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58th Year, No. 41
Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, Nov. 11, 1960
Religious Week May Be Replaced
By Carrie Edwards
This year for the first time since 1927 Religious Emphasis Week— an annual tradition here—may not be held.
Two KU ecumenical groups have suggested programs to replace Religious Emphasis Week with speeches and forums led by noted religious leaders. These would be scheduled over at least one semester every year.
No definite schedule of speakers has been set, but it appears that the Student Religious Council, KU Religious Advisers, and University executives will agree upon such a program to begin next semester.
"The advisers and Student Religious Council felt that last year's Religion In Life Week had not made as much of an impression as it should have."
THE REV. JOHN GRABER, associate professor of religion and chairman of the KU Religious Advisers group, recently said:
THIS YEAR'S MOVE to replace Religious Emphasis Week is not the first such action. But it is likely it will be the first to be successful.
The Student Religious Council is composed of representatives from each of the campus religious organizations and has planned and sponsored Religious Emphasis Weeks.
At some of the meetings during last year's Religious Emphasis Week there were as few as 12 students. These meetings had been open to everyone.
Several councils prior to this year's had suggested that a full year of religious emphasis be made by KU ecumenical groups as well as the work by campus denominational organizations.
The religious council of 1947 proposed 9 programs similar to suggestions made this year, but it apparently was unable to work it out with religious advisers and the University.
ALTHOUGH the two programs suggested recently include some different points, both the Council and
Rey. John Graber
the KU Religious Advisers stated three identical points.
Both said religion is a full-time activity and that more than one week should be used on campus to encourage and bring talks by religious authorities.
Both said in their outlines of suggestions that inter-faith activity among KU religious groups should be encouraged. Both said Greek groups, dormitories and scholarship halls should be encouraged to invite religious leaders from off and on campus to speak in their houses.
THE RELIGIOUS advisers proposed that two or three well-known religious men speak on campus at different times annually. They also suggested that chaplains from stu-
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Women Drivers Safer Than Men
NEW YORK — UPI) — Men drivers are more concerned with the care of an automobile, but women drivers have a better safety record.
Automotive experts said this in an analysis of habits among six million young drivers.
Templin Men Publish Paper
Some of the men of Templin Hall have gone into the publishing business on a small scale.
Jerry Hess, Fort Scott junior, and managing editor of the Templin newsletter, temporarily called The Observer, said the paper was created by the Hall's Senate to promote better communication and more unity within the dormitory.
"In a dormitory housing 450 people, it is difficult for effective communication," he said. "That is the main reason why we began publishing the newsletter." He added that since the coverage would be mainly local, the newspaper would not be in competition with the Daily Kansan.
The newsletter, published weekly on Monday and free to residents, will contain an editorial column, intramural news, news of social events, dormitory news, items from the Deans' offices, and light gossip. Hess expressed hope that the eight-and-one-half by eleven inch mimeographed sheet would expand in the future.
The Senate has appropriated $208 to get the paper started. Another $200 will be paid by next semester's Senate. This money will be used primarily to pay for the mimeograph machine on which the paper, as well as other Hall documents will be printed. After this initial expenditure, the Observer will be self-sustaining through the advertising printed in it.
Without this advertising, Hess said the paper would be unable to operate.
The newsletter is now being printed in a storage room in Lewis. There are no future plans for a special press room.
Battenfeld Holds 20th Anniversary
Battenfeld Hall men are celebrating.
A homecoming decoration sign across the length of the house front explains the reason for the festivities:
"Welcome Alumns to the 20th Anniversary of Battenfeld Hall."
The hall opened its doors in the fall of 1940 after a trust fund had been set up by Mr. and Mrs.Jesse R.Battenfeld in memory of their son.
The first scheduled activity of the anniversary weekend will be a general open house with at least 50 alumni of the hall expected to attend. The public is also invited.
TURKEY, dressing, pumpkin pie the works will be served tomorrow at a pre-game smorgasbord luncheon. The first whitemeat will be dished up at 10 a.m.
Informal reception and open house may continue following tomorrow's game. The residents of Battenfeld will also display a historical scrapbook of events at the hall since its beginning.
OTHER PREPARATIONS for the anniversary commemoration began last May with the start of a whole-house improvement project. Some $600 were invested in new drapes which now hang at windows in all of the men's bedrooms as well as at windows in the public rooms.
Re-painting of the entire interior of the hall began last spring also. A special committee of this year's residents finished the brush job during the last Orientation Week. Other men returned to the campus early to re-varnish seven hard oak dining tables.
The University re-varnished portions of the woodwork during the summer.
GEORGE HAHN, Scotch Plains, N. J., sophomore, wrote a history of the hall which was published two weeks ago in the form of a newsletter. These were mailed to more than 500 Battenfeld alumni.
The hall is a memoirium to John (Continued on page 10)
Judi Jamison
Local Coed K.C. Royalty
By Carrie Merryfield
The telephone ring was ominous, but the caller brought good news.
but the caller brought good news. Judi Jamison, Ottawa sophomore, said she was notified by telephone in her room at the hotel that she had been chosen as an American Royal Princess.
"The weekend, which began on Thursday, was a busy one full of excitement and surprises," she said. "We were left on our own most of the time, so we explored the dress shops of Kansas City."
"IT SEEMED there were luncheons every day, and interviews with the judges — but I liked that. They seemed to be reviewing your life
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What They're Talking About-an Expose
By Frank Morgan
The scene was the newsroom of a small campus daily somewhere in the Midwest. Bright-eyed faces were lifted to the speaker as he stood at his desk.
"OK gang, here's the word. Everything's popin' at once. Khrushchev's fuming. Bardot's wasting
away, Dick's in the hills and Jack's in the sticks. Home brew production is up, there are more freshmen than ever before, KU's probation kicks it out of the Orange bowl, the file on Wilt has disappeared, senior girls are out all night, Murphy's in California and Wescoe's the write-in candidate for governor."
When the gals gossip . . .
THE PURPOSE of this astute analysis of the world scene by the editor was as a prelude to a catalysmic assignment.
"Now get out there in great unwashed land and find out what they're talking about. I don't want you molding any public opinion or playing any of this voice-of-your-community jazz. Just pick up all you hear. These people are talking about crucial things."
Suddenly pointing over their heads to the door, the editor commanded his charges:
In the ensuing stampede for the door, the only injury was sustained by a freshman reporter who was hurled into the press shop and emblazoned with a line of Bodoni type across his forehead.
--you have to decide what sorority is best for you and which groups you'll want listed in the Jayhawker.
SCENE 1: the dimly-lit campus coffee shop known for its abundance of esoteric conversationalists. At one table, a blonde sophomore is lecturing one of her compatriots.
"But Grace, it is essential that you look ahead. I mean, I know I'm only a year ahead of you, but believe me that's a great deal of difference here. You've just got to plan your whole four years to get anywhere."
"Now first, plan what kind of boys you're going to date, I mean what house and what kind of car. Then
"You being a freshman, I'd wait until next year before getting pinned if I were you. And under no conditions get engaged before your senior year — these college marriages are just ghastly.
"Now, you see what I mean by
planning? What? What about classes and courses and majors?
"Gracie, honestly. I'm talking about essentials."
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SCENE II. The lounge of one of the men's dorms. Reporter joins small group at the end of the lounge
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. . . So do the men