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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, February 23, 1955
Housing May Get Legislative Boost
If the Kansas Legislature will pass it, a bill now before the Senate would provide for much of the housing the University now is lacking, and a bright ray of hope would be in store for women students who are in need of better housing.
The bill, introduced by Sen. Wilfrid Cavaness (R.-Chanute), chairman of the Ways and Means committee, provides for an additional one-fourth of a mill to be added to the education building fund now in effect.
The one-fourth mill, levied as a statewide ad valorem tax, would be used exclusively for dormitories. A three-fourths mill rate, now in effect since 1949, takes care only of academic building construction. The bill now is asking for the mill rate to be raised to 1.0—the additional one-fourth mill to be used for dormitory building only
With the three-fourths mill now in effect, there are only two ways to build dormitories: (1) By the use of gifts, and (2) By taking advantage of the right to issue revenue bonds—the method used to build the new men's dorm.
But the two methods of obtaining money for dormitories are not adequate. The University needs the revenue that would come in from raising the mill rate of the education building fund.
If the new bill is passed, an additional million dollars worth of construction yearly would be possible, distributed on the basis of full-time enrollment by the board of regents to five schools in Kansas—the University, K-State, and three teachers colleges at Pittsburg, Emporia and Hays.
According to the new bill, limitations would be placed on the dormitories so that no school could have state dormitory space for more than 50 per cent of its enrollment.
The administration of the University is quite aware of the housing situation, and it is doing everything in its power to push the bill through the Legislature with the hope of solving a major part of the housing problem.
Chancellor Murphy calls the bill "an important and crucial thing . It is the most important building plan since the founding of the University."
The immediate problem, then, is to convince legislators that Kansas schools need housing, that dormitories need to be built.
The University, certainly, can provide adequate proof that dormitories are needed. Despite the University's commendable attempts to obtain dormitories, it is obvious that more funds are needed to house the growing enrollment and the students now enrolled have a right to the claim that they are living under inadequate housing facilities. It is all too obvious to students, faculty, and administration that an additional one-fourth of a mill is imperative.
May the Legislature, too, discover that the problem is crucial and discern the obvious from what inaccurately might be called the superfluous. —Gene Shank
Too bad about those Frenchmen. Isn't there anyone around who'd like to be a premier?
Spring apparently came early this year—if the amount of studying is to be judged by the lack of it during the yearly fever.
Another year, another month. And lo, and behold, another Eng lish Proficiency examination.
The right-to-work bill seems like a fine idea—provided, o course, you're not too lazy to want to work.
With the recent news of Russia's agricultural plight and political unrest, it becomes increasingly evident that the Soviet Union isn't ready for war and won't be for some time to come.
One Man's Opinion
Nikita Khrushev, Soviet agriculture boss, is preparing to push the quota of the Russian peasant to an all-time high in spite of the fact that many sections of the country are still feeling the effects of the extreme drought of last summer.
The Soviet peasant enjoyed the increased freedom under Malenkov and will be loath to give it up. With the death of Stalin, the Russian bear started cooing like a dove. The defense budget was cut in favor of commercial industries, wage rates were raised, taxes were lowered, and the execution of Lavrenti P. Beria, the secret police became more circumspect. Now all this will probably be reversed, and the Russian peasant isn't going to like it one bit.
Russia's agricultural problem is fundamentally that of geography. Most of the country is situated at the northward limit of successful agriculture and, due to the fact that it is located within a large continental interior, the country suffers from extreme winter temperatures and a short, hot summer. The soil is, for the most part, of rather inferior quality.
No country, no matter how heavily armed, can hope to be a military power if its people are inadequately fed.
If nothing else, the Soviet political shake-up shows a weakness in the Russian governing machinery. If Malenkov, who served Stalin for many years, couldn't handle the Soviet reins, it may indicate things aren't going as smoothly as we would be led to believe.
Administration officials and Congressional foreign affairs specialists have felt for some time that the Chinese Communists were no longer satellites of Moscow. It has become apparent in recent months that the bellicose nature of the Chinese Reds has become increasingly difficult to control.
Gordon Hudelson.
The problems of the Soviet Union are basic and such that the new masters of the Kremlin will not be able to change readily.
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One of the most violent earthquakes ever known, at New Madrid, Mo., resulted not in destruction, but in the creation of Reeffoot Lake which abounds with what has been called one of the most teeming collections of wild life and vegetation in the world.
Finland, smaller than California, contains some 60,000 lakes, gouged out of the land long ago by retreating glaciers of the ice Age. Sweden probably has close to 100,000 such lakes.
Clear glass placed over an open cookbook keeps the recipes easy to see and protects the pages from soiling.
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It's 'touche,' not WOW!"
Other Campus News
A student at Indiana university has issued a plea that foreign students be allowed to live in campus fraternity houses. The purpose of the plan is to allow foreign students to live with other students to get a first-hand view of American college life.
Most students know nothing about their student government, according to a poll taken recently at Mississippi Southern college. Less than half of the students could name the vice president, secretary, and treasurer of the student body.
Summaries of the average rents being paid by married students who live in apartments have been compiled at K-State. The average rents, which include utilities, minus telephone were; Small apartment of less than 500 square feet—basement, $56.33; first floor, $64.81; second, $54.84; third, $48.87.
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