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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, December 18, 1968
Bubbling leads to two day battle
Not all of a university student's battles are fought with textbooks and examinations. Some take place on the home front.
In a basement apartment at 1232 Louisiana, three coeds were eating supper when a bubbling noise came from the bathroom. When the girls investigated, they saw a pool of murky water seep slowly from beneath the bathroom door.
As the coeds watched, the bubbling noise increased. In less than two hours water belching from the sinks, toilet bowl and shower submerged the kitchen in two inches of slimy sewage.
That was on a Saturday. Before a plumber could be summoned
Viet soldiers get pic of KU coed
the following Monday the apartment dwellers had ample practice in cooking and preparing meals above a lake of odorous water.
Susie Wassenberg, Topeka junior and KU homecoming queen, is senging perfumed dotted Swiss onion-skin stationery, and her picture to Vietnam.
Susie Wassenberg
The letter and picture are the result of a request by Capt. Charles R. Murphy of the 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry, 9th Division engaged in operations in the Mekona Delta.
"Would you please send us a full length picture of the young lady voted 'most beautiful' at the University of Kansas," he asked. The captain explained the officers and enlisted men of his unit were having a beauty contest to choose Miss 3rd/60th Infantry.
He also asked Miss Wassenburg to send a picture, explaining that the men of his unit would be deeply grateful.
Luckily sleeping was less difficult. A rise in the level of the basement floor kept the flood from reaching the bedrooms. However, the sewage was accompanied by a strong smell which entered every section of the apartment.
The picture and letter are now on their way to the rice paddies of Vietnam.
Jane Robertson, Salina junior and one of the occupants of the inundated home said she found the biggest problem to be wise-cracking friends.
She said, "It's really upsetting when people start referring to the sides of your kitchen table as starboard and port."
The services of a plumber and several hours of scrubbing finally returned the apartment to its original state. The plumber explained the problem originated from grease buildup in the apartment's piping system. He assured the coeds the situation had been completely cured.
Nevertheless, just as the coeds were beginning to get accustomed to dry feet and clean floors the bubbling noises returned.
The plumber returned fully armed. After digging up sections of the back yard and running wires through most of the apartment's plumbing system, the drains ran free again.
The girls however, live under the spectacle of a bubbling bathroom.
Faculty recital tonight
The University String Quartet will perform in a faculty recital at 8 p.m. tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Performing will be Howard Boyajian, professor of stringed instruments, on violin; Karel Blass, associate professor of stringed instruments, on viola; Paul Todd, Lawrence graduate student, on violi; and Raymond Stuhl, professor of stringed instruments, on cello.
PERSONAL
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