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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KÂNSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1941
The KANSAN Comments...
STUDENT MISGOVERNMENT
Student government is, in itself, a commendable thing, but it has degenerated at the University of Kansas into pure farce. Students, given a chance to share in the government of their University, have spent their time in aimless squabbles over inconsequential matters, giving little thought to student problems.
There are students who work 5 hours a day for board alone. The student governing bodies might have given some time and thought to the solution of the student fair-wage and hour problem. They might have made some effort to co-ordinate University activities. They might have sought favorable publicity for the University, rather than giving it a bad name throughout the state with their squabbling and procrastination.
Those are among the things they might have done. What have they done?
Last year WSGA spent its time in a furious debate over the color of curtains to be purchased for the women's lounge in the Memorial Union building. One faction urged it to adopt pink; another held out for green. Finally this momentous thing was settled, and nice green curtains now grace the lounge. This year, again, WSGA has done nothing noteworthy.
The Men's Student Council, at the suggestion of the Chancellor, passed the no-smoking bill, and pointed with pride at that work as their noblest accomplishment of the year. Their sisters on WSGA strung along and passed the thing, too. That was two years ago. No major business has been transacted by either governing body since.
Last year MSC members did absolutely nothing of value to the University or to the students. This year they have devoted themselves to a bloody political quarrel over filling a vacancy which occurred on the council. And they have been unable to settle that without calling upon outside assistance.
These student governing bodies are supposed to be models; to train students in city management.
Their past achievements must not be forgotten. When they were created they had a definite purpose and pattern of action. Some of their actions have been of lasting benefit. But that was long ago. They have defeated their own purpose at the University. If they could forget pettiness and do away with political dissension, it is not impossible that they might, once again, become organizations of value to their school and to the students.
WHAT
NO FOOTBALL?
Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen's recent blast at bigtime football, in which he predicted the game, as now played, would not last another ten years leads to a natural question: "What has happened at the University of Chicago since that school abolished intercollegiate football at the close of the 1938 season?"
soon find itself with empty classrooms, unpaid professors, and forgotten by the public.
At that time, sports writers, football fans and alumni screamed that the big Illinois school was doomed; that students would not attend a college where intercollegiate football was ignored; that legislatures would withhold tax funds from state schools which adopted that policy; that endowments and gifts to private colleges adopting such a policy would diminish; in short, any school insane enough to abolish the game would
Has it been that way at Chicago? Hardly.
Writing in the Survey recently, John R. Tunis, sports expert, said he found that Chicago gained in enrollment; that only four of the squad members went to other intercollegiate, football-playing schools; that in the school's fiftieth anniversary campaign, 14,000 alumni responded with cash gifts to the school. Furthermore, its classrooms were still being filled, its professors paid regularly, and the newspapers were still printing news about the university.
One male student in seven plays football now in the intracollegiate program at Chicago; in intercollegiate football the ratio was about 100 to 1.
A. C. Marts, publicity counsel for many firms and president of Bucknell university, surveyed a group of large and small schools in an attempt to determine the relation between endowments and athletic success. He found that of the group studied over a 10-year period, the schools unsuccessful in athletics gained 126 per cent in endowment, while the group more fortunate in athletics gained only 105 per cent.—R.W.D.
Perhaps General Ben Lear has been working on the army some more. The old Tobacco Road running through Camp Gordon in Georgia has been renamed Fifth Avenue. To keep the morals of the soldiers unpoiled, no doubt.
No one can say our draftees aren't being trained properly. A private at Camp Roberts, California, has developed such deadly aim that he was able to kill a cougar by hitting it with an automobile.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Thursday, Oct. 9, 1941 No.19
Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism, at 10 a.m. on day of publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
DIRECTORY: Copy for the Student Directory is now being prepared. Students who have not filed addresses and telephone numbers at the Registrar's Office should do so at once. James K. Hitt, assistant registrar.
UNION ACTIVITIES: All people interested in Student Activities Committees apply at Student Activities office, Union Building, between 2:30 and 5:00 in the afternoon—Fred Mitchelson, publicity manager, Union Activities.
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By HEIDI VIETS
Women who are summoned to the Phi Gam part ytomorrow nite may well start to worry about what may befall them there. Last night they received blood-curdling phonographic invitations.
Each women's house from which girls are invited received a small green phonograph record, harmless in appearance, which gave off grusome sounds when played. Opening with a dash of classical music, the record went into screams, fiendish murder-at-midnight laughter, and a dark-damp-dungeon voice proclaiming, "The following will die at the stroke of nine on the night of Oct. 10 in the year of our Lord 1941." Then the voice read off the girls' names, finishing off with, "Who knows what dangers lurk in the heart of the Phi Gam castle?" That laugh again, and the invited women went into a huddle to decide whether to wear black veils or armor to the medieval scare party.
It was revealed today that the recorded screams came from Tommy Dawson, the crazy laugh from Bob Volkar, and the boogy-man voice from Frank Coulter.
The Delta Upsilon house was held up Sunday night by a modern Belle Starr from right here on the Hill.
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