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University Daily Kansan Wednesday.Sept.18,1957
Toward Good Housing
Stouffer Place-A Forward Step
The University has now completed construction of some of the Stouffer Place apartments. They provide married students and their families with new, modern, and clean apartments.
Until now, too many KU students and their families have had to pay high rents for undesirable quarters. Often families, due to limited finances, have been forced to spend their college days in cramped, sometimes ill-heated, and almost always over-priced apartments.
Too often children were forced to play on the cold floors of basement apartments. Seldom were washing facilities provided. Storage space in apartments converted from private homes was usually limited. Many times the housing was some distance from the campus, necessitating a long walk or commuting by car, an additional expense. Adequate play areas for children were frequently non-existent. The added cost of utilities was often staggering.
The construction of Stouffer Place has gone a long way towards eliminating some of the living hazards while pursuing an education.
They appear to be roomy, clean, and well ventilated units. Most residents seem to be satisfied
with the existing storage space. Washing and drying facilities are provided for with coin-operated machines. There is some complaint that the coin- operated machines are overly expensive, but time will tell if this expense is out of line. Actually they are operated cheaper than most commercial units.
Stouffer Place is close enough to the student's classrooms that the need of commuting is erased, thus lessening his expenses. A playground area for the children will be completed in the near future.
Stouffer Place is still new. Complaints are few. It must be remembered that these apartments were not designed as luxury apartments. If they had been they would have been priced completely out of the student's budget.
It is a great step on the part of the University in recognizing that a considerable portion of the students are married and must be considered in the University's planning for the future. In the end the apartments' value will be measured by their utility. From all appearances, they have satisfied an urgent need.
John Eaton
International Jabberwocky
The Russian's increased stubbornness at the London disarmament talks following their announcement of the creation of an inter-continental guided missile shows that negotiations between nations are not grounded upon reason. "Progress" has taken the reins, and man is now guided by his missile.
Man's present plight over to atomize or not to atomize, as embodied by the London disarmament talks, is another in a continuing series of events illustrating how easy it is to miss the point.
The babble of disarmament has grown so large that disarmament itself appears to have become the end, rather than a means to end war. The diplomatic prattle at London regressed to a high-level bullfest comparing national switchblades.
The contemporary reasoning seems to be that the cause of war is the weapon. This discounts the age-old method of choking an antagonist to death. This reasoning followed to a conclusion, would dictate that each man would have his hands severed at the wrist and his toes blunted.
The desire to wage war is not based upon possession of weapons, but upon a state of mind Some of the basic causes of war, such as greed, fear, envy, and misunderstanding have been forgotten as man runs a footrace with his beloved machine.
The idea that the discontinuance of the armaments race will contribute to the halting of world
conflict is sound, but it is the beginning of the toughest job the world will ever face - the creation of a lasting peace.
Man is not preparing for a future, but rather is postponing an end. Diplomats appear to be men not in control of their technical forces, but guided by them. Each innovation in weapon-making upsets the delicate balance of diplomacy. This says little for man and points to the victory of machine over reason, and consequently, man. The policies between governments are not based upon reason, or even attempted understanding, but on the present level of technical intelligence.
If and when disarmament is accomplished, man is liable to sit back and say, "We've destroyed man's ability to wage war." This is nothing but international cheerleaderism.
The desire to wage war is a hardy weed and not easily uprooted by diplomatic exhortations, objurgations, and snorts. The fact that John Doe in Zarah, Kan., doesn't have a gun means little to Abdul who stands barefooted in the sand and contemplates a haywire jigoistic slogan. It is of such tinder that wars are made, and no amount of diplomatic nincompoopery will stave off basic hatreds.
It must be granted that diplomatic agreements are the place to start, but they are just the beginning of a terribly long road to world peace and understandment. A preoccupation with the means to peace can lead to utter disregard of the end, namely, world peace.
--John Eaton
Claude - A Censored Cadaver
The Kansas City Star has censored poor, pitiful Claude, one of the latest additions to the chain of characters which pass through the life of Dick Tracy.
A picture of Claude, ensecned in his icehouse penthouse, was deleted from a 4-panel series of Dick Tracy in a recent edition of the Star.
The deletion was probably made in an effort to prevent publication of material which the Star considers to be in bad taste.
Claude doesn't present a pretty sight. The mere fact that he is dead, let alone the fact that icicles drip from his sallow chin, eliminates him from any consideration as Mr. America.
His absence from the comic strip didn't hurt the story much, either. All the censored panel contained was an off-stage quote from his wife,
the gal responsible for Claude's present low temperature.
Nevertheless, we had grown fond of Claude. In a comic strip which has seen prune faces, B-B eyes and dwarfs, Claude was a genuinely new twist.
At least he doesn't prance through the strip sticking his nose into young lovers' affairs. Not once did he strut across the Sunday comic section with a chest full of Air Force service ribbons. He may never wake up, but it's a cinch he won't wake up in a newspaper office, clad in a negligee.
Claude may have made off with $200,000, but he'll have a long time to repent while sitting in that cold-storage room. He really may be a nice fellow. His personality just needs to be a little warmer.
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Job Hunting Made Easier
FARGO, N. D.-(I.P.)—Students at North Dakota State College will come to school a week earlier in the fall and will go home two weeks earlier in the spring as the result of the College Council's adoption of the Student Senator's recommendation to revise the college calendar so that students seeking summer employment will be able to do so.
The revision calls for the dismissal of classes for the spring quarter about the end of May.
"The Star Spangled Banner" was officially made the National Anthem by Congress in 1931.
Ivan IV the Terrible had himself crowned as the first tsar of Russia in 1547.
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Welcome Students
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- US choice Round
- B-B-Q Beef and Ribs
- Baked Lasagna
- Baked Ham
Plus 40 varieties of tempting buffet dishes
A special offer is made to all KU students coming in pairs. This Wednesday only we are offering all KU students coming in groups of two or more a special 25c per person discount. You must have your Student Identification card.
There is no limit to the number of times you may go through our Buffet line.
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