The KANSAN Comments...
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BIG POLITICS
Tonight the W.S.G.A. has another meeting. Almost all members of the council will be there because this meeting and the one before it are the only important ones of the year.
TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1941.
Why are they the important meetings? Because our student government is composed of students who feel that the most important part about government is to get elected to office. Student affairs can go hang for all they care.
The odds are very much against the idea that the resolution regarding combining the men's and women's governing bodies will get even a glance. That is too much like doing something constructive.
So, tomorrow the W.S.G.A. will announce its new slate of candidates. There will be no great choice between any of the candidates. Until a new spirit of responsibility to the students arises in that governing body, no one can be elected out of the chosen group which has control who will be worth a plugged nickel as a student representative.
What's the matter with our students? Don't they realize they are being duped by both our student councils? The only thing our "Hill politicians" consider worthwhile in our government is the honor of being elected to an office in it.
Student government on this campus needs new blood. It needs new leadership. It needs men and women who are conscious of their responsibilities.
Mussolini declared the Italians will march with the Germans to the very end. And may the end bustify the meanies!
GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP
Last week C. E. McBride, sports editor of the Kansas City Star, devoted his entire column to an open letter to the athletic directors in the Big Six. The subject of the letter was the actions of the crowds at most of the Big Six basketball games this year.
This season the fight for the basketball championship of the Big Six has been very close. Nearly every game has been hard fought and full of thrills. An exciting game brings the emotions of the spectators to a fever pitch, and the crowd becomes a roaring mob. Boos and hisses and jeers are taken up and soon the whole crowd is castigating the officials, the opposing team, the opposing coach, and everything about the school which the team represents.
Probably at some time or another every referee in the business has been booed by irate fans. Most of them, however, can "take it."
To boo the opposing players and coach is quite another thing. The other team is made up of young men who are doing their best to win the game even if they get a little rough doing it.
Booing has been common at collegiate athletic contests for only a few years. For some reason, college men and women used to think that to invite a team to play your own and then boo them when they did not play to suit you was poor sportsmanship.
The governor of Missouri was inaugurated 44 days late. The good old Show Me State!
K. U. has had a pretty clean record up until this basketball season. Our team has acquitted itself with success on the floor, but we are failures in the cheering sections.
It begins to dawn on the old line Republicans that Willkie may be the real Indispensable Man.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Tuesday, March 4, 1941 No. 98
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on the day of publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for the Sunday issue.
A. I.E.E.: The K.U. Student Branch of the A.IEE will meet in Marvin auditorium on Thursday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m. Mr. L. L. Davis, Kansas City Public Service Company, will speak on "The Application of Electrical Energy to the Transportation Problem of Kansas City." Refreshments will be served—Glen A. Richardson, chairman.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: The Reverend E. J. Wiesenberg, S. J., will be in room 415 Watson library Thursday afternoon from 1 to 5 o'clock for personal conferences—Joseph A. Zishka.
FRESHMAN CANDIDATES INTRAMURAL Board: Men wishing to be considered as candidates for the vacancy of a freshman member of the Intramural Board of Managers must state qualifications in a written application addressed to the Senior Intramural Manager. Applications will not be accepted after Wednesday, March 12—Lee Huddleston, senior Manager, 107 Robinson gymnasium.
FRESHMAN CANDIDATES RELAYS COMMITTEE:
Freshman candidates for the Kansas Relays Committee should apply in writing before March 5. Applications should be addressed to Ernie Klema, 107 Robinson Gymnasium—Ernie Klema.
JAY JANES: There will be a Jay Jane meeting in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building at 4:30 Wednesday.-Ruth Spencer Ashcraft, president.
PHI SIGMA: Dr. W. H. Horr of the Botany department will discuss "Some Recent Advances in Plant Physiology" Wednesday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in room 206 Snow hall.-Hal Smolin, president.
PI LAMBDA THETA: There will be a Pi Lambda Theta meeting in 116 Fraser hall Thursday at 4:30 p.m. There will be an election of members—Mary Lou Randall.
RHADAMANTHI: Rhadamanthi poetry society will meet on Thursday, March 6, at 7:30 in the west ballroom of the Memorial Union. John Waggoner will be in charge of the meeting. The poetry of W. H. Auden will be discussed. Visitors are welcome—Bob Humphrey, president.
SCHOLARSHIPS: Applications for scholarships for the school year 1941-42 should be made in room 1 Frank Strong hall before March 15—Lela Ross, secretary, Committee on Aids and Awards.
TAU BETA PI. Tau Beta Pi will meet in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building Wednesday, March 5, at 8 p.m.-Glen A. Richardson, recording secretary.
TAU SIGMA: There will be a Tau Sigma meeting at 7:30 this evening.-Carolyn Green.
THETA SIGMA PHI: Theta Sigma Phi will meet Thursday afternoon at 4:30 in the sky parlor. Initiation fees are due at that time. Mary Frances McAnaw, secretary.
UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB TEA: The University Women's Club tea for junior women will be held Thursday, March 6, in the men's lounge of the Union building from 3 to 5:30.-Mrs. E. R. Elbel, publicity chairman.
W. S.G.A.: The W.S.G.A. Council will meet at 7 o'clock in the Pine room this evening.—Doris Twente, secretary.
Y. W.C.A.-Y.M.C.A.: The YWCA-YMCA study group will meet Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 at Henley House. Open all too students.—Mary Helen Wilson.
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No Preventative--perhaps just "longer winded," you might wend your way up the 108 steps to the tower on Fraser hall. You won't miss anything from there, except your hat.
Spring Fever Germ Hits Hill Houses and Library
And fair, warm weather on any day means that a good many students are going to get the urge to be out of doors and glimpse first hand, the wonders of the Kaw valley so vividly described in the Lawrence $ ^{ \textcircled{2}} $
"Fair skies and rising temperatures." That's the weather man's prediction for today.
Chamber of Commerce literature.
If you just must study, your glimpse may be a little more fleeting than that of the leisure class, but you shouldn't miss the view from Haworth hall across the Wakarusa valley south to the bluffs some 10 miles away. On still days, there is invariably a lazy blue haze hovering over the valley. Engineers have a choice view of the same valley from the auditorium in Marvin hall—and added to that there's a piano in the room for those who like music with their scenery.
Slaving students in Snow laboratories have a key spot on the Campus. To the north, they can look across Potter lake, Marvin Grove, and on past the Kaw river about 15 miles.
If you're more adventurous, or
Students who like to stroll might visit one of the city's five parks. We recommend Central Park on Tennessee street and Clinton Park on West Sixth. Both these parks have accommodations for persons who like burned steaks and toasted marshmallows.
Students with the motoring urge might venture southwest of town to Lone Star Lake. But if you go boating, remember the water still thinks it's February. If you've never been to the old Stonewall southeast, there is the place to practice mountain climbing.
—Were you planning to study?
P.S.: Don't forget your camera.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
Shades of the Puff Pant prom—two of the handsome stags were Betas. In case you're interested, they were really Jean Steele and Doris Twente in slacks, shirts, rainscoats, beaten-up hats, and placards to imitate Beta pins.
Marjorie Henry made Pi Phi's wonder Saturday night when she, with her boyish bob and man's suit, took her date to her third floor room after the Puff Pant prom. Marjorie reports that she not only scared the girls upstairs into their rooms but shocked the dates waiting downstairs by her audacity at marching up with her date.
William Osner had a bright idea in Prof. W. E. Sandelius's government class the other day. He threw up his hands so quickly that one end of his suspenders flew up to help attract the professor's attention.
C. H. Mullen, chief proctor of Battenfeld, Carruth, and Templin, has a new nickname. Since Jeanne Moyer said he looked like a Kewpie Doll, the rest of the boys have made things hot for him.
While Bob Trekell was sleeping Sunday afternoon, his roommates at Battenfeld borrowed several of his ties to use as a tail for a kite. The kite experiment was successful until the kite caught in a tree. After frantic efforts, the boys recovered the ties before Trekel awoke from his nap.
Earnest Boyce, professor of civil engineering, calls his 10-year old fox terrier, Mutt, the "post graduate." Eight years ago the little dog got in the habit of visiting Professor Boyce in his office in Marvin hall basement, and has been dropping in regularly ever since.
That was the last anybody thought of the cake until yesterday. Sunday when Blair returned from a weekend at home. A search revealed that the cake was still there, and well hardened.
At Jayhawk Co-op, stale cake is a new specialty. Last Monday Larry Blair celebrated his birthday. On Tuesday, he received a birthday cake, which was set on a pantry shelf.
Full-scale production of the earth blocks for use in the construction of the Engineering Research laboratory will be under way by the end of the week, according to a statement by W.C.McNown, professor of civil engineering. The blocks will be made in the basement of Hoch auditorium by NYA workers.
NYA Builds Blocks For Sod House Lab
Exevaluation work in back of Marvin hall is proceeding, and a good.
bottom for the rear foundation posts has been reached at depths of 30 to 45 feet. It was necessary to dig this deep for a good shale bottom because that particular section of the hill has been filled in with debris at some previous time. A solid bottom for the posts on the front, or north side, was reached at a depth of four to six feet. Water was reached at about 30 feet in a few places, and had to be pumped out.
The one story building, 160 by 40 feet in dimensions, will be completed in about six months, according to the present schedule.
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