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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, May 14, 1957
Noise Bothers Scholars
Without doubt everyone is for progress, and the KU students are no exception. They are proud of the fact that new buildings are being constructed, and that constant improvements are being made on old buildings. But there is some discontent among students and instructors alike about the time that these improvements are being made.
In Flint Hall, for example, during the past week, certain classes have been disrupted because buildings and grounds men were working just outside the window. The noise they made, which was necessary if they were to do the job right, caused the instructors to have to shout.
It seems that many of the improvements, such as painting and repair work, are being made at a time when they are highly distracting to both students and teachers.
No blame is to be placed on the men that are working. They are doing a job they were told to
do. They couldn't ignore instructions to work on a certain part of the building.
The blame would seem to lie with whoever is in charge of the workers. The person in charge should realize that construction work is a detriment to anyone trying to conduct a class. Granted, the workers are on the job from eight to five and classes are conducted during those hours. But classes are not being conducted in all rooms of the building at all times during the day.
If the men who were doing the work would be instructed to work only where they would not be interrupting classes, the work could still be completed quickly and it would save a few instructors from losing their temper when they have to shout to conduct their classes.
Progress is important, but not as important to the students as an education they are paying $1,000 a year of more to obtain. The students would be grateful if education were given first consideration.
—Del Haley
Vandals For The Birds
Some members of the daub-and-run school of art have been at it again. The latest victim of their paint-smearing attacks is a cement bird in front of a downtown Lawrence business building.
One of WREN's wrens has had it. The old bird is now resplendent in Jayhawker colors of crimson, blue and gold. The bird doesn't look like a Jayhawk. It no longer looks like a wren, either.
To those who delight in harassing law enforcement officials, there may be a bit of enjoyment in noting that this act of vandalism took place directly across the street from the Lawrence police station. But to the police and the rest of Lawrence, the whole affair may not be so funny.
If the smearing was done by University students, and the use of the above mentioned colors indicates that as a possibility, then KU officials still haven't succeeded in their campaign to wipe out student vandalism. The threat to expell from school anyone who defaces University property has apparently driven the paintbrush pushers downtown.
There may be those who have had the urge to paint orange pants on Uncle Jimmy Green simply because they thought he looked too much like a conventional backslapper. Perhaps the statue of the pioneer which stands east of Fraser Hall has been brightened up in times past because he may have looked like a ditchdigger, a trade obviously below the social standing of someone who goes around in the middle of the night putting paint on statues.
Whatever their motives, the midnight Michelangelos formerly confined most of their decorative
efforts to the two durable KU statues, leaving most other property unharmed. The painting was then shrugged off as mere college enthusiasm while patient buildings-and-grounds workers cleaned the two statues again and again.
This time, by besmearing a bird, the would-be jokesters have laid an egg. The little prank went too far. Whatever bad feelings Lawrence citizens may already have toward University students certainly haven't been improved by the painting of a cement bird, regardless of whether KU students did the job or not. To top it all off, the vandals chose to deface part of a building which houses the headquarters of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, one of the leaders of local public opinion.
Certainly the Chamber hasn't done anything to students to merit this sort of attention. The poor old bird hasn't hurt anyone, either, except perhaps those who have tried to sit on its spike-covered back.
As far as we know, the owners of the WREN building don't employ a staff of paint-removing experts such as used by the University. Therefore, until the paint weathers away, it looks like there will be a colored bird downtown for some time to come.
In the meantime, we offer our sympathies to the owners and occupants of the WREN building. The most we can do for them now is to issue a plea for stern action against vandals who are caught doing this sort of painting in the future.
We sincerely hope it wasn't a University student who did the dirty work. More than that, we wish the mess hadn't been made in the first place.
Larry Boston
... Letters ...
Cafeteria Criticized
Editor:
On behalf of persons who must frequently eat at the cafeteria, I too would like to thank LeRoy Zimmerman for his intelligent and interesting article on "Union Food," (University Daily Kansan, May 2) and especially for inspiring coincidental articles on the same theme from others such as Tichenor, Thomas, and Haas.
The statements are true and well founded. The student does seem to be coming out on the short end in most respects mentioned.
The students who eat at the cafeteria are probably not the most well-to-do on the campus, particularly during "big" weekends and following Saturday night. Yet these are the times when the food is most expensive. There should be no fluctuation at all if the cafeteria is truly being operated for the student's benefit.
If a student can eat off of a damp tray and use paper napkins all through the week, he is certainly entitled to the same privilege on Sunday. Furthermore, since he is apparently obliged to pay more on this day than through the week, he would probably appreciate a little bit more of something more nourishing than a tray cover and a cloth napkin.
Mr. Zimmerman has pointed out that labor costs in a commercial restaurant and at the Union are api-
proximately the same. If this is the case, the Union should be able to employ younger, cleaner, and more active help, at least comparable to the help in a downtown restaurant.
Most of the complaints mentioned so far in the Daily Kansan have been major criticisms—things which one cannot expect to see resolved in the short time remaining this semester. Nevertheless, the students have a right to expect more attention being paid to cafeteria cleanliness and a fairer serving of food for their money immediately.
Gerald Fires Jacksonville, Ill. Graduate Student
Davidson College Plans Frat Court
Both plans provide for a kitchen, housemother's quarters, dining room, social or living room and terrace. The duplex plan provides for the use of the same kitchen by two fraternities. Plans specify a living-dining area 55' long and 35' wide. The size of a typical living room on the present court is 485 square feet.
DAVIDSON, N.C. — (IP) — The fraternity committee at Davidson College recently released two plans for a new fraternity court. The plans differ in that one calls for a single unit, the other a combination or duplex system.
Though Portugal is only 360 miles long and roughly 140 miles wide, it administers possessions totaling hundreds of thousands of square miles, the National Geographic Society says.
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