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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 28.1946
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 Madison Ave., New York City.
Mail subscription: $2 a semester. $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the second year except Saturdays and Sundays. University of Kansas, held on September 7, 1940, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
Studies v. Education
Monday evening, Owen Lattimore, one of America's foremost authorities on the Far East, delivered an address in Hoch auditorium. He came to the campus to give the students the benefit of his long experience and study of that very important part of the world.
His confidence in today's young people must have received a slight joll when he stepped up to the lectern and saw less than 300 students seated before him, out of a student body of more than 5,000.
Those who did attend can attest that Mr. Lattimore presented a very informative lecture which shed light on a problem that is far from clear to most Americans.
This is not the first time an apparent lack of interest in important tonics has been shown.
Perhaps today's young people don't care what is happening in the world. Perhaps they don't realize that modern civilization is going through one of its most trying times and that a secure future is far from assured. But surely we have more vision than that.
As we have pointed out before, in many cases the fault lies not with complacency on the part of the students but rather with the pressure of school work that demands so much of their time.
For the student it's a matter of being practical. A diploma is awarded for grades; the student is told that his chances of getting a job are affected by grades. Grades result to a great degree from facts placed on examination papers; ergo, to get a diploma he must learn his assignments above all else, regardless of how it restricts his real education.
But the time is past when Americans could confine themselves largely to their trade, immediate interests, or their profession and still fulfill their duties as citizens. Today's world demands a broader vision, understanding, and interest than that.
The fact that we have already lagged far behind in this respect is reflected in our being governed largely by pressure groups and in our lack of a clear foreign policy.
It is absolutely vital that the university students of the country become a nucleus of a more enlightened America. That broadened perspective cannot be achieved in the confines of our classrooms as they are today.
Chancellor Malott has shown his awareness for a revamping of our education methods by pointing out in a recent address that "There is too much fact and not enough vision in our schools today."
We hope this statement will be followed by constructive action that will take stock of our current values and responsibilities and result in a program, promoted and appreciated by both faculty and students, to put first things first.—L.F.
By PAT FOSTER
Rock Chalk
Chickery-chick. Saturday night Martha Keplinger, Pi Phi pledge, received a large corsage box for the dance from date, Frank Newell, Phi Delt. Inside were two yellow and black chickens with purple ribbons around their necks.
The chicks, named Scotch and Soda, are now living in a palatial hat box in Martha's room and newest Pi Phi pledge duty is the afternoon airing of both charges and room.
People in glass houses shouldn't. Andy Struble, Beta, has a couple of new pets, too. Marilyn Sweeney, Chi Q, wanted to give him something different for his birthday. So after due consideration she purchased two goldfish and a bowl—to amuse Andy on those maddening nights when, as a matter of chapter policy, the Beta's don't have dates.
No bones broken. For all their unpopularity, Lance and O'Sullivan have probably been no more black and blue after refereeing a game than was Violet Conard, Watkins hall, after the DG-Gamma Phil deck tennis match. Climbing to her perch in the window to give the starting whistle, Violet got caught in the net and although date Herbert Thiry was there and such things don't happen to dogs, crashed to the floor amid the groans of Robinson's timers.
Who done it? The SAE's are still trying to discover how it all happened. Thursday, about 8 p.m., someone noticed that all the trophies but one were missing. Lying in the middle of the floor, with a lily beside it, was one lone cup. The confusing thing is that practically the entire chapter was in the house at the time the treasured articles disappeared. Surely, they weren't all studying.
It's a good trick if they can do it.
The latest addition to the Sigma Chi house is a huge wooden chute, about 20 feet long, extending from a window in the sunroom. It could be that it has some connection with the "Alice in Wonderland" party Saturday night. But the Sig's insist that it's a simplified manner of obtaining ice.
Letters to the Editor
Sunflower Citizens Chose Village Say Tiny Homes Are Comfortable
Working Wives Cell Sunflower Cheery, Efficient
To the Daily Kansan: On March 13 the managing editor of the Daily Kansan dealt Sunflower Village veterans pride in their new homes a rather back-handed blow. The two-page, illustrated article on the village was obviously written and photographed by non-residents, unmarried ones.
The exterior of the "old village" presents naturally, as does any industrial area that has been in use more than a few weeks, a smoke-stained picture, and the winter scene appears all the more drab. Even the "pre-fabs" fail to raise the spirits of an outsider upon first sight.
But Sunflower is home, in every sense of the word, to us who, in the last few years, have been without roots.
We speak for the working element of Sunflower veterans' wives. Since the only full day we have off from work is Sunday, we do not have to cope with the milkman, iceman, coalman, and other door-to-door salesmen who make lively the days of those who stay at home all the time.
We do not have children whose voices penetrate through thin walls. Our neighbors are considerate; those with children are as truly so as are those without.
Perhaps we are more fortunate in being away a majority of our waking hours, but there is hardly a woman among us who would not be happy to keep house all day long for her husband in the colorful, cheery, well-furnished homes we have found in Sunflower Village.
MRS. RICHARD O. BUTTON
MRS. DAVID R. TEENER
'Sunflower Was Not Last Resort'—Bartel
To the Daily Kansas: My! what a drab, stinted picture you painted of Sunflower Village in your article on March 13.
You mean we looked around, and as a last resort we dumped our belongings, hung our hats on a nail, and called it home?
But just a moment—for most of us
Sunflower was not exactly a last resort. My husband and I started seeking an apartment in Lawrence last October. We looked at all the available apartments in Lawrence whether they would take vetnets with children or not. (We are parents of a blonde, blue-eyed daughter.)
Kansan Open Letters
After taking a good look at some of those rat traps we decided (of our own rat will) to take Sunflower. These units are built for compact, efficient home life. They aren't just second floors and attics turned into makeshift living quarters.
Dear Mr. Lee Gemmell:
We hate to be alarmists, but if the extension division doesn't mend its ways, the next high school campus visitors may spend the night on Fraser steps. It's not that organized houses mind getting your letters every other week asking them to keep visitors. It's that after filling out the post card, returning it, and on the appointed night having six girls change their beds and move out of their rooms, it's a little maddening not to have any guests show up.
THE DAILY KANSAN
Dear Students.
My husband is working toward a master's degree. I happen to be a KU. graduate. Most wives here are college graduates or have a year or two of college. After spending four years in Lawrence as a student, I know something of the conditions there. This 13-mile drive may be inconvenient; the apartments may be "all alike"; they may look like barracks and be tiny. But it not as bad as your article would have people believe.
Just wanted to remind you that there are steps with good comfortable railings leading up to the entrance of Watson library. Also, that there are several acres of campus to this institution. In other words, if you walk just beyond the doorway of the library, you'll still be able to find someplace to smoke your cigarette and chat.
THE DAILY KANSAN
Dear All-Student Council:
We would suggest that instead of trying to organize an SSS troop (Smoking Secret Service) to report smoking offenders, you concentrate on some practical aboveboard job—such as providing sand-filled receptacles for cigarette stubs.
You'll never keep the stubs from being created. But you might be able to keep them from carpeting the approach to every campus building. THE DAILY KANSAN
On a New Level-But Still Fighting
By Daniel Bishop
Did you know that there are lawns here and they are greening with the coming of spring? Plans are being made now to plant grass in Village II. Our streets in Village II are paved, also the alleys, and there are sidewalks of real concrete.
From the St. Louis Star-Times
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The plan of the village is comparable to the suburban districts of large cities (on a compact scale). Our streets are clearly marked and wind around the units meeting streets of heavier traffic.
I will admit that white shingles on these units plus shrubbery would make a big difference. However, we live inside the four walls, not outside. Pastel colors cover the walls and the floors are painted burgundy or polished with wax.
The view from my kitchen window is a large meadow, rolling hills, and farm houses in the distance. I can hear meadow-larks singing on a clear morning; the sunrises and sunsets are beautiful.
As a former college student, saddle shoes, sweater, and all, I believe the married Sunflower veteran with his wife and off-spring, is a very happy and mature fellow.
We are not suffering or just existing out here. We are living a complete and happy life. And we do not appreciate the sympathy or the brickbats thrown at our living quarters (homes to us).
BERNICE KIZLER BARTEL
Fine Arts '43
Student Objects To 'Expose' Reporting
I have nothing but the highest praise for the Daily Kansan for publishing this article. It shows that you are attempting to give complete, unbiased news which is of interest to the student body.
To the Daily Kansan: The motive for writing this letter stems from your reprint of the article appearing in the "Villager" relative to housing conditions at Sunflower Village.
the unfortunate part, though, is that your first article on the subject, with its accompanying picture, ever had to appear.
It is clearly a case of misrepresentation and the attempt of some reporter to assure himself a place in the hall of fame before he has finished school. How about refraining from trying to print something sensational and stick to news which affects ALL students?
This is not the first time that two factions here at the University have been set at each other's throats by some article appearing in the Daily, Kansan.
Print news for us, please, and let Walter Winchell take care of the sensational expose of the day.
KENNETH E. BEASLEY College freshman
Walsenburg Ships Turkeys
Walsenburg, Colo. (UF) — More than 322,000 pounds of turkeys were shipped from this town of 5,600 population in 1945—an average of 66 pounds per resident.