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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1949
The Editorial Page-
Basketball Tickets
When the administration and the athletic department objected to the practice of students giving activity tickets to non-students for football games, we agreed with their stand. We can't agree with them in regard to the non-transfer rule for basketball tickets. With a set maximum of student tickets issued, we can see no harm in a little trading. After all, no matter how many tickets are traded, the number of students attending can't rise above that maximum.
Nevertheless, the athletic department has an argument to present, and in all fairness, we should listen to their side of the story.
Officials feel that if we are allowed to give our tickets to other students, nothing will prevent us from giving the tickets to members of the family and visiting friends. This, of course, would not be fair to other students nor to the paying public.
The department emphasizes that the present policy is in no way connected with financial receipts. Public sale is based on the number of student tickets issued, not on the number of students who come to the games.
We feel that the few abuses which might result from allowing us to trade tickets would not outweigh the benefits. Most of the home games are on Friday or Saturday nights—days when parties at organized houses will keep a number of people from attending the games. What great harm could come of a change in ticket policy?
The athletic department tells us that some decision will probably be reached before the next home game. Since there seems to be no really concrete reason for continuing under the present system, let's hope that the department will put its faith in our integrity and do away with the present restrictions.
-J.W.S.
Plato Or Decent Food?
An editorial writer tells us in Monday's Kansas that university women are not preparing themselves for the work most of them will be doing after they graduate.
He tells us that men spend their time in college preparing to earn a living and then graduate and marry one of these women who has spent four years in school, but is unable to do her share of the work.
This person evidently overlooks the fact that most women come from homes where they have been expected to help with the housework and possibly even the raising of younger brothers and sisters. If their only purpose in coming to college was learning how to cook, wash dishes, clean and sew, they could just as well have stayed home and learned these things at a lower cost.
The writer seems to resent the fact that by eliminating home economics courses, women are able to find time for the study of such men as Plato and Rousseau whom he couldn't squeeze in because he was so busy learning how to make money.
If this gentleman marries one of these women whom he considers so unprepared, he will probably find little room for complaint. If she has learned something about homework from her mother, she will most likely do as good a job at running the house as he does at earning a living right after they have been graduated. The biscuits she serves may not be as good as they would have been had she taken a course in cooking, but she will be able to teach him something of the Plato and Rousseau which she had time to study and that really ought to be worthwhile.
Occasionally, men do drop through open holes or fall off bridges, and in this case the writer could be glad that he married a woman who equipped herself so that she would be able to do something besides wash and cook in order to help her family.
—Elaine Elvig
Former Student, 92,Recalls University Life During 1870's
A 92-year-old former University student and Kansas pioneer still vividly remembers early University incidents.
He is Bion H. Barnett, a student from 1872 to 1877. Mr. Barnett, 92, recalled early happenings to University students and faculty members in an article appearing in the November issue of the Graduate magazine.
During the period when he was a student, Mr Barnett recalls, the Grangers gained control of the state legislature and reduced wages of University professors. At the time they were getting $1,500 a year, he said.
The Barnett family came to Kansas in 1858 from Leesburg, Ind. The Barnetts then lived near what is now Hiawatha, Kan. The family moved to Florida in 1872.
The financier remembers the tragic fate of a party of K.U. students who were killed by Indians while helping to construct the Santa Fe railroad in western Kansas.
Also appearing in the November issue of the magazine was an article by Martha Jewett Abbey,'48, des-
Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, is editor of the magazine. Assisting him with this issue were six journalism students. They are: Richard Barton, Alix Neville, Marvin Rowlands, Warren Saas, and James Scott, journalism seniors; and William Graves, journalism junior.
cribbing the Western Civilization course offered at the University.
Maine Gets New Auto Tags
Augusta, Me.—(U.P.)-Maine's 1950 automobile license plates will shine in the dark. Made of aluminum, they will be coated with a reflective material that will pick up the headlights of approaching cars more than 1,200 feet away.
Editorials
Editor's note: The editorial "Sinister Plot" which appeared in Wednesday's Kansan, was written by Nelson Ober. Through an error on our part, his name was not printed. Signed editorials in the Kansan are written by students in the editorial writing course. Unsigned or initialed editorials are written by the editor in chief.
State Will Study Job Discrimination
Topeka—(U.P.)—The degree of discrimination in employment in Kansas will be determined through a system of questionnaires and personal conferences.
F. B. Ross of Emporia, chairman of a state commission against discrimination in employment, said a plan is being devised to make a survey of Kansas employment discrimination.
Findings of the committee will be reported to the 1951 legislature for action.
The study was directed by the 1949 legislature through the efforts of Rep. Miles Stevens of Kansas City, Kan., the only Negro member of the legislature.
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Miss Hoopes Recites Her Poetry At Medical Fraternity Dinner
Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopes, professor emeritus of the University who taught from 1914 to 1947, read portions of Charles Dickens "Pickwick Papers" to members of Phi Chi, professional medical fraternity Dec. 9 at a dinner meeting. She chose a section which was a satire on medical students.
She also recited two of her poems "Spinster Soliloquy" and "In Hospital." In "Spinster Soliloquy" she said that she could get along with a pre-med student but couldn't get along with a pre-law student. Her reason was that she had had more operations than divorces.
"Franklin Murphy, dean, of the School of Medicine, was a student in one of my classes," recalled Miss Hoopes. "So I must have taught him quite a lot," she smiled, and then after a long pause added, "of English."
Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," and a 13th century Latin hymn, "Puer, Natus in Bethlehem."
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