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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Sept. 19. 1957
Remodel The Remodeling
The remodeling of Blake Hall was stylized this summer when contractors' bids greatly exceeded the amount of money available for the project.
About $330,000 is available to add another story to the old monster. However, the lowest bids on the job totaled $550,675.
At the latter price, construction costs, figured on a square-foot basis, would have exceeded those of the new music and dramatic arts building.
Now University building officials are in a quandary over what to do with the money. There are at least three alternatives:
1. The project can be abandoned completely and the money turned back to the state.
2. A new building can be built.
3. Remodeling plans can be revised.
Alternative No. 1 is no good. Blake would still
remain, unaltered, probably unused and ugly as ever.
Alternative No. 2 won't work, either. If only $330,000 is available, it certainly isn't enough for a new building if it isn't enough for a 1-story addition.
That leaves us with a scaled-down remodeling plan. If the profit-margin wasn't excessively padded on the contractors' bids, then the original remodeling plans were too elaborate. That means a revised remodeling plan should cut out all fancy construction frills.
Critics of campus architecture might agree that it would be worth $330,000 just to eliminate Blake's church-steeple roof.
Whatever happens, let's not let go of the money. Some improvement at Blake is better than no improvement at all.
Larry Boston
'Hep' Cows, Or 'Square' Cows?
(Editor's Note: English dairymen have discovered that by playing soothing music to their bovine charges milk production is increased. The following is an editorial from the London Times speculating on the effect this practice will have on the cow of the future:)
The dairy cow's taste for music, though it is barely a year since it was first properly recognized, is moving fast with the modern tide. A year ago the cows were content to have a piano in the milking parlor, with "The Dam Busters' March" as their favorite piece and the most productive of milk yields. But no doubt it was inevitable that the amateur family musician should be ousted by the mass-produced synthetic professional.
Now we find an enterprising farmer from the country advertising for a radio or radiogram "suitable for entertaining thirty poor young cows while being milked, day in, day out."
What is behind it? Have the cows reported to respond so well to the piano rendering of "The Dam Busters' March" become indifferent to its martial notes? Perhaps hearing it played on 730 occasions during the year has damped their enthusiasm.
If this be so, those who have lived next door to a child learning to play an instrument will readily sympathize. Or is it only that the installation of the piano has awakened an inherent appreciation of music among the ladies of the dairies and that they have evinced a wish to explore the wider field of the art?
At least it is up to the farmer who has advertised to keep case histories of his cows' tastes and their reaction to radio fare. The herd may prove to be awkwardly composed—half jazz fans, half lovers of the classics. It could pose a tricky problem. What he might gain on Humphrey Lyttleton (Jazz) he might lose on Vaughan Williams (Classical). Would he then have to try to rectify the position by exchanging, say, three "hep cows" for three "squares?"
There are wider implications. Demand is said to elicit supply. Will composers of "pop" tunes be aiming their talents at the milking parlor? The day may come when no eyebrows will be raised if some smooth tongued disc jockey announces, "And now for Daisy, of Stall One, Bluebell Farm, here is..."
Some music, waltzes perhaps, might prove too soporific to be useful. Swoon crooners would have to be avoided, but the energetic offerings of skiffle groups might have the churns overflowing. And the possible effect of rock 'n roll on the end product? Clotted cream? And where does it all lead? If last year it was a piano and this year it is radio, what next year? Television?
The Stomach's Demise
Lawrence is truly a gourmet's nightmare. A diner can consistently leave any place of eating and rely on becoming slightly dyspeptic.
This is a charge frequently thrown at the restaurants in any college town. It is a puzzlement why this is so. College students don't demand bad food. To the contrary, They usually go in search of good food when they do go out. A night out is an attempt to avoid the mass-produced hamburgers of our organized houses and other mutilators of potentially fine cuisine. The search is for naught.
When one finally finds a place he is racked with
hunger pangs and submissive enough that he offers no struggle when confronted with a subminiature shrimp hiding behind a browned, and slightly curling piece of lettuce.
The bellicose and apathetic manner of the waitress is another deterrent to gracious living. The effect of being transfixed by the stare of an impatient waitress is awesome and steels one for the test that follows.
Then the coup de maitre. The check arrives. The brutal fact that the quest for food was in vain strikes home. The student leaves, a broken man.
—John Eaton
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