Weeds on the Hill
KU's cigarette smokers will now be able to pump their tobacco dollars into cigarette machines right on the KU campus, following the Board of Regent's recent decision to rescind the ban on Kansas campus cigarette sales.
When my cigarette-smoking friends heard the glad tidings, they uttered whoops of joy commingled with hoarse coughs and wheezes. When a man's constitution is already run down from constantly jerking those little white cylinders to his lips, it is a strain to have to walk off campus to buy the weed.
Things are different now from the early years of KU, when an All-Student Council Smoking Patrol roamed the corridors of the classroom buildings. Smoking was verboten in nearly all classrooms and halls, and violators were penalized.
How soon will we see, standing beside the cigarette machines, glossy new dispensers for cellophane-wrapped packages of marijuana joints? Merchandized in packets of six or 10, filter-tipped, super or king-sized, labelled
"Golden Goodies," "Super Reef" and "Nirvanas."
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Figures released Friday show that KU is expanding more rapidly than any other state institution controlled by the Board of Regents. It's also the biggest school in Kansas.
The 17,576 students attending KU this semester represent an increase of 1,094 from the fall of 1968—a 6.6 per cent jump.
The existence of small schools within the large University could prove to be the answer to many of the multiversity's mushrooming problems.
It had seemed to me that the University was growing smaller. It's my third year on Mount Oread, and with each passing semester I get to know more members of the University community. And I'm lucky: I'm enrolled in the William Allen White School of Journalism, a small school where the faculty and students can interact as persons, not numbers.
JUST BECAUSE MOST PLACES WERE ACTIVE, A Few ESTABLISHMENT BEADS ARE BASHED...
Joanna K. Wiebe
OR A UNIVERSITY TURN UP
AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH
ABRIDGED...PEOPLE
LABEL 'SDS AS
VIOLENT.
WE'RE SIMPLE TRYING TO CHANGE SOCIETY TO MEET OUR URSELY HIGH IDEALS! IT'S UNFair to BLAKE ALL OF US FOR THE BEHAVIOR OF A FRIEND.
BESIDES, EITHER
YOU'RE FOR US OR
AGAINST US.
FEW.
JUST BECAUSE A FEW NEGROES HAVE BEEN LVCHED ...
OR A CHURCH BLOWN
UP AND CITIZENS
RUN OUT OF TOWN
PEOPLE LABEL US
AS VIOLENT.
WE'RE SEES 'TRAIN'
IT PROTECT OUR SOCIETY
FROM MORAL CORPUDION!
IT'S UNFAIR TO BLASE
ALL OF US FOR THE
BEHAVIOR OF A FEM.
BESIDES, EITHER
YOURE FOR US OR
AGAINST US'
Satellite Union site queried
(Editor's note: This letter has been received by the Chancellor's office and is slated for debate and action at Wednesday's Student Senate Meeting.) To the editor:
We students who have studied and worked on the proposals for a Satellite Student Union want to express our disgust with the actions and lack of cooperation taken by the University on this matter.
Seven months ago a student report, prepared by the design class of Professor Fred Stephenson and other groups, seriously questioned the location of the Satellite Union, northwest of Allen Field House, on the basis of its accessibility to students. It was felt that the present location neither adequately serves the residence halls nor the main concentration of students on campus. At best it is a poor compromise in meeting these goals. As a result of the report, the All-Student Council unanimously passed a resolution rejecting the present site for the Union until certain questions were answered by Vice-Chancellor Keith Lawton. Not all of these questions were answered by Mr. Lawton. We would like to know why.
Since March, pipes have been laid to the present site for the Union; during the summer, plans were prepared; budget increases were prepared to present to the Board of Regents—continually ignoring repeated student questioning of the site for the Satellite raised in the spring and summer to the director of the Union and the state architect.
In the first Union Operating Board Meeting this year, the decision was made to stop work on the Satellite Union until fee increase studies were made and studies were made on the possibility of relocating the Union. But in a private meeting held Oct. 7 between Frank Burge, director of the Union Keith Lawton and other administrators, the decision was made to call a special Operating Board meeting Oct.13—two weeks before the regularly-scheduled meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to get approval of the present site before any comprehensive relocation studies could be completed. Is this democratic action?
This puts us students in a precarious position. With the increase in building costs, and the need for facilities where students can relax, dine, meet friends and make the University experience fuller, a delay now would be costly and impose a further burden on students. Seven months ago this could have been avoided.
In the future, we hope problems of student needs can adequately be answered by the University Planning Council and the Campus Planning and Resources Committee. But the fact remains that the one building which could give students identity and a place to be alive on the campus will not fully serve that purpose. We find it regrettable that the administrative channels have caused this confrontation, but we, in all good conscience, cannot support the Satellite Union.
Students are not a peripheral function of the University, nor should their Student Union be a peripheral function. The present Union cannot serve all the students for the exact reason it is on the periphery of our campus.
We call for a special meeting of the new University Planning Council to review the site for the Satellite Student Union. All we want is a fair hearing of our stand-not seven months in the future, but now.
Frank Zilim, St. Louis, Mo. senior, architecture;
student, body, vice president, chaimman
of Campus Planning Committee: member of
Council; member of
Union Operating Board
William A. Bandle Jr., Jennings. Mo. senior, architecture.
Jr. R. Hodges, Avn. M., senior, architecture.
R. Maase, Mt. Prospect, Ill. senior, architecture.
Larry W. Diehl, Kansas City Kan., senior, architecture.
Larry Zimmerman, Kansas City, Kan., senior architecture.
Gary Warner, Boulder, Colo. senior, architecture.
Les Austin, Worthington, Minn., graduate student, American studies.
Ron Turner, Raytown, Mo. sen., architecture.
John Porter, Kansas City, Kan. sen., archi-
c
Jay R. Simon, Lawrence, senior, architecture,
Irenio Valencia, Honolulu, Hawaii, junior,
Irenio Valencia, Honolulu, Hawaii, junior,
Phil Evans, Osecae, Iowa, junior, architecture William V Chipp, St. Louis, Mo, junior, ar-
Jeff Kozeny, Neodosha, junior, architecture.
Marlin Jones, Frankfort, junior, architecture.
Neal Hoffman, Dix Hills, N.Y., junior, archi-
ture.
Ken Francis, Kansas City, Kan., junior, architecture.
Howard Neyland, Sarasota, Fla., junior, architecture.
Paul Kreutziger, Wleiha, junior, architecture
Chris Gale, Kansas City, Mo., junior, archi-
christ Chise, Kansas City, Mo., junior, architecture.
Andy C. Williams Manchester Mo. junior 46
Judy Mueller, Red Oak, Iowa, junior, architecture.
Tom E. Taylor, Richmond, Mo., junior, architecture.
Karl C. Smith, Shawnee Mission, junior, architecture.
Jack Shank, St. Louis, Mo. minor, architecture
Theorem 13. Mundy, assistant professor, architecture
Bill Klocke. River Forest, Ill., junior, architecture
Tom Tredway, Columbus, Neb., junior, architecture.
Jeffrey T. Vansickle, Emporia, junior, architecture.
Dennis Constance, Independence, Mo., junior architecture.
James, Bartholomew, Lombard, Ill., junior, ar-
Berg Keshian, Arlington, Md., junior, architectural engineering.
Jamie Bloomwein, Lombard, I., junior, architecture.
Robert Pufford, Blue Sculpture Museum.
Bruce Cady, Kansas City, Mo., junior, architecture.
Robert Burford. Blue Springs, Mo., junior, architecture.
Patrick A. Tillisch, Kansas City, Kan., junior architecture.
Craig Patterson, Shawnee Mission, junior, architecture.
Robert H. Willem, Teumcush, senior, architecture.
Daniel Danman, Telavil, Israel, junior, architecture.
Jim Horton, Leawood, junior architecture.
John A. Kriecensky, Glsbeoe, Mo., junior, architecture.
Andy C. Williams, Manchester, Mo., junior, architecture.
Joseph King, Potwin, fifth-year, architecture. Fount Smothers, associate professor architecture. David Keesling, Clay Center, senior, political science.
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