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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 13, 1956
New Look For Union Cafeteria
Becoming resourceful is one of the aims of education but for a free lesson, step inside the Student Union cafeteria.
The crew who worked on the cafeteria project, which is designed to improve digestion by 75 per cent, was not only full of resourcefulness, but it had taste and a mind for good business as well.
The resourcefulness is evident only when the cost of the decorating bill is known, which must be to few. But just to prove most readers wrong, take a guess at the cost of the redecorating and furnishings added to the cafeteria since August.
Will the guesses be closer to $3,000, $4,000,
$6,000, or even $9,000?
Included in your estimate should be the driftwood paneling on the pillars, a nifty although not original device to hide the unsightly supports;
The circular lounge which asks you to make yourself comfortable as you enter the double doors;
The modern partition behind the circular lounge, which serves to break up the hugeness of the eating arena as well as to channel customers to the right and left;
Paintings and drawings, both abstract and contemporary;
Seating arrangements for 40 more customers; most of these are for doubles who were long a seating problem since they took a table for four:
Black, fence-like partitionst in the north end which have an effective psychological use in splitting up the sameness and roomy area; similar screens are to be found in the south end;
An aluminum-edged baffle board above the cafeteria line to keep overhead lights from distracting customers in line;
Potted plants, four new booths, a healthy dash of pink paint for the walls and ceiling and peg paneling to keep the coffee urns out of customers' faces.
After itemizing this list to yourself, figuring for professional work, your total should be around $9,000. Deduct about 70 per cent, the current deduction for a do-it-yourself project, and you'll arrive near the actual cost, $3,130.
War surplus aluminum was used extensively, often being painted black to simulate wrought iron. Art work was purchased as well as donated
by the art department. Student Union personnel worked on the baffle board over the line and on the glass paneling by the conveyor belt. They also made the partition behind the circular lounge.
Taste in decorating is hard to put a finger on but the effect when walking into the new surroundings will not displease many eyes. Art work is neither out of this world nor downright simple and the color scheme is satisfying, although some may object to the pink.
Better business was undoubtedly uppermost in the minds of those who planned the project. Few establishments, except for places like Futschi's in Kansas City, can afford to go for years without keeping in pace with the times. If they don't change, they'll experience a loss.
The taste and originality of the project are enough to warrant a "well done," but to achieve them resourcefully, at a minimum cost and a maximum of effort—to do that as well requires a commendation from quarters other than that of the press.
How To Be Popular-
'Line-Crashers' Draw Attention
Enrolling in college not only introduces a person to new people and new ideas but also shows him he can't escape thatire-producing, social nonentity, the line-crasher.
This remarkable nitwit comes in both male and female issues. Sometimes the two work in pairs but this is seldom. Either way, the intrusion is based on the passive nature of mankind.
Of all the spongers in existence, he is the most craftless and none will serve more to destroy a person's faith in the basic goodness of humanity.
The technique is both familiar and unconvincing. This ingrate moves from table five, say, in the Union and sees before him a line that would put to shame that one of all Chinese marching four abreast around the world.
He then picks an opening, say in a stairway through which people must pass but this doesn't concern him. The line is broken across the stairway and this becomes his "in."
Spotting a lonely looking female who looks as if she could use a friend of the opposite sex, the clown of this category asks the homely looking friend-to-be if her line is the same one he is seeking. This question he can ask convincingly. The friend-to-be leaps to answer in the affirmative.
The scrouge then ostensibly gives himself away by observing, aloud, that it shouldn't make any difference if he waited beside her, where it
was less crowded, until the end of the line came by!
Of all the unqualified, prefabricated lies, circulating this campus, this one rates a red rose literally pinned to the guy's nose.
The poacher then begins his line, identifying himself with his stooge by asking her what her major is. From here on he has an avid companion who is bowled over by his talkativeness and seeming interest in her affairs.
The only thing the pilferer has in mind is a shorter wait and in so behaving classifies himself as not only a line-crasher, a poacher and a pilferer, but also as a love thief.
The matter doesn't really reach its most absurd moments until the line begins to move. At this time the cheat sidles up to his newly-acquired mate and chivalrously states that he had best protect her in this melee, at which time he takes up permanent residence in the line.
Now, almost everyone has witnessed this technique, or something akin to it, during the enrollment period and almost everyone probably did nothing about it.
But there will be few who will forget the crasher's face or his sincerity. And when that sincere face haunts around this semester for a legitimate favor, those who watched his antics shall be able to come down with a fine, crashing, "No."
Well, it's finally here.
The hated, long-awaited first day of class has finally arrived, and we should have stayed in bed.
Gone are the glorious, wonderful,
carefree days of work week, rush
week, orientation week, enrollment
week, etc. All we need now is a
rest week before school starts.
No kidding, this modern-day automation is really something. Why, we can remember way back in the dim ages when they gave you a perforated strip of information cards about four feet long, and told you to fill them out. It took hours.
But back to enrollment.
Ah, but that's all in the past. Now they bundle all these cards into one package, stick some carbon paper between the sheets, and give it to you to fill out. The trouble is, the carbon paper doesn't work half the time, and you have to go through and redo the latter sheets
And that super-duper automatic ID-card picture-taking machine! Click! Click! Click. They don't even give you a chance to turn your profile to the camera. And it looks like the least they could do was to get someone to prompt everyone into saying "sin" at the proper time to assure a nice, pleasant smile.
of paper so that they can read them. It takes hours.
Congratulations to all those who:
1. Made it through enrollment with exactly the schedule they planned in advance.
But we've been gripping long enough, or too long, as a matter of fact. So, in order to even things up, we'll trot out a round of congratulations. Here it is.
2. Made it through enrollment without losing their IBM, cards, permit cards, car registration cards, etc.
3. Made it through enrollment and managed to keep the same major they had before enrollment started.
without getting in a (sob) Saturday class.
4 Made it through enrollment
5. Made it through enrollment without getting any classes on (sob) Friday afternoon.
—Dick Walt
6. Made it through enrollment.
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KU Library Gets Engineering Graduate Achievement Award Program Starts
Robert Vosper, director of the KU libraries, was present at the conference to accept the award for the library. Donor of the award, which carries a $100 prize, is Ada McCormick, Tucson, Ariz., publisher of Letter magazine.
An award for outstanding library work representing humanitarian achievement was presented to the University library early in the summer' at a council meeting of the 75th annual conference of the American Library Association at Miami Beach, Fla.
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