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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. Feb. 18, 1958
Maintenance Not So Hot
The recent cold spell has many students questioning the efficiency of the buildings and grounds department of our University. One group of students in particular, the residents of Oread Hall, have their doubts about the men who do repair work on the heating equipment on the Hill. During the recent cold spell they were without adequate heat for three days.
The problem at Oread stemmed from the fact that early Sunday morning the heating system broke down. Since the night watchman does not work Saturday night, the problem was not discovered until Sunday morning.
Upon discovery of the trouble, the houseparents of Oread immediately called buildings and grounds for men to fix the heating system. They came, lit the boilers and left. But there was no heat Sunday.
Upon returning from their classes Monday, all of the students of Oread, except those on the lower east wing, found a little heat in their rooms. So the building and grounds crew was called again, the third time that day.
But they came and left and still no heat. However, they were quite firm in announcing they would return Tuesday and fix the heating system.
Tuesday, the students of lower east returned once more anticipating warm rooms. What were they to find? The building and grounds crew was still there, but the heat wasn't. The
students were assured that buildings and grounds had worked all day and would return once again Wednesday to finish the job.
Tuesday night, in the absence of the buildings and grounds crew, heat returned to the rooms of lower east.
Now comes the question of the efficiency of the buildings and grounds department.
While it must be stated that Oread Hall is far from being the most modern of dormitories on the University campus, it must be taken into consideration that it is the second largest men's dormitory on the Hill. Surely the students living there can expect to be kept warm, especially during the coldest spell of the winter.
Why weren't they kept warm? Evidently the building and grounds crew working on the heating system knew far less about their job than they liked to let on as they strolled about the building banging on the pipes. Because if the crew knew their job, they surely could have diagnosed the trouble and fixed it much sooner.
It shouldn't take a crew, working with the equipment these men had, two days to find the cause of the trouble and fix it.
If this is the case, what will happen if we ever have a real emergency on the campus when all of the dormitories, organized houses and the like are without heat? Then who will fix it before everyone is frozen stiff?
-Leroy Zimmerman
Adolph Brugger, assistant dean of students at UCLA, reports that some research has convinced him that theities of present-day college students can only be called mild in comparison with those of collegians f the past.
Again a century later, we read of the "Town and Gown Riot at Oxford" which lasted almost a week, resulting in the death of more than 50 students and townsmen.
armed attacks on citizens, duels in the classroom, the abuse of women robberies and "lesser riots."
Collegians Of Past Were Cutups
Thirteenth century records of Italian law courts disclosed a tedious detail of petty and not-so-petty offenses by students, including fights with tradesmen.
num who throws and misses, and him who accomplishes his fell purpose."
At Leipzig there were graded penalties "for him who picks up a missile to throw at a professor.
Dean Bruger admits that nothing in American student life quite reaches its European antecedents, but he notes that Yale's Nassau Hall was blown up by dynamite three times in the 19th century. Not to be outdone, Harvard students engaged in repeated rebellion which broke up chapel exercises and left the vived halls with paneless window frames.
The first model of the Colt revolver was whittled out of wood by Samuel Colt while he was on a sea voyage.
Bees can make more honey when hives are cool. That is because heat melts the honeycombs and bees stop gathering nectar to stay at home and fan with their wings to keep the combs cool.
Don't Fret
In 1893 the New York Times had the smallest circulation of the city's eight morning dailies.
... Letters
In regards to the parking problem at Stouffer Place, I was deeply touched by the laments of some of the tenants as reported by The Kansan. Having laid out the parking spaces for the project, I feel somewhat at the bottom of the problem.
Editor:
There are 126 spaces at Stouffer Place for 120 apartments which is somewhat superior to the average
With the general plan that was followed, it was almost impossible to make the lower parking lot larger due in most part to changes of grade. Throughout the planning there were six buildings on the upper lot and only four on the lower. However, on the day before the job was put out for bids Building Four was moved and became Building Eleven. But the parking lots could not be changed so easily. Thus the lower lot has 12 more apartments than it was planned for.
condition to be found in the residential areas of Lawrence. But the student couples who will be moving into the new group of buildings now under construction can take heart; there there will be a luxurious 141 car spaces for the same number of apartments.
If the situation at Stouffer Place is inconvenient, I am dreadfully sorry. Never in our planning did it appear that a short walk from the upper parking lot to a lower building would be troublesome, especially to athletes.
Answering telephones and sharpening pencils were among the duties assigned to a young coed who had just begun working in a University office.
One afternoon while she was sitting at her desk feeling very important a man came into the office and told the coed that if he received any long-distance calls, to have them transferred to his office.
Ben Nearing 1301 Louisiana
What University Do You Attend?
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The man turned, looked surprised, then answered, "My last name is Murphy."
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