SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1939
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SECTION C PAGE THREE
WHAT does M.S.C. mean to you?
ABC of M.S.C.
- The M.S.C. sponsors the Student Supreme Court, a judicial body composed entirely of students, to enforce the laws of the Associated Men of the University of Kansas.
- Legislates at its bi-monthly meetings in the interests of the men of the University; its laws affect the entire student body.
- Expends over $1400.00 a year for worthy student enterprises.
- The M.S.C. conducts all Varsity Dances, in conjunction with the W.S.G.A. and the Memorial Union, and directs selection of the Varsity Dance Manager.
- Supervises publication of the Student Directory and selection of the Directory Manager.
- Provides a $50.00 loan scholarship every year for a deserving student of Junior or Senior standing.
- The M.S.C. created and regulates jointly with the W.S.G.A. the Student State-Wide Activities Commission, composed of the County Clubs and Student Correspondent's Bureau, this Commission is one of the most extensive and effective student agencies functioning in behalf of the University of any like group in the United States.
- Sponsors with the W.S.G.A. the Student Forums Board which conducts open forums of student interest and educational movies.
- Passes and enforces speeding and parking regulations on the campus; represents the men of the University on all committees of student concern; cooperates in sponsoring pep meetings for athletic events.
- Provides for inspection and licensing of all men's rooming houses.
The Men's Student Council GOVERNS
the men of the University of Kansas. Founded in 1909 the M.S.C. could boast an enviable record of pioneering and achievement in student government closely paralleling the growth of the University. It was in 1909,45 years after the founding of the school, that the political campaigns-for which this University holds fame-began on a campus of 2,018 students and culminated in the election of Edwin Baumgartner to the presidency of a Council composed of 16 members. Thirty years later, Council members get a head-start on unpracticed legislators with their own organized campaigns as candidates of either of the major hill political
C. H. MULLEN, Pres.
parties or seasonal minority groups. Student government is almost as complex and well organized as the government of any city. K.U.'s leadership in University activities continues to depend on the example of an efficient student government.
In the PINE ROOM
of Memorial Union meet men representing every phase of University activity—from Zoology to Astronomy, from law to engineering and back, from dramatics to athletics. United they assimilate the variegated viewpoints and emerge with coordinated laws and action.
Members of this year's Council: C. H. Mullen c'39 John Oakson c'40 Oliver Edwards c'41 Irving Kuran, c'40 William Overton c'39 Milton Meier c'39 Weaver McCaenl c'39 Breswer Powers, c'40 Lester Olmsted gr, James Postcary c'39 Harold Johnson b'40 Leo Henricks b'40 Emmet Park b'40 Bruce Voran b'40 Sam Sifers c'40 Ray Buzzel c'41 Lewis Thompson c'41 Dave Whitney, c'42 Edmund Page, c'42 Ray Napier, c'42 and Edward Sheley, c'42