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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 14, 194
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA 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: $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. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
K.U. Limited
When registration starts for the fall semester on Sept. 20, K. U. will be operating under restricted enrollment for the first time in its history.
K. U. has already received a large number of requests from high school seniors in other states asking for entrance into the University next fall. With the University unable to make such guarantees without running the risk of having to turn away Kansas students later on, the fairness of an enrollment plan giving priority to veterans and high school seniors of Kansas and also former students becomes apparent.
Through the adoption of limited enrollment, already common in many schools particularly in the East, the quality of education supersedes the importance of high enrollment figures on Mt. Oread. While other institutions compete for the enrollment records, the Jayhawker settles back to educate well what students it can accommodate.
And even that is a challenge. Next fall's contemplated increase of perhaps 1,000 students will tax University facilities to an extreme. The administration will be hard put to find 100 new, good faculty members. The administration will be hard put to stretch available building space a thousand students farther.
But for the time being, a quota system on enrollments is the only way to insure proper instruction to K. U. students, and to maintain the University's high standard of education.
New at the library: "The Last of the no-hic-ans;—How the Democrats Plan to Return Kansas to the Union," by Harry Wooding.
Kentucky has become the first state to make Franklin D. Roosevelt's birthday (Jan. 30) a legal holiday.
Among the war personnel still missing in action after the war is sinanthropus pekinensis, better known as the Peking Man. He couldn't keep up with the Marines. . . .
School Away from School
More than 1,000 students have attended University classes during the past year without coming near the campus. Enrolled in K. U. extension classes in a number of Kansas cities and towns, they have taken advantage of an extra program offered by the University-sending the school to students.
For one credit hour, an extension student attends eight weekly two-hour class periods, and pays $4.
The program, as a whole, finances itself. If one class falls a little short of meeting expenses, the loss is paid for with the surplus from another class.
At present, 410 teachers, housewives, and businessmen are enrolled in extension classes in Kansas City, while other courses are held in Topeka, Olathe, Burlingame, Holton, Wichita, and smaller Kansas towns. Typical courses are those in secretarial techniques, cost accounting, personnel management, statistics, psychology and guidance, traffic management, engineering, industrial journalism, drafting, cello, handcrafts, and Spanish.
Some persons may attend the classes because of a nostalgic desire to recapture the glamour of their college days, or, if they did not previously attend a university, to get a taste of college atmosphere.
Many others, however, enroll in courses which are correlated with their occupations to qualify themselves for advancement. Still others use the credit to apply on University degrees.
Some of the class instructors are businessmen. But, since the first group of University professors began giving extension lectures in 1892 and regular extension classes were organized 30 years ago, dozens of faculty members have participated in the program.
What do these professors get in return for the time, thought, and effort involved in teaching such out-of-town classes? Practically nothing, in monetary compensation. But they are richly rewarded in human values. They have not only the satisfaction of sharing their knowledge with others, but the invaluable benefits of contact with their fellow citizens.
In teaching such weekly classes, they leave the specialized University atmosphere, which offers contact only with college age students and other faculty members. From the outside associations, they assimilate new ideas and trends of thought and return to their campus classes with fresh viewpoints. So, indirectly, students here at the University benefit, also, when members of the faculty teach extension classes.
By bringing members of the University faculty and persons throughout the state into contact, with a resulting exchange of ideas and outlooks, the extension classes truly "extend" the University.-M.T.
Perhaps we should have known, but when announcement was made of the new navy newspaper on the Hill, the "Fantail Forum," we pictured a fancy goldfish. Information, for information's sake: the fantail is the back of a ship.
With all the to-do that was made about where the Kansas-Aggie game was to be played, we feel the experts could have at least planned it for a week-end.
Letters to the Editor
'Tickets for K.C. Game Not Distributed Fairly'
To the Daily Kansan: This letter is a protest concerning the method of distributing tickets for K. U. events held out of town.
Monday night one of the biggest events of the year for the University of Kansas will be held at the municipal auditorium in Kansas City when we play Oklahoma A. and M.
Although K. U. was allotted 3,500 tickets, a great many students who desire seats have been told that there are no more available.
It is interesting to note that one faculty member bought more than 25 tickets. Lots of 10 and 15 were sold to Lawrence businessman. Numerous students of Oread high school have tickets.
This seems unfair considering that the game is a K. U. event and it would seem logical for K. U. students to have first consideration.
wouldn't it be a fairer plan if K. U. students were given first chance for tickets for K. U. events? Tickets could be put on general sale after students had been given an opportunity to buy theirs.
It might be interesting to note just how many students are sitting in the K. U. section Monday night. If as at the K. U.-M. U. football game, the section is filled with non-students, it would seem legitimate to make different plans for such sales in the future.
DORIS DIXON,
College senior;
BARBARA FORD,
College sophomore
French, British To Leave Lebanon by March 30
Rock Chalk Talk
Paris (UP)—The foreign office announced tonight that French and British experts had agreed on the evacuation of their troops from Lebanon beginning March 30.
All British troops will be out by June 30 and all French by April 1, 1947, at the latest, a foreign office announcement said.
British and French experts have been meeting here for about two weeks. The negotiations resulted from United Nations security council consideration in London and an Anglo-French agreement on the evacuation of both Syria and Lebanon.
By KEITH WILSON
It's a wise father . . . Kingsley Gerlach, 1402 Tennessee, stumbled to the door early one morning last week to answer a persistent bell. King looked a little worse for the wear after a hard night of hitting the books and was particularly disgruntled at the thought of answering doorbells at such an ungodly hour. When he opened the door he found to his surprise that the early visitor was his father. Mr. Gerlach stared at the unshaven figure before him and announced blunty that he would like to see Kingsley Gerlach. "But pappa," cried Kingsley. "don't you recognize me?"
Spring is here . . . To verify this fact we offer the following profound statement which certainly no one would utter in winter. Bethy Ashton, Pi Phi: "Come out of that dumb waiter, Grandma! I'll never let you down!"
Spring has also left a definite impression upon the class discussions. The other day in a history class two would-be Phi Bete's were discussing the merits of Napoleon. Their discussion had been going on for only a minute when the fellow sitting behind them exclaimed ir-
Everybody tries to get in the act. The opening of the new recreation room in the Memorial Union building was going along fine when in the midst of one skit Joan Woodward, Pi Phi, read the words, "Well, here we are on the floor again." This was greeted by a loud guffaw from the rear of the room, by many others... guffaws, that is.
The early bird gets caught . . .
It seems that the early fly is not confined to the male sex only. In an effort to roust out the girls efficiently in the morning, some of the Theta's consider no plan too diabolic. Early Monday morning Shirley Leitch announced frantically to Mary K. Maige that there was someone to see her downstairs right away. Always happy to entertain visitors, Mary K. hopped out of bed and groped blindly down the hallway. Her journey ended unsociably, however. Missing the door to the stairway, she shut herself up in a closet.
rately, "Stop talking about me. Napoleon!"
Quickly trying to verify startling revelation, the original picipants in the discussion as "Who told you that you were I poleon?"
"God did!" was the reply.
At this point a girl sitting seats to the south awoke in deep sleep to exclaim, "I did &
Professors in private . . . The Kappa's were discussing the latest beer-dance controversy—the V. D. angle. After a great deal of hearings, one member finally came up with an authoritative fact. "The commissioners admit," she stated, "that of all the V. D. cases, only one was enrolled in the University—so you see the students aren't to blame. "Hmm," deduced Beverly Frizell, "The faculty!"
Sabath Begins Fight To Evict Lobbyists
Sabath, chairman of the house rules committee, proposed that the special group be authorized to investigate any lobby which "seeks to influence consideration of legislation by congress."
Washington. (UP)—Rep. Adolph J. Sabath, Democrat, Illinois, today introduced legislation to set up a special house committee to investigate "the powerful lobbies which are infesting Washington."
Sabath introduced his resolution a day after Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas had told the house that the capital has been "loaded down and seething with utility lobbyists for the past six months."
Washington. (UP)—President Truman's Jackson Day dinner speech will be broadcast at 11 p.m., CST, March 23, over all major radio networks, Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan announced today.
He said the investigation would take in "the lobby fighting housing legislation. the lobby to break or weaken price control and the power lobby."
The Higher It Goes, the Shakier It Gets
From the St. Louis Star-Times