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NEA Says Colleges Can Hold All High School Graduates
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—The National Education Association (NEA) has reported that there is room in some college for every high school graduate despite increasingly tight competition for entrance to "prestige institutions."
In a pamphlet entitled, "A briefing for Parents: Your Child And College," written by experts on college admissions, NEA aimed at allaying fears of parents that their children wouldn't get higher education.
"IF FAMILY HOPES are pinned on one of the highly competitive colleges, there may be some cause for concern," the report said. "But you don't need to lose too much sleep for fear that increasing enrollments may crowd your child out of college altogether.
"Somewhere in the nation, there is still space in an accredited college
Paul Ingemanson, Topeka senior and president of the Interfraternity Council, said recently that the IFC has changed the dates for men's rush week.
"The change." Ingemanson said, "is due to the fact that the orientation period is being pushed up, and will begin Saturday, Sept. 8."
IFC Changes Rushing Period
Next year rush week will begin with train dates on Monday night, Sept. 3, and will conclude Thursday, Sept. 6.
IN THE PAST, rush week has started with train-dates on a Wednesday night and ended on Saturday.
Orientation period previously began the Monday after rush week. Ingemanson said he did not know why the orientation period had been moved up.
DICK KELLER, Lawrence junior, and Mary Fassnacht, Overland Park senior, of the Panhellenic Council, are the general co-chairmen of Greek Week.
Other recent IFC activities included the announcing of Greek Week committee chairmen. Greek Week will be Mar. 18-24.
QUEEN—Marcia Kyle, Colby junior; Jon Morris, Kansas City junior; and Steve McNown, Lawrence sophomore.
The committee chairmen are:
RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE Peggy Martin, Parsons junior, and Steve Stotts, Prairie Village sophomore.
SCHOLARSHIP BANQUET
Barbara Buecking, Shawnee Mission
senior, and Carl Peck, Concordia
sophomore.
EXCHANGE DINNER — Brooke Curran, Shawnee Mission sophomore, and Dave Cain, Overland Park sophomore.
INTERFRATERNITY SING—Betty Carpenter, Kirkwood, Mo., sophomore, and Bob Herchert, Webster Groves, Mo., sophomore.
SPECIAL EVENTS — Sarah Graber, Hutchinson junior, and Carl Martinson, De Soto junior.
GREEK WEEK PROJECT — Sue Troja, Overland Park junior, and Dave Huffman, Hays junior.
Faculty and staff members are invited to attend an information and preliminary organization meeting concerning a University Credit Union at 7 p.m. tomorrow in room 206 Summerfield.
Credit Union to Be Discussed
CHARIOT RACE - Bill Anderson, Park Ridge, Ill., sophomore, and Jim Warner, Lawrence junior.
Eugene Wilson, dean of admissions of Amherst College, Mass., said it was a mistake to put too great importance on getting a child enrolled in a "prestige institution."
for every high school graduate," wrote S. A. Kendrick, a vice president of the College Entrance Examination Board.
James Jukes of the Kansas Credit Union League in Wichita; M. E. Sunderland of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Kansas City; and Charles A. Harkness, staff personnel director for KU, will be present to provide information and answer questions.
He said "business firms and graduate schools select students because of what they are and what they have done not because of the collegiate label they wear."
Salinger Novel Is Book Forum Topic
Mrs. Stuart Levine, instructor in sociology and anthropology, will review J. D. Salinger's latest book, "Frannie and Zooey" at the Modern Book Forum at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
Parents Issue Edict; Son Commits Suicide
WEST LOS ANGELES—(UPI)—A 17-year-old adopted boy committed suicide, police said, after being told by his parents he had to move out of the family guest house if he failed to maintain his straight "A" average.
Officers said Fred Rauckman, 17, apparently shot himself in the head with a 22-caliber rifle by attaching a piece of string to his toe and the trigger. He was a student at Santa Monica city college.
Epiphany Dinner Wednesday
The Cercle Francais will hold its traditional Epiphany dinner celebrating the Fete des Rois, or Feast of the Kings, at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Curry Room of the Kansas Union.
At this dinner is served the "galette," a cake in which is baked a feve, a tiny porcelain figurine. The person who finds the feve in his cake is crowned king (or queen) of the feast, chooses a consort, and presides over the festivities.
The feve and crown used in the Cercle dinner were presented to the club by a former French student on the hill.
The price of the dinner is $1.55.
Persons should sign for the dinner in Room 103 of Fraser before Tuesday evening.
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of grants-in-aid or shared taxes going to local governments; or they may enact special legislation to treat a problem, a practice which facilitates rural dominance in tax control," the brief states.
Backers of reapportionment of the state legislature according to population base their argument on the fact that the present inequality denies some citizens the equal voice in government which is guaranteed under a democratic system of government.
Examples of tax inequality cite include the retail sales tax, which was enacted to pay the state's share of the cost of public assistance programs. Yet, the portion which is returned to the counties is based 50 per cent on population and 50 per cent on property value.
The Hutchinson News, in an editorial, made this statement:
THIS MEANS THAT metropolitan counties receive a smaller proportion of funds as compared to their populations than do the rural counties, despite the fact that the tax is derived largely from urban areas and is intended to aid welfare costs experienced largely in the same urban areas.
each man should have the same representation. The fact that a man lives on a farm or runs a store in a small town should not entitle him to more power in the legislature than the person who works in a factory, runs a bank, practices medicine or keeps house in a large city."
"In a democratic government.
Other people feel that the legislature should not be reapportioned according to population in both houses. Whitley Austin, editor of The Salina Journal, maintained that the Senate should be reapportioned according to population but that the House of Representatives should be based on counties.
The News, however, does not agree. A News editorial summed up the basic argument of those who favor reapportionment on a population basis. It said:
IN THIS WAY, he suggested, the House would be able to represent minority interests, particularly rural, western and agricultural interests. He said this system would go along with the system of checks and balances under which the United States operates.
"The people should be given control—people, wherever they live, whatever they do for a living, however much or little property they own. To deny that is to deny the basic premise of democracy."
PIONEERING
Somewhere out there, beyond the realm of man's present understanding, lies an idea. A concept. A truth.
Gradually, as it comes under the concentration of disciplined minds, it will become clear, refined, mastered. This is the lonely art of pioneering.
In the Bell System, pioneering often results in major breakthroughs. Planning the use of satellites as vehicles for world-wide communications is one. Another is the Optical Gas Maser, an invention which may allow a controlled beam of light to carry vast numbers of telephone calls, TV shows, and data messages.
Breakthroughs like these will one day bring exciting new telephone and communications service to you. The responsibility of providing these services will be in the hands of the people who work for your local telephone company. Among them are the engineering, administrative and operations personnel who make your telephone service the finest in the world.
BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM
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