UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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VOLUME XIII.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANU ARY 6, 1916
NUMBER 70.
STUDENTS SPEAK OUT
Ask Senate to Give Them a Chance to Discuss Disciplinary Measure
To the University Senate, theRespectfully recommend that theexam be closed bythe closure of dances be altered to read "The Altar" and thencollected on Friday night and attwelve o'clock on Saturday night,then the exceptions noted in therule.
Finally, that the opinion of a similar conference of women students be acertained and given would
Further, that if your body does not care to make the recommended change, the students be permitted to vote on the question.
Forty student representatives of various undergraduate organizations voted overwhelmingly to pass a dissident dance rule of the University Senate, and voted to present the resolution printed above at a meeting held last night at the request of Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women. The people who arranged it by Mrs. Brown, was to form some sort of a social committee composed of students to co-operate with her in the administration of her duties.
Typewritten slips, containing rules of social etiquette, and the new dance rule were distributed, and after a show talk, Mrs. Brown invited交会.
WHY ASK SEVENTH
Linda Thompson, president of the Men's St. John's College, asked the purpose of the meeting, and why student interest was desired, when the Senate had refused to follow the expressed opinion of a similar meeting held when the dance rule was pending. At the meeting of which Thompson spoke, held in the office of the Chancellor early in December, the rules were discussed, and students exercised closelong hour on Saturday and a one o'clock closing hour on Friday nights. This was also the recommendation of the Senate Committee on Student Interests. From this Mrs. Brown disdented in a minority report, asking that dances be ended at midnight, because they would not be allowed 12:20, and the young women were not afforded proper protection. The minority recommendation passed.
John Gleissner presented the resolution, asking its passage in view of the general dissatisfaction with the government's legislation governing dances, and because students had been given no opportunity to discuss the question.
Speeches in support of the petition followed. Mrs. Brown invited frank discussion from all the representatives, and with one exception they spoke in favor of presenting the student viewpoint to the Senate. Various reasons were offered, chief among which seemed to be the objection to student affairs without taking into consideration the student desires in the matter. The representatives also objected to the minority report of Mrs. Brown, on the ground that they were perfectly able to provide safe conduct from dances for the women of the University. Mrs. Brown explained that the desire protected lives and morals of the "seem" came a slur in her name, but for protection from the "man in the alley."
The dance rule to which the objection was offered was passed by the Senate December 7, solely on the recommendation of Mrs. Brown's minority report to the report of the Student Interests Committee. It follows:
Before the representatives spoke on the resolution, Mrs. Brown asked also if the men did not think the views of the women should be regarded. In this, all agreed with similar conference and their views will be determined.
That all dancing parties close at 12 o'clock, excepting the Junior Prom. Sophomore Hop, Lyrin Scrium, and the so-called forms of regular organizations to be deemed interested by students on Student Interest, which shall close at 2 o'clock.
Objection was also offered to the fact that student opinion, ascertained beforehand, had been disregarded, as was the major opinion of the Student Interests committee. It was also pointed out that if the women wanted the rule, as a member of the committee asserted, they would leave the dances at night for the evening and that the objection "too much dancing" would have no weight, since dances would begin earlier.
WHAT WILL WOMEN SAY?
The alteration asked will, if granted, maintain the same rule, except that Friday night dances will continue until one. The exceptions listed were not in the rule that existed before December 7, special permission for dances after one o'clock being necessary.
NO MORE SPECIAL PERMISSION
The resolution will come before the
With the coming of snow and winter, comes the thought that perhaps here in Kansas, too, the skating fad may take hold of those who enjoy out-door sports. Many of the eastern cities are closing their dance halls because their former patrons are now enjoying the dancing pavilions instead of the terpsichorean art.
A few of the more studiously inclined, are anxious to have the wintry weather last ever quiz week. Better grades, they claim, will surely result.
This picture shows how K. U. men and women took advantage of ice weather on Potter Lake and the Kaw last winter.
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PEP BILL FOR 1915 IS $91
City Dads Present Expense Account to the Men's Student Council
The second tea to be given this yea by the Women's Pan-Hellenic for an incoming sorority will be held February 12 at the Chi Omega house. The tea will be held to welcome the new chapter of Alpha Xi Delta.
If prices in "pep" rallies continue to soar as rapidly in the future as they have this year, rallies from now on will have to be few and far between. The city council has presented a bill of ninety-one dollars to the Student Council to cover expenses of rallies held in Lawrence up to date.
"My plan," he added, "is to give each member of the committee a number of names of sophomores and let him collect a small amount from each during registration days for his final exam. In these there will be any use to start work now, because the sophomores will be busy preparing for their finals."
The sophomores will start a vigorous campaign the first of next semester to collect the sophomore memorial fund. "Every sophomore will be taxed a small amount," said Hugh T. McGinness, chairman, this year. We believe we can increase the last year's fund, which was $40 or $50.
A meeting of the committee will be called the last of next week, and arrangements will then be made for eating and a definite time set to tart.
You see, various persons have put in claims for damages to the city for property destroyed by over-enthusiasm and wrongdoing that make good these damages. The mayor in turn has asked Leland Thompson, president of the Student Council, to do what he can toward having the students make up this sum to the city.
SOPHS PAY MEMORIAL
DUES AT REGISTRATION
"While I don't think the students are responsible for all these damages," said Leland Thompson, "yet I believe we should be to squere ourselves with the city. There are nearly 2000 men students in the University and a small amount from each would pay off this debt. If the bill had only been presented before it was made, the law would have made it up that night. It is hardly the business of the Student Council to take care of this debt, but I'm trying to figure out some way to get the students together on what matters, and I wish they would think about it."
SCHOOL FOR MINERS
Extension Division May Open Specialized Training Classes at Galena
For the benefit of miners who cannot enjoy the advantages of specialized training at a school of mining, the University may establish extended programs in the trustees of Southeastern Kansas. Whether or not this will be done depends upon the results of the investigation now being carried on by H. J. Ingham of the extension division with the University; the requirement is sufficient demand for the course.
Just before the holidays, Prof. C. L. Grider, of the department of mining engineering, made a special trip to the zinc regions to look over the situation. Although he found a limited demand for special instruction in mine, he knew that the demand was sufficient to justify the expense of founding extension classes.
At his suggestion, the extension division is sending out a number of circular letters which, he hopes, will reveal the exact state of affairs. In case the outlook is found to be favorable, the University will offer weekly seminars on campus, probably at Galena, a town centred located in the zinc districts. An instructor from the University will have charge of the classes.
The card is sent from Christina and is postmarked on December 22. Pringle sailed with the Peace party on the Oscar II, December 4. The party was held at Prince Peter was president of the International Polity Club and was named as representative for the University on the trip, by the Chancellor.
PRINGLE ENJOYS HIMSELF
AT CHRISTIANIA SWEDEN
Kenneth W. Pringle, who went as a member of the Ford peace party to Europe, has written a post card to one of his friends here at the University reception at Christiana and the good time that he is having there.
"We are meeting with great enthusiasm here," the message reads, "we had meetings both last night and this morning here received the American students this afternoon. This is a great place for winter sports. I am going coasting tomorrow. They coast down an eight mile course in eighteen minutes, then ride back most of the way on the trolley cars."
Coach Herman Olcott, who was married in New York on December 22, is expected to return to Law. With his bride the last of this week.
Chancellor Strong Says Instructors Should not Keep Classes After Whistle
"DISMISS ON TIME'
"Classes should close prompt on time," said Chancellor Strong this morning in regard to his views on the "close-on-time" campaign launched yesterday by the Kansan. The students must also dislike the maternity the whistle blows. There can be no question about that, and I think there would be no question if the matter were brought up in a faculty meeting. For my part I am decidedly in favor of promptness at the closing and opening of classes."
"If students and faculty will cooperate," the Chancellor continued, "far better results will be obtained. You'll see that when on time—and they are entirely justified in this request—they ought to come to class right on the dot. Then no one will lose what he is entitled to; you will anyone be imposed upon."
And Here Are The Guilt
Prof. W. L. Burdick
Prof. W. E. Higgins
Prof. H. A. Millis
Prof. C. A. Dykstra
Prof. Margaret Lynn
Prof. Peter Willett
Prof. E. M. Hopkins
Prof. J. E. Todd
Prof. H. V. E. Palmblad
Prof. Howard T. Hill
Prof. W. H. Twenhofel
Miss Sarah G. Laird
Prof. Hannah Oliver
Prof. M. Oliver
Dean J. W. Green
Miss Alice Winston
Prof. H. O. Kruse
Prof. Arthur MacMurray
Prof. Alberta L. Corbin
MINE LIFE SAVING
APPARATUS EXPLAINED
ART IS ON THE BUM IN MICHIGAN TOO
Dr. J. J. Rutledge delivered an illustrated lecture Wednesday in Marvin Hall. The slides dealt with the methods of mining, with reference particularly to securing safe working conditions. The United States has a few laws that with life saving apparatus. This apparatus is ready for application when a mine accident occurs, and thus greatly lessens the number of deaths in mines. Dr. J. J. Rutledge is in charge of the work in the mine at Rocky Mountain States including Kansas, Utah, Oregon, Washington and California. The slides included pictures from all of these states.
Julian Street, et al, say art is on the burn in Kansas. But this time Kansas laughs last. Last week in Michigan a picture entitled "The Blue Pool" which was recently exhibited at the University of Kansas, was to be put on display. The workman who aung the picture thought it might look better upside down; so upside down it hung.
Then in came the art critics, connoisseurs, and portly gentlemen in tow of their wives who dotted on art. At Alonso there was one woman, But one afternoon a woman walked up to the picture, "Turn that picture right side up, it gives me a headache that way." And the woman was placed as it had been in Kansas.
Exeunt criticis, connouisseurs,
porly gentlemen, and their wives,
and
THE STUBBS BOYS AGAIN
To the Editor of the Daily Kansas:
I notice by the Kansas that the Stubbs boys have gone to Princeton. Your paper seems to think that Kansas does not provide good enough instruction for the man who has the money to go elsewhere. You seem to take pleasure in reminding students here that they are not provided with the ordinary conveniences that surround students in other institutions of higher learning in the country. You go so far as to state that this glorious, much-ludged, progressive state of Kansas spends too little per student for instruction and laboratory facilities. You state that the man with one thousand dollars worth of property spends only fourteen cents toward the upkeep of the University of Kansas. When I read these things, I could not understand what they meant.
But it is all true. As a student at this school, I wanted to know where we stood. My investigation showed me that in 1914, the tax payer in the state of Kansas paid on one thousand dollars worth of property 13.04 cents toward the University of Kansas. You were a little too considerate last night in stretching the amount to fourteen cents. For the education of fifteen thousand students at the University, Agricultural College, State Normal, Fort Hays Normal, State Manual Training Normal at Pittsburgh, School of Mines, Olathe School for the Deaf and the Kansas City School for the Blind, the man with a thousand dollars worth of property spends only 40.86 cents. These are actually figures worked out from the report of the state auditor.
The Kansan bewailed the fact that on'y $176 were spent for the instruction of a K. U. student.
That seemed quite a little sum to me until I looked around to see what other universities of our rank were spending. Wisconsin spends twice as much, as does Illinois, California, and Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Washington, Ohio and 22 other states provide more than does Kansas—this great state with educational ideals.
Yet Kansas is out of debt.
100 Kansas is out of debt.
When I hear this talk about Kansas leading, I get sick at heart, I am a loyal Kansan, but I am ashamed of the fact that my University is twenty-first in the land and that my state ranks twenty-sixth in general education. I have a reason to be ashamed.
And so the Stubbs boys have gone to Princeton!
UNIVERSITY MAY FINE
STUDIES WHEN CUT CLASS
Senior.
Another tale of woe. Chancelor Strong, upon recommendation of the University Senate, has appointed a committee from the Deans of the University to investigate the number of cuts which are being charged against University students. Inquiries will be made as to the method in use at the other universities and colleges', and a definite plan will be adopted to cut down the cuts. Some colleges give double cuts and others fine the students. Of these all will be come up for discussion. The decision of the committee will be given to the senate at the next regular meeting and a system of penalties may be adopted.
Anne Gittins, Y. W. secretary, left for Manhattan Wednesday evening to be one of the leaders at the Raymond Robins campaign held there this week.
RICH MAN. POOR MAN!
All Classes of Parents Send Their Sons to K. U. Mr. Stubbs Excepted.
A BISHOP AND A SOLDIER
When ex-governor W. R. Stubbs took his two sons to Princeton this week, K. U. lost a chance to add another specimen of paterfamilias to the varied collection of parents. A glance over the occupations in which fathers of K. U. students indulge in family activities, a fastidious mother who has high social ambitions for her sons,for she might find that in class he sat next to a carpenter's son, for there are several of them here. Or it might be a janitor's son. But again he might be the son of a capitalist or of a musician who has won an award. For K. U. students come from a most miscellaneous group of parents.
The enrolment cards in Registrar Foster's office offer some very interesting facts. The parents of 2473 students pursue over fifty different callings. There is only one member of the army, while there are two missionaries, forty-one peace-loving pastors, and one bishop.
The economic chasms between the parents are vast. There is one capitalist who has sent his offspring to the University, while sixty-six laborers and mechanics are represented. The students, brokers, and nineteen clerks and stenographers. Thirty-five parents are stockmen, with one musician, one architect and three band directors. There are only thirty teachers, twenty-two professors, and one chancellor who teach children an education. Only one watchman finds that he can give his child the advantages which he was perhaps denied. Perhaps the most interesting fact is that 475 parents are farmers and their children who attend college. Among the students' fathers are 238 merchants and millers and thirty-five manufacturers.
DOCTORS AND UNDERTAKERS
Only one nurse has a child in the University, but her professional allies, the doctors, dentists, specialists, and opticians have 101 enrolled. Their opponents, or helpers, the undertakers number only three. Only one author and one moving picture are represented. Orphans are rather numerous. The twenty students declaring they have no parents. Nine students have decided that single life was not the best and have signed up as being married. Three hundred and sixty-three K. U. students did not tell what their parents are doing. Of the 151 who are retired, most of them are farmers; the rest most business men, lumbermen, bankers, ministers, and dairymen.
The order of the leading groups of parents of K. U. students follows: first, farmers; second, merchants; third, retired citizens; fourth, real estate, loans and insurance agents; sixth, railroad employees; seventh, railroad employees; eighth, contractors, builders and carpenters; ninth, engineers.
K. U.'S FAMILY TREE COMPLETE
The complete classification follows:
farmers, 475; merchants, 238; retired,
151; no occupation specified, 363;
stenographers and office clerks, 19;
lawyers, 73; judges, 13; real-estate,
insurance and abstracts, 117; engrav-
ing materials, 8; publishers, 18;
lawers, 50; newspaper editors, 18;
superintendents and principals of
schools, 10; teachers, 30; professors,
22; salesmen, 24; stockmen, 35; fire-
man, 1; brokers, 11; lecturers, 1; carp-
enters, 2; orphans, 29; married, 9;
tillands and surgeons, 88; under-
takers, 31; pharmacists, 41; traveling salesmen,
45; dressmakers, 3; tailors, 9; man-
agers of different concerns, 31.
Wholesale dealers, 14; manufacturers,
35; engineers, 42; bankers, 55;
contractors, 42; hotel owners, 10; me-
sieurs, 48; laundry cooks, 4;
laundrymen, 1; nurse, 1; aid de-
ters, 20; lumbermen, 20; railroad em-
ployees, agents, etc., 65; domestic
workers, 50; oil men, 15; draymen,
4; liverwormer, 4; musicians,
1; dentists, 1; author, 1; bishop, 1; moving picture
owner, 1; post office employees, 22;
architects, 1; chancellor, 1; missioni-
ces, 2; army, 1; watchman, 1; band
employees, 3; municipal
employees, 6; government employees
15; policemen, 1.
THE CALENDAR
Thursdav
7:00—Mech. Eng. Society. Home of Prof. A. H. Sluss.
7:00—Men's Glee Club, Fraser Hall.
7:30—K. U. Debating Society, 313 Fraser Hall.
8:00—University Debating Society,
110 Fraser Hall.
Friday
8:00—Morning Prayers, Fraser, Prof. C. A. Shull, "Sunset."