MANAD MANAD
THURSDAY, MAR 10, 1985
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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AT LAST
The Australian ballot system for the election of freshman class officers has become a reality at last. Voted in at the last meeting of the Men's Student Council, the amendment must be read at the next two regular meetings, then be passed on at a mass meeting of the students before it becomes effective. This will all take place before the election this fall.
The old method of electing officers at a convention has always been a sore point with the freshmen. In reality it was not an election by the freshmen at all, but an election for the freshmen by upper classmen. The freshmen would be herded into the auditorium and told how to vote or take the consequences, and most of them voted as they were told. The strongest political party and the one who could make the most noise at the election won, and the freshmen took it and liked it, for there was little they could do.
Now the candidates will be nominated and their names placed on the ballot; the voters can vote for whom they choose, and no one will need know how they voted. As a result the officers elected will be the choice of the freshman class and not the upperclass politicians. The Men's Student Council has finally done what should have been done in justice to the freshman class years ago.
Two popular songs tell how to be a Don Juan on the campus. One says "learn to croon," and the other asserts, "be a football player." Since most of us can do neither, what we should do then the song fails to explain.
CLEAR SAILING AHEAD
"Finis" can now be written to the perplexing fraternity tax question, since the payment of the court costs for the long and involved litigation against the Greek letter societies in Douglas County.
Forgetting the rivalry that sometimes reaches a fighting pitch along about rush week, the fraternities and sororites on Mt. Oread and at Baker University banded together in the brotherly spirit idealized in their rituals. It was another instance of petty differences dropped in the face of a common danger.
The Greek letter men and women played the game in a commendable fashion. They fought hard and tenaciously in the courts for what they believed to be right. When the case went against them, and fraternity property was declared taxable, they made the best of the situation by preparing for the extra burden.
But then they faced the prospect of having to pay three years of back taxes—the tax having been placed on the Douglas county rolls in the summer of 1930. Few of the Greek letter houses could have carried that load, and some would have been forced into bankruptcy or into disbanding. Consequently, the
fraternities again entered the courts, and presenting a united front, this time they emerged victorious. The back taxes were suspended.
It is clear sailing ahead for the organized houses. They know now the amount of the obligations they must meet, and can prepare for them. A threat to their financial structure has been successfully encountered through co-operation.
Many a fond parent is wondering what has happened to the little homesick sons and daughters who used to come home every weekend.
MASHED POTATOES
All restaurants can slice tomatoes.
But none we know can mash potatoes.
Although the above couplet is rather short and homely, like Aesop's Fables, Homer's sayings, and Franklin's proverbs that have lived through the years, it contains a world of truth.
—Cynicky Phin in Star Beams
Not only the chefs of restaurants but the cooks of the fraternity and sorority houses on the Hill have a common failing when it comes to mashing potatoes. In the first place they never get the lumps out; and they never put in enough seasoning; and the product is always watery. We could tell 'em a little beating up would help, too.
Mr. Phin has put a great truth into simple, pithy language. But we feel that in spite of his atrabiiar first name he is a bit optimistic about the restaurants and their tomatoes. They can slice them, all right, but if our experience is consulative they can't peel them.
A joke will always bring a laugh in the classroom providing the students know just when the professor has made his point.-(Daily Kansan, Oct. 31, 1919.)
EDUCATION BEGINS AT HOME
Imperfections and weaknesses of the American educational system which are forcibly described in an anonymous article, "Confessions of a College Teacher," in the current Scribner's are probably exemplified in every college and university in the country, not excluding our own institution. The fact that these deplorable conditions exist in the individual institutions does not throw particular discredit upon them, for the fault lies with the system.
It is true that the majority of college students believe that they are being educated by merely drifting, only doing what is absolutely required, and this but poorly. Most people think that a young man or women who takes a degree from a college or university is educated. If in after years such a graduate fails, either the school or the faculty are blamed for not "educating" the student.
This is a faulty conception. After all, the college instructors can only work with the material sent them from the American homes; even then they can usually give back only slightly veneered versions of what the homes have sent them. If parents expect the so-called institutions of higher learning to make educated citizens out of their children, they must do their part by establishing fine cultural traditions, good books, good paintings, good music and good talk in the home.
Drifters are at present taken as a necessary evil. The colleges must have the enrollment and their tuition to pay bills. For this reason thousands of loafers are graduated annually, and their utter lack of intelligence and sound reasoning is usually blamed on the professors and educators.
The Oread-Kayhawks' fanfare about their renewal of political affiliation is similar to Babe Ruth's annual story on his salary holdout.
All Members of the Band must be present at rehearsal Wednesday night.
130. ___ J. C. MCANLES, Director.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
A regular meeting of the Engineering Council will be held Wednesday evening, Oct. 18, in Marvin hall at 8:30. CARL KINDSWATER, Secretary.
ENGINEERING COUNCIL:
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days.
Saturday, October 28th, 2015 for publication.
Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1923
RAND:
Vol. XXXI
Group IV of the Co-Ed Club will meet at the Memorial Union building at 5:30 o'clock Thursday, Oct. 19, for a winer roast. Those wishing to go must call Catherine Siebers (1486) before noon Thursday. Be sure to bring a dime.
MARY RUDIGER Chairman...
GROUP IV, CO-ED CLUB:
HATTIE ELIZABETH LEWIS COMMITTEE:
There will be a meeting of the Hattie Elizabeth Lewis Prize Committee on Wednesday, Oct. 18, at 4:30 in 205 Fraser Hall. L. E. SISSON, Chairman.
K-CLUB:
There will be a meeting of the K club Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Union building. This meeting will be brief. CLYDE COFFMAN, President.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS;
Le Cercle Francis se reumira merceried a quatre dames et demic dans la salle 306 Fraser hall. Tout ceux qui parlent francis sont invités.
MID-WEEK VARSITY:
RUTH BARNARD, Secretaire.
The regular Mid-Week Variety will be held Wednesday evening from 7 to 8 o'clock at the Memorial Union building. OZWIN BUTLEDGE, Manager.
QUACK CLUB:
Quack club will hold a swimming meeting tomorrow evening at 8:15. Dues should be paid before the initiation and pledging next week.
QUILL CLUB:
CAROL HUNTER.
There will be a meeting Wednesday evening, Oct. 18, at 8:15 o'clock in the rest room of Central Administration building. All who wish to be initiated on Nov. 12 should pay their $2 at this meeting if it is at all possible. A list of students eligible for initiation this fall has been posted on the bulletin board.
Y. W. C. A. COMMISSION:
The Y.W.C.A. Commission for Work with Industrial Girls will meet toner row at 4:30 p.m. at Henley house. MARGARET MAY MELLOTT, Chairman.
Campus Opinion
Sincerely, R.D.
Editor Daily Kansan;
Boy, am I burnt up!!!
Sure, there is another complaint from someone who doesn't like to sit in the east stadium. It seems a shame that the students of the University of Kansas are forced to sit in some of the worst seats in the stadium. If it were not for these students, where would K. U. be? They keep the University going, not the alumni. It is, also, these same students who put the pep in football games, not the alumni. Just ask the football team, who should sit in the west stadium. They will tell you that the students belong there.
We are forced to buy these activity tickets against our own vote. There are also over 1200 freshmen or over one third of the entire student body who have not been given a chance to vote on the subject, because they are new students this year. I am beginning to wonder there is anything fair about this ticket.
Last year, when there was so much agitation for the student activity book, the leaders of the lecture course and concert course implied that wonderful work had been brought to the University if the entire student body would give their support.
They have that support this year, but can anybody say that this year's program can even measure up to the one of last year, let alone surpass it? On top of that they have excluded the student body from the best seats in the auditorium and have reserved them for the general public.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Are these programs being run for the benefit of the students or for the general public? If for the general public, why not have them buy activity books and have the reserved seats for the students?
Helen June Gardner, 33, of McLouth, is in Cuba this winter, teaching English to the two children of a wealthy Cuban family. She writes that her work is "very interesting, and not too difficult," and that she is enjoying the beauty of the country.
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71 Boccaccio, Decameron
176 Murray, Oskar
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121 Hardy, Return of the Nati
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Griffon Fall Suits $20.00 to $40.00
Griffon Topcoats
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WANTED: Several loads black dirt. See or phone Mr. Graves at Kansan business office, phone K, U. 66. —30
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FOR SALE: Tuffy—registered Boston Bull puppy $15.00. Bismarck Grove. Phone 1385. —24.
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DRESSMAKING: Remodeling, alter-
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