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University Daily Kansan Monday, Nov. 24, 1958
Bon Voyage
The time of year has come around when we feel obliged to warn students—drive carefully.
By Wednesday, a few dozen students will be giving thanks for escapes from almost-accidents on the way home. Maybe a few students won't be alive by Wednesday.
Now that approach usually doesn't do any good, so we'll put it another way:
be such silly asses on the road. We're going to be out there too, and we have no intention of winding up on a slab because of someone else's stupidity.
Drive slow, don't drink when you do, and don't
We ask, in a forlorn hope, that none of you fulfill the insurance company's expectations for under-25 drivers.
You see, we have no good obituary writers on the staff. —Alan Jones
Keep Them Out
"Don't EVER go out alone at night, no matter how necessary it may be."
This warning echoes throughout sororities and women's residence halls at least once a week during the school year. Housemothers, presidents, and AWS representatives say it.
But still, occasionally, women are attacked somewhere in the vicinity of the campus.
And now, in the past week, at least five houses have reported prowlers on the property who in several cases tried to enter.
Stand in a darkened corridor of a house and watch the ghostly figure of a man as he tries to open a fire escape door—here lies a real and horrifying danger. It is lucky there were girls still awake to rouse other members in the recent incidents.
Precautions by the women's houses seem the
most reliable means of preventing a serious incident. There is little to be done about the prowlers unless they can be caught, so the women's job is to make sure that there is as little chance of entry as possible.
In at least one of the prowler cases last week, the door which the man was trying to open had been left unlocked. A back door facing on a dark street was left unlocked by the room occupants.
Keep curtains or shades pulled when lights are on in the room after dark. Avoid studying alone in dining or recreation rooms on the lower floors. If it is a necessity, be sure that all curtains are drawn.
So, although it may seem obvious, the final advice for defeating prowlers is to keep doors locked. For what better invitation is there than an open door? —Mary Alden
E. Raymond Hall
A Naturalist in the Field
By Elva Mae Lundry
"A trapper in the North Woods that's what I wanted to be." The boyhood dream expressed by Dr. E. Raymond Hall, director of the Museum of Natural History, does not seem unusual for one now so dedicated to the study of wildlife.
But as a boy just out of high school, he had no idea that this intense interest in the north woods animals would lead to an outstanding career in zoology.
Dr. Hall's father, knowing the value of a college education, encouraged him to try a year at KU. Dr. Hall did not think this was necessary for a trapper, but consented.
"I didn't want to be a doctor, or a businessman, or a farmer, so I enrolled in law.
"It wasn't long, though, before I heard from one of my friends that there was a Mr. Bunker over in the zoology department who was actually getting paid to work with animals. This was for me."
Receiving his A. B. from KU in 1924, Dr. Hall left Kansas to study at the University of California, where he received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees.
"When I left Kansas in 1924, I thought I would never come back." But in 1944 Dr. Hall returned as a staff member, an expert in his field.
At KU Dr. Hall found the zoology department's tradition of leading the nation in the study of vertebrates and natural history a very great challenge. Today, in addition to this position of leadership, the University has won recognition as an experimental center.
Much of the research needed in experimentation cannot be done in laboratories. Wildlife must be studied in its natural habitat.
As an example of this type of research, Dr. Hall and some of his graduate students chose three climatic regions with varying kinds of animals to visit in the summer of 1952—the tropics, the middle zone, and the sub-arctic.
Tropical Panama, with its luxuriant rain forest, was ideal for the study of many kinds of wildlife. Here they found the anteater, with his fur marked as if he were wearing bib overalls, and an unusual kind of ant with its underground dairy of insect "cows."
Wildlife in the tropics is not limited to ground animals as in most of the rest of the world. Because of the huge trees which are packed so closely, there is a whole world of arboreal life.
A very surprised fellow was one of the elusive "night monkey" family living nearer to the ground than most. Feeling safe in the darkness, he perhaps got a little careless. Suddenly out of the night stillness, "click!" he had his picture taken. He turned out to be the first "night monkey" ever photographed.
Leaving the tropics for a moderate climate, the group went to Wyoming. Buffalo grazed above the homes of underground creatures, like the gopher, who can bury himself in seconds when frightened.
Exploring this north country, much of it unmapped and untouched, was an exciting experience for these men from the plains of Kansas. Trapping played an important part in sampling the animal types living in this cold, ice-covered land.
After recording their findings and preserving their specimens, Dr. Hall's group moved to Alaska to study a third area of wildlife.
This was perhaps the nearest Dr. Hall ever came to being a "trapper in the North Woods." But the scope of his influence and importance in many areas has more than made up for his unfulfilled boyhood dream.
Dr. E. Raymond Hall
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Now that the Air Force has decided there will be a defense against ICBMs, the Pentagon will surely ask for a crash program to develop another ultimate weapon.
When we saw that string called the "the Bolzano boys," it seemed for a minute we had a story about a Chicago gang or at least a brother team of prizefighters.
THE CLOTHES YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN
In this column we take up fashions for college men, which means of course, the Ivy Look. Today's Ivy Look clothes have made a great stride forward. Not only do they have thin lapels, three buttons, narrow trousers, and a minimum of shoulder padding, but—now hear this!—this year they are actually covered with ivy!
This new development, while attractive beyond the singing of it, nevertheless gives rise to certain hazards. For instance, people keep trying to plant you on Arbor Day. Indeed, this is precisely what happened to two SAE's of my acquaintance, Walter R. Gurlash and Fred Rasp. Before they could protest, they were snatched up, planted, limed, and watered, and today they support a hammock in Cut and Shoot, Vermont.
Let us now discuss shirts. Again this year the campus favorite is the good old Oxford with button-down collar and barrel cuffs. This is without doubt an admirable garment, but let me ask you a question: if you don't wear anything but Oxfords, what do you do with all the cuff links people have been giving you for your birthday since you were twelve years old?
Well sir, some fellows have their wrists pierced, but what E. Mackenzie Sigafoos, a Chi Psi of my acquaintance, did was to take a dozen pairs of his handsome gold monogrammed cuff links and string them together in a charm bracelet for his girl, Jo-Carol Isobar.
(It turned out, incidentally, to be a mistake. In short order so many admirers accrued to Jo-Carol on account of her gorgeous bracelet that she grew tired of plain old E. Mackenzie, and one night when she was seated on a bench in Lovers Lane throwing sticks for E. Mackenzie to retrieve, she suddenly, cruelly, without warning, told him they were through.
"I am heartbroken," said E. Mackenzie, heartbroken. "But if go you must, give me back my charm bracelet."
"No, I will keep it," said Jo-Carol.
"What for?" said E. Mackenzie. "You can't wear it. The initials on the cuff links are all mine—F.M.S."
"Ha, ha, the joke is on you," said Jo-Carol. "Yesterday I was voted Miss Chinese Restaurant of 1958."
"So?" said E. Mackenzie.
"So," replied Jo-Carol, "E.M.S. does not stand for E. Mao kenzie Sigafoos. It stands for Eat More Subgum!"
A broken man, E. Mackenzie today squeezes out a meagreliving as a pendulum in Cleveland. Jo-Carol was killed in aong war.)
But I digress. We were talking about well-dressed men, and the one essential for every well-dressed man—and every well-dressed woman too—is a well-dressed cigarette—neat, compact, flavorful, and correct for work or play, sunshine or shower, repose or revelry, darkness or light. And where does one find such a perfect companion? Just go to any tobacco counter and ask for Philip Morris. Ask for it in long size or regular. Ask for it in soft pack or hard. But ask for it; that's the important thing. Don't just stand there making cryptic gestures at your tobaccoist. He may be armed.
© 1988 Max Studman
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