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Slang Swift, Cool, Tough; English Unknown on Hill
University Daily Kansan
By Karen Lambert (Feature-Society Editor)
Are you dating a fink, a squirrel, a stroon or a loser? Or is he or she swift or Real Cool?
After a hard week of classes do you spend your Friday evenings getting smashed or just chugging a few?
Are your courses this semester grinds or pumps? Do you plan to ace or bomb your first exam this semester?
Common campus vernacular will never betray the fact that KU is an intellectual community. A student doesn't have to speak English to get along on campus—as a matter of fact, none of the English courses he ever took will teach him the slang that is currently IN. On the other hand, the
AWS to Revise Women's Rules
The Associated Women Students (AWS) will begin their annual revision of women's regulations next week.
Javn Lovd, Newton junior, and co-chairman of the AWS Regulations Committee, said all rules specifically concerned with KU women will be reviewed and changed if necessary.
Members of the AWS Senate and House of Representatives will meet on Feb. 23, 25 and March 2 to discuss revisions. Members of the House will discuss the changes with living groups and present suggestions to a joint meeting of the House and Senate. Miss Loyd said.
House members will vote on the rule changes and the Senate will have final approval of all decisions, Miss Lovd said.
"We NOT ONLY study the regulations as individual rules but try to deal with the philosophy behind them," Miss Loyd said. "We also try to determine the need for establishing rules in certain areas," she continued.
Miss Loyd explained the aim in making and revising women's regulations is to simplify them. Aside from specific rules, AWS also writes a general conduct code for women, she said.
slang expert won't ever pass the English Pro.
KU STUDENTS, and those at most other colleges, speak a language that is distinctively their own. The only way to learn the language is by osmosis, until the university offers a course in Butchered English 157 (taught at any of the local pubs from 7 to 9 p.m. daily).
To get along on campus today, students should know that tough does not mean "of viscous consistency," or "hard to bear or endure." Tough really means absolutely divine. Swift is not an adjective meaning "capable of moving with great velocity" or a noun meaning "an adjustable device upon which a hank of yarn is placed in order to wind off skeins." It is a synonym for tough. Cool, groovy and neat can be substituted for swift and tough.
Anything unpleasant is bad news but something good is great, the most, man or sharp.
TIME MAGAZINE recently published a study of slang which included the latest terms for social communication among girls and boys. On Friday and Saturday nights (and every other night) boys and girls play "huggy bear" and "kissy face."
Students attending college generally select a major field of study. Some of the popular majors at KU are Fizz Ed, Polly Sigh, Sike, Soshe, Econ and Jog.
Students can also take a course in "Old Ladies Today," "Kiddy Lit," or "Bugs and Boys."
To historians, the location of Kansas' great hall of learning may be Mount Oread, but to students it is known as the Hill or campi. Our Manhattan rival is Silo Tech.
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Evidently, there are a lot of potential suicides on campus. A common phrase for greeting bad news is "I could just die!"
Skeptics are almost as numerous as potential suicides. "I don't believe
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IN THE MIDST of the traumas involved with skepticism and repression, students are supposed to be ready with a sparkling answer to the greeting, "Whadaya say, mam?"
it" or "you're kidding" is a ready reaction to almost any statement.
KU slang has been the object of at least two studies. In 1926, Carl Pingry and Vance Randolph, collectors of American folkklore, recorded slang that is still used today, though infrequently.
Among the terms compiled by Pingry and Randolph were "apple polisher," "blind date," "bull session," "shindig" and "washout."
1963, Manuel Schonhorn, assistant professor of English, and Alan Dundes, University of California at Berkeley, found that a student enrolled in a "bear" "crams," "hits the books" or "bones up" in order not to "flunk," "flag," "blow" or "bomb" the test. He could even get "shot out of the saddle," "go down the tubes" or "go out the bottom."
Delta Delta Delta social sorority is offering a $300 scholarship to any regularly enrolled undergraduate woman at KU.
Sorority Offers $300
To Any KU Woman
Barbara Lupher, Kirkwood, Mo., senior, and service projects chairman, said scholarship applicants are not limited to sorority members. She added that there are no restrictions on race, creed, national origin or area of study.
Miss Luphar said the scholarship would be awarded on the basis of leadership, scholarship, financial need, resourcefulness in carrying out educational aims and potential for future service to society.
Applications are available in the office of the Dean of Women. The completed forms are due Feb. 26, Miss Lupher said.
The story at KU was typical of many communities just after the report was issued. In an honest effort to help students cut down on and eventually drop "the habit," the administration removed all cigarettes and machines from the campus.
Lurid sounding diseases like emphysema and Berger's disease became common coffee conversation. Anybody who dared to light up out in the open was brazen in the eyes of his friends, and the more timid souls had to sneak a puff or two whenever possible, in order to avoid smug looks that said, "You're just weak, friend."
Thursday, Feb. 18, 1965
Remember how, in vivid technicolor, the report painstakingly spelled out the evils lurking in every tobacco leaf? And how, during the very heat of the report's terrifying effects, you viewed those evils as darkly-clad monsters, hiding behind every cloud of smoke and just waiting to pounce?
If you're an avid cigarette fan, especially around midterm and exam times, you must occasionally have fleeting recollections of last year's biggest report—the one issued by the U.S. Surgeon General that was expected to ring the tobacco industry's and your death knell.
WHY, THEN, JUST one year later, do store personnel claim that cigarette sales are at an all-time high, and that they are hard-pressed to keep their counters stocked?
By Corinne Newberry What's happened to the tobacco scare?
'Filthy Weed' Sprouts
Students began chewing gum and nails and anything else that was pliable with amazing vigor; large-scale campaigns were started in dorms and sorority and fraternity houses to "purge the filthy weed."
BUT SOMEHOW, somewhere along the line, the big report began to lose its sting.
KU students became terribly good at remembering to stock up on cigarettes when in town. General groomings were heard in every hall—"I'm gaining so much weight," and "My nerves are shot, burned out, wrecked." The "smoking lamp" became brighter each day during class
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breaks. And a new kind of calm, like the one after the storm, settled on KU faces—everyone became weak and happy again.
THE GOVERNMENT has entered the tobacco field again recently to say that as a result of the report, only one man in four is still smoking; but the figure for students would probably read more like four in one.
In any case, the university seems destined to be ever-enveloped by a heavy ring of "academic smoke," the kind that comes from pouring over books in the early hours of the morning.
And, whenever those fleeting recollections do occur, when the big report looms suddenly black again, the scholar reaches for his pack of filter or non-filter, hot or menthol, red or blue packaged cigarettes, and says in a rather bored tone, "So what else is new?"
HOW TO TALK TO AN ANIMAL (A Pit Crew Dictionary)
As in all other cultural ghettoos, a special language has developed at The Southern Pit. After careful study of the following examples, the layman will find it easy to communicate with Pit Crew members and other lower forms of life.
Spoolie—
Delbert—
An unappealing person. A squirrel, stroon, etc.
A severe spool.
Acorns—
Potato chips. (Also Bar-B-Que acorns)
Duh—
Sound made by spools, generally in answer to simple questions.
Nest—
A table or booth occupied by spools. (ex.—"Clean out that nest in booth seven.")
PIT PICK —
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