430121
Page 2
University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 18. 1956.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
An Education?
Some students will have completed valuable courses or requirements which have moved them along the line another step toward graduation. To these students, the year has been a valuable one. In this instance, grades are irrelevant. These students have learned something valuable, in spite of whatever grades they made.
Other students have taken easy, so-called "pud" courses, in an attempt to get good grades which will
What Have You Learned This Year?
However, once they're completed, most of us will then have adequate time to sit down for a relaxing, if somewhat hot, summer, away from scholastic worries. And in that time, most students will unquestionably relive the recently-completed school year, and will probably attempt to make some sort of evaluation as to just what was accomplished in the nine months of struggling.
Well, as both good and bad things eventually do, the school year is coming to an end. Some nine months of consistent, or sometimes sporadic study will soon come to a close with the advent of the hated final week. Students will curse finals for ruining grades, and professors will curse them for providing more papers to grade, but they are inescapable.
However, this sort of thing should not be overdone. The entire problem boils down to being able to evaluate our own time and ability so that we may take the best possible advantage of our educational opportunities.
look very impressive indeed when presented to a prospective employer.
Perhaps this is a good thing, but we doubt it. Sure, good grades look nice, but is that the purpose of a college education?
In some courses a student at times can get more knowledge by studying all semester than his roomate enrolled in a series of snap courses and never studying. Yet the grades of the two will be almost equal.
But is the student's grade point average the true index of a college education, or does that depend on what he's learned at college.
Now don't get us wrong on this. We have nothing against easy courses. In fact, there's nothing like one easy, interesting, enjoyable course to brighten an otherwise drab semester.
But we must resist that impulse to load up with several "snap" courses every semester. Our time and money here at the University are too precious to waste on that type of folly.
—Dick Walt
A Word To The Wise
Weekend Driving Is Dangerous
In 1955, more than fifteen thousand individuals didn't return home after the pleasures of the weekend. According to figures recently published by the safety service of the Travelers Insurance Companies of Hartford, Conn., 15,730 Americans were killed in weekend traffic accidents.
Of last year's traffic fatalities, more than one-fifth occurred on Saturday.
The reasons for this record number of weekend highway fatalities lie in the motoring habits of the American public. Every highway in the nation has its Saturday share of that portion of America bound and determined to arrive at its weekend destination in time for dinner, even if the trip's last sixty miles must be covered in an hour flat. Too frequently, the strain and fatigue of distance driving are ignored in anticipation of ample relaxation at the journey's end.
Thea, toc, our highways continue to be filled with those drivers whose idea of relaxation is an extra drink or two "for the road."
Millions of dollars have been spent by federal state and municipal authorities in an effort to provide better and safer roads. Additional millions are spent by insurance companies and other private organizations for programs of safety education.
Nevertheless, the weekends of 1955 saw more persons killed and injured on our highways than ever before. It wasn't the fault of the road systems; it wasn't the fault of safety education campaigns. It was the fault of pleasure-bent individuals striving to go too far, too fast, for a weekend's enjoyment.
How to reduce this record total of killed and injured? What is desperately required is the immediate, unceasing cooperation of every American in possession of a driver's permit.
An aroused awareness of the weekend highway peril, plus continued realization of this danger is the only way to reduce the weekend fatality figures for 1956.
"HE'S IN PRIVATE CONFERENCE WITH MISS LUSH-CARE TO WAIT?"
...Letters...
Editor:
We were glad to see that not only the ASC and a UDK editorial writer, but also a professor of education on the "Mike No. I" program, have considered favorably the idea of excusing seniors from final examinations.
However, we dislike half measures. Why shouldn't this courtesy be extended to juniors, sophomores and freshmen? After all, if college entrance candidates can read and write—and many of them can—they "certainly won't be helped" by a final examination at the end of their freshman year. We recommend an unswaddled, functional, socio-cultural experience for all. What is the University for anyway? Students with D's and F's are being discriminated against. "And why?" growls Glub Club Schizotremens, undergraduate major in bathmat repair and next year's editor of a journalism fraternity's slime-slinging humor magazine.
Don't think we're just gripers. We have ideas too. Education is a hobby, for all the reactionary culture-vultures might say. Let's do away with ALL examinations and make everything into one big happy seminar. It could be entitled "Four-Year Experiment in Human Relations" with an automatically bestowed certificate of proficiency. This seminar would eventually be consolidated into a shorter and more intensive one "Two-Year Experiment in Accelerated Human Relations." After all, "if ya don't know nuttin after four years ya ain't going to pass no final exams no how," reasons Glub Glub Schizotremes with nobly tempered indignation.
What, we repeat, is a university for anyway? Goodbye forever.
Peter Earle
Lawrence graduate student
In 1950, Bailey chemical laboratory celebrated 50 years of residency on campus.
The Crisis Nears
Kefauver Braced For Battle
WASHINGTON (UP)—Sen. Estes Kefauver says he expects a close vote in his three remaining presidential primary contests with Adlai E. Stevenson, but he won't predict the outcome.
These two contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination have their next round in the Oregon primary today. Their competition for write-in votes will bind the state's 16 Democratic National Convention votes.
Sen. Kefauver cut a day out of his Oregon tour yesterday to fly here for votes on the Niagara power bill. Mr. Stevenson finished his Oregon campaign and flew back to California.
Before heading back to Oregon on an overnight flight to resume his campaign today, Sen. Kefauver told the United Press he thinks he has been gaining strength in that state. However, he said he has spent less time there than Mr. Stevenson and that his chances may have been hurt by cutting out a day for the Senate vote.
Their final contests will come May 29 in Florida, where 28 convention votes are at stake, and June 5 in California, which has 68 votes.
"I think I may be slightly behind in both states," he said, "but I'm getting stronger every day. In both states, I think the vote may be fairly close."
Sen. Kefauver was asked for an apora of his chances in Florida City.
"I think I'm going to make a good showing," he said, "but I can't predict the outcome."
The three remaining primaries provide the only head-on clashes between Mr. Stevenson and Sen. Kefauver since the Tennessee senator handed his rival an almost disastrous defeat in Minnesota March 20.
Of the three, California is viewed as the decisive test. Defeat probably will be fatal to the loser.
... Short Ones
We're not sure it's such good advertising for the University, running those pictures of motorized wheelbarrows. After all, what red-blooded all-American boy would want to go to college to learn to run an IBM machine when he can drive his own wheelbarrow and make money besides.
More and more plans are being offered in an attempt to get seniors excused from taking final exams, but we'll bet you they don't accomplish anything on the matter until the semester after we graduate, whenever that might be.
So the poor NROTC boys are having trouble packing their sea bags. Well, we'll wager they aren't having nearly as much trouble as Campus Cutie with preparing to go home with only four suitcases and a wardrobe trunk.
What with the NROTC and about half the students on the campus planning European tours for the summer, looks like you'll be socially unacceptable if you don't cross at least one ocean this summer. Shucks, and we thought Kansas City was a big town.
Daily Hansan
Telephone Viking 3-2700 Extension 251, news room Extension 376, business office
University of Kansas student newspaper
business biweekly 1904,
tristweekly 1908, daily JANUARY 1909
Member Inland Daily Press Association.
Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by National Advertising Service, 420 West 15th Street, New York, service: United Mail. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a year Published: New York University during University year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second-class matter Sept. 17, 1910; at post office under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS DEPARTMENT
John McMillion ... Managing Editor
Barbara Babb, Bell Lyle, Kent Thomas,
David Webb, Assistant Managing Editors;
Jane Pinecovsky, City Editor;
Margaret Armstrong, Geoff Dawrow
Gordon Anderson, Gordon Anderson,
Telegraph Editor; Robert Riley,
Larry Stroup, Assistant Telegraph Editors;
Felecia Fenberg, Society Editor;
Betty Jean Stanford, Assistant Society
Editor; Robert Bruce, Sports Editor;
Daryl Hall, Stroup, Assistant
Sports Editors; Larry Hill, Picture Edi-
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Richard Hunter ... Business Manager
James Wien, Advertising Manager;
David B. Cleveland, National Advertiser;
David C. Brescia, Classified Advertising Manager; Clifford Mever, Circulation Manager; Walter Baskett Jr., Promotion Manager.
Dick Walt ... Editorial Editor
Kelly, Ray Wingerson, Associate
Kelly
DB1 1
EE2
TRAVEL AGENCY
Winnipeg, Canada
The First National Bank of Lawrence
8th and Mass. St. Telephone VI3-0152
—FOR STEAMSHIP TRAVEL—
Minimum tourist rates to Europe and the Far East
ONLY 5 DAYS UNTIL FINALS
Make Your Reservations For That Trip Home.
FROM K.C.
(tourist) tax inc.)
(1st class)
ALBUQUERQUE $ 77.00 $191.20
BOSTON 127.60 165.14
CHICAGO 20.90 54.67
MINNEAPOLIS 49.28 61.60
OKLAHOMA CITY 35.20 46.86
- Steamships - Cruises - Escorted Tours
- Airlines—Domestic-Foreign
"Save with our vacation club fora paid vacation."