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Nine-Tenths of a Man Is Not Enough, Luckily
By Dennis Farney
"This means there is more than half a girl for each man. That's not quite enough yet, but we're gaining!"
This enthusiastic comment, overheard from an unidentified student as he walked to class, probably sums up the feeling of most KU men regarding the present menwomen ratio on campus—an unprecedented 1.9 to 1.
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THE NEW RATIO, due largely to a higher than usual percentage of women among the incoming new students, is the lowest in the University's history, except for the World War II years.
Beginning in 1934, when the ratio first passed the two-to-one mark, conditions steadily worsened for the men—and consequently improved for the women. The two-to-one ratio held until the outbreak of World War II, when the odds evened up for the comparatively small number of male students left on the campus.
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Immediately after the war, however, veterans returning to school under the GI bill sent the ratio skyrocketing again. It reached 3.21 to 1 in the fall of 1946 and climbed to an all-time high of 3.4 to 1 in 1948. After this peak year, it declined to its present level.
HOW DO KU MEN regard the new ratio? Random interviews indicate a general, but modest rise in morale, typified by Charles Edmonds, Lawrence sophomore.
"It looks good to me," he said, "just so long as it keeps improving. But I didn't think it was too hard to get a date before, since there are men on the campus that never date. When you exclude them the ratio isn't so bad."
Contrasting with Edmonds, however, was McKee McClendon, Wellington senior and undoubtedly the most optimistic of the students interviewed.
"It's as good as one to one now," he said with a laugh. A girl can't date nine-tenths of a man!"
ASC May Owe Some Money
By Karl Koch
University Daily Kansan
The All Student Council, long a politician and purse-string holder for several campus organizations, may have over-extended its funds. But Jerry Palmer, chairman of the ASC, says there is nothing to the rumor that some of the Council's funds have been misappropriated.
In an interview last night, Palmer explained that a pile-up of outstanding bills had left the status of the treasury a question mark, but that there was no suspicion that any money had been lost.
"WERE STILL NOT sure of the total amount of our outstanding bills, or even if we have all the bills in," Palmer said. "Our treasurer (Michael Thomas, Kansas City, Mo., senior) is checking and will have a full report at the ASC meeting Tuesday.
"We're not overdrawn right now." Palmer said. "Let's say the possibility might exist."
THOMAS, WHO TOOK OVER as treasurer Monday, said he had just checked the ASC books, and that the bills through August had been mailed to the University Business Office for payment. "I don't think the Business Office would pay our bills if we ran out of money," said Thomas. "They won't overdraw on our treasury."
Thomas said he has not yet determined the total balance in the treasury of the ASC. He said the complete figures will be available on Tuesday. ___
Donor Attractions
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Public contributions toward Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts have been solicited on a price tag basis—from $5. for 3 feet of dancer's practice bar or 118 bricks, to $5 million for the auditorium of the Metropolitan Opera House.
In between, donors may buy an adjustable piano bench for $40, an exit灯光 for $150, a seat (with his name on it but no promise of occupancy) for $1,000, or the Met's wig shop for $15,000.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — (UPI) — The University of Tennessee's new Frank H. McClung Museum has been given an amateur archaeologist's life-time collection of Indian artifacts.
Gets Collection
The collection of the late H. F. Wenning, filling about 100 small boxes, includes specimens of pottery, chipped stone tools and ground stone tools. Most of them were found by him in the Chattanooga area, but some came from Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Kentucky.
One-third of all U.S. children use television regularly by the time they are three years old.—Univ. Stanford study
Wilson Suggested For Judgeship
Paul E. Wilson
Prof. Wilson teaches criminal law, evidence and trial practice. He is also author of a manual for prosecutors in Kansas and is now writing a paper on civil procedure.
Paul E. Wilson, associate professor of law, has been recommended for appointment by Rep. Robert F. Ellsworth, R-Kan., for a Federal District Judgeship of a Kansas district.
He has served as first assistant Attorney General of Kansas and argued the first Kansas school segregation case in the Supreme Court of the U.S.
The Rev. Alexander Jurisson, executive secretary of the denomination's Division of World Relief and Inter-Church aid, said until now the Diocese of South Florida has carried the burden of aid to Cuban refugees.
He said all other dioceses could help by making housing and employment available to Cubans and by sending donations to the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief.
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Episcopalians across the nation have been asked to help resettle refugees from Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Fired Army Man Returns to U.S.
Cuban Appeal
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, who was removed from command of the U.S. 24th division in Germany because of political activity, is due to arrive in Washington tomorrow, the Army revealed today.
REPORTS FROM U.S. headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, said Walker will fly home at his own expense. These reports said he was expected to confer with Sen. Strom Thurmdon, D-S.C., who has been demanding a Senate investigation of what he calls a "conspiracy" to muzzle anti-communist views of military leaders.
Walker was removed from command of the 24th Division and officially reprimanded following an investigation of charges that he had attempted to indoctrinate troops of his division with extreme right-wing political views.
A report of the investigation made public by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara said Walker attempted to influence the votes of servicemen by advising them to consult the recommendations of a conservative organization on congressional elections.
Thurmond has cited the Walker case as an example of what he called the "muzzling" of military officers by the Pentagon.
Chairman Richard B. Russell, DGa., called the Senate Armed Services Committee into closed session today to consider Thurmond's demand for a full-scale $75,000 inquiry by the committee into his charges.
THE REPORT ALSO said Walker acknowledged membership in the John Birch Society.
Senate to Review Anti-Red Program
WASHINGTON - The Senate Armed Services Committee voted today to "study and appraise" defense Department policies on the airing of anti-communist views and statements by U. S. military leaders.
The committee approved, with some changes, a revised resolution offered by Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., which described the study as an appraisal rather than an investigation.
Thurmond said he was satisfied with the committee action. He said sponsors of the change construe the word "study" to have the same effect as ordering an investigation.
Meanwhile, the Army said that Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, who was removed from command of the U.S. 24th Division in Germany because of alleged political activity, is due to arrive in Washington tomorrow.
An Army spokesman said only that Walker is returning to this country "on leave." Reports from Germany said he would fly home at his own expense and was expected to confer with Thurmond.
Staving Afield
SAN FRANCISCO—(UPI) California fish and game department men have a gnawing problem. Beavers, placed in areas where water conservation is needed, are straying beyond their prescribed areas and nibbling at prize trees.
Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1961
Still Good at 65
By Norman Martin
SAN FRANCISCO—(UPI)—The oldest law school west of Chicago has a policy in keeping with its historic significance: it hires only professors who are over 65.
The rule is iron-clad with 83-year-old Hastings College of Law, a branch of the University of California system.
The faculty is called the "65 Club" and it includes six former deans of major university law schools.
THE OLDEST MEMBER is Merton L. Ferson. He is 75. Before coming to Hastings, Ferson was dean of the University of Cincinnati Law School for 20 years. The youngest active professor is 68. He is George E. Osborne, a Stanford University law instructor for 35 years.
The policy grew from direct necessity in World War II when Hastings had trouble finding young professors of law.
Even with law professors 65 and over, the school's dean, David E. Snodgrass, prefers that they have at least 25 years experience.
Wanting to expand, Hastings turned to retired law professors. The first two or three turned out to be dedicated men, "with none of the usual diversions such as pregnant wives and country clubs," Snodgrass said.
HASTINGS has not hired a law professor under 65. Snodgrass, who constantly wears a battered, green eyeshade, said his program has worked out so well that he will keep it up as "long as possible." But, he said, he has a feeling that the "tide is running against the practice of hiring people over 65."
SINCE 1948, HASTINGS has not hired a law professor under 65.
"There's no smooth road ahead for the 65 Club," he said. "A tide is running against the program. By accident the state legislature may destroy us."
The accident, he said, may come out of legislative action on compulsory retirement laws or social security laws.
"Retirement is a vast wasteland," he said. "I've learned by this program that people do not all age at the same rate.
The notion that a man is through just because he has celebrated an arbitrary number of birthdays is idiotic.
"We are not opposed to compulsory retirement. It is probably a good thing for schools that can afford it, and it certainly is to Hastings' benefit."
TO MANY OF THE professors, being recalled from retirement to Hastings is like a fresh drink from the fountain of youth. In addition to retirement pay from former jobs, the professors draw an average of $15,000 a year each from Hastings.
Snodgrass said the students seem pleased with the program, and the professors, especially, seem pleased.
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"The profs aren't as firm with the students as they could be," he said. "Sometimes I think a student needs to be flunked and they want to teach him instead.
"But the big thing about my old friends here is the satisfaction they feel in being needed. They know how to give value received."
Despite the advanced age of members of the "65 Club," there is only one man on the campus the students call "the old grouch," Snodgrass said.
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"That's me. And I'm still younger than all the rest." He's 67.
Worth Repeating
... the classroom experience must pose a threat. The student must be threatened; he must be driven outside himself; he must be compelled to question himself and his values and the values of those among whom he lives. The classroom should undermine the security he feels in family, church, fraternity, or whatever the group of which he is most vitally a part. This is not to say that the classroom should breed insecurity; it means that the student should be thrown into a state of creative tension in which the foundations for the only valid security can be laid, that security which rests on individual thought.—N. F. Tennille
Our daughters must be taught that the ideal female is not a male, that a woman must find fulfillment within her own biological needs and that sacrifice and dedication are foundations of the home.—Dr. Morris Gross
S. U.A. Membership Meeting
Thursday, Sept.21 7:30 p.m.
Ballroom - Kansas Union