UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE KANSAS WEDNESDAY APRIL 23 1941
38TH YEAR.
NUMBER 131
3,400 Students Dig
Prof. F. A. Russell, Betty Hess, and Jean Fees prove that engineering and dandelion digging are kindred.
QUIET POLITICS Pass 5 Bills in 14 Meetings Appoint 26 Committees
BY GLEE SMITH
A Student Council which had eight replacements during the course of the year has almost completed one of the quietest terms in the Council's history.
Doing their part toward eliminating the undesirable elements of inter-school rivalry with Kansas State, the University Council went to Manhattan for a love feast in October. The result of this banquet was a trophy to be presented each year to the winner of the annual K. U.-K. State football game.
Both parties had 11 men on the Council. F. S. G. L.'s Bill Farmer ruled as president after winning a one-vote decision over Pachacamac's McKay who served as representative-at-large and the leader of the Pachacamac vote.
By the provisions of one of the Council bills, the University had women cheerleaders for the first time in history, but the student law makers spent long hours trying to decide what kind of costumes these women should wear.
Five bills were passed, and each of these was merely an amendment to some pre-existing bill. The parking bill was amended twice, and bills were passed to govern the selection of varsity dance manager, student directory editor, and upper class cheerleaders.
There have been an unusually large number of appropriations and
Number of Committees
appointed 26
Bills introduced 7
Bills passed 5
Bills tabled 2
Resolutions introduced and
passed 7
Number of meetings 14
Treasurer Lee Huddleston has barely managed to keep the Council in the black.
council government resulted in the appointment of a joint committee from both M.S.C. and W.S.G.A. to study plans for combining the councils, but as yet no action has been taken on this matter.
Student demands for a single
Main ideas for the betterment of students were Farmer's plans to include an orientation course in the curriculum and the idea for the establishment of a Big Six booking agency, to insure better bands at lower prices.
PEACE DOVE FLUTTERS
Dandelions, Not Poppies, Begs Sheet
Taking advantage of an all-out and no-school day, an unknown organization flooded the campus today with peace propaganda.
The sheet stated that today is the annual student peace day, and struck a note of timeliness with "We want to keep having Dandelion days, not Poppy nothing of the plan. days."
Instigators of the peace move are unidentified. "I know who they are, but I cannot reveal their identity," said Fred Robertson, college junior. "The group is unique."
Student reactions varied. "It doesn't make sense," said Bud Boddington, college freshman. Like many others, he felt that the present international situation is beyond remedy by such propaganda. "It's a crackpot,' said Jeanne Popham, college sophomore.
John Moore, executive secretary of the Y.M.C.A., said that he knew
Yank 10-15 Tons Of Pesky Posies
Today's the day—the day of yellow flowers, aching backs and hilarious celebration. Dandelion Day.
Plans for the day were laid in March, altered once by rain and hesitant dandelions, and were culminated today by 3,400 students and faculty members digging posies and letting their
All Honors Convocation On Friday
"The Importance of Scholarship" will be brought before the student body of Judge Merrill E. Otis, federal judge from Kansas City, in the main address of the morning.
The University orchestra will open the program with a selection entitled "Prelude from Electra" composed by the late Charles S. Skilton, former professor of organ.
All Honors Convocation, the event of the year for high ranking scholars, is scheduled for Friday morning at 10 o'clock.
Most important events will be the announcement of Honor Man, the outstanding senior man who graduated last year; of Mortar Board, senior women's honor society; and Sachem, senior men's honor society.
A total of 154 other students, the classes, will be recognized as members of the Chancellor's Honor Roll and will be seated in a body at the front of the auditorium.
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10-15 Tons of Weeds
If quantity means anything, the day most certainly has been a success. Shortly after noon today Field Marshal Wright estimated the dandelion harvest already delivered to the weighing-in stand at 20,000 pounds. Probably 10,000 pounds more would come in after 12 o'clock. Wright said.
The K-Club has a regular Ringling Bros. tent show. The K-men perform before grandstand seats, giving sweet music through their beef-trust chorus and providing a continuously exciting entertainment with their wrestling matches. Putting Green
A putting green has been set up by the Y.M.C.A and W.Y.C.A. Persons wishing to demonstrate their golfing skill can do so at the giveaway rate of one cent for four putts. Many holes have been provided, and as many golfers as wish to may putt at any one time.
Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, has provided a booth which is receiving a great deal of attention. A complicated system has been arranged whereby a boy is suspended above a tank of cold water, hot water or dandelion vines according to the temperature of the hour, and when a customer throws a baseball and hits a certain trigger, the boy is dropped from his perch into the tank.
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Rita Lemoine, Chuck-Wright and Peggy Roberts mug with some dandelions, all for a good cause.