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Faithful Pigeons Beat Postman
By Patti Behen
Nor rain, nor sleet, nor dark of night.
The faithful homing pigeon has the postman beat on all counts.
Carol Wendt, Bonner Springs junior, recently brought two homing pigeons to KU for a class demonstration. Although currently residing in Lewis Hall, the pigeons will return home as soon as they are set free.
Miss Wendt's father, a veterinarian, is a member of the Greater Kansas City Racing Pigeon Association, which crates pigeons and sends them to other such clubs in Kansas and surrounding states.
The pigeons are set free and their return trip to the home loft is timed Prizes are given for the best times.
Miss Wendt said that after using the birds in her class demonstration, she will open the window and send them home.
She said pigeons always return to where they were hatched, even if their home loft is a moving one.
The value of homing pigeons during wartime was shown during World War II, she said. She noted that in 1948 it became illegal to kill a pigeon.
Miss Wendt said that if there were another war, the government would immediately contact all member clubs of the Racing Pigeon Association and ask them to donate their pigeons or offer to buy them.
The pigeons would then be treated like any good soldier. They would be enlisted and classified. They would even receive formal discharge papers when discharged from duty.
Miss Wendt said her father keeps around 50 pigeons at his animal hospital near Bonner Springs. He raises and races the pigeons as a hobby.
She quoted her father as saying proudly, "Now I will be able to tell people those two pigeons went to college!"
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Emily Tavlor, dean of women, has proposed that Carruth-O'Leary residence hall be used exclusively for women.
3rd Women's Dorm Proposed
Dean Taylor, who presented the idea at a meeting of junior women recently at Lewis Hall, said Carruth-O'Leary, currently a men's dormitory, could be turned over to senior women by next September.
Dean Taylor explained that the government, offices, and various managerial functions and systems of the hall all would be run by senior women.
The residents of the hall would possibly be comprised of young graduate women also, she said. There also would be a resident adviser serving solely in a counselling capacity.
She said the number of women who pay their preliminary residence hall application fee by spring vacation will determine whether or not plans for the proposal would go any further.
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"I'll get the things I want out of life...
her opinion of the proposal, said,
"I think it's great. If a woman is
21 she should already be able to
govern herself."
Thursday, March 14, 1963 University Daily Kansan
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Dean Taylor's proposal mirrors the problems the increase in women's enrollment provides her office.
Because of the increased number of women living in upperclass residence halls, Dean Taylor and J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories decided to increase the number of student assistants by 12 — six each to Hashinger and Lewis Halls. The assistants presently number one to each wing of every floor of the residence hall.
Caryl Kelly, assistant to the Dean of Women and resident director of Lewis and Hashinger Halls said the increase in student assistants would "make it fairer to the number of student assistants we have and the girls we have in the hall."
Reading Classes Open Enrollment
Classes in Rapid Reading and Reading and Study Skills are now open to any regularly enrolled KU student.
Classes in Rapid Reading are available at the following times:
M.W.F. 8:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m.
and 3:30 p.m.;
TTh; 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m.
Reading and Study Skills classes are scheduled at the following times: M.W.F. 10:20 a.m.
M.W.I : 10.30 a.m.
T.Th : 1:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m.
Enrollment must be completed before March 22. The Reading and Study Skill office in Bailey Hall, Room 102, is open M.W.F. from 8-12 a.m., 1-5 p.m. and 8-12 a.m. Saturday.
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