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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 15, 1953
Reform Plans Benefit State
Keep your eye on Kansas—it might warrant a little pride some day.
It is finally setting about to do some of the things which have needed doing so long.
First of all and most important is the State Water Resources board. Finally, the State is acquiring a unified control and development of water resources. Water has been the most controversial Kansas problem in decades—the new board should eliminate some of this controversy and enable Kansans to use their water wisely.
The board has the authority to "enter all phases of water policy of the State," Gov. Fred Hall said recently. He also said the functions of all the various agencies concerned with water policy in the state will be under its control.
The governor listed among the duties of the board the initiation of studies for the finding of new sources of water, the initiation of studies and recommendations on municipal and industrial uses of water, studies and recommendations on river projects, and other water studies, all of them very necessary projects.
Kansas has needed such a board for a long time.
Kansas has needed such a board for a long time. Secondly, the State is recognizing that it is a beautiful state, and that beauty should be shown. One aspect of this is the creation of the new State Park and Resources authority, to develop Kansas park and lake areas as convenient recreation centers for its citizens.
It happens that few Kansans spend their vacations in Kansas. Even fewer out-of-staters spend their vacations here. The State is not known as a vacation land, but it could be. The new authority, which is seeking to develop lodging and recreational facilities at Kansas vacation spots, expects the program to pay for itself. Such a program has been needed here for a long time.
Thirdly, Kansas is trying to keep ahead of the prison riots, not by clamping "maximum security" on its prisoners, but by seeking to find the evils in the Kansas prison system.
Gov. Hall last summer appointed a commission of six penology experts to study the Kansas prisons and make recommendations for improvements. Leading the commission is the noted psychiatrist, Dr. Karl Menninger.
This kind of investigation is needed all over the nation as well as in Kansas.
All of these projects have been initiated by Gov. Hall. In his current fight to "take politics out of the Kansas Civil Service" he may be improving the state in yet another way.
—Bret Waller
Politics or not, these improvements are good for Kansas. —Ron Grandon
One sentence in the current University parking and traffic regulations must be rather liksome to All Student Council representatives. This sentence:
"Penalties for violations of University regulations are determined by the chancellor."
Facts Are Wrong In Traffic Booklet
Now just a darn minute! This was formerly a function of the All Student Council. Has the Chancellor "usurped" this power? The answer is "No!"
Last year in an emergency meeting just before finals week, the ASC met to establish new fines. They were approved by the chancellor as set by the ASC, and went into effect this year.
And new parking zones, which also went into effect this year, were established by a student, faculty, and administration committee under Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor.
In other words, the setting of fines and parking zones is not as undemocratic as stated in the regulation booklet. Even if the booklet were meant only for the eyes of visitors, this statement would be a shame. It's too bad visitors can't see the functions of student government.
Perhaps the University administration is planning to gradually take over these regulation reins. The booklet states that it has already done so. It's time for a clarification by the ASC.
"We're growing," the Chancellor tells students at opening convocation—as if the number of new freshman girls in the Hawk's Nest this morning didn't make this obvious.
...Oh Well ...
Bv JON
And here we go again.
So nice to have all you people back . . . Without you who would read this? . . . With you who reads it? . . . At any rate, it's nice . . . You'll probably read part of it once anyway before you realize what a bundle of glop it is . . . So, for the privilege of "suckering you in" on the first one. I'm glad to have you back.
--prior to this were numbered B. N. P.
The Year of No Parking
Briefly, let me outline what the year's going to be like. First of all, it'll be a "good grief" year.
Good grief, where'd all these people come from? . . . Good grief,
where does a guy park around here?
. . . Good grief, did you see the size of that giant? . . . Good grief, seven cents for cream and sugar?
Of course, as the year wears on (and it wears on the best of us) the exclamations will become somewhat stronger . But you get the idea.
The signs are up . . . the campus is bare . . . The militia is patrolling the streets, parking tickets in hand.
Not only have they cut out much of the campus parking, they've jacked up the fines in case you do where you're parking. They've put "outing teeth" in an ordinance.
And not only that, for parking in some places marked negative, the case goes into the city court. Therefore, all you guys who knew the angles for working a "fix" on campus parking tickets will have to start looking for a way to get the city ordinance changed . . . It's not hard, tell 'em you know Joe.
Literary Department: For any and all Greeks not following the adventures of Dick Tracy—The necessary councils soon will pass a law requiring all of you to read the aforementioned column. They're talking about fraternity pins.
Intimately.
The word is that street cars are coming back to the campus.
Must See Department: The Kansas State Board of Review (better known as "TGWDAUTSN-FONW")—The Group What Don't Allow Us To See No Pictures Of Nekkid Women) has just banned another picture from Kansas movie houses. Produced by Allied Artists, it's called "Tictaban." The word is
the Board saw the last three letters of the name and decided it was a good idea. At any rate, the Board saws:
"Eliminate all nude figures in entire picture—under section 18-1-22-Rule 'D' our law."
To see this picture, get a copy of your favorite Japanese newspaper and find out when it's showing in Tokyo. Anything goes.
...
However, all is not lost . . . The Board says Chapters 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 of "Adventures of Captain Africa" are okay for Kansas.
--it will be a great and monotonous world.
—Ted Blankenship
Oh well
Spectator Nation For Lack Of Space
Chicago—(U.P.) Young Americans often aren't athletic simply because there's no space to be athletic, according to two site development engineers for parks, schools and other recreational facilities.
The problem is not confined to the cities, the engineers said. Many suburbs now are feeling the pinch from failing to provide for parks, playgrounds, community centers or other public recreational facilities.
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Congratulations KU But How About...
Congratulations to the University. For the first time in decades, the problem of living conditions for independent women students is beaten-at least temporarily. This has been accomplished in spite of rapidly growing enrollment and could well be a source of pride for the school.
And the new Carruth and O'Leary doemitories will go a long way towards relieving the housing situation for the independent males. Another source of pride.
Chancellor Murphy seems to be a master at assembling funds from various sources connected with the school, including the State legislature. This is always a tough battle.
But the next goal for the Chancellor's moneyraising talents will be an even greater challenge than the halls for men and women. This challenge—some kind of supplement to the "temporary" married student and faculty housing at Sunnyside.
Living quarters for married students and for some of the junior faculty members are hard to find in Lawrence. This last will give battle as the understatement of the year.
If KU cannot beat K-State in this kind of housing, then at least this school could follow the lead of the sister school. K-State, at the last session of the State legislature, won approval of a mammoth married student housing project.
The University is doing a good job in housing for single students, but it is time to realize that more and more students are married and these students need housing, too.
Ivy League Clothing Seen As Nauseous
Already the Ivy League trend in clothing for males is apparent, and already I'm sick.
If the young, red-blooded, well-dressed college caballero is seeking a uniform, he has found it—Ivy League. What with pleatless trousers, three-button coats, Chesterfield topcoat, and striped tie, all the 20th-century college male needs is a racon coat.
Where, oh where is individuality?
We're not content to let our Eastern friends control the coastal waters, we have to let them control our minds.
Tell me if you can, what is wrong with color?
I know what you are going to say, arglele socks.
The vivid colors are fine, but why sentence to the feet the only spash of interest in a sea of drab charcoal?
It seems that the humorist Robert Benchley was right when he said every American male is a little afraid of his suit.
Benchley tells about the time he first wore his white Panama suit, and all the neighbors were secretly laughing at him—even the sparrows chuckled a bit.
You can guess what Mr. Benchley did, he went home and redonned his blue serge. But he was a humorist, and he could laugh at himself. He knew he was typical and he thought it funny.
Today the trend is the same, but the clothing has changed from blue serge to Ivy (ugh!) League. Let's face it, the American college male simply has a shortage of guts.
I only hope that uniform duds don't influence other areas. I can see it now:
More than 4.000 college men driving more than 4.000 green chevrolets, eating more than 4.000 plates of the same nondescript food, enrolled in 4.000 courses—all the same, and wearing more than 4.000 charcoal suits with pleatless trousers, pastel shirts secured at the neck with more than 4.000 striped ties.
New York dock workers go back to work. The few pennies they earned only will set the country back a few million dollars.
So school begins. Another round of those happy, hilarious evenings spent in revelry . . . and this process will prolong the revelry another year, which will prolong the revelry another year, which will prolong the, etc. and ad infinitum.
Adenauer makes an agreement with the Soviet Nothing will come of it, though—we hope.