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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FEBRUARY 20.1946
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.
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kan., ever 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.
Book of the Month
University students got a bargain last week. Many of you didn't realize it, some of you even complained, but in paying $6.21 for an activity book you received a passport to events for which regular admission tickets would have totaled around $21.82.
Basketball games, concerts, lectures, the Daily Kansan, student government—many things you may have taken for granted—are provided by the sum which seemed large when you wrote that check at the business office.
The athletic department got $1.90. In return, you saw the Nebraska basketball game Friday and will see the Iowa State game next week. True, you paid an extra dollar for your basketball season ticket, but a ticket at regular prices would have cost $4.50. Also, you can see the Kansas Relays, which will cost non-students about a dollar, and varsity baseball games.
Here's what happened to your $6.21, after the federal government had taken 62 cents for tax, and the state 9 cents:
The free class gets Your activity book will admit you to Owen Lattimore's lecture next month. Otherwise you would pay $2. Twenty-one cents from the activity fee goes to the lecture series fund.
There also will be concerts by the University band, orchestra, a capella choir, and glee clubs for which the outsider will pay 50 cents an event. Ten cents from the activity fee helps to pay for the band's music and transportation to out-of-town events.
Forty-two cents went to the concert course which, besides the Don Cossack chorus, will include this semester Robert Casadesus and James Melton. These, at regular prices, cost $2.44 or $3.05 each.
The glee clubs get 7 cents for essentially the same purposes.
Twenty-nine cents will help cover the cost and admit you to two dramatic productions to which regular admissions will be 50 cents.
Eleven cents partially finances University debate trips.
One dollar pays for your Daily Kansan. A regular subscription would cost you $3.
The All Student Council gets 35 cents which is used to underwrite the K-book, student directory, Jayhawker, varsity dances, and similar activities. The Council also supplies funds for Mortar Board, the WEC, and other campus organizations.
Ninety-five cents from each activity fee goes for the up-keep of the Memorial Union building. Except for what profits there are from the cafeteria and fountain, the Union is supported entirely by the students through this fee. It receives no University money.
The remaining 10 cents goes into a reserve fund to be used for printing the activity books. By petition, money has also been taken from this fund for special student events, such as the Dandelion Day dance.
Some students argue that they aren't interested in every University function, and they shouldn't be forced to buy tickets for all of them.
But even the bookworm is interested in at least one type of activity. And it would probably cost him as much, attended independently, as the price of his compact opportunity to partake of every attraction—M.T.
A Time and a Place
With the beginning of each new semester old students traditionally shower the new with torrents of advice, some good and some bad. One sound suggestion usually brought forth, however, is that of getting organized—constructing a simple schedule of each day's activities and sticking to it.
Every little chore which recurs periodically can be assigned its own little niche in the schedule and then be forgotten until that time rolls around.
Will you send out the laundry at 8 a.m. Monday or 10:15 a.m. Saturday? It really doesn't matter; just don't forget. Will you study French in the library at 10:30 every morning or go to the Union for a coke? Then, too, you know that algebra is going to take an hour every day. When will you find time for that? And will you get haircuts on the 1st and 15th of every month or just wait until your friends say, "My god, you're shaggy"?
Of course your schedule will be flexible. You're NOT in the army now. But a simple schedule of those things which must be done and an honest effort to follow it will prove profitable.
It is a question of who is to be master of your life, you or your activities.
We wonder why the increased enrollment this semester wouldn't justify an extension of the time in which fees may be paid without penalty. Four and a half days is hardly adequate to accommodate this semester's 5,000 students at the business office. Many found it impossible to spend the hours it would have taken to "stand it out" and yet this week they were fined when they presented their fee cards and money. We know there is a University rule regarding the time limit on fee payment, but this new situation seems logically to demand a new rule.
Irate British housewives howled last week when Sir Ben Smith, minister of food, announced that no more dried eggs would be imported to England, because, so Sir Ben said, he just couldn't find the 100 million dollars to pay for them. Some Britishers observed that they spent some 67 million dollars last year for American movies and screamed "We don't want Sinatra. We want food." Don't worry, Frankie. At least they still sk-reem about you.
Feeings hurt, fella's? What a weekend for the old Psi's! We've never seen such a bunch of neglected individuals. Cut of the masses of men present at the Chi Omega valentine party Friday night, only two were Phi Kappa Psi's, and it will all off, those two were pledges. Dick Sevier and Bob Cook(y) (invited by Regina McGeorge and Ann Alexander). But to get back to this tale of crime and retribution, the rest of the夜ighted brotherhood found a chance to even the score when they were all invited over to help entertain Chi O rushes on Saturday afternoon. They went . . . carrying a sign, which assumed bill-board proportions, and which proclaimed in bold letters:
"Both Pei's had fun;
We're here for crumbs!"
But, on the other hand (preferably left), "Put that ring on my finger, put that frat pin on my blouse." This is Get Your Man Week at the Pi Beta Phi house. If you notice that the entire Pi Phi chapter looks a little smeared around the lipstick line, be not dis-encouraged. It's just because the front stairs had quite a work-out, and the 'angels' an extended opportunity to practice for the time when the right man comes along, with what one pinning and three "ringings," all in a row.
Worse than a mile. At the bowling alleys downtown four V-12's were tense while one of their number tried to pick off a lone pin with his second ball. It was a close miss—heartbreakingly close. The others were consoling him when a loud voice rang out from the end of the alley. It was the pin boy. "Too bad, old man," he shouted.
Tom Bailey, Phi Gam, and alum Barbara Winn starred in the pinning, while Bill Bridges, Glenn Berger, and Lt. Gus d Zerega placed rings on the respective fingers of Dorothy Dahlin, Eugenia Hepworth (if I were president of the S.C., could I get married) and Dorthea Stodder.
I'll play ball. Hearing Coach Sauer Friday night ask every able-bodied person on the campus to go out for football next season, we assumed that he meant only men, but it seems that Jody Toepfer, Ginny Rhoads, Sunny Jones, and Joan Stewart took him literally. They haven't spoken to the coach yet, but we would like hereby to recommend them to him. These four practiced football with V-5's Jerry Andruske, Jay Whitefield, and Jim Hurple all Saturday afternoon! However, taking a practical point of view, the girls probably deserve Purple Hearts more than letters.
A honeymoon in — the library?
Don't ever tell us the old alma mater hasn't got a heart. Returned veteran Dean Ostrum, Sigma Nu, and wife "Sari" Pierpont Ostrum, Gamma Phi, are currently enjoying a honeymoon, while the papa of the pair is enrolled in school. You see, they were married immediately before he went overseas, and now he is on terminal leave. But not to waste a moment's time, conscientious Dean enrolled for this semester, requesting that he be allowed to miss classes and enjoy his 45 days with his wife. Request granted.
And we are now accepting bets as to which will get the most attention—Sari, or the reading list the College assigned him to complete by the time he resumes class attendance.
How Would Christ Have Edited a Newspaper? Dr. Sheldon Tried to Answer in Topeka Daily
How would Jesus Christ have edited a newspaper?
A symposium centered about the question "Has the prohibition law been successful in Kansas?" was printed one day, with various Topeka citizens giving their ideas.
New students interested in Student Union activities are asked to visit the Activities office, in the basement of the Union building, Thursday and Friday afternoons, Algeria. They will be assigned to committee work in the fields which they prefer, she added.
Dr. Sheldon's recent illness recalled these particular issues to Prof. L. N. Flint, of the journalism department, who has the complete file.
One of the most unusual experiments in journalistic history was conducted in 1900 when Dr. Charles M. Sheldon, author of "In His Steps," edited the Topeka Daily Capital, as an answer to that question.
Although the national and local news was printed, the main stress was given to religious and reform articles. Prayers and even hymns often appeared on the front page. "The Bible: the Basis of Our Christian Civilization" was the lead story in Dr. Sheldon's last issue. Other top stories were concerned with usury, the Sabbath, money, the evil of drink, and smoking.
Instead of printing any actual crime news, Dr. Sheldon included articles about the cost of crime and prison reform.
In regard to advertising Dr. Shelldon's idea was "to give the reader a clean, straightforward statement of sale of goods for their actual value." He chose advertising according to that standard.
Dr. Sheldon began his week on Tuesday because he did not want to work any of the employees on Sunday for the Monday paper.
Committee Positions Open In Student Union Activities
Committees open to membership include social, secretarial, forums, publicity, intramurals, administration, clubs and organization, and business, Miss Cornwell said.
The day after Dr. Sheldon's week an editorial in the Topeka Daily Capital stated that "the estimate placed upon Dr. Sheldon's experiment will generally be that it was a failure as a newspaper, and not above the average as a religious paper. The legitimate work of a newspaper is above all else to give the news."
Nevertheless, circulation of the Capital increased during the week as thousands of persons over the United States wanted to read the results of Dr. Sheldon's experiment.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Public is invited to the National Sigma Xi Lecture in Fraser Theater, 8 p.m. Monday. Dr. C. C. Speider, Professor of Anatomy, University of Virginia, will speak on "Living Cells in Action as Revealed by Fast-Motion Cine-Photomicrography".
Pre-Nursing Club meeting 4:30 p. m. Thursday, Home Economics room, Fraser. Officers will be elected.
Union Activities Chairmen are asked to have reports to Union office by Friday.
Joint meeting of Independents Council, retiring I.S.A. Council, and new I.S.A. Council at 7 p.m. tomorrow, southeast corner, Union Lounge, Attendance required.
Phi Chi Theta meeting, 8:30 p.m.
tomorrow, Pine Room, Union.
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Students interested in positions as editor or business manager of K-Book submit their applications, giving qualifications and experience, at business office. Frank Strong, before noon Tuesday. K-Book Staff must be enrolled in Summer Session, at K.U.
Students interested in position of manager (editor) of 1947 KU. Calendar submit application, giving qualifications and experience, to business office, Frank Strong, before noon Tuesday.
K.U. Hospitals Honored For Contribution to War
The University of Kansas hospitals have been awarded a certificate of appreciation for "outstanding contribution to the prosecution of World War II," from the War department. The certificate is signed by Norman L. Kirk, Surgeon General of the United States.
According to the certificate, the University doctors organized and staffed the 77th Evacuation hospital.
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