Show Students Starve For Education Kansas u Finds Fin Is Kans University Faculty Shocked at Appalling Conditions Lawrence Kans IP IP Steps are being taken by officials of the University of Kansas to prevent self supporting self supporting students starving themselves in m order to obtain their educations A faculty committee was appointed appointed appointed ap ap- pointed recently to survey the conditions conditions conditions con con- of such students and one member of the committee reported We were appalled to learn that many students are eating only two meals a day and those meals extremely extremely extremely ex ex- light Others were found trying to live on 15 cents a meal eating a sandwich or a piece of cake or drinking a cup of coffee and never varying this diet Still others are trying to get by ay on toast and coffee and nothing else for breakfast and then attempting attempting at at- tempting to go the rest of the day I without eating a thing These students generally get so hungry about midnight that they go out and buy a hamberger sandwich or something similar The The university after receiving the report of the committee issued issued is issued is- is sued a special bulletin to men and women doing their own cooking telling them what foods were es essential essential es- es and should be included in in even the least expensive diet One ambitious but poverty- poverty stricken student was found to be living on a quart of milk and a sweet roll a day His physical condition became such that he was forced to go to the university hospital hospital hos hos- pital for treatment i The investigating committee found however that when the students students students stu stu- I dents really know how to prepare menus and cook their food properly proper proper- ly they can get along well on very little money One group of five men men was found cooking its own meals at 1 25 to 1 50 a week per perman perman perman man and eating nourishing food at that These were doing fere doing Intelligent In- In n tel igent marketing the committee found instead of trying to skimp on their meals They bought their milk by the gallon bought day old day old bread and got their vegetables as near as possible to the end of the day when the markets were glad to sell leftover leftover leftover left left- over stocks at very low prices prices |