University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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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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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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llHSH Wllll--- aa -by Virginia Gunsolly HEY did it again. just like ,,,,,,,A, e:e Q :Zf :2:f,:i52EQ that here She is about to embark a fiock of migratory birds iVi 'i ' Iiiii UAUI, upon her college career at last. this Yeafs Crop Of Pug-Hesedf 'lif Ei. iiizi 0 ' Ah- how Sweet! i freckled-faced, but at the same Egg ,,,,5335,g: 5-2, ZI: Bright and early ,C well - time cute rushees descended : .a:,V- 15' uhllzziiizi 101303 Thursday morning upon the Hill. Sad to say they -':'i' it ' Ztf f i' Mary and all the rest ,of the can be quite easily compared to E:: Agnlgl X two hundred and some rushees the blackbird migration. which :.E .. ' , tripped lightly up to the Union hr fht anglais if 5151 li ijt y r t y guild? anlfC0mP1eff wha is Seal'-Ce ear Y In e 3 5 U 13 ,'1'2 s. .rifgi lzzz ii .:12:, . .irga ...2 sis. Q? efea Outs HOWH as f ePf0eeSS now becoming more or less ac- iiliui lili: :ijgf at of checking in for rushing. As ceptedj and assimilated. Fate 'tr--....,i,'... p 6 :'1i 5 :5:5 f': lzizi 5 ...:::f55i f ar as I can see all it consists of seemsto have decreed that like i' .zzz 1 1:52221 1 is paying a fee in order' to be Other group of human be- 'tag ........, .. . y c ari iysrer itraat allowed to go through rush ings, rushees must be Compared ......i.:.:1:5.1f12 azf. zli ,Fry ..., . 5 '-t1A1bfb1'111f-1- uiuihiiiiiu In Week. What Women WOr1,t clOl to those beautiful winged creatures. For as surely as fall follows summer, blackbirds settle in campus trees and rushees overflow sorority houses. w.And that's not all. Each and every sorority is out, license in hand, not only to retrieve its quota, but also to get the nicest, juiciest, smartest, and above all the prettiest of the flock. But now let's have a peek at this yearls rushees' wartime preview of hell. Mary Rushee, almost completely overcome by her first glimpse of this University town, climbs off the DuPunk Express and with the air of one of broad ex- perience hails a taxi. She and five or six others ascend the one poor cab and state their destinations. Mary is entirely oblivious to everything around her, except Having attended a new student convocation at 9:50 - previous to the checking in process- and with the full promise of a rather active afternoon and evening, Mary dashed home to try to grab forty winks. That quite obviously is about the extent of her rest for the day. Shortly after lunch she began trudging back up the gHill to report for her psy- chological and aptitude examinations at Hoch audi- torium. Mary found herself just a little pinched for time as her exams were not finished until 4:15 which gave her exactly fifteen minutes to dash home, dress, and reach the first house in her 4:30-6:00 group of C C ontimieci on Page 80 Q ,, .-. .'n tn- .A-.-an l H fs- , .om n an 121 ,w!ln 1aCWf-v -lxif