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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 22, 1950
SUNNYSIDE-Kitchens in Sunnyside may not be the most modern in design but they are large and roomy. The kitchens include functions and economy.
STOUFFER PLACE—The kitchens may be small but they are nice. This one belongs to Mrs. Charles Schaefer whose husband is a first year medical student.
Stouffer,Sunnyside Each Have Their Advantages
In spite of their gripes, and they are usually about little things, the tenants in both student housing projects, Sunnyside and Stouffer Place, are happy with their apartments.
Neither place is what most of them want when they leave the University and have their own homes but the rent at both places is cheap and that overshadows most of the inconveniences that might be part of living in either place.
Sunnyside, former army barracks relocated here after the war, has the cheaper rent and the larger rooms. All are unfurnished and include two bedrooms, living room, kitchen and bath and rent for $55 plus a dollar for each major appliance. The tenants range from two in a family to seven.
The Stouffer Place apartments are furnished. One bedroom units rent for $60 and two bedrooms for $70. The students pay their own utilities which average about $20 a month.
Sunsyside apartments are not as fancy as the newly furnished Stouffer apartments but many of the students have made them quite attractive and comfortable.
Probably the biggest inconvenience voiced by the Sunnyside housewives is the lack of bathtubs in the apartments. In families where there are young children it makes bathing a problem.
It especially calls for good management where there are five children in the family, Grant Clothier, Hutchinson graduate student, and his wife, have four boys and a girl who range in age from one year to 10, but they manage fairly well despite the lone shower for bathing.
"We like it at Sunnside," Clothier said. "We like the rent, the closeness to the University and the many fine neighbors that we have. However, I do think they ought to paint the outside of the buildings, cut the lawns more often and put up screen doors on the front."
Outside looks and interior decorations are no problem at the Stouffer apartments where the tenants are
happy to be living in furnished quarters that would rent much higher if they were not University owned.
"Sure the refrigerators are a little small, the walls sweat on hot humid days and the lights outside draw bugs, but where could you get an apartment like this for $60 per month," was the way Bob Banner, Horton junior, summed up living at Stouffer.
There are no facilities for installing washers or dryers in the apartments. All washing is done at the laundry room in the basement of one of the units. It costs 25 cents to wash and 10 cents to dry clothes. For some of the families with two and three children this is too much for washing.
Most of the grips about Stouffer Place have to do with the washing facilities, the little 4.7 cubic foot refrigerators and the lack of a good playground area for the children.
But Sunnyside residents have their washing troubles too, even though they may have their own automatic washers. Mrs. Bobbie Robinson, Peru, a Sunnyside housewife for three years said when she moves out of Sunnyside she is going to wash every day and twice on Sunday.
The Robinsons have three children and she can use the clothes lines in her area only two afternoonns a week because they must share them with five other families in the unit.
One family figured they had put $75 in quarters and dimes in the washers and dryers during the past year.
"This wouldn't be so bad," said Mrs. Robinson, "if they would just fix the water holes in the street."
We can't use one third of our lines because the cars splash water on the clean clothes."
The play area for children at Sunnyside is definitely better than at Stouffer Place and the latter tenants who have children hope something will be done to provide a decent playground area.
Beverly Barr, Prairie Village junior and father of three small children said, "With all this room out here it looks like they could furnish a playground area for the kids. Another thing that is needed is a paved walk angling from Stouffer to the campus.
"This place is geared too much to the automobile, if you want to walk to the campus you either have to wade across muddy fields or walk your legs off going around on the sidewalk."
Stouffer tenants don't know what they would do without Leslie Owens, who is in charge of maintenance there. His job calls for a "jack of all trades" and he fits the bill.
While students at both places gripe a little about their apartments, both places have good maintenance crews.
"Some of these newlyweds don't know much about starting a home," Mr. Owens said, "but they ask questions and we usually can get them started off right."
Mr. Owens takes great pride in Stouffer Place and he says most of the students treat the furnishings as they would their own. According to him there has been very little of it damaged.
It takes more time and more men to keep up with necessary maintenance at Sunnyside. The 15-year-old former Army barracks have seen better days. Often the tenants become impatient because maintenance workers don't arrive 10 minutes after they call for service but as most students say, "We can put up with inconveniences for the rent we pay."
Maine has over 2,500 miles of coastline and 2,500 lakes.
Extends Research Grant
Robert Schatten, professor of mathematics, has received a six-month extension grant of $3,000 from the National Science Foundation for research on "The Trace-Class of Operators."
Prof. Schatten received the original grant last September. During the first semester he did research at the University of California at Berkeley, the second semester at Yale and this summer at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He will return to KU this fall.
The trace-class of operators is a branch of mathematics dealing with linear transformations and Hilbert spaces, which have applications in quantum-mechanics. The latter area is important in nuclear physics.
The New York State Department of Mental Hygiene operates 18 schools of nursing tuition free.
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