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University Daily Kansan Monday, May 23, 1953
—for Married Students
Article Points Up Housing Problem
It's not often the UDK will give a free plug to a competing media, but the recent issue of Life magazine contains an article well-worth reading. The University administration, especially, must not miss it
The article is concerned with the growing proportion of married students in universities and colleges in every corner of the United States.
College students are apparently deciding they can have a normal life, even though going to school. The males are being faced with the fact that by the time they have finished four years in school plus two with Uncle Sam they have "waited" six long years.
And the general prosperity of the nation has justified their complaints that six years is not a necessary wait. In other words, more and more every day, college students are deciding not to wait. They are getting married.
Kansas is no exception.
Also, the University, like most universities in the U.S. today, is faced with a rapidly spiralling enrollment. Administration officials have already announced they expect at least 10,000 students on the hill by 1960. Within five years, the campus will be crowded with at least 3,000 more students.
Living quarters for these students will be a crucial problem and in view of this, the University is building. A hall for freshmen and independent women is going up on the northeast end of the campus. A hall for independent men is going up on the west end of the campus.
But what about the growing proportion of married students? A significant factor is that within this larger enrollment will be a greater percentage of men and women with the same last name. They won't be brothers and sisters.
University enrollment was high at the end of World War II, and a lot of the students were veterans. These veteran's wives took a lot of Ph.T. (Putting hubby Through) degrees with them when they left.
The veterans and their wives lived in "temporary" shacks at the south edge of the campus. These "temporary" shacks are still there, and doing a heavy-duty business.
But where else would the young professors and their wives and the (by now) even younger students and their wives live? It's still true that most married couples prefer to cook their own meals over a stove. A stove and "cooking privileges" add up to one thing—an apartment.
The truth is, with the Lawrence zoning law and with antiquated houses already being crammed full, there will not be enough apartments to go around when the rush begins.
Chancellor Murphy said recently. "Certainly we will have to recognize that more and more college students are getting married."
He's certainly right.
But it remains for the administration to translate such recognition into definite action. Perhaps in next year's budget?
—Ron Grandon
The ASC just doesn't want to approve the traffic bill. Now . watch the administration take it over anyway. Hope we can keep our student court.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
Chris Chataway is world renowned as pacer of four-minute milers. We would like to nominate another for the position. Since it appears that Wes (which moves faster, mouth or legs?) Santee hasn't the mental or physical ability to run a four-minute mile, we suggest he become pacer to end all pacers. With the "Ashland Antelope" to push more generously endowed youths we feel that America may yet be blessed with a miller who can crack the barrier.
Dear Editor:
Letters
Yours for stiller air, drier tracks,
etc., etc.
H. Glenn Richards,
Owen L. Hughes,
Gary N. Lane,
Graduate Students.
..Oh Well..
By JON
Don't ya' just hate people that come up to you with a cheery "Hello, there." I finally found the answer for these creeps. A guy named A.S. Fluaenbaft thought of it first. But what the heck, I'll swipe anything
From now on, I'll turn a stony
stare
On him who greets me. "Hello, there."
Or else, I'll blink with a naive air.
And ask this question: "Hello, where?"
If there's one name I do not care
To answer to, it's that name. There
--mutton— No muttin'
Inside Story Department: After much research on the part of my 13,000-man (and one woman) staff, here is the true story behind those letters that go into your old man's business offices signed, "Disgusted consumer." Those letters were written by his competitor.
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Please — those of you who have contributed captions to our cartoon contest—do not, from this day forward, threaten us with law suits. We are merely behind in our correspondence and will mail you your nickel (or nickels as the case may be) at our earliest convenience. Who knows, you may get bought off before the next stock market crash. Of course, the only difficulty is finding the nickels. We've jimmied all the Coke and candy machines and some nogoodnik already had beat us to them. We are now working on penny gum machines.
Open Letter Department: To the guy to whom I owe $6.47 for injury done to his motor machine back in March—Don't push the panic button, Abe, I'm honest as your name.
You heard the one about the cat who plopped his frame into the taxi and called for a cool tour to the Waldorf? The tariff taker is void of the knowledge of the overgrown flop house. "That's alright man, just fake it."
Junk Department: Subject for the day—limerick.
There was a butcher named Sutton
Whose wife was a glutton for mutton
He sneaked up behind her,
Pushed her in the grinder;
No Sutton, no glutton, no
The lawyers are broken-hearted. No more GIRLS going by 'till summer school.
Oh well . . .
东 东 东
Watch out for falling bricks at Bailey. They're replacing the chimneys with new furniture.
. . .
Who cares if the assignments keep rolling in. We quit.
Sao Paulo, mushrooming at the rate of 35 new buildings a day, now is challenging Brazil's largest city, Rio de Janeiro, home of 2,650,000 people. It hopes eventually to surpass Buenos Aires, Argentine capital and South America's largest city
Total annual loss to farmers from plant diseases, insects and weeds is the United States is about $13 billion
U.S. Reading Material Being Strictly Limited
Whether or not Americans want to admit it, their choice of reading matter is being limited. Certain persons are deciding what books others should not read and are taking these books off library shelves.
Numerous school libraries have been confronted with this situation, and both textbooks and fiction books have been screened in several states.
In some cases the material inside the books has not been judged at all. The private life of the author is enough for some boards of education to ban the book.
In 1954, Alabama passed an act which stated that all textbooks and required reading books carry a statement by the author or publisher saying:
1. Whether or not the author is or is not or ever was a member of the Communist party, and
2. Whether or not the author is a "known advocate of Communism or Marxist Socialism," a member of any Communist front organization listed by the attorney general of the United States, Congress, or any Congressional committee.
The statement also must give the same information about the author of any book cited in such books.
In April last year a test suit was filed, and school officials were asked to stop complying with the rule until the case was decided.
Opposition to "one-worldism" is another theory that has kept some textbooks out of circulation. In Los Angeles a board of education screened a school library against literature favoring UNESCO.
The Texas State Board of Education carried on a long debate in 1953 before it finally voted 9-3 to include the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights in history textbooks.
In Illinois a mother complained to the sheriff about the immorality of a library book that her daughter was reading. Although the book came from a public library, it could have been from a school library and caused the same reaction.
The sheriff notified the governor, who asked the secretary of state to look into the matter. After investigation, the novel was banned in Illinois. An order was issued to take out of circulation all library books in the same category—"books of salacious, vulgar, or obscene character"—and no more were to be ordered.
The mother started a series of events that affected the whole state.
Approximately 8,000 books (400-500 titles) were removed from public libraries.
Reaction against the order was strong. Within 48 hours after the story came out in the newspapers, the governor publicly stated that while school children should be protected from obscene literature adults are "capable of determining their own reading tastes" and are entitled to a wide choice of books.
The secretary of state blamed the assistant state librarian, saying that she had been "overzealous." She replied that she had only carried out the order as directed. No one was willing to take responsibility for the action.
Perhaps they think that by banning textbooks that mention communism, they are being patriotic. If so, they are only defeating their purpose. It is difficult to understand how they expect someone to fight communism by keeping all information of it from him.
It's fine that adults are taking an interest in what the younger generation is reading. In most cases they probably feel that they are performing a service for both their children and their country.
These adults seem to have little confidence in student ability to distinguish right from wrong and good from bad.
Many persons who oppose the "book banning" feel that a library's main responsibility is to collect, organize, and lend printed material on all subjects and present every point of view.
In reality, the "patriotic intentions" are rather ironic for they are destroying one of America's basic freedoms—freedom of choice.
—Lee Ann Urban
Squat supporters throw the charge that the Sour Owl is not representative of college humor. Anyone ever try to get away with a clean joke these days?
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