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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1963
Sociologist Stresses Property in Society
Private property maintains social order if its use is based on morality and public opinion.
This was the thesis of a speech by Prof. Horst Heller of the University of Hamburg, Germany, delivered yesterday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Prof. Heller, a professor of business and sociology, studied at KU in 1957.
HE DEFINED property as "material value controlled by men," which he placed in two categories:
- Individual property, which can be bought and sold, such as stock in General Motors.
- Membership property, the individual's ownership of that which cannot be bought and sold, such as a church building or a post office.
In the case of the church or the post office, individual ownership rests on membership in a group—a religious faith or U.S. citizenship, Prof. Heller said.
IN A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY individual property serves as a visible sign of moral inequality, he said.
"Individual property should be something that society confers on someone for the strenuous task of being good."
"The poor will be content with their relative lack of individual property as long as they feel that the property group have gained their possessions because of their moral superiority."
A PERSON WITH PROPERTY has influence, he said, because he has power to select persons who desire to share the benefits of their property. He gave the example of a man who decided to give away $1,000.
"If he gave it as a scholarship to college, no one would object." "But if he gave a reward for the teen-age boy who fathered the most illegitimate children in one year he would cause tension in a society."
Prof. Heller said in an interview after his speech if you divorce individual property from morality you risk blowing up social order.
KARL MARX, Jean Rosseau and other scholars have argued that individual property has been the cause of inequality, he said.
"Some communist countries have completely abolished private property, but inequality has been expressed through prestige or other forms of social rewards.
Seniors Plan Graduate Study
Sixty-nine per cent of the KU liberal arts seniors surveyed this year plan further study after graduation. This represents an increase of 11 per cent over last fall's graduating class.
Twenty-six per cent of this semester's seniors plan to attend a professional school.
OFFICIALS OF the School of Liberal Arts are pleased with the results of the survey. But, they are not at all surprised.
Last year's figures showed an exception to the recent trend at KU Only 58 per cent of the seniors planned to continue school after getting their degrees.
Francis Heller, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts said, financial problems did not stop last year's seniors from continuing their studies.
"There is adequate support and aid for graduate study," he said. He attributed the lower 1962 figure to a difference in classes.
Both Dean Heller and George Waggoner, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, said between 30 and 40 percent of liberal arts students ordinarily continue in liberal arts. Approximately 25 per cent enter professional schools.
The content of the survey, to be presented at the faculty meeting Tuesday, shows that 43 per cent of liberal arts seniors will do graduate study, 26 per cent will enter professional schools, six per cent will enter military service, 15 per cent will seek employment, and 10 per cent are undecided (twice as many as last year).
University of Kansas
UNIVERSITY THEATER
presents:
CLAYTON CORBIN
as
"THE EMPEROR JONES"
by Eugene O'Neil
- Wednesday through Saturday Oct.9-12
Football Star to Speak On 'Successful Athlete'
- Free Admission on Student I.D. exchange
Bill Krisher, former All-America football player from the University of Oklahoma, will speak at 9 p.m. tomorrow in the Meadowlark Room of the Kansas Union.
who did not register will not be admitted to the examination.
- Phone UN 4-3982 for 24-hr. Reservation Service
- Season Coupon Books Still Available
NEW CURTAIN TIME 8:15 P.M.
Krisher, invited to KU by the Campus Crusade for Christ, an inter-denominational student movement, will speak on "The Key to the Successful Athlete."
Of the total students taking the test, approximately one-fourth may fail and be required to take it again. The next examination will be Feb. 27. 1964.
Proficiency Exam Is Tomorrow
He has played professional football for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League and the Dallas Texans (now the Kansas City Chiefs) of the American Football League.
Krisher played his first varsity game in 1955 as the starting guard on OU's national championship team.
The English proficiency examination for KU junior and senior students will be at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow.
A mistake on the IBM cards at the first of the semester caused some mix-up on the date of the test, department officials said. The cards stated the test would be Oct. 1 instead of tomorrow.
Students are expected to bring an ink pen and a dictionary to the test. Paper will be furnished by the department. The student will be given approximately 10 topics, one of which he will choose for his theme.
All but two of the KU schools are required to take the examination in order to be graduated. The two schools excluded are law and engineering.
The themes are to be written in a two-hour period and will be graded on English grammar and expression of thought. A paper can be grammatically correct and not pass because of content.
ABOUT 1.500 students will take the examination. They will be placed in rooms according to cards given at registration. Those students
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