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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 28,1
As The Kansan Sees It . . .
Difficult Position For Making Decisions
You Don't Have To Take Rent Gouging; Check Up On Your Legal Rights
Most people would expect a pretty decent room for $45 a month. Private bath, maybe? Cooking privileges with stove and icebox? Floors inlaid with ivory?
Not quite. Two K.U. students pay $45 a month for an 8 by 12-foot third-story room with mice, cockroaches, and no closets. Most readers know of cases as bad or worse.
There is no practical way of learning how widespread such holdup practices are in Lawrence. But the individual student should know if the rent he pays is out of line.
If it is, he doesn't have to take it. Lawrence still is an area where the supply of rooms has not caught up with the demand. Therefore, it is subject to rent control laws.
Under these laws, no landlord may charge more for a room than was charged March 1, 1942, without first obtaining permission from the rent control office.
If a student feels he is paying more than the law allows, he should
write to the Rent Control office, $711.1$ Quincy avenue, Topeka. He will receive a form to be filled out and returned to the office. If he has been overcharged, the office will direct the landlord to make a refund.
A student may even sue for triple damages—three times the amount he was overcharged plus attorney fees and court expenses. The Rent Control office estimates that nine out of 10 triple damage suits have been successful. For instance, if a student who had been overcharged $5 a month for 18 months could recover $270.
Most landlords in Lawrence are reasonable and remain within the law. But the few who take advantage of the housing shortage to stuff a house with students and charge exorbitant rents should be forcibly reminded "they can't do that."
Only the students can do this reminding. Jim Scott
Atomic Energy To Work For Labor
New York, Feb. 28—(U.P.) - Atomic energy will be used to lay the twoton, granite cornerstone for the new 39-story Crowell-Collier Publishing company building at ceremonies tomorrow on the site of the famous old Vanderbilt mansion at Fifth avenue and 51st street.
The big cornerstone will be suspended one foot above its ultimate resting spot by a chain hoist, on top of which will be a motor. Between the stone and the motor a four-inch ribbon will be stretched and to it will be attached a magnesium flare.
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With a miniature atomic pile, a reactor, an amplifier and two relays—one attached to the motor and the other to the flare—a sufficient atomic energy will be produced to ignite the flare, cut the ribbon and start the muon De Dunning said. The proper energy is beamed into the nuclear solution.
As the motor starts, the stone will be lowered into its proper position.
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Sports Editor ... Marvin Rowlanda
Ed. Editor ... Larry Funk
 Society Editor ... Naomai Redou
Asst. Soc. Ed. .. Vaughn Frost
Miss Francis Grinstead, assistant professor of journalism, was making an assignment in her feature writing class'
She said, "The next assignment is an article for a 'wishbook.'"
The boys looked at one another with baffled expressions.
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Advertising Mgr. ... Charles Terry
Admin Acls. ... Bob Bolton
Circulation Mgr. ... Dean Knuth
Withdrawal ... William Browne
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"I suppose you know what a wish-book is," she continued. It is a typical woman's magazine like Mademoiselle, or even Esquire."
Like a fog lifting to let the sun shine through, the boys said in unison. "Oh."
There wasn't one of them who hadn't looked at both magazines and "wished."
Every time a new basement is dug in West Hills, students in that area jump to the conclusion it must be the beginning of the new Tri Delt屋. Recently the city dug a 200-foot long ditch and everyone was sure it couldn't belong to a building that would come out to be for sewage disposal.
Be patient, men, the day will come.
With spring in the air, won't be long until University men will take to their vantage points to watch semi-nude coeds soaking up the sun. Men will find excuses to go to the top floors of Lindley hall to watch the Chi O's on their sun deck. The members of Phi Gamma Delta will be watching the Kappa fire escape
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landings. The Sigma Nu's will install the telescope on their roof to watch the Pi Phi's and Alpha Delts across the valley. Men of Delta Upsilon will be peering from upper floor windows at the Delta Gammas on the nearby roof.
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The secretary to one of journalism faculty members reports she works for him because of the fascinating notes he writes to himself as reminders.
There are two examples "Quiz
today. Give them $6 and a couple
of fast ones."
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In an outline for a lecture on
radio copy, she ran across the cryptic comment: "Thirty-eight sources of goat's milk."
The School of Business has vived the tradition of seniors wearing straw hats in the spring.
After seeing students file out Hoch auditorium during the plating of the "Alma Mater" instead standing at attention and waiting the Rock Chalk yell, it is good to some organizations try to keep + University traditions alive.
The first reformatory managed u der state control was established New York state in 1824.
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