University Daily Kansan
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Friday, Nov. 11. 1960
Series to Feature 'Golden 20's'
A film set to be shown freely to students and faculty members Wednesday does not carry an unlucky title even though it will be the 13th in a movie series this fall.
"The Golden Twenties" will be shown at 4 p.m. at 3 Bailey Hall. It will include shots of the good times of the 1920's which some parents or other adults have probably told them about.
The film series is sponsored by the KU Bureau of Visual Instruction and will include 11 more movie showings this semester.
Three films on architecture are scheduled for Nov. 30. "Miracle Builders" will show examples of ancient architectural engineering. "Two Baroque Churches in Germany" will show in color views of the interior decoration of German churches. Trends in U.S. residential and industrial architecture will be included in another color film, "Architecture U.S.A."
But the students interested in architecture will not monopolize the film series. Movies in other fields and subjects and their scheduled dates of showing this semester are:
Dec. 7-"The New Alaska" and "Hawaii, The Island State."
Dec. 14 "A Charles Dickens Christmas"
Jan. 4—"Story of Silver" and "World of Mosaic"
Jan. 11-"City of London" and "Churchill—Man of the Century." Jan. 18-"Maya Through the Ages"
A Mistletoe Co.—!
GEORGETOWN, Tex. (UPI) — "Kissin' is pleasin' in any season—but mistletoe makes it more so."
So reads the slogan of the Thies Mistletoe Co., a firm interested in the preservation and aggrandizement of romance as a commercial enterprise.
The firm is a one-woman operation, owned by Mrs. Charles Tucker, known in these parts as "the Mistletoe Queen."
Pizza Lovers Like Extras
"What kind of pizza shall we order tonight?" has become a familiar question among KU students. According to reports from campus pizza houses, sausage pizzas rank first in demand.
Pepperoni pizzas are second among the favorites, followed by combinations of hamburger, cheese and sausage.
"The stinkier the better," said Judy Young, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore. "In other words, I prefer the spicy types."
According to one pizza house owner, approximately 90 per cent of his business comes from college students.
Weekends are the most popular pizza eating times, because most of the organized houses do not serve meals Sunday evening.
While sausage seems to be the most widely devoured pizza species, anchovies on pizza are liked the least pizza makers report.
There are seven basic pizza varieties and an infinite variety of combinations resulting from a mixture of these kinds.
Women Scholars Defended
The American woman has been criticized for her desire for higher education which to many is termed "useless."
"To write off learning as useless because there may not be — or may not be at once — anything material to show for it, indicates a dreary concept of life," she says.
Elizabeth Bowen, English author, after spending a year at Vassar, defends the college educated woman in a recent article which appeared in Glamour magazine.
Miss Bowen has observed the women of Vassar and writes on how they look, the way they think, the quality of their education, and the promise of their future.
Those people who have voiced any objections or fears, says Miss Bowen, have failed to keep pace with America's colleges as they are today—their aims, and the nature of their feminine output.
Do most women feel they are being deprived their normal womanhood because they have a college education? What bearing would a major in Greek, music, or philosophy have on a career a young woman may finally choose, it is asked.
Miss Bowen argues that there is not only a good in learning, but the good is positive. She stresses that any exercise of the mind, no matter what subject is challenged, has is own healthiness, no less than athletic zest of the body.
Pizza has one notable characteristic that keeps some of its consumers from relishing it more often—calories. Depending on the type, the caloric content ranges from 200 to 350 calories a piece.
KU Students a Soft Minority
Are you: Nervous? Rundown?
Overbearing? . . . then what you
need is EXERCISE!
Never heard of it? A bit of probing through the dictionary produces a definition written in the days when men were men and women were glad of it.
THIS PARTICULAR dictionary gave the meaning of the seemingly extinct word. Its derivation comes from the two words "ex", meaning out from, and "arcere"; an enclosure. "Exarcere" then referred to driving beasts of toil from an enclosed space.
And with a very short jump on the imagination, the definition could aptly apply to KU students. Except for an occasional run up the Hill or a romp around Lone Star lake, KU men and women rarely stretch a muscle.
KU men and women rarely stretch a the country that does not make physical education a required course. In the Big Eight, Oklahoma is the only other school that doesn't.
In a recent survey by the physical education department of North Carolina State College, it was found that 111 out of 126 (88%) major colleges and universities required physical
education. Jayhawkers are in that mellow-muscle minority.
"A QUARTER OF AN HOUR, fifteen minutes, 900 seconds per day devoted to simple exercise is all you need to improve your whole outlook on life," says Henry A. Shenk, professor of physical education and director of the department. "Everyone should get a reasonable amount of exercise daily. This is one prescription all doctors give."
Confirming Prof. Shenk's statement is Dr. Paul Dudley White, personal physician to President Eisenhower.
Physical exercise is just as essential to good health as rest and sleep, work and recreation, food and peace or mind. The benefits of exercise to the nervous system are probably the most important of all. An intense mental worker needs exercise to clear his mind."
PROF. SHENK POINTS out that the lack of the physical education requirement is not the University's problem; this is up to the individual. And as an aid to KU students he offers to set up exercise programs for the individual or group. Mimeographed sheets describing 12 effective exercises can be obtained in his office at Robinson Gymnasium.
GROPING RUNDOWN (Or It's Been Done Before!) "If . . . I . . .
can . . . just . . . make . . . that . . . last . . . step . . . I . . . think
. . I . . can . . .." A KU student is seen at the peak of his physical condition — or at least reaching for the peak before his 8 a.m.
classes.
So committed lovers, avid organizers, elbow benders and library hounds, rise up and grab your chance. It's your body.
U.S. Prestige Not Top World Issue
The major worry of this country is not whether the Asian, African or South American people like us, but whether we can help them find hope for their future development.
"That is, the underdeveloped countries of the world are insisting that their miserable standards of living be raised. And they will reject the quick and easy path to industrialization along Soviet lines only as long as they find hope elsewhere."
PROF. LAIRD also said there is a titanic struggle today going on between the traditional Western World values and the new Soviet way. He said that he felt that this battle will not be decided over the issue of prestige, but determined in economic terms.
This is what Roy D. Laird, assistant professor of political science said recently in a Kansas interview
"There seems little doubt that we have lost out in the eyes of the Russian people in view of their rapid growth in power in recent years.
THE UNITED STATES, its newspapers and Congress, are wrong in their policy of stressing U.S. prestige, Prof. Laird said.
"But in the battle of prestige, I feel from my readings, travel and talks with Europeans, U.S. friendship with Western European people is as strong as ever, or stronger."
Music Conductor Waves Baton Again
NEW YORK — (UPI)— Conductor Jonel Perle raised his baton for an operatic performance only 19 months after a crippling stroke had paralyzed one arm and leg and left him barely able to speak, Montefiore Hospital reports.
Perlea's recovery was attributed to an intensive home rehabilitation program, in which seven specialists cooperated. A conductor's podium was built in his apartment for exercising.
Instinctively, she says, the girl who not only studies but delights in what she learns is building herself an inner fortress — a stronghold for the woman she is to be in the years to come.
To Miss Bowen's amazement she has found another persisting objection to "higher learning," which is that it may unfit young women for marriage.
The objection raised is that education (adversely known as "book-
ishness") may tell against the ex-student as wife and mother, by making her either neglectful or incompetent in regard to her human claim as a homemaker and center of domestic activities and duties, she saves.
Naturally a husband and children will come first, argues Miss Bowen, which only indicates that that is the very reason why a woman requires, and wishes, to have something to give.
"A selfish woman will be selfish whether she is intellectual or not; actually, it is the empty mind and sloppy, untutored emotions which make for egotism. And how many marriages and motherhoods ego-tism has rendered ruined and barren."
"Intelligence at any age makes for youthfulness."
She argues that it is this intelligence which guards against the left-behind feeling which causes many women to feel let down in their middle age.
The education a young woman receives, says Miss Bowen, will help her contribute to society. She will stand for civilization, temperate judgment and tolerance.
And after four years of breathing air in which there is a bit of the ancient Greek, she will give out, in her own way, "a sort of beauty."
Taste, Weather Decide Fate of Tennis Shoes
By Virginia Mathews
"I don't think it's right for college girls to wear tennis shoes." Saundra Montgomery, Mission sophomore, said.
A like or dislike for tennis shoes is a matter of taste and climate according to KU students in a random interview taken recently in the lobby of Lewis Hall.
"I don't think it's good taste to wear sloppy shoes with a sharp outfit," she commented.
John Musgrave, Joplin, Mo. senior, said he does not see anything wrong with wearing tennis shoes because, many of the students dress informally on the campus.
"I LIKE THEM." Dwain Jenista, said. "I think they are very collegiate and very sharp. There is no upkeep, no polishing, and -you can toss them in the washer. They are as good as leather shoes, cheap, and last a long time. If you go for the beatnik type, they are a must."
Some students interviewed said the weather influences the type of shoes they wear.
"I believe when it's cold the style will go out." Francis Neill, Springfield. Mo., freshman said.
'IT WOULD BE very uncomfortable to wear them in the winter. They would soak up snow quickly.
Official Says Too Many Lefthanders
Wiley is convinced the world would be a better place if everyone used his right hand to eat, write and perform most feats. So for the past 16 years he has waged a personal war against lefthandedness.
WHEELER, Tex. — (UPI)—There are more lefthanded people in the world than there should be, claims school sunt. H. W. Wiley.
His claim that there are more lefthanders than there should be is based on statistics that showed 3 per cent of the population was left-handed a generation ago, while the count is now 20 per cent among first graders.
"Handedness is acquired, and it can be changed without harmful effects far into life." Wiley claimed.
Sometimes lefthanders become anti-social because most devices from can openers to rip cords are designed for righthanders, he said. Wiley is surveying inmates of Texas reformatories to determine if there is a relationship between lefthandedness and crime.
A study of 17,000 Indians in the Southwest convined Wiley that only those corrupted by civilization are lefthanded to any measurable extent.
Karen Boyd, Meade sophomore, said she does not like to wear her suede shoes in rainy weather. The sticky mud on campus is better on tennis shoes than on suede shoes, she said.
It is all right to wear them in appropriate weather and for sports. Men and women who are university students should not wear them to class however. The students can find more appropriate shoes," he said.
Jean Stainton, Chicago, Ill., senior, said tennis shoes are better for all-occasion wear than other shoes.
"You can also buy three pairs of tennis shoes for the price of one pair of laffers and they last twice as long" she said.
"If they want to wear them they can," said Bill Charles, Oakpark, Ill., senior.
"I DON'T WEAR them. It is much more practical to wear boots. It seems ridiculous to buy shoes that must be dirty when you wear them in order to be respectable," he said.
Foreign students also have their opinions of tennis shoes.
"We have them but we do not use them as extensively as Americans do," Alice Kalayan, Beriut, Lebanon, graduate student said.
"Upon my arrival, I found how practical and comfortable they could be. I have launched on a collection of them. Wearing tennis shoes is one of the most practical things in the American style of dressing. I don't think they are ugly or horrible at all," Miss Kalayan stated.
John Eyer, Addlestone, England graduate student said with the casual dress in America the shoes do not look bad, but he prefers women to wear regular shoes.
"TENNIS SHOES ARE convenient." Kazuumi Vechi, Naha City, Okinawa, special undergraduate student said.
"They seem to be the uniform of the students. We don't wear them in college except for sports," she told the reporter.
"I think tennis shoes look like bedroom slippers," Liliane Chatignous, Paris, France, graduate student said.
"I believe they ruin a woman's looks."
Air Mail. If You Please
Yet the woman was not in sight. Terrell looked up and saw the letter dangling, attached by a clothespin to a string. Holding the string was a woman leaning out of her second-story window.