1946
University DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, Dec. 17, 1946
44th Year No.58
Lawrence Kansas
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
_Lawrence, Kansas
Union To Have New Roof-Top Dancing Deck
Contracts have been let for the north side Memorial Union addition, to provide added food service facilities and roof-top dancing space for 480 couples, and construction will begin about March 1.
Plans for the addition were approved last week by the board of directors of the University Memorial corporation.
The new addition will extend north of the present Union fountain, in the sub-basement of the Union, adding a 60 by 80 foot area to the fountain.
The roof will be of smooth concrete and will be waxed for dancing.
The addition will be financed by long-term bonds, to be paid off by student activity fees. Construction is expected to be finished by next
New officers elected at the meeting were Irving Hill, president; Ogden Jones, first vice-president; Dean Henry Werner, second vice-president; Howard Engleman, third vice-president; Karl Klooz, treasurer; Fred Ellsworth, secretary; and Frank W. Hosford, auditor.
Dr. Jones succeeds Dean Werner as chairman of the Union Operating committee. Porter Jones, of Kansas City, resigned from the board and was replaced by Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women.
It was reported at the meeting that the Union annex at Sunflower has been closed. The annex will remain available for possible use next semester.
Search For Student Jobs During Christmas Vacation
An extensive search is being conducted for jobs for students during the Christmas holidays, Willis Tompkins, assistant dean of men, said today.
Most of the applicants so far are married students who now live in Lawrence, he added.
By Bibler
Feeling Happy
"Some people think he has an unfair advantage."
Least concerned of all persons involved in his "less" was James Plummer, Jr., shown here, after he was found in an untenabled automobile in a University parking lot Friday noon. The child was taken into 104 Lindley hall, where Mrs. Ethel Owen, laboratory assistant, held him His father, who explained Mrs. Plummer was in the hospital and he had no one with whom to leave the baby, called for the lad later. (Daily Kansan Staff Photo)
Little Man On Campus
Court Will Discipline Smoking Violators
Beginning tomorrow, all smoking violators will be severely disciplined, Henry Werner, dean of student affairs, announced today.
"We have no recourse other than to report names to the student court for action," he announced.
In addition, names, of all violators will be submitted to the Daily Kansan. This action is deemed necessary to curb the recent increase of smoking infractions, and is being done at the request of the ASC, Dean Werner asserted.
Principle scene of violation has been the vestibules of the University buildings.
Senior Class Will Meet Tomorrow In Fraser
This is the first of a series of senior class meetings to be held this year.
There will be a meeting of all senior class members at 5 p.m. to morror win Fraser theater to discuss the possibility of selecting a class ring.
You're wrong!
The carillon tower can't build overnight. The chimes at morning and noon are coming from the bell tower of Dyche museum.
K. U.'s Quasimodo Gets Ringing In His Ears
The tremolant tones echoing across the campus are broadcast recordings of Christmas carols.
William Snoddy, buildings and grounds electrician, in the role of Qusimodo changes the discs. His only sensation from the job is a "loud ringing in my ears," he explained.
Students cursing the evening classes while trying to study will have nothing to worry about from now on, he added. They were played only in the evening as a prelude and posthude to the Christmas Vespers Sunday.
The council for the Sunflower students' organization will meet at 6 tonight in the Pine room of the Student Union.
Sunflower Council Will Meet
'ASC May Refuse To Pay Directory Publishing Bill'
Council Fund Will Be Overdrawn $893 If Forced To Pay Share, McCue Says
The recommendation of the publications committee that the All Student council refuse to pay the $1,500 share of the student directory publishing bill will be voted on in council meeting at 7:15 tonight in Green hall, Howard Engleman, president, said.
Council Should Stand Directory Bill—Stene
The nine-point report which declared unconstitutional the action of
The publications committee probably did not have the authority to charge for the student directory. E. O. Stene, professor of the political science and constitutional adviser to the All Student Council, said today.
the Trident Council, and thereby
The constitution states that the
directory charge shall be borne by
the A.S.C. he said.
The council recently voted to charge 30 cents for the directory. This action was overruled by Karl Klooz, University bursar and publications committee member, who brought the directories to the registrar's office for free distribution.
'Balloting' Ends Tomorrow For 'Miss Student Union'
The display of pictures in the Union lobby will be taken down at noon tomorrow when voting ends for "Miss Student Union, 1946." Jars in front of the pictures, with candidates names on them, are the voting polls, and each 'ballot' is a penny.
After the votes are counted, the money will be turned over to the Christmas seal fund. Miss Student Union, who is to reign for one year, will be announced at the mid-week dance tomorrow night.
Ef'n You're Not Real Careful—
Midweek In Union Lounge
The Midweek dance scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday will be held in the Union lounge. The dance is being held earlier than usual to allow students to attend the men's Inter-House sing.
And You Think It's Cold
London. (UP)—The coldest place in the world today, according to the Moscow radio, is Kolyma Taiga, near Oimekon, Siberia, where a temperature of 90 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit) has been registered.
The Flu Bug'll Gitcha At Home
BY RODNEY MORRISON
(Dilly Kansan Staff Writer)
"Howdy," I said. "Who are you?"
The little bug sidled up.
“Oh, just a little old flu bug.”
“Flu bues?”
"Yeah, I give people influenza."
"Well, what are you doing around here? I don't want any. I'm getting ready to go home for the holidays."
"What's so funny?" he echoed.
"Why, you poor dope, you can't get away from me. I have millions of second cousins who'll meet you in your home town, and poof! You'll have the flu before you know it."
I had an answer.
"What's so funny?"
The little bug laughed.
"You're nuts—I live in a crowded place in Lawrence, and I haven't had the flu, so why should I worry about going home? Things'll be safer there."
The little bug pulled out a roll of statistics (they looked exactly like a coroner's report).
"Our forces are gaining strength all the time," he read. "In the first week of December, Flu Bugs, Inc., killed seven times as many people in Kansas as they did the last week of November. SEVEN times, didja hear?"
He rubbed his fangs together,
and quite a trick, even
for the fang.
"Come Saturday, all the K.U. students will be going home. Only a third of them have had flu shots over at the hospital. The other two-thirds will be
our meat. And brother, I do mean meat.
"The doc over at the hospital, he has a lot more of those flu shots, but these K.U. students are smart. They're not going over there to get 'em. They know better."
The flu bug started listing things on his tentacles.
"First, they'll get too tired, celebrating. Then they'll eat too much. Then they'll get a little cold, and feel stuffed up. And after that, we'll send in our beachhead forces, and there goes a guy's Christmas vacation—all spent in bed."
The flu bug was about through. "See you again, bub," he said. "Be sure you don't go over to Watkins for any of those flu shots—they'd keep you from getting sick."
the directories without charge, overruling an A.S.C. decision to sell them, probably will be submitted to vote as a whole, Engleman explained.
Future plans for the campaign were discussed. It was decided that appeals for donations would hereafter be directed to specific alumni groups rather than individual persons.
The council will overdraw its activity fund by $893 if forced to pay the share in the $2,200 total publishing bill, Carroll McCue, treasurer said.
"This is a matter for the council to decide," Engleman mentioned. "The council has been too generous in granting appropriations, and this may teach it a lesson."
"The council has no power to assess any of the organizations that have received A.S.C. appropriations to help pay this deficit," McCue announced, "but 75 per cent of the $3,043.35 granted for appropriations has not been paid, and it is possible that some of these appropriations might be cut."
Organizations which were granted appropriations are Y.M.C.A., Y.W.-C.A., Forums board, Mortar board, Sachem, the council social committee, intramurals, Statewide Activities commission, Women's Executive council, the Dove, and W.S.S.F.
War Memorial Fund Now At $93,053
Of this amount, 90 per cent has been cash and only 10 per cent in pledges,the report stated.
A total of $39,053.18 has been received by the University of Kansas World War II Memorial association according to a report submitted by K. E. Postlethwaite, organizational director of the association, at the annual meeting of the board of trustees held Sunday in Frank Strong hall.
Howard Engleman, president of the All Student Council, expressed the willingness of group to participate in the campaign.
Capt. Bernard W. Rogers, Fairview, aide to Gen. Mark Clark in Austria, was named Kansas winner of the Rhodes scholarship award today. He will begin his studies at Oxford next fall.
Rogers Wins Rhodes Award For Scholarship In Kansas
The executive committee held a brief meeting later in the afternoon to approve the report.
Captain Rogers was one of three named by the Rhodes state committee to compete in the finals. Dean Ostrum, College senior and Lt. Owen C. Barnes, Kansas City, at present instructor at Annapolis, also took the tests.
Offering Totals $170
The offering taken at the Fine Arts school vesper services Sunday netted about $170 for a school scholarship, Dean D. M. Swarthout announced today.
WEATHER
Kansas-Generally fair today, tonight, and Wednesday. Colder today. Much colder east and south.