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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXVI
NUMBER 3
Greeks Open Fire; Annual Battle Is On
Men's Pan-Hellenic Council Attempts To Eliminate Unethical Features Of Rush Week; Is Near-Record With More Than 325 Rushees
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1938
Under the strictest regulations in the history of University rushing, Hill fraternities yesterday opened fire in the annual battle of the Greeks with a near record number of "targets" at which to shoot.
Because of the efforts of the Men's Pan-hellenic council to eliminate unethical features from what in the past has been the rush week "racket", the fifteen social fraternities will compete for the cream of a crop of more than 325 rushees on a strictly up-and-up basis.
Although the official deadline for registration of rushes was 11 a.m. m. yesterday, Pan-Hell officials are stretching the rules to permit late comers and boys who were unable to get in under the time limit because of working hours, to register throughout the afternoon.
Registration list totaled 323 at 3 p. m. yesterday with more men expected to arrive later in the day. That total is far ahead of last year's figures of 287 at 8 p. m. Friday.
Pass 300 Mark
Among steps taken by the Pan-Hell council in its drive to purify rush week was the publication of financial obligations a head of rushes in eash of the 15 houses. The statement, prepared by a committee appointed by Ted North, Jr., president of the fraternity government, was submitted by a month before bill, initiation fee, pledge fees, assessments and housenotes for each of the clubs. Accuracy of the fees are not guaranteed.
Twelve periods for entertainment are listed on the registration cards five for yesterday, five today and two tomorrow. Pledge lists, however, will be virtually completed tonight.
"The above figures have been obtained directly from the respective fraternity presidents or treasurers, through personal interviews, and insofar as we can determine, are correct."
These figures are presented through the courtesy of the undersigned (the Pan-Hell committee) who may no way can they be guaranteed.
Expect No Record
Expect No Record
If the fraternities comply with the rules, they may be considerably the pledge list may be considerably under the record of 365 established in the boom ear of 1930. Greeks signed 355 new brothers last year, but this total includes freshmen of the year before who failed to make scholastic requirements for initiation and were replied. This fall, all houses have been requested to register this latter group, and if this is carried out, the pledge list will not exceed the registration total, as has happened in the past. In 1936 only 307 were pledged, reflecting a nation-wide depression. The 1934 total was 320.
Esquire Fashions Pedominant
Esquire Fashions Peddemonat
The scene in the image shows two women, one fraternities were bringing rubeshes to register first dates, might well have been a page from Esquire. Green gabardines were the prominent trousers worn by the building was wearing a coat, most often a snappy sport model.
Traffic on University streets was heavy yesterday as activities scurried their prospects to and from dates. (A rush week regulation, enforced by a possible penalty upon failure, requires a producer to within ten minutes after another house calls for him at the completion of a date period).
Final Distribution this Evening
Final Distribution this Evening
The heavy stream of registrants
which dominated the picture in
the Union lounge in the morning gave
way to pairs who were
imaginative task of filling out their
friendship's date chart from the
date listings on the Pan-Hellenic
rolls in the building.
Barring unexpected events, which often have jarred the confidence of fraternities that smugly assure themselves of the satisfaction their deeds bring to the district, the new Greeks will be almost decided this evening.
Less of the hustle and confusion that surrounds activities of the first two days will characterize tomorrow's rush dates. The atmosphere Sunday becomes a crowded Sunday, calmly celebrating, preceding crowds rallying beverage at "yelling in" ceremonies tomorrow night when pledge lists are announced.
Fraternities Redecorate
Organized Houses Have Fresh Paint and New Furniture for Rushes
With rush week coming on, each fraternity has tried to out do the other in the furnishing and redecorating of their houses.
The Phi Delts have taken the lead by building again as big as their former house. The entire bottom floor has been made into an immense dining room which will do away with their past system of eating in shite. It is assumed that they will continue that haggard look again this year if they put their roomy sleeping quarters to use this year.
The Beta Theta Pi's are proud to exhibit their newly furnished living room to the rushes and also the new carpets in the upper halls. The Phi Gam's not to be out done have redecorated their rooms with new floors and painted the gables on the outside of their house.
The Acacias have painted and redecorated their house and the Delta have painted inside and out. The Alpha Tau Omega house is sporting twenty-one white-washed trees. The upper floor of the Delta Upsilon house has been sanded, painted and varnished while the Sigma Chi painted the floor, walls, and ceilings of their entire house and also acquired a recreation room.
The trimming on the Phi Psi Psi house has been painted and the entire place has been rewired. There is new furniture in their living room and the chapter will be using new water saint this year. The Sig Alpha have painted the inside of their home and the chapter will be located the south for an annex. It is furnished and seven or eight professional and seven or eight professional and graduate students will live there.
There is a fresh coat of paint on the outside of the Kappa Sig house and the driveway has been repaired. The woodwork on the inside has also been painted. The Sig Eps have painted the trimming on the outside of their house as well as the dining room and kitchen has been painted. A new ping pong table has also been added.
The Sigma Nus have gone modern with a new hot water system, a complete new wiring system, a new pump station and a remodeled kitchen.
- All girls who wish to attend the Jubilesta in Kansas City Friday, Sept. 23, or Saturday, Sept. 24 must register in this room. Permission from their parents.
ELIZABETH MEGUIAR, Advisor of Women
All men are serving as
Freshman Councillors are asked
to call at the office of the Men's
Student Advisor, Room 1, Frank
Strong hall, today to object to
adjudges and additional information.
FRESHMAN COUNSELLORS
. . . . . . . . . .
HENRY WERNER,
M.S.A.
Camea Can't Comb Curls, Press Pants Or Knot Neckties
Notice
All men of the Ku Ku organization please get in touch with Bill Bailey or Bob Wilkins immediately concerning Freshman week.
BILL BAILEY,
President.
"How to keep from looking like a convict" is the theme of several suggestions by Orin C. Bingham, University photographer, who has completed preparations to make pictures of students when they start through the registration lines in Frank Strong hall today.
A camera is a wonderful thing but it can't comb your hair and magically adorn you with coat and tie or brush your locks and provide a neatly-pressed sports outfit. In other words, the look of your outfit depends on the finished product depends largely upon the appearance of the subject when he or she registers.
The cameraman suggests that—students be shaven, have their hair combed, wear a tie, wear a coat and discard chewgum gum. If you comply with the camera, Mr. Blinn believes his camera won't give you a face with a "record."
TO HEAD DEPARTMENT
PROF. W. H. SHOEMKER
past five years assistant professor of modern languages at Princeton University, has been named professor of romance languages and chairman of the department at the University. He succeeds Prof. Charles Qualia, who resigned a year ago to go to Lubcock, Texas.
Take Off That Frown With a Show Ticket On the Daily Kansas
Do you have a date on a flat pocketbook? Do the evening stretch before you blank as your mind at examination time? Do you want to be entertained? Then watch the classified section of the University Daily Kansan as free theatre tickets will be issued to University students whose names will be printed there from day to day.
All you have to do is watch for your name to appear in the classified section and when it does, clip it and present it together with your University identification card at the ticket window of the Dickinson or Granada theatre. This will admit students who are Kansas Kansans. Keep an eagle eye on the Kansas classified section every day for your name.
Police Chief Warns Against Robberies
Send the Kansan home.
Alertness may save University students several hundred dollars during the opening weeks of school. In an effort to stamp out house robberies, special precautions should be taken. Students in Jude Anderson warned students.
Six Suggestions to Aid Students in Preventing Robberies First Few Weeks of School
Every year clever thieves take advantage of the rush and excitement of enrollment and opening activities to prey on organized houses and rooming houses—last year the situation grew critical and lasted over several months, Anderson pointed out. Last year for the first time in recent years, clothing was stolen from rooms and apartments. A gang of dodo addicts was broken up in Kansas City, many clothing robberies were confessed and a portion of the stolen articles recovered.
Regardless of whether the robbers are apprehended or not, it is very difficult to recover property taken. Especially is this true in the case of money. "There is not more than one chance in 100 of recovering stolen money," said Chief Anderson, and added that "the efforts of the students should be directed toward preventing robberies, rather than trying vainly to recover stolen property."
Beginning Sept. 5, 1937, a gang of young thieves began a series of robberies that ended with their apprehension several weeks later. Their victims were taken into custody 15 when four fraternity houses were entered and about $900 cash taken.
Difficult to Recover
Thieves have been brazen and open in their work; posing as members of organized houses or friends of their intended victims, they have found it easy to gain access to students' rooms. Once inside, it has been a simple matter for them to pick bilbillids left lying carelessly around. By the time I arrived at thieves when accosted by members of the house "Don't Joe live here." I thought this was where I brought him last night."
Police Chief Suggests—Suggestions made by Anderson to students to help prevent robberies are:
Police Chief Suggests-
One door should be established as a place of entrance and exit for students.
All screens should be equipped with double fasteners, and a careful check kept on them.
Each student should be supply with a key to the student; entrance so that it can be locked at all times. The cost of a duplicate key for each student is not out of reach. If keys cannot be supplied, it is someone's duty to keep a constant watch on the door.
Under no circumstances should a stranger be allowed to enter the students' rooms, even though he says he is waiting for a particular student, returning something he has borrowed, or has some other excuse. Make any stranger wait where he can be watched at all times.
Quite a Deal Believe it or not, Butch, it's quite
a deal. Rushing has become an American college institution, like jellying and rallying and cribbing. For a whole week, the guy who's in demand is dogged and shadowed and followed and chased like a prospect at an insurance salesmen's convention.
This is the first of a series of three articles on fraternity rulings written by a member of the Kami'an staff. They are in no way intended as a "slam" on Greek ingenuity or misunderstanding, but rather in the Kami'an's policy of attempting to present a complete picture of life at the University.
Worried About Pledging a Fraternity? Kansan Exposes "Rushing" Methods
Fraternity organizations are very necessary and very desirable in a co-educational institution like the University. They make possible a social system in the college that otherwise would be impossible without strict administration overseeing and planning. A boy makes invaluable contacts in a fraternity that he might never have made as an independent. He makes friends who "stick" and enjoys a fellowship that banishes the loneliness of those first few months away from home.
"Rushed," dearly beloved, is the collanguage term for being briskly begged and beseeched to become a brother in what they call fraternities. If the last word of that preceding sentence isn't plural, then you're not rushed. You're just endured, tolerated, because poppa was a member once upon a time, or because big brother, who wasn't a prudge, once wore the pin you'd love to pawn.
Free Food, Entertainment For Tonight
Were you ever rushed? Not hurried, not pressed for time but RUSHED? You don't know what it means? Surely you know by now even if you did come from Deadtown or Whuhshub, and even if you hadn't read one of the several preponderously palatial palaces that dot Mount
Here's the straight dope, fresh from the experience of a lad who's been through the mill and who has helped roll the wheel that grinds into fraternity fodder each fall.
student Union Hosts To All New Students At 'Jayhawk Nibble' Beginning at 6:30
Guests are to be Chancellor E. H. Lindley, popular professor and deans, and members of the M.S.C. and W.S.G.A.
Any student interested in this type of activity may fill out an application form in the office in the basement of the Union Building and he will be placed on one of the various sub-committees.
General policies of the Union Building are in the hands of the Memorial Student Union, which is composed of three officers, five student directors, and chairmen of various committees.
The gathering will be informa-
and a short program will be pre-
presented. The program includes selections by the Modern Choir; entertainment by the "Mystery Professor"; and "Dalton's Impossible Possibilities," a stunt presented by members of the Y.M.C.A.
Complex Mechanism That part of the picture
Registration Starts Today; Expect Increase
there is no need to extend a tempting Valuables should not be left in parked cars. Cars should always be locked when left parked for any length of time. Although car robs are necessary there is no need to encourage them.
Students should cooperate in identifying their friends when calling. It is too easy for strangers to walk in, and it should be expected that strangers found in students' rooms will be accorded rough treatment. This should be a warning to those students who have a habit of visit strangers or other unfamiliar friends, the door bell or arranging to meet their friend. Cash should not be left lying on dressers and tables, or in clothing. Precautions should be taken to have only a small amount of cash on hand; invitation to thieves.
Eight hundred students have enrolled at the University of Kansas City. This total includes day and night students. Classes will begin this week with a formal opening convocation Sunday afternoon.
Free food and entertainment has been provided by the Student Union Activities Board for all new students at the Jawhawk Nibble to be held in the Union building this evening at 6:30.
Henry Werner, men's student adviser, in speaking of efforts to stamp out robberies of various kinds, emphasized the need of precautionary steps as outlined by the precaution police. "If measures of prevention fail, then the students should be prosecuted or sent to the police department, then to the office of the men's student adviser, immediately," he stated.
The entire building will be open for the inspection of new students tonight.
encouraging. The annual process of filling the ranks depleted by graduation is another view entirely. While on the surface quite simple, rushing involves a surprisingly complex mechanism which is so crooked and underhanded that the filth hides the dirt and vice versa. It's a long story and must start at the beginning.
Although some dark horses reach the Campus every year to be greeted with open arms by University Greeks, the majority of fraternities spot their prospects at spring rush parties and continue, through local members, to keep contact with the boys during vacation months and until fall rush parties get under way.
With the opening of rush week comes a great horde of eager frosh, some with the scars of sophistication, others with a milky-eyed, pimply faced youthfulness. By a University ruler, no rushee must be in a fraternity house before midnight, Thursday, Sept. 15. After that, it's open season.
New Students Assemble in Hoch Auditorium This Morning at 9 o'clock; Induction Services to Claiamx Freshman Week; Class Work Beigns Thursday
SUCCEEDS WARNER
In the irregular queue that creeps through the west hall of Frank Strong hall beginning at 8:30 this morning approximately 5,000 students by the time registration is completed will stand in line, ask innumerable questions, ward off boarding house stewards, and fill in cards a yard long about themselves. Registration for the seventy-third year of the University starts when students whose family names begin with M or O appear at the office of Geo. O. Foster, registrar, who expects the freshmen to number about 1,000, an increase of 200 over last year.
PROF. V.P. HESSLER
Prof. V. P. Hessler comes to the University this fall as chairman of the department of electrical engineering from Iowa State College. He succeeds R. W. Warner who goes to a similar position at the University of Texas.
Y.W. Open
House Today
Meeting With W.S.G.A
Tomorrow Afternoon
At Watkins Hall
Activities of the University Y. W.
C. A. organization in the interest of all women students will begin with an informal open house this afternoon, followed by a joint tea with the W. G. C. A. Society.
Purpose of the afternoon tea is to acquaint new and old women students with each other and to help freshman find their University friendships. Today's open house will be held at Henley house, 1236 Oread, from 2 until 5 p. m. Sunday the women will gather at Watkins Hall for a two-hour, tea-time talk session beginning at 3 o'clock.
YWCA. cabinet members and a d WSGA council members will act as hostesses at the Sunday tea. The receiving line includes: Miss Elizabeth Megular, Adviser to Women; Mrs Joseph King, chairman of the YWCA advisory board; Miss BeauLorrison and Miss Ellisa a NeuenSchwander, advisers; Mrs C. Eterly, householder; Mrs C. Klousek, c41, president of Watkins Hall; Gevone Landreth, c39; Eddie Parks, c40, president of the YWCA cabinet and Miss Ellen Pavne, secretary of the YWCA.
Last year more than 300 women attended the tea. Arrangements for entertainment this year were made for the guests, c,40; and tacile McVey, fa38.
Beginning its annual membership drive, the Y. W. C. A. will have a table at the end of the registration line where girls may sign member-advice cards and receive $2.00 members' fees are one dollar. The organization's magazine, the "Y's Call," was edited by Elizabeth Barkley c.uncl. and will be handed out at their registration desk. It describes commissions, lists cabinet and advisory board members, and administers the senester's calendar of activities.
Dr. Eric Hill Visits
Dr. Eric Hill, 31, assistant curator of mammals at the American Museum, New York City, stopped at Dyche Museum for two days to study mammals he helped collect from New Mexico in 1831. Mr. Hill taught students about investigations and collections in New Mexico this summer.
New students will assemble in New hoch auditorium at 9 o'clock for the psychological examination, results of which are of aid to advisers in counselling students about their needs. Watkins Memorial hospital begins the first of its series of physical examinations of all new students.
Unemployment causes Increase Factors attributing to the increased enrollment according to Mr. Foster are that men and women are attending school because they cannot find employment. A larger CSEP allotment assures more men and women of assistance and the fact that the University opens a week later may be a contributing cause.
Registration continues through Monday and Tuesday and Tuesday morning, the two-day period of class enrollments begin in the various schools. Class recitations start Thursday.
New students, especially freshmen, will utilize the opening days of the University for a program of orientation. The Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. welcome them with open houses Saturday evening; the churches of Lawrence invite the new students Sunday, and throughout next week freshmen meet their deans, get acquainted with the library and listen to Chancellor Lindley's welcoming address.
Freshman Induction Thursday
Freshman Induction
Climaxinz Freshman Week the fifteenth annual New Student Induction ceremony Thursday evening will be held on North College Hill, site of the first University building, west of Corbin hall. In case of rain, arrangements this year for the first time provide for the ceremony in the auditorium.
The feature of the New Student Induction is the lighting of a fire on an altar before the great seal of the University, torch, passing from almus and successively through the hands of representatives of upperclassmen to a freshman kindles this new fire in the stadium.
A n all-University convocation Friday morning at 10 o'clock, to be addressed by a member of the Board of Regents, will be the final ceremony in the opening of the twenty-third year of the University.
ON THE - - -
SHIN
by Jimmy Robertson
"Oh Truth thy place lies not herein."—Robertson.
I believe there's nothing as good as a good direct quotation when shaving off on a literary venture of doubtful nature. Ordinarily a writer does not use his own quotation but delves deep in musty volumes to retrieve what might be much more convenient to use my own. Besides it makes a man greater in his own sight when he is able to quote himself.
This column is essentially of the gossip type in which the scandal shall burn at both ends. I have therefore protected myself in some form by making a trouble begin that error will occasionally plagus its paragraphs.
From them to time your name may appear in this column. If it pleases you I am glad. Or if By you I am grateful of unhappiness, forgive me.
Local cabbies say that the exodus of girls doomed to disappointment with regard to sororities be-
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