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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FEBRUARY 19, 1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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 subscriptions: $2 a semester, $45 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kan. every afternoon the year except Saturday and Sunday September 7, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan. Under act of March 3, 1879.
Labor At Home
Those who are forced to work their way through college are often praised, verbally, for their hard-working qualities, their brave battle for education, and that characteristic they allegedly possess called intestinal fortitude.
Commendation is heartwarming, but it won't pay a housebill, or buy books. Couldn't something besides talking be done to help working students? A minimum wage of 35 cents an hour seems a pitifully low price for student labor.
Employers, on and off the Campus have always bought student labor cheaply. In the pre-war depression era students were hired for as little as 20 cents an hour, because there were plenty of students who needed money.
Then wages, along with living costs, rose during the war. Thirty-five cents became the minimum standard for student wages. Students did not complain, because they knew they could get another job if conditions were too unfair. Employers objected to the students' fickleness toward their jobs, but seldom paid any student more than fifty cents an hour. It wasn't necessary—even then.
Now, the sudden rush of veterans to the campus has raised the old problem of surplus student labor. High food and housing costs make government checks inadequate, and veterans with wives and families must compete for the low paid positions. They find that they have little choice in finding a job. They become, for a few hours daily, janitors, waiters, baby-sitters, or, if they have the proper education, lab assistants and helpers.
This paradoxical situation presents on one hand the student whose labor is a cheap commodity. Yet living costs are high and time is valuable to the student and to his grade-point average.
These students are chagrined at the humiliatingly low price put on their services. They are disappointed with the choice of positions offered them.
Such working students do not ask for charity, they ask only for higher wages. They wonder sometimes just how much effort a college education must be worth. They wonder if they are not paying too much, in effort, for education at this University.
And on the other hand, there are the employers who still feel that they are being generous by even hiring students. After all, the student's time is cut up by his classes, study, and finals; his interest is usually not on his job, but on his study. Employers feel that an hour of a student's time is seldom worth more than 50 cents.
Wherever right lies, it seems that the present employment situation, aggravated as it is by the influx of new students who expect to support themselves at least in part, is serious enough to warrant some special attention from the administration. F. C.
Sav It With Letters
Perhaps you are thinking that the Daily Kansan always gets the last word. Even though you are new on the campus, you may have another angle on the YM, or you think the women's lounge is a silly waste of money, or you feel fraternities are hypocritical about the beating reform.
You'd like to put your two cents in on the other side, but you talk at best to 15 students a day while 5,000 see the Daily Kansan. In other words, it seems as though the paper gets not just the last word, but the only word.
And it would, too, if it were a dogmatic organ of some private group. But it isn't. The Daily Kansan is what it says it is—the newspaper of the students.
On any issue, the Daily Kansan expresses its viewpoint—a viewpoint which concurs with that of at least part of the student body, since the Daily Kansan staff members are students. But the expression of this opinion is not intended to exclude all others from the columns of the paper. The theoretically it only starts the ball rolling, solicits other views. The paper is a student forum, designed to present all phases of student thought.
And your thought—how does it reach others through the Daily Kansan? The answer is in a letter addressed to the editor-in-chief and dropped in the campus mail or left on the editor's desk in the Journalism building. The letter should be fairly short—200 words is a good round number,and it must be signed with the author's full name and address. However, names are withheld from publication upon request.
The editorial staff always reserves the right to edit letters that are too long or not to print them at all. But seldom is a reason good enough to keep a student letter out of the paper.
So the Daily Kansan doesn't need to get the last word. It's always yours for the asking.
About to muff their opportunity to provide a site for the world capital of the UNO, 2,500 residents of Fairfield and Westchester counties in Connecticut and New York are complaining about the "general realignment of business, real estate values, and job opportunities," with which they would be faced. Perhaps the American ideal is truly "life, liberty, and pursuit of property."
--and, seeing the mile long fee line,
innocently asked, "Could this by
any chance be the fee line?" One
bright lad piped up, "Heck no, we're
doing the conga."
According to Winchell, Colonel Peron has expanded his Argentine police from 6,000 to 60,000 and given them all tommy guns. Considering the rate of demobilization of the U.S. army, that 60,000 will soon be a fair-sized army.
Seen at the Sweetheart Swing—a stag line. Overheard from a senior girl pointing at same—"What's that?"
Rock Chalk Talk
BY ANNE SCOTT
Good impression? Way back in the dark ages, that is the Sunday be fore final week, the Tri Delt's called a meeting at a local alum's home. Thinking that it was just to be a chummy little get-together, Betty Mallonee and Joan Manners decided to attend in full final week regalia with something added for good in dressing into the mending in jeans, pumps, anklets, plaid shirts, tons of makeup, and flowered scarfs, the pledges were aghast to find two national officers serenely sipping tea.
Smoke gets in their eyes. Battenfeld boys have restricted Bill (Radar) Worwag from flapping his ears because they create quite a breeze especially when the smokers are enjoying their after dinner coffin flicker or that Bill could actually take off if there were enough wind!
Also at Battenfield Wallace Abbey and Bill Stoner have become dissatisfied with their jobs as dish washers. They say that there's no inspiration in dishes doing the bubble dance.
Dear Mom. "Oh boy, a valentine," hurried Mary Brannigan, Sleepy Hollow, as she opened the package. But she was in for a surprise because her Fred had mixed his valentines. The card read, "Dearest Mother, hope you like this. Your loving son, Fred."
Fresh frosh. Industrious Calvin Subera, 1334 Ohio, new frosh from Caldwell, wanted to really be on the ball and start his college career in A-1 condition. Since his first class was band at 7:30 a.m. Calvin set his alarm for 6 a.m. and went to bed at 7:30 p.m.—oh, so eager! Later he awoke to find that it was nine o'clock. Calvin frantically dressed dashed out of the house, and was practically in Hoch before realizing that it was moonglow overhead and not sunlight!
Befuddled. After the enrollment struggle, Carolyn Keith, Alpha Chi was in the usual college daze. She dozed through two chemistry lectures before realizing that she wasn't in her physics class.
One, two, three, up-ug. Yes, the girls of Locksley halls are reducing, but it isn't because they really need it. Reducing is a necessity only because the girls are sleeping on 30-inch wide navy beds and they don't relish the idea of a plunge to the floor.
Notice. It is rumored that "Lost Weekend" will be made a requirement for some local frats!
Jane During walls. "That isn't the half of it. At our house, the beds sagged in the middle, but here they rise up. We have quite an adjustment to make."
Lines, lines, lines. A weary veteran grouped his way to Frank Strong
OFFICIAL BULLETIN February 19
All Student Council will meet at :15 tonight, Pine room, Union.
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Meeting 7:30 tonight, auditorium Frank Strong. All veterans invited.
Pre-Nursing Club meeting 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Home, Economics Room, Fraser. Officers will be elected.
Tau Sigma meeting 7:30 tonight,
Robinson Gymnasium.
Public is invited to the National Sigma Xi Lecture in Fraser Theatre, 8 p.m. Monday. Dr. C. C. Speidel, professor of anatomy, University of Virginia, will speak on "Living Cells in Action as Revealed by Fast-Motion Cine-Photomicrography".
Meeting for house representatives of the Bitter Bird, 7 tonight, East room, Memorial Union. Office open:3:00 to 5:00 p.m. daily.
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Union Activities Chairmen are asked to have reports to Union office by Friday.
Oh, Georgie, how you could love.
That is, he could love if he had the chance, but there's still hope for George Beeler, new SIGma Chi addition. George is Bob Beeler's handsome cocker, and he needs companionship. Fact is, George wants a girl! The hope lies in the fact that the Jay Janes have again opened their date bureau for the vice versa dance. They've handled a lot of dates for wolves in the past, so Georgie's problem shouldn't be too hard.
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Garage and Cab Co.
922 Mass. Phone 12
For That Coke Date Remember
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Phone 999 701 Mass.
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