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Friday, October 27, 1972
University Daily Kansan
'Little Man on Campus' Changes
By KEVIN SHAFER
Kennan Staff Writer
All-male dormitories, Dandelion dates, streetcar tracks and even carved benches in memories of a 1950 graduate of the University of Florida.
Dick Bibler, now a professor of
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art at Monterey Peninsula College in Monterey, Calif., was the University Daily Kansan's first original cartoonist with a strip called 'Little Man on Campus.' The strip was distributed to more than 100 college campus newspapers in Bibber's KU residence.
of Memorial Stadium and now serves as office space for many instructors in the mathematics department with 500 single rooms for men, he said.
But times have changed, Bibler noted, and now coeducational living is the norm rather than the exception.
Dave Sokloff, who now draws cartoons for the Kansan, is the only other KU student to have an original comic strip.
MANY OF Bibler's cartoons centered on slapstick situations in which male students would sneak female students into their dormitory rooms, an act that was widely criticized as campus regulations at the time.
Bibler, who classifies himself as a "Cormographer," said some of his fondest memories of KU were of Oredall Hall.
The building, which is just west
"I guess it isn't like those 'dens' that say, 'I'm laughed, I laughed, I can't even make a funny cartoon anymore about a girl sneakling into a男人的
BIBLE SAID that because the students were forced to improvise in the 40s, he and several other disciples pointed when their favorite night spots were ruined by the installation of floodlights around Potter's house.
Bibler recalled that one of the main social events during those days was the Dandelion date.
would be weighed separately to determine who had won. Biblen said a "bear bust" would naturally follow the contest.
Another favorite pastime, Biber said, was traveling to Lone Star Lake.
trivially pick the most dandelions. The pickings of each group
"WE USED to go out there and have parties and I don't know what all. You can use your imagination on that," he said.
On Halloween, Bibier recalled, several sororites would decorate their dorm rooms with flowers. He said he and his cohorts would have a good time just jumping
One of the most interesting things Bibler said he and his fellow students joked about was the one of streetcar tracks on campus.
Bibler said that although the streetcars had long since been out of operation, the tracks were from campus and drew a lot of attention.
Bibier's comic strip was obviously centered on a student on a typical college campus.
"His brainchild is a downstretched little fellow with hair no comb could tame. No one can look more desperate than the little man as he flips coins during a basketball game, or get ground into smooches with the girl friend on the campus bypards," the article said.
Although Bibler did join a fraternity before his graduation as a teacher, he was dependent for part of his undergraduate days and geared several cartoons toward the image of the independent in the eyes of a girl.
Bibler described one of his strips as a conversation between two sorority girls discussing independent men.
Many of the tables were carved up with initials just like in the 1900s movies and the students who attended school sang sodas and beer, Bibbler said.
his favorite hangouts was the Jayhawk Cafe, on Ohio Street.
ONE GIRL says to the other, "Sue, I really don't see anything wrong with going out with an adult." The woman actually got married."
Bibler said that he received an irate phone call one night from someone obviously upset by the cartoon.
Bibler had high praise for the Buildings and Ground Department back in his undergraduate days.
"This is Sue," the caller said.
"Dick Bibler, GO TO HEUU."
"It was so bad that we used to say that the only thing holding it together was the ivy," Bibier said.
Bibler said that not many college newspapers today would be interested in printing "Little Man on Campus."
HE SAID that Buildings and Gorgeous buildings grow very beautiful would look better behind the University power plant and then transplant them.
He recalled that the Chemistry building then was in very sad shade.
He said many college newspapers were more sociologically and politically oriented now and would not be at the peak of its slack stick at campus life.
Bibler remembered that one of
Bibler hinted that this might be
his last year as a cartoonist, the fact that he has continued to draw "Little Man on Cam" for the past several summers.
BIBLER SAID the ethics of newspapers today had started to irritate him.
Bibler said the market today was not the same kind of market to which he was used to selling his work.
By using a style of printing techniques, Bibler can lift Bibler's comic strips out of other newspapers and reproduce them without his help.
He said editors today wanted the content of their newspapers to be more authentic. Biller said he wondered whether his style of humor was no longer appealing.
He said painting would be difficult for him because he tended to expect more than he was willing to do.
He said he wanted to give up drawing his comic strip for a while to try painting.
"But," he noted, "You must change your way of life to make life interesting."
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IN THE PAST year, the Endowment Association has paid for the establishment of a burn hospital in the memory of Kansas Medical Center.
The Endowment Association also paid for enlargement of the hospital and supplemented state funds for construction of Raymond Moore Hall, bought books for the library and donated land for the Medical Center.
The Endowment Association is not a part of the University system but does separate corporation, apart from the state. This, an Endowment Association spokesman said, is to ensure the administration of gifts and investment of funds and provides a home for the alumni and friends to serve.
Through the Endowment Association, membership gifts will not be given for a specific purpose and then go into an annual change. The association has a strict policy that any contribution given with a direction for its use will be
ALL LAND AND property owned by the Endowment Association is exempt from state and local taxes. It is also exempt from income tax on gifts under the 1854 Internal Revenue Code. The code also provides that the donor can deduce his gift from his income.
Although the Endowment Association is a separate entity from the University, the institutions are very closely related. The Endowment Association works with the Board of Regents, the Chancellor and the Alumni.
Seal of KU Shows Moses, Burning Bush
The association is in a white
The seal of the University of Kansas shows Moses kneeling beside the burning bush. Circling the sketch is the Latin inscription. "I shall see this great vision—why the bush is not surrounded by those interpretations of the seal have been given over the years."
The most widely accepted interpretation is by the wife of the Rev. R.W. Oliver, KU's first chancellor.
She said, "The burning bush represents God as he reveals himself to man through the earth and his duty. The universe is the subject of all that study and investigation for which the university exists. The kneeling figure shows the reverent attitude proper to the god, the drawn night to light of the universe of God who pervades it."
frame building on the east side o Mt. Oread, just across the Kansas Union. A board of trustees, 60 members elected for the position, will speed the work, an executive committee appointed by the trustees works out the general policies and procedures. A finance committee supervises the investment of resources.
works under the finance committee.
ONE OF THE Endowment association's largest assets is 24,000 acres of farm land in western Kansas, given to the school by Elizabeth M. Weikals from various donors. This unimproved land is operated by an agriculture committee, which
Officers of the Endowment Association make sure that all plans for action are carried out. L. H Ruppenthal, McPherson, Mr. Koehler and Dr. He succeeds Dolph Simons Sr., of Lawrence, who retired.
The Endowment Association was established in October 1892. They association "for the purpose of receiving, managing and admitting such donations."
The other officers are Law-
vence residents. 101 Petit Pecif,
executive secretary; Todd
Seymour, assistant secretary;
Todd Kowalczyk, executive
the use of the University of Kansas. "
THE ORGANIZATION was formally chartered on Jan. 11, 1893. Assets for the organization now total a book value of $36,615,000. The association acts as a keeper of the money and assets it to earn more capital to be used to improve the University.
One of the first uses of money from the Endowment Association was in 1898, under Chancellor William W. Brown, who been installed in the University chapel. Snow went to the Endowment Association to ask for funds to pay for the organ. According to a university official, matter "was quickly expelled."
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