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MD Concession Serves Coffee, Drama and Fun
By Saundra Hayn
Potato chips, candy bars, coffee, donuts, cigarettes and soft drinks are all found in the tiny, 8-by-12 concession stand in the Music and Dramatic Arts building.
Sandra Blankenship, Great Bend senior, speaks for most fine arts students when she says, "It is a place where you can take a coffee break—but more important, you get to know everyone. Professors stop for coffee; everyone is informal. I have had more interesting discussions there than anywhere on the campus."
Some fine arts students consider this cubicle even more important than the various stages and recital halls in the building.
The Human Element
The concession stand has a circus air. John Westerman, Merriam junior, a student who works there, sells his coffee like an old time side show barker.
Westerman, although businesslike,
has a heart. Yesterday he gave away
two cups of coffee. That was his first
mistake.
Miss Blankenship and Celia Welch. Herington junior, the girls to whom he had given the coffee, soon dragged him from behind the safety of his counter.
A Poet's World
With Westerman seated on a low bench they gave the premier performance of an act which possibly will win them a position of note in the theater world.
Here's to John behind the counter,
If there were stairs to heaven, he
We wonder if he is partial to all men, or just to us.
He is good—and kind—and sweet
—and generous.
Words cannot express the virtues of John.
So we must admit that he's real gone.
We praise, we laud, we magnify his name,
'Cause he gives us free coffee.
This performance ended to wild applause from the gallery of main-
This episode is only one of many that occur in this culinary cubicle.
When there was snow, two coffee-drinking men decided to build an ice Venus. They did, too-right in front of the veranda that connects the two wings of the sprawling building.
jenceance men and fine arts students who had gathered for the premier.
Fate Retaliates
Even in a new and beautiful building there are those who would force persons to conform to minute and confining patterns of behavior. Is it not unbelievable that in the very department which dotes on creativity there are those who would close forever a part of that achievement? Yes, there are rumors that next year the small cubicle will not house goodies.
Here, for all to see, is a place where the spark of creativity can grow and burn, perhaps not brightly, but at least to the illumination of small spaces.
The atmosphere of the stately and quiet Exhibition Gallery may soon replace the merry air around the brave little niche where students find refuge from the "have to" world.
To close or not to close, to inhibit talent or to exhibit the free spirit, that is the question. ___
Dinner Planned for Foreign Students
An "Around the World Dinner" for foreign students, sponsored by the Neosho County Council for UNESCO, will be held April 24 in Chanute. Transportation arrangements can be made through Clark Coan, foreign student adviser, 221 Strong. Representatives from eight Kansas colleges and universities will attend the dinner.
Fire of the Year
HOLLYWOOD — (UPI) — "Rescue 8," a television series which features heroic rescue exploits, had to be rescued itself by the fire department last night. One of its rescue trucks caught fire.
Elina Holst, class of 1957, has been appointed group leader to Finland for the 1959 summer program of The Experiment in International Living.
She is presently employed as administrative assistant working with the governing council of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington, D. C. She majored in political science while at the University of Kansas.
She will take part in a program involving 1,200 people, aged 16-35, who are going abroad this summer to gain firsthand knowledge of another country's customs and culture.
Graduate to Lead Group in Finland
Miss Holst studied at the University of Helsinki from 1954 to 1956. During that time she lived with relatives in Helsinki and traveled throughout Finland.
Summer Job Slots Open in Capital
Summer jobs in the nation's capital are open for college students. Positions as typists, file clerks, and stenographers are available.
In order to qualify for these positions it is necessary to pass civil service examinations. After passing the examinations, students should obtain a standard form 57 from the post office.
The standard form 57 must be filled out and sent to the personnel office of the agency for which the student wishes to work.
For information regarding National Park Service jobs, students should write the U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Washington, D. C.
Article by Friauf Published
An article written by Robert Friedau, assistant professor of physics, about the Midwest Solid-State Physics conference last fall, was featured in the March issue of Physics Today, monthly publication of the American Institute of Physics.
Thursday, April 2, 1950
The eight jet engines of the B-52 can develop a "thrust" of nearly 100,000 pounds.
Tibet's Dalai Lama Escapes From Chinese Communists
NEW DELHI, India — (UPI)— The god-king Dalai Lama of Tibet was reported today to have escaped his Chinese Communist pursuers and crossed into India.
The Communists said in a Peiping radio broadcast that the Dalai Lama was accompanied by some of the rebels.
The Communist report came soon after sources in new Delhi reported renewed fighting between rebels and the Communists southeast of Lhasa.
Peiping Radio said the Dalai Lama entered India "under duress by the
rebellious elements." The Communists have charged all along that the young god-king did not really want to leave Lhasa.
In the Indian protectorate of Bhutan, just south of the area where new fighting was reported to have broken out, the small kingdom's entire militia of 5,000 men was mobilized to meet the threat of possible trouble at the Tibetan border
Official Bulletin
Prime Minister Jigme Dorje of Bhutan said Bhutan would give the Dalai Lama temporary asylum, but it was clear the Bhutanese feared Chinese Communist reprisals.
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the public relations office, 222-A Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication, of publication number 1785. The Daily Kansan, Notices should include name, place, date, and time of function.
TODAY
**Foreign Students:** If you are returning home after the current academic semester, sign up for attending a week in Colorado (june 13-20) at the annual Summer Crossroads Seminar, come by the office of the Foreign Student Center, 228 Strong Hall, for more information.
Foreign Students: If any KU foreign students would like to attend a UNESCO dinner and program at Chanute, Kansas, on the evening of April 24, please see the Foreign Student Adviser by Friday noon of this week.
Christian Science Campus Organization, 7.30 p.m., Danfort Chapel.
Poetry Hour, 4 p.m. Ian Loram, German student, will read 19th & 20th c. poetry in Music & Browsing Room of Kansas Union.
Petitioning for Jay Sisters, 7 p.m.
Balley Auditorium.
German Department and German Club, 5 p.m. Film "Watch on the Ruhr," narrated by Edward R. Murrow, 110 Fraser Refreshments will be served. Publ wel-
TOMORROW
Newman Club Mass, 6:30 a.m. St. John's Church, 11th and Kentucky.
Episopne Morning Prayer, 6:45 a.m.
breakfast following. Canterbury House
or Business Placement Bureau, 214 Strong. Mr. R. G. Carney, J & L Steel Corp. Mr. R. G. Carney, M.Bell Lyons and Mrs. Chester Leedford, Provident Mutual Inc. Co., Sales.
Inter-varsity Christian Fellowship, 7:30 p.m., 829 Miss. Bible study, discussion, refreshments.
**Mathematics Colloquium**, 4:15 p.m., 203. Strong. Coffee at 3:50 p.m. in 217 Strong. "Irregular Points of Normal Families of Analytic Functions."
Lutheran Student Association, 3-5 p.m.
Coffee Hour, 1314 Louisiana.
Friday Night Services, 7:30 p.m., Jewish Community Center, 1409 Tennessee.
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