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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1955.
Closing Hours Debate Begins
The University of Colorado seems to have taken a big step forward in the recognition of college students as mature individuals with the decision last week to allow senior women the privilege of not having to observe closing hours.
The decision at CU has aroused interest here among women in the student body and the AWS Senate and House of Representatives already have taken steps to find out just what the Colorado ruling implies. Displaying a commendable promptness of action the AWS sent a letter to Colorado asking about the various stipulations of their ruling. At the time this vas written no reply had been received.
It is time that the senior and possibly junior, women are treated like women instead of adolescent school girls. If they can't make their own decisions now just what will happen to them when they graduate? It is time they be exposed to the responsibilities of life.
The AWS is taking a wise stand on the question at the present time. It feels it should wait to see how things work out at Colorado and also wait to see what kind of reaction they get from the students. Luckily, by being nearby, Colorado will furnish a good proving ground which may uncover fallacies in the ruling that can be corrected.
Dottie Sheets, president of the AWS Senate; Carol Mather, president of the AWS House of Representatives, and Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women, all seem to think the new policy at Colorado has possibilities.
Senior women should get some extra privileges. After all, by the time they have spent three years away from home in college they should be reasonably mature and capable of conducting themselves in a responsible manner. They should make their own decisions.
Miss Mather said that "personally, I'm all for it, but you can't tell, the students might find loopholes in it. I think we ought to look into it and see how it works for Colorado."
Dean Peterson said she believed the general attitude of the girls was in favor of closing hours and that in the past the basic policy of the AWS has been one of not granting special privileges.
Miss Peterson did say, however, that she believed all the girls, even the freshmen, were responsible enough to accept open closing hours. The biggest drawback, Miss Peterson said, would be the safety factor, with the houses being open until all hours, enhancing the chances of break-ins.
Senate President Dottie Sheets echoed Miss Peterson's comments on the safety factor. She doesn't think the Colorado idea of furnishing all senior women with keys is too good and feels there would be too much chance of duplicate keys finding their way into the hands of freshmen and sophomore women.
Whether a change is made here will depend entirely upon the women of the University. The petition for a change will have to come from them. It then will have to pass both the AWS House and Senate before being sent to the administration for final approval. The AWS has done its part. The new Colorado ruling has been mentioned and is slated for discussion tonight before the Senate. From now on it is up to the students.
The tax statisticians of a New York bank have demonstrated that it's likely to be a long, long time before any question and answer competitor on one of those popular TV quiz programs will ever actually get a "take home" prize of $64.000.
According to their estimates, a single person with a regular $4,000 a year income would have to win a prize of $448.711.11 in order to have $64,-000 for himself AFTER TAXES.
Uncle Sam Wins
—John McMillion
We would not say that it is beyond all possibility that any wild-eyed promotion adventurer would ever offer a prize approaching a half million dollars. But it is certainly unlikely that any contest will ever get up to the $448,711 question. He'd be unwilling to gamble what he'd already won with the odds stacked so heavily against him by the tax collectors.
—Des Moines Register
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"YOUR SUBSTITUTE HERE TELLS ME YOUR STUDENTS ARE QUITE CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR HEALTH—BUT THEY'll PROBABLY TIRE OF HER"
British Preserve Literary Past
England today offers a close-up view of the literary past to an extent existing in few other places.
Students of good writing find that England still is a "blessed spot" where a "happy breed of men" delight in preserving a priceless heritage.
"For surely no nation has given more freely of its genius to the world of letters, or more lovingly guarded the scenes of its literary triumphs," writes Leo A. Borah in the current National Geographic Magazine. His article is entitled "Landmarks of Literary England."
Oxford retains almost the full flavor of the past. Its 13th century colleges hold their medieval character, setting the tone for later buildings. Like Oxford, Cambridge University cherishes its aged look—and also stories of two of its most remarkable students. Milton who "studied far from all vice" and the prankish Byron who published his first verse while there and, it's said, kept a bear in his room.
No effort is spared to protect the memories 'of the Bard in Stratford on Avon. Shops masquerade in Shakespearean guise, and the Memorial Theatre does its part in keeping history alive. The town also keeps in tune with present times—television antennas sprout from thatched roofs.
London is the great treasure house of English literature. Few of its haunts are more venerable than the Cheshire Cheese tavern in Wine Office Court just off Fleet Street, the sanctuary of modern journalism.
Dr. Johnson and Goldsmith dined there, as did Swift, Dickens, Thackeray, and Tennyson. Rebuilt in 1677 on the site of an older hostelry of the same name, the Cheshire Cheese contains walls and timbers dating from 1350.
Wimpole Street, whence Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett eloped, remains aristocratic, but changes have touched Baker Street, the abode of Sherlock Holmes. A few years ago the fictional Holmes' sitting room was fitted realistically, but now the exhibit has been discontinued.
Bath, linked to the names of Jane Austen, Fielding, Wordsworth, Goldsmith, the letter-writing Earl of Chesterfield and Bulwer Lytton, turned up more literary associations than any other place save London. It also recalled Horace Walpole's down-to-earth complaint: "In getting out of one's lodgings, one runs one's nose against a hill." That's true today.
Far Away Folk Remember KU
Dear Javhawkers.
Or perhaps we shouldn't say "Dear" because the news of your disgrace even reached us here in Europe through the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune.
Sentences like: "... The Southwest has Oklahoma which registered its 23rd straight by overwhelming Kansas 44 to 6" are not something to be proud of when we talk about KU. Or maybe we should be proud as the scholastic standing might get higher than it is already. But what's so difficult about doing both?
Well, we still have hopes. Only a few years ago Kansas won every football game but one, so we will continue to look at the scores. However, as we only get the New York paper here, all we know about KU is how often the Jay-hawkers are losing. We'd like to know the brighter side, too.
And better luck next game!
Robert Schaeffer
Graduate student '53 and '54
Barbara Schaeffer-Krug
Fine Arts '52 and '55
(Ed. note—We're always glad to hear from former students—the further away the better. The particular letter above came from "Luxembourg-Ville," Grand Duchy of Luxembourg," and you can't get much further away than that. The brighter side is that this year KU has at least won one and tied one. We're improving.)
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Traffic To Grow Worse In Future
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Want to know why Sunday holiday driving has become something less than a pleasure, thanks to so many other vehicles on the highways?
Here are up-to-the-minute figures from the Automobile Manufacturers Association that explain the congestion:
There are 61 million registered motor vehicles and 72 million licensed drivers in the United States.
They pile up mileage at the rate of more than 560 billion miles a year.
This is an average of about 9,200 miles per vehicle, and 7,800 miles per driver.
Do you think traffic conditions will improve eventually, or grow progressively worse? The Association devotes 15 pages in the latest issue of "Automobile Facts and Figures," to highway subjects. Here are a few:
Motor vehicle registrations and travel mileage on the nation's highways are due to increase more than 33 per cent by 1965.
To correct road inadequacies, $101 billion will be needed for highway construction during the next 10 years.
Inadequate roads today are costing U.S. more than $5 billion a year.
Half of the anticipated traffic growth in the coming decade will be on the 40,000-mile Interstate Highway System.
There you have a thumbnail analysis of the cause and probable effect of the automobile-highway problem that rapidly is getting out of hand. The automotive industry is geared to produce 10 million cars per year. These well-built modern cars last from four to eight years before being junked. If they are serviceable for six years, say, and the factories tune up the assembly lines to maximum production, the 61 million vehicles now on the highways could be doubled.
However, the AMA conservatively estimates the increase at 33 per cent by 1965. Even that will make the holiday highway traffic seem like a motorized stampede, and let the luckiest drivers and passengers to get home safely. They may have to double-deck the roads to handle so many cars and trucks.
Highway construction and maintenance costs per mile have doubled since 1941.
—Topeka Daily Capital
"A person has got to believe something!" he cried out into his pillow when I went to see him yesterday. "I don't pay any attention to the things they say on TV, but the things you see with your own eyes, like in newspapers, that's different!"
"I put a large paper sack over my head, grabbed abdol of the TV, went into a squat, and continued to follow the 26th annual Fire School directions toward the door. I missed it and ran into some of them Bailey bricks." Uncle Mt. pointed over his shoulder and back side to a UDK on his bed-stand.
It seems Uncle Mt. read the article, "TV Sets Are Fire Hazards," in UDK Thursday, and he decided to have a fire drill.
I read the article. "It is best to carry the set out of a fire with the face covered and the back side down." it said.
"The picture tube operates under high pressure and a slight jar can shatter the tube and send fragments flying as far as 50 feet through the back of the seat."
You'll be sorry to hear my Uncle Mt. is flat on his face in Watkins Hospital. You know, he has his television set out in the smoke-house he built from the chimneys that came off of Bailey's roof. (Aunt Great Lakes won't let him smoke in the house.)
The trouble with Uncle Mt. is that he believes what he reads.
Archie's Uncle Mt. Put Back Side Down
—Archibald Dome
It was quite an event recently when Norma Mills, a three-year veteran of Texas University's Daily Texan sports staff, entered the pressbox for her first football game. She is the second female sports writer to enter the box, and the first one was tossed out.