PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1949 As The Kansan Sees It . . . "As your publisher, Professor Snarf, I didn't expect such a dry approach to the subject to sell—but you can make it a required text in all your courses, hike the price a couple bucks, and we'll be able to get rid of the 6,000 copies in the next 4 or 5 years. Where Are These 'Available Rooms?' In a recent letter to a Lawrence newspaper, a ringing "manifesto" urged citizens who rent rooms to students to "write to the governor and legislators protesting an appropriation for dormitories at the University." "Not one of us should fail," the writer admonished. "In unity there is strength." The letter argued that even now there is an excess of available rooms for students, and that a "good many elderly people have invested their meager life savings in a home in order that they may have room for a few students and thus have a little income." We all know that students are living over the far reaches of Lawrence in attics and basements. Dormitories at K.U. would eliminate rooming houses only on the outer fringes of the town. Good rooms near the campus will always be needed. KU. is at the tail end of the parade in providing dormitory accommodations. Missouri university recently let a contract for dormitories costing more than 4 million dollars. Nebraska opened three new dormitories the past year. Oklahoma A. and M. has issued more than 4 million dollars in dormitory bonds and already has dormitories housing hundreds of students. Perhaps the several hundred students who commute to the University would disagree that there is "an excess of available rooms." Others would say that elderly couples who rent rooms to 25 students at $20 a head are making more than a "little" income. Perhaps they should not risk their savings speculating in real estate. For its men students, Kansas has provided Oread hall—a war plant building moved up from Parsons—which is a fire trap, expensive, and temporary. Even if the University's enroll. ment should fall to 6,500, dormitory accommodations for 500 men would remove students only from distant or unsatisfactory houses. Jim Scott There is little rhyme and practically no reason to the English language. English Is 'Ruff' By all the rules of Plato's or Craghorn's logic, if one small rodent is a mouse, two of them should be two mouses. But no. Due to the inexplicable rules of the English language, they are two mice. The same logic applies to one goose who waddles up to another goose, making not two gooses, but two geese, through no fault of the goose who lives an upright life. Not to be outdone, English pronunciation goes spelling one better. Rough is pronounced "ruff" as if barked. But dough, meaning either of two things, is pronounced "d-oh." Thus, ough is "uff" and "oh." Then there is the word through, where Snoop To Scoop Informed sources state that an agent of the Devil recently burned the entire quiz file of a well-known sorority with the idea that girls should make their grades without cheating. University Member of the Kansas Press Assn, the Associated College Press. Press Assn., and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Ad- serv Service, 420 Madison Ave. New New York City. Daily Hansan The girls have two consolations: 1. The file was not a very good one; Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS BY JOHNNY JAYHAWK 2. It was getting out of date. Charles G. Pearson, instructor in journalism, wonders what the reaction would be if the students began saluting the students in "semiliteristic uniforms" (R.O.T.C. students.) Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Asst. Man. Editor City Editor City Editor Asst. City Editor Asst. City Editor Sports Editor Sports Editor Sports Editor Tel. Editor Tel. Editor Society Editor Society Editor When a Greek letter society, the sixth in a series, recently lost its social privileges, one student on the campus asked. "Do you suppose the deans of men and the dean of women are on a crusade?" Anne Murphy Bill F. Mayer Richard D. Bacher Richard D. Bacher Nora Temple Harold Reddoch Gerald Fetterloff James Morris Maryanne Morris Darlerr Norms Bud Wright Larry Funk Rosemundo Russell Russell Oleson Naomil Reddoch Dr. John Ise, professor of economics, related the following "ice" incident of his elementary economics class: "I live 37 steps above Mississippi street. The other morning as I left home for class, I had a bit of difficulty. The steps looked like a ski run, but I felt that I owed it to the students to be in class, so I started resolutely down. I took one step and landed at the bottom. Business Manager Don Welch Manager Charles Harvey Natl Adv. Mgr Bob Boilhoo Circulation Mgr. Dean Knuth William H. Erikson Promotion Mgr. Ira Gissen "I was unhurt, so I suppose the good Lord was with me, though he must have had a hard time keeping up!" All Rooms In Hotel To Face The Sea Chicago—(U.P.) All 150 rooms of a new $2,250,000 South American hotel will face the same side and the wind is the reason, architects here have decided. To take advantage of a prevailing breeze, every room of the Hotel del Lago will overlook the sea in a solid front. The tropical hotel is to be built at Maracaibo, in the oil-rich republic of Venezuela, which will get three of the 13 new hotels being erected in an $84,000,000 building program. the 450-room Tamancó, a $6- 000,000 structure at Caracas, Venezuela, will be Latin America's largest hotel when completed in 1950. The International Hotel Corporation, a United States concern, is directing the project, which will put ultra-modern hotels in 10 Latin American countries. First to open will be the 22-story Victoria Plaza in Montevideo, Uruguay. ough is "ooo0" as uttered by a spectator at a ski jump. So the next time someone grips about the foreign language requirement, remind him what the foreign students who must study English are going through. Douglas K. Jennings HAVE YOU PLANNED YOUR SUMMER EMPLOYMENT? Wonderful sales opportunity! Our Vita Craft Representative, John Arnold, will be at Hotel Eldridge Wednesday, 1 to 4 p.m. for personal interviews. LEARN ABOUT OUR SUMMER BONUS PLAN A K Psi To Hear KC Business Man Mr. Yearing will discuss the conditions which students in the business field will encounter upon graduation. A. B. Yearing, Kansas City business man, will be the guest speaker at the meeting of Alpha Kappa Psi professional business fraternity, today in the Eldridge hotel grill room. He is a business consultant in the Kansas City area. He is also a registered certified public accountant und real estate broker. Call K.U. 251 With Your News. Paper Drive Nets $16 For Athletic Association The Women's Athletic association collected $16 in its paper drive Saturday, Betty Armstrong, Cqlege sophomore and director of the drive, said today. Some of the paper could not be reached because of muddy roads and will be picked up later. The money is to be used to send delegates to the national W.A.A. convention this spring. Habein To Speak In Wichita Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, will be the keynote speaker for the Associated Women's Students career conference today at the University of Wichita. Her topic will be, "How to Choose a Career." Steak and Chicken Dinners TASTY SANDWICHES FOUNTAIN DRINKS Curb Service after 4 p.m. 5 to 7:30 GRANADA NOW CONTINUOUS FROM 1 P.M. AT BOTH THEATRES m-m-m-m-m-m . . . Obey that impulse! Relax and enjoy . . . THRU Wednesday Donald Duck Cartoon Plus:— Pete Smith Novelty Latest News Feature: 1:45-3:45-5:40-7:40-9:35 Thursday 3 DAYS Plus:—— Tom & Jerry Cartoon Latest News ENDS TONITE Super-Horror Twins! LON CHANEY "THE MUMMY'S GHOST" and "THE MUMMY'S TOMB" WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT — 2 DAYS ONLY! Laurence Olivier in Shakespeare's Poignant Drama "HENRY V" Note: Special Student Price 60c all shows Buy Early and Avoid Standing in Line (See Special Ad in This Issue)