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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1949
The Editorial Page
"The Y-Orpheum"
The suggestion that K.U. initiate a "Y-Orpheum" comes as a welcome one. A number of worthwhile traditions at the University have been largely forgotten the past few years, and we welcome the chance to adopt a new one which seems destined for success.
Sponsored by the Y.M.C.A., the "Y-Orpheum" will be a variety show. Skits from organized houses are to be presented after a committee has selected the best scripts. The skits are usually based on some phase of college life, and will last about 15 minutes each.
The "Y-Orpheum" has been an annual high point for years at K-State, and there's no reason why it can't be the same at KU.-if the contestants use a little judgment.
The great danger in such an undertaking is that it will grow out of proportion. Things have a way of doing that in the competition between organized houses. Intramurals, for example. What started out as a program to promote wholesome exercise and sports has turned into a full time project in many houses. Broken jawbones and missing teeth are evidences of the seriousness of the games. Intramurals were intended to give students the opportunity to participate in athletics below the varsity level. They have, more or less, turned into a battle for trophies.
The "Y-Orpheum" can be a fine thing, or it can turn into another rat race with thousands of dollars spent annually for expensive costumes and hours of sleep and study time lost in rehearsals.
Serenades are another example of a tradition which has gone out of bounds. In the old days, when 15 or 20 houses serenaded, it was a nice, pleasant custom. Nowadays, half the student body comes down with pneumonia every winter after listening to countless serenades and standing ankle-deep in snow delivering them.
For these reasons, a definite limit of expenditures should be set for each skit, and some way should be found to limit the time spent in preparing them. Sometimes it's pretty hard to build floats and homecoming decorations; prepare skits, study, and still manage to stay in school.
The old problem of inadequate parking space is back on the worry lists of many Kansas towns.
Parking Problem
This was indicated recently in an announcement by C. M. Voelker, superintendent of the state motor vehicle department, that the number of cars and trucks in Kansas is increasing at the rate of 10,000 per month.
As of October 1, licenses for 41,565 new cars and 14,536 new trucks had been issued. Mr. Voelker said that the present rate of adding 10,000 units a month would raise to 640,000 the number of vehicles on Kansas highways by January. Even the possible shutdown of the automobile industry would not change the situation.
These thousands of new cars and trucks will have to be fitted into communities and shopping areas which are already overtaxed for parking space. This information casts gloom over the governing bodies of these cities and towns—for in nearly every one, the problem of getting sufficient parking space is a serious matter.
Large cities have found some relief to the problem by building shopping centers away from the business districts, but most of these are car-jammed nov. Many smaller cities have provided parking lots for public use. These cities are now faced with the fact that these lots are too small for present-day conditions.
When parking meters were proposed, some critics said they would keep shoppers out of the downtown districts. The meters now seem to have done only one thing—increased the revenue of the city which installed them. The meters didn't make any more parking spaces.
Thus it seems that the old methods of traffic reduction and parking have been proven inadequate. New methods, sufficient for new increases, must be found if the parking problem is to be controlled. —John Hill
"Small Things"
Leland Olds is rejected by the senate for a third term on the Federal Power commission because of some "party line" articles he wrote 20 years ago. Be careful whom you criticize in those English themes.
"Parkay cards? The heat's on. We don't have any cards around here," said the reformed distributor, as he waved his razor strop in our reporter's face.
The National Association of Manufacturers offers a free trip to New York, and what would be the reaction if a former Dove staff member turned out to be the lucky winner?
As de most popular songs, "A-You're Adorable, etc.," has faded away, but can't one of Hollywood's genius-composers dream up a sequel based on the multiplication tables.
Kenneth Runyon To Speak At Psychology Colloquium
Kenneth E. Runyon, assistant instructor in psychology, will speak at an intra-departmental colloquium at 4 p. m. Friday in 21 Strong hall. He will speak on his thesis topic, "Some Effects of Success and Failure on the Participatory Behavior of Group Members." A general discussion of the material will follow.
Tips Are Getting Scarce
Pawtucket, R. L—(U.P.)-On the same day, four persons were admitted to Memorial hospital after each had had a finger tip cut off while at work.
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Ways to aid graduates obtain jobs will be discussed tonight by members of the Society for the Advancement of Management, William Champion, president, said.
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