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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE KANSAS
MONDAY, APRIL 24.1950
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The Editors Report -
HOW TO SOLVE YOUR
Date Problem
A friend of ours turned his wallet inside out the other day and wailed "me with a date tonight and no money." We've been like that, but the situation could be remedied rather easily. . . set up a "date board" with $5 bills tacked on it.
Other colleges have them, and the boards are a success. So far, we hear no student has failed to return the money to the board within the week allowed for the loan. On these boards are cards for the borrowers name to be turned over when a loan has been made. If the money is not returned within the time allotted, his name is revealed to the public as a negligent debtor.
The logical place for such a "date board" is the campus fountain, and we suggest that the Student Council or a club consider putting one up. It'd be worth a try.—The Haymaker, Phillips University, Enid, Okla.
What A Weekend!
DEAR MOM AND DAD:
What a weekend! There was so much to see; so much to do. True, we were on the spectator side, doing the heavy looking-on, but it was all we could do to drag our limp carcasses to class this morning.
The weather was ideal if you overlook the slight zephyr that blew most of the time. Anyway, the breeze didn't hurt a thing. The Relays floats were cleverly decorated. The parade came off without a hitch. What a grand sight it was—everything from flying saucers to the prettiest girl you could imagine.
ye ED
Down to Marvin hall the engineers put on a great show. The Engineering Exposition this year was better than ever. Flossy and I checked our osculatory ability on the Kiss-O-Meter. Wow! Also played a game of tit-tat-toe with a mechanical robot. But didn't win.
The Kansas Relays themselves were about the finest we've ever seen. K.U. didn't do so well as we had hoped but didn't do too badly either. Placed about ninth in the unofficial scoring totals for university class teams.
Where we really stood out was the university four-mile relay. K.U. set a new meet record: 17:34.3. The old record was set by Illinois in '31. It was 17:37.8. It sure was something to see.
Cliff Abel got off to a flying start. He whirled around that track and handed the baton to Herb Semper. Semper took it going away like a Kansas jackrabbit. He really poured it on. By the time he handed the baton to Pat Bowers, he was half a Iap ahead. And Pat never lost that lead. It looked like he stretched it out some.
In the final heat, Bob Karnes took the baton. By the time he was halfway around, he was going so fast he lapped the Oklahoma A. and M. runner.
But that Aggie was game. He stuck it out to the end. He was typical of all the athletes. All of them were out to do their best. And they did it too! Seems as though those boys get better every year. How hard they must train!
Hope you plan on making the Relays next year. It really is worth seeing. Ten thousand turned up to see it this year. It was just like Homecoming, almost . . .
NEEDED: A FULLTIME
Employment Bureau
A glaring need arises at K.U. at the end of each semester. The need: a competent, full-scale employment bureau. A bureau capable of securing jobs or promising interviews for the hundreds of potential job hunters graduated each year.
by Lew Sciortino
This is not to say that the existing placement bureaus sponsored by several of the schools are not competent or that they are not doing a good job. They are, especially when the fact is considered that they are understaffed and that the funds allotted for the work is practically nil. Yet a more efficient job of placing could be done if the operation were expanded to a full-time staff and to the size required.
The University averages close to a thousand graduates a year. The years immediately following the war have jumped this figure to nearly the two thousand mark. The prospects for the coming years is for at least one thousand graduates a year.
What professional employment agency wouldn't like to boast of that many sure-fire job-hunters each year? Yet the University continues to funnel this large full scale operation through a few scattered non-integrated bureaus.
How much better it would be to have a full scale full time placement bureau that would function for the entire University. A bureau adequately manned with sufficient funds to carry on a constant aggressive campaign for jobs.
A bureau which didn't wait for the jobs and interviewers to come to the University. But a bureau which went after the jobs and who sold the value of K.U. trained graduates to the businesses and professional world.
TODAY'S MAIL
Ed. Note: Today's letters were received too late for prior publication. However, since they contain sidelights on a topic—student government—that students should continuously consider, they are being printed.
Suggestions
Sir:
I was a poll worker at Lindley from 7:30 to 10 a.m. April 19, and had somewhat the same experience Mr. Robertson had.
I arrived at 7:30 and there was no other worker in sight and no material in evidence with which to open the booth. So I sat down to wait and had to tell several persons the polls weren't ready yet, but would be soon.
At 7:45, the ballot box and ballots with instructions for the workers were brought. (I was told later that only two of the election committee were taking the material to the poll.)
People started coming in to vote and I was alone about 15 minutes trying to set up the stuff, read my instructions, hand out ballots, and go through all the necessary steps. It was a little difficult and several persons became impatient and left without voting. Finally, about 8 am. or after, one other worker came. Two more arrived about 10 minutes later.
Then about 15 minutes before the hour at nine and 10, some of the workers had to go to classes—making us shorthanded at our busiest time. Maybe this couldn't be helped, but I was 25 minutes late to a class at Blake because I stayed to help until the rush was over. When I left there were only three workers at the polls.
Another thing, I was the only Independent while at Lindley, and while I had no cause for worry, it is just such case that cause rumors—where only one group is represented.
It seems to me the suggestion of a half day off wouldn't help matters any more than convocation hours. Students still wouldn't do what they were given time to do.
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By Bibler
"Boy it mus' feel great to have that old diploma an' be out in th' world."
First, we need more polls. Many more booths. I doubt, however, that this council would allow that suggestion to go through any more than the previous one.
Here are some suggestions from my experience:
Second, there should be an even number of Greek and Independent workers at all polls at all times. It would prevent rumors of shady practices.
Third, workers should be selected at least one week before the election. The Greek party could select their workers. The Independents could be reached through the aid of A.W.S. and I.S.A. precincts—if there is no other party by next year. Or ask organized houses,
An Expression
The editor's comment of April 20, "Because democracy is a tedious process, it has become unfashionable" is not well taken. He speaks about a Greek revolt, the indifference of 73 per cent of the students, the poverty of one and the despair of another.
But he completely ignores the 40 Kallikak votes which represent, not indifference, but despair and revolt against a farcical student government. It means 40 students registered their complete rejection of a travesty on democracy. But not indifference.
Sir:
The editor was correct in saying, "Evidently most students felt there was little use in voting." The futility of voting is the reason 40 students would rather write in the name of a dead man, the father of a line of morons, than they would be a party to K.U. student government.
Students do not want to vote against Pachacamac; they want something to vote for. The Kallikak vote was an expression of that need.
The Kallikak campaign was an unorganized revolt. It materialized only twelve hours before the polls opened. It was a grass-roots movement.
C. Clemens Cunnick College junior
Greek and Independent, to furnish a quota.
Fourth, poll workers should work at a time when they do not have to quit 10 or 15 minutes before the hour in the rush period of voting, and rush off to class.
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Fifth, sometime in the week before election, the workers should be called together, given their instructions, allowed to practice under supervision (blank sheets for I.D. cards and ballots), and any questions they have should be answered at that time by the elections committee or A.S.C. members.
Sixth, new students for the second semester, new ones transferring from other schools, old students whose classification changed at the semester, and old students who changed schools at semester, should be told for a week before election to go to the Registrar's office and get their slip of paper stating their school and classification. Too many persons didn't bother to vote because they either weren't listed in the student directory or were incorrectly listed.
Seventh, isn't there some way to eliminate the step of crossing out the person's name in the directory? I know it is necessary to look up their classification, etc., but extra time taken could help in busy periods.
That is all I have to say.
Mona Millikan College sophomore
West Of Abilene' Tickets On Sale
Complete rehearsals for the 1850 College Daze production to be given Tuesday, May 2, through Friday, May 5, in Fraser theater started April 17 and will continue for two weeks.
Tickets for "West of Abilene" are now on sale at Ober's and the Student Union Activities office in the Union.
Craig Hampton, president of Student Union Activities said the scenery is almost complete and the costumes for the three act music farce are ready. All the music is been completed in preparation for five rehearsals with the orchestra.
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