STRE-E-E-TCH—Emery Weber, McCune senior, reaches for dead light bulb in front of Flint Hall.
Bulb Changer Adds 5 Miles to Pace
Remember how tired one gets just walking to and from buildings between classes? Picture walking an extra five miles a day—and liking it.
A campus lamplighter, personified by Emery Weber, McCune senior, does just that. Weber is a light bulb changer, on the payroll of the buildings and grounds department.
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Light bulb changers average five miles a day in their campus rounds, changing from 10 to 100 bulbs a day.
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They also work on anything else needed to get a light working—switches, fuses and fixtures. If the job is too difficult or dangerous, an electrician is called in to make repairs.
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"I like my job," Weber said. "It offers quite a bit as to when I work and where I go."
"I've gotten used to high places and precarious perches since I took this job." Weber said. "I used to be afraid to get off the ground, but now I think nothing of walking around on the catwalk at the top of Allen Field House."
Weber and his fellow bulbsnatchers frequently encounter dangerous jobs, such as burned-out bulbs in stairwells. Then the changer needs a helper to hold a ladder while he works, since there are no flat places to set up such a device.
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Finished with the Flint fixture, Weber picked up an orange crate packed with bulbs of several sizes and shapes. He then continued his round, looking for the next inefficient bulb.
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Weber demonstrated his sang-froid as he climbed a door to change a bulb behind Flint Hall. Standing on a narrow bar, he clung to the top of the door and calmly leaned at a 45-degree angle to change the bulb.
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SUA Positions Open
Students who have worked in the Student Union Activities program are now eligible to apply for officer and board positions. Application forms are available in the SUA office of the Kansas Union and in the Union business office.
Application forms must be returned by April 8.
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Alvin McCoy, Kansas bureau chief for the Kansas City Star, will speak to the KU Political Science Club tonight at 7:30 in the Kansas Union Pine Room.
"Problems of a Political Representative" is Mr. McCoy's topic.
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On Campus with Max Shulman
(By the Author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boys!" and,
"Barefoot Boy with Cheek.")
HUSBANDS, ANYONE?
Girls go to college for precisely the same reasons as men do; to broaden their horizons, to lengthen their vistas, to drink at the fount of wisdom. But if, by pure chance, while a girl is engaged in these meritorious pursuits, a likely looking husband should pop into view, why, what's wrong with that? Eh? What's wrong with that?
It has been alleged that coeds go to college for the sole purpose of finding husbands. This is, of course, an infamous canard, and I give fair warning that, small and spongy as I am, anybody who says such a dastardly thing when I am around had better be prepared for a sound thrashing!
The question now arises, what should a girl look for in a husband? A great deal has been written on this subject. Some say character is most important, some say background, some say appearance, some say education. All are wrong.
The most important thing—bar none—in a husband is health. Though he be handsome as Apollo and rich as Croesus, what good is he if he just lies around all day accumulating bedsores?
The very first thing to do upon meeting a man is to make sure he is sound of wind and limb. Before he has a chance to sweet-talk you, slap a thermometer in his mouth, roll back his eyelids, yank out his tongue, rap his patella, palpate his thorax, ask him to straighten out a horseshoe with his teeth. If he fails these simple tests, phone for an ambulance and go on to the next prospect.
If, however, he turns out to be physically fit, proceed to the second most important requirement in a husband. I refer to a sense of humor.
A man who can't take a joke is a man to be avoided. There are several simple tests to find out whether your prospect can take a joke or not. You can, for example, slash his tires. Or burn his "Mad" comics. Or steal his switchblade. Or turn loose his pet racoon. Or shave his head.
After each of these good-natured pranks, laugh gaily and shout "April Food!" If he replies, "But this is February nineteenth," or something equally churlish, cross him off your list and give thanks you found out in time.
But if he laughs silverly and calls you "Little minx!" put him to the next test. Find out whether he is kindly.
The quickest way to ascertain his kindiness is, of course, to look at the cigarette he smokes. Is it mild? Is it element? Is it humane? Does it minister tenderly to the psyche? Does it coddle the synapses? Is it a good companion? Is it genial? Is it bright and friendly and full of delicet pleasure from cockcrow till the heart of darkness?
Is it, in short, Philip Morris?
If Philip Morris it be, then clasp the man to your bosom with hoops of steel, for you may be sure that he is kindly as a summer breeze, kindly as a mother's kiss, kindly to his very marrow.
And now, having found a man who is kindly and healthy and blessed with a sense of humor, the only thing that remains is to make sure he will always earn a handsome living. That, fortunately, is easy. Just enroll him in engineering. © 1950, Max Shoelman
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