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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1941
Page
2
Preparations for campus night focus on the May Day celebrations while most students miss the events to prep for the parade. Participating organizations must finish by 6 p.m with time for final organizing between lawn activities and parading. An editorial credit error is corrected, acknowledging the former vice president’s statement.
Kent State University sidewalks are being repaired and students are leaving initials handprints and footprints in fresh concrete. Administrators must have the work redone as the doodles offend the finisher and reflect poorly on the campus.
A humorous profile of Kent Karousal Mortimer, a youth over six feet tall, mocked for his extraordinary stature. The piece traces his failed football tryouts, prom mishap, dorm room troubles, aisle seating, and long legs that challenge clothing and daily life.
Mortimer endures constant near misses from low doorways and tree limbs as height proves overpowering. After years of misfortune he crashes a car and ends in a psychopathic ward, while society embraces shorter partners and a grim moral about frailty.
The Kent Stater, Kent State University, Kent Ohio, is a four times weekly newspaper. It lists staff including editor George A. Flelacher and business manager Jules Bognar with others in roles such as city editor and sports editor. Advertising is handled by National Advertising Service with a college publishers representative in New York Chicago Boston Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Editorial notes mixed views on convoying aid to Britain amid war talk. It cites a Town Hall of the Air discussion and a Gallup poll showing 80 percent oppose war, urging majority action to influence Washington, while the writer leans against convoys for now.
Oddball notes from campus life swirl around assemblies on Founders Day being refused, postal cards from Chicago, and various pairs and trysts. Muted headlines mention Ralph Ferguson, Mary Ellen Burkhart, Sally Alexander, Liz Tucker, and many others in a rapid-fire round of dating, crushes, and social plans on a lively but ungrammatical page.
The speaker cites that almost one hundred million Americans doubt solving Europe’s ills and favor keeping soldiers at home, while opposing convoys yet pledging to fight if any part of the Americas is invaded, aligning with the 80 percent who oppose convoys.
Skidmore College runs an Overseas Fund for Tobacco sending cigarets and pipe tobacco to soldiers. The program supports troops and strengthens wartime morale.
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