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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Feb. 24, 1960
Femininity Rated at Union Candy Stand
By Frank Morgan
Little do KU women realize that they are undergoing an extensive analysis when they buy cigarettes or candy.
The concentration with which the clerks at the Student Union concession stand wait on female customers rises above the normal devotion to duty, aim to please, and attention to the job.
Each female customer is scrutilized, rated and categorized according to factors that only women possess.
The system is not too complicated. It is one common to the male
mind in all climes and places. However, this instance is one of the rare times when voice is given to the visual reaction to the opposite sex.
Points Given
While not complicated, it is involved. It works like this:
The maximum rating is 10 and the minimum is 0. Points are given for facial features, build (subdivided into attributes north or south of the middle), carriage and deportment towards clerks. Fractions are used when difference of opinion arises.
Thus, when Jane Doe approach-
**Foreign Students:** A representative from an office of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service will be on the campus Friday at 3:30 p.m. It is important that students from abroad who may have questions concerning permit to stay extension, work permission, future plans, general immigration regulations, etc. Please come to the office on Friday. If you have class until 3:50 come to the Union at that time.
Deadline for Fall, 1960. Scholarships is March 1. Aids and Awards Office, 222 West 47th Street.
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the public relations office, 222 Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. Do not bring Bulletin material to the Daily Kansan. Notices include name, place, date, and time of function.
Religion in Life Week. Music and
Browning Room. The Rev. Robert Davis
and Dr. Aaron Levine.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
L. lutr Gamma Delta Vespers, 5:00-
cran. d Danforth Chapel, Vicar R E.
Ku'.
Folk Dance Club. 7:30 p.m. Union.
Dance # & Instruction.
not be limited to undergraduates either, but carried into later years.
Fatural Evening Prayer, -9:30 p.m.
Dafoil Church.
group on campus or any other university has such a system, but the possibilities of its use are unlimited.
es the counter and asks for cigarettes, an initial sight rating is given and signaled to other clerks out of the immediate area by fingers held to the side. After Jane gets her cigarettes, pays and walks away, the system goes into effect. "Sirt!" shouts the clerk who
"Six!" shouts the clerk who waited on her.
It provides a true frame of reference that so often is lacking when the number-one subject of men arises in fraternity houses, dorms and cafes. Its use would
"You're nuts" cries the corner man, "she's not even a three."
imagine two college men discussing their old days at State U. when one proudly announces to his companion:
TOMORROW
"I don't know, she looked like a seven from here," says the other clerk who was busy filling the candy counter.
D. Darland of Washington National Insurance Co., will interview for positions for group field representatives, and gen- tral field training program in 202 Summerfield.
E. Carr of Hallmark Cards, Inc. will interview in 202 Summerfield. The following positions are open for men: accounting, advertising, art, business administration, creative writing design, English, industrial engineering, industrial management, art, marketing, merchandising, retailing and statistics. For women: art, creative writing, design, English, math, personnel, retailing, and secretarial.
D. Brooks of Southwestern Investment Company will interview for positions in finance management trainees and Insurance adjuster trainees in 202 Summerfield.
Episplea Morning Prayer, 6:45 a.m.
breakfast following. Conterbury House.
Class of '60 House representatives meeting, 4-5 dpm, Pine Room, Union.
Newman Club Daily Mass. 6:30 a.m. St John's Church.
A brief meeting is then held where an agreement is reached, a number assigned and mentally filed for future reference. This becomes the basis for comparison when discussing women in general at a later date so that when the question, comes up of "what was she like," a specific answer can be given.
"Yeah, well in my junior year, we had an all-campus average of 7.3, top that, buddy."
Poetry Hour 4 p.m. Music and Browsing Room, Union. Stuart Levine reading E. G. Cohn.
System May Be Unique
It is not known if any other
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