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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1950
The Editors Report LOOK. FRIEND
Do Us A Favor
by Bibler
Tomorrow, another vacation begins. Tonight and tomorrow, you will be leaving the campus. Like ourselves, you've been impatient to get going for at least the past two days. But like oursels, you had classes right up to the last minute.
by Charles F. Reiner
You're eager to get home. So eager, you're going to spare no horses getting there. So eager, you're going to ramrod your hotrod down the highway. Minutes will be precious. Minutes can be saved by passing a slower-moving car on a hill.
Tonight and tomorrow, there's going to be a couple thousand extra "other guys" on the road. And it may be something of a job to miss hitting them all. We mean, for them to miss hitting you.
So as a friend who wants to see you around after Easter vacation is over, we'd like to ask you to take it easy going home tonight and tomorrow.
It's true, you can save seconds by fast driving, by taking chances. Simple arithmetic will prove that a car traveling 100 miles an hour will save you an hour over a car traveling 50. The only trouble, so far as we can see, if that simple arithmetic can't take into account human factors.
It's just that "dad-blamed" other guy we're worried about. He's the one who causes all the accidents.
More minutes can be saved by never slowing up for curves or bad roads. At least a few seconds can be saved by wriggling in and out of traffic. Hours can be saved by floorboarding the accelerator on seemingly clear stretches of roads.
We want to be able to ask you, "How was the vacation?" We can't if you don't make it home and back.
Sure, we know you are a safe driver even if you do drive a bit faster than most persons. We'd be willing to trust you with our lives.
An amendment to the A.S.C. constitution will be presented to the student body Wednesday, April 19 on the ballot with All Student Council officers. The amendment would take away the "non-political" vote of the nine organizational representatives.
Sleeping Beauties
by Billie Stover
SIXTY-TWO HUNDRED
If the amendment is passed by "a majority of those voting," the nine representatives will be removed from the council.
the nine representatives will be removed. Even if the amendment fails to get enough votes, the representatives will remain to vote only on issues the "elected representatives" consider non-political.
As we understand the set-up, one representative is selected from the Y.W.C.A., Y.M.C.A., Independent Students association, Interfraternity council, Negro Students association, Associated Women students—one independent and one Greek, Men's Interdormitory council, and the Cooperative Student Housing association.
As we understand the reason for selecting a representative from each of these groups, the representatives sit with the student council, take part in discussions, offer constructive criticism, and report back to their respective groups.
As we understand it, the purpose of allowing organizational representatives to take part in the council's business was to give every kind of student representation on the A.S.C.
As every student other than the day-old newcomer knows, the A.S.C. has long been run by a minority group of students. The organizational representatives plan was an attempt to give all students a voice in the A.S.C. The plan was one of those "checks and balances" so necessary in any democratically run organization.
Now we have a proposed amendment to remove this "check and balance." The amendment will be up for vote April 19. The amendment will be passed if it gets only a majority vote of those voting.
Judging by the number of students who have voted in past elections, this would only need to be fifteen or eighteen per cent of the entire student body. . . some 1300 students.
We predict that—unless the Hill caves in, or something equally as drastic occurs, on or before April 19—the amendment will pass. And with it will pass anything like a coherent plan for representing all the students enrolled in the University.
Re-Survey Of Old Mason-Dixon Line Reveals Wrong Belief In Demarcation
The Mason-Dixon Line, whose reported deterioration through lost or defaced markers has resulted in Maryland state legislation providing for tentative re-survey, is one of the most famous and least understood of world boundaries.
Popularly known as the division between the North and the South, the Mason-Dixon Line is erroneously believed to have originated around the Civil War period, notes the National Geographic Society. Its significance is presumed to have carried over from the time when it separated slave and free states, or marked the limits of secession.
Actually, this line was first surveyed during colonial days. Stretching along what is now the southward Pennsylvania-northern Maryland border (with an offshore southward between Maryland and Delaware), it was established to settle disputes over the extent of the adjacent Penn and Calvert land grants.
TODAY'S MAIL Into The Act
Sir:
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With regard to Pete North's editorial which appeared in the U.D.K. on Monday, April 3, I would like to make some corrections.
He writes of the "so-called Independent party." At the present time there is no Independent party, so-called or otherwise. Any person who is not affiliated with a political party and petitions the A.S.C. to appear on a ballot, is classified as "independent-non-partisan" whether this person be Greek or Independent.
The only organization which solely represents the Independent student at this time is the I.S.A. However, this organization has not and does not intend to present a slate for spring election, nor does the organization endorse any candidate or candidates. We are not a political organization and do not wish to be construed as such.
Richard Krimminger President, I.S.A.
I Agree
Ed. Note: We commend Mr. Krimminger on his letter. It is so refreshing after the ones we have received the past few days. However, we would like to suggest he read over Mr. North's editorial. Nowhere does Mr. North mention the I.S.A. Yet perhaps it is useful to remind students that the Independents Students association is strictly non-political. We would also like to remind students that the U.D.K. is strictly non-political.
Dear Kansans:
I should like to join Professor Malone in the hope that consideration will be given to calling the new fieldhouse Naismith-Allen.
Some fifty-odd years ago, I was often taken, for the lack of a baby sitter, to watch some of the faculty members play the new game under Professor Naismith's tutelage. The games were played in an old skating rink far north on Vermont street. The baskets were literally peach baskets from which the ball was retrieved after a score, by means of a ladder. One of the ardent players was professor Clarence McClung of the zoology department, who later became chairman at Pennsylvania university. And so, you see from my generation's viewpoint, Naismith belongs on that fieldhouse, too.
Yours,
Oreta Moore Shaw, '12
511 Denver Road
Bartlesville, Okla.
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Little Man On Campus
This will make a good test question: "Compare social psychology to the Psychology of Music." But when you make up the quiz make the question read: "Collate the formation of social stereotypes and the effect of the social environment of the individual with the psychological principles underlying the musical arts."
RULES FOR ALL MEAN
Books For Everybody by Charles F. Reiner
Periodically, students bring charges against the library because of the difficulty in checking out books, many of which have been held by faculty members for years. Here are some facts:
Non-reference books may be checked out by students at the circulation desk for two weeks. They may be rechecked for another two-week period. If overdue, the student is fined at the rate of two cents per day.
Any full-time instructor may check out any number of these non-reference books for an indefinite length of time. He pays no fine. The library staff only requests that the book be returned when he leaves the University or dies.
At present, one professor has 132 library books in his possession. Eighty-one of these were withdrawn in 1933. Some professors have had books checked out for a longer period. The majority, however, are more considerate and return books promptly.
If any student asks for one of these books, the librarian is authorized to tell him the name of the professor holding the book. Students have the privilege of going to the instructor and asking that the book be returned. Seldom does the library staff recall a book from a professor for a timid student. Names of students who have a book checked out are not revealed.
Reference books, bound periodicals and rare books may not be checked out of the building by a student except when the student brings a letter from a faculty saying why the student must check out the books.
Violation of this rule brings a 25 cent per day fine for the student culprit. However, the same books are available to faculty members for two weeks with no fine assessable on overdue books.
Admittedly, faculty members need to check out books. But students also need some of these same books for research. A slight change of policy which would make more books more easily available would be desirable.
Faculty members should be allowed to check out non-reference books for only two weeks at a time—as required of students. Keeping of library records would be facilitated and fewer books would be lost.
Reference books should be available to full-time instructors for two weeks with permission to recheck them for another period as is the present case. Recall of books needed immediately should be as emphatic to faculty members as to students.
The University library, containing more volumes than any other library in the state, exists for the use of faculty and students. An outdated set of rules should not be allowed to cause undue inconvenience to any student or faculty member.
Son Follows Father
Burlington, Vt.—(U.P.)-It was a pleasant day for policeman Charles P. Collins when he was given the task of breaking in a new special officer. The recruit was his son Leo.
Broom Frightens Cat
Glenwood, Ga. — (U,P) — Mrs. Azuba Page hopes some time to find out just what horror a broom holds for her cat. Every time Mrs. Page starts to sweep, the cat scoots up the chimney and out by the way of the roof.