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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 23,1964
ASC Finances
The ASC treasurer has reported that the All Student Council will probably end the year $300-$400 in the hole.
How could this happen and does it matter?
THE UNIVERSITY APPROPRIATES to the ASC a fixed percentage of student activity fee receipts (about $.28 per student per semester) plus special allotments for such ASC-supported organizations as People-to-People.
At the budget session last October, the ASC voted $5,117 of its $8,300 appropriation to other organizations. The original request of $3,583 for the ASC itself was cut by $400 at the session.
A system of order voucher forms and authorization by the ASC treasurer keeps track of ASC expenditures. The treasurer began the year, he reports, with a deficit of $107 and about $250 worth of unpaid bills from the year before. Several unforeseen expenditures, such as $150 for the Conference on Higher Education in Kansas, will keep the budget from being balanced this year.
Then there are those who are ready to yell
SOME STUDENT POLITICIANS support the "national debt" theory of ASC deficit. In other words, there will always be a student body and a student council. So the ASC can keep running up a "bookkeeping deficit" that would never need to be paid.
"Irresponsibility" at the outgoing officers because the balance won't come out $0.00.
RAYMOND NICHOLS, vice chancellor and financial adviser to the ASC, explained the situation quite clearly. He said the University expects the ASC to live within its budget. It is possible that a small deficit could be incurred before the business office realized that the organization had gone over its budget. But as soon as it is known, the treasurer would be called in for a conference with the vice chancellor. Nichols said that only in cases of real emergency would additional funds be granted.
The ASC will probably start next year with a small deficit and a couple of hundred dollars in unpaid bills, similar to this year's situation.
IN ORDER TO LIVE within its budget next year, the ASC should consider the following suggestions: Ask the University for a larger appropriation, in view of the expected deficit, new projects, and increased costs. Allow more leeway for unexpected expenses, at least more than the $100 miscellaneous fund in this year's budget. And try to keep a closer check on and tighter control of ASC spending.
Hopefully, the ASC will solve its money problems next year, for fiscal responsibility is one of the most important aspects of responsible student government.
— Margaret Hughes
The People Say
We're Sorry
Editor:
This campus has dodged issues long enough. As an institution in the heart of the Midwest, the University of Kansas has been partially shielded from many of the burning issues of modern America. Such things as the peace movement and movements against HUAC and the McCarran Act have really not affected KU at all.
But we, the marchers in the demonstrations, are convinced that there is a wrong to be righted on this campus, even if it arouses the anger of such people as the authors of these letters.
Harvard, Berkeley, Wisconsin and other schools have groups of dissenters on their campus. Now Kansas joins these schools in that there is an active dissenting group on its campus.
Other campuses, because of active groups of students and faculty, have been greatly affected by many of these movements. These campuses include the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Michigan and others. These great universities have all had their active and sometimes not so small groups of people who were concerned with political and moral issues.
We are sorry that you do not like us; we are sorry that you find our motivation suspect. But if they can picket and protest at Harvard, Berkeley and Wisconsin we have the right to do the same thing at KU. Again, we are sorry you don't approve of us but it looks like we are here to stay.
Chris Ruhe Wilmette,Ill., senior
The most important issue today, civil rights, has also been actively contested at these schools. Much to the chagrin of some people, the University of Kansas has not proven to be immune to the civil rights movement. These people view the demonstrations of March 21st-28th as evil and disrupting to their way of life.
As an active participant in these demonstrations I am sorry that we have upset and alienated some people, for example the two dubious authors of "The People Say" letters in the University Daily Kansan on April 1. I am sorry that we have rocked your boat.
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Virginity Test
Editor:
It has come to my attention that the dean of women has been having difficulty in meting out justice for immoral behavior by women
students. The sin which is at issue here is disobedience of the closing hours decree. Although Dean Taylor has shown remarkable ingenuity in trapping offenders she has been somewhat frustrated in her attempts to direct "justice" and promote attitudes of virtue and chastity.
The university rules seem to indicate the following alternatives: expel the girl, put her on probation, release her with no penalty. This set of alternatives is applicable only to clearly cut cases.
Since most of the situations encountered have been quite complex, the relationship of the rules and any particular case has been rather obscure. It is evident that some procedure is needed which will provide a basis for the establishment of clearly cut guilt or innocence.
I suggest that the person in question be sent to Watkins Hospital for a virginity test. This would take only a short time and could be covered by the student health fee. With the information from these tests, the correct course of action can be easily and comprehensively defined. Those who fail the test would be immediately expelled. Those who passed would be immediately released.
I believe this plan would eliminate the frustration which comes from being unsure as to what measures should be taken and which prevents Dean Taylor from deriving full satisfaction from the execution of her duties.
A great deal of the expense of catching these girls, e.g., long distance phone calls, could be saved by the adoption of this plan. This money could be used to establish a scholarship fund to provide financial reward for those who pass the test. I believe that the reverence of virtue and chastity could be bolstered in this way.
Larry Ben Franklin Salina sophomore
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Wolf Cries
Discrimination, quality. What do these words really mean? Fick a definition, any definition to suit a particular humanity façade. They're all popular, so none can be wrong. Any day now may be their last. They're worn out. The English department is probably already hemorrhaging over them.
Editor:
In contention with Friday's editorial on the dictatorial parking permit increase and the "suggested" tuition hike, here is a bone you can chew for a while. Did you ever consider the fact that residents of this here state are mandatory taxpayers and that a portion of the
mandatory rate goes to support the thinking factories? And may I be so prejudiced to ask where you got the little ole idea that non-supporters should be placed on the same list with the avid taxpayers? It's not only in this here corn patch that native sons and daughters are given priority over out-of-staters. Just you look at the surrounding fields. And when you hollar "Discrimination!" or unfair like a seven-year-old you might hear an echo say "You're cheating!"
Now I'm not for a price increase in anything, much less like the way the parking permit fees were increased or for Chancellor Wescoe's tuition fee increase suggestion based on the old ché蚀 that a high price is the only assurance of quality. (Speaking as one of the herd, I can't see the cool, clear water for the dust.) If his assumption is true, what happened to the pressurized unification policy that theorized the greater the number using the same facilities the more abundant the materials to be used?
The ones who are discriminated against are the students with a limited number of hours per semester. These students are usually married or have to entirely foot their higher education bill, but by far the most are married. They pay a high price for their endeavors in acquiring a higher education. The married student is greatly limited in the number of hours per semester. If a man, he usually has to work full time or supplement whatever loan he has to provide for his family. If a woman, she is also limited in the number of hours because her role as housewife has to be fulfilled to a certain degree before she can undertake academic work.
The married students are not bemoaning the fact that it will take longer to reach their goals or have any intentions of blaming anyone for their handicaps. Most are glad to have the available opportunity to continue their studies. They do have a lot of determination and must be fairly competent that they will someday reach their goal.
For a tuition fee comparison let's take a student working toward a B.A. teaching degree (128 hrs.), who is limited to 8 hours credit per semester: non-resident, $4,592; resident, $1,952. Compare these figures with a student capable of 16 hours credit per semester: non-resident, $2,296; resident $976. This comparison is based on the fee raise for the '63 fall semester. Who is and will continue to pay the most for an unjust hike in tuition or otherwise? The wolf cries were heard but I can't believe either knew what they were wailing for.
P. J. Spencer
Lawrence sophomore
"Guess We Made It Again, I Hope"
Please, Mr. Williams No More Comedies
Tennessee Williams is not known as a writer of comedies—and it is easy to understand why.
Most of this occurs or is explained in the first five minutes. From then until the end of the two-and-a-half-hour play, nothing much really happens. The two couples (surprise!) are reconciled to the tune of a Crosbyan "White Christmas."
Strangely enough, last night's production was fairly enjoyable. Although the "funny" scenes amount to about 15 minutes total, the philosophizing and satire that Williams includes brighten up the play.
Take the plot of the current University Theatre production of "Period of Adjustment."
A HONEYMOON COUPLE who have just spent their wedding night at the Old Man River Motel, he in the bed and she in a chair, descend upon an old Army buddy, whose wife has just walked out on him. On Christmas Eve yet.
CHARLES SCHMIDT, Dixon, Ill., graduate student, got off to a shaky start by over-playing the slightly tipsy Ralph. Sobering up, Schmidt gave a fine portrayal of a man snared in a six-year trap of a father-in-law/boss who proposed to him, an unattractive, sex-hungry wife, a sissified son, and a Spanish-style stucco cottage in a shaky suburbia.
Gigi Gibson, Independence junior, cast as the bride Isabel, has played several dumb-broad roles. She excels in them. A sheltered student nurse from Sweetwater, Texas, Isabel parades around in a pink peignoir until the audience wonders how in the world George can resist her.
But George has problems of his own. Bruce Owen, Lawrence graduate student, plays the self-professed lady killer who used to entertain the painted women of Tokyo by teaching them English. George met Isabel in a St. Louis hospital where he was being treated for a strange palsy. Fearing impotence, George makes Isabel miserable by man-handling her and then charging her with coldness. Owen was convincingly nervous and belligerent.
SEVERAL OTHER ACTORS are worth mentioning: Ann Runge, Higginsville, Mo., graduate student, as Ralph's repentant wife; Jo-Anne Smith, Wellington junior, an over-shrill matriarch; and Paul Broderick, Overland Park sophomore, an over-stuffed blow-hard.
The set was disappointing: the Spanish-stucco-suburbia should have beat the audience over the head.
But the real fault of the play was the way it dragged. Perhaps at a quickened pace, the comedy would have been more forceful.
— Margaret Hughes
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