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Spring Is Spring Is Spring Is Spring As He Sees It As She Sees It
By Blaine King
This spring is different.
The trees that always turn pink are still turning pink, of course. And the elms, true to form, are turning a sort of washed-out green and starting to drip on cars.
The air is much milder, naturally.
And the humidity, predictably, is about double that recommended by the American Medical Association.
BUT THIS spring is still different.
It is the last at KU for a lot of seniors.
Well, last springs for KU seniors have come every year since 1869, when the first class was graduated in stuffy, then-new, Fraser Theater.
But for each senior class, "their" spring is different.
THE SANDBAR parties are just as much fun. The afternoon sojourns at Lone Star Lake are no less pleasant.
But the attitude of most seniors has changed. Now it goes something like:
"Only two more months and I'll be out of this place."
SOME SENIORS study, of course. And some won't even make it "out of this place" in two months.
The English Proficiency exam or the Western Civ test or a two-hour course have seen to that.
But for most seniors, this spring is a time to relax and enjoy what is commonly called the "senior slump."
In two more months, Graduation.
AND THEN to jobs, the Army, marriage, home and family.
All of which scare hell out of the senior who is just now beginning to enjoy "his spring."
That is part of what makes a senior's spring a little different. Another part is a total inability to communicate with freshmen who have just gotten a running start at college.
ANOTHER PART might be called senior clutch, when the graduating senior suddenly realizes he or she doesn't have a suitable mate yet.
A lot of short and traumatic pinnings happen that way.
Another part is that the senior realizes that wherever he goes, he will have to get on a first-name basis with a completely new set of bartenders, filling station attendants, clothing salesmen, and whathave-you.
But, to quote a friend, it certainly will be nice to leave the cradle.
Study Group Hears Bertrand Russell Tape
Persons attending a KU-Y Great Men Study Group last night heard a recording in which Bertrand Russell proposes a world organization for the control of nuclear weapons, and ultimately, war.
Joseph Russell, visiting professor of philosophy from Glasgow, Scotland, was originally scheduled to speak at the meeting. However he left earlier in the evening on an emergency trip to Kentucky.
The recording was of a press conference in July of 1955, the same day the Big Four nations were meeting in Geneva. Bertrand Russell had just sent petitions, endorsed by eight leading scientists, to the United States, England, Canada, France and China, requesting that they make all efforts to avoid war.
Russell said the perils of war were that neither side could win and a nuclear war would mean the extinction of the human race.
"The only hope for mankind is the avoidance of war." Russell said.
Russell said the development of the "bikini" bomb had made the H-bomb and atomic bomb "ancient history."
He urged scientists to make the
People-to-People To Publish Booklet
KU People-to-People will publish a booklet entitled "KU, an International Campus" shortly after the spring vacation.
The booklet will attempt to describe various study programs of the University like the Summer Language Institute, the junior year abroad program to Costa Rica and several others. It will also cover the descriptions and functions of several organizations on the campus. Different scholarship programs for the foreign students will be explained in the booklet.
Miss Joan Wohlgemuth, Cummings junior, and chairman of the booklet committee, said the main purpose of the booklet will be to give insight of the various activities of the University and different campus organizations to the visitors.
public aware of the dangers of a nuclear war.
Russell said seven of the signers of the petition were Nobel prize winners, among them Albert Einstein.
An Editorial
Spring is a season. Spring is the season when everything seems wonderful in one way or another. Spring is doing nothing, yet doing something — anything.
Spring . . . . .
Spring is when the snow disappears, the clouds are few, and the temperature just right. Spring is as great as the whole outdoors. Spring is outdoors.
SPRING IS WHEN young people's fancies turn to almost everything, requiring little energy and a lot of fun. Spring is eating, drinking, and sleeping. Spring is great.
Spring is when the 10-year-old attacks the storereorm closet and emerges with the old glove and thrice-broken bat. Spring is when older people (not much older) exercise a well-developed, but winterworn elbow. Spring is fun and drink.
SPRING IS when many older people sit and amuse themselves watching the younger people have fun and drink. Spring is fun.
Spring is love. Spring is when a lovely, unwashed sweatshirt becomes adorned with a pin. Spring is day-dreaming about him or her. Spring is being with him or her. Spring is love. Spring is great.
Spring is going home. Spring is going to Fort Lauderdale, Palm Springs, or Aspen. Spring is going somewhere — anywhere.
SPRING IS Good Friday, Easter, and the end of Lent. Spring is sad. Spring is happy.
Spring is wearing the new suit or the new hat. Spring is wearing bermuda shorts. Spring is wearing a swimming suit. Spring is cool.
Spring is not school. Spring is not studying. Spring is gazing out the open window or romping in the sun — lazily. Spring is final exam time. Spring is not all fun.
SPRING IS graduation time.
Spring is looking for a job. Spring means no more school. Spring is not all fun.
Spring means rain — nice rain.
Even in Kansas spring means nice rain.
Even in Kansas spring is nice — period.
Spring is bright. Spring is colorful. Spring is new. Spring is doing foolish things. Spring is fun.
Spring is all this and more. Spring is everything. Most of all, spring is here. Spring is spring is spring is spring. . . . . .
To pin down the fleeting beauty, follow the rules, but cool. Stay in the shade of an h.i.s Suit that feels like buttoning on a breeze. Flash a well-cut profile that starts at natural shoulders and narrows down to lean, lithe Post-Grad slacks. Keen-eyed buck-watchers can spot these flapped pocket, muted authentics at hip shops . . . $19.95 to $39.95
bird-and-babe-watchers wear n.i.s suits
By Kav Jarvis
"Sure, Spring is great—great for everything but classes!"
This has been the sentiment around campus for the past several weeks, and starting this weekend approximately 11,000 students will get their chance to test out this hypothesis.
SPRING VACATION will begin with the end of this week's classes and the annual trek to "anywhere but here," as one student put it, will begin.
The campus is lovely in spring, blossoming out in flower and leaf. But even the most conscientious student must admit that all that loveliness does nothing to enhance his powers of concentration.
It sounds ideal, sprawled out under a tree with a book, enjoying the soft warm breezes, and it sure beats going to class. But how many of those books are ever read?
**HOW MUCH** more often is the temptation to just lay there and day-dream or merely fall asleep too strong to be ignored?
Any sunny afternoon, the casual observer may see around the women's living groups that more women are outside sunbathing than are in any class.
It may be great to get a head-start on a good tan, but it's a little difficult to write a term paper and keep your tan from being splobyte.
During this magic season, even the sandbars which line the banks of the Kaw River take on a new meaning—parties, parties, parties.
STUDENTS congregate on them every afternoon and evening lacking any intention to study.
Some students are going to trade in these makeshift beaches for the real thing.
One man is planning to go to California during vacation.
"I'm just going to lie in the sun and sleep for the entire week," he proclaimed.
OTHERS ARE planning trips to New Orleans or Chicago with the intention of forgetting for a week that Kansas University and its classrooms ever existed.
Other students are going to have to use this week to catch up on the studies they have already neglected because of Spring.
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