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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 21, 1957
Tuition - No Representation?
By recently approving an increase in tuition and dormitory fees, effective the fall semester, 1957,the University Board of Regents may have initiated a new era of education finance at KU.
Laboring under rising costs, growing enrollments and the need for increasing staff salaries, KU is caught in the cost-price squeeze now affecting U. S. education.
University officials are faced with a state legislature which is reluctant to grant increased funds from already overworked tax revenues. Everyone at the University is of course hopeful that pleas for larger appropriations will be effective. But if these requests go unanswered, the school must manipulate available money, which will soon include the fee increases, to continue to provide good education.
Kansas taxpayers have always insisted, and rightly so, that if their tax dollars are spent on education, they should have a share in determining the type of education provided. The Board of Regents serves to protect their interests.
Student protests against certain policies of the schools have often met with the reminder that about $ \frac{2}{3} $ of the cost of their education is provided by tax money; only $ \frac{1}{3} $ by students' fees. From this arithmetic comes the conclusion that the $ \frac{3}{4} $ majority should rule overwhelmingly.
Yet, if no new funds are given to the University the student may expect to shoulder more and more of the costs in coming years. In doing so, he
has a right to demand more voice in shaping University policy. Tuition without representation would be just as tyrannical as taxation without representation.
Educators have always been wary of student attempts to shape school policies. Some of their suspicions are justified. School authorities wouldn't think much of proposed "officials" who hang Santa Claus and assorted coaches in effigy and who paint orange trousers on Uncle Jimmy Green. A state legislature which is paid barely enough to meet living expenses while meeting in Topeka wouldn't be much impressed by a student council in which large percentages of members do not bother to attend meetings.
In answer to expected protests that we don't have sufficient maturity or experience to make wise decisions, we students must show we do have these qualities. It would require the tightening of our belts to the serious responsibility of the job.
Students are already well equipped to aid in University government. Councils now make policy for fraternities and residence halls.
It is hard to srape up enough money to come to college. It would be even harder to convince authorities that we students are wise enough to share in governing an institution which we help finance. Toughest of all would be the task of being grown-up enough to do it.
Another Seating Problem
Larry Boston
The seating problem at the football games at last has some competition. Vying with Memorial Stadium as a place that has too few seats for too many students is Allen Field House Basketball has come into the seating spotlight.
The Iowa State game was a sad reminder that University students don't have enough seats on the west side of the field house. During the contest they stood along the top of the upper balcony and filled in the steps in an attempt to see the sellout game.
It is obvious that the field house can't be enlarged in order to provide a greater seating area, but it is equally obvious that something must be done in order to solve the problem.
Lines began to form at the student entrance at 4:45 p.m., nearly three hours before game time. By 5:30 p.m., when the doors were opened, a mob of 400 to 500 students was jammed against the entrances waiting to get in. When they were admitted they ran to the student section to get the choice seats south of the press and radio section.
This time, however, something had been changed. The pep clubs were seated there and the seats they had previously occupied were filled with paying fans. That left the rest of the seats—those not occupied by the band, the press and radio section and the pep clubs-for the student fans.
Very few of the seats that remain for the students are considered "choice" seats.
What, then, can be done about the problem of student seats? The obvious solution would be to allow students to attend only half of the regularly scheduled home games. That would be the same situation that prevailed at Hoch Auditorium. Allen Field House was supposed to alleviate that problem.
The question then arises—should students be turned away while letting in even more paying fans? Because this is a student institution and the Jayhawks are a student team it would seem reasonable to assume the student should have the first rights to seats in the field house.
Another solution might be to move one or more of the three special groups. The band, it would seem, would be the logical group to be moved, as their music is audible from any part of the arena. The press and radio section, on the other band, must have an advantageous viewing point in order to transmit the game, both in word and sound, to the public. But, would a hanging press box be possible? And the pep clubs might conveniently move back to their original section, nearer the cheerleaders.
Regardless of whether these suggestions are plausible, the University must decide whether the ordinary student, who isn't in any special group and pays only with his identification card, will be provided with sufficient seating space at the basketball games.
—Mary Beth Noyes
... Letters ...
Watchers Upheld
Editor:
Monday's article by George Anthan, assistant sports editor of The Daily Kansas, was confused and often incorrect.
Mr. Anthan seems to think it absurd that some members of the student body and residents of the area would contribute money to see their basketball team on television when away from home. He mentions that the $900 collected from the students, (and as I recall this money was collected in the field house during the Oklahoma A & M game from all the spectators, not just the student minority), is surely all that should be expected from them. He also suggests that it would be far better to apply our "dimes and dollars" to cancer or polio funds. I personally can think of no better funds to contribute to, but I think it can be argued that it is all right for people to set aside a small part of their incomes for amusement. Mr. Anthan, have you never been to a movie, a dance, or a play? Do you donate all your money away? What a drab life you must lead.
I agree that some concrete statement is due concerning what games it will be feasible to televise and at what cost. It appears the Colorado game is the only possibility. I would be happy to see the regionalals at Dallas, if nothing else. It is impossible at this time to ascertain what other participating schools and advertisers would be willing to do, but a decent fund raised at this school would certainly get the effort started.
If the fund fails, the money will be turned over to the University Endowment Assm. for athletic scholarships, so I am sure sports fans would get their money's worth in the long run.
The people who initiated this idea have worked hard, and the largest benefit they will receive is the enjoyment of watching their team on television. It is an effort to support the team. I think it would be proper to support this effort on the sports page. Apparently Mr. Anthan has a different opinion.
James N. Snyder Jr.
Leavenworth senior.
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