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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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FRIDAY, APRIL 9,1937
Comment
Advance in Athletics
After much struggle and 'strife, we have a new athletic director. His job is not an enviable one. He will need all the co-operation that the members of his department and the student body in general can give him.
The centralization of the duties and responsibilities of the department in the hands of one man is, however, a more sensible arrangement than the organization of an unwieldy committee.
Other advances made include the provision for a department of physical education which will grant a degree for four years work.
However, it must be kept in mind that the appointment of a new director of athletics together with these other improvements, by no means insures a winning football team. It will take a long time to build up a reputation for excellence in this sport, and there are other conditions which will prove a handicap.
Perhaps the most serious of these is the unprogressive attitude taken by the Big Six in failing to recognize the need for training tables. It is a well known fact that football has become "big business" and attention to the physical well-being of the athletes is recognized as a necessity at many schools.
Something has been accomplished, but there is still much to be done!
Parties Chagrined:
Bookstore Issue Settled
Without the fanfare of pamphlets and a sparkling list of candidates, the Union Operating Committee stepped in the day before yesterday's election and stymied all the good printer's ink that the two Hill political parties had splurged.
For some time there has been agitation through both parties to have a student co-operative bookstore. Both the Pachacamac's and the P.S.G.L.'s made of it a campaign issue. Then, quite suddenly, the Union Operating Committee announced the plan to the students before the election. It must have taken the wind out of their sails to have the matter setled without at least another year's fight in the dent Council.
And so, under the heading of party promises, both parties can claim a victory since neither actually had a band in the outcome of events. And the Kansan can take another plank from its platform.
We're glad to hear that Eddie Windsor has clipped $1500 a month from his living expenses, but we'll have to know how much that leaves before we'll accuse him of being frugal.
Spring Is Here---
According to the Books
On March 21 the sun crossed the celestial equator at the vernal equinox. To astronomers, this even signified that spring was officially here, we think.
Since this eventful day the sun has been above the horizon for a longer period of time than it has been below, and to anyone with an ordinary amount of horse sense this means that the days should be warmer as well as longer.
In Kansas, where the people have the reputation of doing things entirely opposite to tradition, science, and human nature, the weather has apparently taken its cue from the inhabitants and has gone hawwire.
Two, possibly three days have been warm enough to go out of doors without an overcant. Women have had to hide their new spring creations under heavy furs. In曼鲁能 steak frys have had to be postponed because of—no, not rain—snow. It's all very irritating.
But this is in the nature of a warning to those who do not know our Kansas weather. One of these days we will have nice warm spring weather for one whole day, and then, brother, look out. The next day will swing into our typical Kansas summer weather, where 98 is chilly and air-conditioned soda fountains are at a premium.
Do Crime Pictures Influence the Youth?
In Arizona the age-old problem of the influence of motion pictures on the youth of today has re-appeared. Several Tucson boys ganged together to pattern themselves after the notorious Michigan Black Legion. Authorities believe that the idea came to the boys after seeing motion pictures concerned with the ae-
The Kansan Platform
3. Establishment of a co-operative bookstore.
1. A well-rounded varsity athletic program.
2. Betterment of student working conditions.
3. Establishment of a co-operative bookstore.
4. An adequate building program, including:
a. Construction of a medical science building.
b. Addition to the stacks of the library.
5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries.
tivities of the Black Legion and other organizations fashioned after it.
Soelologists have always believed that pictures of any sort hold great weight with the imaginative youth. He finds one of these dramas exciting, they believe, and attempts to carry out the same plan in order to get revenge, notoriety, or a feeling of self importance or satisfaction. Thus, many newspaper editors are prone to delete from their papers details or pictures which have no news value. The motion picture industry, though, has not always been so considerate of the easily influenced public and has played crime up to a peak.
However, for the many who do get enjoyment and their share of adventure from seeing on the screen or reading in the newspapers criminal acts of fighting gangsters, there are very few on the other side who are influenced to the point of following crime's footsteps. Here again we have the question of enjoyment and adventure for the masses or crime for the few. Surely the press and motion picture industry aren't able to wield this criminal influence alone. There must be something in the environment and character of the individuals concerned.
Campus Opinion
And Then Again . . .
Just why should students come to Kansas University anyway? Our Law School, Business School, home economics and universities in the vicinity of Lawrence. Why have these non-resident students been struggling along with us? What are their challenges?
And now, in order to show these out-of-state students, who so considerably entered our school, this we are not appreciative of all they have contributed to our institutions through athletics, activities, and finances, the Board of Regents has once again doubled the resident fees and left unattached the state assessment.
And to top it all off the Board has not merely raised his non-resident assessment fee; it has hiked the cost of private medical students will feel it worth their while to return. For Missouri, stc. students paying $400 or $850 is preposterous. For a non-resident medical student paying $400 is preposterous. Why should any individual pay $400 to attend medical school here when he can attend college and work full-time?
Apparently, the Board feels that this institution has become too crowded and Kansas students should be set apart.
There is a possibility that the Board was so near sighed that it believed the state's revenue could be increased. It thought occurred to them, why didn't they restore the assessments of children and bring in more non-resident students?
Official University Bulletin
Vol. 34 FRIDAY, APRIL 9.1937 No. 129 9
ALL-UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION. The annual Honors Convocation will be held this morning at ten o'clock in the University Auditorium. Mr. Bruce Hudd will speak on "Clear Block Ahead." E. H. Lindsley.
BAND MEMBERS: All band members please be in uniform. Russell L. Wiley, Director.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan Club will hold invitation services for new members and election of officers at 8 o'clock this evening in the Women's Center of administration building—Louise Yeo-mans, Secretary.
NEWMAN CLUB: The Newman Club will receive Communion in a body at the first Mass, Sunday, April 11. All who wish to attend the breakfast after this Mass will please notify Margaret Montgomery or Patricia Campbell. Both groups are urged to attend these functions and the business meeting following them—Leon Anderson, President.
PARKING COMMITTEE: There will be a meeting of the Parking Committee on Tuesday, April 13, at 3:30 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union building. -Hubert Anderson, Chairman.
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS SMOKER The School of Business offers a Diplomacy in the Pi fraternity on Monday, April 12, 7:30 p.m. Mr. Arnold Jones, State Accountant, will be the speaker. Edward T. Shea, Professional Chairman, Alpha Kappa Iota.
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Everyone should see at least on play from backstage; the most dramatic moments in the theater happen p. e. well behind the footlights. Take, for example, the current Kansas Player open, "Land's End." Row, along with the Kansas dynamic critic and the man who plays checkers in the Union building, all you will see is a great play, beautifully acted (adv.). But if, on the other hand, you watch the drama from behind the wings, your eye will be set on strange and wonderful sights.
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Passing over such spectacles as Mr. Leighton Fosey trying to tie his dress tie, or Mr. Rolla Nuckles 'one sky-blue dress dressed down, we take up the sea machine. In "Land's End" it is necessary for the audience to hear something resembling the thunder of the surf. I muscush that it is highly impracticable to move a hand and hide a jacket. Robert (The Happy Warrior) Gard has constructed a long tube of canvas in which are a peck or so of beams. These beans swished from one end of the tube to the other give the resultant sound of the surf. It may not sound like the roar of the waves on the stern and rockbound coasts of Mankato, Kan. from whence comes the critic Posthite, but we can't help that. The sea machine served its purpose except for the evening it sprang a leak causing the sea to sound like a crap on the deck. Once Donald Dixon, another of the scene shifters, went to sleep in the third act. His snoring was sufficient for the roaring noise; they turned off the sea machine.
'Land's End' Has Backstage Show Not Seen By Unsuspecting Audiences
By Martin Maloney. c'37
Entered as second-class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan.
Much more nerve racking is the problem of getting the gun shots fired on time. None of the guns used on the stage are actually fired. Whether this is due to a distrust of the actors or of the guns, I can't tell. But it is clear that ubiquitous Mr. Gard stands backstage with a .22 which he fires at the appropriate moment. All would be well if the .22 would always go off. It doesn't. Consequently, a .22 is kept in reserve. One unfortunate evening the .22 didn't explode; it shot a woman. Then her husband, Hector Galbraith. Of course, the .32 went off a split second later. The story now being
circulated that Hector died on the click is merely a campaign lie.
Dixon Takes Stitch In Time
More intimate—I may even deduce that he and his students which have occurred during the run of the play. Of these I shall recount only one, Leighton Fossey, who plays the part of Vernon Galbraith in the play, went forth into the wilds of bleeding Kansas on the late tour attired in a pair of corduroy trousers. The trousers had an unfortunate peculiarity which became apparent especially backstage. Every time Leighton attempted to pick up the piece of corduroy, magnificently. For a nine it began to seem that a part of every evening's work would be sewing up the Fossey trousers. But then Donald Dixon came to the rescue by discovering an ancient Singer sewing machine in a hash joint. After some small persuasion, Mr. Fossey found himself saddled largely in his shirt tails and his dignity, standing in the kitchen of the restaurant while cleaning out the toilet (the Cleaners) stitched the garments with a kind of cord resembling binder's twine. Thereafter Mr. Fossey tossed scenery in peace.
Many more things happen backstage. If anyone is interested in the unexpurgated version, send me fifty cents in stamps, money or pins for the straight dope. Or else cone backstage and see for yourself.
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C. D. Clark, professor in the department of sociology of the University, and Noel P. Gist, assistant professor will deliver a paper entitled "Social Selection in Rural Urban Migrations in Kansas" at a meeting of the Mid-West Sociology Conference in Moines, Iowa. April 15, 10 and 17.
Professor Clark will also serve on a committee, representing the larger universities in the midwest, to help organize an early and future program for the society.
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