Welcome back-what else?
The Fall UDK editorial staff hereby offers the annual Welcome-Back-to-the-Campus editorial and roundup of Important Campus Events. We extend special welcome to all incoming freshmen in the class of 1970, which, we are informed, has the special distinction and duty of finding something other than the post-war baby boom on which to blame its large size.
Further greetings go to that select group of students who were informed this summer that they are candidates for the McNamara Scholarship in Southeast Asia Area Studies, and who, by the way, are hoping to flunk a test for a change.
AND FINALLY, we salute the Exalted Senior Class #101 in hopes that they will at last attain alumnus standing in June without undue complications. Word reaches us that Senior Class President Wiles has gotten into the senior spirit, and was last seen working diligently on a Tall Bud.
With men's rush out of the way, the brothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon have already depledled one of their freshmen. The worthy plebe was Elwood Quinsore of North Platte, Mo., who, as a promising rushee, was stolen by the TKE's out from under the noses of the Lambda Chi's and Theta Beta Chi's. (Elwood announced that he is a double Theta Beta Chi legacy.)
The TKE's, led by some fast dealing by Don Hunter, the AKLE senior and TKE pledge trainer,
pledged Elwood in the living room of the Lambda Chi house and whisked him across the street to show the rush chairman, who was truly amazed.
HOWEVER, IT SEEMS that Elwood's presence did not help to maintain the fraternity image (or its membership), and he announced that he was transferring back to North Platte State, where he has been offered presidency of Theta Beta Chi. Imagine the TKE's surprise when they learned he was a Lambda Chi active already.
For the low-low price of ONLY $1095 per school year you can partake of the "very finest in modern college living" at new, private and (above all things) university approved Naismith Hall.
TO WHAT DOES THIS $1095 entitle you? Well, first you get to pay a $25 damage deposit, and for only $20 more, you can even park your car there. Moreover, you get to be co-educated, live in luxurious rooms with private phones and semi-private baths. Further benefits include 20 meals per week with a grand finale steak on Saturday, two sheets and a pillowcase every week, and hot and cold running maids.
Better hurry, though, while the offer lasts. With only four shopping days left until school starts, out of a capacity of 500 students there are only 300 vacancies left.
- Jack Harrington
'Best of two worlds'
'College' experiment draws attention
The idea of a college within a college is certainly nothing new; England's Oxford contains a number of smaller, independent colleges within the university. But getting such a system started
Eyes this year will be on the 450 freshmen who compose the experimental college. The idea sounds fine on paper; we just hope that the transition from the drawing board to reality is
The problem the experiment seeks to solve was well expressed in the Time article:
"Vast universities offer great libraries, star teachers and topnotch research facilities, but often at a high cost in impersonality and student loneliness. Tiny colleges offer the warmth and human values of close relationships—but often at a high cost in academic shortcomings. To get the best of both of these worlds is the purpose of a promising pattern of university student-grouping that will be tested or expanded on at least a dozen campuses when classes convene this month."
in a school that has existed without it for a century is not a simple thing to do.
Now that Time magazine has informed the nation that KU is experimenting with a "college within a College," interest in the project has widened beyond the scope of this university.
But the program seems destined to succeed. Organizational problems are bound to arise after all, this is no small undertaking. But any measure of success that the college experiment has should stand as an example of what a modern university can achieve when working creatively to fight the problems of its size.
smooth and that the kinks can be ironed out of the operation without too much trouble.
SEEMS TO BE A LOT MORE STUDENT ENTHUSIASM SINCE THEY CHANGED THIS EVENT FROM A 'GREASED PIG' TO A 'GREASED G/RL' CONTEST.
If the idea succeeds, it will be a major victory for KU—for its administrators, its students and its public relations department. It can open the door to a new avenue for overcoming the problems of impersonality in education.
Too many of the proper people are watching now for the project to fall on its face gracefully. If it fails, it will be a blow to major educational experimentation on the university level.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
— Eric Morgenthaler
Facing the year after a centennial celebration is like a child facing the day after Christmas: the excitement is over, and the new morning seems disappointingly normal.
"You Sure I'm Not Crowding You?"
The party's over
KU ended its first century with a bang—one that is likely to be remembered well into the second hundred years.
2 Daily Kansas editorial page Thursday, September 15, 1966
The collection of talent that assembled in Lawrence during Centennial Week seems even more overwhelming in retrospect than it did at the time. The men who came brought modern, pertinent, challenging thoughts; and they were willing to discuss their thoughts with students.
The carnival atmosphere that ended the week rounded out the academic atmosphere in which it had begun. And there was always that thought: this is your centennial—take advantage of it, enjoy it.
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So now that year is past, and we are entering our 101st. But still thinking in the vein of excellence that was the centennial celebration, we can't help but hope that a similar "Man and the Future" seminar will be a regular event at KU long before the year 2066 sparks another big celebration.
— Eric Morgenthaler
Greek image changes to conform with times
American fraternities and sororities, often an object of considerable curiosity on the part of those from other lands, are significantly changing their way of life in a race for survival. Basically, they are struggling to catch up with the times.
NOW THEY ARE ALSO in difficulty because of the housing competition which the universities themselves are offering today, the increasing academic pressures which cut into the students' spare time,the highly developed social and cultural programs under other auspices widespread on many campuses,and the maturing student interest in those extracurricular activities which have more inherent significance.
While fraternities and sororities are disappearing on some campuses, either because of lack of student interest or due to administration policy, they still retain considerable strength on many others. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal carefully documents their situation.
For the most part they have been working to bring about needed reforms. They are placing strong emphasis on better grades and getting results. They are moving more into the mainstream of university life. Formal barriers against the admission of Jews and Negroes are falling. Hazing and other objectionable practices are giving way to college or community improvement projects.
GREEK LETTER SOCIETIES point not only to reforms accomplished but to certain positive values they offer students, such as training in group leadership and cooperation and the haven they furnish students otherwise caught up in a vast, impersonal institution.
The Greek letter societies began to come under fire for their extreme hazing practices, the relatively poor scholastic record of their members, and their racial and religious discrimination.
The survival and usefulness of these societies will depend upon their ability to adjust to advancing concepts of social responsibility and individual maturity.
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