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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1940.
The Campus Comments - -
OPINIONS EXPRESSED by STUDENTS and FACULTY
The Editor's Letter
The editor of the Daily Kansan wishes to call the attention of contributors to the You Said It department to the established rule that letters to the editor must be limited to 300 words, and must be signed. A pen name may be used if the writer wishes, but no letter not bearing the writer's name and address will be published. The editor retains the right to determine whether to use a pen name.
Open Letter to Harris
Fred M. Harris
Chairman, Board of Regents
Dear Sir:
The Daily Kansan reported to the students of the University that there is a movement afoot among the regents to increase the activity fee here at K.U. to conform with that paid at other state schools, in particular, Manhattan.
I think that the students, without whose fees the University would be an impossibility, have a right to know if this proposed hike is going to include those benefits which are included on the ticket at other schools and which we are denied: the school yearbook, the school paper, and admission to all basketball games.
games.
By the time a student has bought these items that are omitted from the activity fee here, he has, in reality, paid out more in cash than students in other state schools. If the fees are to be raised here, they should be made to include these things.
JOE WEAVER.
(Editor's Note: A copy of this letter was sent to Mr. Harris by Mr. Weaver.)
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To the Editor:
Politicians Want Support
It is with a sincere feeling of regret that I have finally come to the conclusion that the editorial page of the Daily Kansan is no longer viewed as a guide to student thinking. It has failed in its purpose insofar as it attempts to interpret University life and student problems.
problems.
Formerly students did read the editorial columns, but today those few who inadvertently turn to them find only line after line of meaningless words. If we wish to find a panacea for all the world's ills, we can read the New York Times or the St. Louis Globe-Dispatch. Why read the Kansan's interpretation of the same problems?
A college newspaper might well deal editorially for the most part with its own local problems and leave those broader aspects to metropolitan papers. Certainly we have enough ills on our own campus to merit at least some notice. Those who control the editorial policy of the Kansan either fail to see our own difficulties or refuse to admit that they are important enough to discuss. It is not unlikely that they are naive enough to believe that we are without fault, have attained perfection.
C. H. MULLEN
Come down to earth, please, the remainder of the year, and deal with us, the students, and the problems of the University. At least we would read what you have to say. To suffer continuance of the status quo is to admit that that part of the Kansan is waste space, poor training for editorial writers, and matter the students never read.
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How to Stay Out
The black clouds of war are getting darker and it is only a matter of a short time before the U.S. will be in this present war, unless we organize the will of the people to stay out. The sentiment of the people can be found in the recent Gallup poll, in which approximately 96 per cent of the population voted to stay out of war.
To the Editor:
Formation of Stay Out of War organizations will help. These groups can use slogans for peace as a guide for our actions. What little democracy we exercise in time of peace is smashed to atoms in time of
How to organize these people beyond the stage of having just a sentiment for peace is quite a problem, but it can and must be done.
STEVE HOROSKO.
war; therefore, we must use our seven-league-boots in our daily tasks of keeping the U.S. out of the war.
Asks Synagogue
To the Editor:
Several of us students who are Jewish feel that there should be some provision made for us and our religion in Lawrence. We want to observe the Passover, but we cannot because there is no synagogue here.
here.
We therefore suggest that, in the interests of religious tolerance and equality, there be made arrangements for a place of religious worship for Jews in Lawrence. It would be little trouble, and would certainly aid Jewish students a great deal.
It might easily be taken care of by someone in the Kansas Bible College, who would perhaps have more interest in this sort of thing than anyone else. Establishment of a synagogue need not be a permanent thing unless so desired; we want it primarily for observance of Easter.
H. BERG.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Friday, March 15, 1940 No. 112
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan Club will meet from 7:30 to 9:30 tonight at Myers Hall. Edna Brooks is in charge of a program consisting of negro music, poetry, and history. Students of all races are invited. Members should bring their dues.-Ruth Yeomans, secretary.
EL ATENEO: Se celebrara la sesión regular del Ateneo márte, 18 de marzo, a las tres y media de la tarde en el cuarto 113 F.S.—Merle Simmons, vice-president.
GIRL RESERVE TRAINING COURSE. The third meeting of the Girl Reserve Training Course will be held Saturday morning at 9:30 in Spooner-Thayer Museum. Miss Beulah Morrison will speak on "Emotional Maturity." -Eda Paddock, secretary of Y.W.C.A.
I. S.A. : I.S.A. members will be admitted to skate at the Roller Drome Sunday afternoon at a 10 cent reduction on presentation of their membership cards. Mary Gene Huff, social chairman.
MUSIC ROOM: The Music Room will be open tomorrow evening from 7 to 9 o'clock.—Ernie Klema, chairman.
NEWMAN CLUB: Reservations for the monthly Corporate Communion and Breakfast to be held Sunday, March 31, may be made after either Mass this Sunday. All reservations must be made by 7 p.m. Friday, March 29, and can be made after this Sunday by calling 338—Albert Protiva, vice-president.
SIGMA Xi Nominations for members must be submitted to the secretary no later than Friday. The Board of Electors will meet on Wednesday, March 27. W. H. Schowe, secretary.
WESTMINSTER FORUM: The Westminster Forum will have an Easter St. Patrick's party this evening at 8:30 at Westminster Hall. Admission is 15 cents. There will be refreshments—Dorothy Howe, social chairman.
Y. M.C.A.-Y.W.C.A.: All students are invited to attend the Western Frolic in the Girls' Gym, Saturday night, at 8:00 o'clock—Charles Wright, Jr.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
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Know Your Campus?--lian Russell, queen of the glamour girls from 1879 to 1912, owned a $3,900 corset. She weighed 150 pounds and had an imperfect 33 inch waist. Which proves that you had to have something back of you in those days to be classed as an "oomph" girl.
Hill Has 35 Buildings Everyone Knows Main 24
By Mary Ellen Sullivan, c'40
Do you know that there are 35 buildings on the University campus,17 statues,flag poles,and the like,and 8 general outside sport facilities.
Of the 35 buildings, no doubt, all know the 25 main buildings which include all the halls, the library, the Watkins Memorial hospital, two museums, the Union building, and the Observatory. But do you know that back of Fowler shops are located four buildings; the Greenhouse; the Power Plant, on which is our class whistle and from which plant runs a branching tunnel to many of the campus buildings; a tin shed built especially to store things from Dyche Museum while Dyche is being repaired; and the Medical School Vivarium more commonly known as the "animal house".
Do you know that back of Watkins Memorial Hospital is a modern home for the student staff of the hospital, and that located in Rosedale, Kansas are the Eleanor Taylor hospital and other buildings where University medical students go to train?
Do you know that the Chancellor's new home is the beautiful old home of Mr. and Mrs. Watkins, and that the old home of the Chancellor is now a men's organized house? Not far from this organized house is the old Acacia House which is to be remodeled and will become an organized house for men on the Hill, the men's dormitory.
And do you know that the University has a high school, Oread High, where students in the School of Education must go to practice teach before they can get teaching certificates? The last unnamed building is the smallest, the summer house located near Potter's lake.
Potter's lake is one of the eight mentioned sport facilities where students may skate in winter or possibly swim in summer. Surrounding the lake is the campus nine-hole-golf course Just east and north of the course are the stadium, the baseball field and bleachers, and tennis courts. Other tennis courts are located south of the inside handball court, a greenish flat-roofed board building immediately behind Robinson gymnasium.
The 17 bric-a-brac include a sun dial, two bird baths, three stone benches, four bulletin boards, the Campus map, four flag poles, Uncle Jimmy Green's statue, and "Ye Hard Working Pioneer Boy" statue.
ROCK CHALK TALK
BY REGINALD BUXTON
At the Coop banquet for the basketball team at Wiedemann's "Phog" Allen was introducing his boys and had nearly finished. He was about to sit down when he noticed a rather good looking lad gazing wistfully at him and he caught himself to add: "I want to give you a boy who has more guts, more sense, and more determination than his dad: Bobby Allen."
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Competition for Henry Werner: W. W. Davis was introduced at the banquet as a "man who tells Swiss fish stories." Judging from the story he told at the banquet, his fish stories may not be as "tall" as Werner's but they're infinitely more raffish.
Scientists say that hot air travels faster than cold. Perhaps that's why false rumors spread so rapidly, suggests the Glasgow Missourian.
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Believe it or not department: Lillian Russell, queen of the glamour girls from 1879 to 1912, owned a $3,900 corset. She weighed 150 pounds and had an imperfect 33 inch waist. Which proves that you had to have something back of you in those days to be classed as an "oomph" girl.
Marjorie Cook, who up until the recount thought she had received only 20 votes in the W.S.G.A. election, found the story about the man who had run for sheriff and had received only his own and his wife's vote somewhat pertinent and amusing.
To go with the story, the man walked down the street the day after his disastrous defeat with a pair of guns strapped imposingly on his thighs. A citizen scrowled at his saying, "You don't have a right to wear guns; you weren't elected."
"Look neighbor," snapped the um happy one, "anyone with no more friends than I have needs guns."
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