white elephants
A look to the future...
Let's take a moment to look to the future at KU. When we return in the fall we, the few of us who are not cultivating rice paddies will be greeted by many new things. New Fraser should add to the decor of the Lawrence skyline . . . like a swollen knuckle adds to the decor of a fist.
KU's newest and biggest white elephant, Naismith Hall, will open its door waiting for the in-rush of residents . . . and waiting . . . and waiting . . . and waiting.
TO ADD TO the attractiveness of counselors will be KU's own Miss America (at least that is what most of the state press call her). You know she is the one who made Kansas the land of beautiful girls . . . maybe she can do the same for KU freshman women.
And then if that is not enough for the celebrity-minded, there is always the possibility that Dougie Humphrey will invade these Republican lands . . . could this be substantial proof that it will be a losing year for Democrats all over in 1962?
For the sports-minded is the new look in KU football . . . which according to the public relations propaganda is better than ever. Then the new stadium and the student section farther removed from the playing field . . so the students won't have the St. Valentine's Day massacre early this year. Last year they added the fencing . . . to protect our "life-time" contract.
CENTENNIAL YEAR will be over and things will be back to normal. The chancellor will be back on his regular travel schedule . . . only gone every other day. Carry Nation will have departed . . . to be replaced by KU's own Peyton Place. And the Centennial carnival will revert to the duckless Spring Fling.
Other building activity will remain to flourish. Spencer Library will become KU's latest block-buster . . . at least with its design they can't say Strong Hall is backwards anymore. Phillips Petroleum will build a residence hall taller than any of the present ones . . . they can't be outdone by some insurance company. Several more Greek groups are building new houses in the new frat row . . . they can't let the TKE's hold off Daisy Hill all by themselves.
IF AL MARTIN has his way the Kansas Union will be in a new location in the fall . . . he is still looking for a truck big enough to move it. Vox Populi, not to be outdone by its adversary . . . is still trying to get support for its parking garage it promised last fall.
And finally COSA will try to do a better job performing its duties (whatever they are) . . . they promise not to lose any more secret directives on its trip across the hall in the second floor of Strong.
By Robert Stevens
—Illustration by Richard Geary
"Reform school, hell! There's only one way to take care of punks like him."
opinion, fact and fancy
The way to its heart may be through its stomach
By Bill Robinson
West of the main campus of this university is an area, currently utilized as a residential section of the university, that represents perhaps the greatest potential yet made available to the university. The area, commonly called Daisy Hill, is the home of some 25 percent of the student body of the university, a population which should represent more potential productivity than any other on campus.
POTENTIALLY. So far, there have been only a few, in terms of percentages, who have ventured to leave the cement and brick citadels and enter the buzzing life of Campusopolis. Why? The answer, at least a partial answer, lies in the perplexing and as yet unanswered question of motivation. How do you motivate over 3,000 people to leave their homes, homes which they may or may not like?
This question has been haunting deans and administrators at colleges and universities across the country for years, and at KU since the early 1950's when we entered the residence hall business in full force and seriousness. The question is not easily answered, neither can it be ignored for lack of an answer. The question remains unanswered due largely to the multiplicity of personalities, needs, and desires to be found in any residence hall housing from 400 to
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"DON'T WORRY ABOUT THEM! CHAPTERS WE SKIPPED — I BELIEVE I VE COVERED THEM ADEQUATELY IN THE FINAL."
1100 people. What might appeal to one person will disgust another, bore another, and seem absurd to yet another.
The residence halls cannot, at least not as far as this writer has been able to determine, select who shall live in them. The only criteria for residence hall living is generally acceptable behavior and relatively prompt payment of the fees—other than that, the residents are not asked to meet any specific requirements. A residence hall cannot enjoy the privilege of selective living, and in many cases
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a wing or floor is composed of strangers rather than friends. The residents assigned to a room are frequently total strangers at the beginning of the semester, which is not an altogether bad situation, but which makes it actually impossible to plan any sort of community living prior to the beginning of a semester, and if hall officers and administrators try to wait until they know individuals better before planning any sort of group interaction, they soon discover that the amount of time required is definitely prohibitive.
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IT WOULD SEEM that the very size of the residence halls is their major obstacle to motivation. This, however, is not true. There are other factors which make collective living in a residence hall technically disruptive or impossible. Morale, a factor which frequently parallels motivation, is a constantly fluctuating factor of residence hall life. It is difficult to become really enthusiastic about hall traditions that are all of two-years-old, especially if the traditions began as well-planned and organized activities; a group that knows in advance that it has been programmed to receive a tradition
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generally rejects the activity entirely. Another difficulty.
essential to the administration of the halls. Further, there is no satisfactory way for even the most creative dietician to feed 1100 men the way they want to be fed. The residents will complain about any and all aspects of the food, and as they complain any existing morale is gradually destroyed. The way to a residence hall's heart might well be through its stomach.
The food in our residence halls is a common bone which is picked by nearly everyone in the halls. In essence, the food is not of drastically low quality; neither is it of a consistently high quality. It is very discouraging to have to wait in a long, rude line for thirty minutes before getting a dinner that is no longer warm; there is no way to avoid the lines and still maintain the basic economy es-
(Next Tuesday, more on Residence hall living—advantages and shortcomings.)
Yarborough wants help for violent crime victims
ATHENS, Ohio — (UPI)— The innocent victims of violent crimes should not have to pay their own medical bills while the states provide hospital, psychiatric and rehabilitation care free to the criminals. Sen. Ralph Yarborough, D-Tex., said Monday night.
"Some aid should be given to injured victims by the state which had failed to prevent the crime or furnish the victim adequate protection," the former trial judge declared in a speech in the Kennedy Lecture Series at Ohio University.
Yarborough said states should pass bills providing for compensation of actual expenses which victims must pay. He suggested a maximum of $25,000 be set. The veteran Texas lawmaker said nearly a quarter of a million Americans each year are victimized by criminals, but only one state provides compensation to those victims. New Zealand and Great Britain also have compensation plans, he said.
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