University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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fx we ' Cartoon by Marshall - 1' X Regt. X 5 ,, .Ip 0 'Q kd HE UNION fountain is deep in its 5 o'clock fog. Smoke and boogie woogie mingle above the booths capping a roar of 50 separate bull sessions. And K. U. is K. U.-the school we all knew or dreamed of in '39-College. E All too soon it is 5 :4O. One uniformed figure after another feels his way out of the haze. Back in a corner Joe, who still whiffs of cords, saddles, and rum and maple in spite of his dress blues, tweeks a straw and meditates on the evacuation with dreamy eyes. Then suddenly it comes to him - 5 :4O - men leaving-MUSTER! Two coke glasses spill and roll near the edge of the table as Joe scrambles to his size 12 D's. Ohm' gawd, Suzy, Bye, he sputters, it's past time to muster! and is off. After incurring a slight case of heart strain, Joe shoves his way through the ranks, gets in a Here, sir! and shuffles off with the rest. Once in the ball room it is only a matter of routine-a very short, simple, 10 minute routine Cchew, chew, swallow, re- peatb until Joe has finished chow-joe, the man who used to drag dinner out for hours with 7th and Sth choruses. of. Show me the way to go homef, Not only has Joe ceased to sing at dinner-he has ceased to have dinner-or breakfast or lunch. Now he just has chow. Moreover, Joe no longer takes Suzy home from 5 o'clock cokes and squirms on the doorstep for Friday night dates. Somehow she is always left dangling on 7!ae lcl aaclw ngelfz- - - --by Mary .Morrill the end of her straw, a stiff breeze reminding her of the departing Joe and of the war. The war-Suzy moves over into another booth of chow-widows and all sigh in behalf of this terrible event. But the sigh is somewhat a matter of form-a respectful ritual so to speak for a departed soul which has long since ceased to be missed. Post-war .college life was ine-but war-programs college is not alto- gether unsolid, and neither Suzy nor her colleagues are ready to trade the many handsome, uniformed Hill men for a reinstatement of last year's civilians. At least not yet. The gap between the two types of college life was difficult all right-so diflicult it seemed at first there would be no spanning it at all. But with a little co- operation on the part of everyone, a few mixers, and several months time, the army, the navy and the civilians have combined forces. They have become a student body and K. U. has again become a college. Now there are few complaints-even about the most radical transitions. To some it still seems strange with virtually no cars on the Hill-University drive being a thorough fare, for blue and khaki rectangles which drone left, left, follow your left 2, 3, 4 from seven until seven. But because these rectangles are solid manpower, they are tolerated-enthusiastically. The only thing Suzy and the others do decry with bitterness is the fact that most University men have been scattered all over Lawrence while their houses are converted into PT boats and barracks. This in itself isn't bad. What's so awful is that not even down-town central knows the numbers of the PT'sor the new civilian houses, and Suzy can't call boys at her convenience-but must wait-sometimes days-until they call her. 'Because it is a change, the new regime, quite naturally works a few hardships. joe, according to Joe, faces the most unbearable. About the toughest thing in the world, he will tell you, is popping Out of

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NOVEMBE 740 I HIS ISSUE of the jayhawker is devoted to the beginning of the school year. Not much of a dedica- tion you might think, but just look around you and notice the alterations in the campus scene as you left it last Spring, and you'll realize that picturing these transformations was a pretty big order. We've given a lot of space to the Army and Navy students. We think they deserve it, don't you? Credit for this section goes to capable Beverly Bohan and her assistants, many of whom are members of the army or navy program, but who managed to crowd a few hours of excellent writing or art work into an already over-stuffed program. HANKS go, too, to the photographic staff who had to compete with government restrictions on film, Hash-bulbs and paper,-and who still manage to come out on top with really good pictures. A ARY MORRILL'S story on the changes on the Hill is top-notch. Don't miss it. You'll like it. HE FIRST week of school-from a freshman's point of view is something new in the way of that old story of registration and enrollment. If you're a freshman this year, you'll sigh, Only too true. If you're one of those sophisticated upperclassmen, you'll have to admit that it wasn't so long ago since you felt that way yourself. Thanks go to Pat Penney for this article. TAN HAGLER and joe Gaba have crowded a lot of laughs into their stories on Army and Navy life, respectively. For the real inside dope, don't miss these. R1943 11 SW ARY OLIVE MARSHALL, Bob Cowling, and Stan Lewis hit the nail on the head with their cartoons for this issue. M.O.'s Jayhawker on page 12 reminds us of Yogi's work last year, but her head for the top of the gossip column is typically Marshall. Both good. Cowling's cartoon of a bull session, and his illustrations for the Army and Navy stories ought to bring forth the chuckles. Stan Lewis caught 'the spirit of rush-week in his cartoons for those stories, and his picture of the registration line on pages 14 and 15 should bring to mind those aching feet. F YOU'RE a Bull Session fan, don't miss B. J. O'Neal's story on The Art of a Bull Session. You'll get a few pointers. OY MILLER gets a vote of thanks for her story on the All Student Council. Don't let the subject matter deceive you-this isn't one of those long-faced essays. Get the inside story on student government told in an entertaining style. ARRY MILLER turns the spotlight on football in this issue and brings you the latest dope on The Fall Classic. S UR COVER girl is Miss Esther DeBord of Cor- bin Hall. HANKS for the excellent photograph go to jason Dixon. WORD about next issue-organization, dor- mitory, Co-op, and fraternity and sorority group pic- tures, more about the Army and the Navy, more art work, more pictures, and quite a few surprises.

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NOVEMBER 1943 13 n 7 HNH HHHS lHl NlW bed with a Yes, sir! at six in the morning instead of saying For gawdis sake get away to the freshman call boy at nine-thirty. This business of no change in tie, no cutting classes, and no putting up the Hill in a strip down Ford, he goes on, is proving the death of his individuality. Being so much in the company of men-never having to Study' with a girl is rusting his line. Studying through the world series broadcast has made him narrow. And keeping closing hours like a female together with making beds and washing out his things have robbed him of his self-respect. Most gruesome of all-with boot camp hanging con- stantly over his head, he has been forced to learn something. Suzy is studying, too. And like Joe not from choice. If she had her way, she would be somewhat of a per- sonal USO hostess to Joe 24 hours of the day. But since joe isn't available but about U50 of that time, she ,has had to grasp for some other steadying in- fluence. Strangely enough her attention has fallen with a vengeance on the very things which the Uni- versity has been hopefully suggesting with no ap- parent success to young women for over a century- scholarship and extra-curricular activity. So while the Chancellor reaches for his smelling salts, Suzy digs into student government and the Pythagorian theorum. The war has even slipped a serious note into that heretofore witless gathering, the female bull session. When will the war be over? is a favorite topic be- cause everyone who isn't married already is going to get married then. Other popular topics are why sailors have exactly 13 buttons on their dress blues, what good an overseas cap is to its wearer, how sailors ever lace the laces in the backs of their trousers, and how to tell an army man from a navy man in work khaki's. It is at bull sessions girls now learn that the little men in front of a marching squad are up there not just so they can see where they are going, but to set the pace at a m.p.h. suitable to their limited stride--and many other equally important and intel- lectual things. Numbering among the war casualties which we are forced to report in this article is Watson library. Once a thriving social center, the building is now bogged down with supervised study halls on 2nd and at special basement desks, where ASTP boys study at night according to regulations while Hill women con- centrate with difliculty elsewhere in the building. fC0mimzed on Page 792 Remember the days when a uniform on the campus made people stop and stare? Photo by Fisher