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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 5, 1957
The large white sea bird called The largest nugget of zinc ever the gannet is related to the pelican. mined came from Arkansas.
New Schools-
Do We Need Them Or Not?
To the surprise of many people who had been led to believe otherwise, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week made a statement to this effect. There is no critical national shortage of classrooms and federal aid for school construction is "unwise and unnecessary."
If there was a shortage last summer it is clear that an additional one and three quarter million students didn't help relieve the situation. And according to Parents' Magazine this classroom shortage hasn't been relieved.
In September of last year Business Week reported that the latest figures from the U.S. Office of Education showed that 1,754,300 more students would be enrolled in 1956-57 than last year.
In the February issue, this magazine said the shortage of school buildings in the United States has become critical. Millions of American children, are going to school only part-time because the schools have to run on double or triple shifts, or the students are attending classes in basements, garages and barns.
The U. S. Chamber of Commerce has either
With all the talk last summer about the shortage of classroom facilities for the ever-increasing school population, this statement strikes a sour note. What has happened in the short period of 8 or 10 months to reverse this situation?
And what about the future? Parents' Magazine goes on to say that an additional 50,000 classrooms (cost $1,750,000,000) will be needed in each succeeding year just to keep up with the increasing school age population.
overlooked this shortage of classroom space, or has made the statistics read the way it chooses. Its position that federal aid for school construction is "unwise and unnecessary" could critically hurt the federal school construction aid bill now before the House Education Subcommittee.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce must have a reason for taking the position it took. But this position can be only detrimental to the nation-wide educational program if the House education subcommittee agrees with them.
If the nation's schools don't need federal aid to expand, then why did Parents' Magazine make this statement? It is estimated that approximately one-third of a million new classrooms (which will cost about 11 billion dollars to build) are needed now to house adequately our 38 million school children.
Who is right? Is there or isn't there a shortage of classrooms in the U.S.? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce must be consulting a different set the figures than did the writer for Parents' Magazine.
We're all for used books. In the first place, they're cheaper. In the second place, they somehow feel better if they're a little ragged, underlined, and stained. A book with just black and white pages and a shiny cover is more like a stranger than a friend.
—Dale Morsch
Besides, students could easily waste the whole afternoon or evening drinking coffee at some cluttered table in the library.
Yes, we like 'em beat up, but we don't go for this idea of somebody leaving several cups of coffee and a candy bar between the covers of a book—even between the covers of one like "Sailing Directions for the West Indies." And that's precisely what will happen if the director of libraries allows the slot machine profiteers to move in on Watson Library.
Books In Union
And Coffee In The Library
The five students who suggested in a letter to the University Daily Kansan that a coffee machine be installed in the library must need a cup of the stuff to wake them up. Before you knew it every book would smell like a pantry and not long after
Near Clarksville, Ark., is a red sandstone cave containing Indian hieroglyphics that have never been deciphered.
And what about the janitors? They'd probably have to be paid time-and-a-half-for-overtime for picking up cups, bottles, and candy bar wrappers. Then before we could regain our senses the budget boys would increase our fees to pay the janitors. It wouldn't be fair.
As for keeping a room in the library open until 11 p.m. with a librarian on duty, yes, it would upset the budget. That would be comparable to some cook in the Student Union cafeteria putting one extra blueberry in the muffin mix. It would mean chaos, that's what.
Let's keep the library a library and stay away from that commissary stuff.
Ouachita National Forest is the oldest in the United States. It covers seven Arkansas counties and extends into Oklahoma.
—Dale Morsh
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"I UNDERSTAND PROF SNARF'S CLASSES HAVE PRACTICALLY DOUBLED THIS YEAR."
The world's largest wall-eyed pike hatchery is at North Platte, Neb.
Underlying Nebraska's Sand Hills is a billion acre feet of water, enough to supply the city of Los Angeles for the next 1,000 years at the present rate of consumption.
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Kent Thomas ... Managing Editor
John Battin, Flechae Ann Feenberg, Bob Lyle, Betty Jean Stanford, Assistant Managing Editors; Jim Banman, City Editor; Nancy Harmon, LeLoy Zimmerman, John Frost, Shilонozaki, Telegraph Editor;
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