TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1940.
PAGE SEVEN
On the Shin
By BUXTON, MEININGER
The Shin takes a spanking from the Topeka State Journal:
We quoted, lest Saturday, the estimable K.U. Daily Kansan to the effect that 22 out of 28 Sigma Chi pledges had failed to make their grades—"too many sweethearts of Sigma Chi."
Here is a correction from Fank S. Pinet, written from within the proud halls of the fraternity:
Evidently it isn't safe to quote the university daily, despite the fact it has school trained reporters within slingshot distance of the Sigma Chi house.
It has been my custom for some years to read your Saturday evening comment on the Willow page of The State Journal. I have enjoyed your page very much, often finding items of interest and at other times finding things that perhaps did not meet with my hearty approval. But never have I been so shocked and surprised as I was when I read the Willow page of last Saturday. I cannot conceive how an article of K.U. campus drivel would be allowed to appear on your page without at least some attempt at authentication. The article to which I refer is the one about "only 22 out of 28 Sigma Chi pledges making their grades . . . too many sweethearts of Sigma Chi."
It was not a surprise to find this article in the Daily Kansan, for this paper devotes many columns to just such campus drivel and derogative rumor about a number of fraternities and sororities. But to find such a gross mis-statement in The State Journal more than surprised me.
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For a matter of information, if nothing else, I might state that on February 25th we are initiating 15 of our 25 pledges, and, that while this is not as good a percentage as we usually have, it does compare more than favorably with any other fraternity on the hill this semester.
I realize full well that the strong are always hounded by the under-dog but as a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity I feel it is my duty to correct mis-statements about the fraternity.
Therefore, you Phil Deit, Beta., Phi Gam, etc., and "barb" Daily Kansan reporters—we place the baby right back in your laps. And when you apply for jobs on The State Journal this summer don't neglect to look up along the west wall of the news room where a mural reads:
"O, true believers, if a wicked man come unto you with a tale inquire strictly into the truth thereof."
No doubt we should read it, too!
The Shin partially apologizes—but not in full. At the time the rumor was printed it was more or less true—as most gossip is. After a meeting of the Pan-heil the Sigma Chi's were able to initiate 13, not six or 15. That still leaves 12 with 'too many sweethearts of Sigma Chi—if a Sigma Chi can possibly have too many sweethearts.
the prettiest and most eligible pledge calss on the Hill you go and accuse us of being a brace of "underdogs" hounding the "strong" Sigma Chi You can't have*beauty and brains too.
We might also point out that 13 or even 15 out of 25 pledges being initiated falls far short of "comparing more than favorable" with the Delt and Beta percentages this semester—which leaves "Fank" S. Pinet in the position of needing a spanking for unethical "rushing" propaganda.
Shucks, Pinet, you've hurt our feelings. After our just telling the "printer's devil" we thought you had
So to the Willow page we apologize in full and can only hope that our item didn't get it in bad with the "strong" of Sigma Chi. Unfortunately we're just a bit irreverent about such things as fraternal "honor" it's honor being what it is. No one, fortunately, takes the Shin seriously except a few glamour boys and girls, and no one takes the glamour boys of Sigma Chi seriously except the glamour girls. Amen.
Stops Plans—
"If our local University authorities and our Big Six officials would give us permission, we would be willing
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Campus House, 1245 Oread, elected new officers recently to serve for the second semester. They are Agnes Robbins, gr., president; Adelle Woodside, c'42, vice-president; Flora Kaufmann, ed'40, secretary; Margaret Ogden, c'41, treasurer; Emily Wray, c'42, supervisor of food; and Mary Lou Noble, c'41, reporter.
to play the Kansas-Missouri game Friday night in the new Kansas City Municipal Auditorium. By this arrangement everybody who desires to see this classic struggle would have an opportunity. I have not contacted the Missouri authorities. This is only our idea of letting everybody in in the game who wants to see it. Our limited space here means that at least 5,000 people who desire to see the game will be turned away."
RIGHT OR WRONG?
A 2-minute test for telephone users
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2. Police Radio Telephone made by Western Electric is an outgrowth of research at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
1. It's impossible for you to telephone to people in two different cities at the same time.
RIGHT WRONG
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3. About 75% of the Bell System's 85 million miles of telephone wire is contained in cable.
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4. Lowest telephone rates to most out-of-town points are available every night after 7 P.M. and all day Sunday.
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ANSWERS:
1. Wrong telephone Conference Service enables you to talk simultaneously with as many as five other people,
2. Right. And that's true also of
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4. **Right.** Why not telephone home referee? Your family will enjoy it—so will you!
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