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University Daily Kansan Thursday, May 15. 1958
Let's Give An Ear
Administration apathy toward reasonable student requests reached its high point Wednesday when J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, flatly turned down a committee from Grace Pearson Hall which was trying to get approval to use the air conditioning facilities in that building.
The fact that the students were willing to pay for any expenses involved in the turning on and operation of the air conditioning was said to be irrelevant by the director of dormitories whose only reason was that "it was the firm policy of the University."
From all the facts presented we can see no possible reason why the students at Grace Pearson should not be granted their request. They are willing to pay and they ask that air conditioning be turned on only during the last week of classes and final week.
The stand of the University contradicts all logic and reason.
Mr. Wilson contends that the air conditioning was installed only for the profit of the University, to be used while Grace Pearson serves as a "hotel" during the summer months.
The dormitory office asks why should Grace Pearson residents have the benefit of air conditioning when other dormitory residents do not?
This is certainly an inane point.
Why should fine arts students have the benefit of a new building when engineering students do not?
Should we let a new building stand empty until every school of the University has a new building so that everyone will be equal?
If equality is a concern what's equal about students studying in Bailey Hall being cool via air conditioning while others elsewhere swelter.
Is policy established so that it can never be broken or improved? Is it something sacred?
The University may have a good, logical reason but the one it gave isn't too impressive.
Grace Pearson students won't get their air conditioning. The semester will end before any official even gets around to looking at the matter from the students' point of view.
But the concept under which officials operate is disturbing. Why should a reasonable request be turned down? No reason, just "Policy."
Fun For Filler Fans
—George Anthan
At the end of every school year, instructors, students, and particularly student newspaper editors discover that the whole year has slipped by and there are still a lot of things left unsaid, things that you never quite got around to writing.
Some of our unwritten editorials are serious ones, some are sheer fluff. Some passed-up chances were meant to praise a few essential campus figures, others were planned to raise the red flag of revolt for one lost cause or another.
A few things that needed saying might not have been said this year. Maybe they'll be done next fall, maybe there won't be any occasion for them.
As part of our covering fire while we retreat slowly into another non-intellectual summer, we'd like to perform a service for what is perhaps our most neglected class of readers. That, of course, is the unmeasured group of Daily Kansan fans who pass up news, sports, and society to get at the filler items.
We know this group of readers exists, just like Jimmy Durante's Mrs. Calabash, because they write letters to the editor. In the last few weeks, we've received letters in defense of the zebu and the aardvark, two favorite subjects of Daily Kansan fillers.
Those letters provided bright spots in the day's work, and we'd like to try to return the favor.
Here, then, are a few samples of Daily Kan-
san filler items left over this year, in one large serving for our faithful filler readers:
The ant bear, a South American mammal, is also known as the great anteater or the tamanoir. He has no teeth, but most ants don't require much chewing.
There are three living species of hyenas; the striped, the spotted, and the brown hyenas, all native to Africa. The Tasmanian wolf, or thylaeine, is sometimes called a hyena, which shows you how much THEY know. Things always were confused in Tasmania.
The common quahog is a clam found on the Atlantic coast of North America. They don't say much, and rarely live to voting age.
The tamandua is an arboreal anteater of the forests of Central and South America, commonly called the little anteater. He has a prehensile tail. And a very dull sex life.
The clawless otter, native to Africa and southern Asia, has small hind claws, and front claws are nearly or completely lacking. This makes life quite difficult for the clawless otter.
As a final word, permit us to say that much as we enjoy reading the strange letters which fillers often inspire, we don't really want a great many letters about today's items.
We grant we may have been unfair to some of the poor beasts mentioned here, but until we get official word from the animals themselves, we will consider no real harm done.
—Alan Jones
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
By Dick Bibler
"IM SO GLAD YOU'RE THRILLED ABOUT FRATERNITY LIFE
SON — WHEN WILL YOUR 'PLEDE' TRAINING 'END?'!"
Quotes From The News
CARACAS, VENEZUELA—Vice President Richard Nixon, on mob attacks on his party;
"The incidents reflected on Venezuela, not on the United States... If what we saw today goes unchecked, there will come to the Americas a dictatorship much more terrible than that of (former Venezuelan dictator Marcos) Perez Jimenez."
PARIS — New French Premier Pierre Pflimlin, on becoming the sixth man to try to form a French government in 28 days:
"I do not have the illusion that the government that presents itself today can escape from the precariousness of those that preceded it."
CHICAGO — Nobel Prize-winning scientist Linus C. Pauling, in calling for a giant international research institute backed by funds normally used for armaments;
"With a budget of, say, 5 billion dollars per year, to be used to support thousands of scientists and scholars in working on the problems of the modern world, great progress could be made."
Daily Transan
Indications are the 1858 acreage of crops planted in the U. S. may be the smallest since 1917.
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