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University Daily Kansan Thursday, May 1, 1958
The eye bank for sight restoration in New York City was founded May 1, 1945.
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A Legitimate Complaint
The editorial staff of The Daily Kansan received an anonymous letter from an engineering student complaining about the equipment and conditions under which the students must work.
The letter read: "I was very pleased to read in the Sunday edition of the Kansas City Star that KU had acquired, for the sum of $75,000, the collection of Renaissance books. I am sure that our curator of rare books and a few other people will enjoy them immensely. But now I would like to extend an invitation to you to come to the engineering library (located in the engineering building).
"You could read some of our fine books, that is, if you could find a seat. You see, we have 2.023 engineers this year and a library which seats 75, which makes it just a little crowded. Of course you could take your book down to the basement hall, but the light there is rather poor.
On second thought, you could go sit in an empty classroom, but that won't work either. I just remembered there are no empty classrooms and besides the light is poor there also.
"Maybe you'd just better forget the whole thing and go back to the cold warehouse to look for some more rare books. I would like to enter one last plea, however, to the chancellor. The next time he sees the Regents he might tell them that he has an option on 2.023 engineers and 'or a small sum they could be given a few tables, lights and chairs."
This bad paints a sad picture of Engineering School conditions. He takes a dim view of the University spending $75,000 on rare books when he isn't furnished enough light to read his own text.
He may have a legitimate complaint.
One of the more heartening continuing news stories of this month has been about the hot war among the trans-atlantic airlines over what constitutes a simple cold sandwich.
He may have a legitimate complaint. —Evelyn Hall
Sandwich Controversy
It shows that despite a rather messy international picture, in which outer space is obscured by inner politics, we still can find time to focus on the realities of life, including the defense posture of the sandwich.
A "simple, inexpensive, cold" sandwich, under the I.A.T.A. ruling, does not have to be clothed, top and bottom, by two (or more) slices of bread, as the dictionaries state; it may be open. All that's required on the bread question is that a "substantial and visible" portion of the thing be breadlike material.
In a formal ruling handed down by its "Breaches Committee" in London, and made public through headquarters in Montreal, the International Air Transport Association has scrapped the traditional dictionary definition.
Now, according to song and story, the sandwich was named after one John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), who was so fond of gambling that he snuggled his food between two hunks of bread and ate it thus in order not to leave the gaming tables for meals.
Asked what he considered "visible" to mean in the ruling, a local airlines man replied: "Just peeking out someplace underneath whatever you dump on top of it."
So both the founding father and the dictionary, who conceived of, and defined, a sandwich as a layer of foodstuff swathed in bread,
were overruled—at least for purposes of flying the Atlantic at economy fare.
But there is yet another division of thought on the subject. Pan American, which with Trans World Lines complained to the I.A.T.A. that four European air carriers were serving luxury "sandwiches" on the economy fare runs, got an unsolicited but undoubtedly authoritative ruling from a Philadelphia delicatessen man.
Sent in on a postcard, it said with simple dignity: "When is a sandwich not a sandwich? A sandwich is as much as you can get between two or three pieces of bread that you can get between your teeth. No knife or fork permitted. So said Lord Montagu."
But the I.A.T.A., or London-Montreal, axis expanded considerably on the Philadelphia delicatessen dictum. It ruled that a sandwich ceases being a sandwich when it is lavishly heaped so high that it cannot be picked up in one hand.
Thus the L.A.T.A. has scrapped the traditional (or Philadelphia) rule of bite capacity and substituted the rule of hand-span—which allows for a much taller sandwich. Unless, of course, your name is Joe E. Brown or Martha Raye or Lassie.
Under the tensions apparent in this situation (one of the things held to be a "luxury," and not admitted into a simple sandwich, is asparagus), perhaps economy-fare passengers might want to consider an old-fashioned remedy. How about bringing your own shoebox full of kitchen goodies from home?
The Campus Police department has more authority than most other Kansas police forces due to the fact that it is commissioned by the state, the county and the city.
There are 70 organized houses on the KU campus-44 men's living groups and 26 women's living groups. Of these, 27 are fraternities and 13 are sororities.
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I am writing to you in hope that you can help me with a hobby I have. I collect the emblem or pennant of universities all over the world, and I was hoping that through your paper I could get in contact with a student of Kansas that would send me your emblem or pennant for my scrap book, and in return I would send him or her emblems from other universities or countries.
Ernest Money
Box 9001, E-6544
Pittsburgh 33, Pa.
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