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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 14, 1961
Kansan Policy
A regular reader of any publication has a right to be informed of the official policy of that publication.
The Kansas is a student owned and operated paper. The reader, as a part owner, has a double right to know the policies of his paper.
THE KANSAN SERVES AS A MEANS OF communication between students. It is sort of forum in which all are invited to participate. Only the laws against libel and the rules of good taste limit the student in the opinions he is invited to express in the Kansan.
All opinion articles will always appear on the editorial page of the Kansan. The editorial page is always found on page two of the Kansan, but often also includes part of page three.
The editorial page consists of two major sections: Editorials reflecting the newspaper's position on current matters and letters and features designed to inform and entertain.
THE TOP OF THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF the page, where this editorial is appearing, is reserved for editorials. The right hand side, the bottom and any part of page three will be occupied by features.
The Kansan editorial page policy is, briefly, to encourage cultural and intellectual life on the campus. Material reflecting these activities will always find a place on the editorial page.
At times Kansan editorials will speak out in agreement with a majority of the students on a certain issue or problem. There will also be times when Kansan editorials will reflect what the editors feel the students should think, not necessarily what they think.
THE EDITORS OF THE KANSAN CON- sider it their privilege, in a democratic society, to be able to guarantee that those who disagree will also be given a place on the editorial page.
Students may contribute letters, short stories, poetry, or essays. The Kansan's policy on letters was stated in an editorial Dec. 16, 1960:
"We strive to print every letter we receive that is in good taste and shows due restraint...
"WE HESITATE TO REFUSE TO PRINT A letter because we believe our readers have as much right to the space in this newspaper as we do. Their opinions are valued highly, and we hesitate to do anything that will cut off this important flow of material."
"However, this policy does not give license to the printing of attacks on personalities as distinguished from issues. ..
"Letters which do not meet the Kansan's longstanding specifications of good taste, appropriateness and reasonable length will be returned to their senders."
A special editorial page column is also available to those who wish to write anonymously. Articles in this column will appear under the headline, "Sound and Fury." Contributions appearing in this column must be directed at worthy subjects and should not be material that could just as easily be in a letter to the editor.
The Kansan editors hope that in the coming school year they will be able to provide their readers with an interesting commentary on issues of importance.
—The Editors
KU Concert Season Set
The following is the schedule of University concerts and recitals for the fall semester, 1961-62.
For further information, write or call the School of Fine Arts, extension 231.
SEPTEMBER
25 Mon. **University Concert Course,
Tom Sloan, Schuster, soprano,
University Theater, Suite 104
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
18 Wed. Faculty Recital Series, Reinhold Schmidt, bass-baritone, Swarthouh Recital Hall, 8:00 p.m.
23 Mon. *University Concert Course, Cleveland Playhouse in Shaw's "Arms and the Man," Hoch Auditorium, 8:20 p.m.
25 Wed. Fine Arts Recital, Swarthouh Recital Hall, 8:00 p.m.
29 Sun. Concert, Mu Phi Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Iota, Phi Mu Alpha, Swarthouh Recital Hall, 3:30 p.m.
1 Wed. Faculty Recital Series, Karel Blas, violist, Richard Anglett, pianist, Swarthout Recital Hall. 8:00 p.m.
6 Mon. Faculty Recital Series, Marie and Joseph Wilkins, soprano and tenor, Swarthout Recital Hall. 8:00 p.m.
10 Fri. *Chamber Music Series, Netherlands Quartet, Swarthout Recital Hall. 8:00 p.m.
13 Mon. Senior Recital Series, Johnson, ole Leancin Cauczoll, piano, Swarthout Recital Hall. 8:00 p.m.
15 Wed. Little Symphony, John Perry, pianist, soloist, Swarthout Recital Hall. 8:00 p.m.
20 Mon. Faculty Recital Series, Chamber Music Concert, Swarthout Recital Hall. 8:00 p.m.
27 Mon. Faculty Recital Series, Marian Leavell, pianist, Swarthout Recital Hall. 8:00 p.m.
29 Wed. **University Concert Course, Jaime Laredo, violinist, University Theatre, 8:20 p.m.**
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
DECEMBER
"WHEN I SAID GET YOUR CARDS—1 MEANT YOUR CLASS CARDS!"
3 Sun. University Symphony, University Theatre, 3:30 p.m.
4 Mon. Faculty Recital Series, Miriam Stewart Hamilton, soprano, Swarthout Recital Hall, 8:00 p.m.
10 Sun. University Concert Choir, University Theatre, 3:30 p.m.
11 Mon. Faculty Recital Series, Raymond Cerf, violinist, Swarthout Recital Hall, 8:00 p.m.
17 Sun. Christus Vespers, Hoch Auditorium, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m.
JANUARY
7 Sun. University Chorus, Hoch Auditorium, 3:30 p.m.
8 Mon. Faculty Recital Series, Theodore Johnson, violinist, Marion Jeremiah, Swarthout Recital Hall, 8:00 p.m.
15 Mon **University Theatre Series, "Jeanne d'Arc", University Theatre, 8:00 p.m.
16 Tues. **University Theatre Series, "Atlanta", University Theatre, 8:00 p.m.
17 Wed. **University Theatre Series, "Jeanne d'Arc", University Theatre, 8:00 p.m.
19 Fri. *Chamber Music Series, Quinolta, Swarthout Recital Hall, 8:00 p.m.
*Admission charge.
**Student admission by Identification Card; admission charge for non-student
Restaltis on the Memorial Carillon by
Rockefeller at 3 p.m.
and each Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Daily Hansan
University of Kansas student newspaper
Member Inland Daily Press Association. Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by National Advertising Service and USA News service. United Press International. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $5 a year. Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the University year except Saturday afternoons and examination periods. Second class postage paid at Lawrence, Kansas.
Founded 1889, became biweekly 1904,
triweekly 1908, daily Jan. 16. 1912.
Telephone Viking 3-2700
Extension 711, news rooms
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
Tom Turner  Manager Managing Editor
Tom Turner  Manager, Treasurer
Assistant Managing Editor
Smith, City Editor; Bill Sheldon,
Short Editor; Barbara Howell,
Solo Editor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Ron Gallagher Editorial Editor
Bill Mullins and Carrie Merryfield,
Assistant Editorial Editors.
RUSINESS DEPARTMENT
ISS DRAFT
Tom Brown              Business Manager
Don Gergelig, Advertising Manager;
Bonnie McCullough, Circulation Manager;
David Weins, National Adverting Manager;
Classified Advertising Manager; Hai Smith, Promotion Manager.
"Well. They're Back"
From the Newsstand
The Conservative Credo
By Senator Barry M. Goldwater
I'm told that one of our greatest national magazines has a list of adjectives which is reserved for individuals the magazine seeks to downgrade. A second list is consulted when the magazine is disposed to be friendly to the subject covered.
Thus, if the magazine approves of an individual, they describe him as husky; if they disapprove, they would say he is overweight. The individual who has the editor's friendly approach might be tenacious or persevering, where someone on the black list would be stubborn and mule headed.
I'm reminded of this particularly when writers attempt to equate conservatism with a backward looking viewpoint. Conservatives are supposed to wear high celluloid collars, practice a superior attitude toward their contemporaries and to spend most of their time lounging in club chairs reserved for the very rich.
The true conservative is concerned with opportunity as contrasted to the liberal's concern with security. Actually, the conservatives are more venturesome, more forward looking, more willing to inquire into the unknown than is the liberal whose horizon is generally limited by a fear of the unknown, by a timidity when confronted with hardship or danger and by a purely materialistic viewpoint.
Conservatives oppose the monolithic unions because their very bigeness diminishes the stature of the individual.
NOTHING COULD be further from the truth.
Edmund Burke described the conservative credo when he said: "To each his own," meaning that individual man is entitled to develop his own particular talent to its maximum productivity without interference from government, big business or big labor.
Conservatives oppose the graduated income tax because it limits opportunity and destroys initiative.
THAT THE AMERICAN Constitution is a conservative document can scarcely be denied. At least 80% of the language is devoted to limiting the powers of the central government.
A surgeon who is drafted to be the administrative head of a hospital will, if he accepts, be required to devote more time to administration than to the practice of his particular skill. A physicist, who performs brilliantly as an employee, starts his own firm and becomes merely another good administrator.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act is likewise a conservative document, because it was intended to limit the accumulation of monopolistic power in the hands of big business.
Conservatives are far from satisfied with the status quo. For example, we deplore the hierarchy in modern society which decrees that the administrator or executive is to be more richly rewarded than the practitioner of an art or profession.
We are determined, as best we can in this imperfect world, to protect and perpetuate the sovereignty of the individual, because it is only as individuals that we are capable of expressing the nobility God intended man to achieve.
The 26 so sity o day men, ident
A corporation cannot exhibit love for its fellow man, but an individual can. Only the individual can exemplify honesty, ability, intellect, love and truth.
WHEREVER SOCIETY limits opportunity, conservatives stand in opposition. Wherever the developed economic system acts to limit opportunity, conservatives stand in opposition.
THE CORPORATE GROUP becomes impersonal, and a corporate society inspired and created by big government,big business and big labor will ultimately de-humanize the individual and render meaningless the values which it cannot possibly express.
Americans working voluntarily in their own behalf and in the behalf of others are responsible for a magnificent creation in business, education, science, the arts and government. In this land of freedom we must make certain that the individual man is forever master of his own fate, captain of his own soul.
(Copyright 1961, Times-Mirror Syndicate, Los Angeles, California)