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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1946
Page
2
After a quiet weekend students prepared for finals as Campus Night featured Tri Sig Night. Kappa Sigma Chi and Kappa Mu Kappa won best float and best singing while Gamma Sigs Theta Sigs and AQOs earned strong support. Judges praised the event and acknowledged the effort.
The bill would credit servicemen with 24 days of leave per month served between Sept 8 1939 and six months after the war ends. Unused leave up to 120 days would be paid in a lump sum at discharge, with quarters and subsistence continued. Relief includes 70 cents per day if those allowances were not paid at separation. Approval faces Senate, President, and cost concerns.
A lively campus scene unfolds with alumni from distant towns attending events. Names such as Marty Forsberg Braden Ralph Marilou Sowash Collins Ruth Erikson Hein Boots Gage Meg Glass Reita Mehlenbacher Hoffman Ginny Steinhauser Mary Jane Lynch Lily Mobile Jean Hungerford Beverly Clancy Strader and others are noted. The piece hints at parties on campus and preparations for upcoming weddings and social gatherings with several local figures mentioned.
Poems of longing and growth reveal a speaker who watches a young bird struggle to fly and rise. The narrator compares the bird’s courage to a yearning for freedom, ending with a playful note on worms and a nod to Chet Klingensmith.
George Toll executive secretary of Alpha Epsilon Pi clarifies in a Kent State article that the fraternity’s constitution does not restrict membership to Jews. He notes Jewish fraternities have limited membership by custom, cites cooperative Interfraternity Conference work, and argues Jewish fraternities foster leadership and reduce prejudice while promoting inter-faith friendship.
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