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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, March 3, 1964
Anniversary Arrives For Barbed Wire Set
By Rick Mabutt
A group of 17 KU students, al. ex-prisoners of war, met in the Kansas Union 17 years ago this week and formed one of the most unusual clubs in KU's history.
They called their organization the Barbed Wire Club. It was for any student who had spent time in an enemy concentration camp during World War II. The original 19 members, who had a total time of over 100 months in captivity, called themselves "Kriegies," a name picked up in the German prison camps.
The club president was called the "Man of Confidence" after the German authorities who administered punishment to the war prisoners.
At the first meeting the "brothers in bondage" swapped war stories and reminisced about the food in the concentration camps.
Lifelong Devotion
ST.LOUIS-(UPI)-Edward W. McDonald has been a member of the Third Baptist Church here since he was enrolled by his grandmother at the age of six months.
McDonald is now 75, and Dr. Sterling Lorenz Price, the minister, says McDonald's records show he hasn't missed a Sunday in church in 60 years.
First, all ingredients must meet wartime German standards.
Here is the recipe for a culinary delicacy they called "Luckenwald stew":
Collect the noon ration of potatoes (the size of golf balls) and the ration of bread (one-sixth part of a loaf) Cut the bread into cakes and peel the potatoes. Now eat the peelings. Then take the afternoon ration of tea (also good for shaving) and add it to the potatoes and bread. Pray. Then stew the mixture. If the bread dissolve into a palatable paste the whole thing should make good eating.
The four awards will be similar to the National Defense Education Act fellowships, providing $2,000, $2,200 and $2,400 annually for the first, second and third years of graduate study. The allowance will also cover fees and provide $400 for each dependent.
The fellowships, unlike the NDEA awards, will not be restricted as to field of study.
"These awards are one measure of the University's belief in the Peace Corps and in the quality of its volunteers, as well as in the value of the experience to the volunteers themselves." Dr. Wescoe said.
Financing will come from unrestricted funds which accompany the
Tech Waits
The Barbed Wire Club was first founded in New York in May of 1946. It soon spread around the nation and across the world. It proposed to promote "good will among men of all nationalities, races and creeds," and to support "peace, progress and economic security for all peoples."
NEW YORK — (UPI) — The Heisman Trophy, named in memory of a famed early day Georgia Tech football coach, never has been won by a Georgia Tech player.
Beginning in February, 1965, the University of Kansas will offer four graduate fellowships to veterans of the Peace Corps, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced today.
Grants Available to Peace Corp Vets
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1424 Crescent Road
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The first two years of the Peace Corps program in Costa Rica administered by KU will have ended in time for those veterans to apply
for the Peace Corps fellowships. However, applications are sought from any Peace Corps veterans who consider themselves qualified.
The deadline for applications to be filed with the office of the Graduate School will be Oct. 1, 1964.
THE SLOW RUSH
Illustrated below is the membership pin of a brand-new national fraternity called Signa Phi Nothing. To join Signa Phi Nothing and get this hideous membership pin absolutely free, simply take a pair of scissors, cut out the illustration, and paste it on your chest.
Let me hasten to state that I do not recommend your joining Sigma Phi Nothing. The only thing I recommend in this column is Marlboro Cigarettes, as any honest man would who likes good tobacco and a good filter, whose heart is quickened by a choice of soft pack or Flip-Top Box, and who gets paid every week for writing this column.
I am frankly hard put to think of any reason why you should join Sigma Phi Nothing. Some people, of course, are joiners by nature; if you are one such, I am bound to tell you there are any number of better organizations for you to join—the Cosa Nostra, for example, or the Society for the Placing of Water Troughs in Front of Equestrian Statues.
The only thing Signa Phi Nothing has in common with other fraternities is a fraternity hymn. In fact, two hymns were submitted to a recent meeting of the national board of directors (none of whom attended). The first hymn goes;
But if you insist on joining Sigma Phi Nothing, let me give you several warnings. First off, it is the only fraternity which admits girls. Second, there is no pledge period; each new member immediately goes active. Perhaps "inactive" is a more accurate word: there are no meetings, no drives, no campaigns, no sports, no games, no dues, no grip, and no house.
Signa Phi Nothing,
Shining star,
How we wonder
If you are.
The second hymn, rather more poetic in content, is to be sung to the tune of Also Sprach Zarathustra:
A Guernsey's a cow,
A road is a lane,
When you're eating chow,
Remember the mein.
Pending the next meeting of the national board of directors (which will never be held) members are authorized to sing either hymn. Or, for that matter, Frenesi.
Perhaps you are wondering why there should be such a fraternity as Signa Phi Nothing. I can give you an answer—an answer with which you cannot possibly disagree: Signa Phi Nothing fills a well-needed gap.
Are you suffering from mental health? Is logic distorting your thinking? Is ambition encroaching on your native sloth? Is your long-cherished misinformation retreating before a sea of facts? In short, has education caught up with you?
or facts. In short, it is if so, congratulations. But spring is upon us and the sap is rising, and the mind looks back with poignant longing to the days when it was a puddle of unreason.
If—just for a moment—you want to recapture those careless vaporings, that warm, squishy confusion, then join Signa Phi Nothing and renew your acquaintance with feelessness. We promise nothing, and, by George, we deliver it!
© 1964 Max Shulman
We, the makers of Mariboro Cigarettes, promise smoking enjoyment, and we think you'll think we deliver it—in all fifty states of this Union. Mariboro Country is where you are.