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People Must Be Sold on Eurich Plan
A panel of some of the best educators in America has recommended a plan for the sweeping updating of higher education in Kansas.
But will the recommendations be accepted by the people of Kansas? The report admits that the changes will necessitate additional expenditures. Are Kansans ready to spend that extra money to insure that their state will have adequate educational facilities for already pressing future needs?
THE REPORT SAYS that the Wichita-Hutchinson and Kansas City-Topeka areas will provide approximately 89 per cent of the state's college enrollment from the present to 1985. The changes, and even the added cost in taxes, should receive support from these areas.
Even the people of Wichita, after their feelings have been soothed and a serious evaluation of the plan has been completed, will realize that the University of Wichita will not be losing stature. It will be gaining prestige because of its role in a bigger, better and more advanced educational system.
Wichita will gain because, as the added emphasis on research and the increased salaries attract more scientists and professors, area industries will have a choice of better educated graduates.
WICHITA IS not the real problem area. The cities of Kansas, with their industry and informed residents, are more aware of the need for improved higher education and will be willing to accept the additional cost involved.
The people of western Kansas are a long way from Lawrence and Manhattan. They are a long way from what actually happens on the campuses of the state's schools. They are extremely susceptible to attacks on the Eurich plan and the "dangers" it will impose.
But what of the residents of western Kansas? Many of them already view KU and the other state-supported schools with suspicion.
The people of western Kansas can stop the plan from being achieved. They can either bring about the approval or disapproval of the plan, because the unequal apportionment of the state legislature is in their favor.
THE BOARD of Regents should institute an educational program of its own. It should educate the people of Kansas, eastern and western alike, on the advantages of and the need for the proposed changes. It should show why this
It Looks This Way
Richard M. Nixon, after his defeat in the race for Governor of California, lashed out at the press. Nixon said he wished the press would have given his various opponents "the same going over you gave me."
Press Unfair to Nixon
Nixon won a U.S. House of Representatives seat in 1946. He was re-elected in 1948 and won a U.S. Senate seat in 1950. In 1952 and 1956, he was elected vice-president. He lost to President John F. Kennedy by a little more than 100,000 votes in 1960.
AFTER HIS RECENT DEFEAT. Nixon obviously was bitter. But was his bitterness the only reason he made scathing remarks to the press? Possibly not.
Maybe the press has been unfair to Nixon. Before and during the recent general election, the press reported that it was "win or die" for Nixon. The press said he had to win in California or he would be finished politically.
Possibly Nixon is finished. However, the press did not have the right to say so, for prediction and editorial judgment do not belong in news stories.
TIME MAGAZINE regarded the Nixon campaign as a joke. Shortly after Nixon announced that he would be a candidate for governor, he was ridiculed on Time's front cover. On the cover, an old tattered "Nixon for President" poster was covered by a new "Nixon for governor" poster. Time Magazine regarded his bid for governor as a joke.
Nixon has received more than his share of ridicule during this recent campaign. Unfortunately, the press overemphasized the "win or die" struggle for the sake of human interest. This was not fair to Nixon or to the reader.
Murrel Bland
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state should start looking to the future — the long, distant future — instead of the immediate future.
The Board of Regents should educate the state legislator through briefings by the panel members. Area newspapers should run articles thoroughly explaining the report. The people should be made to understand the report.
This is just one more chance for Kansas to move ahead. But the question is will we be ready to take the step?
—Jerry Musil
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