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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1943
Page
2
University lectures repeat textbook material for 11 weeks each quarter. Students buy textbooks at start, then attend class while professors present the same content. Both professors and students are expected to be above average in performance.
A terse note warns aviation students to stay vigilant as an unspecified gas hazard looms. The call to action emphasizes precaution and readiness amid potential exposure risks.
The passage argues that during wartime or crisis, colleges should shift from rote memorization to active thinking. Professors and students should contribute more to class work, moving beyond mere recitation of lectures or textbook material.
The University maintains a growing list of men in service as Dean R. E. Manchester mails publications to camps worldwide financed by the Penny Drive. On campus, students should support the Penny fund. fraternities sororities and other groups have spent hours soliciting and must continue as need rises.
Students urge an entertainment night featuring singing dancing recitations and solos held in the auditorium with radio workshop aid. A faculty penny drive speech would accompany the event and donations could be collected at the doors. The plan aims for mid May with student assembly approval to begin organizing.
Washington public health officials warn of a critical nursing shortage with 65 000 nurses needed this year. The demand is rising in industrial boom towns near war plants and hospitals often lack sufficient staff leading to high patient loads and strained care.
The text notes 10 patients per nurse in tuberculosis hospitals and 75 per nurse in mental hospitals. It cites a wartime influx of about 33 000 nurses into the Army and Navy nurse corps, with a continuing need for 3 000 more monthly. The shortage sees 65 000 more nurses needed this year, urging women to prepare to help care for the sick and injured.
A collage of campus flotsam notes mentions gas masks jokes about a fight with Bernie Harris, rooms sought by Cholly Whitehead and Bob Finney, waitress boycotts over service and eggs, and plans for a campus diary by Lou Federico. Ensign Glen Smith and others travel to Africa while expectations for student council nominations ride a local method. May birthdays notice and dry celebration forecasts appear with stray quips from "Parting Shot" signed M I did not.
Bob Matson recalls the era when Kent State grew rapidly and students debated isolationism while Veterans of Future Wars clubs formed nationwide. He mentions dining hall woes, a hoped Sun Bowl trip, CPT flight courses, and local nostalgia for 1930s style juke joints, football stars, cheap meals, and campus life.
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