University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 31, 1955
Inactive KU Clubs Should Be 'Kaput'
One hundred student organizations were suspended by the Oklahoma A&M student council last week for failing to submit reports to the student senate.
The reports were four days overdue according to the student association constitution. The senate gave the organizations an extra week to turn in the reports. If the clubs did not meet this deadline, their charters were to be revoked.
KU organizations are not required to submit reports to the ASC, but it might be a good idea. Such a plan might eliminate several organizations that do little or nothing throughout the school year.
When a club exists in name and inactive members only, there is no point in continuing it.
A report of projects, financial status, and future plans would accomplish two things. It would keep organizations on their toes and would eliminate those groups that do little more than collect dues.
The plan wouldn't mean that organizations would have to be carrying on earth-shaking activities. However, it would stimulate enough action that clubs would have to fulfill some purpose.
After all, every club originally had some reason for existing, but some seem to have forgotten what it is.
Some clubs function well at first and then fade out of the picture when interest in that particular field drops. On the other hand, when new interests arise there is often the need to form a new organization. The new organizations might as well replace some of the inactive ones.
The point is that the system would make every organization mean something. Persons would have to stop joining clubs just to get their names on the membership lists.
The club member would have more of a desire to contribute some time and energy, rather than just dues, to keep the club in operation. Lee Ann Urban
Check That Crazy Auto!
Riding a Magic Rug, Or Just Driving a Car?
If you have a magic rug, you're mighty lucky, unless it's cold Friday. If you are like most students, you have to drive or ride in a slow automobile.
You can reduce the danger of your own car by checking certain essential parts for wear. The failure of any of these parts could mean complete loss of control of the car.
Check brakes: For fluid leaks, worn lining, and spongy pedal.
Check steering equipment: All gears and rods, and replace worn pieces.
Check lighting: A shorted wire, loose cable, worn switch can mean a black-out at top speed.
Check wheel bearings and nuts: Keep your wheels under you.
But what can you do to check the other driver?
You don't know whether or not they have checked all these danger spots. Chances are they haven't, just as chances are that you won't.
Hundreds of drivers coming toward you, going around you, and coming at you from side roads—and one or several of them are likely to have a breakdown at any time.
There is only one thing you can do when someone with a blow-out is coming straight toward you . . . pray, or hope that you are going slow enough to stop or get out of the way before he hits you.
That's the only way to check the other driver. Check your speed! —Jack Fisher
UDK Has Full Mailbox
Editor:
Being opposed to the system of quasi-professional varsity athletics so prominent on most college campuses today, I am perhaps prejudiced in my observations. It seems to me that athletic facilities of a university should be devoted more to the benefit of the student 'body' and the encouragement of individual participation in athletics than to the devotion of Gargantuan structures in which the 'champions' may be watched in action. I refer specifically to the pitifully inadequate facilities of Robinson gymnasium. When entering the gym one almost expects to see men in tights with handlebar moustaches exercising with Indian clubs, the general appearance is so antiquated.
I enjoy playing handball, but the hours I find conveniently free to play are usually signed up within a few hours after the reservation sheet is posted owing to the demand for the one handball court on the campus. There is room in Robinson gym for more handball courts, although I wonder if it might not be possible to stay there for the construction could be completed. Evidently we will have to wait our turn for the few facilities in Robinson while Allen fieldhouse stands vacant many afternoons.
You were forewarned that this is a prejudiced letter and this I admit; however, from the complaints I hear from many of my fellow law students I cannot help but think it is a rather large group whose complaint I air.
Thomas Morton First Year Law
Editors note: Your complaints may be justified, Mr. Morton, but further investigation is needed. We suggest you talk to your lawyer friends who are doing the airing and see if you can draw up some good ideas on how to combat the situation and bring these ideas to us.
Mr. Griggsy has seized upon an admittedly unfortunate incident involving the hospital (a freshman coed lay on the ice 15 minutes) 1 block from Watkins hospital waiting for an ambulance to take her to the hospital) and has used it to damn the University health program.
I read with a good deal of ire. my, myself, a letter to the editor by John Grosby, graduate student, urging Watkins to ire arise against Watkins hospital.
To the Editor:
Now. really
If Mr. Grigsby had bothered to think for a moment, he might have done several things.
1. He might have asked the hospital why the delay occurred before he aired his uninformed views in print.
2. He might have registered a complaint with the hospital liaisons committee of the student council which is there for that purpose and which, unlike Mr. Griggsy, tries to get both sides of the story.
3. He might have summoned some common sense and realized that the ice that proved so perilous for the
I doubt if Mr. Griggsy would be pleased if he were called an incompetent graduate student because he made one mistake in logical thinking. However, he didn't hesitate to call the hospital incompetent because it made one mistake (if it did), in its services.
coded to walk on was equally as perilous for an ambulance to drive on.
As for this $10 compulsory health insurance fee, how on earth could such a plan get the doctor there quicker—Mr. Grigsby's main complaint?
Letty Lemon Journalism senior
UNIVERSITY Dailu Hansan
To the Editor:
And when the duel is done an epilogue might be read, with words to the effect that when one's endeavors are not good enough to bring about the desired result, no amount of subsequent explanation is likely to make the situation look any better. It has always been my understanding that in the theater, as well as in journalism, the results are expected to speak for themselves.
Irepressible morbidity now ribbles at the edges of my soul and I submit that the affair should not be allowed to fizzie; the antagonists should be made to eat their respective words at the proper time and place. For example, why not let them have it out—as a special intermission feature at the next University theater production—with handfuls of grease paint at twenty paces?
The overtones of indignant arrogance which linger after the squable between actor (?) Murrill (alias Buckingham) and critic (?) Dee Richards are unbecoming but curious. (My use of question marks in parentheses constitutes no facetious intent; it is merely supposed to reproduce—perhaps in an understated sort of way—the feelings which Murrill and Dee have for each other.)
Peter Earle Graduate student
Editor:
As a "freshman" at the University of Kansas, I had heard much that was both good and bad about the Rock Chalk Revue when I first came here. The fact that there had been considerable criticism, particularly by faculty and townpeople, of the quality of the humor only made this year's Rock Chalk Revue a greater thrill for me. The standards were high and those groups which did not adhere to the highest standards were apparently not regarded by the judges as having exercised the imagination that it takes to produce a winner.
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I should like to take this opportunity to commend Norm Capps, the producer, and his fine staff for their tremendous job in putting over the Revue. The standing room crowd on
William H. Allaway
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Saturday was of course the best tribute that could be made to their work. The YMCA deeply appreciates the work put into the Revue by the North College, Pi Beta Phi, Gamma Phi Beta, Delta Gamma, Alpha Tau Omega, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Nu, and Pi Kappa Alpha houses. The Daily Kansan, by telling the story of the Revue as it progressed, added to the enthusiasm of the campus as a whole.
We have confidence that the Revenue will continue to grow in stature as it has this year.
General Secretary
Editors note: Mr. Allaway, we con-
gratulate you on this fine letter. It's
always a good feeling that comes when
we receive a letter such as
yours. We think that this year's
Rock Chalk Revue was one of the
best performances in the past six
years and Mr. Capps does deserve
a big pat on the back.
For Appointment
To the Editor
Respectively yours,
James K. Crosby
Engineering senior
In the past the UDK has been criticized for some of its alleged shortcomings: therefore. I think it is only fair that the Kansan be commended if the occasion arises. Congratulations! Now at last we seem to have a reliable source of information in your new front page feature, "WE GOOFED."
Editors note: We're not quite sure how to take that last comment, Mr. Crosby. But we thank you.
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