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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1935
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Publisher JOSEPH DOCTOR
Editor-in-Chief WESLEY GORDON
Joseph Pryor Margaret Boast
Merrill Lynch
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Campus Editor | GameWright | Herbert Meyer
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Ast. Business Manager  Ellert Carter
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FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1935
THE COUNCIL SUMS UP
The last meeting of the Men's Student Council was held for the purpose of summing up the accomplishments of the year. Reports from the Intramural Carnival were presented, an dthe president made good the opportunity to cast a few bouquets at the members.
He first demonstrated that the council had made good on its promise to improve relationships with other schools. He pointed to the NSPA convention to be held in Kansas City next year. Everyone knows that conventions rotate, and certain sectors get them periodically. Kansas City is centrally located and makes a fine convention city for all Midwestern schools. Nevertheless, the delegates from Kansas no doubt had a great deal to do with getting the next convention "here."
In the second place he stressed the fostering of school spirit by the Night Shirt Parade, Hobo Day, and the Intramural Carnival. Now the last was no doubt directly the work of the M.S.C., and all credit should be given to the organization for the really fine gathering that turned out for a fine performance. It is the sort of thing of which the school needs more. With this alone the president had enough to justify his second point. The Night Shirt Parade, however, is an old tradition, and was carried out successfully in other years. As for the revival of Hobo Day, that credit lies directly with the Kansan, whose editorial staff conceived and popularized the revival and was responsible in no small part for its success, although credit is due the council for the manner in which it was carried out.
On the fourth point the president stressed the fact that the council had had insufficient time to take proper steps toward fulfilling it. About that he should not feel sorry. The point was to investigate the attitude of students toward simplifying the grouping of courses. The very fact that the council found insufficient time to work this out is evidence that it realized the problem of education is a really vast one and had better be left to educators of long standing.
There was one other point brought out which has not been commented upon simply because no one can possibly tell the value of it yet. That point is the proportional system of balloting. It is no doubt a significant move, but whether it will eradicate the machine evil is another question.
On the whole the council did do a great deal this year, but it did it under the leadership of three or four men who showed the way while the rest followed. Various suggestions by that group have taken root and may grow to be something in years to come.
VAGABONDING
The most super-modern college idea of the moment comes from Harvard University, in the form of vagabonds. The idea appeals instantaneously to the nomadic spirit of Joe Blow and Betty Co-Ed, Carefree, adventurous wanderings hold too fascinating an hallucination to be dispelled.
The rules of the game are more real than fantastic. The student vagabond is the kind of roamer who attends lectures other than those connected with his own classes. Under the present system a popular professor often wastes a great deal of pleasantry and information on as few as six or eight students. After the vagabond has attended his scheduled classes he may attend these lectures which promise to be entertaining and instructive. At Harvard the student is aided by lists of the professor's daily lecture subjects.
Every college student is interested in many courses which a limited amount of time will not allow him to take. He realizes that these courses would be beneficial to him, and he would appreciate the opportunity to attend the classes. The only objection professors have offered in universities where the plan is in use is that students who do not attend regular classes may not have sufficient knowledge to comprehend the lectures. In other respects the project has merited the approval of students and instructors. There is no reason why a "vagabondage" movement might not be successfully carried out here.
Midsemester exams are like a red flare on a railroad track-slow, watch all signals or a crash will occur.
We Polish Apples
Editor's note: The Kansas will present in this column thumb-bail sketches of the members of the faculty.
U. G. Mitchell
Here we disclose the fact that this able mathematician was a great rival of his wife in scholastic ability during their high school days. (No, they weren't married then.) As the Graduate Magazine states it the rivalry must have turned out all right even though the Professor came out valedictorian and Mrs. Mitchell second best.
Until Professor Mitchell was 12 years old he lived in an Irish-Catholic neighborhood. Then the family came to Kansas in a prairie schooner and settled at Peabody. "Since I had lived through ague, chicken pox, whooping cough, measles, diphtheria, and typhoid fever my pariah would have been able to survive Kansas cyclones and droughts," he says.
It was an old army officer who was superintendent of the Peabody high school that first got Mr. Mitchell interested in mathematics. And it was in this school that he first taught. The superintendent was ill for a time and designated the boy Ullyses to conduct his classes.
Mr. Mitchell says that probably the greatest progress in the University since he came has been in more intangible things—putting away of childish things (class scraps, for instance), more independent thinking on the part of both the faculty and students, and development of a unique system of budget control and faculty democracy.
Go up and see the Professor sometime. He might even show you his valuable collection of old mathmatica collected from all over the world
However, at the University of Michigan the athletic association recently suggested to the fraternities that they should offer job open in each house for an athlete.
ATHLETES ARE GETTING WISE
Of course, there are many fraternities that not only provide meal jobs for athletes, but in some cases take care of their room bill and fraternity initiation expenses. Letter men are considered good rushing aids.
When open subdivision of athletes in collegiate competition is suggested many officials become amazed at the baldness of such a suggestion.
The Daily Illini
Such a gesture on the part of fraternities is a commendable one from the standpoint that they are furthering the interests of their university. Many men in these institutions have certain athletic abilities would be denied the benefits of an education if it
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
BI-RACIAL CONFERENCE;
Notice due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding regular publication days
and 11:30 a.m. Saturday for Sunday issue.
Students and faculty members who are interested are urged to attend the bi-racial conference sponsored by the Council of Race Relations of Lawrence, Mr. C.A. Franklin, of Kansas City, will speak at 2:30 on Sunday, March 24, at the Unitarian Church, Twelfth and Vermont streets.
No.119
Friday. March 22,1935
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB;
"Cribbing" perhaps is not so generally countered, but students who have been taught to copy their English composition themes will, in all, need a good understanding of adjustments left to make before stopping to the preparation of "crials."
The Cosmopolitan Club will hold its meeting this evening at 8 o'clock at the Trinity Episcopal Church, Tenth and Vermont. R. W. ROBB, President.
MYRON MESSENHEIMER, Chairman, Pro tem.
were not for the generosity of the Greek letter organizations.
Organized freshmen students in some houses are early introduced to their house's collection of old themes and term papers, examination question lists used in former years, and science experiments prepared by older brothers. In many courses, assignments change very little from year to year, and freshmen are urged to make full use of such collections in order that they may make the required number of credit points for initiation.
Cheeting on examination is an evi which will probably will last as long as the examination system itself. Its most effective means of control would be a widespread feeling among students against it, a feeling which needs a good deal of development at the present time.
There seems to be a growing tendency among the student body toward condoning unfair methods of preparing written assignments and "cribbing" on examinations. Such practice place the honest student under a real handicap, sometimes make him wonder whether hard work is justified after all.
There seems to be no injustifiable reason, however, why the fraternities should be burdened by an additional expense. These houses have been faced with an economic retrenchment in the same manner as any other organization. In addition to this it is not giving the athlete a square deal. After a football player has spent three or more hours in strenuous exercise he is not in condition to relax properly before he eats. If he runs he will hears greatly to time have to get.
One of the answers to this will be that no one is compelled to enter athletic competition. Of course, no university is compelled to maintain teams in inter-college competition, but under the present system every university wants
A solution to this problem was proposed at a meeting of the Big Ten officials to inaugurate a training table. It was voted down.
If the athletic associations cannot afford to maintain a training table there must be something wrong with their organizations. The only reason that they have managed to keep athletes under such conditions is by attaching a stigma to any individual who seeks to obtain a fair and just reward for his work.
The athletes, however, are beginning to realize that they have been exceedingly gullible and athletic and admiringly villaines are willing to face the facts.
Indiana Daily Student Bewails Unhappy Practice of Cribbing
Most of the efforts of fraternities and sororities toward fostering higher
Indiana Daily Student.
scholarship among their members have been genuinely sincerice and commendable. The organizations have served, and must continue to serve a valuable purpose. Yet, if in the servings, the tendency toward unfairness is fostered, much of the virtue of their work is necessary lost.
CAMPUS OPINION
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kansas. Articles over 200 words in length are invited to comment on any subject are invited.
Editor Daily Kansan:
The Progressive Student Government League has presented its challenge squarely to those students who have never before participated in student politics as well as to those who are interested in seeing a general reform movement successful. This challenge consists of a basic fact in any government—the fact that each student must realize it to be his duty to give his support to the student who represents his ideas rather than brand all political action as vulgar and below his conception of the most fruitful college life.
As long as the men of this University insist on staying away from the polls on election day, they are admitting that they are not interested enough in their school to participate in the culture that might exist if they would give their wholehearted support to men who look on the problems of the campus in the light that in common to their own ideas and ideals.
The challenge that has been sounded by the PSGL is for the men of the University to arouse themselves from the lethargy which they are now in and make this institution a leader in the thought that should come from it. Under this banner the PSGL has signified the intention of leading the men of the University in an extended reform program.
Under the present system the out ward appearance may be still holding up, but inwardly it has degenerated until it has prompted such a movement as the League is now carrying on. I is necessary for the pendulum to swim back and forth lest progress may no longer be forthcoming and the no spirit of the University hit the downward trail—C.H.
CLOSE
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CHALKLETS
Conducted by R. J.B.
Dusty items—We have been in the clutches of a dust storm although some people thought it was dry snow . . . Gals had to let up using their goody lipsick because of the dust . . . The hairy painted lids are now faced with a week's hair washing job . . . Several profs dismissed their classes because of
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threat irritation . . . A few more than the usual number of dirty faces and recks were noticed . . . The one fish in Potter lake was the only comfortable inhabitant of Mt. Oread . . . Someone singing "Stardust."
In our spare time we made a poll as to the cause of the dust storm. We are pleased to announce the following results:
Huey Long 230
General Johnson 200
Airplanes 185
Radio 172
Glenn Cunningham 150
Jackrabbits 145
Fun dancers 109
Congress 90
Dust and Wind 2
These dogs have just got to get discipline and manners like the rest of us. One lazy poch bound sprawled out is the education library the other day on the floor so that everyone had to make a detour for his majesty.
John Jacob Astor III has taken a $25 a week job down at the New York docks. But there's no need for him to hang around down there; the Astor ship came in a long time ago an it was plenty full.
A survey shows that Yale university men prefer brunettes. By their own choosing they are self-admitted cads; no gentleman would ever consider giving a brunette preference over a blonde and, moreover, she has a larger car or more money.
The Sour Owl joined the ranks of the "bally-lettres" and mispells Town Crier Alex Wooldotti named "Wolcott." Nice going.
Overheard:
"How did you like the Vernal Number of the Sour Owl?"
"It was in Vernal."
The students are turning into a bunch of pessimists. Everybody's wearing colored glasses.
Worries always come in pairs-here comes spring fever and the mid-semenex exams.
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Domestic Improvement note: A FI Phi out in front of the house knitting. Next the girls will be selling cuilts.
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