Friday, Nov. 11, 1950
University Daily Kansan
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Women's Athletic Activities In Full Swing on KU Campus
A Quack Club member practices a "ballet leg" for the show "Tone Poems of Color" to be presented next month.
Basketballs slap the wooden floor in Robinson Gym and fencing foils slash the air as Women's Recreation Assn. activities are in full swing.
Dance-in-the-Round
Quack Club, the swim group, will present a show next month. Land drill started in October, and the women took to water amid much laughter and splashing last week.
The modern dance group, Tau Sigma, plans a show called Dance-In-The-Round, for next spring.
Basketball games between organized houses bring pleased expressions or sighs of disappointment to the players, but always cheers and encouragement from the spectators. Housemothers, friends and faculty members watch the fast-moving and spirited games. Some sororities even have cheerleaders dressed in gay costumes.
"Badminton games are fun I think," said one perspiring player. "It's a way of easing tension of the week without completely tiring yourself."
Another woman said the WRA was an excellent way of meeting other students. "After all, the campus is so large, you never meet as many people as you would like too." Ruth Hoover, assistant professor of physical education and adviser to WRA is pleased with the turnout for the program. She said that more than 100 girls are taking advantage of the facilities WRA offers.
Beauty, grace and movement are shown here by Tau Sigma. This spring the group plans to present something different at KU—a dance-in-the-round. The audience will be seated on all sides of the stage and the dancers will make their entrances and exits through the aisles.
Robinson Gym will be the scene of the program.
"It is an exciting way of presenting a dance production to the public," one member said.
Sellards receives the ball from this jump. The opposing team is Delta Delta Delta.
Photography and Text by Carrie Merryfield
Fencing goes afield as two Alphas Delta Pi's duel in the crisp fall air.
An Alpha Delta Pi wins the match with a smash shot in a close badminton game.