rage 12 University Daily Kansan
FACTS Housing Report
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tablish a housing committee to study the problem of student housing, with special reference to the conditions of independent men in private homes.
Larry Kravitz, engineering junior, was appointed chairman and served in that capacity until the end of the spring semester, 1952.
The first thing the committee did was to establish a set of minimum standards for housing. Because the committee couldn't find inspectors to go around to the houses, execution of the plan was postponed until this year.
Upon recommendation of Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, Bill Wilson, All Student Council president, appointed a new ASC housing committee on Nov. 17. The committee consists of Dean Glasco, engineering junior, chairman; Frederick D. Rice, sollege sophomore; Jane Snyder, engineering freshman; Wilfred Meyer, college sophomore, and Donald Hortor, college senior.
The committee met yesterday in the dean of men's office with Dean L. C. Woodruff and Wilson to decide upon a decision program.
Chapter II points out that when the first ASC committee ceased, Handrahan assumed the function of the former chairman of the committee under the auspices of FACTS. He spent the summer visiting student rooms in private homes with Mrs. Nash of the University housing office.
Handrahan reported the results of his investigations to both FACTS tribune and the All Student Council this fall.
The Handrahan report brought quick response from FACTS, and another committee was appointed to confer with University officials on the possibility of obtaining student inspection of private housing facilities.
Bill Nulton, college senior, was appointed chairman of the committee. Others were Handrahan, Wendel Stewart, education freshman, and Mary Betz, college junior. They met with Dean Woodruff, Mrs. Nash, and Miss Martha Peterson.
University officials approved FACTS plans.
The tip of the administration that higher private room standards depended upon the attainment of more University dormitory facilities, plus a series in the Daily Kansan on inadequacy of certain types of housing prompted FACTS to establish a party housing committee, charged with drawing up a complete report on presently available housing and then seeking an audience with the board of regents.
As other organizations became interested in housing, the chancellor called a meeting at which he urged a coordinated student housing program. FACTS drew up its report issued today to summarize its findings and to give the new ASC committee a head start.
Expert on Asia Talks to Students
Miss Olga Surh, of the Committee of Free Asia, is visiting the University yesterday and today talking with all students from Asia and with faculty members dealing with students from Asia.
Miss Surh said her purpose was to explain problems facing Asian stu- students to faculty advisors. Also, she said she is talking to the Asian students in order to learn special problems which the students themselves face while attending school in this country.
Miss Surh explained that the Committee of Free Asia was developed to create a partnership with the people of Asia and the people of America. She said such a partnership could build a strong defense against Communist aggression in Asia and encourage freedom.
500th MIG Down In Korea Today
Seoul, Korea — (U.P) — American fighter pilots shot down five MIGs in aerial battles over North Korea today, bringing to more than 500 the number of the Russian-made planes destroyed in the 29-month-old Korean war.
The Sabre-MIG duels featured a day of stepped-up air activity which included B-29 attacks on a huge metal processing plant and a troop and supply center.
Credit for shooting down two MIGs went to Capt. John H. Jones Jr., of Rome, N.Y; 1st Lt. David T. Copeland of Dallas, Texas, and Capt. Manuel J. Fernandez of Miami, Fla., each got one. Credit for the fifth victory was not announced.
With today's five kills, Allied pilots have accounted for 502 MIGs destroyed in the Korean war. Fifth Air Force headquarters said the 409th and 500th MIGs were shot down within 60 seconds of each other.
On the ground, 300 screaming Chinese attacked Pinpoint hill and Rocky Point on Sniper Ridge late today in the heaviest assault on the Central Front height in four days The battle was still going on this evening.
At dusk, UN troops fired one of the heaviest rocket barrages of the war into Chinese positions north of Kumhwa.
Chicago Professor Talks on Chemistry
Dr. Wilfred H. Ury, professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, will deliver the fifth annual Frank Barnett Dains Memorial lecture Thursday, Dec. 4, in 305 Bailey.
Dr. Urry will speak on "The Modern Aspect of the Reaction of Free Radicals in Solution." His talk is being sponsored by department of chemistry and the Alpha Chi Sigma professional chemistry fraternity.
Students Should Be Careful In Driving Home for Holiday
University students will begin pouring onto the highways of this area within a few days, intent on hurrying home for the Thanksgiving holidays.
giving holidays. Yet, the brutal law of averages indicates that not all will be sitting down to turkey dinners next Thursday.
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Probably two or more students will be involved in accidents on the highways over the holiday period, serious enough to require hospitalization, according to statistics.
A look at the already grim highway accident picture, with the increase of accidents involving drivers in the 18-24 year-old age group, makes it quickly apparent that taking chances with a car—especially over a holiday period when the highways are already choked with cars—is reckless.
The accident picture in this county has taken a grim turn as a new record of traffic fatalities was established this fall when three months were still remaining in 1952.
Of the 14 fatalities registered in Douglas county alone, three took
the lives of University students. Four others were persons in the same age bracket. Cars driven by two other drivers in that age group were involved in fatal accidents although the drivers were lucky enough to escape injury.
Multiplying Douglas county's record-shattering accident year by all of the counties in Kansas, or in the nation, makes the seriousness of the whole picture more and more evident.
On the national scale, drivers under 25 were involved in 11,400 fatal accidents and 416,000 injury accidents in 1951.
Several hundred University students will pull their cars onto highways leading from Lawrence Tuesday.
Crawling or Rolling in Wheel Chair, Paralyzed Convict to Leave Prison
Joliet, III—(U.P.)—An offer of a wheel chair may solve the problem of a paralyzed convict who has served his time but can't be released from prison because he can't walk, the warden said today.
John Long, 33, a Tennessee native who completed an eight-year term Friday, wants to leave Stateville prison if he has to crawl out the gate, he told Warden Joseph Ragen.
But Mr. Ragen said Mr. Long is using the prison's only wheel chair and he refuses to accept the responsibility of letting him go, unable to walk, broke, friendless and homeless.
And Mr. Long can't take the wheel chair because it belongs to the state.
Offers of assistance to Mr. Long have been coming in from all across the country, Mr. Ragen said.
A North Hollywood, Calif., man wired he would send a wheel chair.
A Champaign, Ill., man offered a wheel chair and $100.
A Boston, Mass., man sent $1.15,
and a Yakima, Wash., girl mailed
$8.
Mr. Ragen said he would probably accept one of the offers of a wheel chair and was trying to get Mr. Long admitted to a state hospital.
Mr. Long was sentenced to a five to 15-year term for burglary in 1944 and sent to Menard State prison, Chester, Ill. He was injured while on a work detail at Menard.
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