UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVIII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22,1940
NUMBER 27
Declare Closed Season on K-State Goalposts Treaty Outlaws Annual Aggie Battles
"This time it's real" say the members of the Men's Student Council in referring to the newest peace pact party between the University of Kansas and Kansas State College affecting pre and post football game activities of the two student bodies.
The past still in force is the one signed in 1936 by both councils stipulating the right of each group to govern such activities of its constituency and legislating a treaty between the two schools in order to prevent the pre-game marauding escapades and the post-game goal post fights.
Staters tried to secure our goal posts after their victory here on Nov. 3,1940.
The first treaty between the two schools was made in 1929, but as it resulted in no success, in 1936 the latest and last pact was drawn which provided for each council to punish any of its students who were in violation. In 1937 six K.U. students were fined $44.30 by the Student Supreme Court here, for being caught on the K-State campus before the game, bent on some vandalism. With this fine it looked as if at last the treaty might have some teeth in it. However last year the worst brawl yet ensued when the K-
This year's negotiations and the cause for the renewal of hope that peace may be reached include the appropriation by the two councils of a challenge trophy in the shape of a goal post and the plan for a combined council banquet in Manhattan next Friday night.
The details for the banquet and the presentation of the trophy, both here and at Manhattan, will be announced soon.
Homecoming Plans To Get Underway
R. A. Schwegler To Quit Post as Education Dean
R. A. Schwegler, dean of the School of Education for the past 18 years, will retire from his administrative duties at the end of this year, it was announced at a meeting of the faculty of the school late this afternoon.
Dean Schwegler submitted yesterday a request to Chancellor Deane W. Malott to be retired from his capacity as dean.
Reason for retirement, Dean Schwegler reported, is that he has passed the age of 65,the age limit currently observed as the
maximum age for school officials.
In a reply letter, Chancellor Malott expressed the regret with which the request was granted and the gratitude for the many years of service which Dr. Schweegler has given the University. Also stated is the appreciation that Dr. Schweegler is to continue teaching in the school.
In his letter of resignation, Dr. Schwegler expressed the desire that he be allowed to follow the current practice of administrative retirement after the sixty-fifth year age limit. Dr. Schwegler will soon be 66.
He said, "I leave my duties with a feeling of mingled relief and regret, sorry that I have but one lifetime to devote to my task, but am hopeful because my successors will be able to build more permanently because of the foundation we have laid."
Structural Geology Class To Leave For Oklahoma
Dr. Schwegler's resignation is the third for a K.U. dean in the past year. New deans this year are Dr. Allen J. Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy, and J. J. Jakosky, dean of the School of Engineering.
The structural geology class will leave tomorrow morning for a 4-day field trip in the Arbuckle mountains in southern Oklahoma. The group will spend one day in Ardmore, Okla., and 3 days in Sulphur, Okla. They will spend the days in the Platte National park region.
R. A. SCHWEGLER . leaves with mingled emotions
A. J. Mix Returns After Year's Leave
A. J. Mix, professor of botany at the University, is resuming his former duties here this fall after a year's leave of absence.
The two objectives of his European trip were to do final research work preparatory to writing a monograph on the genus, Taphrina, and also to gather material for a textbook no medical mycology.
Malott Names Wade Pierce Program Head
A program for the 1940 University homecoming weekend will get underway tomorrow afternoon when 30 members of a newly appointed homecoming committee meet with the committee chairman, Wade Pierce, '27, of Lawrence. The committee, named yesterday by Chancellor Deane W. Malott, will meet at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Room 5, Frank Strong hall.
Already booked for the homecoming weekend Nov. 9, is the clash with the Sooners of the University of Oklahoma on the gridiron. Other highlights of the weekend will probably include such events as the annual Friday night pep parade, decoration of organized houses and a homecoming banquet.
Pierce was selected by Chancellor Malott and informed along with the rest of the committee members by mail yesterday. He is employed by the Kansas Electric Power company in Lawrence. The general committee, Chancellor Malott said, is made up of faculty members and students and will include presidents of the Men's Students Council, W.S.G.A., Jay James, and Ku Ku's.
At tomorrow's session sub-committees will be named to work out the details of the traditional weekend program.
To Start Education Meet
The clash with Oklahoma will be the thirty-eighth for the two schools. The competition started back in '03 and a game hasn't been missed since. Of these games the Sooners have won 15 to Kansas' 18. Four games have finished in deadlocks.
Dr. J. W. Twente and Dr. F. O. Russell, professor of education, have gone to Dodge City, where they will meet with representatives from the State Department of Education and the Dodge City teaching staff in a cooperative study of secondary school standards.
Letter Incident Dismissed
No significance was attached to the "repercussion" letter today by the Chancellor's office when it reported that a copy of the letter circulated Sunday and Monday over the campus asking Chancellor Malott to "do something about our football team" had not been received there.
Copies of the letter, allegedly sent to the Chancellor, were circulated on the campus yesterday. The appeal was for the Chancellor "to do something to uphold our honor on the gridiron," and was signed, "The Students of the University of Kansas."
After yesterday's student reaction to the letter, ranging from approval to indignant disapproval, the administrative authorities came to the decision that the communication was the work of a few disgruntled University football fans, who chose that method of showing their chagrin.
Pachacamacs Name Milam ForFroshRace
Jack Milam, c'44, from Topeka has been chosen by the Pachacamac freshman Inner Circle as the party standard bearer and presidential candidate for the coming freshman election, Nov. 7.
The remainder of the Rising Sun slate includes Roy Shoaf, Topeka, candidate for class treasurer, Marion Haynes, Lawrence, and Bill Porter, Wichita, as freshman representatives on the Men's Student Council.
Freshman men will vote for a president and a treasurer of the freshman class and the two freshman members of the Council.
The women will choose the class vice-president and secretary from among their members.
The significance for the Pachacamac move lies in the fact that this (continued to page eight)
Y.M. Banquet to Open Drive For Financial Aid
A three-day finance drive by the University Y.M.C.A. will begin with a complimentary dinner at 6 o'clock this evening for team captains and members in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building, Jim Burdge, c'41, chairman of the drive, said today.
The faculty and student drives will be conducted simultaneously. Dean Paul B. Lawson, Theodore Paullin, instructor in history, and Walter Sandelius, professor of political science, will be in charge of the faculty campaign.
Burdge said that the quota expected from students is $675, part of which has been raised by cabinet contributions of $135.00, an MSC grant of $150.00, and $75.00 profit from Y M concessions at the stadium.
Faculty representatives in the buildings on the campus are as follows: Fraser - Bert Nash, prof. of education; and John Hankins, associate prof. of English; Blake-Seville Chapman, instructor of physics; Robinson gym—F. C. Allen, prof. of physical education and basketball coach; east Frank Strong hall—R. H. Wheeler, prof. of psychology; department of chemistry—Henry Werner, adviser of men and associate professor of chemistry; Walter W. Deschuer, associate professor of chemical engineering.
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