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Help for Freshmen
The Men's Student Council has been working for more than a month on plans for a credit course in Freshman Orientation to be offered as a part of the University curriculum.
This would be a lecture course, consisting at first of a brief history of the University, an explanation of extracurricular activities, and later of lectures and roundtable discussions by faculty members of each of the schools and departments. Another series of lectures would tell the student how to take notes, how to study, and in general how to get the most out of the courses he is taking.
The hardest task for the freshman is to become acquainted, to learn what is required of him, and to learn to study in order to meet those requirements. This proposed course would help the new student through the lectures, and the roundtables might be of benefit to faculty members, as well as freshmen.
The course would help students to decide upon the field in which they wish to major, and save the loss of time that attends a late decision in that matter.
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1941.
"Let the government take over and operate the plants where defense production is being curtailed because of strikes."
The orientation course is an attempt to aid the student, and if it is approved, will be of immense value to all freshmen and new students.
This statement is currently being heard from persons who are favoring the strikers as well as from those opposing them.
Labor Rights
This action would mean the retrogression of unionism and at the same time the curtailment of individual enterprise. With the government operating defense plants, the unions would find themselves being constantly restricted until unionism would eventually disappear.
In totalitarian states where government has taken over factory management and control, labor has had to bear a considerable portion of the sacrifice made for increased production. In Germany, where workmen labor for the Fuehrer, laborers have been refused the privilege to organize independently and bargain collectively.
These are among the factors which cause labor leaders to battle over technical matters where production for national defense seems to be a matter of utmost importance to America. These are the reasons labor leaders refuse to agree with mediation boards and hold out against governmental legislation.
But government management and control is not American. Such action belongs to the totalitarian states. It simply isn't our way of doing things.
This does not mean that the American government should not be strong. We need to meet production schedules for defense the American way by curbing those people who are responsible for unnecessary strikes and at the same time giving labor assurance that its right will be preserved.
How to be comfortable, yet conscious, in classes is a pressing problem during spring term.
The Defense Rests
It seems to be a generally accepted idea, even though dictated by social convention, that
students really should stay awake in classes. With some, appearances in class are so infrequent on days when it isn't raining that impromptu celebrations can be organized to keep them awake for the duration of the hour.
This, however, obviously cannot be a regular procedure for the rank and file of students. Each one of these must face and conquer his individual problem.
The simplest way is to sit back of some rather bulky individuals, effectively screening dormancy from the prying eyes of the instructor. Of course if seated in the front row a student has to be ingenious. This is also the case if the instructor is one of those unfair individuals who insists on moving around.
Even these peripatetic pedants can be outmaneuvered by the use of colored glasses, provided the sleeper doesn't sprawl too noticeably over the adjacent territory.
For those who insist on staying awake little advice can be offered except a word of warning to pick out a vacant seat for parking the feet. Some people dislike toes sticking them from behind and may even grow bitter about it. Comes the hevolution and all classrooms will have chaise lounges as standard equipment.- Michigan State News.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol.38 Thursday, April 17, 1941 No.126
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
COLLEGE FACULTY: The April meeting of the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be held Tuesday, April 22, at 4:30 in the auditorium on the third floor of Frank Strong Hall—Deane W. Malott, Chancellor.
ARCHERY: A meeting of all men and women interested in Archery will be held on Thursday at 7:30 in the women's Physical Education Office in Robinson Gymnasium—Joie L. Stapleton.
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS: Dr. E.T. Gibson will be available for personal conferences at Watkins Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 5. Appointments should be made at the Watkins Memorial Hospital.-Ralph I. Canuteson.
DRAMATIC CLUB: An important meeting will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Little Theatre, Green Hall. All members are urged to come. Professor Crafton will review his new spring musicale, and plans will be made for its presentation.-Dave Watermulder.
KAPPA PHI: There will be a regular meeting at the residence of the Reverend Edwin F. Price, 1209 Tennessee, on Friday, April 18, from 7 to 8 o'clock. There will also be installation of officers.—Kathryn Schaake, publicity chairman.
PHI CHI THETA: There will be a business meeting in the Union building at 4:30 Tuesday, April 22. Election of officers will be held -Marjorie Neumann.
QUILL CLUB: Fech rune of the American College Quill Club will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 in the Pine Room.-Mary Elizabeth Evans, chancellor.
PHI SIGMA: Chancellor Deane W. Malott will be guest speaker at the spring initiation banquet to be held at Evans Hearth, Wednesday, April 23, at 6 p.m.—Frank Kalich, president.
SQUARE DANCING: There will be square dancing Friday at 8 o'clock—Ruth Hoover.
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Sooner or Later Students Learn To Spend
At Stephens College a course in Personal Finance has been established so that girls will know how to save and how to spend money wisely. The idea, according to news dispatches, is to teach girls how to spend money before they begin to earn it, which sounds like something most of us have been doing for years.
The course emphasizes, among other things, the fallacy of "Keeping up with the Jones's" and the value of sales resistaie. "Learn to discount the flattery of the sales person," says the text. In a coeducational institution such as ours, the girls have opportunity to discount flattery through experience. That's particularly true now that spring is here.-Indiana Daily Student
Jayhawk Gets Its Face Lifted For Anniversary
Who did it! Who did it! They have streamlined the Jayhawk, so help me they have—and after all these years. He's a perfect 36 and he's proud of it! He holds his head up higher and his shoulders are a bit straighter—or does he have shoulders? Anyway, they have made over the famous University of Kansas Javhawk.
He is a little clay model about three inches high and he stands on a wooden base with his wings spread as if ready for flight. He isn't so much the gay old bird—but a more dignified fellow who was the brain-child of Elden Tefft, fine arts sophomore.
Mr. Jayhawk is quite a local fellow—being modeled from Mount Oread clay. As for his new spring suit—the color combination has not been decided yet. He must be at his best when he makes his debut at the Seventy-fifth Anniversary banquet in the spring when he and his 1,999 brothers and sisters will be given as favors to the people attending the banquet.
The C.S.E.P. students and the W. P.A. workers made the molds, and pouring of plaster began April 16.
Jimmy Jayhawk first saw the light of day in "Poco" Frazier's basement studio in Spooner-Thayer museum.
Lawrence merchants completed the arrangement of their exhibits today in preparation for the opening of the Lawrence trade show at 7 o'clock tonight in the basement of the Armory building.
Trade Show Opens Tonight
Thirty-six firms have prepared 43 exhibits for the show, which will be open from 7 to 10 o'clock Thursday, Friday and Saturday night and from 1 to 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Groups of University and high school musicians will furnish music during the show.
Admission at the door will be 10 cents but tickets may be obtained from merchants free of charge. Tickets will have detachable stubs for the drawing of a cash prize of $10.
Cause of the trouble: "itching powder." really a paste, which Bradford rubbed on roommates. Curing the itch required soap and water, cold cream, and stout remarks by Bob Page, one of the "itchers."
They say a man with an itching foot never finds rest. But when Bill Bradford gave his roommates itching foot, it was Bill who didn't find rest.
By HEIDI VIETS
When Hal Ruppenthal was home for Easter, he got chucked in the jug.
Larry Blair, Sigma Nu, has joined the ranks of popular composers. He has been working on several songs lately, and is sending "Why Talk About the Weather," his favorite, into Tommy Dorsey's program.
Ruppenthal, being smooth-chinned, was arrested and thrown in the hogsewg. By the time his trial came up, however, he had escaped by sucking in his breath and going between the boards.
The town of Russell is getting ready to celebrate its seventieth anniversary, and part of the preparation is that all the men are growing beards. Nonconformists are stuck in a board jail especially for beardless men.
The judge almost fined him 50 cents, but decided under the circumstances to suspend sentence.
Since Easter, the Theta-Phi Psi feud has definitely died down. Aren't we going to have any more fireworks before the Fourth of July?
April showers brought May flowers a little early to Kay Bozarth. Pass night she received a box containing one dozen daffodils, one dozen roses, half a dozen carnations, three Easter lilies, and three snapdragons—but no card.
Whenever Jimmy Draper goes into a room and locks the door at 1041 Tennessee, the boys get suspicious. Draper has established a reputation for making time bombs and putting them in bers.
Charity begins almost anywhere nowdays. Betty West is knitting "bundles for Britain" in the journalism building.