S.F.
Each of the 20 teams, consisting of 10 members each, had a goal of $50. The amount collected by each team will be announced at the W.S.-S.F. midweek.
Army Grabs Forty
Approximately 40 R.O.T.C. graduates are expected to report for a year of active duty as second lieutenants in the army this summer, Colonel Karl F. Baldwin, commander of the University R.O.T.C., said today.
These men are a part of the 8,000 R.O.T.C. graduates from schools schools throughout the nation who will be inducted into the army upon graduation this spring.
Sixty-nine cadets from the University R.O.T.C. will also report for summer training at the infantry camp at Ft. Riley, and the coast artillery camp at Ft. Sheridan, Ill.
'Poor Pitching'
'Skunked'
The business faculty was routed in the softball game yesterday afternoon to the tune of 7 to 0. "Next year," said F. T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business, "we are going to blindfold the students to see if we can beat them."
Only stars of the faculty team, Stockton asserted, were Leslie Waters, coach nad catcher; Peter Palmer, right field; and Tom Hancock, backfield.
The seniors defeated the juniors in a close game, and the seniors played the faculty. Score in the junior-senior game was 7 to 4.
Alfred Seelye pitched a 20-hit game for the faculty and diminished any chance they might have had, Stockton said.
Commerce Trounces Coalition
The Commerce party was victorious in the Business School election yesterday, winning every office except that of vicepresident.
Winners in the hotly contested race were president, Eldon Beebe, who won by a margin of 49 votes over his opponent, Bob Fluker; vice-president, Ed Linquist, Coalition man, who won by 15 votes over Chain Healy; secretary, Mary Ewers, who won by 40 votes over Billie Doris Jarboe; and treasurer, Roy Edwards, who beat Max Howard by 27 votes.
Results were announced at the Business School banquet in the Memorial Union building last night.
Featured speakers at the banquet were Homer B. Fink, secretary-treasurer of the Santa Fe offices in Topeka, and Ted V. Rodgers, president of the American Trucking Association, Inc. R. S. Howey, professor of economics, was toastmaster.
Both men spoke with reference to current problems in the field of rail and motor transportation, and of the impact of the war situation on transportation.
Weather
Fair tonight and Friday. Cooler tonight, warmer Friday afternoon. Saturday partly cloudy with thundershowers in the afternoon.
Spalding, Kerber Examine Facilities Report Better Unions
"Before our student Union can stand on a par with unions at other universities, it must be expanded as planned," reported Keith Spalding, chairman-elect of the Student Union Activities board, and Nancy Kerber, fine arts junior, at a dinner of the Activities board last night.
Spalding and Miss Kerber spent a weekend recently visiting the campuses of the University of Iowa at Iowa City, Iowa State College at Ames, and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
They brought back a detailed report showing that bigger and better unions are being enjoyed by students on these campuses. Kansas Has Smallest
Of the unions they saw, the Kansas building is the smallest, although it offers the greatest service to students for its size. At other schools, they found, the Unions
Services at Nebraska included Postal Telegraph, stationery supplies, movies, and hobby instruction
Have Detailed Services
The student fee at Lincoln is $3 a semester or summer school session. The report showed that Hill students get off easy on financing their Union.
Maintenance costs are supported by student fees. At the University of Iowa $1 a semester is added to the fees, and at Iowa State each students pays either $4 a quarter or $12 a school year.
The Iowa State Union was described as "magnificent." Facilities there included barber and beauty shops, a grill and cafeteria, Trophy Tavern for coking, a place for joke box dancing, and a ballroom, lounge and meeting room much as our Union building.
make profits on activities and have more extensive activities programs than have been sponsored here.
Also featured at Ames is tea dancing. From 4 to 5 p.m. once a week, students dance for no cost, with no stags to interrupt. At a big annual formal dance this Union makes enough to cover its activities budget.
Popular at Ames, Spalding said, was the bowling alley. A bowling alley is included in expansion plans for the Union here.
Iowa State had the most expensive Union — a building costing originally $1,050,000. Total investment at Nebraska was $750,000, and at Iowa U., about $500,000.
Bowling Alley Popular
In presenting their report, Spalding and Miss Kerber tried to show how the Union here might expand its services to meet student needs more thoroughly.
Couldn't Find A Good Band
The Cakewalk is off!
Fred Littooy, varsity dance manager, put an end to the "off again, on again" affair early this afternoon when he announced that the Senior Cakewalk definitely would not be held this year due to the failure to secure a satisfactory band.
According to Littooy, the only possible date was Saturday. May 31, during the final examinations, and when a good band
Rock Chalk
M.S.C. Names
Cheerleaders
Eight cheerleaders for next year were selected from about 20 students who tried out at the stadium yesterday. Bob McKay, M.S.C. president-elect, announced today.
One more girl may try out, but this list is expected to be final, McKay said.
Those who will pep up campus yelling next year are Roy Edwards, head cheerleader; Hal Ruppenthal, Joe Lindsay, Billie Doris Jarboe and Tommye Thompson, junior-senior cheerleaders; and Jim Waugh, Cannon Kane, and Mary Ellen Brown, sophomore leaders.
could not be secured, it was decided to cancel the Cakewalk.
M. S. C. Disappointed
Probably the most disappointed students of all will be the members of the Men's Student Council who will not get to use their new dance passes for the Cakewalk.
Until 1925, the Senior cakewalk resembled a senior party more than a dance. These old parties were held in the gymnasium where the students recited readings, served punch, and wafers and waltzed a little on the side. One feature of these early Cakewalks was that they were always planned to come at a full moon.
Last year nearly 650 couples Cakewalked to the slide music of Will Osborne in the Memorial Union ballroom and the previous year, 750 couples and 2000 spectators crowded Hoch auditorium to hear Kay Kyser.
After 1925, the Cakewalk was made an all-school dance with the best dance band obtainable.
Sunday Morning Church Concerts Tibbett Won't Open Week
Lawrence Tibbett will sing Monday night, but he will not have the honor of opening the University Music Week.
Music Week begins Sunday with special observances in all Lawrence churches through sermons and special music. Following the church programs the Haskell Institute band, directed by Phil Cato, will present a concert on the Haskell campus at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Making Sunday afternoon musically complete, four groups from the Lawrence public schools will sing and play at the public school music vespers in Hoch auditorium at 4 o'clock.
The groups participating in the vespers are the grade school chorus, directed by Miss Mabel Barnhart; junior high school chorus, directed by William Leech; senior high school orchestra, directed by Oliver Hobbs, senior high a cappella choir directed by Joe Williams.
Deadline Saturday Take Those Pictures Now
for Photographers
Deadline for entries in the Seventy-fifth Anniversary photographic contest is Saturday evening, Keith Spalding, president of the Student Union Activities board, announced today.
The contest, divided into two parts, is open to students, faculty, and townspeople.
Winning prints, to be judged by O. M. Hixon, Lawrence photographer, Raymond Eastwood, associate professor of drawing and painting, and George M. Beal, professor of architecture, will be exhibited in the Memorial $ ^{\circ} $
be exhibited in the Memorial Union building lounge from May 17 to 24.
The prints will be moved to Spooner-Thayer museum for exhibition during the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary celebration, and next year they will constitute part of the Big Six traveling exhibition of college photography.