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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Sept. 30, 1953
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"Ordinarily I don't go along with 'student lesson planning,' but every now and then they come up with something pretty good."
Money, Money, Money --Who'll Cash a Check?
Woe unto the student who is caught with an empty billfold after 3 p.m. on the Hill.
By that time the check cashing service at the business office is irrevocably closed until the next morning at 10 a.m. This leaves our semi-destitute scholar with several recourses, most of them fruitless.
(1) He can buy 10 cents worth of pencils at the Union book store and cash a slightly larger check—that is, if he can make it over to the Union before 5 p.m. when the book store closes.
(2) He can go downtown to eat—providing he has 10 cents for bus fare, and knows a check-cashing restaurant. But this consumes time and must be foregone if he has early meetings or evening classes to attend.
Now the logical answer to all this would be that the student should exercise slightly more foresight and not be caught short-handed. But under the wear and tear, stress and strain of a particularly overloaded day, this situation occurs to the best of us now and then.
We're certain that the check-cashing hours at the business office have been set up as lenient as possible, considering the amount of other business the office must conduct.
So we offer another solution: it seems to us that the Student Union could well set up an off-hours check-cashing service to be operated by the hostess in charge or another easily accessible person.
"To serve the students" is proclaimed the guiding light of the Student Union. Gentlemen, we demand service.
—Jerry Knudson
A Daily Kansan reporter furnished the newsroom with a rabbit he chased down in Marvin grove. There should be something bunny to say about that, but we can't think of it.
Daily Hansan
University of Kansas Student, Newspaper News Room KU 251 Ad Room KU 376 Member of the Kansas Press Ass. National Editorial Assn., Inland Daily Press Representation by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Avenue, N.Y. City Subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a month. Lawrence). Published in Lawrence, Kan. every afternoon during the University of Kansas University holidays and examination periods. Entered second class matter Sept. 17, 1910 at Lawrence, Kan.. Post Office
Hawk Nest Squatters--Git!
Three industrial scientists report that stale bread is just as easy to digest as fresh bread. The trio made a series of tests while seeking a way to slow down the staling process.
here to stay. The student wishes there were more room, but since everyone else is experiencing the same thing, there's not much he can do about it.
With an almost unceasing L-shape line around both ends of the room—one line for coffee, one for fountain drinks—and with booth and table room at a premium, the Nest is cluttered to a state of discomfort.
That is until he sees it. Yeah, the single student holding down a booth while reading a textbook. Going over, our friend suggests that the booth might be used by a lone coffee drinker too, if the student would only shove aside his books.
Imagine then the disconcerting spectacle of the half-gone student who drags into the room after two hours of early morning class for a much-needed cup of coffee-only to find no room to sit down with his fast cooling cup of coffee.
Michigan's total land area, 36,777,-200 acres, is larger than Greece, larger than Switzerland and Portugal combined, and is four times the size of Belgium.
This crowdedness is a sad state, but is probably
The scholar points silently to his half cup of cold coffee. He too is patronizing the Union, and if he doesn't desire company to drink his coffee, he is entitled to tell the intruder so.
so we see traffic in the Hawk's Nest, already crowded to the point of distraction, further curtailed by booth-squatters who want to study. Have they heard of the library?
The 366 increase in enrollment seems to have centered itself entirely in the Hawk's Nest, and these plus the regular attendants from last year make our favorite hang-out a pretty crowded place.
Parents' Day Gets Editorial Nod
—Mary Betz.
NEWS STAFF
Letters:
Avid 'Anna' Fan
Criticizes Critic
To the Editor:
Revolution is brewing at KU. Heads won't roll, but we'd like to see a few rolling.
Tom Stewart, what makes you Tom Stewart, what makes you're a better critic than Walter Winchell? (UDK review of "Anna," Sept. 28)
The extreme realism of "Anna" and other Italian films is a great improvement over the mush American producers have turned out. A majority (of the American films) wouldn't make the woosiest 80-year retreat to the lobby. Too much realism? I doubt if it's possible.
The student is his own critic. Who gives a damn what another critic
COMMENTS
Editor's Note: Sincere as he may be, Streeter himself merited a bit of criticism on the above letter. We had to add the second "o" to "too", third sentence, second paragraph, and we helped him out on the question mark in the final sentence, last paragraph.
fine arts sophomore
Commented the New York Journal-American on an incident shortly following the reunion of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner at one of Frankie's nightclub appearances: "As their glances locked, thunder boomed and lightning flashed . . . The Voice unleashed a torrent of sound at the sultry Ava. Emotion poured from him as molten lava
Executive Editor Clarke Keys
Managing Editors Ken Coy, Rozanne
News Editor Shirley Piatt, Chuck
News Editor Eileen Foley
Society Editor Velma Gaston
Sports Editor Don Tice
News Editor Edward Howard
News-Editorial
. . ." Pardon us while we throw up.
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Tal Streeter.
Now we've seen everything. The musical movie biography of Grace Moore, "So This is Love," never had a song of that name in it. Hollywood screen writers, take note: this definitely isn't cricket.
Friend of ours says he'll be mighty glad when the Dragnet theme finally wears out and vacates the jukebox. Says he gets so peeped up on hearing it, he even wants to go out and study.
"A Pin to See the Peepshow" closed after one Broadway performance. Obviously everyone thought they were being overcharged.
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You mean this avowed Communist-voting citizen, Lucille Ball, is still on TV? For shame! And using a capitalistic medium for spreading proletariat propaganda, at that.
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Tickets to the football game will be sold at a reduced price ($2) and registered parents will be able to sit with their sons and daughters in the student section.
Parents are to get the "red carpet" treatment. They will be given a tour through the Hospital, the Union, the museums, classrooms and laboratories, and student living accommodations.
Students from all over the state will be introduced to a taste of campus life. Perhaps not the dull, drab existence of study life, but at any rate University life.
All in all, it seems to us a good idea to spread the name of the University out into the state even if it does crowd the student seating section a little.
The plan tends for better state-wide and nation-wide publicity. It seems like quite an ingenious method of making the subscriber come to the source instead of sending the publicity through the mails.
—Ken Cov
It gives the High School bands a chance to perform before a large crowd, the kind they otherwise would find only at state fairs.
The scheme has a two-fold purpose. One, quite naturally, is to better acquaint parents with student problems and to introduce them to the University family.
Well, so wide screen—"The Robe"—has finally made its debut. Hip-hip-hooray for Daryl Zanuck. We've always wanted to see what Jean Simmons' left ear would like twelve feet high.
Letters:
Law Student Hits
Union Editorial
EDITORIAL STAFF
University officials, with an eye on good student relations and possible enrollment increases, are planning a double-barreled publicity exercise for the first home football game this year.
They plan to pack the campus, and the stadium, with hundreds of high school students from over the state and a great many parents of new students.
At one time Parents Day was simply Mothers Day. However, a few years ago the plan was changed to include both Mom and Dad.
This seems a logical move on the part of University officials. It makes the observance more like a special University holiday.
This letter concerns an article written by one Tom Stewart and appearing in the Monday, Sept. 28, issue under the title of "Missouri Seeking Statutory Leash for Unbridled Union."
Usually no other crowd, with the exception of Homecoming, excels the Band Day. Parents Day festival.
To the Editor:
The piece written by Mr. Stewart was, for the most part, informative, but I found in the closing paragraph what, to me, amounted to a misrepresentation of fact. Mr. Stewart states that, "the labor bosses, growing richer and fatter from the ability to run unions according to their whims, won't enjoy seeing the faucet shut off." This is of course, true. Now for a few clarifying facts. First, ninety percent of all union members belong to unions which are not, I repeat, are not run by the so-called 'labor boss.'
BUSINESS STAFF
Second, union leaders and union members have justifiable cause to be alarmed when the state legislatures start making legislation to "leash" them and their unions which are, more than any other American institution, responsible for our current standard of living. (I do not class war as an American institution—yet.)
The records of the state legislatures indicate that, generally, they are more concerned with weakening labor unions than they are in merely obtaining reports, etc., as the Missouri bill is supposed to do.
Editorial Editor Mary Betz
Editorial Assistants Jerry Krusdon,
Tom Lippman
I think that the points reiterated by Mr. Stewart are, prima facie, fair and reasonable but I will indeed be surprised if there isn't an ulterior motive involved. The last time labor tried to co-operate in the preparation of Federal legislation to solve the national emergency strikes, etc., it received the Taft-Hartley Act as a solution.
Labor unions, for the most part, are classic examples of American democracy in action and I rebel against any picture which attempts to paint them differently. I say this realizing that many of the craft unions still have a long way to go to live up to this laudable citation.
Business Manager ... Gordon Ross
Retail Adv. Mgr. .. Ed Smith
National Adv. Mgr. .. Jane Meerfaith
Circulation Mgr. .. Susan Berry
Classified Mgr. .. Ann Awinsworth
Business Adviser .. Gene Bratton
James P. Johnston
Adviser          Calder M. Pickett
    EENTORIAL MARK
year 1998 Editor's Note: Not a blanket statement, the editorial spoke of "certain members of the minority," "leash" is meant for those unions whose actions are "unbridled"—not all unions, most of which already follow policies advocated by the editorial.
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