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University Daily Kansan
Monday. Feb. 2, 1958
Once Again Now
Here we go again. Another semester of our college education about to begin, and another chapter in our lives about to be written.
Finals are all over except the shouting, or maybe the weeping. We've had nearly a week of vacation without neglected studies or overdue term papers in the back of our minds.
Now we have new life, a fresh start, a chance to avoid making the mistakes we made last semester, which resulted in lower grades than we had anticipated.
But will we grab at this opportunity? It's very doubtful. This semester will start off like all the others. First there will be a rash of parties. Why not? Not many assignments due and lots of time to catch up. There will probably be a lot of midnight oil burned, but mostly over all-night bridge or poker sessions.
Of course there will be exceptions to this. After all there are some dedicated scholars going
By March 1, a lot of us will be in pretty sad shape once again. We will be behind in at least half of our courses. There will be many overdue assignments of one kind or another. And then we will wonder where all our time has gone.
to this University. But it would be foolish to say this sort of person will be in the majority.
This first-of-the-semester laxity is not to be violently condemned. It seems to be human nature to put off until tomorrow what could be done today. Maybe the average student just does better under pressure. At any rate, most of us usually get done what has to be done, even if it is at the last minute.
What the coming semester will bring, is up to each of us individually. We are all hoping for something better, personally as well as academically.
The staff of the editorial page also has a few wishes. Foremost is the wish that we will be able to make the editorial page interesting, and one that the readers of The Daily Kansan will read and enjoy. We also hope to get many letters from our readers. Being normal humans, our eyes light up when we read complimentary letters. But we realize that we learn a lot from the letters that are critical of our ideas and methods of presentation.
Here's hoping that we all have a good semester, and that our accomplishments are even greater than our goals.
Taxation Method Unfair
—Del Haley
The people of Kansas are being subjected to a very medieval type of tax. That tax is the personal property tax which is assessed by the counties to pay for such things as schools and other county activities.
The tax is based on the amount of personal property owned by a person, along with the amount of money he has in the bank at the time. It is not based on how much money he made that year, but on what he owns that year.
He may be just a poor old man, retired and with no source of income, but every year just like clockwork the county takes from him, not only money from the real estate he owns, but also from the stove on which he cooks his food and the money he has saved for his old age. Each year this money is whittled further and further down by this unfair tax.
A state that is advanced in so many things, such as education, should be able to influence her counties to use a tax which is based on real estate or property owned by an individual such as a house, hotel or lot.
Real estate tax seems a little more fair, since the rich man on one side of town gets assessed for the value of his house and property, the store or factory he owns and the tenement house he owns on the other side of town. Meanwhile, the poor man on the other side of town who owns property is assessed for the value of the property outside, not inside. The man who is too poor to own any property is not taxed at all, directly, and is allowed to get a little ahead.
A little money might be saved by this system too. It costs money to send a personal property tax evaluator around to each and every house to find out what everyone owns. This not only costs money, but develops many people into convincing liars when they seem to forget about the new stove or TV set they just bought.
Besides that, there are hard feelings when a $3,000-a-year factory worker finds out that the $25,000-a-year factory manager paid only $15 more than he did in personal property tax.
... Letters
Lee Lord
Parking Problem
Since I have been at KU, I have often wondered if the zeal with which the campus police hand out tickets has been prompted by the desire to justify the existence of 12 uniformed traffic policemen, handling the traffic problems of 8,500 students over an area of some 3 or 4 square miles, yet not even listed in the phone book. This compares with 21 policemen on the Lawrence force, handling all sorts of disorder for 30,000 non-university citizens over an area of 40 or 50 square miles, and assisting the KU police (they call KU when they receive an on-campus call) with student disorders.
But Thursday night, I discovered the degree to which their zeal carries them. For in the wake of the KU budget disappointment, two of Chief Skillman's vigilantes found virgin ground at Stouffel Place, perhaps the only place on campus where one can receive a ticket after midnight. Truly an ingenious scheme, and one which I suppose they plan to repeat often.
For unfortunately, when Stouffer Place was designed, the engineers failed to provide adequate parking facilities. True, there are 126 parking spaces for 120 units, but so located that 71 spaces serve the 60 upper units, while only 55 serve the lower 60 units (not to mention the 2-car families, and these are some). It was in this lower lot, where the last few men in at night must park on the yellow line to be within a block of their apartment, that several tickets were written sometime after midnight.
However, the campus police did make one strategic error. They should have struck first on Saturday
night, when a good many residents are entertaining guests; on a basketball night, when numerous other persons avail themselves of our free lot. They could net 15 or 20 persons easily on either occasion.
We in Stouffer have resented the parking inadequacy before. We have resented the lack of police surveillance of our lot when Wilt attracts crowds of unwanted automobiles. We have resented the refusal of the police department to grant us campus parking permits and eliminate the mile muddy hike to class. But this is the limit. I received no ticket, but in outraged sympathy with those who did, I ask Chief Skillman to use some common sense and give us a break.
William S. Harries Kansas City, Mo. junior
Ellis Paul Loan Fund Established
Establishment of the Ellis E. Paul Loan Fund for financial assistance to students studying in fields of science and engineering has been announced by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
The loan fund, which will be administered by the Endowment Association, is the result of a $3,000 gift to The Greater University Fund by Mr. Paul, a graduate of the School of Engineering.
Mr. Paul was graduated from KU with a bachelor of science in civil engineering in 1931.
No other non-precious metal carries electricity as well and copper. No other conducts heat as well and at the same time is more resistant to rust, corrosion and wear.
Just The People, Or The Land Too?
A sign posted on a column in the lobby of Strong Hall announced a class meeting change in this way: "Africa and the Middle East today moved to Bailey, next door east."
"That's quite an undertaking" was the penciled notation beneath it.
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