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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Oct. 7, 1963
The Times for a Dime
Students and faculty at the University of Minnesota can now buy the New York Times and the Christian Monitor in their student union at surprisingly low prices.
The Times will cost a dime, and the Monitor will cost eight cents. A one-year subscription to the Times, excluding Sunday papers, costs $28 a year. A dime for the Times each day during the school year totals less than $19. (A dime every weekday for a year totals $31.20.)
This gift to University of Minnesota inhabitants was arranged by student union officials and Minnesota's version of the ASC. How they arranged it I haven't the faintest idea.
BUT IT WOULD be nice to have such a service at KU. Although both papers are available at Watson Library or the Flint Hall Reading Room, students and faculty don't always have time to go to the library and read these papers the way they should be read. Having a copy to take home to peruse at leisure would be pleasant for everyone.
For those who aren't familiar with these two newspapers, the Times and the Monitor are
ranked, by polls of newspaper editors across the country, as two of the greatest newspapers in the world. The Times carries verbatim texts of important speeches, be they U.N. bombasts or Presidential tax-cut pleas, and has the finest stable of reporters, correspondents and columnists working today.
The Monitor is a national newspaper, and carries no local news of any kind, but the background and wrap-up stories it carries instead are excellent. The Monitor has, on occasion, ignored the sensation of a breaking story until all the facts were in, and then comes in as much as a week late with an excellent, thorough story putting everything in perspective.
Both papers would be important reading material for people who like to know what is happening in their world.
Perhaps the ASC Current Events Committee, if perchance it is looking for something to do this semester, could arrange the same service for KU as Minnesota's student governing body made available for Minnesota students and faculty.
Blaine King
'I Talk English Good'
The poor KU student, forced to "sprech" or "parle" 16 hours worth, sweats and strains through the language ordeal.
And thus the soap opera begins.
"Why do I have to have all that language? I'll never use it. Everybody I know speaks English."
AFTER ALL, the good old "mother tongue" presents problems enough to the American student. English grammar isn't exactly the easiest subject, you know.
And who needs another language? I mean, nobody speaks German in the Hawk's Nest anyway. And never have I heard one Latin verb parced at the Tee Pee.
So what's the use of the language requirement? French films have subtitles and everybody knows "War and Peace" can be bought in the English translation.
Let's leave French to Parisians and Russian to the Slavs. And of course they'll speak my language if I go over there.
"Gimme good ol' American any ol' day!
'H'lo Jo, h'reya? Wotsnew th' you?'
I talk English good, who needs 'parley-voo?'
Foreign students speak English as good as I can.
I had trouble enough with the English Pro Exam."
WE TAKE ENGLISH Lit and English Comp. And after all that language, they hit us with "16
hours of French, German, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Greek or Lower-Slobovian, pleuz."
And our poor KU student sulks through another conjugation in a strange tongue from a far corner of the earth. Such is the fate of the post-Sputnik college group.
Gone are the days when it took three months to cross an ocean. No longer are we an isolated nation with no need to communicate with our neighbors in another language. Europe is just across the way and Asia is just off to our left.
The point is that those four corners of the earth have moved closer together and it's turning out to be a small world after all.
International relations call for a better understanding of other peoples and their ways. And what better way to begin than to study their language? They all study ours, and begin at an early age besides.
SOUND EDUCATION calls for the self-discipline that the mastery of another language can give.
But the student goans and moans with the French nasal or the German guttural, and hopes for the day when his requirement will be fulfilled.
He takes the required minimum and no more, and then, stuffed full of language, he breathes a sigh of relief.
And when somebody passes out the diplomas, our well-rounded graduate says;
"Oh no! Mine's in Latin." — Patti Behen
Latin-American Showcase
Dailij Fransan
111 Flint Hall University of Kansas student newspaper UNiversity 4-3646, newsroom UNiversity 4-3198, business office
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
Managing Editor
Mike Miller Managing Editor
Terry Ostmeyer, Trudy Meserve, Jackie Stern, Rose Osborne, Assistant
Managing Editors; Kay Jarvis, City Editor; Linda Machin, Society Editor;
Roy Miller, Sports Editor; Dennis Bowers, Picture Editor.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Blaine King Editorial Editor
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Business Manager
Bob Brooks Business Manager
Joanne Zabornik, Advertising Mgr.; Alice Rueschhoff, Circulation Mgr.; Brooks Harrison, Classified Adv. Mgr.; Jim Evilsizer, National Adv. Mgr.; Donald Dugan, Promotion Mgr.; Jerry Schroepfer, Merchandising Mgr.
The People Say...
As we think about the enrollment surge we expect in freshman English in the years immediately ahead, we cannot help wondering if we shall be able to find one such instructor for every (say) ten students; and, supposing there are that many intelligent instructors around, if we could find sufficient money to attract and keep them. Since both these propositions are highly doubtful, we must explore other possibilities for maintaining and enhancing the quality of our English teaching.
Editor:
English Experiment
The Department of English agrees emphatically with two points made in your editorial, "Keep Teachers Around": that English instruction in both college and high school is crucially important, and that every possible means should always be taken to improve the quality of that instruction. We agree, too, that keeping classes small is one good way to make English teaching effective and meaningful, particularly if that teaching is done by knowledgeable, intelligent and inspiring instructors.
One such possibility is that we might combine, as in the experimental course English 1 c-t, the peculiar virtues of outstanding classroom instruction by a proven, skillful teacher and individual effort by a student who is not bound to appear in class a set number of hours a week. We think this will work; we may be wrong, of course, and in that event we are not committed to this program beyond the period of the experiment.
George J. Worth
Acting chairman,
Department of English
Let me stress that it is an experiment. Your statement that our "ultimate aim . . . is freshman English by correspondence" is incorrect. This is an experiment—very carefully thought out and very carefully controlled, as it had to be to get the support of the University administration and of the U.S. Office of Education. If, contrary to our expectations, the experiment fails, we shall have learned something and shall investigate other ways to keep up and enhance standards in the critical years just ahead.
Another Buddhist burned himself to death in Saigon last week. Mr. Kennedy was deeply moved . . probably beyond description, although he does a magnificent job of concealing whatever emotion he may feel.
Ends Arms Aid
Editor:
The men who kill and imprison Buddhist monks and students wear American uniforms, use American weapons and are trained by Americans. Mr. Kennedy can withhold military aid while it is used to oppress men to the point of self-annihilation. He has voiced loud imprecations of displeasure at the Vietnamese government. His words reek with the loathsome stench of their emptiness. He sends his emissaries—Lodge, McNamara, and Taylor. He seeks to shake the unbelieving with the might of his mail-clad diplomats.
We call upon President Kennedy to withdraw American military aid to Viet Nam. No cause is so objectly wrong that we must compromise our ideals to fight it.
Mr. Kennedy is blinded. He struggles against the Communist menace. Many will fall. What a pity! His failure to help any oppressed people makes a lie of the ideals of his inaugural address. He defaces and vilifies the promises this land has made to downtrodden around the globe.
Paul Lerner
Missoula, Mont.,
graduate student
John Garlinghouse
By supporting the nefarious government of Viet Nam, he links us to them. Their tyranny must be our tyrannv; their victims, our victims. And their reward will be our reward. Can we doubt what the nature of this reward will be?
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Discourse on Beauty
Editor:
The beauty of beauty is that it can be many things depending on personal taste of the individual.
For example, an anthropologist, upon observing a feminine type species, might marvel at the bone structure of the chin or the lack of development of the buttock as a beautiful example of advancing evolution. He might even go so far as to stop and ask the specimen under observation if it has any wisdom teeth or not.
As for this humble student, my tastes are not quite as basic. I too, might marvel at certain feminine species, but usually my interest lies with the end result of a highly developed species. I have always liked to consider myself a realistic type individual, so who am I to reason how or why? I like to take things as they stand.
Webster, in his New World, college edition, defines beauty as "the quality attributed to whatever pleases or satisfies as by . . . form . . . proportion . . . rhythmic motion. Example: a very good-looking woman." (It is gratifying to know that such a learned man was also of a realistic nature!) I myself, can think of nothing more pleasing or satisfying than that of observing the God-given talents of beautiful women. That's what I call quality as Webster puts it!
Looking at "things" from this perspective, my tastes are such that the ultimate of beauty is that of a beautiful woman (more often than not a highly developed one, although this need not be the case!)
Although I, too, might stop and question a certain "feminine species" like our curious anthropologist. I can assure you that any questions I might raise would be of an entirely different nature!
I think perhaps I would be more concerned with such vital statistics as name, phone number, and availability. (Being a student of statistics, I am well aware of the reverse ratio of 3 to 1.) Upon closer observation, I might also take note of such foreign matter as fraternal pins and lavarieres, or diamond rings. Not being a violent man by nature (small), I find it in my best interest to honor these claims of my fellow men. (I am realizing more and more every day that Webster and I aren't the only realistic guys around!)
As I tread up and down the many, many, many steps debating the insanity of Mount Oread as the location of a university, my spirits are continually brightened by the abundance of "quality" we have here at KU. I am firmly convinced that the old saying about Kansas farmers keeping their daughters at home and sending their pigs to college is a farce! This current abundance of beauty along with current beauty fashions, i.e. sweaters, short skirts, and stretch pants, have done more for the morale of the male student body since the inventions of booze and Playboy!
E. Cam Austin Independence. Mo., junior