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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 4,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kanagas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Madison Ave. Advertising Group 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 week. Sundays, University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... REBECCA VALLETTE
Managing Editor ... WILLIAM HAGE
Makeup Editor ... WILLIAM HAGE
Telegraph Editors
JANE ANDERSON, CHARLES ROOS
EDITORIAL STAFF
JANE ANDERSON, CHARLES ROOSE
News Editor BILLIE MARIE BILLIONTON
Sports Editor BILL SIMS
 Society Editor CATHERINE OSGOOD
 Photography Editor DIXIE GILLANDRON
 Asst. Society Editor MAIRFA JWETTE
 Staff Cartoonist RICHARD BOELLER
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF...MARY MORHILL
Editorial Associates
CHARLES ELLIOTT, LEMOYNE FREDERICK
Editorial Writers
JOHN CONARD, OWILLE ROBERTS,
LOREN KING.
BUSINESS STAFF
Advertising Manager...ANNE SCOTT
Advertising Manager ... ANNE SCOTT
Asst. Adv. Manager ... ELINOR THOMPSON
The Beaten Path
In most cases the college student's trait of searching out time-savers is admirable. In a pinch, he works everything in by planing off the corners.
But now and then the student cuts one corner too many. Over his quota certainly is the corner of Oread and 14th street which navy trainees and other Union-bound Jayhawkers have lopped off just behind Spooner-Thayer museum with an unsightly path extending diagonally northwest and southeast behind the museum.
The original trail blazers undoubtedly thought they had a stroke of streamlining genius; the thousands who have followed visualize themselves saving valuable steps and seconds. And they do—if 48 steps and 25 seconds are valuable.
The destruction of a beautiful lawn seems a high price to pay for so little time and so little saved energy.
Already the ground has started to erode, and, with the rainy months of April and May at hand, it is evident that the shallow gullies may soon be deepening. There is no grass of any description, some places for a swath of 25 feet, to hold the soil firm.
Building and grounds could dig up this pathway and resod it. But what would be the use if students were still bent on saying their 25 seconds?
Everyone should learn to take pride in his possessions. And the University in all of its spring glory is our possession. We should take a pride in it; we should take 48 more steps to go around Spooner-Thayer!
Letters to the Editor
Forums Board Peace Efforts Upheld by Caldwell
Three contentions seem to have been made in that editorial. (1) That Forums board is responsible for a marked decrease in student solicitude for the K.U. peace conference.
To the Daily Kansan: On behalf of the Forums board, I should like to reply to the author of the March 22 Daily Kansan editorial.
(Editor's note: This contention is based on a misinterpretation. The Daily Kansan simply pointed out that the character is a student, interest in a peace project.
True, it questioned Forums board's methods of presenting the subject, but also suggested that the real trouble lay with the student who did not or could not put first things first.)
(2) That the board's latest "ball-fumbling" was evident in the poor publicity and poor attendance for its first program. (3) that Forums board discussion programs are probably an unsatisfactory approach for awakening student interest in world problems.
What about the first contention? It seem to have been the opinion of two Daily Kansan front page editorials, the Student Council, several faculty members, and a great many students that no great concern for the peace conference ever existed in the past. The point is that when any substantial sacrifice of time or effort to make it a success was mentioned.
(Editor's note: The Daily Kansan did believe in October that the entire student body had a part in the demise of the peace project. This suggestion, however, was met by strong assertions from many-including Mary Jo Co, president of the All-Student Council, that "sufficient interest and potential enthusiasm existed among the student body to make the activity worthwhile."
In its more recent editorial, the Daily Kansan questioned what had happened to these alleged enthusiasts.)
Concerning the second contention, Forums board now realizes that its first meeting was inadequately publicized. We wonder, however, if the Forums boards alone was at fault. The now-critical Daily Kansan placed both our articles in the back section while featuring the weather, club meetings, deck tennis games on the front page.
As for the third contention, the Daily Kansan editorial was misleading. It described our discussion programs as lectures, which they are not. They are faculty talks in faculty homes, but with stress on student participation in discussion afterwards.
Forums board intends to continue its discussion series and other programs. To this end it has already engaged Dr. Harold C. Urey, world-renowned atomic scientist, to come to K.U. April 15 for both a convocation and question period.
GEORGE CALDWELL Chairman, Forums board
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
April 4,1946
Notices must be typewritten and must be in Public Relations office, or be received by phone later than 9:30 a.m. on day of publication. No phone messages accepted.
Veterans who filed certificates of eligibility and entitlement at the Office of the KU veterans training service and do not receive subsistence allowance checks by Friday, are requested to report to room 2, Frank Strong hall immediately after that date.
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Newman club discussion group will meet at 7 tonight in East room of Union.
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YMCA Organizing committee and members of the Board of Directors will meet at 6:15 p.m. Monday, in the English room of the Union.
Men interested in attending a week-end YMCA conference at Kansas Wesleyan university Salina, on the subject "Our Nation, Our World-Whither Bound," Friday to Sunday, are asked to call Luther Buchele, 205.
Dawson choir will rehearse at 7:15 tonight in room 131, Frank Strong.
Phi Chi Theta will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Council room at Miller hall.
The Independents Council will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Independents office of the Union.
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Any student interested in working on advertising for the Independent newspaper, call Joanne Riney, phone 1744.
AT THE HOSPITAL
Admitted Wednesday
Allan Holmgren, PT 7,
Thomas Baird, 1239 Ohio.
Phyllis Wittrock, 1145 Louisiana.
Charles Warden, 1025 West Hills.
LaJune Dunn, 1625 Edgehill.
Barbara Clark, Corbin
Dismissed Wednesday
Allan Holmgren, PT 7.
Patricia Foster, 1339 West Campus.
Charlotte Clift, 1701 Indiana,
Jack Frost, Sunflower.
Smith Publishes Book
Dr. Hobart Smith, of last year's faculty, has published a book, "The Lizards of North America," dedicated to Dr. E. H. Taylor, zoology professor, who has returned from a leave of absence.
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