The University Weekly. Editor-in-Chief...RACHEL PUGH. Associates H. H. TANGEMAN. A. H. SEDDON. Literary C. A. GARDNER. Society Editor...ANNA WARFIELD. Athletic Editor...E. E. SALEEE. Associates. J. M. RADER, J. SCHREDER, F. L. TILFORD, WILLK K.MURPHY, MYON L.HUMPREY, WALTER J. MEER, JOHN A.DEVLIN, J. H. LANGWORTHY, E.W. MURRAY E. H. McMath, Mgr. Entered at the Lawrence Postoffice as second-class mail matter. Shares in the WEEKLY $1.00 each, entitled holder to the paper two years, may be held of the Secretary and Treasurer, George Foster, the managing editor, or at the WEEKLY office. Subscription price, 50 cents per annum in advance. Single copies 5 cents. Address all communications to E. H. McMath, Business Manager, Lawrence, Kansas. LAWRENCE, KAN., SAT. NOV. 23.1901 There was, in our childhood days, a very delightful story which told how, for a whole day, the parents exchanged places with the children. Needless to recount the story here. Suffice it to say that the children worked many necessary reforms and were happy ever after. It has occurred to us to wonder many times, in connection with this University, how it would be could we but trade around with the Faculty for a while. We should like to show the Faculty a thing or two. We think we could quite improve on some of their methods. Fact is, we believe that would be an easy thing to do anyway. And especially is this to be said concerning the relation of the Faculty with the student body. It would seem, from the attitude they preserve toward the students, that the instructors in Kansas University advocated no manifestations of student ability beyond class-room work. The encouragement given by them to student enterprise is so slight and so intermittent that it is rather demoralizing than helpful. In some colleges the Faculty members are so much interested in student endeavors as they expect the student to be himself. They give practical, organized and methodical assistance to their pupils and occasionally devote some thought, time and even money to such interests as the college paper, the Glee Club, the band, the oratorical and literary societies, and a few other such things: Here, these institutions are left to struggle along as they can—with the occasional fitful criticism, or possibly scant aid from some professor if he sees fit to give it. The students grapple alone with problems too great for them, and fail because they are not given the benefit of the experience of those older and wiser than themselves. The trouble here is that there is no concerted action on the part of the Faculty in regard to these things. Each man is working along in his own individual fashion, doing as he pleases to further his own ends, forgetting the welfare of the college along other lines than his particular work. The whole company of professors and stu ents are all dropped down here an one confused mass, with no logical and vital connection, and no effort toward attaining it, save a blind struggle for some kind of an advancement, they know not why nor where. We heard it said lately that the faculty members held no decided opinions as to the WEEKLY, because they considered it as now managed a poor exponent of college life. Whose fault is it? Perhaps if they held some decided opinions and would attempt to work them out, they might accomplish a change. One of our worthy instructors, when asked for advice as to the production of the Annual, said he did not take much interest in that publication because it was never carried out on lines that he approved. However, he gave little enough attention to the subject to be unable to suggest any methods of improvement and refused assistance that he might easily have given to a perplexed student. We would like a change! THIS is a roast on the WEEKLY. That it is not all it should be, goes without saying. Poorly planned, poorly gotten up, without spicy material, good arrangement, or even able type-setting, you say. You know it, your room-mate knows it, who does not know it? Certainly not merely the people who don't take the WEEKLY! For most all students read it, even though they are not subscribers. We know that, because they are all ready to criticise it at any time. They all know its faults so well! The WEEKLY is poor—granted. Now let us look into the matter. Almost the entire staff of this paper is made up of students who know no more about writing good English than a pug dog knows about building eiserns. They know no more about publishing a good college paper than the lilies of the field. And they care less. The not knowing wouldn't matter half as much as the not caring. They could learn, but they won't. They do not even take enough interest in this paper with which they hold such vital connection, to produce the material necessary weekly to fill up the columns of the paper. It seems to be tacitly understood among them that it is the editor's duty to fill the entire paper, and so most of the work all falls on one. It is like pulling wisdom teeth to get "copy" from a member on the staff of the WEEKLY. If the staff were not made up on such an entirely political basis, this might not be so true. But when every assistant on this paper is merely a left-over from the rag tag and bob-tail of the political machine, little can be expected from the paper. The literary societies, the fraternities, the Barb factions—every element on the hill, works to get a member in some place of political honor, and when they can't get in on anything else, they take a place on the WEEKLY, that will do. Then when they get the place they settle back in self-satisfied gratulation, seeming to forget that merely nominal membership on the WEEKLY staff does not carry with it so much honor as it might. We served twice on the advisory board which, composed of three faculty members and three seniors, is supposed to meet and talk over the qualifications of the proposed members of the WEEKLY staff, before posting the names of said members for election. The meetings were held at noon, when everybody was in a rush for their noon meal, and hurrying to make a one o'clock class. One or two of the faculty members of the board were absent both times. The remaining member came in hurriedly, read the list of names, then gave instructions to one of the seniors to "please look up the standing of these students, and if they had no conditions, to post the list as it stood." and to this same senior fell the duty of writing up "the minutes of this meeting, which you will kindly hand to me sometime tomorrow." In one case it was found that the student running for editor-in-chief of the WEEKLY was conditioned in two studies. Seeking the faculty member in charge of the proceedings, the inquirer was informed that the student had promised to make up his conditions that term, and so it would be all right. He was the only candidate for the honor, you see. Then too, he had a controlling hand in hill politics. Almost every editor elected to this position, is put in for purely political reasons, rather than on account of any merit he may have for it. And then, with no support from his subordinates, he has a hard time. He receives no encouragement nor assistance from faculty or students. He is unable to procure material when he wants it. It is an unheard of thing for a member of Kansas University to hand in little news items or occasional bits of information unsolicited. And when the editor goes after the news, and asks for it, it is hard enough to get. He asks Professor X for some information, and is told "Just step into my office, and I will be in a moment; perhaps I can help you." After waiting one hour and fifteen minutes Professor X says, "I find I won't have time to help you today; just ask Mr. Y., my assistant," Mr. Y. is up on the third floor. The editor hunts him down, to find that he doesn't know anything about the subject in question. "But Miss Z. can tell you, I am sure, or certainly Miss C." Perhaps, after two or three days faithful search the editor finds the information he is after. Much might be said about the management of the paper. The most responsible position on the sheet falls to the manager. And when he is in the work merely for the money he can make out of it, regardless of the looks of the paper, he can make a pretty bad looking sheet out of it. If he isn't doing it with this consideration, he has up-hill work any way. 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