Money dictates housing rules
By MARILYN ZOOK
The Federal Government recently approved a $2.7 million loan to KU for construction of a new residence hall to house 680 students.
With the five residence halls on Daisy Hill operating at 85 per cent of their capacity, the University had to prove that additional housing would be needed in the future in order to receive such a loan. The University also has to make assurances that it will be able to repay the cost of the building.
One way KU assures repayment of the loan is to agree to put into effect any housing rules required to fill the halls. Currently the only housing rule requires that all KU women who are not seniors or are under 21 years of age must live in university-approved housing.
UNIVERSITY-approved housing includes sororities, residence halls, and rooms where university regulations are enforced.
Last October Kansas State University enforced a rule that all freshmen men live in university residence halls. If necessary, a rule could be made for KU men, who so far have no restrictions on where they live.
However, J. J. Wilson, Director of Housing at KU, does not feel that it will ever be necessary to enforce these rules on men in order to fill up the residence halls.
If the university fails to pay for the halls it becomes a legal matter because of the provisions set aside for new residence halls.
In 1955 the legislature of the state of Kansas approved what is known as the Quarter Mill Dormitory Tax Levy. This means that a certain amount of taxes is set aside for the construction of residence halls.
IN ORDER TO USE this money the University must meet two requirements. First, said Wilson, the University cannot house more than 50 per cent of its students in residence halls and still use the funds. Secondly, at least 50 per cent of the construction funds must come from other sources, such as gifts and revenue bonds.
Presently KU pays 90 per cent of the cost of its halls through revenue bonds. Here is where the Board of Regents enters. In selling revenue bonds, the Regents must in turn provide security to the bond holders. The Regents, along with the University, pledge
to make the necessary rules to fill the dorms.
KU has five women's halls and three men's halls. In addition it has one University coed hall, McCollum. Three of the women's halls are for freshmen, who are required to live in halls.
When a woman finishes her freshman year, providing her grades are good enough, she has another choice available to her, that of pledging and living in a sorority house. Women are also allowed to live in scholarship halls, which usually have about 30 women in each.
PRIVATE HALLS fit into the university housing scheme like sororites. They have no commitment to the university for a fill up guarantee. These halls effect University plans to some extent, but not greatly, Wilson said.
Wilson says KU makes available all this housing because KU needs it. He also says KU's housing regulations are the most liberal ones which can still fulfill the pledge to the bond holders.
Many women, however, feel that the university is not being fair when it imposes housing regulations on women only.
"In an apartment study habits can be arranged around the individuals living there," Cathy Martin, Columbus sophomore, said, "while studying has to compete with the noise of 400 other girls in a residence hall."
ANN HEATHER. Shawnee Mission sophomore, echoed Miss Martin's view.
"Living conditions are suited to two or three girls in an apartment," she said. "In residence halls the conditions are geared to the 400 girls living there."
Dean Taylor feels that KU provides more choices in living groups than most universities. Besides the economic factor, tradition has a lot to do with the fact that women are required to live in approved housing.
"Supervised living is one of the major reasons women got into higher education in the first place," She said. "Tradition says that women should have some sort of protection.
"It's like a brain tumor," she said. "You can't even get at the problem from the outside."
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Speech-
Students selected by classmates and instructors of the 52 Speech I classes have competed for the finalist round. Twelve finalists are presenting speeches. Six more will give their speeches tonight.
This evening's speakers will be: Georges Bokamba, Leawood junior; Judith Dixon, Excelsior Springs, Mo., sophomore; John Lavelle, Philadelphia, Pa., sophomore; Rosemary Luthi, Topekafreshman; Robert Kearney, Olathe freshman, and Effie Volkland, Bushton sophomore.
Glass night owl
NEW YORK—(UPI)Bottle-making machines are night owls. The machines that make more than 30 billion bottles and jars a year in the United States run faster at night because it is cooler then, reports the Glass Container Manufacturers Institute.
GCMI explained that while glass in its rigid state is an exceptionally strong material, bottles at temperatures above 1,000 degrees F. collapse of their own weight. The molten glass from which bottles are formed is 2,000 degrees or more. Bottle-making machines, therefore, must be run at speeds that allow the newly formed containers to cool down at least to 1,000 degrees before they are ejected from their molds. That is why machine speeds can be stepped up in the cool of the night.
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