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Page 8 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Nov. 14, 1957
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AFTER A SUMMER OF SONG—These are the Triads and Jan. From left, Helen Lorson, Sondra McIntosh, Jan Rogers and Elaine Knupp.
Vocal Group Sang For Their Supper
To sing for your supper isn't just a saying for four KU women.
Sondra McIntosh and Helen Lorson, Chapman, Elaine Knupp, Washington, Iowa, and Jan Rodgers, Paradise, sophomores, spent their summer vacation at Lake Okoboji, a resort area in Northwestern, Iowa, waiting tables in a supper club and presented two floor shows a night.
The group known as "The Triads and Jan" sang at the SUA Carnival recently, were one of the in between acts at the Rock Chalk Revue and have sung for various civic groups in Lawrence.
"Really tremendous" is the way they refer to their summer job. They presented two shows a night, each lasting about 15 minutes. They were the first entertainment group to perform at the supper club.
They sang for various civic groups in nearby towns and with the Pee Wee Hunt orchestra at a Shriner convention at the resort.
Their hours of work at Lake Okooboj, from 7 p.m. until the supper club closed at 1:30 or 2 a.m., sound bad, but the women agree that having their days free just added to a summer of fun. They spent the days at the resort swimming, boating and relaxing.
Miss Lorson and Miss McIntosh sang in a trio in Chapman High School and met Miss Knupp at the University their freshman year. They decided to form another trio. All that was needed was a pianist. Their luck continued and Miss Knupp's roommate. Miss Rodgers, has accompanied them since.
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KU Press Prints Goldsmith Biography
A biography of Oliver Goldsmith, the 18th century English writer, has been published by the University Press. The book will be issued later in England under the joint imprint of the Press and Constable and Co.
or Professor and Constable and Co Rabh M. Wardle, chairman of the English department at Omaha University, is the author. Prof. Wardle also has written a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, the English feminist, published by the KU press in 1951.
The Presidium is now the head of the Russian Communist governmental structure replacing the Politburo as of 1952.
"A strange sort of cultural calm has settled over the nation's colleges, at least on the surface," was the observation made by Time magazine in the Nov. 18 edition.
Calm Settles Over Colleges
One of the pictures accompanying the article showed KU students listening to Mozart and Bach in the Spooner-Thayer Museum. This too is a new trend, Gone is the capercutting college undergraduate and in his place is the student that attends concerts and other cultural events offered by the universities and colleges.
College students are not acting like their ancestors and it has the educators worried. Should they wring their hands or jump for joy? Is today's college student stupid or more mature than yesterday's? This generation appears to contradict itself.
Yet, the educators are puzzled because of the attitude toward the arts and everything else. The general attitude is that of casualness. A University of Texas student remarked,
"Anything that is in any way heroic or looks heroic, thumbs down. Don't ever stand up and pound your fist about anything, because that is sort of childish."
Some of the educators think that the students feel the need for "intellectual anchors." "They have serious interest," says Princeton Dean of the College Jeremiah Finch, "in Faulkner, Eliot and Dostoevsky — writers concerned with the human predicament.
"This contrasts with the dominating interest of the past in Sinclair Lewis, Richard Halliburton and Fitzgerald, and gives you some measure of this increasing tendency to seek and examine. This is a critical generation, in the best sense of the word."
Another educator said he feels that this is "about the freest generation of students in U. S. colleges in the 20th century". Students are "free, in fact, of all the moral inflation of previous generations."
Politicians Slow Down
With the student elections over until April, campus political parties are slipping into low gear.
Both party leaders said they will try to organize and strengthen their parties and campaign to inform students about the respective parties.
Park McGee, Kansas City, Mo. senior and president of the Allied-Greek Independent party, said his party will get their machinery "well-oiled." He said the party had previously concentrated on freshmen only, but now would try to organize other students.
Jim Austin, Toneka senior and president of the Vox Populi party, said that over the months the party will be selecting candidates for the spring elections and will try to sell students on campus politics.
One more day remains in the campus visit of Phillips Talbot, American Universities Field Staff representative from India and Pakistan.
The college student of today is not spectacular and does not want anything spectacular. The students realize that the world of today demands that they be "brighter, more conscientious, more in earnest than their predecessors."
"In the past politics were left to slide until about a month or two before election, but I'm trying to get up and out early," Austin said.
Another Day For AUFS Man
Classes he will meet with Friday are 8 a.m., "Collective Behavior," 17 Strong Annex E; 11 a.m., "Political Geography," 403 Lindley; 2 p.m., "The Editorial," 207 Flint; 3 p.m., "Problems of Economic Organization," 22 Strong.
Mr. Talbot is the executive director of AUFS, as well as a participant in the field staff program.
Four of the 11 staff members annually visit each school which is a member of the organization. They live in and study potential trouble spots of the world the rest of the time.
Women made up 20.7 percent of the Russian Communist party membership in 1951.
The Blue-Faced Booby is a large bird found in tropical seas.
Dean Wilbur Bender of Harvard sums up what the college students of today are like, "The weight of the world rests heavily on their shoulders. They want to do something about the world. But they feel that they have to know a lot more before they can become effectual. They are not weak. They are strong and they are serious."
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Fund Group To Meet
The advisory board of the Greater University Fund will meet Saturday morning in Dyche Hall.
The program includes a message from Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, and film showing how gifts can advance zoological research, by Dr. E. Raymond Hall, director of the Museum of Natural History.
Robert H. Royer of Abilene, class of '50, chairman of the advisory board, will preside. He will also moderate a panel on county Greater University Fund activities.
The Greater University Fund, sponsored by the KU Endowment and Alumni Assn. is the "annual giving" agency for alumni and friends of KU.
Beginning in 1933, the Communist party in Russia underwent a purge which reduced its membership from 2,023,951 to 1,405,879 in five years.
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