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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1942
Chancellor Malott Answers Charges In Student Council Resolution
Previously on this page the Daily Kansan has carried an explanation of the resolution recently passed by the Men's Student Council demanding a clarification of their powers. At the request of the editor, Chancellor Deane W. Malott, following discussions with MSC representatives, has prepared the following statement on the resolution.
It is perhaps unfortunate that the Men's Student Council has had so little contact with the University's administration. Most of the matters covered in the resolution had never been discussed by any Council member with me or other administrative officers concerned. I hope both the members of the Council and all other students will realize that I am always glad to discuss problems with them, and shall always make time available to see students. In a University of this size it is almost inevitable that this student contact be at the initiative of the students, an initiative which the Council has not always taken in the past.
I in common with the faculty deplore the necessity for the shortening of the vacation. This action, taken by the University Senate, which has sole and complete jurisdiction over such matters, was designed to provide a third sixteen-week semester in the year, between approximately May 20 and September 10, in the interests of students trying to get as far along with their education as possible. Fixing the calendar is a responsibility customarily assumed by the faculty in all universities.
There was some reference to control over activity fees. The Board of Regents by law is responsible for setting fees. The expenditure of those fees is the responsibility of the administration, specifically delegated by the Board two years ago in the case of the activity fee.
The misunderstanding regarding parking tickets is of uncertain origin, but was settled a month ago upon inquiry to me from one of the members of the Student Court, whom I told to follow the Student Council's parking bill provisions. . . .
In regard to the freedom of the press, it must be clear to even the most casual reader of the Kansan that it is perfectly free to, and does, criticize the administration, as well as the Council, upon sundry and diverse occasions.
The Joint Committee on Student Affairs—a committee of students and faculty—apparently went out by default several years ago. I stand ready and willing to reinstitute such a committee on any basis the Council sees fit. . . I hope the Council will take immediate action in appointing its membership in such a group.
I have told the Council that the Administration of the University will cooperate with the Council in any feasible way, as it is already doing with numerous other groups with student representation. Some aspects of responsibility for the University's operation and activities lie with the Regents, some with the faculty, some with the administrators, and some with the students. Each of these groups of individuals is acting at all times in the students' behalf, but is doing so in a university disorganized and accelerated by the war,—a fact which must inevitably take precedence in all our decisions and actions.
The North Carolina Daily Tar Heel predicts great success for the new song hit—"Is It Love or Draft Evasion?"
Just Wondering
If the decision of University athletic authorities to support the movement for freshman competition in conference basketball this winter won't be a case of cutting our own throats, since the Oklahoma crop of first-year men seems to be far superior to ours.
Unpatriotic Americans Fall
Gas rationing has become a reality, and how are Americans taking it? Some of them have realized the necessity of the government taking this step and are willingly complying with the regulations. Others, however, have not only exercised your right of "free speech" by complaining, but have gone so far as to violate rationing rules.
In Oklahoma some drivers have refused outright to register for gas books. Some Texans drove over to Mexico, registered their cars, and by paying $180 in duties, obtained Mexican tires and gasoline.
Such records are certainly nothing to boast of. They smack of ignorance, and disregard for the outcome of the war. The man who cannot share his discomforts like his neighbors is inviting military defeat for the entire nation.
Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. will offer Lawrence residents their last opportunity to register for gasoline rationing at the Community building. Every student driver, who has not already done so, should take care that he register, and not be listed among those "indifferent" to the national welfare.-P.B.B.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Publisher ... John Conard
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... J. Donald Keown
Associate Editors ... Bob Coleman, Bill Feeney,
                     Ralph Coldren, Dean Sims,
                     Matt Heuertz
Feature Editor ... Joy Miller
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... Glee Smith
Campus Editors ... Dale Robinson, Scott
Hookins, Eleanor Fry
Sports Editor ... Milo Farneti
Society Editor .. Ruth Tippin
News Editor .. Dean Sims
Sunday Editor .. Virginia Tieman
Picture Editor .. Miriam Abele
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager ... Oliver Hughes
Advertising Manager ... John Pope
Advertising Assistant ... Charles Taylor, Jr.
Rock Chalk Talk BETTY LOU PERKINS
Jane Peake, Kappa, is now giving Harvey Haines, Phi Delt, of the ankle length fur coat fame, stiff competition.
Have you seen Jane's raccoon version?
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Dale Robinson, Battenfeld, complained the other day that the Palace Clothing Store in Lawrence had been sending advertising for weeks now to "Mrs. Battenfeld Hall."
It is rumored that the Sigma Chi's have broken only three windows in the Theta house with snowballs. Could they have had anything to do with the destruction of the bright light in the back of the house? Or was that the Beta's?
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The Phi Gam freshmen are reported to be freezing now due to the type of sleeping garments they are required to wear. Could this be the risonen the downtown stores are all out of nightshirts?
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Boli Marquez consented to dance a conga with Penny Ashcraft to tonight at the LSA. hour dance. Then he forgot about it.
Yesterday as he was walking along the street,he noticed a sign (continued to page seven)
FIGHTING WORDS delivered by Western Electric field telephones
"Get the message through!"—that's the tradition of the Army Signal Corps. And on every battle front you'll find field telephones, wire and switchboards right in there helping!
Radio telephone sets ride into battle in Army planes and tanks—in PT boats and Coast Guard craft. On larger naval vessels, battle announcing systems and telephones deliver fighting words instantly. Turning out vast quantities of such equipment is the war job of Western Electric-maker of Bell Telephones.
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