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Freshmen capped and whacked in 'good old days'
Bv JOHN FULLER
Between 1908 and 1944 some of the best advice an upperclassman could give to a freshman entering the University of Kansas was, "Son, just don't forget to wear your beanie."
T. C. Ryther, professor emeritus of journalism,
said yesterday, "As freshmen, we were always
apprehensive that something dreadful was going to
happen to us every time we went on campus."
Ryther, who was a freshman at KU in 1922, had good reason to fear. Freemain could be forced to run a gantlet of padded-wielding upperclassman. In the air on a piece of canvas held by 20 to 30 men.
THE UPPERCLASSMEN WEREN't totally lacking in justice when they metal out each punishment, however. Usually only freshmen men who have the courage to endure of their wrath. The rules included the following:
- All freshmen had 'to wear freshman caps (beanies) at all times on campus and within the city
A 12 inch streamer of crimson and blue had to be worn attached to the button all freshmen caps on a boy's shirt.
— All freshmen had to raise their caps to the flag when they passed;
— All freshman had to know all the words to all the final songs and anthems of KU and be able to resit them.
— No male freshman was permitted to bring a date to any football name.
Strangely enough, the wearing of freshmen caps began in 1908 and 1909 as a way of preventing violence between the different classes and schools in the University. The schools of law and medicine were also wearing caps and there were also "class scrap" sponsored by the upperclassmen to initiate freshmen
THE 'SCRAPS' ORIGINATED in the early 1890s and became increasingly violent. In 1903 leaders of one class rounded up all the leaders of another class the night before the "scrap" and handdipped them to trees in freezing weather so they wouldn't be able to fight the next day. Tossing a made-mist bombs into students' rooms, throwing students on their heads, killing everyone clothes and dragging him to a sorority house in the buff were all common occurrences during the days before the cap.
A freshman named Raymond P. Henze was highly skeptical of the beanie's peace-keeping influences, however. In 1919 a group of vigilantes composed of both freshmen and upperclassmen chased him for hours for not wearing his cap on campus.
Henze evaded the crowd for two hours but after a prolonged search he was found by the vigilantes in the upper floor of old Fraser Hall. After a face-off in a fight with Henze, he escaped and pipe, Henzene dramatically escaped to the roof.
the vignettes and the crowd on the ground held their breath as he left and re-entered the room. The man was quick to jump from ledge to ledge. When some upperclassmen attempted to get him off the roof he clambered to the top of one of the ventilators on the north wall and with blows of his lead pipe repelled them.
FINALLY, SEVERAL JANITORS and the superintendent of buildings and grounds entered the fractes and warned the men to leave. The warning wasn't well taken and soon the janitors engaged in some fistfists of their own, kicking and beating a student who refused to leave.
This afforded Henzel the diversion he needed to escape to Chancellor Frank Strong's office, where she sought he. He got it temporarily, but after a lengthy conference, he was released to the crowd
outside—who had been brandishing their paddles and baying for "Meat!"
"At the suggestion of the Chancellor," Hense said to the crowd with a grin, "I've decided to wear the coat."
Strong said, "I have merely told this man that we in his place I would conform to the custom."
HENZE WAS THEN TAKEN and dunked in Potter Lake to the great delight of the vigilants, who had promised not to paddle him when he was released from Strong's office.
In 1925 the All Student Council made the traditional freshman lists listed earlier part of the curriculum.
The strict enforcement of the wearing of freshmen caps was always a subject of controversy and though many students protested, the caps were under the threat of physical enforcement until 1944.
"All freshman must refrain from walking or conversing with the fair sex while on commas;"
— "All freshmen must use specified doors in entering and leaving buildings."
Neither Rether y a classmate of his, Raymond Nichols, chancelor emeritus, could remember that the woman he was talking to
Nichols said, they were practically impossible to enforce anyway.
However both of them remembered always making sure they wore their beanies on campus.
"I was a frightened little freshman," Nichols said, "wet I ever liked my little can."
Nichols said the petty rules and initiations were more meaningful and fun then they would be now because the school still had less than 3,000 students; everybody was much more familiar with each other.
In 1944, as the University grew larger and World War II began to make the tradition take frivolous, the All Student Council passed a motion banning the amendment of the cap tradition and the other rules.
FRESHMEN VOLUNTARILY WOE CARE several times in the following years but in 165), the women were excluded.
However, as anyone who has visited a fraternity
lately can attest, those wicked-looking oaken
palm trees have become the new centerpiece.
Fraternities now limit the use of the paddies severely, however. The fraternities that use paddies do so during plending pledged ceremonies where the paddies are laid on one, and only one, good solid wack for initiation.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
October 17.1975
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 86 No.39
Pearson on China discussion
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Accompanied by Del Shankel, Executive vice chancellor, Sen. James K. Pearson, R-Kan., means with a member of the audience at an event in New York City on Tuesday, Nov. 7.
People's Republic of China. Following the lecture, Pearson answers audience questions about his experiences during the visit.
Faculty hiring,increase in pay stirs more debate
By MARTI SCHILLER
Staff Writer
TOPEKA-Student and faculty contact with state legislators is necessary to gain support for a 10 per cent pay increase and for new faculty positions, members of the Coordinating Council of the Board of Regents said yesterday.
Max Bickford, executive secretary of the board said. "We need to have as many one-to-meetings as possible with each legislator."
The council is composed of student body presidents, faculty presidents, presidents of colleges and universities and various members of the Board of Regents.
Legislators are enthusiastic about the increase, he said, and it may have trouble getting them to vote.
The Council discussed the importance of student-teacher ratios to the quality of education at Kansas universities and colleges.
If the pay increase passes, it would cost the state about 170 new faculty positions, council members said. About 70 positions would be at the University of Kansas and about 65 at Kansas State University, they said.
Gov. Robert F. Bennett said in an informal speech Oct. 1 in the Kansas University that money for the new faculty positions might have to come out of the 10 per cent
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said this would undermine the Regens' three-
Tom Weiss, associate professor of economics and athletic board member, said the board discussed the 1962 resolution at its Oct. 7 meeting.
Walker said that, according to the terms of the resolution, the money would be turned over to the University every two years, if KUAC had made profits.
A decision on whether the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) will turn 25 per cent of its profits to the University general fund doesn't need to be made until July 1, 1978, Clyde Walker, athletic director, said yesterday.
In that meeting, Weiss said, the board
KUAC delays decision on profits
KUAC passed a resolution in 1983 providing that KUAC would turn over 25 per cent of any profits from the athletic program to Jerry Waugh, assistant athletic director.
Walker said no decision had been made on whether the 25 per cent of KUAC profits would be turned over to the University. However, he said, that decision would be on the agenda of the next athletic board will be sometime in January, he said.
The athletic board is the policy-making body of KUAC. It consists of 19 faculty
A final determination on KUAC profits isn't absolutely necessary, Walker said, until July 1, 1976. It will be the end of the period specified in the 1962 KUAC resolution, he said.
Ed Rolfs, athletic body president and student board member, said the athletic corporation had a commitment to maintain the 1982 profit resolution. He said there was no question in his mind that 25 per cent of students should be turned over to the University.
KUAC announced last week that for the fiscal year ending June 30, the athletic corporation showed a profit of more than $70,000. This is the first time in several years that the company had a profit. However, in 1974, KUAC had only $2.59 out of its $1.9 million budget.
decided to see if the money that would go to the University general fund could be used to help eradicate the $145,348 KUAC operating debt.
The athletic corporation is a valuable part of the University, Rofls said, and intercollegiate athletics is an important part of student interest.
members, alumni, administrators and students.
The council agrees that a small student-teacher ratio is essential, Johnson said. But other council members said a lack of education is a significant argument when they talked to legislators.
Energy report suggests campus utility guidelines
The Kansan Board will interview candidates and select a spring editor and business manager Nov. 3.
Advisers are now suggesting that entering freshman postpone taking elementary English courses until their sophomore year, Zuther said, because of over-crowded classrooms and remedial reading and writing problems.
"We're within 6 to 8 per cent of our peer institutions," Bob Johnson, KState faculty president, said. "We're up 11 to 12 per cent in the last two years."
year plan designed to raise Kansas faculty wages to a median level with other schools.
Johnson said, "It's like trying to tell someone something about a craft art. It's something you can't explain."
degrees, installing drapes or windowshades to prevent heat loss, reducing temperatures in unoccupied rooms, reducing temperatures in hallways and setting thermostats at 53 degrees one hour after the last scheduled class in each room.
Application forms are available in 105 Flint; the Student Senate office, 105B Kansas Union; the office of the dean of men, 228 Big Hall; and the office of the dean of women, 222 Strong.
"This is partially a remedial job," F. E. Hartzler, ERSC faculty president, said. "I think that education in the United States has serious problems. We're getting the result we wanted." "We have a big job on our hands. There are illiterates graduating from high schools."
Jobs open on Kansan
By BILL SNIFFEN
The report cites a National Bureau of Standards estimate that potential savings of 20 to 30 per cent could be made if strict conservation measures were followed.
The University of Kansas' utility bill could be cut by $200,000 if recommendations of the Energy Task Force report are followed, according to Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor and chairman of the task force.
However, Lucas said, a 20 to 30 per cent saving could only be achieved under ideal circumstances.
Gerhart Zuther, chairman of SenEx, said, falling college entrance exam scores were directly related to the necessity to maintain low student-teacher ratios.
In a summary of the report given yesterday at a news conference, Executive Vice Chancellor Del Shankle said the report emphasizes that to cut cooling, lighting and water costs.
If the legislators don't support the schools, John E. Visser, president of Emporia Kansas State College, said, colleges shouldn't be required to continue to accept all students who fulfill academic or residential requirements.
Applications for the positions of editor and business manager for the spring semester Kansean will be accepted until noon Oct. 31 in 168 FIlm Hall.
The report contains 17 recommendations to cut heating costs, Shankel said, including:
An institution's right to assume the state will fund them also was discussed.
Zuther said the English department was getting many calls inquiring whether special help was available for students who had writing problems. This is further evidence that teachers need to spend time with individual students, he said.
See ENERGY page three
additional students if we're not funded over a certain point," he said.
"We ought not be required to accept
However, the demand placed on the students by the KUAC is overburdening, Rolfs said, and some of this demand could have a negative impact on over 25 per cent of the KUAC profits.
Beer sales endorsed in letter to Regents
Staff Writer
By JIM BATES
The paper, which was written by Lyle Staab, Fort Hays Kansas State College student body president, and unanimously endorsed by the advisory board, says each university should be able to decide whether it wants to sell beer in its union.
The regents answered the moral question when they allowed students to consume beer in the unions, the paper said. Although beer can't be sold in unions now, outside groups can bring keys to their dances and other social functions.
TOPEKA-A "ten page "thought piece" outlining why beer should be allowed in student unions will be presented to the Board of Regents today by the Board's Student Advisory Board.
The Student Advisory board consists of
The advisory board suggested that local option beer sales would eliminate disadvantages of a national system.
the student body presidents of the six state colleges and universities.
Selling beer on campus, the paper says,
we involve questions of morality,
legality, justice.
See BEER page seven
Projection room
Behind rooms 3138 and 3140 in Wessex Hall is the office of Larry Cole, visual education technician, and the projection facilities he manages.
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
slide projectors and four movie projectors, that project up to four images (two to each of the Wescow lecture rooms) at the same time. There are also six mirrors that reflect the various images to one or both of the two screens. See story on page three.