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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
DECEMBER 10,1946
Directories
The student directory situation is a sorry mess this year.
Don't blame the present editor or the All Student Council for all of the confusion, though. While they are responsible for much of the shambling methods which have gone into year's directory efforts, they're inheriting a problem which will continue until the directory ceases to be a political plum.
Take a look at some of the highlights of this year's directory:
The ASC bill on publications states that the editor shall be chosen not later than May first of the year preceding his term in office. This year's editor was chosen in October of this year.
The Publication bill states that a budget must be approved by the Auditing committee before a contract for printing can be let. The editor didn't bother about this.
Instead of consulting the publications committee, the editor asked and got the council's approval of the plan to charge for the directory. This, of course, was in direct violation of the ASC bill on publications.
The publications bill states that the cost of the directory shall be met through advertising and ASC funds. The editor ignored this and decided to charge for it. The publications committee didn't have a chance to examine the scheme because the committee never was called.
The directories were to have gone on sale today. Karl Klooz, faculty member of the publications committee and the man who must see that student funds are used in accordance with existing rules, rightly announced the prohibition of the sale of the books.
University officials, however, overstepped their authority in ruling that the directories be given away right now. The directories are the property of the ASC and the method of distribution should be determined by the editor or by the ASC itself. The University ruling would be all right in years when enough directories had been printed. This year, however, only 7,000 were printed because they were to be sold. Of these, about a thousand are earmarked for University employees and advertisers. (The University pays for its copies.)
It's a sad commentary on student government when the University has to prevent it from violating its own rules. It's too bad that the University couldn't have been satisfied with the prevention of the wrong.
If no greater percentage of students ask for directories this year than in previous years, there will be enough copies to go around. If, however, every student demands a copy, there will not be enough and the whole situation can become even worse than it is now.
You can do your part by sharing a directory.
Tonight the ASC is meeting. It can do one of two things:
ONE: Admit it was wrong, change the publications bill, see that it is enforced, and thus show that council bills mean more than mere words; or
The student directory, more than any other student publication, has been a political job. The publication bill gives a basis for choosing the editor, but it seems more than a coincidence that the past four editors, chosen on the basis of "ability and financial need" should belong to the same sorority.
TWO: It can ignore the issue and prove that no student needs to abide by its laws.
Which one?
All In Favor Say Aye!
Daniel Bishop in St. Louis Star-Times
Jaytalking---
The so-called "Bathing Beauty contest" was the biggest sham that I have ever seen. If a Union Activities committee is going to sponsor such so-called contests, then we certainly do need a new committee.
Although Roger Babson's Utopia college at Eureka is to open next semester, K.U. housing directors don't expect enrollment here to drop materially.
One of the most unfair contests that has ever been held on this campus was held Sunday night.
Dear Editor---thing which all of us would have looked forward to next year. . . the qualifications were there. As it is, if we have any more of these "fair contests," I suggest that we all bring some rotten tomatoes with us. . . it would help the smell in the room.
Many laughed when they heard of a bathing beauty contest in Kansas in December. The beauties, however, were dressed properly for Sunday's weather.
Fish and Game associations over the state are made up of supposedly good hunters. Seems funny that one western Kansas association had to buy the meat for its annual banquet.
Monday morning found students with fog in front of as well as in back of their eyes.
Know whom a history major thinks of as he throws a shoveful of coal in hte furnace? Philip the Great.
Contest Stinks
Comment at the women's sing Sunday upon seeing a girl in a strappless formal: "But what if she sneezes?"
Some miners think John L. has gone soft because he called off the coal strike. What else could they expect in a soft coal dispute?
The candidates were lined up, and the candidate with the most applause was chosen by the "judges" boys who had been picked, at random, from the audience. The fact that these judges had no qualifications for the job other than just being there, and the fact that the organized house which packed the Kansas room was the applause builder was completely ignored.
The contest could have been something which all of us would have looked forward to next year. . . the qualifications were there. As it is, if we have any more of these "fair contests," I suggest that we all bring some rotten tomatoes with us. . . it would help the smell in the room.
Fine Arts junior
Editor's note—Amen. )
Harvard Loses Debate
Foster Attends Traffic Course At Evanston
Norfolk, Mass. (UP)—The Harvard University debating team has lost a debate which was conducted behind locked doors. The team was defeated over the question of free world trade by the debating team of the Norfolk Prison Colony.
The University Daily Kansan
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association,
National Editorial Association, and the
Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by
the National Advertising Service; 420 Madi
Managing Editor ... Charles Roos
Asst. Managing Ed ... Jane Anderson
Makeup Editor ... Billie Marie Hamilton
Editor-in-chief ... Bill Haage
Bill Donovan ... Business Manager
Advertising Manager
Telegraph Editor ... Barbara Stewart
Asst. Telegraph Ed ... Marcella Stewart
City Editor ... R. T. Kingman
First Lt. Harry J. Foster, 1315 Connecticut avenue, one of 20 regular Army officers, civilian technicians and other safety personnel who have enrolled in the Northwestern University Traffick institute for a three-week course in traffic control and accident prevention.
This is the first time the Army has chosen a civilian organization for this kind of training which began Dec. 2 and will be concluded Dec. 20. The course includes 105 hours of instruction, review and examination in basic safety subjects that may be adapted to include techniques peculiar to military operations.
Boston. (UP)—Surgeons at Children's hospital here have saved the lives of 12 newborn babies afflicted with the mysterious and deadly Rh condition by draining the infants' blood and replacing it with new blood, it was disclosed today.
Lt. Foster was a student at the University of Kansas from May to September in 1943 in the navy machinist's mate program.
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