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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1937
Comment
Half-Cocked
Local scareheads went off half-cocked last week with their prognostications that the summer session's total enrollment for 1937 would set a new low mark. For latest figures show that—while the total actually is 100 lower than the unprecedented record of 1,259 set in 1936 at a comparable date—this year's enrollment is quite up to the average of the last six or eight sessions.
But fairness demands consideration of another angle or two. One is the heat record marked up in these parts last summer. It was enough to drive away even the most toughened of men, to say nothing of many a delicate school ma'am who may have decided that one such ordeal was enough. Thus far the weather has been extremely pleasant, but that of course couldn't be predicted.
Undoubtedly the biggest factor in the drop from last year's high mark was the doubling of non-resident fees. Several students are known to have returned home after learning of the increase when they reached Lawrence. And many others certainly must have known of the change, and stayed away on that account.
Also contributory, perhaps, was the establishment this year of a summer session at Kansas City's municipal university, providing nearby competition, particularly for Missouri students.
So maybe the K. U. summer session isn't going to the dogs right away after all.
Those dark spots on the sidewalks under the lamps aren't grease—they're squashed bugs. You have to step high, wide and handsome these nights to avoid being a squasher.
Bulldozing
(Editor's Note: Today the Kansan takes up the matter of bulldozing, and of how it may be used to skid through classes on a minimum of effort. It is such a weighty topic, and has so many ramifications, that several editorial sessions may be required to treat it adequately. For your own good, the Kansan hopes you will bear with it.)
If professors were obliging enough never to fire specific questions at specific students every so often, and if University rules did not require examinations frequently, the interesting habit of "bulldozing" might never have developed. But they did, and it has, and a discussion seems in order.
By bulldozing may be said to mean going all the way around Bill Robinson's barn to answer a question or state a proposition, and still saying nothing that can be definitely labeled true or false. The idea is to say it—anything—in such an involved manner that your inquisitor cannot for love nor money determine just what you're driving at. Thus he is in a quandary and is obliged to let you by. The success of the process depends upon the extent to which you inject a certain semblance of authority, however vague, into your statements.
For example: Your history professor asks for a discussion of the Magna Charta. If you've had a little Latin, you might easily Huldoze through with a discussion of what Magna Charta means in the ancient language. Perhaps the pfof isn't an
authority upon this phase of the susbject, any more than you are, and thus you have an advantage and can invent a bit as you go along if necessary.
This is merely suggestive of the principle. Remember that if the prof can't say you're wrong, there's at least half a chance you can convince him that you're right.
It's going to cost you to die in the Sunflower state hereafter—two cents for every dollar your survivors spend on casket, vault, flowers, et cetera. Time was when all it cost was a couple of cartwheels to keep the eyelids closed, but that was in the good old days.
LETTERS to the EDITOR
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
When some one goes to the trouble of designing, making, and erecting a map it seems that its purpose should be to inform and direct people. But how can a map direct people when it is so placed that no one can benefit by it?
New students and visitors to the campus are unaware of the campus map which has been placed on the north side of Fraser hall. Very few people walk past that exact spot, and cars coming by it are usually headed east and leaving the campus.
Why not move this map to a place where it would help the new students and visitors to our campus? Wouldn't the wide curve between Dyche Museum and Green hall, placed even with the sidewalk be a much better place for it? It would take so little time and energy to move this map and the benefits derived from it would be much greater than they are at present. —J.S.
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
Just what would you do if you had considered yourself an expert in budget planning and had counted your nickels and dimes so systematically that you knew just what your summer expenses were, then to come to K.U. for the summer session this year and not only find your fees doubled but a law saying you have to pay tokens too?
The budgets of many of the out-of-
town students certainly went "hay-
wire" when the students were met
with this atrocious surprise.
Not only will they fall into temporary bankruptcy, but the mental strain of this disillusionment probably will set them back several laps before they will be able to "get going" again.
Many are forgetting about this ideal study weather but are realizing that there is a vast difference between $40.50 and $71.50.
Editor Summer Session Kansan: are five types of intellectual parasites.
Wouldn't you? —B.H.K.
First is the carefree soul who doesn't both to take notes in class, then later asks you to make him a copy of yours.
Second is the one who never does his outside reading and is insulted if he does.
Editor Summer Session Konser
Fourth is the type who never studies the text, then jumps before the exams asks you to give him a 15 minute summary of the book.
Next is the apple poliser, about whom so much has been written that no elaboration is necessary.
Fifth and worst is the group which is divided into two classes. One is he who flatters you, gets your ideas on the next day's lesson, then without compunction gives them to the professor as his own original thoughts. This leads him to ask your answer in class, then raises his hand and tells the professor the same thing in different words—and gets away with it!
Do you, Summer Session Student,
fall into one of these categories?
Shame on you! —M.F.M.
THIS and THAT By KENNETH KITCH
This column seems to be strangely connected this week; but speaking of elephants, Commodore Schiller Shore, helmsman of the Kelly III, read the other day of an elephant which escaped from a zoo in Massachusetts. Sheriff's deputies, zoo attendants, and posses hurriedly blocked all roads to Maine and Vermont.
The New York Zoo has announced the arrival of snakes which crane their necks like chickens, growl like dogs, and act like submarines. Put them altogether and you have a Kansas husband trying to figure out the tokenage on the monthly bills.
Kansas City husbands might have been behind this strike in the produce markets over there. There comes a time in every man's life when he gets tired of eating salad.
Humanity is stauncher than, many folks suppose. One of the vending machines in this little town poured out its contents for three days last week over the bodies of two dead flies. And nobody apparently knew the difference.
Sport note: Everybody had a good time at the soft ball games yester e'en. The games this year are being conducted on a basis of "fun for everybody" in stead of "you have to win to grin." Lots of the fellows are making what seems to be their first acquaintance with a soft ball but they and everyone else are having a grand
time. Directors are hoping for the continuance of what promises to be the liveliest season for many moons. "Come on out, visit around, and have that much-needed relaxation and exercise," urges Doc Nash, dowager pooh-bah of the affair. Next session, Monday at 4 p.m.
Things: (Keeler being guest- conductor) K.U. certainly does have a beautiful campus now that the library is fixed.. Lots of these school teachers back for school don't look as much like we thought school teachers looked like as we thought (just read it slowly; it makes sense). . . Interesting to watch the license tags or Hill cars for out-of-town numbers more here than you'd think. . . A student, with his wife and daughter visits the library. . . Notice the pigeons on the library? They're serenading most of the time. Nice band concert down town last Friday night a good tonic for a dull evening. Wonder if George, the campus cop has arrested any school teachers yet Who said 15 miles per hour was the speed limit?
Seems funny not to hear the concert from the steps of the law barn every time a pretty girl passes. . . It's getting hot again; ho-hum-m-m
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Contributors Column
CLIMBING COMMENT
The ability to walk nonchalantly up Mount Oread is indeed an accomplishment worthy of other people's praise. At certain points, the climber's very equilibrium is in question.
The feat is no mere mechanical jaunt. Each day's climb is an adventure in itself. One never knows what will meet him on the upward journey; anything can come down Mount Oread—anything that goes up—and a lot goes up besides hot air. So with the possibility in mind of meeting a bear or a barrel, it behooves the climber to keep his eyes on the road ahead, and his chin up, so to speak.
"Tis said that long strides pay dividends—in shoe leather and in mileage per minute. A good man with first determination and a lot of courage can't be kept at the foot of the bill. More power to you!
Meet In Kansas City
Kansas City alumni officials met a 2 p.m. yesterday to take up matters of interest to the K.U. Club of Kansas City. Presided over by Miss Clem Lamborn, chairman of the finance committee of the board of directors, the meeting was attended by T. J. Strickler, past president at Kansas, William Butler, president now; Ed Dennis, secretary, Lyle Kindig, president of the Young Jayhawkers of Kansas City, and Fred Ellsworth, Lawrence.
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