The KANSAN Comments
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1941.
A Kansas Brain Trust
Last night almost 700 Kansas State College students left their footsteps on the grass of our neighboring stadium for the last time and entered the fraternity of college graduates. In just two weeks an almost equal number of students will leave this school.
From a dollars-and-cents viewpoint, every one of those students represents at least $2,000 spent during their college days for education. In a lump sum their personal college cost sheets add up to some $2,800,000, unless a student's time spent in study is considered worth evaluating, and that would run the bill up another $7,000,000. And in all this we have not considered what is spent at the other three state schools each year or what the taxpayers put into the educational pot.
Yes, that is a lot of money. But think of the potentialities Kansas has in the young men and women who leave her five state schools each spring. They represent largely the cream of the crop which is really not wheat, as the old slogan says, but human power. Theirs is the opportunity and the responsibility to make Kansas a better and more prosperous state in a better nation.
Kansas citizens may pat themselves on the back in the privacy of their homes and offices. To a great extent they have made it possible, all these years, for those students to wear the academic cap and gown rather than the uniform and to carry a diploma rather than a rifle.
These men and women are going out into a chaotic world, but they have had their eyes and their minds opened to view that chaos more sanely than young men viewed the world situation a generation ago. It will be their "to reason why" before they act.
YOU SAID IT
Dear Editor:
Before the building boom sweeps us completely off our feet, let us consider some of the reasons why we should NOT building an addition to the Memorial Union building at this time.
The first of these is the fact that while we could use more space there now, everything indicates that K. U.'s enrollment will be reduced next year. Conservative estimates put the decrease at 30 per cent. If this country should enter the war before September, that decrease might well be even greater. So, it is entirely possible that such an addition would have to be paid for by 1000 students instead of 4000. And with a curtailed enrollment, there would be little need of additional facilities.
From the businessman's point of view, the addition might be a detriment. Since the Union cafeteria was enlarged, virtually every hill restaurant has gone broke at one time or another. And even now only two of them are making anything like a profit. Yet most students will tell you that they get no more from the state-operated cafeteria for their money than they do in the privately-owned cafes. Yet this state competition puts the individual out of business.
From the economist's point of view this is a very poor time to build anything. Building costs are as high as they have been in 20 years. That means that you must pay almost twice as much for labor now as you would in 1933, and considerably more for materials. An expensive annex now will depreciate in the depression that must certainly follow the war. Yet K. U. students would still me paying through the depression years, and paying boom-time prices.
There was a considerable dissatisfaction with the increase in the activity fee this year. But students generally accepted it feeling that there was no alternative. But is there an honest need to tack on $40 or $50 to every student's fees during his college years?
--and greeting card designs. They learn how to make their own jewelry in handcrafts. They must know how to bind books and model clay for a new pottery vase. These are but a few items of the required knowledge of a student in art.
And suppose the enrollment drops one half during the next five years. That would mean that the anticipated increase of $6.00 a semester to the activity fee would have to be a $12 increase instead. Isn't it probable that such an increase would have repercussions in K. U.'s enrollment?
ROCK CHALK TALK By HEIDI VIETS
--and greeting card designs. They learn how to make their own jewelry in handcrafts. They must know how to bind books and model clay for a new pottery vase. These are but a few items of the required knowledge of a student in art.
Last night was the night for the Sig Alph pledges. The seniors held farewell pledge court, laying upperclass discipline onto lowly first year boys for the last time of their college career. After the evening was over, the freshmen were officially through with pledge training.
A part of the procedure was for the pledges to sprint down Oread avenue to the Union building, where each one got an ice cream cone for a senior, and to race back. When they got home, the seniors let them keep the cones themselves.
As if winning $25 in the home town correspondence contest were not enough for one girl in one week, Mary McDonald went to State Lake at Tonganoxie last Sunday and got herself bitten by a copperhead. The occasion was the annual K-Club picnic. Frantic K-Clubbers pulled out in such a hurry that they left two of their number stranded at the lake.
Mary is still in Watkins Memorial hospital recovering from the snakebite.
At the Gamma Phi house Helen Wilkins was snooping around in the basement when, to her surprise, she came upon a Mexican concho belt, hammered silver with turquoise sets.
Nobody seems to know just who owns the belt. The girls estimate its value at more than $50.
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No Night Study
'Fine Arts Is A Snap'
"Oh! You're a fine arts student."
Outdoor Classes
How many times students in arts have heard this phrase. In the one word "oh" there is a wealth of disparagement. Students in the college and other schools in the University seem to feel that a fine arts student doesn't have anything to do because they never see them at the library and they never seem to have any studying to do at night.
Many of us have seen the little group of students congregated around the radio in Union lounge on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings. They seem to be having a wonderful time talking and drawing figures, sometimes a bit grotesque, on pads of sketch paper. Always there is one person who seems so tired that he or she has to lean on the radio or recline on the floor. In reality this person is posing for sketches of his fellow embryo artists.
One of the requirements for a student on the arty side of fine arts is to turn in twenty, five-minute sketches a week. Besides attending sketch class two or three nights a week, they are in class three times as much as any other student on the Hill. For each credit in a course an art student must spend three hours in class.
It looks easy, but try it! Try to sketch a reasonable facsimile of a person leaning on a radio and then compare it with the original. Probably the only similarity is the box-like drawing on the sketch pad to the radio.
Most of their work is creative. With pencil and sketch paper they must learn to capture the picture of a book with the sun shining on it, an arrangement of flowers, or an outdoor landscape.
Many college students are contemptuous of the work done by these art students. Landscapes are beautiful and we like to look at their mirrored reflection in an art gallery, but we are apt to feel that discovering some new mineral, writing a new formula for an old equation, or publishing a paper which reflects these discoveries is far more important. Yet our lives would be rather drab without the work of artists.
The design in your favorite necktie or the unique pattern in your new formal was conceived by the brain of some artist. The wall-paper on your room at home was the inspiration of an art student.
Art students learn to transfer their interpretations of people and views to paper. They take courses in design in which they must work out designs in textiles, wall-papers,
The next time you go home, look around your room and try to visualize it without the work of an artist. It would be rather barren. Art students don't go to the library and their home work isn't too heavy, yet they are among the hardest working students on the Hill.
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Vol.38
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
No.155
A. S.M.E.: The A.S.M.E. will meet in Marvin auditorium at 7:30 tonight.—Dorus Munsinger.
May 27,1941
DELTA PHI SIGMA: The last meeting of the year will be a breakfast at Potter Lake at 7:15 a.m., May 30. Installation of officers will be held. —F. Zimmerman, reporter.
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS:
Dr. E. T. Gibson will be available for personal conferences at Watkins Memorial Hospital from 2 to 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoons. Appointments should be made at the Watkins Memorial Hospital—Ralph I. Canuteon.
NOTICE TO STUDENTS ON THE IRREGULAR PAYROLL: Those students having time on the irregular payroll from May 20 or should call at the Business Office before leaving school and sign the payroll. —Karl Klooz, Bursar.
Russell Wiley's Band Is Just Warming Up
The University Symphony Orchestra has finished its work for the year, but the Band is just beginning.
Rehearsals have been stopped temporarily, but they will be resumed June 5. The Band plays its first post-season engagement immediately before the Coronado Entrada begins Thursday evening, June 5.
Friday, June 6, the band plays again—this time for the old-fashioned barbecue in Memorial stadium.
The Band will present an openair concert in Fowler grove at 4 p.m., Sunday, June 8. Sunday evening Band members take on a more serious attitude and play both the processional and recessional for baccalaureate services in the stadium.
calalureate services in the stadium.
Monday noon the Band goes on parade, leading the march of classes from Fowler grove to the Memorial Union building for class dinners.
Monday afternoon it goes on the air, broadcasting from station KF-KU at 2:30 o'clock.
The Band's final effort for the spring of 1941 will come Monday night, June 9, when it plays in the stadium for commencement services. The 75-piece Band which will play for commencement is the largest band ever used for year-end service on this campus.
Band members will check in their uniforms immediately following commencement services June 9.
Flagpolitis
★★★★
Feels Good
C. A. Gilmore, college junior and flagpole climber, had a "good night" at Watkins Memorial hospital last night, and is feeling better today.
Thursday evening, Gilmore climbed the 30-foot flagpole atop the south tower of Fraser hall to pull down a Nazi swastika raised there earlier in the evening.
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Appoint 11 More As Guides For Seventy-Fifth
Eleven more University women have been appointed as guides for the Seventy-fifth Anniversary Celebration, F. S. Montgomery, secretary of the bureau of visual instruction, announced today.
The 11 new guides are Charlotte Robson, Wanda Allen, Frances Blair, Annabell Wilson, Dorothy Howe, Georgia Landrith, Claudine Scott, Dorothy Gear, Billie Jarboe, Mary McAnaw, and Mary Iloff.