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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 16, 1957
Higher Education
The inflationary trend seems to be creeping over the campus. It's noticeable in the rising cost of tuition and fees.
Oldtimers (seniors) will remember that when they were freshmen, the tuition (in-state) was only $165 for a school year. The next year it cost $7 a year more. Last year there was another $9 jump. This year you are paying $25 a year more than last year—$38 a year more than a student paid for the 1954-55 school year.
If the tuition continues to increase at the rate it did between last year and this, by 1961 the price of a year at KU will have gone up to $587 for tuition and fees alone. It is improbable, but not impossible that the increase will be that rapid. But undoubtedly there will be more increases.
How will this rising cost of education affect students on the Hill? Will Jayhawk Boulevard become a street trod only by the wealthy? Will Mount Oread really become a "Snob Hill," as it is popularly referred to by our country cousins at K-State?
Perhaps the dear Sunflower State really needs the extra cash. Cigarette or liquor taxes couldn't be increased, for other taxpayers would scream. Next year is an election year and a lot of students are too young to vote.
An education is fast becoming a necessity. Scholars will meet the rising costs as long as they can afford it. Our legislators know this and seem to take advantage of it.
Maybe taxes aren't the real reason for the tuition jump. With the enrollment increasing rapidly, the higher cost of schooling could be a method of student selection. But our legislators know that brains aren't rationed according to wealth. Or do they?
There must be a sound reason for the rise in tuition. It would be interesting to know what it is. Sure, the surface explanation is that the state needs the money, but there must be a better place to get it than from college students.
As an example of downright calculated rudeness, this character tops them all.
Enrollment brought out droves of the species line-bucker, most recent candidate for Jerk Of The Week.
Jerk Of The Week
—Del Haley
He thrives on the crowd and the rush. His finest hour came last week as harried University officials and the IBM machine were trying to match up 9,300 students with an equal number of class schedules.
The line-bucker seems polite. He knows he can't force his way into a line, so he works something like this:
Ambling down a long string of enrollees, he spots an "old friend." They greet each other warmly, then strike up a rapid-fire conversation. As the line moves, the bucker strolls along.
The bucker apologizes profusely if he steps on your feet. He may even pick up your enrollment papers, which were spilled on the floor when he
bumped you. Then suddenly he is no longer beside the line.
Where did he go? Into the line of course. There he is, still talking rapidly and casting furtive backward glances to see if anyone spotted his infiltration maneuver.
Several persons may have seen the squeeze-in act, but due to a strange quirk of human nature, they don't do anything about it. Most may be too polite or too timid to start an argument.
The craving to get ahead in a line isn't confined to males. Some girls are expert at it. If he has any gallantry at all, what man will object if just one more cute little thing gets in ahead of him?
There is little hope that the line-buckers closed up shop with the end of enrollment. They'll be out in force at the football games and at the Union cafeteria.
The only solution to the problem is to close ranks on the pests.
Larry Boston
As you listed such vital statistics as your name, address and student number for the 100th time while going through enrollment, you may have thought it was merely a tiresome necessity.
'Y' Listings Should Go
But is there any reason why the YMCA and YWCA need to be listed on the student permit?
If the YMCA and YWCA are granted space on the permit, there are about 200 other campus organizations which should be given equal space. If that were done, the permit card might resemble a Sunday edition of the New York Times.
Both may be fine organizations, but indicating whether you are interested in their activities hardly seems a valid reason for being granted or denied permission to enter the University.
A form listing all organizations might be included in the enrollment papers. The two Y's could be listed on this. Otherwise, they should be taken out of the enrollment procedure.
Larry Boston
"LET'S SEE A COPY 'O YER GRADES—I LOST $168-" IN RENT LAST YEAR WHEN A PAIR 'O MY DUMMIES QUIT SCHOOL AFTER MID-TERMS."
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
The number of local-government units in Kansas has decreased 44 percent in the past 15 years.
With 6,207 units, Kansas in 1957 ranks fourth among the states in the number of local units.
Government Units Decrease
Over 5,000 Kansas school districts went out of existence in the 15-year period, accounting for most of the decrease.
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