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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
JANUARY 20,1947
Kansan Comments..
Robbing Peter
The latest government move to ease the housing shortage is a strange example of systematic efficiency.
First, rents are being raised on thousands of publicly-owned apartment houses, because their tenants are drawing salaries that put them above the low-income yard stick. And the rents are being raised so high that this group will be forced to move.
Once these higher income groups have been evicted, the FPHA will lower the rents so that the low-income government employees may move in. And says the FPHA, one part of the housing project is solved.
But is it? Even if the $5,000 a year man has been paying too little rent, he still needs a roof over his head. Where is he going to go? He will become a new tide in the flood of the homeless.
Press-Agentry
Kansas State college got into headlines this past week with the announcement that only one veteran had dropped from school because of low grades.
It's like finding yourself with two boys to feed and food for only one. The fat boy looks healthy so you take his food away from him and feed it to the skinny boy who looks as though he needs it. That's fine. Except you haven't solved anything. The fat boy still has to eat. And the $5,000 a year man still has to have a place to live—P.H.
Of 4.151 veterans enrolled at K-State, 174 have withdrawn since the beginning of the semester. This makes their withdrawal percentage slightly more than 4 per cent, a percentage which is about standard in the colleges and universities of today.
But their claim of having only one man enrolled who had to drop because of low grades, if substantiated, would be a truly unique record. However, when the other reasons given for the withdrawal of veterans are examined, one suspects that the Aggie press agent let his enthusiasm for plugging the school get away with his common sense.
For example, 14 men dropped because the work was too difficult. Can you see any difference between withdrawing because of low grades and withdrawing because the work was too difficult?
There are two classifications—personal and miscellaneous reasons—which 32 and 33 veterans respectively selected as their reason for quitting. We'd bet a dollar to a doughnut that many of these are veterans who couldn't keep up but didn't want to say so.
K-State veterans undoubtedly are as smart on the average as those
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in other educational institutions, but we doubt that the school up the Kaw managed to attract such a high grade of veterans that only one man failed to keep up. Or is it that it's a lot easier to get grades at Manhattan?
Dear Editor---that still is no reason to admit Missourians to KU. And what are all these people from Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Brooklyn, Illinois, and other states doing at the University of Kansas?
Editor's Note: Every "Letter to the Editor" should be withheld from publication upon request, but the editor must know who writes all letters must be limited to 250 words.
Here's Why The 8:45 Deadline
Concerning the requirement for the return of overnight reserve books at 8:45 a.m.
At 8:35 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 16,
132 students were seated in the
reserve and education rooms. Most
of these required reserve books.
The 8:45 line was set up in the era of 8:30 classes and over the years evoked practically no criticism. With the coming of 8 o'clock classes, the library could logically have set an 8:15 deadline to gather books in for the use of waiting students.
The library is open at 7:45 a.m. and a book box at the door for the return of books before that time.
If reserve books were made due at 9, students arriving at that hour would be obliged to wait a considerable time until the overnight books were discharged and arranged. This 9 a.m. rule, in its turn, would inconvenience the student with classes that run to 10 or 11 a.m.
It would seem that the majority of students are benefited by the present
C. M. Baker Director of Libraries
Kansans Onlv
I should like to ask the University administration why it is necessary to mar the beauty of our spacious campus with crude, temporary structures as are now being set up behind Frank Strong hall and elsewhere. The administration will tell me that it is necessary because of the doubled enrollment this year. But the question is: Is this doubled enrollment necessary? No, it is not.
The University of Kansas has two, and only two, requirements, to fulfill regarding enrollment. One is to admit all Kansas high school graduates; the other, to admit all Kansas veterans.
Then why is almost every other name in the student directory from Kansas City, Missouri? Even if Lawrence is only 30 miles from K.C. and Columbia is 100 miles from K.C.
Frankly, I don't know. Probably it is because K.U. is one of the few schools in the nation to take in students from anywhere in the union. And so, we must clutter up our beautiful campus with quonset huts and crude frame buildings.
College freshman Oread hall
Portal To End Portals
A solution is being sought in the problem of heavy betting in professional athletics. The treasury could call in all the currency.
Prospective fathers on the campus are wondering whether babies born during finals week can be called Quiz Kids.
Jaytalking ---
Then there was the student who complained that his professor was a stinker for detail.
They Didn't Have Many Modern Conveniences
Why K.U. didn't even have a food service then. Now you can expect food brought to you every night. Listen for the Food Man's call.
Daniel Bishop in St. Louis Star-Times
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