University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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BILL CONBOY, Editor DEAN MILLER, Business Manager Contents SOCIAL- NEW SCHOOL YEAR SORORITY RUSH . . 20 FRATERNITY RUSH 22 INDEPENDENTS 24 PLEDGES AND NEW STUDENTS... 51 CARNIVAL 70 NITE LIFE 81 ATHLETIC- RALLIES 12 FOOTBALL 34 INFORMAL SPORTS 50 INTRAMURALS 68 SCHOOL DAYS- ENROLLMENT 9 JOURNALISM SCHOOL 26 SPEECH DEPARTMENT 44 BIG WHEELS 32 RELIGIOUS LIFE 62 CAMPUS PETS 73 FOREIGN STUDENTS . 76 FEATURES- CANDID SECTION .. 15 FOOTBALL CARTOONS . 42 The cover girl for this issue is Betty Shartel from Kan- sas City, Mo. The cover boy is Tom Payne from Olathe. Both are new to K. U. this fall, as their finding time to loaf a while on the wall down by Potter Lake will indi- cate. The picture was taken by Duke D ' Ambra. .-

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FALL tf J M B E R , 1948 A WORM ' S EYEVIEW OF ENROLLMENT Photos by Hank Brown The whole trick of enrollment was to get past an advisor. He helped you make out a schedule of classes, approved it, then all you had to do was file through a line and sign up for the classes he ap- proved. As explained in the university catalogue, it was all very simple. Actually it was a nightmare of disorder and perplexity. First you had to stand in line to find out who your advisor was. Then after at least an hour of waiting and pushing and elbow- ing maybe you ' d get to see the advisor only to be told that you ' d have to go find out if you had gotten any D ' s or F ' s the previous semester or if the dean would waive the pre-requisite of Recent Political Theory or if you had enough grade points to be a sophomore. That meant standing in lines and you simply couldn ' t be sure about the lines. For instance the one you stood in to find out who your advisor was. It used to form at the east door and run to the center of the gymnasium, but now it ran along the west wall. I told the guide about this and she said what difference did it make any- way and I said it made a lot of difference and why couldn ' t they work out a system and stick to it and save everybody a lot of confusion. Then she got nasty about the whole thing and said I was wrong in the first place that the line had always been along the west wall. I felt the university would have been a much nicer place if it hadn ' t bee n for enroll- ment. Finally, though, I found my- self in a chair beside the advisor whom I had been told to see. Having filled out all the little white cards except the spaces for two courses I felt a little proud of my efficiency as he turned and looked them over. He studied them for a few minutes. Here, he finally said, you forgot to fill in the space here. I looked. He was pointing at the blank space marked major. J im I didn ' t forget it. It ' s just that I don ' t have a major, I told him. Do you have to have one? Well, no, he admitted reluctantly, not until you ' re a junior. But don ' t you at least know what you want to be? He was about 40, I judged, with only a rim of thin hair around the back half of his head, wore tortoise shell glasses, and an expression of obvious concern for me on his face. I fejt it would hurt him to say that I didn ' t want to be anything, I had no idea what I wanted to major in and what you wanted to be seemed inseparably connected with that one point. I thought seriously before answering and finally told him I guessed I just wanted to be a college graduate at least that ' s all I had in mind for the present. He was visibly nonplused by the reply. But look, he said in a voice that sounded the slightest bit of impatience, who ' s sending you to college? I told him that the government was send- ' ng me to college and wanted to ask what difference that made but thought it would sound impertinent so I didn ' t. Then you ' ve never talked this matter over with anyone before, I take it, he said taking off his glasses and rubbing his eyes in a tired way. I told him I hadn ' t. I Music Students Enroll