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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY. JANUARY 13, 1944
THE KANSAN COMMENTS
WAC Needs Women Trained in Colleges
Members of the WAC are beginning now to talk to small groups of women on the campus. They are explaining the WAC and the opportunities in that organization. Although the majority of women students here are too young to join the WAC, it is wise to consider the variety of educational opportunities and essential jobs offered.
The feeling that it is a disgrace or degrading to join the WAC is gradually being dismissed. No soldier who wants to go overseas can look down on a WAC who takes over a desk job, enabling him to go.
The possibility of drafting women came up again in President Roosevelt's message to the nation Monday night when he declared that he would present the Austin-Wadsworth bill, as revised, to Congress. WACS are needed very badly now, so that it is possible to choose the location where you would like to work. Besides receiving valuable training in the field in which you are interested, you receive a feeling of helping to win the war where you know you are needed.
All majors in college can be followed through in the WAC, and training in a particular field is possible. There are 155 jobs which WAC's are now doing. These various jobs call for trained women, and women trained in universities are especially essential.
Letters to the Editor
In answer to the letter that appeared in the Daily Kansas of Jan. 10, the author signed RLG. made a comparison that the men of the army have nothing to do but train to be in good physical condition to fight the enemy. The point that I wish to show is the fact that the men of the army on the campus are carrying 24 hours in class plus 5 hours compulsory study in the day, and 12 hours compulsory study in the evenings, plus 5 hours military science and finally 6 hours physical education.
In these times when our country is at war I think that every good citizen should try to keep in the best physical condition. I personally cannot see that anyone has room to complain.Just a private, J.LG.
Scurlock Continues Court Decision
The decision of the student court as written by John Scurlock continues as follows:
This clause read without consideration of the possible intendment of the framers means simply that when cases involving the interpretation of ambiguous legislation arise, the only court competent to ascertain the true meaning of the legislation is the combined court consisting of the student court and the faculty advisory committee. We believe this was to assist the student court with the greater wisdom and ability of the faculty advisory committee in arriving at a reasonable construction of legislation. But there is nothing here or elsewhere in the section which denies the power of the student court to declare legislation unconstitutional. Mere silence does not necessarily abrogate the authority. We might well conclude that the converted power is included "in all other cases" over which the student court is expressly given jurisdiction.
Constitutions and legislation must be construed by giving ordinary meanings and connotation to the words used therein. We have examined the aforesaid section with due care and it is our conclusion that the wording is such that an ordinary person reading that provision would not understand it as interpreted by Mr. Engle. For the proper sense of the entire section the words, "Final decision," in the first clause must be taken to mean "original or sole jurisdiction" and Mr. Engle has conceded this interpretation.
Rock Chalk Talk
By HANNA HEDRICK-
Since one salt in PT-3 was not particularly versed in the arts of sewing, he sent his undress blues and white watch stripes to Lawrence church women to get the job done. *Said garments came back with the stripes sewed on the inside of the left shoulder.
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Kenny Bellamy and Wayne Hird, Phi Pisis, watched with speculation and interest while Jeanne Atkinson, Chi Omega, ate heartily of their raion points at lunch this week. Turning the tables, they immediately called the Chi O house and invited themselves over for lunch, as guests of Beverly Bohan and Alice Rose Shankland. Laughing off their audacity as a joke, the girls settled down to eat, when in came Bellamy and Bird from the kitchen. They loaded themselves down with three lunches apiece, conversed with members of the clan, and spent a regreatful afternoon with indigestion.
It was a Volga party: Jackie Nodler and Elin Kline, Miller hall,
Mr. Engle offered to produce evidence proving the intent of the committee charged with the drawing of the constitution and of the Council in reviewing the work of the committee, but we decline to accept such evidence, because the alleged intent, even though proved, is immaterial. In legislative interpretation the intent of the legislative body is very important and must be weighed by the court, but we are here considering the meaning of a constitution and must look to the intent, not of the Student Council, but of the student body which accepted that constitution. Unless it be proved that the student voters were motivated by the same intention that the Student Council is said to have entertained, we must assume that the students who voted to accept the Constitution read section 4 to mean exactly what the words denote. This motivation not having been alleged or proven, we are constrained to hold that the student voters did not in regard to this section expect to deprive us of the power to declare acts of the Student Council invalid.
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entertained with a "Russian dinner"
Sunday night. Jackie insists that the whole idea originated with her interest in a Russian language course she is taking, plus a quantity of dehydrated borsch which her sister sent her. The guests, and more particularly, the hostesses, gorged on and on into the night, never realizing the disastrous consequences which were to follow. Although borsch and bourbon are two entirely different things, the hangovers are identical. The moral of the dinner was that what the Russians have that we don't is strictly borsch.
Lamb in a wolves' den: The Phi Betes have a new mascot. A sophomore medic went down to the "doghouse" to perform a calcium experiment. Upon arriving, he found his "experiment" waiting for him in the form of an appealing 8-weeks-old collie pup. Proving that medics aren't really heartless, he pocketed the fuzz and sold him to the Phi Betes, who promise that they won't dissect the pup.
Tom Harkness Earns Army Commission
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Harkness, Ness City, braved the discomforts of war time travel and a West Texas blizzard to see their son, Thomas Herbert Harkness, law '43, receive his wings and commission as a second lieutenant and bombardier pilot in the army air forces at graduation exercises held at Lubbock Field, Jan. 7.
It is Mr. Engle's further argument that the student court bears the same relation to the Student Council that the courts of England bear to parliament under the British constitution. In support of this argument he states that the council alone is the judge of the constitutionality of its legislation. He does not deny the right of the court to examine the constitution and to construe legislation in light thereof, but he would limit the Court's authority short of the power to invalidate legislation. This view is consistent with the theory presented, but when Mr. Engle declares the Council is more important than the constitution, he denies the responsibility of the Student Council to the students of the University and indicates a state of mind deplorable in any legislative body. The constitution was the expressed will of the student-body that student government be regularized and democratized.
The decision will be continued in tomorrow's Kansan.
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Students Jewelry Store for 39 Years
Graduate Visual Campus
Edwin Windler, who was graduated from the University last year and who is now employed by the Phillips Petroleum in Kansas City, Mo., is spending several days this week on the campus.
Graduate Visits Campus
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OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday, Jan. 13, 1944
Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism,
at 10 a.m. on day of publication.
Fem Medics will meet at 6 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 13 in the English
room. All girls interested are welcome.
Phyllis Ogg, President.
Effective with the basketball game against Nebraska Saturday, Jan. 15, all student activity books must be presented for reservation at the Business Office in Strong hall. A charge of $1.12 will be made for the remaining six home games. No admissions by the activity book unless reservations have been made at the business office.
Karl Klooz,
Athletic Director.
All seniors and graduate students who are intending to teach next fall in either high school or college work are invited to make use of the services of the Teachers Appointment Bureau. Such students should call at the office of the bureau, 120 Fraser, and secure registration blanks. An appointment for a conference with the secretary should also be arranged.
H. E. Chandler, Secretary,
Teachers Appointment Bureau
Proficiency Examination in English Composition. The second examination of the winter semester will be held Saturday, Jan. 15 at 8:30 a.m. Juniors and seniors in the College of Liberal Arts, if they have not already passed the examination, should plan to take it at this time. Candidates must register in person at the College office, 229 Frank Strong hall.
J. B. Virtue, For the Committee
9:30 Sportscast—Presenting Dr.
F. C. "Phog" Allen.
9:45 Lest We Forget—Our Nation's Shrukes.
KFKU PROGRAM
Tonight:
Tomorrow afternoon:
2:30 Speaking to Parents: The Preschool Child. "Your Child and Art" by Maud Ellsworth.
2:45 Speaking to Women: Food News from the Department of Home Economics, Miss Viola Anderson.
CVC Meeting Is Postponed
The CVC meeting scheduled for tonight has been postponed because of the concert. There will be a meeting Thursday of next week, according to Betty Jo O'Neal, major.
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
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