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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. March 18, 1958
It's The Anti-Zebu Lobby
The Daily Kansan received a postal card in Saturday's mail which asks a question of international import.
The question, which seems quite innocent, actually caused a degree of soul-searching among Daily Kansan staff members because of the widespread political and economic implications.
The card read as follows:
Dear Editor,
I would like to know why the sororities on KU campus do not use butter made from the milk of zebus?
Betty Jo Miller Jr.
Well, Betty Jo, there are a great number of reasons why zebu butter is not used here. A few of them should suffice.
First, and perhaps the primary cause for the zebutter shortage at KU is that the zebu is not found in any great quantity in the continental United States. Therefore its butter, when sold at all, must be imported.
As political insiders on Capitol Hill know, there is a quiet but powerful anti-zebu lobby in Washington, and this group has been instrumental in obtaining a prohibitive tariff on zebuoid dairy products. We could quote the price of zebu butter, but you wouldn't believe it. The tariff is blamed for the present high zebu unemployment rate, since there is no other market of comparable size for zebu products.
The Amalgamated Zebu Dairymen's Assn. of Greater East Africa (the zebu, or Bos indicus, is
indigenous to East Africa, India, China, and the East Indies) has protested the tariff, pointing out that the zebu is not domesticated to the degree of American bovines, and therefore the work is more dangerous. The tariff, they claim, makes it impossible to import zebutter to the United States in profitable quantities.
A second reason, and one that applies most particularly to the campus situation, is that zebu butter is very high in calories, ranking second only to the mud mushroom.
With the chemise dress forecast to replace the skirt and sweater combination to some degree, this factor may become less important to campus women, but reliable sources say the sorority line is still "A little zebu goes a long way." KU women are weight conscious, and because of this there has been very little demand for zebu butter.
So that's the way it lines up, Betty Jo. The anti-zebu lobby versus the Parisian dressmakers. The dressmakers, of course, would be delighted to see the American woman gain so much weight she had to wear the chemise, and they may use zebu butter to accomplish this aim.
At present, Betty Jo, there is no group on campus which has taken a stand for the zebu, and zebu butter must remain one of those unobtainable luxuries.
However, for the student fortunate enough to take that African safari, there's a treat in store. When you make your Hemingway trip, remember—buy zebu and you buy the best!
—Alan Jones
Revue Presents Satire On College Life
Rock Chalk...stunt night University style comes to Hoch Auditorium March 28-29. No other single event scheduled during the academic year so typically signifies student participation and originality on such an amateur basis.
Somewhere out of the chaos of pending exams, embryonic spring fever, plans for summer and permanent employment, thoughts of graduation, and a hastening end to the second semester comes an evening filled with sparkling college entertainment. Six organized houses will present their skits before a traditionally packed audience in competition for a leg on the traveling trophy or for second or third prize in the ninth annual event.
Presenting a skit before this audience in a polished and winning manner requires weeks and weeks of exhausting rehearsal and a highly original and appropriate University theme. No other activity affords the student body an opportunity to create a plot that pounds out their frustrations on individual school problems, all-University criticism, budget problems and traffic hazards.
Nothing strengthens a group more than the strenuous rehearsals, coffee breaks, general fun and that all-encompassing motivation toward "winning that trophy" which is so prevalent during the preparatory stages.
Pitt County, N. C., is the leading tobacco producer in the nation, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond reports.
Proceeds from the Rock Chalk Revue go to the KU-Y. Thus the student circuit is completed .students write the skits, direct the skits, produce them, act in them and donate the proceeds to the KU-Y to be used for student activities.
So comes the Rock Chalk Revue of 1958... climax of time consuming practice sessions... highlight of amateur acting opportunities... satiere on University life in a presentation of the University's own style of collegiate life.
Marilyn Mermis
The rings around the planet Saturn are-composed of tiny, highly reflective solid particles or "moonlets."
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"SAY WORTHAL-ARE YOU SURE IT'S RAINING?"
The phrase "iron curtain" was first used by Winston Churchill on March 5, 1948 in a speech at West-wintern College, Fulton, Mo.
More than 27 per cent of all cotton consumed by the American textile industry is consumed by mills in South Carolina.
The geographic center of the United States is Smith County, Kan.
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"The girls they don't please us
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GREEN BAY, WIS. — A letter mailed May 25, 1952, to Miss Norma
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