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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 17, 1960
Co-educational Hall to End
By Carrie Edwards
Carruth and O'Leary Dormitory residents may as well forget about dating next year anyone in the hall wing opposite theirs.
They can drop any hopes they may have had of eating breakfast next semester with their steady in the Carruth-O'Leary dining room.
It is almost definite -Carruth O'Leary Hall will be an all-women's dormitory beginning next September.
Jerry Johnson, Ft. Pierce, Fla. graduate student, resident hall director of Carruth, said:
"Reports from the dean of men's and the KU housing offices say there will be an overflow of women next year for Gertrude Sellards Pearson Dormitory. The administrators of the University figure the increased number of women enrolled will give them no choice but to make Carruth-O'Leary an all-female dormitory."
Mixed Hall Planned
Johnson said he had also heard there are plans for the construction of a co-educational dormitory within the next ten years.
Joseph Wilson of the KU housing office said:
"Plans are being made for a new residence hall. But no one knows how fast those plans will develop or exactly how soon another one will be needed.
"Some consideration will be given toward working out some sort of co-educational hall with a common dining room and social lounges."
Mr. Wilson said the whole business of co-educational housing on the campus is a "ticklish matter" among Kansans out in the state and in the legislature.
"The term 'co-educational' must be more clearly defined for some provincially-minded Kansans, especially oldsters and those middle-aged."
Students Know Truth
He said students on campus realize men and women residents of coeducational halls are in entirely separate wings except when eating or visiting in social lounges. Mr. Wilson continued:
"But when some adults hear of
co-educational halls, they get the impression that men and women actually are in adjoining dormitories.
"I have received several nasty letters criticizing KU for allowing co-educational dormitories. These are from persons who take the literal translation of 'co-educational' and get the wrong idea."
Mr. Wilson said many of those disillusioned people won't take the time to come and see the real setup here, KU students and administrators must work to clear up such disillusionment before there can be any more co-educational dormitories, he said.
Intermingling to End
The Carruth wing director said the end of the co-educational hall will probably mean the end to considerable intermingling by some men and women. Johnson continued:
"By this I mean many of the men who have no women in their classes and normally would take no initiative to ask women for dates will stop playing cards with them in social lounges of halls. Bridge-playing among men and women here is common in the socials.
"Some women with few or no men in their classes will probably not mingle and joke with men as much as they do now before and after meals. Friendships form and later dates come."
Johnson said such intermingling and dates would stop for some shy men and women.
He said Carruth-O'Leary was made co-educational on a temporary basis from its start last September.
"No one since then has found any way to continue the hall on a mixed basis next year and at the same time meet the anticipated need for more women's housing."
The hall residents don't seem to want to believe the mixed living system will end. Yesterday after one woman was told of the almost-definite decision, she said with concern:
Is sex necessary? — James Thurber.
"It must be a rumor. This system has been working out fine."
I'm not exactly an Irish colleen though a speck of me blood came from the Emerald Isle and me face is showered with freckles.
Non-Irish Don Holiday Green
By Carol Allen
The classic red tint that adds the Erin touch to me brown locks is just a bit of commercial hair rinse I've applied since me younger days and the shamrock I'm sportin' in me lapel is just one I purchased at the "five and ten."
Me boyfriend's name's not Pat nor Mike and I gave up the Irish potato when me waistline started slippin' out.
Can't Dance
Me voice ain't much for hummin" "My Wild Irish Rose" and me coordination's a mighty bit too poor for tryin' the homeland jig.
Me even doubts I'd be much goo with the pipe considerin' I turned blue instead of green with me last cigar.
I ain't never kissed the blarney stone and I'm damn right 'fraid of a snake.
I lost me belief in pots o' gold at the end of rainbows when the recession set in and I only discovered yesterday twas me roommate and not the leprechaun that short-sheeted me bed.
No Murphy Relatives
Me pa's overalls ain't never found their way into Mrs. Murphy's chowder and me only acquaintance with 'Murph' himself was durin' me freshman orientation days.
I haven't a single relative Malone, O'Malley or O'Shannahan and I ain't never seen Dublin 'cept on me eighth grade geography map.
But just the same, me heart is with the Irish this March St. Patrick's morn and I'll continue with me wearin' o' the green.
State Book Holds Recipes From Minnesota's Counties
ST. PAUL, Minn. —(UPI)—The Minnesota Historical Society has printed a fourth edition of its book, "100 years of Good Cooking," which features recipes from every county in the state.
The first of five weekly ballroom dancing lessons for students will begin March 25 in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union. These free lessons
Free Dance Lessons Starting Next Week
will take place in the Union for four Friday nights following the first session.
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