Sophs plan fund drive
Class to auction girls
By JOHN HILL
Pretty girls will be auctioned off to the highest bidder at the sophomore class party on April 15 at the Red Dog Inn.
The coeds will be purchased as dates for the Sophomore Class
Carnival May 6 in the Kansas Union.
The Aborigines were described as people who have been left out in Australia in the past 150 years by Norman B. Tindale at a Student Union Activities Forum lecture yesterday.
Women will be chosen by their living groups as a candidate for Miss Sophomore Class, who will be elected and crowned at the carnival.
Nomads excluded by society
Tindale, curator of the South Australian Museum at Canberra, Australia, presented slides and a film along with his lecture on Australians and the Aborigines.
He said a vast culture change has come about in Australia during the past 150 years and that this is the reason the Aborigines have been left out.
THE DESERT was described as so dry that the rivers flow into it, end in distributaries and evaporate. Because of this the top soil blows away making the area unfit for human habitation. Some areas of the desert have been without rain for seven years.
He described the richest Aborigine that he had met as "the one who owned the greatest number of wives of any of the men in the tribe, and he allowed his brothers to cooperate in the making of the next generation."
THE WINNING candidate's escort for the carnival, who will have purchased this privilege at the auction, will be crowned Mr. Sophomore Class, according to Rick Moderow, Tulsa, Okla, sophomore class social chairman.
"The Sophomore Class Carnival is going to be similar to the SUA Carnival," Moderow said. "The theme for the carnival has yet to be decided."
The profits from both events will go toward financing the
class' two-year project of attempting to raise $400,000 to pay for the construction and equipiing of a pediatrics hospital in South Vietnam, Moderow said.
This is being done through Project Concern, a non-profit, non-affiliated organization that has assisted similar ventures, Moderow said.
"RIGHT NOW WE'RE contacting each living group and encouraging each group to choose a candidate for Miss Sophomore Class."Moderow said.
Trophies will be awarded to the best carnival booth on the basis of their profits, and a dance will follow the carnival in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Dialects reveal much
The tangled web of human relationships is not the fault of science but the fault of complicated speech variations.
This was the conclusion of Raven I. McDavid, guest humanities lecturer in a speech entitled "Historical, Regional and Social Variations in Language" presented Tuesday evening in Swarthout Recital Hall.
McDAVID IS A LINGUISTICS professor at the University of Chicago.
Attempts to make drastic changes in the social variations of speech are determined by educa-
cation, association, and opportunities, McDavid said.
He said a working evaluation of social dialects can be classified into three groups; uneducated, common speech, and educated or cultivated.
FROM EDUCATED SPEECH,
national prestige has developed.
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No speech community of any size is without regional and social distinctions, McDavid said. The basis of regional dialects is that communities differ in their history, social standings, geography, independence of early settlements and traditions of individualism.
Wednesday, March 29, 1967
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