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Tuesday, March 10, 1964 University Daily Kansan
Handling of information concerning student travel in the U.S. and abroad is the basic function of the new Student Travel Committee.
"Because there are several organizations on campus which have information on student travel, it seems necessary to have a place to pool it, and to make it available to all interested students." Nancy Breidenthal, Kansas City junior and temporary Student Travel Committee chairman, said.
The committee is directed by advisers from People-to-People, SUA and the All Student Council. This advisory committee discusses suggestions for co-ordinating information from various sources and making that information available to the students. Miss Breidenthal said.
Gathering and compiling information is the main duty of the committee. Working from the suggestion of advisers, students are compiling lists of faculty members who have traveled abroad and who would be willing to help interested students. Miss Breidenthal said.
Most of the information which the committee distributes is concerned with student travel, but there is also some information on job opportunities in Europe and scholarships for study abroad, she said.
The most visible result of the committee's work is the large information booth located in the lobby of the Kansas Union.
"There is also an attempt now being made to get a list of KU students who have traveled abroad," she said. "In addition, we have a book list which includes all helpful printed material that will be filed in the SUA office."
"The booth will open officially Wednesday." Miss Reedential said. "We hope to keep it open from now on, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.
"The booth will act as an infor-
maison director," she said. Students who inquire at the booth will be referred to a faculty member, another student, or some publication to answer his question, Miss Breidenthal said.
During the first three weeks of its operation the booth will be staffed by members of Cwens, sophomore women's honorary organization.
It is hoped that the availability of information on travel and study programs will stimulate more students into thinking about the possibilities of travel, Miss Breidenthal said.
Members of the advisory board include Lance Burr, Salina junior, representing People-to-People; John Mays, Lyons junior, representing SUA, and Susan Hartley, Atwood sophomore, representing ASC.
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A ROBE BY ANY OTHER NAME
With the Commencement Day just a couple of short months away, the question on everyone's lips is: "How did the different disciplines come to be marked by academic robes with hoods of different colors?" Everybody is asking it; I mean everybody! I mean I haven't been able to walk ten feet on any campus without somebody grabs my elbow and says, "How did the different disciplines come to be marked by academic robes with hoods of different colors, hey?"
This, I must say, is not the usual question asked by collegians who grab my elbow. Ordinarily they say "Hey, Shorty, got a Marlboro?" And this is fitting. After all, are they not collegians and therefore loaded with brains? And does not intelligence demand the tastiest in tobacco flavor? And does not Marlboro deliver a flavor that is uniquely delicious? And am I not short?
But I digress. Back to the colored hoods of academic robes. A doctor of philosophy wears blue, a doctor of medicine wears
Why, Why?
green, a master of arts wears white, a doctor of humanities wears crimson, a master of library science wears lemon yellow. Why? Why, for example, should a master of library science wear lemon yellow?
Well sir, to answer this vexing question, we must go back to March 14, 1844. On that date the first public library in the United States was established by Ulrich Sigfaoos. All of Mr. Sigfaoos's neighbors were of course wildly grateful—all, that is, except Wex Toddhunter.
Mr. Todhunter had hated Mr. Sigafoos since 1822 when both men had wooed the beautiful Melanie Zitt and Melanie had chosen Mr. Sigafoos because she was mad for dancing and Mr. Sigafoos knew all the latest steps—like the Missouri Compromise Samba, the Shays' Rebellion Schottische, and the James K. Polk Polka—while Mr. Todhunter, alas, could not dance at all, owing to a wound he had received at the Battle of New Orleans. (He was struck by a falling praline.)
Consumed with jealousy at the success of Mr. Sigafoos's library, Mr. Todhunter resolved to open a competing library. This he did, but he lured not one single patron away from Mr. Sigafoos. "What has Mr. Sigafoos got that I have not?" Mr. Todhunter kept asking himself, and finally the answer came to him: books.
So Todhunter stocked his library with lots of lovely books, and soon he was doing more business than his hated rival. But Mr. Sigafoos struck back. To regain his clientele, he began serving tea at his library every afternoon. Thereupon Mr. Todhunter, not to be outdone, began serving tea with sugar. Thereupon Mr. Sigafoos began serving tea with sugar and cream. Thereupon Mr. Todhunter began serving tea with sugar and cream and lemon.
This, of course, clinched the victory for Mr. Todhunter because he had the only lemon tree in town—in fact, in the entire state of Maine—and since that day lemon yellow has, of course, been the color on the robes of masters of library science.
(Incidentally, the defeated Mr. Sigafos packed up his library and moved to California where, alas, he failed once more. There were, to be sure, plenty of lemons to serve with his tea, but, alas, there was no cream because the cow was not introduced to California until 1937 by John Wayne.)
© 1964 Max Shulman
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