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SUNDA FEBRUARY 9, 1941
The KANSAN Comments ...
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Greek organizations of the University will soon initiate chosen pledges into the bonds of their fraternities and sororities. It will also be evident to campus observers that the rites of another Fun Week are being carried on, although it is still what was known as Hell Week until the administration forbade it several years ago.
The dark cloud on every fraternity and sorority freshman's horizon of joy is the mock ceremonies they must endure before their loyalty and spirit are tied to their chosen organizations by the nuptials of a formal initiation.
To the outsider and even to some members of these social organizations the silly preliminaries of Fun Week bring nothing but distaste for the whole fraternity and sorority set-up. It helps convince some people, who have never been to college, that our educational system is nothing more than a carnival of fun and practical jokes.
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Value is not gained by the fraternity or sorority that continues to observe these outmoded traditions of an older era—the age of the rah rah Joe College and flapper coed—unless you can call ill-will and dissension real values. In larger schools the fraternities and sororities have long ago progressively discontinued such practices. Closer companionship and friendliness within fraternities have resulted.
Pride and ambition may eventually cause the Greek organizations on this campus to slough off this hanger-on of a high school complex. Continuation of such ceremonies only serves to brand an organization as second rate.
Eight hundred and forty-nine human guinea pigs have been pierced by the laboratory technician's needle at Watkins Memorial hospital. This has been only a part of the popular nationwide test of the new Rockefeller Foundation influenza and cold vaccine.
COOPERATE ON FLU TEST!
Dr. R. I. Canuteson, director of the health service, said that several factors hindered the absolute success of the experiment here. Among these was the mild influenza epidemic that was in progress at the time. However, first reports show encouraging results, in spite of the inevitable unfounded and untrue rumors.
The health service is now sending out questionnaires to the persons who took the vaccine and to 800 unvaccinated "control" cases. To the Rockefeller Foundation and to the medical world this survey is one of the most important parts of the experiment. The authorities must know exactly what has happened to each of the cases in the experiment.
It takes little trouble or time to send back the questionnaires. The answers on them hold the key to the effectiveness of the vaccine. Every person must cooperate in reporting the results if the experiment here is to be a real success.
TRUTH IS STRONG
... For who knows not that truth is strong next to the Almighty; she needs no policies, no strategems, no licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defenses that error uses against her power: give her but room and do not bind her when she sleeps, for then she speaks not true . . . but rather she turns herself into all shapes, except her own, and perhaps tunes her voice according to the time . . . until she be adjured into her own likeness. Yet it is not impossible that she may have more shapes than one. What else is all that rank of things indifferent, wherein truth may be on this side, or on the other, without being unlike herself?
When the government starts paying to plow under fields of wild oats, the financial condition of some college students should improve.
How many other things might be tolerated in peace, and left to conscience, had we but charity, and were it not the chief stronghold for our hypocrisy to be ever judging one another. From John Milton's "Areopagitica."
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Sunday, Feb. 9,1941 No.82
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.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: Christian Science Organization will hold an important business meeting and election of officers on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine Room of the Union Building. All students, graduates, and faculty members are welcome.—Patricia Neil, secretary.
EL ATENEO: The first meeting of the spring semester will be held Thursday at 3:30 in 113 Frank Strong. A most interesting program has been arranged. Dr. N. H. Huffman and Miss Helen Huffman will speak on Puerto Rico. All those interested in Spanish are cordially invited.-Merle Simmons.
NEWMAN CLUB: The new series of study club meetings on "Marriage" will begin Tuesday evening at 7:30 in St. John's Church Hall. Everyone interested is welcome.-Joseph A. Zishka.
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. Cauteson.
PHI CHI THETA: Business meeting in the Pine Room on Tuesday.—Marjorie Newman.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB: The Psychology Club will meet tomorrow in room 21, Frank Strong at 4:30. Dr. E. T. Gibson will speak on the problem which he encounters in his consultation work at the University. Visitors are invited—Lois Schreiber, secretary.
SOCIIOLOGY CLUB: The Sociology Club will meet in the Pine Room at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon. The second series of reports on vocational opportunities in social work will be given. The delegates to the recent meeting of the American Sociological Society in Chicago will give brief reports. There will be the election of the president of the club—G.E.Dixon, publicity.
Y. M.-Y.W. MEMBERS: A "New Deal" will be the subject of our membership assembly Tuesday at 4:30 in the Kansas Room.-Keith Martin.
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W. S.G.A. COUNCIL: W.S.G.A. Council will meet at 7:00 in the Pine Room on Tuesday.Doris Twente, secretary.
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K. U. Wind Tunnel Aids Aero Study
Do you think the wind is blowing? You're wrong; it's just th breezes from the wind tunnel.
Built just under the seats and above the dressing rooms at the south end of the west side of the stadium, the tunnel is used by the department of mechanical and aeronautical engineering for testing purposes. The tunnel was constructed as a circular tube, 60 feet long, and 9 feet in diameter at the large end. The throat of the tube, where the model is placed for testing, is approximately 5 feet in diameter. Built of wood and molded plaster, the tunnel is equipped with a 75 horsepower electric motor which, with a 9 foot propeller, creates winds ranging from 55 to 85 miles an hour.
Complete airplane models with 3 feet wing span are tested for lift, drag, pitching, rolling, yawing movements from which the flying and landing speeds, horsepower requirement, and the maximum load the plane will carry can be predicted for airplanes having 50 feet wing spread. Stability characteristics and the effectiveness of control instruments are also tested. A constant air speed is maintained in the tunnel while testing the model, but the position of the model is changed.
Various air foli designs are tested to determine satisfactory design of
the wing as well as weight, size, and material.
Kenneth Razak, instructor in the mechanical engineering department, has been doing test work on autogyro models in the tunnel for two years. Two wing sections are joined and mounted in the tunnel in testing the autogyro design.
Wind testing has been done by the department for the past ten years. Now there are two classes a week with seven students enrolled in each. Since its installation, the tunnel has been used for commercial testing of models for individuals and for the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
Sig Ep hell week ran into more trouble Friday night than even the most villainous active had hoped for. After tracking down notes in search of final orders, the victims found themselves in a graveyard, each with instructions what to do. One for instance, had to bring in one hundred cigar butts, and another had to get a signature from each sorority house on a ducky peach-colored brassiere.
As a part of the adventure they wandered en masse down an alley to find required articles. Police ran them in. They persuaded officials that no dirty work was intended, were released Saturday morning. But Sig Ep president Glen Elliott had to visit police station next morning to explain.
At the Alpha Chi house they label their monkey-business days "Courtsey week." Feature attraction was last Wednesday night, when all pledges had to eat dinner with both hands tied to a fishing pole. If one was called to the phone, they all went. And if a pledges ear itched—mutiny.
Ted North, the Phi Psi who went Hollywood, is now taking a course in insurance by correspondence. He was not graduated from the University when he left, and he writes that rumours along the coast run that without a college degree, a man is lost to success. And since playing opposite Dorothy Lamour, is mere apprenticeship, he wants a chance at success.
Ever since the snow fray of two weeks ago, Battenfeld boys have dreaded the sight of their front lawn, which looks as if Custer had been rehearsing his last stand. They pray for a rain of grass seed.
All four boys in room 13, Battenfeld, failed to make the required 1.5 grade average last semester. They have taken the one off the 13 to insure good luck.
Soph Hop Ducats Going Fast
Tickets are now on sale at the University business office, the Memorial Union lounge, and Bell's music store. The advance price is 2 dollars, but each ticket will cost $2.25 at the gate.
Advance ticket sales for the Sophomore Hop, scheduled for Feb. 22 with Jan Savitt's band, indicate that 157 of a limit of 750 tickets have already been sold.
Fred Littooy, varsity dance manager, has announced that passes of W.S.G.A. and M.S.C. members will be honored.
Students to Vote On Cover Designs
By popular vote, students will select one of 16 cover designs made by students of the design department for "Across the Years on Mount Oread," a pictorial history of the University from 1866 to 1940 edited by Robert Taft, professor of chemistry.
The 16 designs were the best designs in the department made under the direction of T. D. Jones, assistant professor of design. They are now on display in the lounge of the Memorial Union building. Ballots are available at the hostess' desk in the lounge.
Professor Taft's book will be published in connection with the Seventy-fifth Anniversary Celebration of the University, June 5-9.
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