University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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26 THE JAYHAWKER llll. HHH ll WHH S WE begin the academic year in the fall of 19-43 -- a year in which we find under way a twelve weeks army term, a sixteen weeks navy medic and engineering term, and a five weeks civilian term +the conversion of the University to maximum war purposes is practically complete. We are operating on ia year round basis, with all civilian students to be enrolled in semester terms beginning in the future on November first, March first, and july first. Because of War Department regulations, the army units, ex- cept in medicine, will operate on a twelve week quarter. fx Y The University is housing and messing in the neighborhood of twenty-three hundred men, some thirteen hundred of whom are housed in academic buildings on the campus. It has meant crowding, loss of many recreational and athletic facilities, and more afternoon and Saturday classes. It has meant all sorts of new relationships. Most of our military students would not have been here in peace times. Many have come from distant states, sent by the military authori- ties. But all are students in the University of Kansas as well as members of the armed forces. The ,civilian students have recognized this, and have been glad to have these men here. They are invited to participate in all of our activities for which their time permits. They wear the University's uniform on the athletic field, and participate in our 'musical or- ganizations. We all welcome them, and honor them as members of the nation's fighting forces whom we are privileged to train. And we recognize that K. U. would be a forlorn and drab institution in these war days without them. q When peace comes, we shall miss the marching and singing men, but we hope that many of them will be with us again as civilian students, carrying on to- ward completion of college or professional training. The University is proud of its part in the war effort, and glad also to be able to participate so effectively, while at the same time preserving in every one of the more than sixty departments of the University, work for the civilian students. The problems are many, the difficulties often un- pleasant and disheartening. The fact that the adjust- ments to a wartime basis have been successful, is the result of willing workers on the faculty, many of whom are working beyond the margins of safety, many of whom have retrained themselves, spontane- ously and wholeheartedly, into new Helds of teaching. It is the result also of a student body, willing in a hundred instances to sacrifice convenience, pleasure, and comforts for the obligations and responsibilities of an accelerated and inevitably disorganized Univer- sity. Out of it is emerging a serious, driving, determined University, welded together in a united war purpose, -an omen of 'eventual victory, and of the indestructi- bility of the institution atop Mt. Oreadg DEANE, W. MALOTT Chancellor

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