Home-Sweet-Homes
Where K.U. Students Eat, Sleep, Study
You're all wet if you think the little palaces pictured above are the worst possible places for students to live in. One of the boys who live in this modern Lincolnian cabin located southwest of the campus, says he moved there because he didn't want to live in the "rat traps" that are available about the Hill.
Take these basement rooms that are rented "economically" for example. We know a student who once lived in one of them. For working from one to two hours daily he got a cot and a table—a straightback chair, too—next to a coalbin. For companions he had the bugs and spiders that played up and down the damp, unplastered tile walls. During the winter he studied in his overcoat, huddled beneath a light with a cardboard shade. The student performed his morning, noon, and night ablutions in a tin washpan.
Well, by the end of one semester that student had to sit on the front row during examinations so he could squint at the questions on the blackboard. He had lost 15 pounds of weight because of incessant colds. He still has weak lungs and would be easy prey to tuberculosis—if he doesn't already have it.
Now the University has done superb work in getting the three dormitories. Everyone has worked for them. More than a hundred boys who haven't much money will have a decent place in which to live. But a hundred, or even two hundred, doesn't cover all the students on this campus.
What is needed to correct housing conditions on the Hill is COMPULSORY HOUSING. The Daily Kansan has said this before and will continue to say it until something is done. Compulsory Housing would make every room a student lives in a healthy, decent home. The Housing Commission would see to it that it were given the power of Compulsory Housing as it exists in every other state school in Kansas.
Compulsory Housing would make all rooming house owners bring their rooms up to a decent standard. Those who have good rooms now but can't rent them because of the cut-throat competition from those who maintain rooms below standard would be able to rent them at a price lower than they now charge. As stated before, with the dormitories in full swing, the supply of rooms would remain essentially unchanged and the demand somewhat less. It doesn't take a course in Price and Distribution to realize that prices, although quality has improved, would remain virtually the same.
Compulsory Housing can go in effect next year. The Housing Commission has all the information to put it in force. Wilbur Leonard, housing inspector, has stated his belief that the Housing Commission can carry on Compulsory Housing with the money they now have. All that is lacking is Chancellor Malott's agreement.
At the first of the year, Chancellor Malott made the very apt statement that the cigarette stubs cluttering up University buildings was a question of "good housekeep- (Continued on page eight)
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XXXVII Z-229 LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1940
NUMBER 162
Mt. Oread in Readiness For 67th Commencement
By Stan Stauffer, c'42
With everything from music to golf included on the bill of fare, the University is all ready to serve her sixty-seventh Commencement program this weekend on Mt. Oread.
Opening Friday night with the annual recital of the School of Fine Arts and closing with the Commencement exercises in the stadium Monday night, when more than 1,000 University seniors "walk down the hill for the last time," the three-day schedule of events is complete in every aspect.
Alumni Register Saturday
Registration of alumni who are returning for the program will start at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Memorial Union building. Commencement week is formed around two main events for the graduating seniors, the Baccalaureate services Sunday
evening and the awarding of the diplomas at the Commencement exercises Monday night. Also included on the program are the recital by the senior Fine Arts students, a golf tournament for the visiting alumni baseball—seniors against the faculty, a series of three forums, alumni
Seniors Will Hear 'Young Bill' White
W. L. White, foreign correspondent in the Finnish-Russian war, will join his father, William Allen White, as a University commencement speaker, it was learned yesterday.
"Young Bill" recently returned from Europe and will speak on his experiences as a war correspondent Sunday afternoon at 2:45 in Hoch auditorium.
meetings and class reunions, two band concerts, an alumni-senior dance, breakfasts and luncheons. No Outside Speaker
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will present more than 1,000 degrees at the Commencement exercises in the stadium Monday night. There will be no outside speaker for the exercises, but the Chancellor will make a few remarks before presenting the diplomas.
Rev. John Charles Schroeder, professor of homilies and pastoral theology at Yale, will deliver the Baccalaureate sermon, "A Sense of Responsibility," Sunday night.
Both the commencement exercises and the Baccalaureate service will be held in the stadium unless rain forces the services inside. In the case of rain or cold, damp weather, the exercises will be held in Hoch auditorium.
Commencement Schedule
Friday, June 7
8:00 p.m.—Commencement Recital School of Fine Arts, Hoch Auditorium.
Saturday, June 8
9:00 a.m.—Golf for Visiting Alumni,
forenoon and afternoon. Lawrence Country Club, under direction of Dr. F. C. Allen.
10:00 a.m.—Registration opens, Memorial Union, under direction of Miss Maude Elliott.
3:00 p.m.—Baseball, Seniors vs
Alumni-Faculty.
3:30 p.m.—Commencement Forum-
"The European Situation," Fraser
Theater.
4:00 p.m.—School of Engineering and Architecture, Alumni Meeting, Marvin Hall.
7:30 p.m.-Band Concert before Watson Library.
8:30 p.m.—University Reception,
Lounge, Memorial Union.
9:30 p.m.-Alumni-Senior Reunion Dance, Ball Room, Memorial Union. Sunday, June 9
2:00 p.m.-Buildings open to visitors
2:15 p.m.—Commemorative Service.
Hoch Auditorium.
3:30 p.m.—Commencement Forum-
K.U. Movies, Hoch Auditorium.
4:00 p.m.-Band Concert, Fowler Grove
4:30 p.m.—Class and group reunions.
7:00 p.m.—Baccalaureate Services.
Monday, June 10
7:15 a.m.-Class of 1940 Breakfast, Memorial Union Ball Room.
9:45 a.m.-Alumni Meeting, Fraser Theater-Address by William Allen White.
12:15 p.m.—University Luncheon,
Memorial Union.
3:30 p.m.—Commencement Forum-
"Industrial Expansion in Kansas",
Fraser Theater.
Nazis Launch Fierce Attacks On West Front
By Joe Alex Morris United Press Staff Correspondent
Germany launched a new drive today against the backbone of French resistance and Berlin threatened a simultaneous thrust against Britain.
More than a million men, perhaps 1,500,000, were involved as the whole French front from the sea to the Maginot line blazed up. The Germans were attacking in force against the center positions of the Somme-Aisne front. Strong French counter-thrusts were delivered at both ends of the线, around Abbeville
Werner Denies He Favored Littooy's Method
Henry Werner, men's student adviser, today formally denied that he had voiced approval of dance manager Fred Littoyo's past action to curtail student council dance passes.
Littoo was given a second term at the job recently and Sunday the Kansan indirectly quoted a member of the dance manager committee who gave three reasons for Littoo's reappointment. Reason three was Mr. Werner's supposed approval of the way Littoo handled dance passes. Mr. Werner said he made no such statement and the dance committee passed the following resolution:
" . . . in consideration of ap-
plicants for dance manager po-
and Longwy. Paris reported heavy German casualties.
The French blows appeared to hint an attempt by the French high command to unhinge the German line from its anchor positions at the sea and at the Maginot line. Success of such a move would open the Germans up to flank attacks and might seriously compromise their drive for Paris.
Fresh German troops, hitherto held in reserve, were hurled into the new offensive.
The German high command claimed that the French attacks had been beaten off.
The objective of the German drive was plainly stated by Chancellor Adolf Hitler. It is, he said: "The annihilation of our enemies in Paris and London."
Germany was using an estimated 600,000 men for the offensive—40 infantry divisions and five motorized "panzer" divisions of the type that accomplished the sweep through northern France. Some 2,250 tanks
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