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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 9, 1967
Student action time
Last week's petition to keep the library open until midnight was a long-awaited sign that KU students can care en masse about a problem, and try to do something about it. And it appears that the petition may be of some help.
But "demanding" that Watson stay open is only one of many steps the student body might take in this situation. Because there seems to be a strong spontaneous reaction against the shortened library hours, perhaps now is the time for students to back up their words with money.
Chancellor Wescoe has often called KU "underfinanced," as indeed most universities are; and in presenting the budget this year warned that the University cannot continue to maintain its high academic standards if it lacks necessary finances. Surely the necessity of cutting library hours is a sign of weakening.
At the students' command there are several sources of funds which might be used for the library, were the students to give the word.
Facing realities, the monetary gain of tin cans for donations out of the individual's pocket
would probably not be overwhelming. Fee time stands in the too recent past for that.
But a suggestion that, in the same manner in which student loan money was taken out of Kansas Union Bookstore rebates, so might money from rebates be allocated to the library, seems feasible. The student would be contributing to his own welfare, but wouldn't feel it.
Or perhaps individual classes could give the gift of an open library to the University. Admittedly, nobody in 1980 is going to be too impressed by a Watson Library plaque stating: "Gift of the class of 1968—two hours a night of library service." But perhaps our classes should start making tangible contributions to today's University also.
Whatever the solution, it can come from the students if they are willing to act. The All-Student Council meets tomorrow night. It is the voice of the student and should know his wants.
Call your ASC representative tonight with your suggestion.
— Betsy Wright, Editorial Editor
Letters to the Editor
Commendation and condemnation
To the Editor:
For their lack of apathy and desire to do something constructive and concrete, I wish to commend the three KU students who are circulating a petition "demand that Watson Library remain open with full book service until midnight Sunday through Friday." However, their reasoning seems fallacious. By presenting their petition to the Chancellor, they are assuming that overwhelming student opinion will "force" the administration to keep the library open. The current operating budget of the University was prepared approximately one and a half years ago before the hourly wage increase could be foreseen. The necessary money just is not available and cannot be taken from other areas.
It would seem to be more practical to apply the pressure of student opinion to the Kansas Legislature, which does have the power to appropriate additional funds. Or perhaps these students could serve a more useful function by presenting alternative suggestions as to which hours the library should be open, and then poll the students to see which has the most student appeal. Some alternatives might be opening the library later in the morning, closing it sometime during the day, or closing it Friday night.
I am not condemning them for their petition, but I merely wish to point out that there are more effective means of achieving their goal.
Janice Mendenhall Wichita senior
To the Editor:
It is a matter of some concern to me that the literary example inevitably set by the University Daily Kansan, is a bad one. Is it too much to expect that those whose chosen profession, or chosen occupation, is writing, should write grammatically correct English, and even more fundamentally, spell accurately?
In a cursory examination of the University Daily Kansas of Monday, October 2nd, I came across the following spelling errors and elementary grammatical mistakes:
P. 1, col. 1: "cordoroy"—should be "corduroy."
P. 2, Editorial: "publicly" — should be "publicly," "Inflamatory"—should be "inflammatory."
P. 3, col. 1: "subsistance" — should be "subsistence."
P. 5, cols. 1 and 2: "... taken by Israel which Said believes are part of the sovereign Arab states." Said believes that parts of Jordan, Syria and Egypt are part of the sovereign Arab states; the writer misplaced the clause.
P. 5, col. 3: "The Israeli's are conquerers . . ." — should be "The Israelis are conquerors . . ."
P. 8, col. 5: " . . . the small mountain that appeals that have " —should be " . . . the small mountain of appeals that has . . ."
Typographical errors in a daily paper are forgivable. Sloveniness, exemplified by the mistakes indicated above, has place neither in a University nor a University newspaper.
Robert Evans Swansen, Wales, graduate student
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Editor's note: The only possible answer to Mr. Evans' letter is that his "examination" of Kansan grammar was indeed cursory.
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All Student Council representatives
Editor's note: This list of ASC representatives is provided for those interested in student action on the library or any other issue. A few seats are still to be filled by appointment, due to vacancies created during the summer.
School of Business
Jeff Peterson
1111 W. 11th
VI 3-6866
College Man
Bob Stewart
1800 Engel
VI 2-6600
College Woman Barbara Larson 2005 Stewart Ave. VI 2-6303
School of Education
Judy Whitaker
Gower Place
VI 3-5660
School of Engineering and Architecture
Ron Sutton
1800 Engel
VI 2-6600
Fraternity Guy Davis 1120 W. 11th VI 3-8851
School of Fine Arts
Judy Strunk
1612 W. 15th
VI 3-3910
Curt Heinz
532 Fireside, Apt. 2
VI 3-4050
Mike Kirk
1621 Edgehill
VI 3-4571
Ken Nied
2544 Redbud, Apt. 3
VI 2-4385
Freshman Women
Gay Gordon
1612 W. 15th
VI 3-3910
Rusty Wells 1045 Emery VI 3-7102
Nancy Miller
1433 Tennessee
VI 3-3120
Linda Tate
1612 W. 15th
VI 3-3910
School of Journalism
Will Hardesty
1741 W, 19th, Apt. 12B
VI W-2839
Large Men's Don Butler 1515 Engel VI 2-1200
Allen Russell
1515 Engel
VI 2-1200
Large Women's
Jeannie Blau
1530 Engel
VI 2-1340
Mary Beth Jenks
1530 Engel
VI 2-1340
School of Law
John E. Smith
2357 Ridge Court
VI 3-0012
Married—unorganized
Mike Grady
3018 W. 7th
VI 3-4052
Russell Woody
721 Ohio
VI 2-2703
School of Pharmacy
Bill Armbruster
800 W. 8th
VI 2-6734
Sorority Rosie Burns 1246 Oread VI 3-7600
Patty Mills
1339 W. Campus
VI 3-8022
Kathy Prewitt
1630 Oxford
VI 3-4610
Unmarried—unorganized Monti Belot 2357 Ridge Court VI 3-0012
Small Men's
Frank Joyce
1505 Ohio
VI 3-6755
Paperbacks
It's kind of a potpourri this week the—paperback books, that is. But not a bad assortment. Especially when it can be led off with a collection by Richard M. Dorson, maybe the best folklore man in America, called American Negro Folktales (Premier, 75 cents). This is an extremely good collection of Negro folklore, tales of the supernatural, tales with humorous, historical and satirical backgrounds. Dictation and tape recording made the tales available, and there are an index and a
list of reference works. In short, a book for the student of folklore, the student with an interest in American culture.
Irving Howe's Politics and the Novel (Premier, 75 cents) is a good one, too. It is an analysis of the relationship between literature and ideas, concerning itself with the novelist who is mainly interested in political ideas. Howe considers Dostoevsky's "The Possessed," Malraux's "Man's Fate." Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," Henry James" "The Princess Ca-
samassima," Orwell's "1984." Stendhal's works. He suggests that literary quality was more marked in such 19th century novels, that politics itself tends to dominate the works today.
There are some new novels—Paul Horgan's Things as They Are (Crest, 60 cents); Alistair MacLean's When Eight Bells Toll (Crest, 60 cents). Horgan is the historian of the Rio Grande, the writer of an excellent novel of the West called "A Distant Trumpet."