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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 29.1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Madison Ave., New York City. Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Ave., 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 and examination periods, beginning on September 7, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor  Patricia Penney
Asst. Managing Editor  Bill Haage
Makeup Editor  Charles Roos
Makeup Editor  Janet Kerr
City Editor  Marian Thomson
Sports Editor  Bill Sims
Society Editor  Martha Jewett
Staff Artist Richard Bibler
EDITORIAL STAFF
A.M. Ralph, Reporter
Billie M. Hahn, Grove Mullenberg
& David B. Ward, Grove Mullenberg
Marcella Stewart  Reverdy Mullins. Jr.
State Editor   Alamada Bollier
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief .. LeMoyne Frederick
Editor Associate .. John Conard
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Virginia Van Order
Advertising Manager .. Anne Scott
Assistant (for national) .. Eleanor Thompson
Assistant (for classifi- cation) .. Patricia Manley
Circulation Manager .. Edwin Ham
Promotion Manager .. Anne Young
For Services Rendered
Next month one of the best-known figures on the campus will step out of the difficult job she has handled well for the past 11 years.
Few persons realize how hard it is to be adviser of women, or the importance of decisions she must make. Rules, which to students are trying and unnecessary, are to her long-pondered compromises merging the various wishes of thousands of University women, their parents, and anyone else who has an interest in the University.
Since living and social conditions are such a vital part of college training, the institution's success is based to a large extent on their handling of these problems. Miss Elizabeth Meguiar's responsibility has been for the moral standards of the University.
The burdens of many women's personal problems have been no small weight for Miss Meguiar's slender shoulders; but, as one student put it, "she has gone out of her way to help people." Illness, financial problems, family tangles—these she has helped others to straighten out.
Her soft white hair, dark eyes and gracious manner have lent dignity to campus affairs, including many for which she has opened her own home. "Lizzie's Lodge," as Mortar Board members have reminiscently referred to it since a circus party there, has adapted itself equally well to delightful formal occasions. Her Kentucky hospitality has been extended to Greek and Independent, to faculty wives and working students, to home economics and engineering majors alike.
Above all, Miss Meguiar has been fair. Rules which would appear to restrict college women she has shown to be a guard against injustices as well. She has been quick to stand up for students against unfairness by others. To women who have shown responsibility she has returned her faith and trust. She has administered rules as practically as possible.
Her insistence that "surely there are more newsworthy persons than I," while a trial to reporters, has manifested a trait that has done as much as anything else to earn her the respect of the campus.
"It's very nice to be back and see all my friends," she said when she returned after an illness last year. This seems to sum up her attitude toward the women and relationships which have been her job as adviser of women.-A.B.
With strikes on all sides of us, no one has yet proposed a strike against finals. That would be the final blow.
Pink Lemonade World
The youngsters on our street were selling lemonade yesterday. I had a glass and asked them how business was, and didn't tell them that there are some who argue that free enterprise doesn't exist any more.
Life is so beautifully simple to one of that age. The girls were explaining that they could cook—the older said she could "make" eggs and bacon, "sorta."
The youngest, a big-eyed child with braids more than half as long as herself, announced eagerly that she could make toast. Eggs, too, she added, a shade less confidently, and happily still.
One of the little boys, not to be outdone, declared that he could cook, too. Apparently the other frankly could not; but when it was suggested that perhaps he could wash dishes, he indicated with the age-old perfect disgust of little boys that he knew a great deal about washing dishes.
A puppy lives at their house, too. One might realize that, on noticing that the morning paper consists of scattered shreds, or on hearing lonesome howls from the backyard when his little friends leave him tied alone
These are the things that make growing up or growing old not so bad. Marbles, cooky jars, playing circus in the backyard—these are in a world outside of the adult realm of dishonesty, hate, and superficialities; yet they live in the adult heart and help keep hope and happiness astir.
We hear rain on the roof, and remember long-ago carefree Aprils and bunny salads at a tea-party. We smell fresh-baked bread, and live again the golden days of past Septembers, a panorama of new pencils, spicy-sweet fresh pickles, and Drop the Handkerchief. We live every Christmas in a peace and joy that is as near the naivete of childhood as those who have left that land can ever approach.
May men be forgiven for the sorrows their selfishness, quarrels and petty adult matters have forced on the world's children. And may they find new hope in the frank, enthusiastic faith of children. as perennial as the sun. If only the goodness of childhood could be retained, tempered with mature judgment, what a good world man could have!
Let's not tell them, just yet, what a mess we are making for them. The approach which has not sidestepped disillusionment can get more directly to problems.
As long as there are children, or people who still keep a flicker of a star in their eyes, the world will surely be bright and good.—A.B.
Letters to the Editor
Eight K.U. Students Voice Objections To Increased Fee
To the Daily Kansan: We, a group of students, feeling ourselves to be typical of all students in this University, wish to protest against the increase of fees, particularly the $15 increase in incidental fees, as approved by the Board of Regents.
We base our disapproval on the following points:
1. Class and laboratory fees seldom amount to $15 for students in the College and most of the other schools.
2. Including laboratory fees in the incidental fee is not particularly saving because breakage of laboratory materials will still have to be paid. If we must pay this additional amount, why not include as one of its benefits a provision to take care of this breakage of materials?
3. According to the bulletin of the University of Kansas, 48 per cent of the students are entirely or partially self-supporting. With rising living costs, many of these students are finding it difficult to stretch their budget enough to cover the present fees. We already know of several students who have stated that they will be unable to attend the University next year because of the added cost of attending school here.
4. Many of the upper classmen have completed all laboratory courses. Would it be fair for them to pay someone else's fees?
5. One purpose of the new regulation was to equalize fees among the schools. It does not even accomplish this purpose since fine arts students will have to pay for practice rooms and lessons in addition to the new fee and medical students will be subject to an unbelievable increase in costs.
It has been our belief that this state university was for all those who wished to prepare themselves for vocations or professions. Now it has apparently become a University only for those whose income fits the upper brackets.
If the purpose of the decision of the Board of Regents is to cut down enrollment, it will no doubt accomplish its purpose. However, we feel that limited enrollment could be
To the Daily Kansan: The auto accident that occurred Monday morning at Oread and Mississippi, though not serious, might have been avoided entirely if the traffic cop had been in position in the center of the street. Instead, he was standing on the corner, casually watching the cars go by.
Traffic Should Be Directed Between Classes Says Junior
Getting names and details after the accident seems minor compared to their prevention and the protection of the students who are driving and crossing the intersection during class changes.
Why have a policeman on the campus at all if he doesn't protect us? Is his only job putting red tickets on cars parked in the wrong lots or along the wrong streets, or splitting hairs over orange lines?
College Junior (Name withheld by request)
Perhaps it was too early this morning for him to be waving his arms or had he already done his setting-up exercises for the day? Since we can't change our class schedule for him, maybe we should change our cop.
brought about in a more satisfactory and democratic manner.
We suggest that the Board of Regents publish an itemized account of what will be done with the additional fee, because we, as students of the University of Kansas, feel that we have a right to know how our money will be spent.
—Maybelle St. Lawrence, College Sophomore; Jo Ann Rossillon, College Freshman; Evangeline Fratt, Fine Arts Sophomore; Reva Dwyer, Fine Arts Freshman; Vera M. Hodges, College Freshman; Mary E. Moore, College Freshman; Betty Parsons, College Sophomore.
(Editor's Note: The elimination of laboratory fees by an increase in the incidental fee is a step that a majority of the large colleges and universities have already taken. The principle of students assisting in the payment of costs in other departments and schools of the University is not new. The incidental fee has served this purpose in the past. The increase is merely a continuation of that policy.
If each student were required alone to pay the entire cost of his
By MARION SHELDON
A true gentleman. Hoyt Baker, a true gallant from the old school, while playing in a golf match one afternoon, was carrying Billie Simmons over some really rough territory. Uh-huh, you guessed it; they both went down in a heap.
That mysterious call. Last week Pat Foster mentioned in this column that a mysterious girl had been calling Jack Greer and not revealing her identity. The calls still persist and the "female-phoner" also called Pat and threatened her not to mention the incident again. Needless to say, Pat is very frightened; Jack is perplexed and disgusted; and the "girl" is still determined.
Room wanted. Late one night, Bud Seaman was groping his way into his room in the dark. He bumped the divan and the leg just "acci-dentally" happened to fall off. Needless to say, the Sigma Nu actives weren't the least impressed by excuses and told him in low sweet tones to fix it. Armed with a very strong glue, Bud complied. Came the dawn, and the actives discovered he had glued the leg on another seat and not the divan. Anyone have an extra room for rent?
education, the fees in some of the schools, such as engineering and medicine would be exorbitant. To spread out that cost involves a principle similar to that employed in taxation. Paragraph one of the above letter seems to neglect consideration of the science departments in the College.
Raymond Nichols, University executive secretary, pointed out that, "Our fees have been comparatively nominal when one considers the fees in other schools of similar size." He also declared that laboratory costs have risen considerably during the past few years.
Before this action was taken, a member of the faculty of Kansas State college made a survey of 20 large colleges and universities in the country and found that the majority of them are following much this same system of increasing incident fees and eliminating laboratory fees as much as possible.
Easy Target
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—From the St. Louis Star- Times