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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Oct. 4, 1956
Maybe 'Jamboree' Could Appear Here
Once again the University has been publicized. Not because of a basketball team, a famous miler, or the medical school—but because of 18 students who toured Germany, France, and Morroco this summer as an entertainment unit of the USO.
Theatreical and musical productions at the University are frequently criticized because they lack "the professional touch." Yet "Jayhawk Jamboree" was one of two groups chosen to entertain military personnel overseas.
Last week the troupe received a certificate "for outstanding showmanship and high-caliber entertainment" from the European Armed Forces Professional Entertainment Division, which has headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Capt. John Dougherty, chief of the division, invited the group "to return for a tour of military installations in Europe at their earliest convenience."
The variety show, directed by Paul K. Worley, Topeka senior, was auditioned last May 21 by a USO representative from New York, after the troupe members had spent many hours rehearsing. From the 32 college groups auditioned, the troupes from this University and Purdue were chosen to entertain last summer.
The group, which traveled by Army busses and Army C-47 planes, presented one show a day, plus occasional afternoon shows at Army hospitals. The entertainers left towns, where they stayed in Army and Air Force installations, in the late afternoon and were taken to training areas, base theaters, or service clubs to present night shows.
The European edition of Stars and Stripes, an Army newspaper, in a pictorial feature about the troupe, said "if you like clever routines, outstanding singing, fine arrangements, and good music, 'Jayhawk Jamboree' is your dish. The entire revue is composed of Kansas University students, and was conceived by the students—a top-notch show."
So that students and faculty members at the University can see "Jayhawk Jamboree," it is suggested that the show be presented here this fall. Although the performance for the tuditioner last May 21 was open to the public, many were preparing for final examinations and were not able to attend.
Since the show is representative of the University, and has been praised and widely recognized, the student body should be given another opportunity to see it.
—Jane Pecinovsky
Work At Being Healthy; It Pays
Americans have gone to pot!
Take a pair of nicotine stained hands, a face covered with pimples, weak muscles in all authorized places, topped by a pair of thick glasses and you've got a picture of health all too common in the U. S.
Oh, it's very encouraging when science tells us that we're living to a naturally older age than our ancestors. The only thing wrong is that more people die unnatually now than ever before. In other words, you'll live longer—if you're lucky.
Contrast that with robust ancestor Arthur or Martha and see what easy living has done to us. We're a bunch of pantywaists.
Some of our stepped-up-living diseases are responsible for this decline in good health. More and more people every day complain of ulcers, or get cancer, or have heart attacks. What's the reason for it?
It's easy. We're more susceptible. Laziness in physical hygiene will make milktoasts of the best of us. Refusing to get out in the sunshine when we can stay inside and watch TV is partly responsible, or refusing to walk when the V8 sits out front with its twist-of-a-key starter and no clutch drive just waiting to cart us off to the movies.
Nasty habits are partly responsible too. Here's an interesting experiment. Take an ordinary paper napkin, fold a single thickness of it over the drag end of that cigarette you're smoking, then take a puff and inspect the napkin.
See that spot on it? That's nicotine tar. Whenever you inhale, that stuff goes right down into your lungs, clogging up the delicate air sacs.
Consequently, you get all "out of breath" and lose the desire to exercise any more than necessary.
Nothing is less true than the old "apple a day" blurb, but good foods in the proper amount and balance are necessary for good health. If your complaint is that you don't like certain foods that have the necessary vitamins and minerals, just dress them up a little. If you don't like milk, pour some chocolate syrup in it and bingo! chocolate milk. Or if spinach and carrots are too much for you as is, cook them in a stew which will disguise the flavor but keep the vitamins.
Don't take your good health for granted. It will last only as long as your will power to keep it that way lasts. Don't be a pansy. Keep physically fit. Lovvy, Dayson
-Jerry Dawson
...Just Browsing...
We don't know when the deadline for free withdrawal from classes is, but we'll wager our last Student Union Bookstore receipt that the fateful day is drawing nigh.
Because our teachers, bless their hearts, have started announcing the dates on which the first hour exams are scheduled, and this is about as near a positive sign as anything we've been able to observe.
It seems that on innumerable occasions in the past, our teachers have scheduled the first test in several different courses for the first day after the free withdrawal period ends
This oftimes leads to a great revelation.
For example, we will expound for you:
Here we were coasting along in this course, doing a little of the required reading, but paying very little attention to the lectures, or the homework. A pud, or so we thought.
Then came the first test. We made our usual perfunctory, night-before-the-test attempt to study, with the usual perfunctory results.
He had announced that the test would have both essay and specific questions. It did. The essay questions were something like "discuss the reasons why president Rutherford B. Hayes chose the cabinet members the way he did."
Then came the test, or "the moment of truth," as our teacher must have called it.
And the specific questions—boy, oh boy. There were only 13 of them, and the easiest one was something similar to "what was the cause of the Civil War."
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After 50 minutes of dutiful writing, we collected our good-as-new books, staggered out of the room, and mournfully made our way to the Registrar's office.
We entered.
"Well, you'll have to present a slip from your teacher certifying that you have a passing grade in the course," she replied, in an unforgettable ultimatum-like tone of voice. "You see, free withdrawal ended three hours ago. If you drop now, you'll get a 'WD-F' on your transcript."
"I want to drop Early-Morning Bird Watching 114," we explained to the lady across the desk.
This was moment of truth No. 2 for the day, and also explains why we gave up our promising career in nuclear physics and research to major in journalism.
I have just finished reading the letter to the editor from Miss Sue Reeder concerning the recent debate on conformity. I feel that the young lady is right in criticizing the "too-conventional patterns of nonconformity" pattern set by artificial individuals who pride themselves in their abstraction from the masses.
.. Letters ..
Dick Walt
Editor:
I do not think that anyone would seriously advocate a program of conformity for everyone on all occasions. This would be as superfluous as the insertion of the words "to survive" into a resolution aimed and plotted for the entertainment of an audience.
I would also challenge the use of the word devity. I doubt if Miss Reeder is responsible for the printing of a non-existing word.
I think Miss Reeder underestimated the tremendous drawing power of the "Apollo of the Sod."
To the Kansan staff: The word is levity.
Dale Tompkins, Kansas City, Kan., freshman.
Brad Lashbrook, Kansas City, Kan., senior.
(Editor's note: The "levity" misspelling was a typographical error.)
Dailu Hansan
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A Tremendous Coffee-Break
NEW YORK  (UP) — The size of the doughnut hole at the start of the new year will be $ \frac{3}{8} $ inch to allow millions of dunkers greater flexibility. This will make the doughnut hole for 1957 one quarter of an inch smaller than the 39.8 million dozen dunked during 1955-56.
MURCIA, SPAIN—(UP)—Jose Antonio Fernandez had a king-size case of caffeine nerves today. He won a bet by drinking 78 cups of coffee laced with brandy.
Texas has served under six flags and her sovereignty has changed eight times.
Yale University has a biking club called the Trumbull Beer & Bike Society.
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- Visor Adjustment
- Lance Sharpened
- Feathers Dusted
- Horse's mane (and tail) individually styled
Why not take a tip from Gorgeous George (the slayer) and make your next crusade a complete success by coming into Leonard's for your crusade check-up.
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