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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1940
The Kansan Comments-place conveniently close for assistants to work. The improvements mentioned above are desirable and should be obtained. But should they be obtained at the expense of the students?
EDITORIALS★
BOOKS★
Afternoon Classes-place conveniently close for assistants to work. The improvements mentioned above are desirable and should be obtained. But should they be obtained at the expense of the students?
PATTER★
THE "administration" of the University has announced that, effective next semester, all schools in the University must schedule 40 per cent of all classes in the afternoon or Saturday morning. Ten per cent of all classes must be at 3:30 o'clock or after or on Saturday morning.
"First, the room situation is serious. Some adjustments must be made to secure more and better space for offices and for classrooms for some departments whose rooms are scattered in too many buildings for the efficiency and morale of the department. Such space can be obtained only by changing classrooms into offices, and classrooms can be given up only if other classrooms are used more hours per week. These additional hours occur in the late afternoons and on Saturday mornings.
What are the reasons given for this change? The University has operated for many years on the present schedules with larger enrollment figures than the books show for this year. Why, then, is it necessary to hold more classes in the afternoons and Saturday morning?
(On November 5, the above plan was voted on and approved at a meeting of the Deans of all schools of the University. Notices were subsequently sent to the heads of all departments.)
At the time the announcement was released. Paul B. Lawson, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, stated two reasons for the change.
"Second, Saturday classes will tend to keep students on the campus and in the school atmosphere over the weekends. The present, long and popular weekends are not helpful educational adjuncts. . ."
Is there anything to be said on the other side of the question? The Kansan believes there
(The second statement will be considered ter in an editorial in the Kansan.)
The first statement is of a conflict over a certain amount of space in the University buildings. The question is whether the students shall be allowed to use this space, or whether the administration shall force all student classes into a fewer number of classrooms and take the space in question for itself, to be used for offices.
Instead of administrative officials having to hunt around for a corrugated box to file books and papers in, they would have adequate space for filing cabinets. Instead of stenographers and clerks doubling up on one or two desks, getting their papers all mixed up together and making innumerable mistakes, each assistant would have a desk of his own. Instead of the officials having a cubby-hole office that was formerly used for a closet, they would have a well-lighted room with plenty of space and a
The Kansan concedes that many of the rooms are not used many hours of the day. The Kansan concedes that, on paper, the plan announced might look like the logical and right way to relieve the pressing need for office space which the administration says exists.
But is it the logical and right way? What would be the only real accomplishment of the change? IT WOULD TAKE THE BURDEN OF INCONVENIENCE AND HARDSHIP FROM THE ADMINISTRATION AND PLACE IT SQUARELY ON THE STUDENTS.
LETTERS★
Kansas University has prided itself on the number of its students who are wholly or partially self supporting-over 50 per cent, they have advertised for years. This is a democratic institution, the public has been told.
Now the University, right in the middle of a campaign to build up the enrollment, announces a heavy schedule of afternoon and Saturday morning classes. When do working students work? Afternoons and Saturday mornings, of course. When will they be able to work under the new system?
Will downtown employers say, "Just come down anytime you don't have a class. I'll have the customers come in whenever you're able to be here!" Students working on the campus under NYA may be able to make a satisfactory arrangement for working hours, but these are by no means all of the students who work.
There are many more inconveniences too numerous to point out at this time, but the shock of the announcement is on the working students. Many of them may be forced to drop out of the University. Some of them may drop out because they are disheartened and angry, and feel that they have been "sold out" to make room for desks and filing cabinets.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 38 Wednesday, Nov. 20,1940 No.48
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
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NEWMAN CLUB: The Newman Club will have its regular monthly Corporate Communion after the 9:30 Mass next Sunday morning. Breakfast will be served after the Mass. At the business meeting after the breakfast there will be an election of officers. All members are urged to be there. Non-members may make reservations by telephone 783—Joseph A. Zishka.
PORTUGUESE: A course in Elementary Portuguese will be offered next semester, provided at least fifteen students indicate their interest in advance. Since it is necessary to prepare the second semester schedules by the end of this month, students are requested to leave their names in my office (115 Frank Strong Hall) before November 28. The course will be Portuguese 70, for three hours credit, and will be taught by Professor Osma. Prerequisite, ten hours of Spanish. Since the course is a junior-senior course, sophomores must petition if they want to take it—W. H. Shoemaker.
QUILL CLUB: Feeh runs of the American College Quill Club will meet at 7:30 tomorrow evening in the Pine room.-Mary Elizabeth Evans, chancellor.
SENIORS: Seniors graduating in February may now make appointments for physical examinations at Watkins Memorial Hospital—Ralph I. Canuteson.
QUACK CLUB: There will be no Quack Club meeting this evening ...Margaret Learned.
NOTICES
A Bedtime Story
Once there was a model University!
This was really an Educator's Utopia. Class schedules were set up with slide rule preciseness. There were never any conflicts with other classes because the schedule utilized every hour of the day from dawn until dusk. No class was overcrowded.
Facilities for administrative offices were splendid at this University. Classes met in fewer rooms and at more hours of the day. Under this plan everyone became very familiar with all the class rooms and no one ever got lost. Officials and administrators of the University had room for desks for everyone. No one was crowded.
This was a model University!
This was a model University!
No one went home on weekends at this University. They all stayed on the campus and enjoyed the school atmosphere. Weekends had been popular but were not helpful to educational adjuncts. So the buses and trains running out of this town on the weekends were not crowded.
No students had jobs at this University. Some of them did work but their employers bothered them by asking them to work in the afternoons or on Saturday when they were busy going to school. Employment bureaus were never crowded.
This was a model University!
This was a model University.
The only snag in the operation of this model University was the fact that some of the students didn't think that it was a model University. So the registration desk at this University wasn't crowded.
But it was a model University, anyway!
ROCK CHALK TALK
Police in Lawrence and Kansas City were on the chase, but two suspect car-stealers eluded them Monday night and came home to open arms and swinging paddles.
During Delta Chi active meeting, pledges Jim Nelson and Jim Neil drove away in active Jim Sherman's car, a 1939 Buick sedan. The theft was reported, but the lads returned home about midnight without being nabbed by police.
Reward for their adventure was a trip to the Douglas county sheriff to explain the situation, and 25 swats apiece from the loving actives. For them Tuesday morning was a stand-up.
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Could it be that one of the Battenfeld bachelors is about to take the blissful matrimonial step? Ben Petree caught one of them at the jewelers shopping for circumstantial evidence, but he steadfastly refuses to reveal the lucky man's identity.
Add one more notch to the telephone receiver of Evelyn Mercer. For some time she has had four from Battenfeld on her list of telephone sweethearts, but now Leo Goertz has also succumbed to her charm.
Charles Wright, head of the state-wide activities commission, had double trouble last week-end. Friday noon he came home to find his ex-girlfriend from Oklahoma City and her aunt waiting for him. Since his present interest is in Topeka, he had to use expert diplomacy to keep all week-end dates and still make everybody happy. Now he fears he may have to take a month's lease on the doghouse.
The University of Missouri, not as enterprising as KU., held a "before the battle" rally in Kansas City last night. Couldn't they draw a big enough crowd in Columbia to boom out the "Ole Mizzou" yell? We boastfully remember the rally broadcast over WREN before the Kansas-Oklahoma game.
One rally prophet predicted a victory by Missouri of more than three touchdowns. We hope he doesn't eat too much turkey Thursday noon so that he will enjoy eating his words after the game,
Attention members of the "Chapel Club" Did you see the story about your organization on the front page of the Topeka Daily Capital this morning? And did you hear the 10:30 newscast over WREN last night?
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