Foreign Students Cautioned About Fake Magazine Sales
Page 5
The often-overlooked Official Bulletin had an eye-catching notice yesterday: "Foreign Students: Beware! Unscrupulous magazine salesmen are afoot. Do NOT sign any statements whatsoever if approached about a purchase. Ask the salesman (or woman) to check with the Office of Dean of Students."
"One of the foreign students," Dean Coan said, "had been contacted by an outfit using a Kansas City address. One woman called first to make an appointment with him. He agreed and later a man came and tried to sell him the magazines."
DEAN COAN SAID the particular cases which were brought to the attention of his office last Friday involved only foreign students.
Clark Coan, assistant dean of men, explained, "This type of thing has happened before, year in and year out. It's not always aimed at foreign students. Often they work into the organized living groups as well."
"The student said he was not interested and would not make an appointment," Dean Coan said.
Dean Coan cited another case involving a foreign student who apparently was contacted by the same group of salesmen.
"ABOUT AN HOUR later," he continued, "another woman called him, said she was representing the same outfit, and told him they would like to sell him some magazines."
The student asked which magazines were offered and then named some magazines that he liked.
The women said, "Thank you for your order," and hung up, Coan said.
"About an hour later," he continued, "the woman called again and said that now that he had
placed his order they were coming ground to collect for it."
The student said he hadn't placed an order, Coan said, but the woman told him he had and they had it on tape. Later a man called and told the student he had hurt the woman's feelings and asked the student to meet him in the street.
University Daily Kansar
"AFTER THIS the student came to us." he added.
"At first the callers talk in terms of small amounts of money," Coan said, "but later it ranged from $6 to $50 when it comes to collection."
Coan said his office had notified the police, the county sheriff, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Better Business Bureau in Kansas City (where the group listed their address).
Coan emphasized that the magazines might be delivered but said (1) they usually cost more than if purchased through regular channels, (2) many of the magazines are the type most people wouldn't want.
"And sometimes the magazines don't come at all," he concluded.
ROME—(UPI)—Police said today Capuchin friars at a monastery near Rome played a role in a large cigarette smuggling operation.
Friars Join Racket
Tobacco Ring -
Two of the six friars at the convent of Albano, in the "Roman castle" hills just south of Rome, were "incriminated" by police, but have not yet been charged.
AT THE SAME TIME, the man police believed to be the brains of the gang was arrested in Lugano, Switzerland, and extradited to Italy.
The strange case, called the "case of the Capuchin smugglers" by the Italian press, started a week ago when one of the Albano friars, Antonio Corsi, turned up at a Rome hospital with a man he said had been injured in an auto accident.
The next morning Friar Corsi told police he had found the body of another man apparently injured in the same accident.
Although Corsi said he had found them on a highway, a fullscale police investigation showed that the gateway into the monastery had been smashed, and the injured man and the dead man had been involved.
THE CASE TOOK ANOTHER turn when police discovered 30 cases of contraband cigarettes worth about $48,000 inside the monastery.
After a week of checking, police said they had what they thought were complete details.
Pop honors for Gale Garnett
Here's the latest album from the gal who's a number one favorite on campuses across the country. Seven of the twelve songs on this brand-new album are Gale Garnett originals including "Marionette" and "Excuse Me Mister." She also adds a new charm to such hits as "Long Time Blues" and "St. James Infirmary." It's a beautiful, melodic
example of Gale's many talents that move her up to the head of her class. The most trusted name in sound
Patronize Your Kansan Advertisers
TESTS, AND HOW THEY GREW
Just the other night I was saying to the little woman, "Do you think the importance of tests in American colleges is being overemphasized?" (Incidentally, the little woman is not, as you might think, my wife. My wife is far from a little woman. She is, in fact, nearly seven feet high and mantled with rippling muscles. She is a full-blooded Ogallala Sioux and holds the world's shot put record. The little woman I referred to is someone we found crouching under the sofa when we moved into our apartment back in 1928, and there she has remained ever since. She never speaks except to make a kind of guttural clicking sound when she is hungry. To tell you the truth, she's not too much fun to have around the house, but with my wife away at track meets most of the time, at least it gives me someone to talk to.)
But I digress. "Do you think the importance of tests in American colleges is being overemphasized?" I said the other night to the little woman, and then I said, "Yes, Max, I do think the importance of tests in American colleges is being overemphasized." (As I explained, the little woman does not speak, so when we have conversations, I am forced to do both parts.)
But I digress. To get back to tests—sure, they're important, but let's not allow them to get too important. There are, after all, many talents which simply can't be measured by quizzes. Is it right to penalize a gifted student whose gifts don't happen to fall into an academic category? Like, for instance, Finster Sigafoos?
She is a full-blooded Ogallala Sioux . . .
Finster, a freshman at the Wyoming College of Belles Lettres and Fingerprint Identification, has never passed a single test; yet all who know him agree he is studded with talent like a ham with cloves. He can, for example, sleep standing up. He can do a perfect imitation of a scarlet tangerine. (I don't mean just the bird calls; I mean he can fly south in the winter.) He can pick up BB's with his toes. He can say "toy boat" three times fast. He can build a rude telephone out of 100 yards of string and two empty Personna Stainless Steel Razor Blade packages. (This last accomplishment is the one Finster is proudest of—not building the telephone but emptying the Personna packs. To empty a Personna pack is not easily accomplished, believe you me, not if you're a person who likes to get full value out of his razor blades. And full value is just what Personnas deliver. They last and last and keep on lasting; luxury shave follows luxury shave in numbers that make the mind boggle. Why don't you see for yourself? Personnas are now available in two varieties: a brand-new stainless steel injector blade for users of injector razors—and the familiar double-edge stainless steel blade so dear to the hearts and kind to the kissers of so many happy Americans, blades so smooth-shaving, so long-lasting that the Personna Co. makes the following guarantee: If you don't agree Personnas gives you more luxury shaves than Beep-Beep or any other brand you might name, Personna will buy you a pack of whatever kind you think is better.)
But I digress. Back to Finster Sigafoos—artist, humanist, philosopher, and freshman since 1939. Will the world ever benefit from Finster's great gifts? Alas, no. He is in college to stay.
But even more tragic for mankind is the case of Clare de Loon. Clare, a classmate of Finster's, had no talent, no gifts, no brains, no personality. All she had was a knack for taking tests. She would cram like mad before a test, always get a perfect score, and then promptly forget everything she had learned. Naturally, she graduated with highest honors and degrees by the dozen, but the sad fact is that she left college no more educated and no more prepared to cope with the world than she was when she entered. Today, a broken woman, she crouches under my sofa.
© 1965, Max Shulman
Speaking of tests, we, the makers of Personna $^{\textcircled{9}}$, put our blades through an impressive number before we send them to market. We also make—and thoroughly test—an aerosol shave that soaks rings around any other lather: Burma Shave$^{\textcircled{8}}$, regular and menthol.