University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS THE JAYHAWKER Volume XLVII Fall Number No. 1 Published periodically by the student body of the University of Kansas under the supervision of the Jayhawker Advisory Board. A record of events and personalities, and a review of campus trends and opinions. FRED M. HARRIS, JR. Editor-in-Chief PAUL L. WILBERT Business Manager With this issue, we introduce to you the 1934-35 version of the JAY- HAWKER MAGAZINE. As you all know, the JAYHAWKER last year marked a new era in the history of uni- versity annual publications. The maga- zine-annual, as pioneered by K. U., has spread to a number of other colleges and universities throughout the country. The object of the JAYHAWKER staff in swinging away from the old form of stereotyped annual was to re-arouse the interest of the student body in the pub- lication. Judging from the increase in circulation, last year ' s book must have done the trick. It is the problem of the staff this year to keep the five issues of the magazine from becoming too simi- lar, and also to differentiate from last year ' s annual. Our first move along this line was to change the cover designs. The covers, as you have noticed, are following an entirely different trend than last year. Not that they are too Sour Owlish, par- dons to editor Blowers, but they have been changed to suit the tastes of col- lege students. The lead story of this first issue is entitled ' ' Hello Again, and was writ- ten by Iris Olson, a talented writer who did a number of interesting stories for the JAYHAWKER last year. The story deals semi-humorously with the school opening activities. Vernon French; who wrote that inter- esting feature, K. U. Through the Ages in last year ' s book, comes to the front in this issue with a story on Our National Chancellor. This story tells of the part the chancellor played in securing C. W. A. aid for the college students of the country. The athletics for this year are being handled by Bob Braden, who assisted in that capacity last year. Bob ' s open- ing story, Football for ' 34, is very interesting, and well written. Other ath- letic stories this time are 1933-34 Suc- cesses by Joe Pryor, and Another Pennant by Clyde Reed, Jr., a new- comer on the JAYHAWKER staff. A feature that is being carried through by the JAYHAWKER this year is a series of stories on life on the other Big Six campuses. In this issue is a very well written article on Missouri Life. This story was written by two Missouri students, a boy and a girl. It is very frankly written, and so the authors have requested that their names be withheld. Old and popular features that are be- ing carried over from last year are: The Social Wheel, Campus Poly- logia Says , Feminine Fashions, and With the Campus Poets. In addi- tion, we have added a story on Campus Clothes in order to give the JAY- HAWKER a bit of the ESQUIRE ' S touch. This article on what the men of the campus are wearing, and what they should wear, is being written by a well-known student who is an authority on men ' s clothing. Humorous articles in this issue con- sist of a story on Reforming the Var- sities by Bob Lamar, and Russian Language, a treatise on rush week from the pen of Ray Reed, who will be remembered by readers as the author of Campus Polylogia Says last year. Art work for this issue came from Jim Donahue, who will serve this year as art editor of the magazine, and Arvid Jacobson. A full page cartoon by Donahue, and a caricature of C. M. Harger, chairman, of the Board of Re- gents, by Jacobson, are the outstanding features from the art department. Credit for this issue should also be given to John Chandler, Stanley Mari- etta, and James Coleman, for the assist- ance that they rendered in giving you this first issue. So, the 1934-35 JAYHAWKER starts on its Career. It is a long year, and the staff has many worries, and lots of work ahead of it. But also, we have the pleasure of publishing a magazine- annual that is being read by our fellow students, and we hope enjoyed by them. The JAYHAWKER is not a publi- cation that is to be read and then dis- carded. It is a permanent record of your years at K. U. When, in later life, you begin to look back over your col- lege days, you can get your JAY- HAWKER out of the files, and in it you will find pictures and stories about friends that had long since been for- gotten. Your college career can be lived over again in memories through the JAYHAWKER. So, don ' t throw it away when you have finished reading it. Place it in the post-binder and save it. You won ' t regret doing so. The Jayhawker Editor is having diffi- culty finding capable writers to carry on in shoes of those who did so much to get the magazine started last year. There are many good writers in school, they just haven ' t gotten around to ap- plying for a staff position. Any stu- dent is welcome to come to the JAY- HAWKER office any afternoon, and fill out a staff application blank. Any student is welcome to write stories on campus problems, and turn them in. If they are satisfactory they will be illus- stated by the art staff and published in the JAYHAWKER. The book this year plans to run more stories that are con- troversial, and will cause comment among the student body. In this first issue, for instance, we are running an article entitled Does K. U. Need a Third Party. This story will give the Hill politicians something to worry about, and will start the uninterested student to thinking about the political situation on the K. U. campus. Our story on The Crowd Roars deals with the school spirit situation, and Charles Zeskey, Jr. discusses the Chancellor ' s Reception both pro and con in his story which bears that title.

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Hello again BY IRIS OLSON And with the usual hustle and bustle of rush week, enrollment, and parties we say Hello again QUT, MOTHER, I just have to be [ at the house Sunday night! Just think, now, rush week, starts Thursday and there ' s so much to be done. We have to clean our rooms, polish the silver, and well, I just have to go. And mother says I just don ' t see any sense to it whatsoever. Here you could just as well spend those three days here at home resting up for school. But, Mother, don ' t you see? pleads Betty in her sweetest tones, I just have to go. Mother doesn ' t see but, nevertheless, the next day Betty is off to college. Much the same scene takes place in Bill ' s home not so very far away. Bill speaks to Dad of the necessity of ail early return to school and even adds a hint that the family car really would come in handy when the brothers go after rushees. Aw gee. Dad, I ' ve just got to have it. he entreats, the fellows are count- ing on me. don ' t you see? Dad doesn ' t see either but, before he is really given much chance to con- sider the proposition, Bill has the car out of the garage and is speeding Law- renceward. When Betty meets Bill, however, sorority silver is soon forgotten and Bill knows that the brothers really won ' t need the car until Friday. It ' s hello again. coke again, and again. And so, school begins. Thursday dawns all too soon, how- ever, and for a brief interval, dates must be forgotten and the early morn- inn; hours must be spent in learning that ' ' Mary Brown has lots of money, a car of her own, but is a trifle large, and John Smith can really play football but he ' s an awful punk. Rushing points must be reviewed and the names of prominent members must ever be on the lips of the actives. From this point on it ' s open season on rushees. The armies are ready and the battle will soon begin. Now that the most important phases of rush week for those on the other THE THETAS EXTEND A WELCOME side have been done away with, let us see just how the prospective neophytes feel. To them Mt. Oread presents a sterner countenance. Worry and be- wilderment cloud their faces. The neces- sity of making a good impression is uppermost in their minds. They wonder Will anyone really want me? If they only knew how much they were wanted, or should we say needed? Events move fast and furious and in a very very short time Thursday has come. Mary Ann. our model rushee. after being warned about hotboxes, spik ing and other attendant evils, walks up to the sorority house where she has her first date. Immediately upon arrival she is literally seized by no less than a dozen of the sisters who proceed to laud the merits of the only sorority until Mary Ann is just certain the others are just a bunch of bags. They dance her and dine her until she thinks they ' re just the sweetest girls. Time passes swiftly, however, and all too soon the face of the clock warns her that it ' s time to depart. The girls all but break down and weep at her departure but it must be done. At the next house the girls are even sweeter. A new one cuts in every sec- ond while she ' s dancing, they all say she has the duckiest outfit, they all just know she will do big things on the Hill. It ' s all too much for Mary Ann. She is truly in a whirl. At the sorority and fraternity houses things are also in a whirl. Presi- dents call meetings to order with such statements as I ' ve never seen quite such bad rushing in all my life, or Why didn ' t you get on that Jones boy, Brother Smith? Wrangling begins and far. yea, very very far, into the night the Greeks battle among themselves. 1 a. m. I don ' t care if his grand- father did practically give just our house. I don ' t want him, She ' s just the type that would carry a brief case on the Hill. 2 a. m. He was editor of his high school paper though. They say she has a car of her own. Maybe we can take it out of him. 3 a. m. She really is a marvelous athlete. Well, now I know someone who knows someone who has a sister who lives in the same town she does, and I just don ' t believe we want her from what I ' ve heard. 4 a. m. Chorus We ' re sleepy! Let ' s go to bed! ' ISevertheless, the grind resumes again the next day with even greater intensity. Hotboxes begin to function. Spiking is attempted by some, though of course, Pan-Hellenic rules against it. The standing merits of the Greek lodges are extolled to the skies the ' SYCHOLOGICAL EXAM GIVES THE NEW STUDENTS PLENTY TO DO.