University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Capi. . Iti. RETURN OF THE NATIVES SOLDIERS and sailors no sooner win a war than they come traipsing home creat- ing prohlems problems all over the place. If they go to work they are problems to their bosses who, if they aren ' t difficult to manage, worry about when they will become difficult. If they don ' t go to work, they ' re another kind of problem particularly when they start consorting, and as everyone knows they al- ways do, with booze the loafers. If they go to school, they ' re an educational prob- lem what kind of schooling should they have, what are the values of education they should hope to find, and how long will it be before one of them starts drilling holes, each about 32 100ths of an inch, through one of the faculty ' s brains. At home they ' re problems when will they start beating the dog or begin drink- ing canned heat the poor psychoneurotics. What a hot hell civilians must be broiling in these days with only a couple of million of these problems out of the service and millions more yet to come. Veterans probably have always been problems but, as is generally known, not like the ones that are coming out of this war. Thank heavens the folks at home have been adequately warned what to expect when these wrecks from the wars start filtering back into their homes, towns, schools and jobs. Every radio station, newspaper, magazine, book publisher and writer in the country has done its best to give the word on the veteran problem. He ' s Been A Killer and The GI Psychoneurosis are the titles of two magazine articles which appeared a few weeks ago. From them the civilian-reader will be able to deduce that every soldier returning home has been a killer, that he hates to talk about the war, that he begins to shake whenever he hears a steam radiator knock, and that he is apt to wake up in the middle of the night a screaming, sweating hysteric. Willard Waller, one of the outstanding experts on veterans, recently wrote: Be prepared for his strange apathies and unexpected intensities of feeling, tol- erate his outbursts and eccentricities of taste, remember that he is not and can never be again the boy who went away. Wives have been well advised by Dr. George K. Pratt, in his book, Soldier To (Continued on Page 63)

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Look at the picture. Do you see only an empty street with meaningless geometric streaks of light? Look again. Now you see a portrait of memories the lumi- nous visuali2ation of life that has been on Mt. Oread, but now is gone. This is that old feeling that comes to an alum on his return to the beloved campus. The light of his memories recalls happy hours he spent on the Hill.

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THE JAYHAWKER BY NANCY GOERING Shore Duty For 275 Naval Rotsies NAVAL Reserve Officer ' s Training corps, docking on the banks of the Kaw, has advanced to the left flank of Mount Oread and marched undaunted toward objective K. U. With the motto, Long time, no sea, the Rotsie seamen are following in the footsteps of thousands of Brother Salts who have trained at K. U. ' s midwest naval academy machinist ' s mates, electrician ' s mates, air corps cadets, and V-12 ' s. On 26 other campuses through- out the nation, the Naval R.O.T.C. has been established, making a total of 52 units in the country. Training schools for the navy reserve corps were selected on the basis of academic stand- ing, facilities, enrollment, and in- terest. Of the 275 men in the reserve unit, 141 are former V-12 ' s who had three semesters or more to complete and were transferred to R.O.T.C. at the end of the sum- mer semester, Oct. 20. The other 134 came to the campus from other V-12 training schools: 18 from the Case School of Applied Sciences, Cleveland, Ohio; 75 from Washburn university, To- peka; and 41 from Northwest Missouri State Teachers college, Maryville, Mo. The increase of men on the campus and the snappy cadet uniforms that goes with them re- ceived the hearty approval of Kansas U. coeds. Things should start looking up for women on this campus, a B.W.O.C. commented, speaking for the masses (of women). With proper distribution we should be able to curb the man shortage. Head of the University ' s naval training program is a veteran of 56 months of sea duty, Capt. Chester A. Kunz (pronounced Kuntz). He replaces Lt. A. B. Copping who directed campus naval administration since last spring and joined the K. U. navy staff in November, 1944. Captain Kunz is the highest ranking officer ever assigned to duty at the University. Dr. J. N. Carman, professor of romance languages, is the new University coordinator of the Navy V-12 and N.R.O.T.C. pro- grams. He succeeds Dr. Leonard Axe who was released to be- come chairman of the new veteran ' s credit committee recently formed at the University. With the shift from acceler- ated war-time programs to peace- time schedules, the question, ' and what semesters are you enrolled in this month? makes sense. Three terms began on No- vember 1: A 12 -week term for the new Navy Rotsie ' s. It will end the first of February with the regular fall semester. With the beginning of the spring semester, they will follow the regular student semester program. A 16-week semester for ad- vanced students in engineer- ing (the engine school is still operating on a 3-semes- ter-a-year basis until the Navy V-12 program (ends). A 12 -week term for veterans who received their dis- charges too late to enroll in the fall school term. These are in addition to the regular fall 18-week semester. The R.O.T.C. students are en- rolled in courses in the College, the School of Business, and the School of Engineering and Archi- tecture. After four years in the reserve corps a trainee is com- missioned an ensign in the navy reserve and, in most cases, re- ceives a college degree. Next fall the Rotsie ' s will go to school on a civilian basis they will be required to attend certain classes and wear the cadet uniforms on drill days. Navy chow, PT housing, and liberty nights will be abandoned for more collegiate ways of living.