UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
JANUARY 27,1947
PAGE SIX
Kansan Comments
Where It Goes
"Okay, so I pay $6.18 for an activity book this spring. What do I get out of it? And for that matter what happened to that $9.79 I paid for the fall student activity book?"
Activity Fall Spring
Athletics $4.50 $1.90
Daily Kansan 1.00 1.00
All-Student Council .40 .35
Concerts .44 .42
Dramatics Productions .29 .29
Lecture Series .21 .21
Forensics .11 .11
Men's Glee Club .04 .035
Women's Glee Club .04 .035
Band Travel .22 .10
A.T. Reserve .20 .10
Unallotted 1.05 .95
Federal tax 1.17 .62
State tax .12 .06
If you can answer those questions, you don't need to read this editorial. If you don't know and don't care, don't read it. But if you, too, have wondered what happens to the more than $125,000 students paid or will pay to the University this school year for activity books, this is for you.
First thing to know is that the K.U. activity book price is pretty much in line with activity books all over the country. For every case you cite of one lower, the University can cite you one higher because over the years they've made a continuing study of prices in other schools.
Now, where does that money go? Ten activities in which students participate or which students attend are allotted a specific amount from each ticket. Federal and state taxes eat up a portion of each ticket; and the remainder goes into the Activity Ticket reserve and a fund marked "unallotted." More about these later. Look at the breakdown in tabulated form:
Totals ... $9.79 $6.18
Grand total...$15.97
ATHLETICS—$6.40
Largest allotment from the activity book goes to athletics. For this $6.40, you see all the home football games, the Kansas Relays, the state high school meet, all home tennis, baseball, track or golf matches. Basketball tickets have never been on the activity book because of seating problems, but students are given a priority and a reduced rate on home basketball tickets.
For purposes of bookkeeping, $4 is allotted to football, $1 to basketball, and all but a few cents of the remaining portion goes to the Relays account. Actually, this breakdown
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is purely arbitrary because all losses or profits go to the Athletic Association which handles all sports.
UNALLOTTED—$2.00
The two dollars that's earmarked "Unallotted" actually means "Intramurals and Miscellaneous." Most of the money in this fund goes to the intramural office which hires officials, keeps fields in some kind of order, furnishes equipment and all the other things necessary to carry on the large intramural program.
The rest of the "Unallotted" money is held in reserve for special requests for funds. No activity already receiving money from the activity book can request additional funds, but special groups may put the bite on the kitty.
For instance, a student group wanting to sponsor some kind of special attraction could ask for funds. Naturally the request is investigated thoroughly.
The other cryptic allotment is "Activity Ticket Reserve." This fund pays for the cost of printing the books, and in normal years, for the identification photos which go on the front of the book. And, unless something unforeseen happens, beginning next fall all students will have their picture taken and pasted on their activity books.
A.T. RESERVE—30c
Then, after paying for the cost of printing, the money in the fund just lies there until something for the students' benefit needs money. For instance, last fall, the student book store was helped along by the donation of $3,000 from this fund. You'll get some of that back when the bookstore pays dividends next June. Another job paid for from the activity ticket reserve was the leveling of the intramural field several years ago—that bulldozer job cost a couple of thousand dollars.
DAILY KANSAN-$2
For the two bucks you pay for the Daily Kansan, you get more than 150 issues. For four lectures, you pay about a dime apiece. Six concerts cost a little less than 14 cents apiece. The 75 cents given to the A.S.C. is then passed on to a large number of other small extra-curricular activities. Four dramatics productions cost you 58 cents.
Driving through Kansas City stop lights has convinced us that the 18th century hussy isn't the only thing that is "Forever Amber."
Yes, $15.97 is a lot of money. But it's not much when you figure out what you get from it.
Jaytalking --will Gree
With many of the big swing bands folding, we wonder to what juvenile delinquency will be attributed now.
The Chicago divorce who is offering to marry any man with a house if he will include her three sons in the contract has the right idea. She knows that it takes a heap of little things to make a house a home.
Ex-Georgia Governor Arnall will speak here next month on the subject of "Whose Country Is This Anyway?" Quite a subject for someone who couldn't figure out whom a state belonged to.
We still can't figure out why Harry Woodring bought three soft-drink companies. Perhaps he was just getting prepared for anything—straight or mixer—he'll have it.
Progressives Start Drive
A membership drive by the new K.U. political party, the Progressives, is being conducted today, tomorrow and Wednesday. Booths will be open from 1 to 6 p.m., in the lobby of Frank Strong hall and the Union lounge.
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