Mass Insomnia Hits As Students Begin Studying
By Art Miller
This is the period of mass insomnia.
Think not? Well, just look around you at the bleary-eyed students, your compatriots in the pursuit of final preparation.
If you have the tendency to eavesdrop, listen to what your baggy-eyed fellow students are saying.
"How much sleep did ya get last night Mike?"
"I said how much sleep did you get last night?"
"Ah Huh."
"Huh."
TAKE A DRIVE ALONG WEST Campus Road, or Tennessee Street around 3 a.m. How would you like to pay those light bills?
Or take a typical KU student,
let's call him Steve.
In his small room, in a dormitory or fraternity or even an apartment, Steve sits alone, floating on a sea of books and papers. On the floor beside him is a typewriter. Occasionally he pounces on the machine, striking fierce blows on the keys, at last returning to the
William Woodburn, Pleasanton junior, takes a short nap before class.
book. His job is nearly complete.
IN THIS PERIOD OF "mass insomnia," students are seriously at work, seriously trying to learn in these last two weeks what their professors have been trying to teach them all semester.
And do they appreciate what
their profs have done for them? Of course.
"Why he expects us to know every word in this — book."
(Fill in the blank as you see fit.)
BUT ISN'T ALL THIS CRAMING part of what makes a college life so interesting? If participa-
ion is to be our measure, then surely the answer is yes. And just think of the satisfaction you get when it is all over, and when you consider that you have a fresh, new semester to start over in.
Yet it is likely that students will continue the long tradition of
cramming, of staying awake night after night, and of frequenting the bar of relaxation and ease when the sad hour has come and gone.
If you think not, just look around at the strained faces shortly before final week next semester, or next year or the year after that.
Snow to Remain As Cold Wave Hits
Cars and students will continue to struggle up and slide down the Hill. at least for the next few days.
The Arctic-like weather that has been battering the KU campus the past several days has created its particular problems for two campus service departments, but both report the situation well in hand.
The heavy cover of snow — which shows no signs of leaving under current sub-freezing temperature readings — put an added burden earlier in the week on the KU Building and Grounds department and the Traffic and Security office.
MEANWHILE. employees of the Buildings and Grounds department and the Lawrence street department are continuing to work to reduce the icity of streets on the bordering the campus.
Leo Ousdahl, office manager of Buildings and Grounds, said their employees began working at 5:30 a.m. last weekend to clear campus roads and sidewalks before students arrived
The department owns several tractors with front-end blades to clear sidewalks and parking areas and regular road-clearing equipment for campus drives.
After most of the snow is cleared. Buildings and Grounds employees use shovels to clear steps, and sand is distributed on icy spots on sidewalks and steps
Harry M. Buchholz, superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, reported today all campus streets have been cleared.
PARKING AREAS have been cleared of the eight-inch blanket of snow which covered the area over the weekend. Barring fresh snowfalls, Buchholz said, there should be little trouble traveling campus streets and walks.
A. T. Hodges, superintendent of the street department, said his department has been using road equipment to get most of the snow off streets in the vicinity.
The Lawrence street department also has been working to make the struggle up the Hill easier for cars and delivery trucks.
Students who walk to the campus, however, must depend on the kindness of residents to clear walks going up the Hill, as the street department does not work on the sidewalks.
He said sand has been spread on steep streets near the campus to make the climb less hazardous.
The campus traffic office has reported no serious traffic accidents as a result of the hazardous driving conditions created by the snow and ice. However, streets remain slick in spots and caution is urged for motorists.
Streets with steep grades on the east side of the campus remain particularly hazardous. officers warn.
Work on the Engineering Building has stopped completely, but workers in Hashinger Hall have not been affected. The building was closed in before the cold weather began, and workers are doing inside work.
59th Year, No. 66
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Mary Grant Speaks In Humanities Series
The Humanities Series lecture to be presented at 8 p.m. today in Fraser Hall is entitled "A Forgotten Hero — Development of a Greek Myth."
Mary A. Grant, emerita associate professor of Latin and Greek will present the lecture. She is the only KU scholar to lecture this year in the Humanities Series.
Tariff, Med Care Last On Legislative List
WASHINGTON—(UPI)President Kennedy and Democratic Congressional leaders today postponed any immediate tests on the administration's two most controversial proposals—tariff-cutting and medical care for the elderly.
The decision was reached at a White House conference summoned to discuss the timetable for action on the program President Kennedy will lay before the election-year Congress which convenes tomorrow.
Informants said no timetable was set for action on the medical care program. As matters stand now, the administration doesn't have the votes to get even a skeletonized version of this program out of committee.
FOUR MAJOR PARTS of the program, including trade and medical care, must be initiated by the House Ways & Means Committee.
The White House conferees agreed the committee would give first priority to the Administration's tax revision program which has been pending since last spring.
The group then will turn its attention to improvements in existing welfare programs for the needy. Kennedy will outline his recommendations in this area in a special message, probably early next month.
The schedule was outlined at the White House meeting by Committee Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark. Mills talked with the President Saturday and the schedule presumably was agreed upon then.
AFTER THAT THE battle will be joined in committee over Kennedy's plea for broad tariff-cutting authority.
Tuesday, Jan. 9, 1962
MILLS VOTED AGAINST similar legislation two years ago and there has been no evidence, as yet, that he has changed his mind.
The White House meeting produced forecasts by party leaders, however, that the President would succeed in winning approval of most of his program.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Budget Message To Legislature
Gov. John Anderson tomorrow will give his KU budget recommendation in his budget address to a joint session of the state legislature.
KU has requested $24,164,936 for the period which begins in July. The State Budget Director (James W. Bibb), however, recommended in November that the Governor reduce this figure by more than $1.4 million to $22,874,735.
State administrative sources in Topeka, however, indicate that cuts in KU's budget will be considerably less than Bibb's recommendation.
IF THIS FIGURE $22.8 million is appropriated for KU "the quality of educational service here will be seriously affected," said Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University.
Mr. Nichols said the Director's recommendation leaves out funds necessary for the replacement of Blake Hall. He said the University would need that classroom space badly, considering the number of students expected in the future.
(Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced on Oct. 16 that classes next fall would begin at 7:30 a.m. and run until 5:30 p.m. He said at the time the measure was necessary in order to alleviate a predicted classroom shortage in the face of an expected enrollment of 10,700 next fall.)
Mr. Nichols also said that such a deletion from the University's budget would put a severe strain on the staff. He said the University would be limited to hiring only 25 of the needed 41 new instructors.
CONTINUING, MR. Nichols said the Budget Director's cut would eliminate all funds for faculty salary increases, all special repair funds (such as those necessary to establish stations for the control of campus traffic) and $65,000 from the present routine repair figure.
Other action by the State Budget Director was a recommendation of $11.1 million for the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. This figure was a cut of $2.1 million from the $13.2 million the Medical Center requested.
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The State Budget Director's recommendations for all state colleges, universities and other institutions were approximately $5.8 million less than requested.
Republicans Want No Tax Increase
Kansas legislative leaders say they want no tax increases.
Rep. William Mitchell (R-Hutchinson) speaker of the house and Sen. Paul R. Wunch (R-Kingman) president pro tempore of the senate say they believe an adequate program of state services can be provided without tax increases. Their statement came after a conference with Gov. John Anderson.
Both men, who must drive the Governor's budget program through the Legislature, said they felt sentiment in the Legislature is against further taxation.
Military Could Not Stop Plane Crash
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — A House investigator said today the military apparently had no way to prevent the crash last November of a non-scheduled airliner which took the lives of 74 Army recruits.
Rep. James E. Van Zandt, a member of a special house armed services subcommittee, made the comment as the investigation of the Richmond, Va., crash moved into its second day. Assistant Air Force Secretary Joseph S. Imirie was called as the first witness.
Weather
Temperature at press time was 4 degrees. The low last night was 1 degree below zero, a seasonal low.
Kansans should expect a cold wave which will drive temperatures down to 5 to 15 below and locally lower by Wednesday night.
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