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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1941
The KANSAN Comments... EDITORIALS BOOKS LETTERS NOTICES PA
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COMBINE THE COUNCILS!
The presidents of the Men's Student Council and the Women's Self Governing Association have apparently refused to cooperate in solving the problem of our lackadaisical and practically non-functional student government. Perhaps they feel that they are firmly entrenched in their offices and can see no reason for going to the unnecessary trouble of clearly stating their positions.
The problem remains to be solved, and it appears to be up to the students, rather than the student political leaders, to do the job.
The main purpose of the two councils, according to their constitutions, is to promote and regulate the activities of the students of the University. The reason the councils are failing to satisfy their purpose, lies in their organization into two separate groups and their lack of positive control and leadership of the students.
There are a limited number of student activities that fall into the classification of men's activities or women's activities. The intramural program is practically the only activity in which men and women participate in separate groups, but intramural sports are not regulated and promoted by the councils, either separately or jointly.
Why is the book exchange a women's activity? There are a few men students who buy books.
The M.S.C. is supposed to take care of men's activities, and the W.S.G.A. is supposed to take care of the activities of women students. However, no provision is made to take care of the activities of the student body as a whole.
Why should every important student issue that arises be shuttled back and forth between the two councils? There are separate regulations in each council regarding the activity fee, the parking of cars, smoking, the student directory, and varsity dances.
When the smoking problem arose last year, it was delayed for several weeks because the councils would not cooperate with the administration or with each other. There are numerous cases in which student rights are passed by because the councils do not present a united front.
The M.S.C. and the W.S.G.A. should be combined into a single governing unit to represent all students. An all-school council could solve student problems more easily and would furnish the real student leadership which is practically absent on this campus.
THEY CAME, THEY SAW WHAT?
We wonder what they think of the University now that they have seen classes in session, and students studying in the library or discussing, over cokes or on the campus, their loves, studies, and happenings of the day.
Yesterday the University was visited by about 125 Kansas legislators and their wives. They inspected the campus, educational facilities, the new co-op houses, and heard the outstanding points of the University put forth by Chancellor Malott after a tour of the Union building. Last evening they dined at various Hill houses, with students from their counties acting as hosts, and then climaxed the day by taking in the Nebraska game in Hoch auditorium.
Did they like the high spirits of the student body at the basketball game last night and the
Aside from the basketball game and the presence of our distinguished visitors, yesterday was just an ordinary school day to students and faculty.
applause sincerely given to them by these students?
Even if nothing else of importance comes from their visit; we hope the legislators have seen the University as we know it—a normal group of students and teachers soberly pursuing their business.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1941 No.83
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CERAMICS EXHIBITION: An exhibition of ceramics by Miss Gladys Bate, guest instructor of the Design department, made while she was studying in Sweden is being shown in the halls of the third floor of West Frank Strong hall.-Marjorie Whitney.
DELTA PHI SIGMA: There will be a meeting of the Congregational sorority at the church Wednesday evening at 5:30 sharp. There will be pledging and a supper. Bring 15 cents.-Freda Zimmerman, reporter.
EL ATENEO: The first meeting of the spring semester will be held Thursday at 3:30 in 113 Frank Strong. A most interesting program has been arranged. Dr. N. H. Huffman and Miss Helen Huffman will speak on Puerto Rico. All those interested in Spanish are cordially invited.-Merle Simmons.
GRADUATE STUDENTS: If you are a graduate student you are invited to an all-graduate party Thursday evening, Feb. 13, from 8 to 10 at the Union ballroom. A program has been planned—Edith Borden.
NEWMAN CLUB: The new series of study club meetings on "Marriage" will begin this evening at 7:30 in St. John's Church hall. Everyone interested is welcome.-Joseph A. Zishka.
SIAMESE ART EXHIBITION: There will be an exhibition of SIAMESE art in room 320 West Frank Strong Hall from Feb. 10 through Feb. 23. This exhibition includes hand-woven textiles and craft work of Siam from a collection belonging to Mr. Wallace Lee, Federal geologist—Marjorie Whitney.
TAU SIGMA: There will be a meeting at 7:30 this evening. - Carolyn Green, president.
THETA SIGMA PHI: Theta Sigma Phi will meet Thursday evening at 7 o'clock in the sky parlor of the Journalism building for a professional meeting. The speakers will be Maurine Mong and Mary Jane Sigler. —Mary F. McAnaw, secretary.
W. N.A.A.: The Women's National Aeronautical Association will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, in the lounge of the Memorial Union building.-Ruth Spencer Aschert, secretary.
W. S.G.A.: The W.S.G.A. Council will meet at 7 o'clock this evening in the Pine room.-Doris Twente, secretary.
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We Suggest ... A Moon Phase Study Plan For K.U. Students
The study curve is on the slump. One might suggest that the slump was caused by the visiting legislators, or by the Kansas-Nebraska basketball game on the campus last night. Or someone might come forth with the happy thought that the professors and instructors just weren't making heavy assignments so early in the semester.
But we have another theory. We would place our last penny to bet you that it wasn't the basketball attraction that made the library the "lonesomest spot in town" last night, while every Hill hangout was packed to over $
flowing with the exhuberance of youth.
Nothing but the moon could cause such upheaval as Mount Oread experienced last night. A full moon, tonight, floating lazily among white cirrus clouds scattered provocatively about does things to the most conscientious students. It gives them that old yen to climb mountains, or to stroll leisurely along secluded paths and talk of life and love and—.
Such a situation demands action. We suggest that University instructors adopt a "Moon Phase Student Study Plan." In case your library
doesn't contain an almanac, instructors, the moon will not have lost its intoxicating power before Monday, and the next full moon will be bothering students about March 13. Instructors should remember in planning the program that the moon throws the wrong kind of light on any subject suggestive of a college degree, and that students do better and more work in the three darker phases of the moon.
If professors would adopt the "Moon Phase Student Study Plan" the only remaining moonlight problem would be Dr. Canuteson's: What's the most effective way to treat a moon struck student?
ROCK CHALK TALK
Besides the score, items of interest at the basketball game last night included:
By HEIDI VIETS
John Thompson, number 38 for Nebraska, taking a superman leap into front line spectators.
Rob Wright's pathetic expression when he pulled the trigger for an added attraction to the "Thunderclap," and the gun didn't go off.
E. R. Elbel's announcing, second only to Rope Engleman's scoring in making legislators sit up and take notice.
Yesterday morning John E. Hankins' modern drama class was waiting patiently for the teacher when in walked L. E. Sisson, professor of English. He wrote an assignment on the board, turned around and started to lecture. Then students informed him he was in the wrong class.
When Larry Blair, wandering Sigma Nu, returned for this semester, was paying his fees, he hit a snag. Two dollars for the movie course he wanted to take.
"What in the world is that for?" he asked.
"Popcorn, I guess," answered the quickie fee collector.
Jack Cadden's taxi policy where Betty Coulson is concerned is "always ready and willing." But brother Phi Psi's say that when they want a ride he's the man who doesn't come around.
Lloyd Hamilton is promoting another new idea. He suggests that jelly joints install booths just large enough for one person, for introverts and to be called "introbooths."
Gamma Phi Lois Wilson returned late from semester vacation. It was sad, too, because she has the cigarette concession in the house. By the time she came back, fag fiends were threatening to take up smoking Margie Hagstrom's corn cob pipe.
Student Artists Display Work In Washington
Eight paintings by University art students are on exhibit in the fine arts gallery of the United States Department of the Interior in an exhibition of oil paintings by college and university art departments, under the auspices of the United States Department-of Education.
Nineteen schools are represented in the display, three of them Kansas, Illinois, and Oklahoma, being in the Middlewest.
University artists, and their works are: "Iris," by Victor Kalin, fine arts junior; "Outdoor Landscape," by Viiolet La Mont, fine arts senior; "Skull and Jug," by Rachel Garrett, fine arts junior; "Excavation," by Kalin; "Portrait," by Roberta Smith, fine
Mrs. C. D. Clark Files
When Mrs. C. D. Clark filed as a candidate for the Lawrence board of education she raised to three the total of persons closely associated with the University who are running for those positions. Mrs. Clark is the wife of C. D. Clark, professor of sociology.
For Board of Education
Members of the faculty who are running for school board posts are Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, and F. A. Russell, professor of civil engineering.
s琴 senior; "Still Life," by Rachel Garrett; "Portrait of a Negro Girl," by Edgar Stareck, graduate; and "Life Study," by Helen Fincke, graduate.