University of Missouri at Kansas City - Kangaroo Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

Page 11 text:

0 O Q' O U! the BEERS . . . activities. It will be some time be- fore we go into the final stage in which there will be a renaissance of the original enthusiasm, based on the conviction that whatever .I our school does is right. Then will come an end to those enervating comparisons with larger and older schools. . -T-O- Candid Camera It is an interesting peculiarity of human nature that it is impossible to know what it will take up next. In 1933, it was minature golf, in 1934, yo-yo tops, 1935, tree-sitting contests, 1936, bucket beer, 1937, frozen suckers, and today Q193SD candid cameras. Candid cameraing, as the name implies, is the art of getting candid shots of people. Favorite candid camera shots are, people bending over, people eating, people making love, people with their mouths open, people with their dresses up, in gen- eral, people who don't know their pictures are be- ing taken. The successful candid cameraman is a combination of the Deerslayer and Robinson Crusoe. He stalks his quarry with consummate skill, taking advantage of all available coverage, some- times creeping under an old armadillo shell and sometimes rolling about like a tumbleweed-finally bursting forth clicking his camera. Itis something like playing Indian, except more fun. And no one gets hurt. As Plato said: Ec forsec tu scabsecet rox matec forsud, C The candid camerman has more fun than any body. j .....O,.. The Middle-Western Culinary Art The word salad,', we have learned, is about as all-inclusive as romantic That was borne out when we purchased a sandwich at our local cafe- teria labeled 'Kham salad, which contained, as far as we could ascertain, the following: marshmallows, a variety of deep-sea fish, mayonaise. ground pickle and a strong odor. We young middle-west- ferners, as our mothers have long since learned, thrive on very simple fare. The fundamental foods such as meat and potatoes, done up in no disguised forms, are what we call good eating. lo-1. How To Be Popular XfVe would like to think that it was our influence that de-popularized driving like hell to the Plaza. VVe get a lot of fun out of ruining people's good time. But today, instead of piling the car so high with assorted students and off to the Plaza. we find there is another criterion of social popularity. XWe will call it fooling around in the browsing roomf' The technique follows: gather up several boon companions. Enter browsing room and select a few likely-looking girls therein. It is much better if girls are young. Approach girls and begin to tease them. Pull their chairs about the room, pull them down on the floor. Laugh loudly and talk fast. VVatch Marshall Lovett and do what he does. Shove girls around and laugh. After you get tired of shoving them around and talking loud, chatter loudly and push them around. Also watch Marshall Lovett and do what he does. MOM.. The Significance By adopting the above technique you will gain a two-fold reward. You will be popular and in addition will attain that Valhalla of college men- among the girls you be known as a case MO...- Now That Spring Is Here In a very few weeks the summer season will be with us and everyone will become hysterical about going to Colorado or spending a couple of weeks in the Gzarks. Now the subject of resort vacations is too extensive to be covered in a paragraph or two. As a matter of fact, a complete dissertation on the great American vacation should include anticipation, preparation, departure, the vacation proper, sunburn, homecoming and collapse. We want to reflect on a minor point, the names of summer cabins. Now we are the last people in the world to cry out against suspected foreign propaganda. We have had very little to say concerning Moscow gold, the Yellow Peril, the Rome-Berlin-jersey City Axis, or the Nazi-American Build, but let's use some common sense. If a certain foreign govern- ment Cwhich we would rather not mention herej doesn't name these cabins, then who does? It is our opinion that this is subversive propaganda through which this certain government wants to tear down our self respect, and then when we get so we just don't give a hoot, send in a million robots to kill our men and carry our women and children off to a fate worse than death itself. For example let me call your horrified gaze to Kamp Kill Kare, Kumfy Kozy Kabin Kamp, or Lake Hopanchugarsquameag Qin Mainej. At these hot beds of radicalism and espionage one may find such appellations as All Inn, f'Cfeorge's Roost, and the in- evitable Dew Drop Inn. If we ever build a cabin, we are going to call it Dew Drop Deadf' -Allan E. Paris Page Nine

Page 10 text:

V , A Things To Come , ' J Recently we were admitted to , that sanctuary adjoining the front office, called the plans room. 5 There were several hundred draw- .- ings. About two hundred of that i number had been piled in a corner for the janitor to collect in the morning. These were old plans, being drawn about two or three weeks ago. The man in charge of the room showed us the most recent, which had been struck off about an hour before. It was the future University of Kansas City. Down at the bottom of the draw- ing was a legend, identifying the numerous squares, etc., among which were Union Houses, Profes- sional Rowf' Business Circle, and Forestry Village. The man pointed to the map at a place which at the present time is the Plaza District. That will go, the man said. The Forty-eighth and Troost community will also go, the man said. VVhere the Sixty-third and Brookside district is now located will be Professional Row, the man said. There was a very small dot that interested us. That,', said the man. is the storage houses for grounds equipment. At the present time it consti- tutes the university buildings. just then, a man rushed in with new plans. The Thirty-ninth and Main district had gone. .. O1.-1.- A Didactic Essay By the time this is published, the election will be over. That is deplorable, since the subject is im- portant to the point of crucial. Under ordinary conditions, we should have remained silent, but the recent student assembly opening the election campaign clarified a matter which, we, in true K. C. U. spirit, had not thought about. The point is, that the student council is too powerful a body on the campus. It was evident that Glenn Wfhitaker and his henchmen could have passed a motion to shoot Dr. Decker, and when any student body gets that powerful, it just isn't right. No sir. VVho wants to see Dr. Decker shot, just because Glenn VVhit- aker asks people to signify their approval by say- ing Aye ? In view of the apparent danger, it would seem the election would be more spirited. At the present writing the only sign of life is an effigy of Vllhitaker hanging from the flagpole. Very effete. Now we would propose a few fist fights, setting fire to the gymnasium and a few virile tricks of that order. You see, with the university ex- panding to a point where it threatens to wipe out the whole south-side business district, the student council wields an alarming influence. And the best you can do is to pull that old effigy gag. Absolutely no interest in the election. The only explanation Page Eight . . .BETWEEN we can reach is that the students want to be domin- ated. You enjoy a dictatorship. Now, if the Fascist boys heard of this, where would we be? You would just think it lovely if we had another Hitler in this country, wouldn't you? That's the trouble with this whole country. Can't see the danger until it's already here, and then itis too late. Then you couldn't step out on the street without having a storm trooper watching you. That would be nice, wouldn't it? The founding fathers of this country weren't like that. I'll say they weren't. VVhy, at a time like this, they would be right in there fight- ing every minute of the day. It just goes to show you what this country is coming to. Democracy is doomed. .l-O-ll A Peculiar State of Affairs Dr. Decker the other night commented in a speech that he had never known a school in which the students took such a lively interest. There is a vein of hidden irony here. On several occasions, Dr. Decker, after hoarding an administration secret with great assiduity, has revealed it with evident expectation of seeing the news fall like a bombshell among the unsuspecting students. At first, he con- tributed their lack of emotion to a high degree of urbanity. By now, however, he has learned that students are already aware of all secrets. In fact, they know all the details. Deck,', with typical good-naturedness, laughs it off and converts it into a compliment for his lively-minded student body. Secretly, he is quite discouraged. - The Tragedy of Growing Up It is with a great deal of sorrow that we see the university growing into the respectable age. Col- leges, in their evolutionary processes, go through three stages: First, radicalism, second, conserva- tism, and third, assurednessism. Obviously, we are passing into the second stage. In the first years of this university, there was never a week went, by without the birth of some controversial subject,- to which our young satirists gave their best efforts. It was a golden age. Today, the student body views such movements with a fine in- difference, engendered, they belive, 'U by the increased sophistication of N a more mature institution. This, of f course, is a form of decadence, re- sulting in insipid student elections, X half-hearted support of Student I I 0 Q UQ

Page 12 text:

First Quadrangle Completed The new Liberal Arts building, constructed dur- ing the summer and opened to classes this fall, completes the first quadrangle of the University of Kansas City. This latest addition to the campus- three stories of native stone, red tile and copper drain pipes-is the gift of an anonymous donor. An impressive structure of Hcollegiate gothic style, the new building dominates the southeast corner of the campus. University facilities are greatly enlarged by the Liberal Arts buildingys twenty recitation and con- ference rooms, numerous faculty offices, large, sound-proofed lecture hall, little theater and cafe- teria. The building at present houses the depart- Pugc Toni ments of psychology, mathematics, social sciences, modern languages, economics and art. The new building is as attractive inside as out. Its well-polished composition floors, recessed door- ways set in pointed arches, walnut woodwork and many windows make a pleasant environment in which neither beauty nor utility has been sacrificed. The pink and blue ceiling of Spanish inspira- tion in the entrance hall was at first viewed with a degree of suspicion by the students taking posses- sion of the building. But todav our colorful ceiling has been accepted by even the most critical. An important addition to campus history and our