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Campus Brings Back Pierced Ears
By Mary Dunlap
One of the next eight girls who pass you will probably have pierced ears.
Earrings for pierced ears have come into their own at KU. Tiny gold bands and pearl studs seem to be the most popular, mainly because they are so versatile. They can be, and are, worn with anything from stretch pants to cocktail dresses. Many of the earring studs are made up of a single jewel, constituting the entire earring.
Coeds on many American campuses are now joining girls around the world in the age-old custom of piercing their ears. In other parts of the world the ear-
Rings are not used solely for decoration, rather, they are used to stretch the earlobe, which then becomes decorative.
Among the Masali of South Africa, stone ear-plugs are commonly worn, although they measure four and one-half inches in diameter. The Berawan people of Borneo use plugs through their ears which measure three and three-fourths of an inch in diameter.
The ease with which earlobes may now be pierced may have had much to do with "selling" a cood on getting them done. The best method is to have a doctor pierce the ears. He usually applies novocaine, then quickly inserts a needle through the lobe. Alcohol is applied to the ear and the earring, which is then placed in the lobe.
Using ice, a sterilized needle, and alcohol, many girls have been able to do the same job as the physician, although there is a much greater chance of infection. The earrings, which must be of 12-24 carat gold, are immediately put on.
Perhaps one of the few drawbacks is in the price of carrings for pierced ears. In many cases, the cost of gold earrings falls in the $12-$15 range. Those containing rare or precious stones are priced accordingly.
The custom of wearing earrings
goes back to Biblical days, and perhaps before, although first records were found in Genesis. Jacob's family's earrings were buried with his strange idols at Bethel, and were thought to be amulets, or good luck charms. Even today, the idea of earrings being talismans is carried on in certain parts of New Zealand. There, natives decorate their earrings with the teeth of their enemies, or with shark's teeth, to ward off evil.
PEARLI OF A GIRL—Candace (Candy) Jones, Topeka sophomore, wears tiny pearl carrings,
one of the most popular pierced-earring styles at KU.
Traces of earrings have been found in the perforated earlobes of statutes. After the Ninth Century, this largely disappeared. One Greek inscription recorded the weight of all the gold ornaments on a statue, including long, dangling earrings.
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