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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. May 13, 1958
Drinking 'Largely Cultural'
College students who drink did so before college. Drinking behavior is "largely cultural."
These were two points uncovered by two senior sociology majors at the University of Arkansas. The ARKANSAS TRAVELER reported their findings. The students used as their definition of a drinker "anyone who had a drink of any alcoholic beverage during the past six weeks." The six weeks before the study no holiday or special function had occurred.
Other findings:
Most parents disapproved of their children's drinking, but the majority of students who drink have parents who drink occasionally.
The majority of non-drinkers' parents never drink.
Topping the list of reasons for drinking was enjoyment of taste. Chief reason for not drinking was because it was contrary to religious training.
Most popular places for drinking were night clubs. The most popular drink was beer.
The sociology students concluded: "The findings should not be construed as final or all-inclusive. However, we feel we have obtained some useful information and some insight into the customs and beliefs of college students regarding drinking."
Eighty-six students—38 men and 48 women answered questionnaires which were the basis of the data. Since men are a 4-1 majority at the University, pointed out the TRAVELER, the sample was not representative of the total student population.
Lines Dropped By Them And Us
Of the group, 42 drank and 44 did not. But, thinks the TRAVELER, it would be incorrect to say that 48.3 per cent of the University's students drink. No consideration of difference of percentage of drinking among men and women, age groups, amount of drinking or other distinctions were made, said the newspaper.
Throughout the course of a school year, The Daily Kansan receives and prints many letters from readers, some on controversial campus problems, others on areas of personal interest to the writers.
We're sure you enjoy reading most of these epistles,but we enjoy even more the ones that don't get into print. Perhaps we could share a few of these letters with you.
The following are excerpts from our "Letters We Didn't Dare Print Department."
"Editor: I am sending you a letter which will be of interest to graduating seniors. Don't you dare print my name. Don't you dare cut one word out of this letter."
"Dear Sir: Last night I got fed up with all those numerous speed demons that go tearing through the campus streets every night. So I laid in wait for one, and as he came screaming
past me down Jayhawk Boulevard, I threw a lead weight through his side window . . ."
"Dear Editors: Help! I am an organization man lost in the lonely crowd and I am having my individualism reconsidered. Mass culture is just too much . . ."
"Editor: We are in the midst of a crisis of silence wherein ideas are condemned and the individual is crucified. We are a generation which is not only quiet, but has had silence jammed down our throats so hard so many times that we are being molded day by day into a jellyfish . . ."
"To the editors: . . . At present ASC has neither my support nor my respect. It will gain the latter only by publicly acknowledging its shabby pretense for what it is really designed to be—a government of and for children and mental deficits, by opportunists and authoritarian."
Marilyn Mermis
Bardot Pulls Votes In School Election
Campus Capers
Imagination and humor played a large part in the recent elections at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, according to the Daily Trojan.
Most of the election color appeared in the write-in sections of the ballot. The main competition for the Associated Men Students' presidency was Brigitte Bardot, star of the French movie "And God created Woman."
Miss Bardot lost the election to USC student Ron Mitchell. The
French actress also received votes for senior class president.
All kinds of people can be hung in effigy, it appears, Diane Copeland, editor-in-chief of the Sunflower, student newspaper of Wichita University, recently had the honor. It seems Miss Copeland took a stand for the honor system in college following the episode of the three football players who broke into a professor's office to change answers on test questions. Under the likeness of Miss Copeland (hung from a light pole) was the following: "Back, Back, Oh Beast of the Gridiron. Devour not that Fetal Pig."
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
The Varsity Bar, one of the oldest established institutions at the University of Wisconsin, experiments with an unusual innovation—Ladies' Night. All males were barred from the bar from 8 to 10 on this night of nights.
"WELL. YES YOUR ENROLLMENT CARD DOES SAY 'HOMEMAKING.' - BUT I'M AFRAID- "
The ladies chatted and generally socialized for two hours without the men folk, but most agreed that a drinking date without a male companion was not so good.
One coed commented: "I've never heard so much talking in my life." She also said that ladies, apparently not watching their weights, put away "a goodly quantity of brew."
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THE GREAT CAP AND GOWN CONTROVERSY
It will soon be cap and gown time again, so let us, without delay, take up the vexing question: which side of the cap should the tassel hang on?
For many years the practice was to hang the tassel over the front of the cap. This practice was abandoned in 1948 when the entire graduating class of Northwestern University, blinded by tassels hanging in their eyes, made a wrong turn during commencement exercises and ended up at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center where, all unwitting, they were inducted into the submarine service for five-year hitches.
Let us take up the Vexing Question:
There is a growing body of opinion which holds that the tassel should be worn on the same side you keep your Marlboro Cigarettes on. Thus a quick glance will show you where your Marlboros are and save much time and fumbling.
This makes a good deal of sense because when one wants a Mariboro, one wants one with a minimum of delay. One does not relish being kept, even for a second, from the heaps of joy, the barrels of pleasure, the seads of content, the loads of glee, the lumps of ecstasy, that one gets from that filter, that flavor, that flip-top box.
There is another group, small but vocal, which insists the tassel should hang over the back of the cap. The tassel, they say, is a symbol like the bullfighter's pigtail, signifying honor and courage.
They are wrong. Bullfighters wear pigtails for only one reason: to keep the backs of their necks warm. Do you have any idea what a draft a bull makes when he rushes past you? A plenty big one, you may be sure.
In fact, upper respiratory infections, contracted in the wake of passing bulls, is the largest single cause of bull-ring fatalities. I have this interesting statistic from the Bullfighters Mutual Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut. Incidentally, Hartford, the insurance capital of America, is a delightful city and well worth a visit if you are ever in New England, as northeastern United States is laughingly called. Try to make your visit in spring when the actuaries are in bloom.
But I digress. We were talking about what side to wear the tassel on. An ingenious solution to this problem was proposed not long ago by Humboldt Sigafoos, perhaps better known as "The Quoit King of Delaware." An early forbear of Mr. Sigafoos was granted a monopoly by King George III, on all quoits manufactured in Delaware. Somehow this royal patent was never rescinded and from that day to this, every quoit made in Delaware has been a Sigafoos Quoit.
Well sir, Mr. Sigafoos suggested that the way to solve the great tassel controversy was to starch the tassel so it stood upright and hung on no side of the cap at all. But I'm afraid that sly Mr. Sigafoos was only seeking to broaden his market because after graduation, what can you do with an upright tassel except hurl quoits at it?
© 1958 Max Shulman
The makers of Marlboro have no opinion about what side to hang your tassel on. But with cigarettes, they say firmly: Stay on the light, mild, tasty side, with Marlboro, of course!