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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 28,1947
Kansan Comments
It's Your Chance
Is the All Student council really representing you?
If you feel as many, including Council members, do, that it is not, today is the time to do something about it.
The panel discussion in the Pine room of the Union this afternoon is an experiment in giving the student body an opportunity to have a direct voice in campus affairs. Since the question, formerly a bone c contention in Council meetings, probably would have to be presented in an All-University election as an amendment to the constitution, it is properly a subject for this kind of treatment.
The discussion will be open to all arguments regarding the proposed amendment to eliminate from the All Student council all organizational representatives except one from the Negro Students association. To get away from its being a party issue, speakers from all five political parties will appear on the panel. Willis Tompkins, assistant dean of men, will moderate the discussion, and the Daily Kansan will sponsor it.
If it seems expedient, discussants may take up the new amendment proposed Tuesday, which would elect representatives from geographical housing districts rather than from various schools of the University. Since the problem of fair representation seems greater than the primary discussion can solve, other ideas might well be considered in connection with it.
Frankly, no one knows how much this forum is likely to accomplish. Most persons admit, however, that whatever is attempted toward improving the political situation cannot hurt even if it does not help.
If you would like to see this or some other plan established regularly, toward improving student government or other conditions on the campus, speak up. How can your University try to please you if it does not know what you want?
The latest in fishing; a mechanical fisherman that trolls the line, plays the fish after it's hooked, pulls it in, and swings it aboard. A world so mechanized as to take the joy out of fishing should welcome the atomic bomb.
If you sit around waiting for an opening, you're sure to go in the hole.
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Dear Editor----
Change Curriculum
With such a potent start as the Chancellor's suggestions to the faculty, given in Wednesday's article, now is the time to get behind the ball and keep it rolling. According to the article all the chancellor can do is make the suggestions; it is up to us, as a student body, to show our full support, and use every possible means to persuade the faculty to adopt the suggestions.
Instead of "Abra la puerta, Ricardo," let the faculty open the college doors in English. Little Richard still has a long road ahead of him, without the double-talk.
Just to keep these in mind, I'd like to see at least the first, and preferably all four suggestions, reprinted.
(Editor's note: In substance, the chancellor recommended:
Wayne A. Morse, Senior, Business
ONE. Revision of the 10-hour language requirement in view of the lack of utility of present courses.
TWO. Possible establishment of general courses in the physical sciences and the humanities.
THREE. Elimination of uneven work requirements throughout the College curriculum.
FOUR, Correction of the tendency for College regulations to increase through the years.)
The $64 Answer
Will it be dormitories, classrooms, or a fieldhouse? I favor the fieldhouse. Reports already have indicated that the housing situation at K. U. is well under control. I have observed that some of the classrooms are idle intermittently during the busiest part of the day.
The fieldhouse at this time would go hand in hand with our increased enthusiasm for sports recognition. Furthermore, think of the manhours that were lost during the past basketball season (approximately 32,000) because students were forced to go to the game an hour early. That should show that sports is a major part of college life.
Were there any hours lost by students standing in line to enter a classroom? Were there any hours of sleep lost because students had no room?
It is the duty of our representatives to make K.U. an attractive institution. If a prospective enrollee knows he will be able to see only part of the activities on the sports calendar, he may seek admittance where the full enjoyment of sports is more favorable.
Warren W. Gress College Freshman
Party Discrimination
Last Friday's Daily Kansan contained a news item which I sincerely hope was a misstatement of the truth. It was this: A PSGL nominee for student office must sign "a statement saying that, if elected to any University office under the name of the PSGL party, he will resign from that office should he pledge any social fraternity."
As an Independent student, unaffiliated with any political party, I cannot bring myself to believe that any man, elected to office on the basis of his qualifications, automatically loses those qualifications simply by changing his place of residence—or by pledging a social fraternity. For strong student government, certainly must have the best candidates in office, regardless of where they choose to live before or after the election.
It has been my impression that the PSGL party, as well as the Progressive and Pachacamac parties, was aiming at closer Independent-Greek co-operation in student government. The impression no doubt arose partially from the fact that PSGL ran a member of a social fraternity for president of the Student council last year. But if the PSGL party has adopted a policy of nonco-operation the outlook for coordinated student government is discouraging indeed.
Several of the PSGL party leaders have been very active in the drive against racial discrimination, and I admire them very much for their work. But doesn't the current PSGL policy smack of discrimination and intolerance within a race?
College Freshman (Name withheld by request)
Parking Problem
Although I realize that pedestrians are in the minority on the campus, a situation that seems entirely unnecessary has been produced by the use of the parking lot behind Marvin hall. The sidewalks are covered with mud and dirt where the cars cross them behind and to the west of Marvin hall; and during class changing periods cars are lined up trying to turn out on Jayhawk drive which is already jammed.
If this parking lot is absolutely essential, couldn't the two service roads south from the parking lot be used, with perhaps one-way traffic on each of the two roads?
I realize that parking space is scarse now, but the operation of an efficient one-way traffic system should make that parking area more easily accessible than it is now with the inconvenient turn-out on Jayhawk drive, and prevent the side-walks from being known as the "only mud walks with a concrete base in Kansas."
Engineering Freshman (Name withheld by request)
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