PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1936 Comment Prime Service Prime among the services rendered the University by any set of student councils were the forums, product of the forum committee, prodigy of last year's M.S.C. Far exceeding, in popular opinion, the merits of last year's or any other year's University lecture course, the forums invited the attendance of even the inveterate mid-week players, play boys and girls, root-and-tooters. Forums are provided for legally by this year's councils. But aside from the legal provision, nothing more has been done to furnish them than the appointment of a forum committee, made last year. On a budget of less than a thousand dollars, the councils gave University audiences some of the best speakers to be had in this and other lands. It can not be that financial difficulties are standing in the way of just os pretentious a list of bookings as were made last year, for the W.S. G.A. itself has declared a profit of $6,000 on its bookstore. The best excuse for a poor forum series this year will not be good enough. Beware of the Cynic! Every day in our classes we encounter people who seem to have as their prime object in life the squashing of all ideas, beliefs, or faith of everyone else regardless of who or what they may be. The name we apply to this type of individual is "vmic." Of course you can't spot these cynics in class or among casual acquaintances . . . they don't stand out markedly from the crowd. And that is what is dangerous about them; perhaps "dangerous" is too mild a term. These people seldom come out in the open and proclaim themselves—they do their work of malice and calumny behind the cover of darkness and suggestion. They have for their watchword "destruction," much the same as the militant communists had during the early stages of the Russian Revolution. Nothing is too sacred, too holy, or too established to be sneering questioned and then destroyed if the least opportunity presents itself. He appears to have looked life in the face and not been able to stand up to it. Generally, the cynic (if we may generalize to such a degree) is a person who impresses his listeners with his knowledge. Often people listen to him and say, "If he, who knows so much more than we do, has reached the conclusion that there really isn't any good in the world, what's the use of our working if we'll only come out at the same place?" The cryptically pungent statement of an old philosopher that "the cynic is a killer," as is true now as it was centuries ago. To preserve our ideals, we must keep them from the "killer cynic" and keep from becoming cynical ourselves—Iowa State Student. A Poll to End Polls As if Mr. and Mrs. Average Voter did not have enough to do to wade through the speeches, claims, counter-claims and promises of the candidates and their supporters, they are being besieged with an avalanche of straw votes unprecedented in American political history. So let's have a super-poll to end all straw polls. In this last month of the presidential campaign when the drive for votes is at its peak, Mr. Average Voter and his wife will be so befuddled in the storm of straw ballots thrown at them from every angle that they even will take the official ballot on Nov. 3 with a grain or two of salt. The plans are a bit vague as yet, but there is plenty of time during the next four years to formulate such an idea and it certainly would be most welcome to the citizens of our land. At least they would not enter the real election booths with the writers' cramp and a nauseated conception of a ballot. It might take a great deal of diplomacy to weld all of these various straw ballot agencies into one compact unit which could poll every voter and give an accurate picture of the campaigns. This would tend to wipe out conflicting reports from identical areas and restore the value of such an undertaking—which has been lost in the wholesale poll that have sprung up this year like weeds in a corn field. A poll to end polls. A kingdom for the man who invents one. He surely will be worthy of all the thanks that American citizens can heap upon him. Tradition "Tradition—a thing intrinsically of no value, but it keeps alive the ideals and spirit of our predecessors, is something we wonder about, talk about, and even revere a bit." —Anonymous. This definition though perhaps not complete, offers a key to the perennial topic of traditions at the University. No one seems quite sure what traditions are, they change through the years. They are started, they die, we revive them. Because they do help bridge the gap between the years and because they give us a better understanding of the student life and attitudes of other days, tradition will continue as a part of college life. Campus Opinion Editor Daily Kansan: Ferrits you are right. Maybe the student body doesn't have the same knowledge of advice you have. Please use for making use of most of your opening lines in your editorial commentary or book introduction. Someone always likes to start on event, even if they aren't your own. If what you say in the third paragraph of your "episite to Doctor Allen" is the real basis of why student spirit is dying here, my key message is that students will need for the sake of my life. I beg to differ with you, kind editor, and though differing with you, still remain your friend and am ready at all times to cheer you on, even if your editors occasionally fail. Our team may not be able to win at all times, they may not be able to reach the championship goal every series and thereby cause many of us to whop it up and swallow more cokes, but win or lose, they are risking their nicks in the game. If you play the game along with them, hold the line and keep the faith like good sports. It is my firm belief that the students are with the team and that a good deal of the apparent lack of spirit in our game was due to the industrial world of our time. There is no need of a detractive view just because students fail to cheer as in days of old. The world moves—and sometimes even urges or time and take up our energies than in the days of your we. We also travel more in circles than what we do today, so our energy is now the policy in other parts and we here have changed our attitude. I remember a boy many long years ago, seeing our grand cheering sections there, as now. Today, the East is whooping it up at football games, the Midwest is whooping it up at baseball games, and the South is not use the excuse that the reason we don't cheer and show more school spirit is because we've losing. In the army I often have members of the outfit who were playing on the football team had to have steaks, and the quarter of beef we had was very poor. In the fact, the wins were very slim, yet we took our stew and yelled as long as on the winning side. That the spat was with them all of the time. In closing, may I suggest that we eliminate from our teams, if there is contained therain, any excuses for not winning. If we are doing it is doing, because of their failure to win. They are our team, fighting hard to win, giving the best that we can, and making sure they will be with them, win or lose. That's the spirit which wins in the final analysis and the spirit I hope is in. So it's all K-U. William Kollender Editor Daily Kansan: Adverse criticism has been in the air concerning the school spirit shown by the student body at last year. A new study would be much more effective to suggest a method to get the student body to show that real school spirit, at the coming graduation day. What has the K. U. student body to do with the visiting presidents? The band seemed to think that they were playing in the auditorium; and instead should have played the song on the stage, without so much of volume that they could get, so that the student would feel that real school spirit. The Alma Mater should only be played once during the half, then the hand should be moved from school and march across the field and play their song. the cheering was atrocious and K. U. should organize a cheering section or hold a pop rally every Friday before each game so that the student body may get into the right position there. The team should thoroughly so that at the stadium the next no solo cheers, will be done by K. U. cheerleaders. Hoping for better cheers and greater victories for Editor Daily Kansan: Congratulations to E. J. for coming up to the best of grandmother's moral lectures with her piece which was printed in this column Wednesday. The only fault is that I did not include an entirely perverted outlook on her subject matter. It is she, and not the heroine of her story, who has always been one of the most popular teenagers to go down a list of popular girls on the campus who neither drink nor smoke. Not that drinking or smoking are side more than the popular idea being that anyone may choose to have them. If E. J.'s little wall-flower is blaming her lack of popularity on her high ideals she may as well know the truth and face the fact that there are just as many popular "good" girls as there are "bad" ones. J. W. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Notices due at Causeley's Office at 1:30 p.m., preceding regular public daylies and 11:30 a.m. Vol.34 THURSDAY,OCT.8,1936 No.21 --staff engineers are urged to attend L. S. Votaw, Secretary SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FACULTY. There will be a meeting in room 112 Room hall at 11 o'clock on Sale- Saturday, October 16th. NEWMAN CLUB: All members who wish to attend the 125th breakfast after church, Sunday, October 11, at 9:30 a.m., Newman Club. (Courtesy of the Newman Club.) A. S.M.E. The regular meeting will be held this evening at 8 o'clock in Marina hall, Mechanical and Instrument Lab. RADIO CLUB: The Kansas University Radio Club will hold its first meeting of the year today at 7:30 p.m. June Capps Jefferson R. Wilsenson, Trustee TAU SIGMA. Fledging will be held in the gon tonight at 8:15 o'clock. All old and newly-cheeted members will be present. WESLEY FOUNDATION. There will be a bike Friday afternoon. Everyone interested is asked to meet at Museum Park, 102 W. 45th St., East Orange, NJ 07023. Y. M.C.A. CARIBET. There will be a meeting of all calling men from the Y. room, from the Municipal Union Hotel, at 10:30 a.m. Harold E. Gregg, President Y.W.C.A.-W.S.G.A. LANTERN PARADE: The Lantern parade will be held Saturday, October 10, from 6 to 8:30 o'clock. Tickets, which are 30 cents, can be bought at Henley House or from W.S.G.A. Council or W.W.C.A. Cabin members, not later than 8:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. Thorntree Trekell, Corinna Balley "How to Win Her" or Tactics of Campus Courtship Revealed Here for First Time by William L. Wainwright Knows, known also as wooing, sparkling, cheeky and coating, permeates the universe and therefore penetrates the University of Kansas. Unless a man has the heart of a vegetable, how can he be oblivious to the charms of fascinating, females, those mysterious creatures who laugh and give you their books to carry? And unless she has no heart, how can a coalf wind be swept away? There is a table at her side who throws out his chest wonderfully, if it isn't too cold? Bv William Zupanec, e'37 But courtship (or sparking, or billing, or coining) on the University campus is sophisticated and embody-a far cry from the grab-em-by-the-hair-and-run tactics of our forbears. In a way it is more courageous, for when one walks with one companion just from Snow hall to Ad, one risks leering remarks in "On the Shin." He looks on at the correct side—just so an antill watch the sweeping wings of wild-cryed freshmen who fear they might get to class at 9:32. The stages of campus curiosity, un- like Stone Age spending however, are definite and permit evaluation. When she walks urbanly at her side and pa- lylic refuses to see the books she is carrying, lest she think he is taking liberties. (This newly-introduced stage changes to a more realism where the where female invariably has a whale of an armful of books, but only the con- firmed Library Lizzie fails to see the light.) It is characterized by conversation about the weather, and a tendency Most of the couples on the campus have reached at least the "HI" and "How are you" stage, which may roughly be described as getting to first base. This permits the male to take her books adroitly, if they are going at all far, or to joke about the instructor's mountace that they are just walking between classes. In some of the more extreme instances, where the escort is somewhat of a princess, the female Queene, but still rather softly and lightly, being sure that other works run in immediately so that not too much of a point is made of the matter. The demarcation between the second and third stages is not clear. It seems that in the third stage of campus courtship the male is not required to take the female's books (similar in this respect to the first stage, you will recall), but instead lately takes her fight if it at all free, and dawdles. The female is permitted to ask carefully, 'Why whale call?' and the male responds by declaring prevalent near the west end of the campus, but is localized near Fraser hall as well. The fourth and last stage of stricly campus courtship has Watson library as its main stumping grounds. Although individuals in the third, and occasionally second stage spend a good portion of their time together in the library, their action is continued in another room, the table or to brushing arms once in a while if they are on the same side. No so in the fourth stage. Books here are only the means and not the end, they are just a tool. The first-stage student is a higher and more objective. As the fourth-stage students enter the reading room, ostensibly for study purposes, the female advances and selects what seems to her to be a book she wants. At the second-place items. The male cents her and sits down. Public Will Have Opportunity to View Stars Through Telescope This Semester By Jane Flood, c'39 Anyone interested in the mystic beauty of the great milkway may have the opportunity to star gaze at the campus observatory during open nights for the public. In addition, the department of astronomy at various times this semester, the first to be held on Wednesday, Oct 21, at 7 p.m. Prof. N, W. Storer, instructor of astronomy at Kornes plans to curate these public nights, as part of the weekly schedule. "Century to most people's opinion, the full moon is of little interest through the telescope," explained Professor Storer, "so we are showing the half size, or the mountains of the shadow casts, making it a more vivid speculum." Professor Storer recently returned from the American Astronomical society meeting at Cambridge, Mass., and spent a month teaching at Columbia, N.Y. During his absence here, the telescope was open to the public, under the supervision of the summer interns. The first heavenly body to be viewed by interested visitors this semester is the half moon, which will be most visual in October. Of Oct 21 provided the sky is clear. The moon will be seen through a small six-inch telescope. The 27-inch instrument which was started five or six years ago is not finished, as some of the mechanical parts have to be completed. This large magazine camera for photographic work, for it would take auxiliary equipment for visual use. "Looking through the telescope is an art," declared Professor Storer, "and seeing the actual object is an accomplishment." Forty-one students are engaged in the area of seeing the "upper world," and though their interest in the work may alongside (never, never oppose her in the fourth stage) and they whisper to each other, decorately at first, but more and more loudly as they swipe into the spirit of the thing. Carefully watching opportunity, which presents itself shortly, the male guide him a hand and the female guards it is accompanied there by singles or a tantalizing attempt at withdrawal. This continues until the couple feels that a request to leave the building is nigh, whereupon each looks at a book. The cycle is repeated about every five minutes until 9:43. The oed and her escort then leave the building headless of the sinister stares of smouldering students, and in arms about-wist feashioning a down the campus, graduating thereby to the campus crush to the adult afier. range from a search for the entrance to the golden gates, to a more scientific research, they are learning the work of astronomy—and offering its phases to others whose interest is merely an appreciation of that which is above. Finger Wave ___ 25c Permanents $2.50 and up Mi-Lady Beauty Shoppe Dora Clem, Operator 929 Miss. Permanents --- $2.50 and up WAVO BEAUTY SHOP $5.00 complete Ruth Baker, Operator Tel. 95 921 Miss. Phone 455 for appointment SUNDAY EDITOR Wave-In-Oil PERMANENT VELVA Business Staff 12-987 DORIN KENT STEVEN DAVIN PHONE K.U.66 BUNNYS MANAGER ___ F. QUINTIN BROWN ASSISTANT ELTON CARTER ALSO OBTAINABLE IN FLAT FIFTIES MANAGING EDITOR WILLIAM R. 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