Women's closing
K-State follows KU
By MERRILY ROBINSON
Kansas State University coeds are trying to follow a path blazed by KU last year in liberalization of closing hours for women.
Changes proposed by K-State's Associated Women Students (AWS) will meet their last major hurdle today when the new bill is voted on by K-State's Faculty Council on Student Affairs, comprised of both students and faculty. If the new rulings pass, they will go into effect next fall.
THE NEW MANHATTAN regulations are similar to those effected at KU this year, with one major exception: no residence hall keys will be issued. K-State rejected a closing hours change based on a key system in 1964 because of the security problems involved.
KU, which allows keys to be issued to juniors and seniors, faced one of those security problems earlier this year when a resident of Douthart Hall lost her key and an entirely new system had to be installed.
Presently, all K-State women under 21 share the same closing hours: 11 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 1 a.m., Friday and Saturday evenings, and midnight on Sundays.
IF THE NEW RULING passes, juniors, seniors and women 21 and over will be subject to no closing hours at all. Residence halls and sorority houses will still be locked at the original hours, but residence hall switchboard operators will remain on duty all night and admit later-returning coeds.
Margaret Lahey, K-State dean of women, is in favor of the closing hours revision.
"We are simply keeping pace with a changing campus and yet not overlooking the fact that many students feel a university should insure opportunities for academic study and for sleep," she said.
If the bill is passed, one of its
Sorority residents will operate on a "buddy system" similar to one used by K-State's Kappa Alpha Theta in a closing hours experiment last semester, in which a friend admits a resident at a pre-arranged time.
major clauses will insure a major evaluation of results next year to consider more changes and possible extension of privileges to freshmen and sophomores. Without this provision, no further changes could be proposed for two years.
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Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 8, 1967
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WHO'S GOT THE BUTTON?
I'm sure it has not escaped your notice that underlying the adorable whimsy which has made this column such a popular favorite among my wife and my little dog Spot, there is a serious attempt to stay abreast of the problems that beset the American college student.
Many a trip have I made to many a campus—talking to undergraduates, listening to their troubles, hearing their grievances, reading their buttons. (Incidentally, the second and third most popular buttons I saw on my last trip were: "WALLACE BEERY LIVES" and "FLUORIDATE MUSCATEL." The first most popular button was, as we all know, "SCRAP THE SCRAPE" which is worn, as we all know, by Personna Super Stainless Steel Blade users who, as we all know, are proud to proclaim to the world that they have found a blade which gives them luxury shave after luxury shave, which comes both in double-edge style and Injector style, which does indeed scrap the scrape, negate the nick, peel the pull, and oust the ouch, which shaves so closely and quickly and beautifully that my heart leaps to tell of it. (If perhaps you think me too effusive about Personna, I ask you to remember that to me Personna is more than just a razor blade; it is also an employer.)
But I digress. I make frequent trips, as I say, to learn what is currently vexing the American undergraduate. Last week, for example, while visiting a prominent Eastern university (Idaho State) I talked to a number of engineering seniors who posed a serious question. Like all students, they had come to college burning to fill themselves with culture, but, alas, because of all their science requirements, they simply had no time to take the liberal arts courses their young souls lusted after. "Are we doomed," they asked piteously, "to go through life uncultured?"
I answered with a resounding "No!" I told them the culture they had missed in college, they would pick up after graduation. I explained that today's enlightened corporations are setting up on-the-job liberal arts programs for the newly employed engineering graduate—courses designed to fill his culture gap—for the truly enlightened corporation realizes that the truly cultured employee is the truly valuable employee.
To illustrate, I cited the well-known case of Champert Sigafoos of Purdue.
Poised and cultured, Champert was promptly placed in an important executive position. I am pleased to report that he served with immense distinction-not, however, for long because three days later he reached retirement age.
When Champert, having completed his degree in wing nuts and flanges, reported to the enlightened corporation where he had accepted employment, he was not rushed forthwith to a drawing board. He was first installed in the enlightened corporation's training campus. Here he was given a beanie, a room-mate, and a copy of the company rouser, and the enlightened corporation proceeded to fill the gap in his culture.
First he was taught to read, then to print capital letters, then capital and small letters. (There was also an attempt to teach him' script, but it was ultimately abandoned.)
From these fundamentals, Champert progressed slowly but steadily through the more complex disciplines. He was diligent, and the corporation was patient, and in the end they were well rewarded, for when Champert finished, he could play a clavier, parse a sentence, and name all the Electors of Bavaria.
Today, still spry, he lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he supplements his pension by parsing sentences for tourists.
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$ \textcircled{c} $1987, Max Shulman
Here's a sentence that's easy to parse: Subject-"you." Verb-"double." Object-"your shaving comfort when you use Burma-Shave, regular or menthol, along with your Personna Super Stainless Steel Blades."