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University Daily Kansan Friday, April 19, 196
EVERY YELLOW DANDELION BLOSSOM on campus within five days will turn into a cotton-like blowball comprised of thousands of feathered seeds.
Spring's first few dandelion blooms are almost as welcome as the crocus, but as the seeds of the blow-balls are wind-deposited in yards, parkways and on campus lawns their popularity ends.
Dandelions have infested all of the campus lawns—with the exception of the bare plots near Watson Library. They form an almost solid carpet between Robinson Gymnasium and Malott Hall and between Malott Hall and Summerfield Hall.
Dandelion plants can be eradicated, but only by very deep cutting. In soft, rich soil the roots often penetrate more than three feet. Slicing close to the surface of the ground only encourages the plants to grow. They must be pulled up by their roots.
KU's south campus has one of the more advanced dandelion cultures, but the plant is not native here. It has the reputation of a troublesome weed throughout the world. It was brought to the United States from Europe by the early colonists.
The name, suggested by the coarse toothed leaves, comes from French words meaning "tooth of the lion."
Anderson to Helm of Interfraternity Council
William Anderson, president of Delta Chi fraternity, was elected president of the KU Interfraternity Council last night.
The Park Ridge, Ill., junior succeeds James Carr, Carthage, Mo. senior, also of Delta Chi.
Other officers elected include Stephen Stotts, Prairie Village junior, vice-president; Arthur Spears, Kansas City sophomore, secretary, and David Cain, Prairie Village junior, treasurer.
Five members of the IFC executive council were also chosen. The men will work in categories to be designated by the president.
An IFC Help Week was proposed to strengthen community-fraternal relations by providing beneficial service to the community.
The new executive council members are John Mays, Lyons freshman; James Johnston, Independence, Mo., sophomore; Clark R. Mandigo II, Kansas City special student; James Cook, St. Louis junior, and Charles Lanning, Lawrence sophomore.
Mays said that fraternities may work on any worthwhile project during the school year except a period before and during Greek Week. "It will not be just a two-week affair." Mays said.
A Help Week traveling trophy will be presented to a fraternity during Greek Week. The project will be judged on its merit and benefit to the community. The trophy will be sponsored in conjunction with Alpha Tau Omega service fraternity.
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Women's Editor Receives Honor
Mrs. Lois Smith, women's editor of the Ottawa Herald, was honored last night as an outstanding Kansas woman journalist.
The KU chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, professional fraternity for women in journalism, presented Mrs. Smith with a plaque last night at the chapter's annual Matrix Table dinner.
Mrs. Smith, a consistent winner in the Kansas Press Women's Club competition, won seven first place awards and several second and third place ratings last year.
Mrs. Margaret Sally Keach, author of several books on Africa, was the speaker at the dinner. In her speech, "The Price is High." Mrs. Keach told of the contributions her friends, family and even strangers had made to the publication of her two books, "White Mother in Africa" and "A New African Song."
system and the IFC, Anderson said "the system here is well-above average, but there is room for improvement.
"I feel our system could be better than it is now," he said. "My main interest will be to strengthen it (the IFC) as a whole."
Anderson said he is against tradition. "It keeps us from growing stronger. The fraternity system does not need complete revamping, rather analysis. For example, a lot of money is now being spent on Rush Week in an ineffective way," he said.
Adult Institute To Meet at KU
The thirteenth Adult Care Home Administrative Institute will be at KU April 30 and May 1.
The institute, joint project of the KU Extension and the Kansas State Board of Health, will be in Lawrence, Wichita, Parsons, Salina, Hays and Dodge City, April 8 through May 3.
Sessions on cleanliness, hip fracture patients, evacuation procedures and psychiatric patient after-care, and workshops on skilled nursing homes, housekeeping and occupational therapy will be the first day of the two-day institute.
The second day will be devoted to fire demonstration and preventative measures, physiological changes in the aging, "gadgets," and films on heart attack, strokes and high blood pressure.
The institute will be in Wichita (Broadview Hotel) April 8-9; in Parsons (Parsonian Hotel) April 10-11; in Hays (Hadley Memorial Hospital and Rehabilitation Center) April 23-24; Dodge City (Silver Spur Lodge Restaurant) April 25-26, and Salina (Lamar Hotel) May 2-3.
The Lawrence institute will be conducted by Mrs. Helen Johnson, The Menninger Foundation, Topeka.
KU Coeds Compete In Beauty Contest
Eight KU women and two Lawrence High School seniors will vie for the Miss Lawrence title in a pageant at 8 p.m. tonight in the Lawrence High School auditorium.
Mimi Frink, Lawrence freshman and the reigning Miss Lawrence, will crown the new queen who will represent the city in the Miss Kansas Pageant in June at Pratt.
The theme of the pageant is "When You Wish Upon a Star."
Contestants will appear in bathing suits and in formalms. Each will perform a talent act. The five finalists then will be asked two questions which they will answer extemporaneously.
The eight KU participants and the talent they will perform are: Carol Synovec, Morrowville freshman, singing; Joan Burger, Prairie Village sophomore, speech on modern art; Sherry Wickliff, Mission senior, dancing; Loretta Marcoux, Havensville junior, singing; Sharon Richmond, Louisburg freshman, reading; Mary Todd, Arkansas City junior, piano; Bonnie Ward, Topeka junior, opera selection, and Peggy Dewey, Kansas City sophomore, calypso dance.
The two Lawrence High School seniors participating are Jane Booth, 1931 Naismith Dr., comedy act, and Elaine Millett, 623 Indiana St. piano. The winner will receive a $100 scholarship and the two runners-up $50 scholarships from the Pepsi Cola Co.
Portraits of Distinction
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Haiku, a Japanese poetry form, was the subject of the Poetry Hour yesterday.
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Visiting Professor Reads Japanese Haiku
Grant Goodman, visiting assistant professor of history, discussed the poetry and read it in an English translation. Mitsuie Shibata, instructor of Oriental language and literature, read the verses in Japanese.
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Prof. Goodman said Haiku has been called the "concentrated essence of pure poetry."
He said Haiku demonstrates the influence of Zen Buddhism on the Japanese.
HE EXPLAINED it has a rigid literary form of 17 syllables in a five-seven-five pattern.
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"Haiku is concerned with the immediacy of the experience and the 'thisness' of that description," he said.
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"This form of poetry is marked by startling simplicity and marvelous
directness with no moral lesson or symbolic meaning," he said.
"It is designed to give the listener a moment of perception. It indicates rather than explains and suggests rather than describes," he said.
He illustrated that Haiku is not as remote from American traditional form as is often thought by reading "Wood Odors" by Walt Whitman, which is written in much the same vein.
PROF. GOODMAN called Haiku a kind of Japanese national pastime. He said well over one million Haikus are published annually and this is only a fraction of those written.
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