University Daily Kansan STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Restaurant Men Claim Union Is Breaking Rules
Controversy over Union eating places soliciting other than student trade flared again Wednesday when W. E. Murphy, proprietor of "Brick's" cafe and president of the Douglas County Restaurant association declared:
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor said, "The food services of the University are operating under the regulations of the Board of Regents, as they always have. They are operated primarily for the benefit of the student body and the faculty, in accordance with these regulations."
"We also are asking that the Palm room be abolished and converted into a room which would enlarge the fountain and relieve congestion in cafeteria lines.
"A resolution has been sent to the governor and to the board of regents asking that all Union eating facilities be confined to students and faculty members.
Mr. Murphy continued:
Miss Hermina Zipple, director of the Union could not be reached for a statement.
"Last summer when a similar complaint was filed with the board of regents, the Restaurant association was assured by the secretary of the board that there would be no more soliciting or private dinner parties other than student or faculty functions.
"We have definite evidence in our possession that these orders have not been carried out. The director of the Union has bid openly for dinner parties in writing to people not connected with the University in any capacity." Mr. Murphy added.
The resolution also charged that University Extension is promoting conventions and conferences for bankers, plumbers, and others with meals at the Palm room included in the enrollment fee."
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"When a person moves into an apartment building, he pays 5 per cent of the cost of a single apartment," Mr. Hulten said. "Other payments for the apartment are worked out with a housing board whose members live in the same building.
"About 90 per cent of the buildings erected in the past 10 years in Sweden have been financed by the Swedish government on non-profit loans." Bertil Hulten, architect from Stockholm, said at a color-illustrated lecture Wednesday in Frank Strong auditorium.
The cities are panned 'for' or
taken over by people who have no
take interest in practicing an non-exi-
sistent so we can re-locate industries
easily for city planning," he said.
At the request of the Kansas Restaurant association, the school was moved from the Union to Fraser hall, and the fees were decreased by the total which included meals.
Swedish Architect Tells Of Building
Some of the illustrations Mr. Hulten used with his lecture showed tall, slim apartment buildings, a star settlement which has a court yard in the center, proposed terraced houses, and a restaurant suspended from a bridge.
Mr. Hulten is on a lecture tour of the United States.
Union Activities To Form Car Pool
A car pool is being organized by the travel bureau of Student Union activities for students going home for the Christmas vacation.
All students owning automobiles who are willing to take passengers are asked to sign up at the Student Union activities office in the Union lobby. Drivers should leave their names, amount of space available, and destination. Students looking for rides are also asked to leave their names in the office.
The travel bureau lists all schedules for busses and trains leaving Lawrence. Timetables of plane flights leaving Kansas City are also given.
All travel information will be available at a desk set up in the Union lobby for the rest of this week and next week.
Berlin. Dec. 16—(UP)—French engineers blow up two tall antenna towers of Russian-controlled Radio Berlin today, silencing Russia's chief propaganda voice in Germany for two hours.
French Blast Radio Berlin
Maj. Gen. Jean Ganeval, French Berlin commandant, said he had ordered destruction of the towers because they were a hazard to the Western airlift flying supplies over the Russian surface blockade to Berlin.
Officials of the station said only that "technical difficulties" had interrupted the programs.
Two hours after the blast the station came back on the air using the "Deutschland sender" transmitter located in the Russian zone outside Berlin.
The explosion sent tons of iron and steel cascading over the frozen countryside in the French sector at the edge of the recently constructed Tegel airfield.
General Ganeval warned the Russians Nov. 20 that French engineers would blast the towers today unless a Russian reply was forthcoming that would necessitate a change of plans.
Stollenwerck Wins Campus Speech Contest
Edward Stolenwerck, College junior, won first place in the annual Campus Problems Speaking contest Wednesday. He received a trophy for his speech, "Where Are We Going?" In 1946 he won third place in the contest, and the past year he received a second place award.
Theodore Joyce, business senior, won second place with his speech, "K.U. Professors," and Nancy Sewell, College freshman, won third place for her speech, "The Housing Problem."
Stollenwerck said campus life with extra curricular activities is presenting a health problem for the students. He cited cases of individuals, where a heavy load of studies and participation in too many activities caused nervous breakdowns.
The contest was begun in 1925 by E. C. Buehler, professor of speech. Its two purposes were to get away from oratorical speaking, and to give students a chance to air their grievances against the University.
Students should expect more from instructors than just knowledge of the subject, Joyce said. The teachers should express their thoughts, and interpret material as well as create interest and inspire the students. He suggested that teachers be graded by the students at the end of the year.
The judges for the contest were Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech; Emil L. Telfel, assistant professor of journalism; and Abraham Persky, instructor of English.
Miss Sewell pointed out the need for more dormitories. Living quarters on the campus are too crowded, and study conditions are bad, she said.
University Employees Net
$625 In Xmas Seal Drive
French Children Get Help From Kansas French Club
Approximately $625 for Christmas seals has been turned in by faculty members and University employees. Parke H. Woodard, associate professor of physiology, is in charge of Christmas seal sales to all persons at the University, except students.
This is the second year that this has been done as a group project. Last year packages were sent to Miss Marguerita Kerschen, assistant instructor of Romance Languages, who was at that time an exchange student in France. She, in turn, personally handled the distribution of the packages to the French children.
The packages are sent directly through the mails and this is the most difficulty to the senders. Because of government regulation foreign mails, the packages must be limited to a certain number; also, only a limited number of packages may be sent to any institution during a certain period. This makes it necessary to spread the shipment out over an extended period of time.
The University is making friends through the generosity of its students and the thoughtfulness of the department of Romance Languages. Many French children have been and will be made happy when they receive packages sent to them under the sponsorship of le Cercle Francais, the French club.
This year the packages will again be sent to the school at Orleans where the head of the school will distribute them.
Clothing and maillable food stuff which has been donated by various people is being sent to a secondary school at Orleans, France.
Miss M. E. Crumrine, assistant professor of Romance Languages, who is in charge of collection and mailing of the packages, said that an attempt was made to get the material sent so as to arrive in France before Christmas. Because of the recent strikes in France, the club delayed sending the packages for fear they would not be delivered promptly. Therefore, clothing and food is still being accepted. Anyone who cares to give clothing or packaged food may bring it to 115 Frank Strong hall, Miss Crumrine said.
Field House Among Units Regents OK
Eight building requests totaling $5,055,000 will be submitted to the next Kansas legislature by the University for the biennium beginning July 1, 1949.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott said today that the board of regents had given its approval to the requests.
BSA Will Have 25 Cent Dues
Business students will have to pay a membership fee of 25 cents to belong to the Business School association next semester.
Completion of arrangements for an all-school mixer was reported Wednesday by Edgar Johnson, social chairman and council representative from Delta Sigma Pi. Admission will be 40 cents a couple. Refreshments will be served, and music will be furnished by a juke box. Location for the mixer will be announced later.
Membership will be restricted to students enrolled in the School of Business, and to other students who indicate "business" as their major.
Following further discussion of the association financial status, the executive council decided Wednesday that non-dues membership was impractical. The council has been attempting to finance activities this semester on a "pay as you go" basis.
The council has decided to purchase hats for re-sale to business seniors. Order blanks will be available immediately following the Christmas vacation.
Reports were also made on progress of the Business School exposition to be held in May. Several firms may put on exhibitions of business machines and methods. The exposition is being held as part of the celebration of the school's twenty-fifth year of operation.
Take Flu Shots Before Christmas
Dr. Ralph I, Canuteson, director of University health service urged students who have not influenza vaccinations to have them before the Christmas holidays begin. The vaccinations will be given at Watkins memorial hospital every day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Although influenza has not appeared in numbers sufficient to be alarming, the holidays are always a "danger" period.
Attorney Explains Patent Procedure
Over 3,000 shots have been given on the campus this semester. Of this number, 2,787 were given to students and 125 to faculty members. Only 650 women students have taken the shots while 2,157 men students have taken them. Among faculty members vaccinated, the men outnumber the women 93 to 32 .
What may be patented, and how to file a patent application were explained Wednesday to members of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers by C. E. Hovey, patent attorney from Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday night.
Each person then must prove his date of conception of the idea. the date of building the model or compound, diligence in the building or a working model, and production.
Mr. Hovey said that if two persons apply for a patent on the same thing, interference is declared.
Two of the projects for the University campus and two for the University Medical center in Kansas City were described as "unfinished business." The remaining four at Lawrence are new projects.
One request will be for $700,000 as a starter for building a field house. The amount, although insufficient, would be the basis upon which other means of financing could be built.
Chancellor Malott said that only about a third of the student body can attend basketball games in Hoch auditorium. He predicted that basketball would receive strong support from students, alumni and general public with sizeable earnings resulting, if sufficient seating capacity were provided in a field house.
An appropriation of $222,000 will be sought for a music building for the School of Fine Arts. The school has never had its own quarters, and its operations have been scattered throughout several buildings.
Construction of a science building to house the departments of chemistry, physics, and mathematics will require an appropriation of $1,972,000, according to estimates by a state architect.
A request for $100,000 will be made for completion of the interior of the second and third floors of a connecting corridor at the Medical center. Another $201,000 is needed to provide hospital equipment for the project.
One million dollars will be asked for building two dormitories. In 1947 the legislature appropriated $500,000 for a women's dormitory and bids will soon be taken. University officials said that operations of three dormitories would provide a sound basis for issuance of revenue bonds for two more.
The legislature will be asked to appropriate $150,000 to be added to the $150,000 given by the 1945 legislature for remodeling Fowler shops, now used for engineering shop practice, into new quarters for the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
Ninety thousand dollars will be asked to install an elevator, electrical equipment, and to provide steel stacks for the stack addition to Watson library.
Chancellor Malott, in his biennial report to the governor and board of regents, pointed out that there had been no appreciable expansion of permanent classroom and laboratory space since 1923 when enrollment was little more than a third of the current 9.750.
He said that "many music students turn outside the state because we have no practice facilities to offer them and must limit the number of music students."
The chancellor described both Bailey and Blake halls as fire-traps and said day and night fire watch must be maintained. Bailey hall could be converted at small cost into larger quarters for the School of Pharmacy.
If dormitory needs of the state schools are neglected, Chancellor Malott predicted that "the state's institutions will lose their leadership to more far-seeing institutions in neighboring states where impressive dormitory programs are under construction."
WEATHER
Kansas—Fair today, tonight and tomorrow. Warmer except extreme southeast today. Warmer tomorrow. High today 40-45, low tonight 25-35.