University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 1946
44th Year No.54
Lawrence Kansas
Stadium Debt Lifted In 1947, Says Falkenstien
"Memorial stadium probably will be free of debt within the next year," E. L. Falkenstien, business manager of the athletic department, reported today.
Increased profits from football and basketball, which are KU's only financially-productive sports, recently have been responsible for a heavy share in trimming the original $225,000 debt incurred in 1925.
Building of the $640,000 stadium, a war memorial, was started in 1921 with about $415,000 contributed through subscription by alumni and friends of the University. At that time only the east and west sides of the stadium were erected.
Today's debt stands at $43,000 by virtue of the $5,000 payment made last week by the athletic department. This balance must be cleared up by Dec. 1, 1948.
Tentative plans for paying off holders of the remaining bonds, which will mature in 1948, are concerned with a recall of the $100 bonds at a cost of $103 each to the athletic department. This cancellation of the debt is scheduled for June, 1947, which is 18 months ahead of the scheduled maturity date.
Bond issues representing a total of $225,000 were made in 1925 and 1927. The former was used to finance an extension of the sides to the south, and the latter provided for completion of the curve on the north end of the stadium.
E. C. Quigley, director of athletics has been instrumental in cutting the debt from $113,000 in August 1944 to the present figure of $28,000. This was done through a program of soliciting war bonds made payable to the University. These bonds are now held by the University endowment association.
The athletic department receives a total of $6.40 from each of the activity books for the two-semester period. Attendance and receipt figures for this season's football program as yet haven't been compiled, Mr. Falkenstien said.
Income from football and basketball pays the cost of other sporting events.
In the early years of the stadium, payments ran an average of $25,000 annually. However, during the past eight years, annual payments have amounted to $5,000, which covers maturing bonds.
Unorganized Women To Be On UW Council
Approximately 840 University women who are living outside organized houses will be represented on the United Women's council, it was decided in the meeting Tuesday, Bonnie Chestnut, Independent chairman, said. The purpose is to organize the women who now live in private homes and who have no contact with organized groups.
Tentative plans were made for women's conferences which will meet next spring in the form of round table discussions and with individual speakers.
The conference committee is composed of Marguerita Kerschen, Elizabeth Evans, Marie Horseman, Kate Hanauer, Rosemary Graves, Margaret Eberhardt, Nell Brown, Hilda James, and Dorothea Thomas.
Debaters To Park College
An affirmative team, composed of Beth Bell and Dorothy Heschmeyer, will leave for Park college tonight to take part in a non-decision debate. The question will be "Resolved: that labor should have a direct share in the management of industry."
X-Rays Are Ready
Reports of chest X-rays taken Sept.18 to 25 are now ready and may be obtained at the University hospital by calling for them individually or members of organized houses may send a representative to collect the group reports.
Contributions from 44 houses and booth sales for the Christmas seal campaign this year amount to $944.68, a new high. Eloise Hodgson, chairman of the Public relations committee of the All Student council which sponsored the campaign, said Tuesday that not all the returns are in yet.
Seal Campaign Sets New High
The highest amount to be received from an organization came from Sigma Chi fraternity which contributed $85.37. Alpha Chi Omega sorority contributed $52, more than any other women's house.
Members of the sales committee headed by Miss Hodgson, were Paul Briley, and Janet Summer. Prof. Kathleen Doering, department of entomology, was faculty sponsor for the campaign. Stamps are still available in Miss Doering's office, 308 Snow hall, for students and faculty members who wish to buy them.
Representatives who collected for the stamps in organized houses are Carl Unirub, Dorothy Hogan, Shirley Bales, Meribah Barrett, Joyearkierload, LeRoy Cox, Geraldine Glaser, Mary Robson, Lorraine Ramsey, Mary Crow, Betty Hanson, Joan Stringfellow, Claude Engelke, Leland Poslostlaweite, Bette Krenzer, Martha Oatman, Norma Loske Eleanor Campbell, Margaret Gosny, Marilyn Oborg, William Michener, Elizabeth Tripp, Betty Hirleur, Alberta Schnitzler, Martha Able, Corinne Temple, Mable Cable, Betty Wahlstedt, Alan Stutz, William Harrison, Millard Musselman, Robert Cain, Myron Sewell, Richard Piper
Bob Boyd, Kerrel Butler, Fred Johnson, William Miller, Charles Apt, Robert Maupin, Ray Binnicker, Dory Neale, Elton Closser, Amro Glad, Chrales Pinault, Jean yyle, Marjorie Peet, Burnetta E. Posnow, and Clifford Kaarbo
24th Annual Vesper Service Will Be Sunday
The 24th annual School of Fine Arts Christmas Vespers with tableaux will be presented at 4 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium. A part of the first performance will be broadcast over KFKU.
Curtis Glover, Fine Arts freshman,
will be featured in a baritone solo,
"The Birth of a King" by Neidlinger.
Imogen Billings, Fine Arts
junior, will sing the contralto solo
part in a choir number, "A Christmas Story" by P. Cornelius.
The 110-voiced University A Cappella choir, directed by Dean Swarthout, will sing four Christmas anthems and will enter and leave the auditorium in a candlelight processional and recessional. Royal blue vestments with satin stoles will be worn for the first time.
There will be four tableaux, "Carol Singers," "Peace on Earth," "The Prophecy of Isaiah," and "The Nativity."
The University symphony orchestra, directed by Russell L. Wiley, will play "Bethlehem" by Burnet C. Tuthill, Memphis composer. The orchestra will be seated on the main floor of the auditorium and will play the processional and recessional.
Ensemble numbers for organ, harp violin, cello, and contrabass will be interspersed between tableaux. A quartet of solo voices will sing carols from the balcony as the tableaux are shown.
As in former years, a free-will offering will be taken by the Jay James to be used as a Fine Arts scholarship fund.
'Dove' Funds Being Held Until Adviser Selected
Funds are being withheld from the projected editorial magazine, "The Dove," until the publication has a faculty adviser, Anne Scott, chairman of the publications committee of the All Student Council, announced today.
As soon as an adviser is selected, she added, the funds will be made available to the magazine.
Little Man On Campus
"I understand they're pretty hard up for chemistry profs"
ASCIs $893 In Red Council Treasurer Says
Directory Costs Of $1,500 Will Overdraw Activity Funds
The All Student council is financially embarrassed.
According to the council treasurer, Carroll McCue, the added expense of the student directory has put the council $893 beyond their budget.
ONE. Karl Klooz. University bursar, has no authority to declare any provision or act unconstitutional.
The complete report, signed by Anne Scott, chairman, Tom Harmon, and Clifford Reynolds, follows:
The publications committee of the All Student Council met Tuesday to discuss the recent decision of Karl Klooz, University bursar, to distribute the student directory without charge, overruling an A.S.C. decision to sell them.
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Objecting to the action as unconstitutional in itself, the committee recommended that the A.S.C. refuse to pay the publishing bill of about $1.500.
TWO. Mr. Klooz heard the directory selling plan proposed in his own office at a meeting of the publication committee. Nov. 20.
THEREE. Therefore, Mr. Klooz had sufficient time to consider the constitutionality of the act. Only at the last minute and under pressure did Mr. Klooz make his decision.
Directory Action Arouses Protest
FOUR. Mr. Klooz made no attempt after his decision Saturday to consult the publications committee, its chairman, the editor, the student court, or the A.S.C.
FIVE. James K. Hitt, registrar; Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor; and T. C. Rythe, superintendent of the University Press not only acquiesced to the selling idea but openly suggested the sale of copies at a meeting with the editor.
It had been estimated that the directory would take about $700. The additional cost of supplies plus the added number that had to be printed for the enlarged student body accounted for the rise in cost to above
SIX. Mr. Klooz had no right to direct the distribution of the student directory.
MINE. In view of the fact that the administration arbitrarily took possession of the student directory and started their own system of distribution without consulting the editor or the publications committee, we feel that the responsibility no longer rests with the A.S.C. We recommend that the A.S.C. refuse to pay the publishing bill and that he $600 directory appropriation from the council be granted to the University for help in payment of the student directory.
SEVEN. The University implied that they could not or would not appropriate more than $200 to the directory. The funds of the A.S.C. were considered insufficient to cover the additional costs of this year's directory without cutting other student activity appropriations. The publication committee then decided to sell the directory at less than cost. The action was approved by the publication committee's faculty advisors, Mr. Klooz and Gordon Sabine, journalism professor. The A.S.C. gave full acquiescence to the selling plan at its last meeting.
EIGHT. We object to the arbitrary manner in which Mr. Klooz handled the affair. On one hand, he gave lip service to the constitution, yet on the other hand he violated the same document.
$2,000. The council share of that cost is about $1,500.
With the estimated costs of the directory supplement, set at $750, the K-Book, spring elections, and foreign students scholarships still in the debit column, the A.S.C. will be forced to spend $893 over the approximately $6,000 to be received from the student activity tickets.
Appropriations already granted by the council total $3,043.35. Organizations for whom money has been appropriated by the council include Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., Forums board, Mortar Board, Sachem, the council social committee, intramurals, state wide activities committee, Women's Executive council, the Dove and W.S.S.F. Additional money had to be spend for the Victory dance, homecoming, and freshman election.
According to McCue, the council will have to meet their obligations either by drawing on the $1,000 reserve, that is carried over from year to year, thus leaving next year's council a little over $100 to work with or by cutting the amounts of appropriations already made and limiting further appropriations in some way.
"The source of the trouble is in the fact that the rule of the council constitution does not state what will be the basis for appropriating money by the council," McCue said.
Ostrum To Compete In Rhodes Finals
Dean G. Ostrum, College senior, was yesterday elected as one of three men to represent Kansas in the regional competition for Rhodes scholarships, at Des Moines, Saturday.
The choice was made by the Rhodes state committee of which Prof. W.E. Sandelius of the department of political science is secretary.
Lt. Owen C. Barnes, Kansas City,
now an instructor at Annapolis,
and Capt. B. W. Rogers, Fairview,
at present serving a aide to Gen. Mark
Clark in Austria, are the other two
choices.
The three will compete with 15 others Saturday, and six of the 18 will be chosen as representatives from this region, composed of Minnesota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri.
The eight regions in the country, each allotted six winners, will award an all-time high total of 48 scholarships this year.
A scholarship consists of n two-year course of the student's choice at Oxford university in England. He will be allowed approximately $1,000 each year to which he is expected to add 200 more.
If a plan of study acceptable to the Rhodes institute is presented by the student, he may be allowed a third year.
WEATHER
Kansas — Partly cloudy north, cloudy south with rain southeast and south central. Warmer today except southeast. Tonight fair west, cloudy with scattered showers east, warmer northeast. Low tonight 30 west to 40 east. Partly cloudy and colder Thursday.