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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
NOVEMBER 21,1946
Kansan Comments...
Invitations
Once upon a time there was a little Swedish boy.
He liked to go to school. He studied hard, made good grades, and finally got his diploma. He decided he needed more education, so he came to the United States, enrolled in a university, and kept on studying.
One day he looked up at the calendar on the wall of his room and saw that it was only a week until Thanksgiving. He'd read about this American holiday, but he knew he'd never get a chance to take part in it. He knew he'd just stick around the campus, maybe study a little, and be very lonely.
Then the phone rang. It was another student, an American student, who'd learned of the Swedish student's lonely prospect and wanted to invite him to spend Thanksgiving with him.
So this story ends happily, but their are a lot of students on the K.U. campus whose story won't end as happily unless you and you and you help them.
There are about 50 foreign students here in the University. All you have to do to give them (and you) a break at Thanksgiving time is to pick up your phone, call Willis Tompkins, assistant dean of men, and tell him you'd like to take someone or a couple of someone to your home for Thanksgiving.
Many veterans can tell you of the fine times they had when they were invited out from camps on Thanksgiving. Now it's another group of people who don't have a home to go to, and you can provide that home.
Good Luck
The union of women in Greek and independent houses is a commendable step. We wish it all the luck is the world in the attempt to unite the two most influential groups of women students.
Jaytalking ---
A recent housing survey in Kansas City showed that if all the single men and women who have apartments would double up, the city's housing shortage would be solved. This is carrying things too far. Surely the police would object.
Great Britain has loosened its check on importing non-essentials and is now permitting the entrance of limited quantities of luxury items, such as toothpaste, fountain pens, cooking utensils, and, though ex-GI's may question its luxury status, Spam.
The prize of Sunnyside seems to be pushed out to house-hunting faculty members and students an inch at a time. "Reunion by Christmas" might well be the goal of families separated by lack of living quarters and promised a home in Sunnyside.
Students annually complain of what they term "poor lighting" in the library. Annually maintenance authorities explain that the light provided tests as "adequate." It seems that much of the controversy could be eliminated by the addition of a "little more than adequate" lighting.
Famous last words: "You veterans are just going to school to get out of hard work."
Dear Editor----
(This letter, which provoked the discussion at Tuesday's All Student Council meeting, was received too late for publication in Wednesday's Daily Kansan.)
On Nov. 14 there appeared in the Daily Kansan, the Kansas City Star, and the Lawrence Journal-World articles accusing two Kansas University students of ticket "scalping," and announcing the fact that they had been expelled from the University.
The incident was discussed at the A.V.C. meeting on the evening of the 14th, and a committee was appointed to investigate the situation. A.V.C feels that the two students should be punished, but we also feel that the punishment dealt out was unusually harsh for the following reasons:
ONE. Both men were veterans; one under Public Law 16 had been wounded and suffered recurring malaria. In his case, expulsion endangers the educational benefits under the G.I. Bill of Rights.
TWO. The action against the two students represents typical army "justice" in that minor violators became "scapegoats," not in the name of justice, but as "examples." Probation and a warning would be more appropriate for a first offense.
THREE. Selling of tickets for more than their face value is a common practice on the campus—the Daily Kansan ran an ad for several days in which an offer of ten dollars was made for two tickets to the K.U.-M.U. game.
FIVE. The University employed "moral coercion" in forcing the two victims to make a choice of punishment without adequate counsel.
FOUR. Delay of V.A. subsistence checks placed the students in a difficult financial position so that their violation was not "vicious" as reported in the Kansas City Star, Nov. 14.
SIX. The University violated its agreement to keep the students' names from the papers if they acby Missouri against Oklahoma Sat-Dean of Men did not release the names, but they did confirm the names and supplied home addresses when a reporter asked for confirmation.)
Further, the A.V.C. objects to the arbitrary manner in which the whole matter was handled.
Kenneth E. Runyon,
Chairman, K.U. Chapter
American Veterans Committee
New York Provides 'G.I. University'
Albany, N. Y. (UP)—New York State, taking steps to answer the demands of thousands of education-seeking war veterans, took over wartime army and navy installations this fall and opened three emergency colleges.
Some 5,500 students, barred from already overcrowded regular colleges, are studying at the emergency institutions located in the upstate area. Mohawk College was established at Utica, Sampson at the former naval training center near Geneva, and Champlain College at Plattsburg.
Sampson has the largest number of students—more than 3,000—while Mohawk and Champlain have more than 1,200 each. By early 1947 the total figure is expected to be closer to 10,000.
More than 80 per cent of the students so far are veterans and their wives. Non-veterans, both men and women, are admitted on a day-student basis. The students come not only from New York but several eastern and midwestern states as well.
Considered the only "G.I. University" in the country, the combined colleges offer only freshman and sophomore courses.
Dr. Asa S. Knowles, former business administration dean at Rhode Island State, is president of the three colleges, known as the Associated Colleges of Upper New York.
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