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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1942
MSC Claims Against Administration Are Explained By Daily Kansan
In a move for integration of student government, the Men's Student Council Monday night voted to resign in a body unless the administration returns or grants certain powers which the Council feels should be in student hands.
Basis for the complaint was a series of grievances, which were merely listed and not explained. The Kansan presents the MSC interpretation of the grievances, the validity of which will be determined only after the special committee has agreed with the Chancellor on the actual extent of student government at the University:
1. "Student vacations have arbitrarily . . . been shortened . . . " The MSC does not object to the actual shortening, but objects to the method by which it was done—"without any consultation with the student body." According to the Council, students' objection to vacation curtailment would have been almost negligible if they had been informed that such a move was in prospect.
2. "Taking from students the control of their activity fee." The MSC constitution provides that "a central committee on activities (composed of ten students and five administration representatives) shall . . . administer . . . the activity fund. . . ." The Council claims that the allocation of the activity fund has been entirely a function of administration officials this year.
3. "Violating published bills of the MSC concerning parking on the Campus and varsity dances." The MSC constitution provides that no cars violating Campus parking rules be tagged for fines before Oct. 15, so that students owning cars may become familiar with the rules and obtain licenses. The MSC asserts that the Chancellor ordered the tagging of cars during the first weeks of school, before the parking committee had issued licenses.
The constitution also states that the dance manager, in conjunction with the social committees of the MSC and WSGA, shall determine how many varsity dances shall be held and when they shall be held. The MSC contends that the dance manager submitted 14 dates for varsity dances, but that the number was cut to six without explanation or consultation.
4. "Failing to consult with the Joint Committee on Student Affairs." The Joint Committee with a membership of half students and half faculty members, is appointed each year as an "advisory cabinet" of the Chancellor. The MSC says that the committee has not been called this year, but that it should be consulted on every administration measure which affects University students.
5. "Taking from students recreation facilities on the Hill while denying them the use of downtown facilities for organized parties." The Council contention is that the administration, with no consideration of Campus feeling, has denied students the use of the Memorial Union ballroom, and, at the same time, prohibited organized houses from holding their dances in downtown Lawrence.
In summary, the MSC case is based not only on alleged objectionable acts but also on objectionable methods. Patriotism, the members
Just Wondering
Why students who habitually congregate in the doorways of University buildings don't realize just what a source of annoyance they are to their schoolmates.
--say, should be a privilege, not an enforced duty. Student government, they claim, should be active, not decorative.
Intercollegiate Debates Train Post-War World Leaders
Is intercollegaite debating worthwhile in wartime? To this question the University of Kansas has so far given an affirmative answer, and all indications point to a continuance of debating at this University for the duration of the war.
There are those who would class debating as a superfluous activity, which could well be done away with, at least until we are again at peace. Now is the time for action—not words, they say.
However, they are forgetting that while war demands prompt obedience to official authority, not deliberation and discussion, now is the time to begin the training of the leaders of the post-war world. Tomorrow will be too late to train leaders for tomorrow's world. Now is the time to develop among young women and young men the ability to think clearly and constructively.
It is important for the nation that its college-trained citizens gain sound ideas about public problems and learn to express them with a force that carries conviction. Public speaking in debate is perhaps the best of the instruments offered by the colleges for such training.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Publisher ... John Conard
EDITORIAL STAFF
NEWS STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... J. Donald Keown
Associate Editors ... Bob Coleman, Bill Feeney,
                Ralph Coldren, Dean Sims,
                Matt Heuertz
Feature Editor ... Joy Miller
Managing Editor ... Glee Smith
Campus Editors ... Dale Robinson, Scott
Hookins, Eleanor Fry
Sports Editor ... Milo Farneti
Society Editor ... Ruth Tippin
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Rock Chalk Talk
BETTY LOU PERKINS
John Anderson, ATO, sent his laundry to a local laundry the other weekend with the following note attached: "Imperative I get these Sunday if I am to go to church."
The laundry returned on Monday with the enclosed answer: "Sorry you didn't make church."
Penny Ashcraft, A D Pi, went to see the Missouri-Kansas game last week but had to return without seeing the game since her train left at the hour the game began.
However, on the way to Missouri, Penny and her sister, Beverly, were the only girls in the ear with the K U team. Paul Turner, Sig Ep, and Gene Roberts Sigma Chi, undertook the task of teaching the girls the finer points of how to play rummy. The other members of the team gathered about to give advice.
Penny feels the trip was quite worth the effort and claims that although some doubt may be expressed about how the team plays football, they certainly know their card games.
Allen Cromley, Hillcreast house, is setting a mark for the other boys in the house.
When Cromley returned from a date the other night, the boys handed him a cigarette. They were surprised to notice the pinkish condition around the end as Allen smoked.
The Hillcrest residents are now using Cromley's cigaret as a test of the progress of the others in the house.
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In commenting on the Tau Sigma dance at the concert last night, Dee Jay Nichols, Corbin hall, criticized loftily: "They weren't synchronized." Carl Sutton, 1210 Ohio, asked puzzledly: "What does synchronized mean, Dee Jay?"
Dee Jay thought a moment, then answered briefly: "Oh, it just means that they didn't 'jive' in the right places."
Girl's don't be alarmed if a boy calls up and asks to borrow a nightshirt. This is a necessary article at the Alpha Chi Omega nightshirt party tonight.
The Sigma Chi band will play for a Kappa pledge party Saturday noon. The name of the band has now been changed to the Sigma Chi Anti-German-Japanese band.
CLEOPATRA KNEW Masculine Classifications Men Debunked
BY BETTY LOU PERKINS
Although Webster claims that man is a human being or—an adult male of human species or—one possessed of manly qualities in high degree, this is just one man's opinion. I wonder if Webster ever asked a woman's opinion before writing his definition of man in his famous dictionary? In failing to do so Webster deprived himself of many
picturesque and colorful words. But, if he had obtained such opinions, he would have found it necessary to add a supplement containing all the names a woman could call a man.
The criteria by which college men are measured differ vastly from that of those of their compatriots outside the institution of learning. After observing men with an impersonal and detached concentration, a co-ed who has been here only a few weeks can easily classify college men into one of the categories emanating from days of Cleopatra.
Operator and Wolf Differentiated
To proceed, nearly every girl during her college career goes with an "operator." Being asked for a date by an operator might even be considered a compliment. Operators date a different girl every night, but they are particular. Only the better girls are honored by his attentions. Then some clever coed grabs him and
his "operating" days are over—but he had fun!
Next, and sad though it is, must come the "wolf." A "wolf" dates many girls, too, but only one at a time. He tries valiantly, but if he can't get both arms around his date, he gives up the struggle with a sigh and tries someone new. The most effective way to get the best of a wolf seems to be not to retreat, but to look him squarely in the eye. If his intentions are dishonorable, he will run. He does.
The BMOC (Big Man On Campus) is a flash in the pan, so to speak. Students are glad he is around to do his job, but hope he does his work with a minimum of display of bally-hoo. He is usually engaged, anyway, so who cares.
FRIDAY
No coed can overlook the "pest" who is always under foot and who is always on the other end of the telephone when she expects it mischief.
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