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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1946
Page
2
Kent State University faces a looming housing shortage as 400 plus veterans enroll with spring enrollment expected to double. Although Kent residents supplied 50 rooms this term, planners fear a repeat next quarter without coordinated action to secure 100 plus rooms for veterans and their families.
A witty remark on New Year resolutions noting the inevitability of old habits returning despite intentions. It frames resolutions as promises to avoid acts that will likely recur.
Veterans left their own homes to fight for people unable to resolve the housing situation. Townspeople must awaken to the dire need ahead, forget living alone, and open their homes to veterans.
Helen Johns former WAVES member and KS U senior moved from naval service at Pearl Harbor to focus on college work for her bachelor’s degree. She studied Hawaiian dance at the University of Honolulu and observed island life and night clubs while recalling Honolulu’s small, diverse student body and postwar U S O culture.
Miss Johns served in the WAVES living in Quonset huts with 40 per building and four per cubicle. She had a free day every six, then out until 10 p m. She trained at Hunter College and Corpus Christi before serving at Charleston Naval Hospital and in Oklahoma. She taught in Sarahsville before enlisting and plans a sociology master’s degree after graduation. Her home is Canton.
The Kent Stater is issued three times weekly on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Fridays during the university year with vacations suspended. Subscriptions cost $2.00 per year. It is entered as second class matter October 11 1927 at Kent Ohio and printed by Commercial Press Inc.
Dale Rowe writes of California meaning hot furnace or I have found it and notes the 1847 U S ceded vast territory for 15 million dollars. He pokes at campus life with Mary Unkrich and a playful Ohm's law recap.
Campus column notes 450 new vets at KSU heighten social life. engagements, marriages, and dating unfold among Theta Sigs, Old Gammas, KMK members, and Delta Delts. mentions of parties, pledges, a Studebaker birth, and a pledge dance as year begins 1946.
Humor flows as Ginny Simms asks Jack Carson if he can sing on the Columbia program. Carson jokes about being “another Deanna Bourbon,” correcting to Durbin and declaring himself a whisky tenor.
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