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30 THE JAYHAWKER When construction is completed, three new emer- gency housing projects will accommodate another 310 single men and married faculty members. Under the east side of the stadium McCook Hall will house 64 men by November 1 in two dormitory rooms. Sunny- side addition, consisting of 186 four-room apart- ment s in 31 barracks type buildings, will house both married faculty members and students and single men by the start of the Spring semester. An H -shaped dormitory west of the stadium will house 160 men in single rooms by the end of November. Complete with maple floors and plywood walls, but without marble columns, this unit is the personal pride of Housing Director Youngberg. K. U. students, along with nearly everyone else, aren ' t writing any sonnets about their housing, but 9,000 of them have descended on Lawrence and vicinity and have found places to live. The Jay- hawker ' s present post-war home may resemble an army barracks or the hall closet back home, may be miles from the campus or may rent in the stratos- phere, but he can console himself with the thought Three makes a crowd when its study time at the Louis Kissinger abode in Sunflower village. that the situation won ' t get much worse and will probably get better. Students still unhappy about the situation and future prospects can always exercise that one of the four freedoms which permits griping. They can write their Congressmen; they can carry their troubles to the Housing Director; they can complain to the OPA; or in last resort, they can look up their old chaplain, and he ' ll probably hear their story and respond with words of comfort. That post-war dream house, or even a pre-war one, is still just a dream; and the competition from bowling allies, store fronts, war memorials and other non-housing construction is hard to beat. A complicating factor in the housing situation is the probability that without rent control many apart- ment and room rents would climb out of the reach of the average student. During the short lapse of price controls few rent increases occurred, but this lack of increases resulted mainly from the certainty that at least rent controls would be restored. The K.U. Chapter of the American Veterans Committee conducted a survey of climbing rents and attempted evictions during the OPA recess. This survey revealed scattered raises and threatened raises averaging 20% plus several cases of attempted evictions. If the pres- ent trend toward the lifting of price controls leads to the end of rent ceilings, students living in private rooms or apartments will face the costly prospect of bidding against each other for Lawrence ' s crowded facilities. Even with ceilings in effect, landlords have ap- plied American ingenuity to find more or less direct methods of ignoring them. Extra charges may be made for the furniture, use of electrical appliances, or other such extras. The landlord may require a deposit on the room, later to be forgotten, or may specify that the student ' s wife do a certain amount of housework to supplement the rent paid under the ceiling. In other cases the matter of ceilings has been completely avoided by failure to list rooms or apartments with the rent control office. These law violations can occur only with the co- operation of the student renter, although any intima-
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FALL NUMBER, 1946 31 Smith Hall takes up quarters in the old Unitarian church. tion of action on the dent ' s part usually results in attempted eviction. These evictions may be plished by the troublesome legal process, or extra-legally, again by using Yankee in- genuity to let the student know he ' s no longer come. Like enforcement of most laws, the effectiveness of rent ceilings depends on plaints from those who have been asked to pay ceiling rent. For students who fear the results of a direct complaint to OPA, the K.U. Chapter of A.V.C. has vol- unteered to report such violations to the local price control office. Although few, if any, students are completely sat- isfied with their post-war homes, the housing lem is most serious for married students, particularly those with children, and for negro students. Housing officials can emerge from a maze of figures and dict that all unmarried students may be able to find housing in Lawrence one of these days. But married students will be riding that bus from Sunflower lage for several semesters. Married students find that those little bundles of joy complicate the housing problem considerably and complete the farce of at- tempting to subsist on $90 a month of subsistence pay. To remain within the bounds of accepted language, the best thing to say about negro housing is nothing. As in so many other matters, the negro ' s lot in ing is not a good one, and adds weight to the conten- tion that equal rights for the negro is seldom found outside the Constitution. Finding a place to eat is also a problem for the negro student, since the only acces- sible source of meals for negroes in Lawrence is the Union cafeteria. Privately operated restaurants refuse to serve food to negroes, although local officials fully drafted them as equals into the armed forces. The unavoidable conclusion is, You were good enough to fight for me, but not to eat with me. Such a conclusion is not easy to understand, except for those who can say one thing and believe another. Everett Bell, President of the Negro Student As- sociation, has said about all that can be said about negro housing facilities in one word, Lousy. The average negro room or apartment is much less tractive than facilities for white students. Those who have the job of thinking over University problems might well give some thought to negro housing. As long as it remains at present standards, housing for our negro students will be one of our primary worries. Jdualion cc ' 11 g,e and at-di p27.62.4a44
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