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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
JANUARY 25,1946
University
DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Represented by the National Advertising City, 420 Madison Avenue, New York City.
Mail subscription; $3 a semester, $45 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Law and Education. $10 a school year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class日期. Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
DOLORES SULMAN  Editor-in-Chief
ELEANOR ALBERTH  Managing Editor
NANCY TOMLSONL  Business Manager
BETTY BEACH  Advertising Manager
Letters to the Editor Why a Memorial Drive?' Puzzled Student Asks
Dear Editor:
During Christmas vacation many alumni from my home town asked me if I knew why, when the University needed so many other things, money was being collected for a memorial driveway and bell tower.
Many of these alumni were war veterans themselves and the idea of a memorial seemed to appeal to them—but the proposed driveway didn't.
The staid reply of the administration that we "shouldn't spend money for something which the legislature should give us," didn't make much of a hit with them either—especially since the legislature doesn't seem to be much inclined that way.
They're wondering, and come to think of it, so am I.
A puzzled student.
Student Approves Choice Of War Memorial
To the editor
Several students have written criticizing the administration's plans for a World War II memorial, but I want to express at least one student's approval of the project.
K. U. already has one of the most beautiful campuses in the middle west, and a well-planned peripheral drive will not only add to its overall appearance but will enable students and visitors alike to enjoy more of its lovely vistas.
It's generally admitted that we build memorials to war veterans and casualties not so much in gratitude to them, for we have no power to thank them, but to remind us to do our best to prevent another war. The memorial drive and tower will do this as well as anything would. —L.K.
The bell tower, if well designed in relation to the rest of the University's varied architectural types, will add color to the scene. The music of its bells will be a fitting reminder, by contrast, of the hell and desolation of war.
Veteran Prefers Homes To Driveway and Tower
University Daily Kansan Dear Editor:
Why doesn't someone attack a nice, healthy problem—student housing.
The writer has no quarrel with Lawrence householders, but the living quarters, especially for married students, do not meet the standards desired or the number demanded. "Housing will improve when Sunflower folds up," is heard frequently. Most of the improvements will be in the unmarried students' situation. Why not establish a housing program for married veterans (and when there are no married veterans let it be a program for housing married graduate students.) This would not only ease the housing situation for married and unmarried students but would set a permanent example of married students' housing standards to the citizens of Lawrence.
Such a move is possible by sub-
Students Quiz on Memorial
Editor-in-Chief
University Daily Kansan
Dear Miss Sulzman:
I appreciate your referring the comments and questions about the proposed memorial campanile and driveway to me for an answer. I think there is an adequate answer to each of them.
1. WHY CAN'T WE USE A STUDENT HOUSING PROJECT AS A WAR MEMORIAL IDEA?
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We could, but at the present time the University has money and credit available for the construction of five dormitories and residence halls. Actual building of these structures is delayed because of the lack of materials and labor. The Memorial Association would encounter even greater delays for, before any construction could start on a memorial housing project, the money would have to be received. It is expected that it will require at least a year before memorial funds are available for any project.
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2. WOULDN'T A NEW CHEMISTRY OR PHYSICS BUILDING BE A WISER INVESTMENT OF THE MEMORIAL FUND?
No. The Memorial association is pledged to a project which will be of benefit to all students-not just those who study chemistry, or music, or engineering or some other specific course of study. And such a building soon would become just a part of the regular University plant. It would not stand apart as a memorial should, nor would it serve a memorial function.
It should also be considered that the 1941 Kansas legislature set up a continuing one-fourth mill tax to provide building facilities for the five state schools. The University will receive its share of this fund through the years and it should be adequate to erect the buildings required to house the various departments of the University.
3. WILL THIS MEMORIAL OUTFIT PUT THE "BEE" ON ALUMS WHO FOUGHT THE WAR TO DONATE MONEY FOR THEIR OWN MEMORIAL?
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Certainly not. The Memorial association will not put the "bee" on anyone. Ex-servicemen and women will have the same opportunity as other interested persons to give, or not to give, to the fund.
4. WILL THE CAMPUS DRIVE BE TAKEN UP?
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The Memorial association plans provide only for the addition of a driveway and campanile to the campus of the University. It is understood that the center drive is to be removed and replaced by a mall If it is possible to accommodate all traffic, afford fire protection to all buildings and furnish adequate and convenient access to all parts of the campus by means of the memorial driveway and its connecting roads. This is a problem that cannot be solved until complete and thorough surveys are made.
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5. WILL THE MEMORIAL DRIVEWAY BE OF ANY VALUE TO STUDENTS WHILE THEY ARE ON THE CAMPUS, OR IS IT ONE OF THOSE THINGS THEY CAN'T APPRECIATE UNTIL THEY ARE GRADUATED AND COME BACK TO THE CAMPUS FOR THE 25TH YEAR REUNION?
It will be here for them to appreciate—as students. It will still be here for their appreciation and enjoyment when they return to the Hill as alumni.
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6. WHAT DOES THE DRIVEWAY ADD TO THE UNIVERSITY'S PURPOSE AND SERVICE-OF TEACHING YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WITH THE BEST MATERIALS AVAILABLE?
Beauty, inspiration, school spirit and utility.
Beauty, inspiration, school spirit and utility.
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7. JUST HOW WILL THE UNIVERSITY RAISE THE $450,000? THAT'S A LOT OF CABBAGE!
THE fund is to be raised entirely by voluntary contributions from students, alumni, and friends of the University. There are 38,000 former K.U. students and alumni. They will be canvassed for contributions to the fund. Donations from each will raise a sufficient amount to build the memorial driveway and campanile.
Edwin C. Galbreath.
I trust this is an adequate response to your queries. If it is not, I will be pleased to visit with anyone who wants to discuss the memorial project more fully. Our offices are in room 218, Frank Strong hall.
Concerning dead veterans, I cannot say what their ideas might be. The men that died in my care did not mention bell towers, but they did hope that their sweethearts, wives, sons, and daughters would have a good life. Let us do that for the living and the families of the dead that come to this University.
situting a housing program for the bell tower and roadway being planned as a memorial to veterans. As a live veteran I certainly have no interest in a pigeon roost and a speedway, and I am sure some of my friends would not be interested in the bell tower unless they could find living quarters there.
Yours truly,
Ken Postlethwaite,
Organization Director,
Memorial Association of World War II.
Oklahoma Memorial Costs $400,000 Too
Cushing, Okla. (UP)—The citizens of Cushing, Okla., have approved plans for a $420,000 postwar project which would include a spacious memorial recreation center.
The initial phase of the plan would cover two years, calling for the recreation center, football stadium, new city hall structure and fire station. Expenditure for the four projects would call for a bond issue of $420,000.
Tell us the truth about how America has behaved toward her colored peoples. . . . and it is a sorry story.— Pearl Buck.
Rock Chalk
By KEITH WILSON
Wixed Mords. We dropped over to Robinson gym the other night to view the women's intramural basketball games. Whatta evening! We got so excited between yelling, "Yea Team" and "Hubba Hubba," that we sat on the sidelines the whole evening screaming, "Yubba, Yubba, Yubba,"
The Spring Slice. Many eligible young bachelors on the campus have been trimming their curly locks of late. Whether it has been because of the nearing of the draft, a rise in woman-hating, or just an effort to out-do each other, we can't say; but hair has been getting shorter and shorter. The pay-off was when one of our bosom buddies got carried away in the competition. We don't mean to intimate that his haircut was shorter than the next man's, but it bled for three days.
I didn't raise my boy to be a psychanalyst. We stumbled out of psychology class yesterday in a state of stark bewilderment. At first we contemplated suicide, but we didn't have the price of a bullet. We had just discovered that we are a hebephrenic, schizophrenic—but instead of two personalities we have six. Oh, the embarrassment of it all. Ordinarily we get along very nicely with ourselves, in fact it is very chummy being six people. The pain comes when we get into an argument. Like the other day . . .
(Scene: Just outside of Ad. We have been let out of class 15 minutes early and are deciding what to do with our time.)
A: Huzzah, Huzzah, the old duck let us out. Let's go downtown for a beer.
B: Dat's what I say, kid. What I need is a quick snort.
C: Please, gentlemen, let us not quibble. You know the Chancellor and the sovereign state of Kansas would not approve.
D: Duhhhhhh Yeah! Me too!
E: Egad, you bluenose. Methinks a small libation is but fitting beverage upon such a day as this. For-sooth!
F: Ah think so too. Honey. Down in Gawgah we always had ouah mint iulens.
C: But, gentlemen, what would the administrators say?
B: Awr rats! Back in 'Frisco we rubbed doses out.
D: Duhhhhhhh Yeah! Me too!
Dammmmmm Yeah! Me too!
E: Odd Bodkins! Let us not while away the time in idle banter—to the Rapid Transit! Let us away to . . .
(some local joint).
F: We suthunners always had ouah little mawin' snawt.
D: Duhhhhh Yeah! Me too!
C: But, boys, what will
(The whistle blows C starts for class. B slugs C over the head with an anatomy book. F faints from the strain, E quotes Shakespeare, and D storing boring holes in the sidewalk with his head. We reach my economics class a total wreck—literally "beat up" inside you might say.)
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Friday, Jan. 25
University Housemothers' association will meet at 2 p.m. Monday. Myers hall.
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Petitions will be accepted during the next 10 days for candidates to fill All-Student Council vacancy created by the resignation of Jean Templeton, district 3 representative.
The arithmetic test for College students who failed the test last fall will be given at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in 219 Frank Strong hall-Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College.
The Kansas City Star comments that "incidentally, and we hope, irrelevantly," President Truman has gained 14 pounds since he moved to the White House.
Zoologists Hear Tracy
"The Evolution of the Nervous System" was the subject of the talk given by H. C. Tracy, professor of anatomy, at the Zoology club meeting last night at the Union.
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