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University Daily Kansan Monday.Sept.10,1956.
A Little For All-
Welcomes And Wise Words
Ho ho and a jolly welcome back to a university which has been cleansed of panty raiders and the Unsweet Bird.
Don't know if there are any bad seeds left lying around but if there are, a man can be sure they will, through the fertilization of TNE, take root and sprout forth in the spring, as does the more respectable winter wheat.
To instructors, old and new alike, a word of advice. It isn't within the ethics of education to assign work to be handed in the first day of school. A later date, after the student has become oriented to your methods, say Thanksgiving, would be more proper for such trivialities.
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And to you, sir, who believe that volume in assignments is the essence of our fine institution, a lie upon you, sir. Recall, it's the little things that count. You can sit on a mountain but not on a blister.
To first semester freshmen, a double jolly ho ho and welcome aboard the most expensive rat race that'll ever touch your father's pocketbook. And please, just to please the powers that be, don't come out of the Student Union bookstore screaming "Big Business."
To all the girlies, who, it is hoped, didn't forget to buy a couple of new sweaters for the ensuing chilling and cold-catching weather, a gentlemanly "Welcome" is offered. And we hope you leave in the spring intact. Coeducation is somewhat of a new thing and "the boys" are still in an adjustment period.
After all, they're here for the same reason you are: to make more money. The only difference is that they want to make your money.
To the custodians, we trust that you will leave everything a little messy. That way we don't feel so bad about stomping cigarettes on the floor.
Tangled Thoughts On Traditions
The University is approaching the starting run for its 91st year of existence.
In the previous 90 years, a good many traditions have been established. Such things as the Rock Chalk yell, painting Jimmy Green, the Jayhawker, TGIF, and many more items have become an active, or at least passive, part of every KU student's life.
After all, 90 years of work has gone into making this University what it is today,and since we've got it,we might as well take advantage of it.
So don't become a hermit with your books, and likewise don't let your books become hermits without you. Social life, football games, and books are all parts of the KU way of life, so don't neglect any of them.
And so, for both you newcomers and old hands,
we demonstrate—let's take advantage of things.
But we were talking about tradition.
Well, such things are great, and no one's any prouder of the Rock Chalk than we are. But, like they say in all the magazines, we're going to be leaders of tomorrow, and we're not going to get that way merely by living in the past.
No, we're not naming any names or trying to take over from Sam L. Jones, but we're forced to admit that a good deal of the time KU students are living in the past.
What we're trying to say is that tradition can be overdone to such an extent that monotony and lethargy result.
They don't go to convocations because no one ever went to convocations in the past. Instead, they drink coffee in the Student Union, because everyone always did in the past. Does it make any difference if they might miss something really worthwhile at the convocation? Apparently not—it's better to miss it than to violate the tradition.
But maybe we're wrong—maybe the tradition is the thing. There's just one thing we might suggest.
Instead of merely following blindly in the foot-steps of our ancestors, why not try a little leading of our own. Who knows, when we come back as rich alums 25 years from now, maybe we can see the KU students of 1981 following our example—living with traditions which we established.
Why not?
Overdue Pats On Backs Materialize
The end of a school year doesn't lead itself too well to praising work well done, considering graduation, springtime, summer plans and such.
But in the fall, when new plans are beginning to take shape and the machinery of education is still grinding slowly, there is time to unwrap a few unsung occasions.
Looking back to winter snowfalls, one remembers the speed with which the ground crews cleared the walks and streets and how there was always a man around to pick up that candy wrapper which was hesitantly, but most assuredly, dropped. Such things are taken for granted until either some snow melts inside a warm sock or until the feeling of spring is blemished by unsightly litter about the well-cared-for terracing.
The traffic department, with the help of most students, prevented a traffic fatality for another year. The speed limit on campus, 20 m.p.h., may seem slow but life also seems cruel when someone, maybe a friend, dies.
Service in the cafeteria was always fast enough to keep a long line moving. A person doesn't mind waiting in a line that keeps moving and new students will not complain once they try cafeteria facilities.
Terminating the list at this point doesn't exhaust the possible pats on the back which are due around campus. There are more which have been observed and others which haven't, these last being taking for granted.
This is just to let all concerned know that even if you don't need a pat to sustain your devotion, you're getting one, albeit incognito.
Musings Over A Summer Beer
The college student doesn't exist who finished the book list he compiled for summer reading. Besides, it was too hot, as it is every summer.
Then, too, the instructor wasn't present to instill that academic fire and fury for learning understanding, wisdom, real, cumiscience, as he is so prone to do in a classroom where attendance is mandatory.
Funky thing about some teachers and attendance. The word gets around rather, immediately
Trying to change an old instructor is like building a fire under a jackass. Changing a new one requires a little more psychology.
'A woman's body is a thing to behold—and be held.
The Repub convention brought to mind a possible nickname for the new Student Union at K-State: Cow Palace.
After all, a cut is a pretty important affair in the life of the average student nowadays. He takes a dim view of anything that might suppress, repress or depress his God-given right to life, women, liberty, girls, and the pursuit of—you guessed it.
And then, once a person considers cutting one of the martinets, he finds it best to always think twice—and then cut.
concerning which instructors tolerate cuts and which do not.
Last summer, a man in Topeka stopped a hotrodder in a residential section by using a ball bat on the young feller's car. Wonder who around here is authorized to issue bats. Or maybe they should hang them on corners like fire alarms and mail boxes.
Most people know everything about that batlike structure in front of Lindley except the advantage in it.
Freshmen Advised To Walk For Good Grades' Sake
That is the theme of letters sent by Dr. James A. McCain president of Kansas State College, and Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, chancellor of the University to parents of all entering freshmen at their schools.
A college freshman who wishes to make good grades probably should leave his car at home.
President McCain says experience at K-State has shown an automobile can be a liability to a student in his first year at college. He requests that parents give "serious consideration"before permitting their son or daughter to bring a car to college.
has been a major contributing factor," the K-State educator commented.
Chancellor Murphy writes that "the academic programs of the university are usually more intense and complicated than those of high school and new study habits must be developed. In our experience the extra diversion created by ownership and operation of an automobile has not been conducive to easing this transition and often does from the factor which has led to academic theater sharing the classroom."
an counseling freshmen having. At the present time Kansas State academic difficulties, we often find College and KU have no restrictions that possession of an automobile on possession of cars by freshmen.
A Suggestion-
Big Bushes Bring Bumps
The driver of a car, driving east on University Drive and turning either way on to West Campus road, needs to poke the nose of his auto too far out into the intersection to see if there is any traffic coming from the north. Too far for comfort, that is.
The reason is a system of bushes on the northwest corner of the intersection.
No one is asking them to be destroyed but, with the inspection of the situation by those qualified in such matters, it might be arranged to move the bushes and still keep the symmetry of the lawn intact.
Now the bushes are not very big but they're on a terrace, making them a couple of feet higher from the street level than they would be ordinarily.
There were four accidents at that intersection last school year.
MADISON, Wis.—(UP)A macabre turn of events did not stop Wisconsin Democrats in their plans to nominate 47-year-old Kenneth Anderson to Congress.
Officials said they plan to nominate Anderson because ballots with his name have already been printed.
These Democrats Never Sav Die
He died five days ago.
Until nl accurate seagoing clock, or chronometer, was perfected in England in 1735, navigators had no reliable way of determining longitude. On voyages beyond sight of land, ships customarily sailed north or south until they reached the latitude of their destination, then east or west until landfall was made, the National Geographic Society says.
Aluminum fixtures inside your house can retain their bright finish. Clean them first and then apply a thinned coat of pure white, fresh shellac.
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Just Browsing
Well, kiddies, it's nice to see you all back in school year, and also, a cheerly hello to all you new students—freshmen, transfers, and what-have-you. In short, hello to all teachers, students, football players, etc.
Thought we'd devote this space today to the topic of enrollment, since that's on everyone's mind this time of the year. This epistle is primarily for the benefit of you rookies who haven't gone through our ultra-modern enrollment process, but you veterans might pay attention in case you've forgotten how it goes.
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A few suggestions:
1. Take a filled pen and a bottle of ink with you. If you have a ballpoint take a refill cartridge. You may think placement tests are a lot of writing, but this beats them all.
2. Avoid writing letters, signing checks, keeping score in bridge games, or working crossword puzzles during the day before you enroll, so you can rest your writing hand.
3. Take a sack lunch with you.
Nothing is more discouraging than collapsing from hunger only a few hours before completing enrollment, and they always drag you to the hospital and you lose your turn in line.
4. Prepare at least 25 alternate schedules in advance, so you won't be disappointed if one of your classes is closed.
5. Be prepared to major in at least three different fields, to avoid these petty disappointments which always arise.
6. Let your beard grow—only if you're a boy, of course—and comb your hair, so that your ID photo won't look like you and your card can be exchanged more easily.
7. And if you make it through
-Heaven help you—and manage to stagger down to the Hawk's Nest for a cup of coffee, don't expect all those guys with the KU badges to wait on you. Remember, they're not waiters—they work at enrollment. What do they do? They're shills for the coffee vendor in the Hawk's Nest.
—Dick Walt
Colorado University Changes Class Times
BOULDER, Colo. — (IP) — Times of afternoon classes will be revised this fall at the University of Colorado. The University Senate's executive committee determined that afternoon classes should begin at 11:00, instead of the previous 1:30 time. This schedule; which maintains the Seminarium classes periods, will continue through the after-
Classes will be terminated at 5 p.m. under the new system, permitting more late afternoon classes to be scheduled. The early schedule was in effect until World War II. During the war it was necessary to push class times later because of inadequate eating facilities.
A 25-watt bulb could be kept continuously lit for two weeks on the power required to produce one pound of aluminium. The power to make a ton would light the average house for a generation.