Yule Spirit Envelopes Campus
Students Decorate, Donate, and Socialize
As Christmas Comes But Once A Year
Lights. Hundreds of them.
Thousands of them.
Gaudy rainbows twinkle through the skeletal branches of aged evergreens along Jayhawk Boulevard and race along revered stone walls, outlining Hoch, Strong, and the Kansas Union in Oread's answer to the Plaza.
Holiday songs pouring out of the information booth blend with traditional carols chimed by the Campanile, and echo behind a screen of new-falling snow.
The season springs to life through a profusion of gaily decorated trees—in lobbies of organized houses, the rotunda of Strong, against the elevator tower of Templin.
And over all, an icy-blue cascade surrounding Danforth Chapel stands as a silent watch, ushering in that holiday which comes "but once a year."
Christmas has returned to KU.
Christmas has returned to Ko. Inside, it shows in a custom that originated in women's residence halls, but has since spread to those of the men. The art of door decorating is bringing out the artistic, as well as the Christmas, spirit of many students.
Prizes are offered in most women's residence halls for the best decorations in both religious and secular categories. Ideas run the gamut from foil-filigreed fenestrations to pine-covered portals.
"You're so limited with what you can do in a dorm," one Hashinger resident said. "You've got to do something to keep your room from being just another cinder-block cell."
Santa with a bulging bag of goodies took the grand prize in Hashinger's contest for Nancy Meyer, Shawnee Mission senior, and Cynthia Thompson, Overland Park senior, Barbara Langbehn, Belleville, Ill., sophomore, took honors in the religious division with pen and ink sketches of the Nativity.
Although prizes aren't being given yet in the men's halls, the trend towards holiday doors is definitely catching on. The resident director's room in Templin is sporting a bright red door this week featuring a capering snowman and holiday greeting on Christmas wrap.
Stanley Morris, Yates Center sophomore, has added a bit of Christmas to his door for two years. His doorway, this year in McCollum, is bedecked with honeycomb bells on green foil. Not to be outdone, Morris' neighbor across the hall, Bruce Denton, Denton junior, retaliated with a life-size Santa.
Official Bulletin
Foreign Students; Attention is called to the last page of the Dec. issue of the INTERNATIONAL CAM-EUS Newsletter.
Peace Corps: New Peace Corps Training projects are being announced, training beginning in Peabody and Maud. He will be paired with the Campus Peace Corps Liaison officer, 228 Strong, for additional information.
TODAY
La Fête de Noel présente annuellement par le Cardee Francais aura heures et demie dans la Saite Kansas de l'Union. Tous ceux que s'intèrent an français, aux chansons de l'alphabet, en missions sont bien cordialement invités.
Catholic Mass, 5 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel, Open Door, 8:15, Student
Classical Film, 7 p.m. "Triumph of the Seven Stars," 7:30 p.m. Botany Club, 7:30 p.m. Dr. John Greene, KU. "Darwin and the Botanist," Forum Room, Union Public invited.
Brass Choir, 8 p.m. Swarthout Rectal Hall.
"Days and Nights of Beebee Fenstemaker," 8:20 p.m. Murphy.
Catholic Mass: 6.45 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Christian School: mageel. 8:15 a.m.
Student Center.
In Templin, Charles Arndt,
Mission sophomore, covered the upper half of his door with a huge Christmas card. The lower half consists of a seasonal cartoon drawn by his roommate, Ed Granger, Fairway sophomore.
Lutheran Worship, 4:30 p.m. Dance
Hospital Sponsored by all Lul-
berans
KU SDS, 7:30 p.m. Kansas Union.
Room will be posted.
In a somewhat less cheerful vein is the cynical message on a door on the second floor of Templin. Bold red letters jump out on green foil to say, "Help keep the X in Xmas." The resident explained he is not anti-religious, but that he is disturbed by the "recent decline in the commercialization of Christmas."
"Days and Nights of Beebee Fenstemaker," 8:20 p.m. Murphy.
"People are not giving like they used to," Mrs. Facklam said, "but some of them are trying to take." She said last week a teenaged boy attempted to make off with some of the money she had collected.
Mrs. Anna Facklam, 1319 Vermont, would probably disagree, however. Mrs. Facklam, one of the Salvation Army's bell ringers stationed in downtown Lawrence, said the pocketbook seems to have replaced the heart during the Christmas season.
Other stories told by Mrs. Facklam seem to give an indication of the changing values of Christmas.
One woman dropped a dime into the kettle by accident, thinking it was a penny. She asked for the dime back, but it was too late.
Another time, a KU student said he would donate a dollar if she would stop ringing the bell.
She did. He donated. When he was gone, however, the small gold bell began tinkling out its message to passersby again. It will continue for 10 hours a day six days a week until the holidays are over.
But Christmas to some people in Lawrence and Topeka will be a little brighter and cheerier because of KU students. They are the underprivileged, the orphaned, the hospitalized.
Many organized houses gave Christmas parties this week for underprivileged children and orphans. Those who did not do this directly, contributed to the Toys-for-Tots collection by giving stockings full of toys to dates for an evening of play. Afterwards, the toys were placed in the collection barrel.
Others singled out rest homes and hospitals and presented wrapped gifts to those who would not otherwise have received them.
One of the students said it seemed very depressing and grim at first to the people who were unacustomed to the misery of the underprivileged and disabled. But after you have been with them for a while, he said, they become like the unpainted walls in a room—you overlook the faults and scratches and take them for what they are.
10 Daily Kansan Wednesday December 15, 1965
Wednesday, December 15, 1965
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