University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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250 THE JAYHAWKER n Wichita It ' : THE HOTEL LASSEN FIRST AND MARKET Kansas Finest 350 R ooms Per Day and Up Famous for Its Food Centrally Located in the Heart of the Business and Shopping District ROY MOULTON Managing Director The course of events FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY 19 Kansas Relays an- nounced for April 18th as pre-Olympic tryouts. The Vienna Boys Choir gives a very commendable program at the Audi- torium before a fine crowd. Boys at the ATO ranch house finally freed from the scarlet fever quarantine. Kansas Jay- hawkers continue their winning streak by defeating Washburn by the score of 51 to 26 in a non-conference basketball game. THURSDAY 20 Joseph Payne appoint- ed as Kansas Relays manager for 1936. FRIDAY 21 W. C. Stevens Honor Banquet held on his seventy-fifth birth- day. Phi Gamma Delta holds annual Pig Dinner at the chapter house. SATURDAY 22 Kansas loses close swimming meet to Kansas State. TUESDAY 25 Anna Strong speaks be- fore the audience at one of the Student Forums. Norman Thomas gave a lecture at Fraser Theater on his well-known socialistic ideas. WEDNESDAY 26 A fine program at the Auditorium with Admiral Byrd giv- ing a talk on Little America. The Kansan undertakes the job of putting politics out of the Owl Society by doing a great deal of exposing in the morning paper. FRIDAY 28 Topeka wins State High School Debate tournament. The winning streak of the Kansas Jayhawkers continues as they trounce Nebraska by the score of 43-36. The Sigma Nus hold their winter formal at the Hotel Eldridge. SATURDAY 29 Leap Year Varsity held at the Union with the girls holding the place of honor by doing the tagging and the paying. MARCH MONDAY 2 82 men report for Spring football under Coach Lindsay. TUESDAY 3 The basketball team con- tinues its winning streak by defeating Oklahoma by the score of 51 to 26. An influenza epidemic begins to take form on the campus, with the hospital abolishing all visiting hours in an effort to check such an occurrence. WEDNESDAY 4 The Student Council approves the plan for the new Student Court. The Phi Delts win the annual intramural wrestling championship. THURSDAY 5 The annual Engineer ' s Banquet held at the Memorial Union Building. FRIDAY 6 K.U. closes the basketball season by winning over Missouri by the score of 51 to 29. by FATHER TIME MONDAY 9 Mary Louise Beltz gives her senior recital to a large and apprecia- tive audience. TUESDAY 10 Maloney wins the Jun- ior-Senior oratorical contest. THURSDAY 1 2 In the Olympic tryouts the Jayhawkers defeat Washburn by the score of 33 to 30. FRIDAY 13 K.U. defeat the Aggies from Oklahoma 34-28 while the children from the University are attending the Junior Prom with the Blue Rhythm Band furnishing the music. SUNDAY 15 The plan for Dutch dating set forth in the Morning Kansan as the idea of the combined student councils. TUESDAY 17 Kansas City philhar- monic Orchestra plays to a fine crowd at the Auditorium. THURSDAY 19 WSGA elections an- nounced by Miss Meguiar. FRIDAY 20 WSGA Carnival put on under the auspices of the combined stu- dent councils. Really, it was quite an affair. SATURDAY 21 Joint Committee an- nounces approval of 8 o ' clock classes for next year. WEDNESDAY 25 Pachacamac Society announces its platform for the spring election. K.U. wins first game of series with Utah by the score of 39-37. THURSDAY 26 Utah wins the second game of the series 42-37. Ruth Learned elected president of the WSGA. SATURDAY 28 Utah wins the final game and the right to go to New York for the final eliminations for the Olympics. TUESDAY 31 Avon players present Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet before fine crowds at Fraser Theater. APRIL WEDNESDAY 1 The Kansan comes out with an April Fool ' s issue for the kids at the University. Chicago Civic Opera company presents Carmen at the Auditorium. The candidates of both poli- tical parties announced at the all student convocation. THURSDAY 2 The annual Intramural Carnival held with the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and Kappa Alpha Theta sorori- ty winning the prizes for the best stunts. MONDAY 6 Paul Dengler speaks at the Convocation on the Balkan situation. At last the Library steps are to be com- pleted with announcement that the con- tracts would be Jet immediately for the erection of the steps.

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APRIL, 1936 249 CUSTOMIZED CLOTHES Expressly Styled for Our Young Patrons CLOTHING COMPANY TOPEKA, KANSAS Jayhawker Staff JOHN E. CHANDLER EJilor-iv-Clnef ROBERT E. KENYON Business Mjnjger ELIZABETH SHEARER Set retard EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS James Coleman. Dean Moorhead, Howard Gilpin. Barbara Bramwell. CONTRIBUTORS Betty Ruth Smith, George Guernsey. Dean Mooihead. James Coleman, Joe Cochrane, Ver- non Vobrhees, J. Hubert Anderson. Harry Lane. James Porter. Barbara Bramwell. Harry O ' Riley. Keith Swinehart. Eddie Rice. Katherine Hurd. Cornelia Ann Miller. John Dieter. William Ferguson, Mary Jule Stough, Bob Thorpe, Dale O ' Brien, Bob Corey, Dr. Frank C Neff. Dr. Ralph H. Major, and Marlow Sholander. BUSINESS ASSISTANTS Frank Wilson, McCormick Crouch, Charles Nicholas, Jack Townsend, Richard Pine. OFFICE STAFF Joe Cochrane, William Seitz, Glen Ashley. Howard Dunham. Robert Williams, Jack Harrow. You II find that at WIEDEMANN ' S THE STUDENT ' S RENDEZVOUS FOR THE LAST SIXTY YEARS our SERVICE MAN An international spotlight will be focused on the Relays this month Glenn Cunningham opens his outdoor season. Experts have it that he will approach a four-minute mile we ' ll be there pulling for you. Glenn Also incidently people the world over are pulling for the new air- conditioned refrigerators. They are taking the place of the old ice-box and keep foods fresh and free from impurities which come from any other type of refrigeration. Stop in and see the new air-conditioned models. P.S. Watch the Journal World for further comments.

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VOLUME XLVIII APRIL, 1936 NUMBER 4 Published periodically by the student body of the University of Kansas under the supervision of the Jayhawker Board. A record of events and personalities, and a rerieu ' of campus trends and opinions. JOHN E. CHANDLER Editor-in-Chief ROBERT E. KENYON Business Manager AS the Jayhawker surveys the campus scene before sallying forth on this fourth visit of the year he sees that stu- dent affairs have picked up considerably since his last appearance. Perhaps it ' s a new lease on life that comes with spring or it may be that the student body has more time for exta-curricular activities with finals and term papers still far enough away that they present no im- mediate threat, but at any rate there has been more than a usual amount of activ- ity the past few weeks. But before we start out on our editorial ramblings, we digress for a moment to defend the Jayhawker against the jour- nalistic bombardment levelled at it in the Kansan immediately following its last ap- pearance on the campus. Writing a cam- pus opinion under the nom de plume An Observer some student made the charge that there was but one non-fra- ternity student on the staff and deplored what he assumed to be a discrimination against non-fraternity students in the se- lection of staff members. The editor takes issue with the Ob- server on both counts. If our critic had made any attempt to merit the name he assumed he would have found that there were seven, not one, non-fraternity students on the staff, and he would have further found that all seven were listed on the masthead. Also for the informa- tion of the Observer who seems to have been either too lazy or too indif- ferent to inform himself, it may be pointed out that it has been the consistent policy of the Jayhawker to accept the efforts and services of any student who offered them without regard to fraternity or sorority affiliation. As yet the Jay- hawker has not had to resort to recruit- ing, and as long as the publication re- mains on the volunteer basis there will be no necessity for resorting to the usual, but nevertheless small, practice of main- taining an accurate mathematical balance on the staff. If it may seem that a pre- ponderance of those students who were sufficiently interested in the Jayhawker to try-out for staff positions were fraternity members, that is no fault of the Jay- hawker. The Observer ' s observations seem to be the result either of malicious purposes of his own, or a lack of infor- mation on his subject. In some localities the return of spring is heralded by budding vegetation, in others by the northward flight of the mig- ratory birds, and almost universally by the trend of a young man ' s thoughts. But not so on Mount Oread. Among Kansas students the first approach of spring is accompanied by grumblings of a political nature. As this is written the grumblings are growing into a roar, and when it is read they will have assumed the proportions of a babel of frenzied howls. Both parties will extoll the merits of their candidates and platform planks to the sky, even as they lustily fling mud on the gentlemen of the opposi- tion and endeavor to split their oppo- nents planks apart without getting any splinters in their hands. Meanwhile those among us, and we are assured that despite a reasonable doubt there are a few, whose interests rise above the level of student political brawls will have to stuff their ears with cotton and make the best of a bad situa- tion. Such students, as they view the antics of the embryo ward heelers with compassion, will doubtless chuckle as they mentally echo Puck ' s observation on the mental equipment of humankind, What fools these mortals be. Mr. Lyman Field, Beta Theta Pi ' s man of the century, our beloved student coun- cil president, startled the campus out of its complacency a few weeks ago with a new plan to further the welfare of his sheeps. Realizing that the maintenance of femininity is no small burden, and urg- ing the inherent justice of his scheme. Lyman proposed that henceforth Kansas coeds foot half the bill when they sally forth with boys for social purposes. And what is even more surprising he got the W. S. G. A. to back him up on his plan. Those few males who were a little du- bious as to the inherent merit of the scheme were told to relegate their out- worn chivalry to the ash-can and get on the band-wagon. This left only the girls in opposition, but a large number of coeds readily accepted the plan when they were assured that it is really quite the thing in Germany and that Herr Hitler thinks it is just too ducky. Dutch dat- ing went into effect the night of the W. S. G. A. Carnival (a new money- maker replacing the musical comedy) and nonconformists were shooed into line by Nazi men (without brown shirts, however) . Coming events cast their shadows and in a few more weeks the end of the year will be in sight. Finals, farewells, commencement, and for those who are af- flicted with Senior standing, the first chilly breezes from that cold, cold world. Shortly before finals the Jayhawker will appear for the last time this year, dedi- cated to the Seniors, their past, present and future, if any. Till then, along with the students, the Jayhawker succumbs to spring fever.