University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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FALL I S S U 1945 i nmnin uinn: ... BY R. J. ATKINSON, SENIOR A FRESHMAN woman ' s heart, like the moon, is always changing, and, if you look sharp, you can find a man in both of them. This is especially true during the eager period when the lads and lassies are participating in the blind-date-walkout-hour-danceopen-house-mid- week varsity routine. Until the first few months of college have worn away, it is easy for the frosh lovelies and even the not-so-lovelies to be dated weeks in advance and find a new poten- tial BMOC twice weekly. The new coed ' s popularity really never gets the acid test until the Christmas parties have arrived on the scene. The winter formals are usually the party-of-the-year in the men ' s houses and the women that rate these are the ones with pfff-t. The freshmen flash was introduced to college by a swirl of dates and men will either read her name in the Those who attended col- umns of the Kansan socials or she can safely assume that she crashed the Sophomore Slump group one semester early. Except for occasional dates here she will stay until the junior-senior steady. Though most of the young-uns will find fairly steady pursuers even after Christmas vaca- tion, some may soon begin to notice that their fun sessions become more and more all-feminine as they sit home weekends swapping stories on The Saga of The Hunt. The Hunt is (but natch fella, natch ) the man hunt. If the conversation is not mapping a series of strategies to hook some freshman Joes with whom they are entangled (or hope to be), the evening ' s session will be devoted to the cute high school football stars of whom no one has ever heard. This falls into the various face-saving devices devised by the University ' s fairer sex. For the past several years when men were as scarce as seals in the Robinson pool, it was easy to explain weekends because My man is in the service. As things return to normal and the num- ber of skirts and slacks draw dose to being equal ( of course slacks do not always have a man in them, but from the latest Gallup poll there were men in at least nine of every ten pairs of slacks appearing on the street), there will be many girls who will have to learn to pull wool to save their face on the dateless week-ends. This they can do by developing their own methods or by copying the following from their feminine upper classmen, who use: The week-end with the folks and perhaps either ficticious or non-ficticious suitors or steadies from the home town; the splitting headache routine which is made more effective by a bushel basket full of aspirin tablets in plain view for all to see ( with women who know their aspirin best, its the Little Handy Headache Breakers, nine to six. ); the quiz week or term paper jag which amounts to a week-end of day-dreaming over volumes of books with a TRUE LOVE magazine, which is scrupulously hidden among the debris and can be easily covered or uncov- ered as intruders approach or rescind; and the career woman act where the principal character can not seem to put up with the stupid, boring college males and their juvenile chatter and fun. There are other devices constantly being developed by the more clever ones but they are only good over a certain period of time. Of course there is no real need for face-saving tech- niques if her other techniques are better and she is able to keep both her stories and stocking seams straight at the same time. Mr. Anthony, who features himself as some kind of chronicle on love and what matters, once told a young woman that she was shooting too high for her males and if she would tame her ambitions, she could keep a steady escort. I mention that only in passing since I happened (Continued on Page 66)

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THE JAYHAWKER PHOTO BY PALMER X Lovely to look at, Connie Cloughly, a Sophomore in the College, and a Chi Omega pledge.

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THE JAYHAWKER PHOTO BY PALMER Sparkling, youthful, a twin, Virginia Joseph, a fresh- man in the College, and a Kappa Alpha Theta pledge.