From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 12, 1915:

• “The statement that the University does not need a new building is unwarranted and without the facts, according to a statement issued by the University authorities today…. ‘Since the last building was authorized in 1911, the department of journalism, for example, has grown from 30 students to 198, and today is jammed into three low basement rooms, two of which are used for a printing laboratory. Students are turned away daily from news laboratory work because of lack of room. Again, since the last building was authorized in 1911, the legislature has imposed upon the University state service work, drug testing, food testing, water analysis, etc., to such an extent that twenty class rooms have had to be commandeered to take care of these new departments. This additional work has eaten up the new rooms provided by the legislature four years ago. It leaves the University cramped to inefficiency with buildings erected to meet needs six years ago…. These facts are presented to the owners of the University in the same spirit that a conscientious workman would tell his employer that he had dull and insufficient tools with which to do a given job.'”
• “The [Fire] Chief’s new car has been taken from the paint shop and now bears a coat of flaming red in place of the coat of black which it bore when it was taken to the shop. It compares well with the other motor fire apparatus which has been recently purchased and is now in use. The drivers at the department are not yet sufficiently acquainted with the big truck to put it in regular service, but it will be in steady use in a few days. The company’s man is still here with the truck giving the men instruction in the control of it.”
• “The students of Kansas University are working for peace in every way possible. The latest movement is the organization of a ‘Peace Club.’ The first meeting of the kind will be held tonight at the Sigma Chi house and all who are interested in the matter are invited to be present…. The object of the organization is to promote the peace movement and to distribute peace literature. This is to become a permanent organization and all who are interested are invited to attend.”
• “Fire, which was caused by a defective flue, did about $200 damage to the residence of Luther Wilson at Maple street, in North Lawrence, last night at about 8 o’clock. The fire department was delayed in leaving the fire station on account of breaking the tongue out of the hose truck just as they were starting. It was necessary to take the tongue out of one of the other wagons and put it in the hose wagon. The change was made quickly but seemingly it took a long time when the fire was raging in the house.”