University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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l r l r 5 16 THE JAYHAWKER . Illlllllllllllll , OU meet Percival, and Butch, and Joe . . . and if you are conscientious, you meet many in-betweens. Percy makes good grades and can that kid play the zither . . . wow! Butch has a few rough edges to be taken off, he Hghts at the drop of a hat Cusually his ownj , eats with his fingers, and swears rather loudly . . . but deep down in his heart he is a good boy. joe, well you know Joe, he's got the slickest pair of purple and green striped, knee high pants, and he knows all the women, he's the guy who convinced M.G.M. what colletch is really like. What is it? Why it's rush week . . . the one thou- sand nine hundred and forty-first since the birth of Christ. If you are a sophomore, no one is good enough to live with you. Rushees either have too much hayseed or oil in -their hair to suit you. If you are a junior, you begin to relent and really look for worthwhile things in a pros- pective brother, but if you are a senior, you have long ago given up on your own judgment of men and you decide that any one who can pay his house bill is plenty good enough for your white-one. A shot in the arm . . . that's what it is . . . new blood to take the place of the 'spring departing seniors. Rush week is good antidote for double chins, cokosis Cknown to medical men as weakening of the eye brow muscles due to lack of enough pauses to refreshb, and the dread evil, fresh air, which is most prevalent when the college man has to go to class and give up and hour of tobacco time. This pleasant three-day idyl is also an intellectual stimu- lant. Never does the rushing fail to strike up an inspir- ing conversation with the rushed. Sometimes they have even surpassed the plane in which the rushing has told everything Cthat is everything goodb about himself and reached up into the realm of discourse on the weather. Even good things must come to an end, however. And the three days of bliss . . . for ignorance' is bliss,'and what is more blissed than rush week . . . abruptly ends with the ominous burp of the University whistle. Pledges are no longer guests . . . they are now freshmen, and the manner in which some actives ennunciate the word freshman, might make on think that the yearling is a llll llllllll ACACIA FIRST ROW: Bill Furner, Lawrence' James Bond, Midwest, Wyo.' Don Cole, Law- rence. SECOND ROW: Wayne Russ, Burdett, Steven Wilcox Trousclale, Ural Horton, Midwest, Wyo. THIRIQ ROW: Harold Craig, Raton, N. M., lvan Jousserand, Johnson, Norman Dlssln, Washington, D. C. NOT IN PICTURE: Carroll Smith, Lawrence, Elton Pugh, Overbrook. 1 ALPHA TAU OMEGA FIRST ROW: Jack Walker, St. J 11, M 3 K t P' ' ' - ' Kansas Qlty, Alex ljlaas, lndepenggfiie, Jghl-r X2Re3rhKdhrs?1ke'Clllll?hRljd 'Felggril mid' Kansas City, Mo.' Bull Pernie, Kansas Cnty, Bob Feese Ft. Leavenvrfortl1 'Harold Beck' lala. secouo ROW, Bill Patkwoad, Kansas City, Mof- John Nabb Karlsas cny Moi Gene Branson, Wlchlto, John Bradley, Kansas City, Mo., Mark McClain Sun'Ci1y'l ,Yell EELSVE-22ksgrcwfilegirggigrxgefe-Max Webster, Hutchinson, George Robb, Kansas City,

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OCTOBER 1941 their staffs. There isn't any doubt of it-it is more difficult, for several reasons. The agony of getting something into print reaches its height and depth when you put it together, or go to press. Whereas a yearbook has this ordeal once, the fayhazwker staff struggles through it five times, at intervals of six or seven weeks. While the individual issue is smaller, the form and material are more difficult to work with, and the pressure of time is far greater. Furthermore, Iazylamuker materials, styles, layouts are far more varied than in year books. More of the material is original, unpatterned. It has to be-or, at any rate, it is-better-than-average fitted, though with less time for the trimming and stretching and basting. Each issue has to be balanced for types of content. A much larger group of people participate, in various ways, in the creation of the Irzyhazwker- and if you think that makes it easier, you just don't know about student publications. . Those are less than half of the reasons why the Ipzybrzfwkefr form is difficult. For instance, it doesn't begin to touch on the business manager's added prob- lems as to selling advertising for five issues, and get- ting copy and cuts, and collecting, or distributing five issues to subscribers, plus binders, or the shorter schedule for picture-taking, or the high pressure clicking at the engravers and printers. But they ought to be enough to back up the asser- tion that the jaylmwker exacts from its staff much more than the usual yearbook or magazine, in time and devotion and skill and straight thinking and alertness and just plain dogged endurance. There have been eight jazylamuker staffs in a row-and I am confident that there is now a ninth-who had those 15 qualities, who had what it takes to makethe jay- lmwker. If that isn't a tribute to the greatness of the Uni- versity which produced them Cand incidentally to the shrewdness of the Board which chose theml, what do you want? The Rose Bowl? Yes, I suppose you do. But I'd rather have the fzzybrzwker. Year in and year out, it's a greater achievement. This isn't the article that Jim Surface asked me to write. He wanted me to set down some of the in- cidents, dramatic or funny or tragi-comic and all human, that I knew in fifteen years of working with Iaylorzwkerx. But too many of those incidents are too personal to put into print, or have flavor only to those who know the Irzylmwker from the viewpoint of the kitchens where it is cooked. However, no tribute to the Iayhpzwker of today can be given without thought of the editor and busi- ness manager who introduced its magazine format to a dazed but definitely and pleasantly intrigued Mount Oread. They were the bold test pilots who took the radical experiment off the ground, up to the strato- spher, and safely back to land again. So skillfully and courageously did they do their work that, while each new model has shown improvement, there has not yet CKing's Xlb been a crack-up. Every Izzy- hrzwker staff owes them the same debt that any trans- port or military pilot will tell you he owes to the test pilots who first flew his ship. Quentin Brown was the editor. Today he is an attorney and the executive secretary of the State High- way Commission, known and respected in political circles throughout the state, unusually young for such a position and reputation. In those days, he was such a power in Hill politics as few campuses ever see. KCo11ziazue.d on Page 671 type! of editory I have known . . . zzznfhor 1 f -S JDQN Ii 'rzcin S

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OCTOBER 1941 17 vacuum . . . by way of explanation all nature abhors a vacuum. By the way of constructive destruction, many were the complaints on the innovation of orientation in rush week this year. It goes back to the old saying that you can't do two things at once. The dissatisfied were the fraternity men who, instead of being able to high pressure a pledge, found themselves bound to cart him up to a convocation, etc. The plan was instituted in order to insure that the fraternity pledges would participate in the activities which the University had planned to make the freshman feel at home. Both sides have a case. Rush week did not officially start until after the psy- chological exams were completed. Then all rushees met in the Kansan room of the Memorial Union building for another new innovation. After receiving the age-old in- structions that each rushee must be a good little boy and faithfully present himself at each house where he had a first date, the Men's Panhellenic Council took charge. All dates were registered by secretaries and copies of each date were furnished to every fraternity. As the rushee left the Kansan room, his first date was called out and a member of that fraternity stepped forth and started his chapter- house speelf' Some knew what they were going to pledge before they came to Lawrence. Others had been there for three days and still did not know what to pledge. Still others knew what they wanted to pledge, but they did not know whether or not they could afford the privilege of a fraternity. Proud is the male that his rushing season brings forth no seige of tears and hysterical emotions such as is attributed to the fairer sex, but perhaps the same pressure assumes different forms. It is interesting to study the action and reaction to a Qshall we say, shady,D deal. If the X boys pull a swift one on the Y boys and secure the pledge of Z, then the X boys consider themselves clever, while the Y boys consider them something unprintable. While if the situa- tion were reversed, the adjectives would likewise switch. All in all, all Greeks told all comets just what a great crew they had, and how deficient the other l'frats were in this same respect. Each house made it quite clear that the boy's decision would probably shape the rest of his life. Each house wanted the privilege of redeeming the soul of the pledge who was inevitably lingering on the brink of chaos. , This was the beginning . . , the ending was the pledg- ing of 284 men by 17 fraternities. The incidents which killed the intervening time between the start and stop will never injure eternity because they are now forgotten. The open season on Percival, Butch, and Joe and their in betweensu has been closed. Everyone is thankful. DELTA TAU DELTA FIRST ROW1 Laurie Russell, Lawrence, Hoyt Baker, Peabody, Joe Roberts, Wichita Jim Moloney Wichita. SECOND ROW: Dick Galvin, Topeka' Donald Dodd, St. Louis' Mo, Harold Goss, Pleasanton, Bill Guilfoyle, Abilene: Bob Benkelman, McDonald Harry Grimshaw, Tulsa, Okloj Buster Hughes, Ft. Riley, Harry Larimer, Ft. Scott THIRD ROW: Jim Crask Topeka, Jae Laird, Talmage, Bob Weaver, Kansas Cit , Mo. Ben Spencer, Arkansas Cityj Ralph Hedges, Kansas City, Ma., Carl Bornholt, Aieney Bill Hancock, Kansas City, Mo., Eugene McGehee, Wichita. NOT IN PICTURE George Lewis, Wichita, Joe Bleakely, Lawrence. I f