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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1928
Comment
Some Plan Is Needed for Intramurals
A committee was delegated by the University Senate, last November, with the task of "defining and delimiting the function of the Senate Committee on athletics and the athletic board." After a three-months survey, the committee reported recently.
In compiling this report, the committee spent considerable time in collecting some pertinent facts and in making shrewd observations. But when is all said and done, they have amassed and compiled statistics—for what? On many points where they might have made positive recommendations, they were either hazy or silent.
It is pointed out that there is no sponsoring body for intramural athletics here on the Hill, that there is in fact, "an almost complete separation between competitive athletes and the physical education activities and physical recreation activities," with administrative machinery completely divorced. Pointing out that competitive athletes are carried on and financed "by a corporation outside the University," however, it errs because the Physical Education corporation to which it refers, is constituted with seven members of the faculty, three alumni, and two student representatives upon its board of directors, thus keeping it very definitely under University control. In fact, the corporation was created that it might receive and expend, as needed, the receipts of athletic games which otherwise would revert to the University fund under the direct appropriation of the legislature of the state.
The report further does not make clear that there are three bodies in the University who might be interested in assuming the control of intramural activities which the committee recommends; the Physical Education corporation whose interest would be the very natural one of seeking to uncover new material which sometimes appears in intramural athletics; the department of physical education for whom intramural athletics serve as a laboratory; or the University itself, whose interest would be that the advancement of the physical welfare of students.
However, though we grant the wisdom of supervised intramurals, there is the very important matter of financial backing which must accompany sponsorship—a matter which the report neglected to mention. In yeahs when things were booming and money was pouring into the coffers of the University athletic board, it was an easy matter to receive small but necessary amounts to repair a tennis court or to improve an intramural field. But those days are gone. Whoever is to sponsor the intramural plan must also arrange to finance it. In other words, the intramural program grew up as an adjunct of the Physical Education corporation. Yet that body is not technically nor morally responsible for the program only insofar as it may wish to be.
Intramural serves a large portion of the student body. They express the desire to extend recreational facilities to all who are interested, and we feel that such a program is needed. But there has never been an official sponsor. There has never been definite financial backing. Why is no plan offered?
We would suggest that some such plan be put in operation. The matter might be worked out with a faculty-student committee operating with an active head such as Ed Elbel, who has done good work, but whose selection was that of the managers of competing teams who realized the need for such a man. Why not arrange a system whereby he could have official power and financial backing in working out an intramural system?
Plan To Combat Child Delinquency
Juvenile delinquency is a problem which the Chicago Crime Commission must face constantly. As a method of meeting it, a plan of co-operation with the local citizens and the social agencies has been launched.
Instead of bringing in social leaders from other communities, the commission has found available responsible leaders in Chicago on whom it can place the authority and responsibility for carrying out the plan. Clubs, baseball teams, handcraft classes, and other activities which keep children constructively occupied are organized. The parents and local people know the needs and habits of the children much better than outsiders do and hence are able to give more efficient help to the youngsters.
This is a splendid attempt to rear youth to
"We are going to try to get at the boy and turn him into the right path before he falls into delinquent ways," said Bertram J. Cahn, president of the commission. With the co-operation of parents, local citizens, churches, civic groups, and others interested in child welfare, the commission hopes to circumvent the early stages of crime as children grow up.
useful a n d efficient citizens. By keeping the children busy with constructive activities, the commission hopes to keep them away from the slums and the streets where so many of them receive their beginning lessons in crime.
If this plan is successful, it will no doubt be copied by other cities to whom the problem is a vital one.
He May Be Blind— But Aren't We All?
"Unable to see the forest for the trees" is an expression which fits no class of people better than it does the college student. This adage seems perennially pertinent for serious reflection.
In the University, the average student is suppose to spend a large portion of his time in study of the lessons which are assigned to him. Then, of course, there are extra-curricular activities to absorb what excess energy may be left. The social whirl is demanding of time if the student is socially ambitious. Competition in all fields being keen and time limited by required work, the student's mind becomes crammed with academic learning which ranges from the depth of geology to the heights of astronomy.
But while the student is busily "getting his education" he is overlooking many important things. At this moment many students probably know less of the C.I.O., the national lottery, or of Anthony Eden than do the provocative Seven Dwarfs.
But to say that the student has no idea of what is happening in his own little world is unfair and untrue. He knows, for example, that Lil Albran has taken Daisy Mae to Dr. Paradise; that the basketball season is finished. He has a vague idea of what Gresham's law implies and what his Lit instructors think of Milton. He even knows that there is a war being waged "somewhere"—or maybe two. But he does not know what they concern, or what Congress is contemplating in the matter of farm legislation—unless his father is a farmer, in which case, he can express with emphasis and as his own opinion what his father thinks Congress has in mind.
However, this latter fault must not be construed as one belonging solely to college students. This form of plagiarism is a plague which attacks most minds and the student is which attacks most minds and the students is no less, it because of this, perhaps, that he can ride so serenely along in his own world problems.
The Campus does constitute a separate world. It has its own factions and cliques, its own politics and problems, its own classes, leaders, entertainments, businesses—in short, it is a world apart from all else that is. And when he glances out of this world, it is with a preoccupied and only half-comprehensive gaze, dimmed by the conglomeration of theoretical knowledge he has been endeavoring to master here and which he has not yet adjusted to the external world that is.
That may in part, explain why the student cannot always "see the forest for the trees."
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Vol. 35 FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1938 No.112
CREATIVE LEISURE COMMISSION: There will not be a meeting March 13, but the movie will be finished on March 20—Ruth Fengel, Charles Yeomans.
FRESHMAN COMMISSION OF Y.W.C.A. will meet Monday at 4:30 at Henley house. Jeane Young-man will lead the discussion — John Robertson, President
MEN'S STUDENT COUCL. MEETING: There will be a meeting of the Men's Student Council in the Pine room Monday evening, March 14, 1938, at 8:15 o'clock. - Moe Dett恩, Secretary.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LA PRINCE KANSAN
By Fred Fleming, c'sp.
Fraser theater's blue velvet curtain rises. Six hundred students settle into their seats, to be transported far in time and space with faint knowledge or appreciation of the thought, manual layout, and use of props the more or less glamorous pageanty about to unfold before them.
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To find what makes things click let's sit in on a rehearsal of "Winterstet," the Kansas Players' next production, now under direction. Slipping into Fraser's cold auditorium just as Prof. Alien Crafton, director, begs for attention in the learning of lines, we hear, "For we have to produce finest thing we've done this season." A silence falls as a bit of pantomime by a half-frozen begging opens the act.
Entered as second-class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kau.
Could this be a typical show of the "Players?" They are acting before a conglomeration of old props. Old flats from preceding productions are combined with new work under the glam of bright lights. But we forget all this as "Winterist" begins to "go to work" on our emotions. No longer do we see Rolla Nuckle;s, the young man before us is simply Mia, a youth standing beneath a dark bridgehead behind her as she sobs. "I am my father's voice, crying up from the lime pit, calling for vengeance."
Peering over our shoulders, we
find that the other onlookers are similarly impressed. Even the sophomores of the cast are silent as Mio prays to the silent powers that make the sheet and dark, to "let full some mercy with the rain. We are two lovers here in the night, and we wish to live."
In the inause between acts the actors stalk up and down Fraser's halls, reciting aloud in efforts at memorization. The oddly assorted scenery is shifted back and a table is set with props out loudly in the shark light.
Esdras. Bowed by Fate
When we regard the stage again, Professor Crafton himself takes the chair and undergoes a metamorphosis. He has become the old Jew, Exodras, bowed by fate, complaining that "In all the Talmud there is nothing I wish to learn," Prof. Robert Calderwood enters—as an insane judge. The rebuttal stops momentarily while the two confer on characterization. Again the judge enters, this time his insanity unappeared, until the memory of an ancient case again upsets his mind.
Tense Third Act
Rolla Nuckles again becomes his part, swapping Alain Perry with him into the spirit of the play. With the beginning of the third act the climax has passed, and we finally relax. But we soon need to be spared for the third act leaves us as an瑟恤 as the preceding ones.
Finally the tragedy is consum
DOIN' THE TOWN With MARY ANN
A Guide for Discriminating Shoppers
When Mary Ann dances at the Junior Prom tonight she won't have to wave at the stags—her hair will do it for her. Mary Ann has an appointment at Iva's Beauty Shop this afternoon for an oil shampoo, hair dress, and neck trim—all for 50c. She gets a plain shampoo and wave there for only 35c.
Traffic Wax is just what Mary Ann was looking for after the reception in her aunt's dining hall. She found it at the Lawrence Paint & Wall Paper Store. A genuine wax, liquid or paste, it is as nearly perfect as possible for hard service on large floor areas. This long-wearing product is most economical at 40c lb. for 4-lb can; 8-lb. can at 35c lb.; 30-lb can at 28c lb.
Je Reviens, "I Will Return" is not only what Steve will say—but also it is the name of the new perfume Mary Ann will wear tonight. Today and Saturday Weaver's Department Store is giving away a bouttoniere with every two drams of Worth's new perfume purchased there. It is $1.50 a dram. Even Walter Winchell couldn't resist Je Reviens and has written of his approval.
Steve spilled a coke on Mary Ann's new dress last night —but no tears were shed as he insisted on sending it to Rogers Fashion Cleaners. Ninety cents is a small sum compared to the price he might have had to pay for a new dress had they not known that Rogers would fix it as good as new.
When you're walking be sure that your date wears Tom-Pac-Pac oxfords. Mary Ann could hardly choose a color from the variety of women's selections at Haynes & Keenan's Spot Cash Shoe Store. Four dollars for rubber-soled sportwear is comfort, economy, and smartness in one pair. The shoes come in five colors: brown and white (two-tone), smoked elk, green, red and brown, and the sizes range from AAA on up.
Mary Ann was looking for a birthday gift for Peg, her roommate. She bought two as the Virginia May Gift Shop prices are so reasonable. Vogue's Handkerchief of the Month for only 50c and a new Elgin compact with both rouge and powder for $1.25 will come in handy as Peg always borrows Mary Ann's.
mated in the moving lines of Edras.
"I find no clue; only masterless night, and in my heart a cry toward something dim in the distance, which is higher than I am and makes me emperor of the endless dark." We sigh as we wander from
If you want to make a hit with the fair one stop in at the Drake Bakery when you are down town and buy some delicious fried cinnamon rolls, brownies, doughnuts or cream puffs. And what about surprising her with some shamrock cookies on St. Patrick's day? Mary Ann finds that cup cakes go over big at midnight feeds especially when the girls are studying late.
the auditorium, realizing a little better that through such work as this dreams are achieved.
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