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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1951
Thought for the Day
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
—Michel Montaigne
Beware In March
The Editorial Page-
By VERNON SUTTON
The car sped down the wet street towards the intersection in the Mission Hills district of Kansas City. It was one of those intersections with a small island in the middle and the roads formed a circular drive around it. The driver tried to get around the island at an excessive speed. He didn't begin to make it, and crashed into two trees. A 19-year-old coed from the University, on a Christmas vacation, was killed. The driver died a few days later at the University of Kansas Medical center.
Almost one month later, on Jan. 29, another 19-year-old University student was killed in a highway accident, north of Kingman, Kan., while returning from a week's vacation. The driver went to sleep at the wheel. Both girls were members of the same sorority at the University.
Another coed, from Topeka, Kan., a sorority sister of the one killed, suffered a broken nose, a broken arm and received internal injuries. Luckily, she will walk again, but there is a possibility that she will never walk normally. That accident happened on Dec. 30, 1950.
The main reason is that the two girls who were killed were roommates in the same sorority house. Memorial services in two consecutive months for the two girls, who only two months ago were double dating, fussing over formals and studying, served as reminders to the 46 girls that "it could happen to me."
mittens to go after games. The girls still cheer as loud at basketball games, laugh as happily at dances, and they still study as hard as they did a few months ago. But, a cloud of apprehension hangs over the house. A sort of "who will be next" type of thing. Their dates don't say a thing when asked to slow down. Even back seat driving is willingly tolerated.
Traffic deaths numbered close to 32,000 last year. To most people this number represents just another statistic. But because of the death of the two women, there are at least 46 mute crusaders for safe driving on the University of Kansas campus.
The National Safety council has published warning after warning, concerning basic principles which were written for the self-preservation of drivers Most drivers seemingly ignore these warnings. At the University of Kansas the safe driving lesson has been brought home, but 46 girls wonder if it was worth the price. There were 31 days in December. There were 31 days in January. There were no accidents in February, but February only had 28 days and there was no vacation.
Easter vacation comes in March. It's not much to ask, but 46 women hopefully plead that people "Drive Safely."
With all sorts of titles being annually awarded for publicity purposes, it is only fitting that K.U. select a "Miss Campus Chest" in support of such a worthy cause.
Little Man On Campus
by Bibler
"You know that new fraternity house they built next door?— It's a SORORITY!
Summerfield Exams Begin
Preliminary examinations are being held today for Summerfield scholarship candidates. Approximately 250 boys will be tested in six Kansas towns.
Examinations are being given at Colby, Concordia, Dodge City, Parsons, Wichita, and Lawrence. The Lawrence examination center is the drill room of the Military Science building. Ninety-three boys are being tested here by the University guidance bureau.
Candidates who pass the preliminary examinations will return to the University for a final examination in April.
ation in April. Approximately 10 Kansas high school graduates will be named Summerfield scholars. The scholarships are awarded on merit only, without regard to the financial resources of the candidate. The amount of the scholarship depends on the needs of the individual student.
Yesteryears Dainty Ankles Clad
(From the UDK, Dec. 14, 1920)
Feminine fashion has again inaugurated a daring innovation. Several pairs of dainty feet clad in ungainly galoshes have been observed treading the slushy campus sidewalks with indifference to the critical eyes directed from the Law and Ad steps and from other points of vantage.
The possessor of a dainty ankle can perhaps afford to cloak its charm with an old-fashioned overshoe, for then the warm and windy days of March will be welcomed with more joy than ever before, and after the winter of discontent these flashing feminine lures will be better appreciated.
Baker Attends Library Legislation Discussion
C. M. Baker, director of libraries, attended the state senate committee hearing on pending library legislation last week in Topeka.
The legislation was recommended by the Public Library Survey Commission, of which Mr. Baker is a member.
Kansans To Train At Riley
Topcka (U,P)—The Fifth army has advised Kansas selective service officials that the training site for Kansas draftees is being shifted from Camp Chaffee, Ark., to Fort Riley, Kan.
Kansans drafted into service this month will go to the Kansas military reservation from the Kansas City induction center.
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Economy?
Dear Editor:
Our University administration submitted a budget to cover its operations for the fiscal year 1951-52, one that the governor's budget committee proposed should be cut some $1,527,988.
But the effective cut would be $1,000,000 more than that, because the University has a cash fund of $1,000,000 from STUDENT FEES that has been set aside for some 14 projects necessary to the University.
The committee says we shall not use those fees to build the steam tunnel to the new residence halls and to the new field house. We shall not use those funds to build the new fireproof stacks for the law library, or repair the roof on Fraser which has 59 holes in it large enough to stick your finger through. We shall not use those fees to rebuild leaky heat tunnels or to build a new boiler for the power plant that is a must before the field house can be heated.
We have to use this million dollars to cover other administrative costs of the University-costs always before taken care of from the state's part of the budget.
Our state, which has never built a single dormitory for new students here at K.U., now does not want to give enough money to hook up the utilities to residence halls given us by more generous benefactors.
Needless to say, many of these projects will have to be undertaken anyway. Old Fraser's roof will have to be repaired whether there is enough money to go around or not. And the money? Oh, that will come from other parts of the budget that we do get. Maybe some of it will come from the section called salaries and wages—the same section from whence the money comes to pay the students working in the library. Who knows, maybe soon the students will be paying to work in the library.
Oh well, who says that working students and teachers have to eat? Nobody will mind wearing overcoats to basketball games, we'll have a new field house won't we? It takes quite a while for the rain to soak through the floors of old Fraser, so you'll be okay if your classes are not too near the roof. We gotta economize!
James K. Logan Business junior
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