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University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 16, 1955
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Traffic Control Possible
ASC, School Heads Agree on Plan-
The All Student Council with "stimulation" from the chancellor's office has come up with a plan to allow efficient student participation in University traffic and parking regulations.
And the plan involves very little change. It involves, instead, recognition by the ASC that, except through the ASC appeals court, students have had very little to say about regulations in the past. The plan also involves recognition that the student body will not co-operate with any regulations unless certain guarantees of appeal are retained.
But the committee, because of ASC obstruction has not been able to streamline parking and traffic regulations. The obstruction has not been deliberate; it boils down to inertia and faulty organization.
The situation as it now stands is that the chancellor depends entirely on a committee headed by his administrative assistant, Keith Lawton. The committee consists of three administration assistants, three members of the faculty and four students.
The new plan calls for constitutional recognition of the fact that University parking and traffic committee must be allowed to cope with the increasing traffic and increasing violation of parking rules.
Chancellor Murphy said Saturday that in December of 1953 the administration went before the ASC in an attempt to get the student government to adopt improvement recommendations by the committee. He said, also, that the effort was blocked for purely political reasons. ASC representatives would not act for fear of losing votes.
Campus politics must not block the ability to the administration to cope with this growing problem.
The plan would actually give more representation to the student body in formulating traffic rules in that it would pinpoint responsibility, and the student members of the committee could be appointed by the ASC. As it now stands, the ASC does not, but could appoint these student members.
The chancellor has stated he will take no action concerning traffic or parking regulations without the recommendations of the committee, and, in effect, this is the situation now. But this stipulation, as a further guarantee of a student voice in this matter, should be written into the proposed provision in the ASC constitution.
The UDK would add several other provisions to the bill: First, student members on the committee should be removable by the ASC—and by the ASC alone. Secondly, to guarantee student interest and awareness, the meetings must be open to the press. This last stipulation means that the UDK and KDGU will be free to report every act of the committee to the student body.
The student court would stand as it. Under the plan students would have the same rights of appeal now in existence.
The bill is now being drafted as temporary legislation by ASC president George Sheldon. The new system must be put into effect before the end of the school year in order to begin next fall.
In the ASC passes the bill at tomorrow night's emergency meeting, then it will go into effect. The sooner the better.
—Ron Grandon
In Chicago, Mrs. Marie Hoenecke wasn't a bit frightened when a gunman invaded her delicatess store.
"You don't stick me up," she shouted, whipping out her trusty .45-caliber pistol.
The bandit agreed and ran out the door.
(And before this goes any farther, I want to explain to the faculty and administration of this University that I'm not trying to bring the thought of uprising into the minds of students with these comments.)
Oklahoma A&M went one up on us last Wednesday.
..Oh Well..
By JON
They had their annual Achievements day. It's comparable to our day—also last Wednesday—w h e n the honors convocation is held. But at A&M (Students: Prepare to revolt!) they didn't stop with a convocation. (Students: Fire the shot heard around the world!)
The Aggies had no classes last Wednesday. (Students: Arise, arise Uprize, Revolt, . . . Rebel Upgrade your rights. . . Now . . . Strike Now!)
As a matter of fact, they started the whole shebang last Tuesday night with a big stomp and it went on through until Wednesday night. (It should be pointed out here that they took time out for closing hours.)
But the fact remains: They had no classes Wednesday.
(Now, students, now while there's still time!)
At this point, I think it should be pointed out to the faculty and administration that the preceding item was not meant, in any way, to cause a feeling of unrest or overwork in the collective mind of the student body of the University. The idea that the students might decide they should have a day off never entered my mind.
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Fad Department: In this day and age of rainy weather and overcast skies, one doesn't see much (thank the powers that be) of Bermuda shorts . . . , but it can't be denied that the things do constitute a fad (as well as a menace). But let's get with it . . . there's a new fad . . . (and goodness knows there's nothing a college man/woman likes better than a good fad) . . . Bicycles, have Fun Yale to) Stanford there been reports of bicycle traffic jams. Here you have not only a cure for automobile congestion problems but also—and more important—a new fad.
Contemplation Department: After reading over the preceding article, I realize that my pudgy little legs would never be capable of propelling my 26-inch Schwinn up 14th street hill. . . I further realize that Yale and Stanford are "down to earth" so to speak and not crowding the clouds from a baby mountain.
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You think the Chi O fountain is bad? (In a word, Yes). Then you should see the monster the Gamma Phi Beta Frankensteins have loosed on the campus of the University of Washington . . . I got a look at a picture of this thing the other day and do hereby decree that in the eyes of this writer (who you tryin' to kid?) the Chi O's are vindicated. The GPB's (that's Greek?) at Washington donated a marble and bronze drinking fountain to the university. This is really a hulk of a thing. It looks like the tomb of the unknown soldier with a spigot on it. The marble foundation for this one tiny drinking tap runs for blocks. At least we can go wading in ours.
You Think You Got Troubles?
Department: This is one of those "it shouldn't happen to a dog" stories. A guy insulted his boss . . .
Sold his car. . . Proposed to three girls . . . And then was turned down by his draft board.
I have been asked by the editors of this rag to explain something to you: In one column of type, there are 30.00 chances for an error
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We try to take advantage of all our opportunities.
Junk Department: Subject for the dav* Henry Morgan-tyve ioke.
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A lady went into a butcher shop and ordered a pound of tongue. The butcher wrapped same and laid the parcel on the counter. While the lady dug in her purse for the necessary money to pay, a cat raced out of the back, grabbed the package and made off with it. The butcher looked at the lady and said, "What's wrong, lady, can't you say anything?"
Letters
Oh, Well . . .
Drop Out or Fall Out!
Having read Mr. Mazzara's letter and your editorial in Friday's UDK, I thought I would write you a little theme. (Remember?) My hope is to obfuscate the issues a little bit.
Dear Mme. Editor;
Unlike Mr. Mazzara, I was not at all surprised by the title of Miss Urban's editorial: "Ah, C'mon Prof. Let Us Know We're Flunking." It was rather a good title, eye-catching and nicely punctuated. That, like my own here, it appeared to have little to do with the case at hand seems to me unimportant. For it is highly unlikely that the instructor in question did or even could fail the student out of hand, simply for cutting his class, though he could finally fail him for not accomplishing certain of the tasks he required of his students. The instructor, probably cool under the choler, very likely filled out a salmon-colored card noting the absences of the student, and sent it by campus mail to the Registrar's office. On that card the instructor would have noted his current estimate of the student's grade in the course, any further decision or action was the student's dean', though the latter may have consulted the instructor. Of absences, the instructor is supposed to be merely a recorder and report higher up in the chain of command makes the judgments, weighs measles against miscreancy, the absentee's belladonna drops in the eyes against his being dropped in the course. Now the instructor doesn't have to report those absences, but if he doesn't, and the student has really gone to Chicago and juvenile delinquency, the instructor is liable to have to answer by endorsement to the dean, or what may be worse, by telephone to the dean's secretary. Otherwise, he may not care whether the student is going straight to Helsinki (or maybe to Australia, if that stadium there really gets built). The point is that if he doesn't file his report, he's liable himself to be sent to Coventry. (We didn't take up this last term in English 4, Miss Hilmer, but it doesn't matter; for this—you might guess by the far-flung geographical terms—is only a transitional sentence designed to move the reader on to the next paragraph.)
Last Thursday, about half the students in my three o'clock English 4 class were present. The rest weren't there. "Where is everybody?" I asked the former about the latter. "It's raining." said one of the Former. "Oh, yes." I responded. "Besides, Western Civilization is coming," predicted one of The Former. None of the Latter denied it. "Quite so," I said. "Now Walt Whitman," I continued, gliding neatly into my lecture, "Whitman felt very deeply that western civilization was great, positively the best, and that it had a great future ahead of it, the greatest." (This is a lie; I can't think that fast on my feet, and I was still standing, gazing out of the window at the rain and wondering, oh, so silently; Could it be a fall-out?) Well, we managed somehow without The Latter. We crossed Brooklyn Ferry, going west, and we listened to the
"victorious song, death's outlet song." (Maybe it's just plain rain. I thought. squinting out of the window. God knows, my tomato plants can use it! No rain, no tomatoes; no tomatoes, no tomatoes; for the price of tomatoes doesn't come down in the summer and more.) (The theme of money which transitions us right through the next paragraph is incidentally, before we knew it didn't report any absences. The latter certainly missed the boat, but I didn't report them AWOL. Should I if?—exeuse me, "have." You dassert end with "of." At least not a whole paragraph.)
But when it comes to money, that's a course of a different color. Miss Hilmer remarks quite rightly that "we pay (or our parents pay) good money to attend this University." I quite agree. Money is good, whether in coin or specie. Checks too. Even just credit is good; I always believe in getting credit—or even giving it where it is due: Miss Hilmer is quite right there. But the students don't pay enough of that good money to pay the instructors—at least not enough, if you know what I mean. The people of the state of Kansas make up the deficit—even those who don't send their kids to college. They pay to maintain a university, which means research and the writing of books and papers, and all sorts of things besides teaching students. And I quite agree with Mr. Mazzara that that doesn't include running a nursery school, except maybe by the elementary education specialists. If a student learns best by cutting some classes, as Miss Hilmer suggests, I suppose he had better cut. He's supposed to learn. But if he does cut, the instructor is supposed to report his absences, whether they be on account of nervous breakdown or just plain western civilization. Whether or not the instructor likes 100 per cent attendance at his classes (Miss Hilmer's thought) is quite beside the point. Our University's cutting system may not work very well. Apparently it worked rather, crucially in one particular case. But in any case it is not a function of the instructors—or of the professor Miss Urban has given the cimon to. It is a function of the Administration. And that, of course, is above and beyond my knowledge and understanding.
(If this lecture is too long to run as a letter, you might do as I did and run it into the ground. Please don't cut it).
George Herman Instructor in English
The Grand Canyon, says the National Geographic society acts as a barrier to many of the smaller animals living on the rims. Because of varying climatic conditions, animals on one rim are of different species or subspecies from their relatives on the other, only a few miles away.
St. Louis — (U.P.) Dr. John A. Schindler, Monroe, Wis., told a teachers' conference here that more than 50 per cent of all illness today is emotionally induced because people are not being educated to grow up. He said they are "trying to handle adult problems in childish ways."
Childish Grownups
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