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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1949
As The Kansan Sees It . . .
The Electoral College Is Going The Way Of The One Horse Shay
It looks like congress is finally going to get around to making everyone's vote count. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R.Mass.) has proposed that the present antiquated presidential election system be overhauled by abolishing the electoral college.
Under Lodge's plan, the college would be replaced by a new system in which each state's electoral votes would be divided among the presidential candidates in direct proportion to the number of popular votes they received.
The present "all-or-nothing" unit rule by which a candidate can win the states total electoral vote by a one-vote plurality in the popular vote would thus be eliminated.
This system would give Democrats in Kansas and Republicans in Georgia some reason to go to the polls.
The proposed amendment should be amenable to the small states who heretofore have blocked many proposed changes for fear of losing power, because it does not change the number of electoral votes each state receives.
It also will do away with the "key states" such as New York and Ohio who have furnished most of our presidents because of the present system.
It would set up a two-party system in the south and other solid areas where the people can not remember having other than one-party government.
This is brotherhood week, a week set aside for all of us to take inventory of our attitude toward our fellow men. Brotherhood is not just a high-sounding phrase. It can be practiced many times a day by each of us.
Brotherhood Can Be A Living Thing
Süch en accident as the Templin hall fire could have happened to any one of us. And for most of us it would have been, as it was with the Templin women, a pretty serious
For instance, we students right now have an opportunity to show we are willing to go a little out of our way to help fellow students more unfortunate than ourselves.
blow to our chances to continue with our education. What a pity it would be if even one student had to withdraw from school when a small contribution from each of her fellow students could have made things right.
Knowing that many students have intended to give a few pennies to the fund but just had not gotten around to it, the Daily Kansan is setting up solicitation boxes in Frank Strong rotunda and the Union.
Here is our chance to make the ideal of brotherhood a reality.
BY JOHNNY JAYHAWK
Chalk Talk
The pet Collie pup at the Alpha Chi Omega house recently caused a panic when it walked into a room with a whistling mouse between its jaws. The girls climbed down from the furniture when they discovered the mouse was rubber.
An economics professor remarked, "This is undoubtedly the first warning of an approaching depression."
Several fraternities are trying to abolish the train date which precedes rush week. They maintain it is too expensive and of no real value.
We are wondering if the Four-
No Bridge club has had a flood of
applicants for membership after the
story on page 1 of Tuesday's Daily
Kansan which said:
Few students will be satisfied with $10,000, yet some are putting no more into their college education than the cash it takes to remain in school.
When a speaker at the University recently re-iterated the old saying, "You get out of college only so much as you put into it," many students became apprehensive.
"At the weekly meeting of the Four-No Bridge club, the following couples were high:"
Many coeds are hoping for an early spring, but not for the usual reasons. Initations into the various sororities will begin soon, and the girls would hate to wear coats over those new pins.
Around 10:30 one evening this
week, Caesar, the mastiff of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, loped through the door of the Pi Beta Phi house and proceeded to make himself right at home.
He created quite a sensation until the housemother, aided by sorority officers, sent him home because of closing hours.
Fittsfield, Mass. — (U.P.) They are selling streamlined automobiles here in a livery stable. The big stable, once operated by a former mayor of Pittsfield, has been converted to a modern garage capable of handling about 100 cars and trucks in addition to its showroom sales space.
Stable Made Into A Garage
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The first professor of agriculture in the U.S was Samuel L. Mitchell of Columbia college, in 1792.
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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University
Dear Editor
Student Rebels
Editor-in-Chief ... Anne Murphy
Managing Editor ... Bill P. Mayer
Asst. Man. Editor ... Mary Hearn
Asst. Man. Editor ... Richard D. Barton
City Editor ... Nora Temple
City Editor ... Kendra Stone
Asst. City Editor ... Gerald Fetterolet
Asst. City Editor ... James Morris
Sports Editor ... Marty Marris
Asst. Sports Editor ... Darell Norris
Sports Editor ... Brad Wright
Tel. Editor ... Larry
Asst. Tel. Editor ... Rosemary Rowlspaw
Asst. Tel. Editor ... Russell Oleson
Asst. Tel. Ed. ... Bob Roter
Asst. Redden ... Naomi Olsen
Asst. Sp. Ed. ... Virginia Frost
It seems to me that religion should be more important in a student's life than to be given the exalted amount of one whole week after school hours. After indulging in psychology and history courses, one needs more than a week to re-orient himself in religion.
Perhaps history professors, especially those teaching controversial courses, would have better luck inculating history were they to teach history and not a version of their own bioted theology.
Business Manager Don Welch
Business Manager Chandler
Natl Adv Mgr Bob Bolioth
Circulation Mgr Dean Knuth
William W. Willson-Belton
Promotion Mgr Ira Gisser
A professor may enjoy academic freedom, but I think a student also should enjoy such freedom. And, even though it may sound heretical, the student should be allowed to have ideas different from professors who think all religion is founded on emotion.
Dear Editor:
College junior
College juniors
(Name withheld by request)
Who Should Profit From Liquor Sales?
How to split the gravity is the main question which is holding up passage of the Kansas liquor control bill. From present indications, it will be a long time before a decision is reached.
The Senate wants to split the gallonage tax 80 per cent to the state, and 20 per cent to the cities. The house voted to divide the tax money equally between state, cities, and counties. The house also added a 2 per cent "enforcement tax" on retail purchases, the revenue going to cities and counties.
The first Indian school in the state of Arizona was established at San Tan in 1871.
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Wilmington, Delf.—(U.R.)—Mrs. Adbin Gursha parked her car to shop. The uninvited guest who was occupying the rear seat when she returned fled hastily. Mrs. Gursha found a set of false teeth on the seat.
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