Fridav. Nov. 7. 1958 University Daily Kanoan
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Union Like Second Home for KU Students
nansas Union Addition Plans
For many Jayhawkers, the Kansas Union is a second home. If there were beds, many might pack their belongings and move right in.
There are no beds, but the Kansas Union offers just about everything else.
There is a ball room, music room, reading and card room—and places to hold meetings and places to eat.
There are television sets and radios, and places to study and places to think.
There are concession stands, art displays and other such treats.
In short, the needs of the average Jayhawk are supplied at the Kansas Union, whether he is looking for books or bird seed.
But it was not always so. The March 5, 1914 issue of the University Daily Kansan reported in big headlines that "five hundred attend union house warming; one-third of men students open new home with biggest little rally of all time; jayhawker pep rampant; KU enthusiasm breaks forth in song, smoke, and tiger yells—the real thing at Kansas."
The Daily Kansan continues:
Sounds like a real gone affair, doesn't it? Maybe, but the Kansan reports in a smaller story in the same issue:
"No students who attended the housewarming at the new Union last
"It was the biggest little rally of all time, down at 1200 Tennessee St. last night and it was not the eve of a great football game either; just the opening of the Student Union, marking the beginning of a new era in school spirit and enthusiasm at the University of Kansas."
night can doubt that the present home is too small to be a permanent meeting place.
"Of course the crowds of last night will not continue regularly, and of course the students will jolly along and make the best of the situation until a better Union can be obtained; but a building on the campus which can accommodate at least three thousand men at one time is
necessary and inevitable.
"The quicker a location is selected, blue prints are printed and a financing proposition suggested, the quicker sod will be broken for the long needed structure.
"The time to keep moving toward that eventual Union is now."
So cheers, Jayhawkers! Be glad you are a 1958 Jayhawker and not a 1914 one. The Kansas Union is here.
4,960 Cars on Campus
Over one half of the KU students have their own cars on the campus this year.
The number of student cars here this year is about 4,960, said Joe Skillman, chief of the campus police.
on the campus.
This explains the need of parking permits. Only students who have a physical disability, a difficult working and class schedule, or who live more than a mile from the center of the campus may apply for permits.
With this great number of cars, there has to be some traffic control
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