Word: campus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walker, chairman of the Yale Daily News, said campus reaction to the disaster was "one of extreme shock...
...last week, in a Quonset-hut reading room on the lower campus of the University of Wisconsin, every seat was taken. It was exam week. Girls in neat sweaters & skirts (the wartime sloppy-joe style was out), men in open shirts and dungarees were giving the books a last hard look...
...first accidentally, then for fun. In Slichter Hall, the modern new men's dorm, a bunch of ex-G.I.s played an endless card game called Schafskopf. In the Rathskellar (see cut) of the $2,650,000 Memorial Union, one of the few places on any U.S. campus where 3.2 beer is sold, the jukebox blared Slow Boat to China. A waiter deftly scooped the head off three beers with one flick; a lone engineer, studying in a corner, made a quick calculation on his slide rule; and a tired-looking veteran's wife smacked her squalling youngster...
...there are signs of a letdown. In the Badger Tavern, an off-campus hangout, ex-G.I. Bob Miller remarked one night last week: "Some blame it on the talk about another war, some say we're just tired. Whatever it is, there seems to be more cutting of classes this year, more playing around, and less work." President Harold W. Stoke of Louisiana State University, who once taught at Wisconsin, returned there recently and observed: "If you take a freshman at college and give him a convertible and a textbook, you have an uneven contest...
...over the G.I. era. "Politics" to many a Wisconsin student is once more coming to mean the election of Junior Prom King, instead of Harry Truman. Before the November elections, Bob LaFollette, 22-year-old grandson of "Old Bob," made speeches for MacArthur; there were about a dozen avowed campus Marxists, and even one Dixiecrat. A Daily Cardinal poll showed students about evenly split between Truman and Dewey; they were also vaguely internationalist, and convinced that Russia would have to be stopped. The Cardinal, though, seemed more exercised by such issues as racial discrimination at the University Boat House...