University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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14 T -Photo by Fisher HEY say that a college freshman leads a dog's t , life, but now, as we K. U. frosh are veterans of two 'grueling enrollments and almost two months of residence here, we can sit back and laugh and chat about those first few weeks here at the University of Kansas. About September 23, we thought that it was the beginning of the end-that we'd never get over the confusion and perplexity of our situation. The fact, that we were able to bring pop's car to school for a few days helped some, in that it got us where we wanted to go, but when we got there-it was just as bad as ever! But therels no doubt about it-it was fun'-- and we had experiences wecan chalk up as embarrassing, educational, sensational, dull, amusing, grim, gruesome, or maybe a few other private adjec- tives of our own. However, when Commencement time rolls around only too soon, we'll look back and longingly remember .... Thursday, September 23-what a day! We woke up in strange surroundings with that awful empty feeling in our stomachs that used to preface a speech in front of the highschool assembly or the minute just before we ran out on the field for an encounter with our school's big football rival. We cussed and discussed that hill we had to climb Cwe could've sworn it was perpendicular to Tennessee Street! D in order to make it to that first convocation by 9:30, and we mentally resolved, then and there, to have the class of '47 present the University with pulleys to aid the poor students who are so unfortunate as to live at the bottom of the Hill. We had our cards punched for the first time by the Jay-Janes, and wondered just exactly who they were. We wondered, too, if we'd ever, ever get our cards punched the re- quired number of times. A very grim aspect. Some- thing bright appeared on our horizon though, for we HE JAYHAWKER HHW HHH were delighted with the Chancellor-his amiability, his pleasant and friendly smile, his jokes, his good looks. After the first meeting some of us dashed over to the Student Union to sign up for the event of all events-Rush Week. There we were looked up Cand downD by our few sorority friends. Our hearts dropped right down to the sub-sub-sub basement, when we saw the hundreds of cute girls who were to afford the stiffest competition we had ever been up against. QWe still wonder how in the wide world we ever made it.D We were lectured, we reluctantly parted with our first fee money, and we departed with a longing look in the general direction of the Pan- Hellenic members who stood menacingly around the wall. Our most discouraging episode occurred the same afternoon, when we met in Hoch Auditorium to take our psychological examinations. We chewed our pen- cils over problems, and nervously contributed to the art work on the lap boards in between times. We suddenly lost our bravado and began to feel exactly like the original Lil' Moron. The sophomores bol- stered our morale by assuring us that it really didn't matter at all what we made on our exams, for they i -K ritl: '5252i2ififiei1',--'ss ... ,..-.. .i ' J cirr r X -2325532 -h +,'s,5 ' ? N 1 1 ' lll ....

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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

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NOVEMBER 1943 15 That first awful week - as told 19 31 Pat Penny HHH HHH HHHHHH HHHHHH never used them for anything except waste paper, and so we agreeably took their word for it, and promptly forgot our crooked cerebrums. We threw ourselves into crowded boarding house rooms, dressed in the twenty minutes we had left after the exams, and dashed madly out. We arrived at the first sorority house giggling hysterically, and stayed much too long, but we soon caught on to the proper technique. Friday dawned not too brightly what with having to call for our date cards at 7:50 a.m. We managed to fill out, with local assistance, these complicated affairs, and then reeled out with heavy eyelids in search of a cup of coffee. The aptitude tests followed. Nothing more need be said. Somehow we made it through the first three rush dates Fridayfand managed to spike at only two houses that day. We wondered aguely what the out- come of our various predicaments would be, but cheerfully thought Oh, I can think about that to- morrow. Saturday and Monday were days for the books with registration, conferences with the deans, enroll- ment, and physical examinations crammed into fleet- ing hours. Whereas we had sighed over the Navy medics on the campus, meeting them face to face for our physicals, clothed in the bare necessities, was an event that called for the emptiest of feelings and the most profound of blushes. We were amazed at the number and delicacy of the questions tossed blithely at us, and wondered when we were going to get out and get some lunch. We were but slightly floored by the fellas, who on prodding our abdomens, in- quired solicitously, You're hungry, aren't you? We somehow got through the flood of remarks like You're Bob So-and-So's little sister, aren't you? and After you, Doctor. The physicals weren't too bad, but it couldn't have been worse when we encountered our particular nice looking examiner on the campus next day. That knowing smirk! Registration was a nightmare. We'd heard of see- ing pink elephants at times, but seeing pink cards- miles and miles of them! -in our sleep for nights after registration was something new. After filling out numerous cards with scratchy post-officepens, we stood in line for what seemed like hours and thought hopelessly, My kingdom for a chair! We posed dubiously - and rather hurriedly -for our activity pictures, and learned a short time after that we C C omfinueti on Page 741 ...... . ....,.. HHH 22213'3'Zigi2351:ii5251222121555IE1if55f1fffEfEfEfEf3f72EfEfEEE52525. fififfffffffffiiiiiifE522221225222fiEiE1E2E2E2E2f2fff15Ef25232525252523555Egffiffifffiifillif V ,,..... . ., .... ,f- '-- 1 - S 1' :Z5i7if17'5 -5 1:5:1:if1fi:5:5:5:5:7:1z2. 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