THE KANSAN The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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Paul W. Harvey, . Editor-in-Chief
Edgar Markham, . Managing Editor
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RUSINESS STAFF:
Ralph Harman. Business Manager
R. K. Johnston, Assistant Bus. Mgr.
Joseph W. Murray. Treasurer
Curl Eddl. Circulation Mgr.
MEMBERS OF BOARD :
Ralph Spotts Earl M. Fischer
Roy K. Dietrich Henry F. Draper
Flavel Robertson George Bowles
Pearl Stuckey Stella Cornell
Louis La Coss Homer H. Berger
Entered as second class mail matter September 30, 1904, at the Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1909
THE COUNCIL COMMIT TEE HAS FINISHED.
The special committee appointed by the Chancellor to draw up a constitution for a student council has finished its task and is ready to report the product of its work for the consideration of the student body. Just the exact status of the council, its powers and prerogatives, can not be determined by rule and square; the work to be done by the council is abundant but at the same time more or less vague. The committee realized that it was impossible to define the exact position of the council in relation to the different University elements, and so the constitution was made with a certain vagueness that permits expounding and developing in a manner best suited to the future needs of the student body.
Strict numerical representation of the schools was considered the best plan of apportionment and the petition system was adopted as a means of destroying fast factional lines in University politics. Enough freedom has been left to allow a legitimate political activity, for the committee realized that by killing all politics all election enthusiasm might be stifled and the success of the council imperiled from the very first. By running the nominations by the petition system and separating the schools factionalism will be reduced to a minimum and the political activity will be healthful and natural.
The proposed constitution doubtless has many shortcomings, but these can be rectified by the council as soon as it is in working order. The student body will not make a mistake if they adopt the plan to be submitted. The quicker the council is elected and gets down to definite business the sooner will the ultimate success of the scheme be achieved.
The Lawrence Gazette calls on the Chancellor or the board
of regents or the University council to institute a reform by "preventing unpubescent youths of the University from publishing alleged newspapers; purporting to state the opinions of the authorities." The Gazette's anxiety to break over the high wall it has been building between the University and the town in order to give the Chancellor some gratuitous advice is due to some plain talk in The Kansan about the way in which some people of the town regard the students only as fit subjects for their exploitation. The Gazette remains steadfast in its mission of fighting a lot of things it thinks it sees but which aren't really there. As a matter of fact the Kansan does not pretend to voice the opinions of the University authorities except when those opinions are enclosed in quotation marks. Any other opinions are those of the editors and of the student body. It may seem strange to papers like the Gazette that after having the wool pulled over their eyes for so long a time the students are waking up to the fact that they are being grilled in many ways by the enterprising money changers of the town, but such is indeed the fact.
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The contest for The Kansan cup was a success, considering the fact that it was the first thing of the kind ever pulled off at the University. Probably the trophy will be given annually to the prize kicker on the football squad and it should aid materially in the development of talent in the kicking line.
University Notices.
The Buck Club will give a party this evening in I. O. O. F. Hall.
Y. W. C. A. annual banquet in Robinson Gymnasium, Saturday, April 17.
The tryout for Sophomore debating team has been postponed to Wednesday night, April 21.
Freshman track tryout on Monday at 4:30 on McCook for the mile, half mile and broad jump.
The first Fine Arts graduate recital will be given by Bertha Kilworth, Thursday evening. April 22nd, in the chapel.
The French department will present "Le Point de Mire" Saturday night, April 24 on the Robinson Gymnasium stage.
The American Optical Company has offered a $100 prize for the solution of a problem in marking spectacle lense. For details see Professor Robert K. Duncan.
A recital will be given by the students of the organ department in Fraser Hall, Tuesday at 4:30. Students of the voice and violoncello departments will also take part.
ANOTHER PRIZE OFFERED
Set of Books for Best Paper on Commission Government.
The Edward Thompson Company of Northport, Long Island, N. Y. offers each year a set of American and English Cyclopedias of the Law, valued at $240 to the law student of the University of Kansas who prepares the best essay on some subject assigned by the faculty of the Law School of the University. The question for this year is, "Is the Commission form of government advisable for cities of the first and second class in Kansas?" The maximum length is three thousand words. Manuscripts are to be handed in to Dean J. W. Green by May 15.
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