PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS OCTOBER 16,1946 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 Council of 2010 Mad- ford, New York City. Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence Kan., every afternoon during the school year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays hold, but not on Saturday and class mutter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879. NEWS STAFF Managing Editor Bill Hage Asst. Managing Editor Charles Roos Makeup Editor Jane Anderson City Editor Marcella Stewart Media Editor Mark Elysner Telegraph Editor, Billie Marie Hamilton Society Editor Alverta Niedens EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief ... James Gunn BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Melvin Adams Manager Brian Boneh Circulation Manager Bob Bonhey The All-Student council at the University is comparatively a youngster as campus governing bodies go. It got its start in 1943. Why A.S.C.? That was the year the students went to the polls to decide whether they would be governed by a single governing body or by the prevailing two-council arrangement with the men and women sitting on separate governing bodies. The Men's Student council had been making rules regulating the action of men students, while the W. S. G. A., made laws governing the women students of the University. Discussions for a unicameral campus governing system started in the fall of 1942 but the men and women's council officially went on record March 1, 1943, as favoring the one-council system. This action was taken partly because so many University men were going into military service, leaving University women in a majority. Members of the two councils worked jointly on a constitution for the proposed coalition government weeks before it came before the students for a vote. The committee which prepared the new constitution had for its purpose (1) to merge all University men and women into one centralized governing association; (2) to discourage the evils of petty politics while preserving the benefits of proportional representation; and (3) to provide for an effective liaison between the students and the administration. A majority of students voted for the unicameral system and Peggy Davis was elected first president of the new council. In the 1943 spring election, the men's political party did not take an active part in the campus election because "the situation of the men on the campus next year is so unpredictable and the time spent electioneering could be more profitably spent in smoothing out the arrangements of the new All-Student council." In the next two years two more women were elected president of the council. Although representatives were apportioned from the various schools of the University the council strongly resembled the former women's council, still making rules for the predominantly woman-filled institution. Partly to remedy this situation, a resolution was passed in May, 1944, granting the army and navy trainees stationed at the University two council representatives. On Jan. 16, 1945, the council printed a booklet containing a legal statement of the constitution and the bills; the booklet still is used for authority at all council meetings. They called it "Rules Governing Student Life." To sum up the purpose of the student governing body, Chancellor Deane W. Malott wrote the following words which appear on the title page of the booklet, "In the long years of man's endeavor to attain the maximum benefits of civilization, no effort has been so important as his continual struggle to govern himself and his fellows. Student government on the campus of the University of Kansas is an integral part of the world-wide pattern of government. It exists in the tradition of democracy, and is in itself training for future citizenship." -B.M.H Letter to Editor 'Gadfly' Was Independent, College Sophomore Protests To the Daily Kansan; I was surprised to see in the Daily Kansan of Oct. 9 that Deane Postlethwaite, chancellor of Quill club, had requested the All-Student council to authorize the revival of the "Gadfly." The "Gadfly" was published by a group of liberal students unable to get expression of their views in the university publications—and as such it is in the files of the Kansas State Historical society. The paper was never connected with the A.S.C. In support, A.S.C. bill number seven, of 1943, the year of the "Gadfly's" publication, does not include the "Gadfly" in its list of publications under A.S.C. control. The paper suspended publication during the fall semester of 1943, for the duration of the war. Its reappearance as an independent, un censored paper was being planned for this semester. By what right does Dean Postlethwaite, who was never connected with the "Gadfly," ask the council, which was never connected with the "Gadfly," for authority to revive it? John Michener College sophomore Moulton To Discuss Religious Week Mary Holtzclaw and Edgar Thomas are co-chairman of Religious Emphasis student committee of the K.U. student religious council. Other members are Frances Hadley, Roberta Jacobus, Jane Johnson, Ronald Cook, and Donald Jarrett. Phillips P. Moulton, director of University Christian Missions in New York, will lead a discussion on Religious Emphasis week plans at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Myers hall. International Club To Hear Moore The first regular dinner meeting of the International Relations club will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the English room of the Union. He feels that English instruction in Sweden places too much emphasis on the tongue as it is spoken in England and he wants to master the American version. "Air mail letters take only four or five days between here and Stockholm now, and the strong commercial ties between Sweden and the United States will grow steadily stronger," he says. Mr. Moulton has served as counsellor for the Cleveland Guidance service, has edited several volumes describing social, religious, and educational institutions, and has worked on state and national committees of the National Intercollegiate Christian council. Jean Moore will give a short talk on the future of the United Nations and later the question will be open for discussion. Reservations for the dinner may be made with Eloise Hodgson, secretary, before Oct. 15. The housing shortage and price regulations here come as no surprise to Rende. "Although my work was in Stockholm, when my wife and I were married a year ago we found a house only after much searching and it was in a suburb far out in the country," he smiling said. Donald Ong is president of the club with Richard Hawkinson serving as vice president. Robert Bock is treasurer. The club's advisor is Dr. H. B. Chubb of the political science department. Scanlan, Graves Elected To Lead Newman Club James Scanlan was elected president of the Newman club, Catholic student organization. Sunday. New Swedish Instructor Is Glad His Trip Took Two Days Longer Other officers elected were Rosemary Graves, vice-president; Jane Johnson, secretary; William Mahoney, treasurer; Maybelle S. Lawrence, historian. Lawrence Rossillon was the retiring president. Needleman Is A Tailor Sweden found it necessary to have Claes-Goeren Rende, new instructor in Swedish here, could have made the trip from Stockholm to Lawrence in four days, but he's not unhappy that the trip took six days. Mr. Rende, who speaks English with only a trace of accent, modestly maintains that he has come to the United States for the first time to improve his English. For several years he taught English in a Stockholm school. Memphis, Tenn. (UP)—There's a Memphis man with a name for his trade. He's Sam Needleman—a tailor. Mr. Rende left Stockholm Oct. 6. When his plane was four hours out over the Atlantic, it was ordered to return to Shannon, Eire, because of bad weather over Newfoundland and so he arrived in Lawrence the past Friday instead of Wednesday. Mr. Rende doesn't care much about the delay because the same bad weather brought death to 39 persons when their plane crashed in Newfoundland in what was the worst disaster in the history of commercial aviation. its counterpart of the O.P.A. and Mr. Rende feels that it has worked a bit more successfully than what he has observed here. But Sweden is a more conservative, compact country, and we Swedes have a traditional respect and obedience to bureaucratic orders. Perhaps too much," he added. Mr. Rende was disappointed in his flight westward from New York because clouds obscured the cities, but fortunately he had a splendid view of the Mississippi river. When he returns to Sweden next summer he plans to travel by bus so he can closely observe the countryside and cities. Rende, like most first-time visitors, is surprised to find that Kansas is not flat like a billiard table. He also is amazed at the number of automobiles. "We have no petroleum in Sweden and an auto is only for the rich. There the poor man's car is the bicycle. But I don't miss my bicycle one bit when I come up the 14th Street hill," he added. Mr. Rende is amazed at the way in which Americans brighten up their language with slang and new words. "I the dictionary is worthless when I try to read the sports pages of your newspapers. Sometimes I wonder just far the teaching of English should be Americanized in Sweden," he concluded. Buddle GALLAGHER MOTORS FINE SERVICE GREAT CARS SQUARE DEAL Phone 1000 632-34 Mass. St. TO OUR STUDENT FRIENDS AND FACULTY Our Store will close at 1:30 Saturday— "Got quite a lot of 'Cornhuskin' to do" Open after game- —Do your shopping for Warm Homecoming Clothes now! You'll look, feel and be right in— Another Football Pick-Em Contest On Blanks at Store FREE It's Time To Hurry! 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