Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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The fact that fines were owed, too, was only a slight sur- prise. To many students, evading a book fine was an indoor sport second only to TV or bridge. The shocker came when the library, tired of indifference, sought and received higher echelon backing. The university adopted a get-tough policy and students owing fines or books were not to be permitted to re-enroll for the spring semester until the debt was crossed off the ledger. This occasioned a frantic hunt for missing books, climaxed by an exhaustive search of fraternity houses by one of the Greek governing boards. Library oliicials, intoxicated by the heady wine of cru- sade publicity, dispatched further releases to the campus press regarding the practice of library card lending, and in so do- ing, revealed the suspected fact that a third of Drake's en- rollees did not even possess library cards. VVhen time came for spring registration, however, all but a few of the wrong- doers had settled accounts and most of these squared things via a special table in the registration line maimed by the library staff. Scarcely had the library matter died down when on the ldes of Nlarch money again got banner headlines in the Dellmlzic. VVith spring incipient, the student body's thoughts had. turned to outside recreation, after the indoor confine- Chill spring fog, symbolic of many a gradua+e's uncertain fu- ture, enveloped couples as they made the long, leisurely dorm- ward wall: ment imposed by winter. Drake's body of titular student governors, the Student-Faculty Council, sought funds which it thought had been set aside in 1953 for future construction of campus tennis courts. But although the money had been saved in good faith and petitioned to be set aside by the 1953 council, its successors were unaware that the surplus funds had gone where seemingly every department's surplus funds go: the treasure cache of the Student Fees Allocation com- mittee, from whence, like Limbo, there is apparently no return. The newspaper branded the five hundred dollar amount as missing, which from the students' standpoint, it was. But then the Delphic characteristically added, with more candor than tact, that the funds had become enmeshed in university red tape. Administration ofhcials, momentarily confusing student journalism with public relations, rapped the editor's action in printing the story and held that the headline would create an unfavorable impression of the school. In the paper's next issue a letter to the editor appeared with the university business manager's seal aflixed. The letter spelled out the administrati0n's side of the wrangle and attempted to set forth the meaning of the word missing and phrase uni- versity red tape as the school officials dehned it.

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