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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, February 23 1968
Leadership,not rules,main goal of AWS
AWS PRESIDENT
Sue Menke, Webster Groves, Mo., senior, believes AWS should not only provide rules, but also leadership opportunities for KU women.
Some beards neat others scroungy
By Kathy Hall and Mike Shurtz
Kansas Staff Reporters
Razor blades unite?
It seems to be the thing these days to put away the blade and grow a beard.
The beard is possibly the mark of status for the contemporary Kahil Gibran, the regression back to "teddy bear" times or perhaps the personality crutch of an otherwise bald mind.
Beards are everywhere and so are the comments about them. Even though a majority of those talked to favored them, there were some cutting remarks as well.
"They're okay after they're shaved off," Lois Stencel, Kansas City freshman, said.
Charlotte Moss, Burden sophomore, called beards dirty and scroungy.
Leon Bergman, Kansas City junior, calls bearded folks "wierdos."
"Groteesque" is how Walt Womack, Kansas City junior, describes the phenomena.
But on the other side of the controversy one girl realized too late a "dirty, scroungy" beard can make the difference. Joy Kerr, Wichita senior, stopped dating a fellow after convincing him to shave his beard off. She found out later that his beard was the fascinating thing about him.
"Some beards really turn me on, others turn my stomach," Karen Kosakowski, Leavenworth senior, said. She remembered the time she invited a bearded friend over to make carmel apples.
"It was disastrous," she said, "and he ended up with caramel hanging from his beard."
"When beards are accompanied by long, dirty, gritty shoulder-length hair, I do have reservations about the individual, but otherwise well-groomed beards are becoming," Hoppy Lane, Lawrence junior, said.
Connie Reed, Kansas City sophomore, was the most enthusiastic supporter of the bearded wonders.
"Kissing one is like kissing a big, soft, cuddly teddy bear," she said (if you like that sort of thing).
Track star Jim Ryun, Wichita junior, thinks beards are sharp" (as the racer's edge, so to speak).
But psychologically speaking, or according to Karen Proctor, Columbia, Mo., junior, some guys hide behind their beards, "just like a pair of sunglasses."
The areas of concern, she said, are the commission on status of women, academic, communications, orientation, high school relations, regulations, women on campus and community service.
Jo Jo White, St. Louis senior and KU All-American, disagreed when he said, "Anybody who grows one right out of the blue is just trying to see how he looks wearing one. They aren't trying to rebel against nothing."
One girl said she wouldn't like to wear one herself.
That's fine with John Hendrickson, Munster, Ind., junior. "Beards are groovy on guys but they aren't too cool on girls;" he said.
In a joint meeting of the AWS Forum and Council Feb. 29 the results of a questionnaire distributed by the regulations committee will be presented, she said.
Sue Menke, Webster Groves, Mo., is a blue-eyed, brown-haired KU senior who, incidentally, is the president of the Associated Women Students (AWS), the women's self-governing body on campus.
"We don't like to feel that regulations are our main function," she said. "Providing leadership opportunities to today's educated women is the main function of AWS."
Miss Menke, a secondary education major in English and social studies, has been active in AWS all of her four years at KU. She was a Forum representative from her freshman residence hall. The Forum is the representative body composed of at least one woman from each living group and the main source of communication among the different groups on campus, she said.
cil, the administrative and directive body which discusses issues pertinent to women students, she said.
However, AWS has the power to recommend changes in regulations if the women express the desire, she said. Miss Menke said possible changes will be discussed in the joint meeting.
In her sophomore year, Miss Menke served on the AWS Coun-
As a junior, Miss Menke was a national officer of AWS, prior to being elected president this year.
Although Miss Menke plans to teach after graduation, she said she might come back for graduate work in guidance and counseling. She became interested in this field while working as a residence hall counselor last year and as a KU-Y summer camp counselor last summer.
About her job as AWS president, Miss Menke said, "I learned a lot about the administration of a university. I learned this by serving on the Council on Student Affairs (COSA), the dean of women's Advisory Council and through discussing issues with faculty and administrators." She is the only AWS executive member on COSA, she said.
Casual about her job, Miss Menke couldn't remember when she was elected, although she thought it was last April. She went directly into office. This year the election will be March 14. AWS officers are elected by KU women students at large, she said.
BELL SYSTEM
Recruiting Team On Campus
Wednesday, February 28, 1968
Representing
American Telephone & Telegraph, Long Lines Department Bachelor's and Master's candidates Electrical Mechanical, Civil, Mathematics, and Physics candidates with broad interests in economic and management problems. Locations: Mid-West states initially.
Locations: Mid-West states initially.
Bell Laboratories Research and Development B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. candidates. Emphasizing E.E., M.E., Physics, Engineering Mechanics and Mathematical Sciences. Opportunities for graduate study. Locations: New Jersey, Illinois and elsewhere in eastern half of U.S.
Sandia Corporation Master's Degree in Mathematics, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Bachelor's candidates of outstanding scholarship in Engineering considered for technical development program.
Locations: Albuquerque, New Mexico; Livermore, California.
Southwestern Bell Technical students, particularly those seeking management and administrative assignments E.E.; M.E.; E.P.; C.E.; Math-Physics.
Locations: Kansas and the Mid-West.
Western Electric All Engineering disciplines needed to fill Technical Engineering positions in design, product, systems, military research and management training.
Locations: Southwest—Mid-West—Eastern and Northern States.
Sign Interview Schedule in Engineering Office
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