Friday. April 17, 1959 University Daily Kansan
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Students Give Swimming Lessons
GOIN' SWIMMIN'—Here some members of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity are shown as they give swimming lessons to Lawrence children.
For a few hours on Saturday afternoons, the students devote their time to giving the partially handicapped children swimming lessons.
If you should stop by the Robinson gymnasium swimming pool some Saturday afternoon this spring, you would probably find a small group of students busy teaching handicapped children to swim.
The students, members of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, are helping six crippled children by aiding them in physical rehabilitation.
The lessons, about seven in all have been a project of the fraternity for the past four years. They are in conjunction with the Beaker Cup project, a social service award for which the fraternity is competing.
Each spring approximately six Lawrence children are selected to participate in the program. Doctors have told the student instructors that the lessons are excellent therapy for the children.
All students who help with the lessons are well-qualified to do so since they are members of the swimming team or physical education majors.
Those conducting the lessons this year are Richard Reasom, Topeka; Dwight Pope, St. Joseph, Mo., and Keith Bras, Kansas City, Mo., all freshmen.
Co-chairmen for the project are Thomas Johnston, Prairie Village sophomore, and James Anderson, Lawrence freshman.
The girls on the KU campus are becoming sporty! They want to ride bicycles to class, and now they want to wear bermudas and slacks to class so they can use this form of transportation.
Bermudas Seen as Boon
Most of the girls are already accustomed to wearing slacks to final examinations. The University has no rule which prevents the wearing of sports clothes on the campus. Only the social rule of conformity prevails.
Slacks are also worn for certain classes for their convenience and casualness. Donna Leonard, Fulton, Mo., senior, said, "To some art classes, such as ceramics, you wouldn't want to wear your best clothes."
Wearing slacks and bermudas will not only aid the girls in riding bicycles, but it will also give them a chance for more casual type of dress. Wearing sports clothes enables the girls to wear bulky crew-necks, colorful middy tops and a wide variety of tuck-in blouses. However, as much neatness will have to be considered in outfitting for this type of dress as the girls do now for blouses and skirts.
The fad of wearing bermudas and slacks to class has already been adopted on other campuses. Why have the girls at KU waited until now to start discussing it? Are they all conformists or are they afraid of losing their femininity?
This idea was mentioned by Don Luellen, Kansas City junior. If slacks and bermudas are to be worn, the girls still should appear neat and not sloppy, such as neglecting to tuck in a blouse," he said.
The women's point of view
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The question of wearing shacks and bermudas to class still seems to be unresolved. Can KU women lose their sense of puritanism and adapt to a more casual type of way?"
Last but not least, a girl must judge for herself how she will look in these casual styles. The girl who looks good in a straight skirt and who is slim and long-legged, will look just as good in a pair of slacks or bermudas. But to the girl whose extra pounds already show in a straight skirt, a pair of slacks will certainly not hide those inches.
study, not to wear particular clothes
to study in"
For the above reasons, I am sure one will agree with Jo Evans, St. Louis, Mo., junior.Jo says, "It certainly would not improve their looks and with certain figures, it would certainly show off their figure defects."
expressed by Marcia Casey, Hutchinson freshman and KU's "Best Dressed Co-eed." "Somehow I don't think they ought to wear slacks on campus. To me, it doesn't seem like our school is the type where campus wear is that informal," she said.
Pat Glen, Ft. Riley sophomore;
"Women have always worn skirts
or feminine type clothes and I don't
think they should stop now."
Although the girls seem a little dubious as to wearing slacks and bermudas to class, the boys think it would be a fine idea, Bob MrGee. Hutchinson senior, said, "I think it would be great. Especially in the spring because it would add so much to the atmosphere of the campus."
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Ralph Wilson, Kansas City sophomore, said, "I don't see anything wrong with it at all. You are here to
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