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University Daily Kansan Monday. Nov. 7. 1955
It's All Over For This Year
The game is over, and the less said about it the better. K-State was inspired. Kansas wasn't.
The trouble is, the game wasn't the end of the competition between the two schools. There was the fight over the goal posts afterward—a good old, honest-to-goodness, high school mentality fight.
And the game certainly wasn't the beginning of the intra-state competition.
Preceding the approximately two hours of gridiron battle, the two schools witnessed a wave of vandalism that would have done credit to any high school in the state.
Kansas stole a puddy tat from K-State. Then on Halloween, a group of adventurous—or just plain stupid—K-State students made the rounds of the University with a considerable number of paint cans.
The wave ran something like this:
(There are charges that these K-Staters were "helped" by a few of the University students, a plausible if shocking account of the reason for the widespread damage.)
The next night nine KU students were arrested while burning their initials on the K-State football field and smearing paint on buildings at the college further up the Kaw.
There were other examples of this unreasonable, willful, and criminal destruction of property —none of them in the least excusable.
Chancellor Murphy and the K-State president McCain made a necessary and probably wise move in refusing to tolerate further vandalism. Vandalism is not worth it to the whole student body.
True, the KU student body had more spirit for this game than at any other for two seasons. This was attributable to better organization of pep drives by the cheerleaders, the fact that KU thought they might win this game, to the publicity given to the wildcat coup, and to other factors. The better spirit did not come about as a result of the vandalism.
So it is all over until next year, when Kansas will be crying for revenge. The way to get this revenge is on the football field, not on the campus landscaping of either school.
-Ron Grandon
Students Favor Campus Parking
"I think it's crazy!" was the general reaction to a campus poll question, "Should student parking on campus be abolished and should students not be permitted to have cars at the University?"
Leon Wells, Hutchinson senior, "I think it's crazy. Actually, living facilities around the KU campus aren't up to the point where everyone can walk. Too many people have to live too far away."
Bill Littell, Rolla junior said. "I don't think that parking should be abolished. Of course, it would depend entirely on where you live."
by Dick Bibler
Ed Wettig, Leavenworth freshman: "I have my own car, so I'm against it. There are so many students who have cars that limited parking is good. But I'm against abolishing parking all together. There are too many considerations, such as disabilities, but it would be best, I suppose, to limit cars and parking.
Julie Nickolson, Lawrence freshman said. "Because I don't have a car, I don't know too much about it. As a pedestrian, I think that parking on one side of the street only is a good idea, but I don't think cars on campus should be abolished."
Don Pizinger, Great Bend junior: "I don't think they'd achieve much by telling students they couldn't have cars. Students would sneak around and not register their cars. Not parking on Jayhawk Drive is a good idea, if only so we can drive down it."
Those who took the opposite point of view:
Jack Dickson, Atchison senior: "I'm absolutely in favor of abolishing parking on the hill, but not in restricting bringing cars to school altogether. I don't think parking on one side of Jayhawk Drive has helped a bit."
Bill Hoagland, Hutchinson junior: "They should have no cars on the campus at all. Instead, they should have a wide boulevard through the campus. That way, of course, they would have to provide parking around the campus."
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"THE HOUSEMOTHER THINKS IT'S NICE OF YOU BOYS TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN OUR YARD?"
... Letters . .
Editor:
I would like to give the Kansan a large accolade. Last week's reporting of the "Wildcat IV" story was one of the most competent and professional jobs I have seen done by college students. Bob Lyle and John McMillon were surely a credit to their instructors.
Too many times, campus publications—especially the Kansan—are considered rather farcical, incompetent and merely experimental. Criticism usually is abundant on these publications, and praise is sparse.
There are many wire services and publications represented on the campus—many of them by professional journalists. Yet these students got a scoop on every one of them.
This type of work justifies a professional school.
Ron Phillips Shawnee junior
Editor:
In his editorial (UKD Nov. 3) campaigning for the election of the "Biggest Slob," Leo Flanagan writes that "anyone who'd pick Navy over Notre Dame must be a slob." This is indeed true. One vote for McMillion.
Emil L. Telfel
Notre Dame, '31
Editor:
Can't something be done about that pathetic English bulldog that stands in the middle of the sidewalk outside of Fraser? The poor thing seems to be either crippled or rheumatic. Whatever it is, he seems to be suffering something terrible. Would it be too much to ask the owner, whoever he is, to do something for the animal?
Graduate student
NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
Nixon Appears To Lead Race
WASHINGTON —(U.P.) The call for early public announcement whether President Eisenhower will run again suggests that some Republicans believe Vice President Richard M. Nixon is gaining a long lead in the field.
Mr. Eisenhower has done nothing to divert public attention from his young friend. On the contrary the President's liking for the vice president has been freely acknowledged. Mr. Eisenhower now might almost be said to be giving Mr. Nixon a build-up looking toward his possible nomination for president next year.
The vice president can accept the role to which the president has assigned him without being accused of campaigning for the nomination. No Republican can go out for the nomination just now. They must know Mr. Eisenhower's own intentions before they may make a move.
Mr. Eisenhower may announce his plans around Christmas or New Year's. To delay the announcement long thereafter would add to the lead which Vice President Nixon now is achieving and to the anger of those Republicans who would prefer someone else.
Washington State College is located at Pullman, Wash., and has an estimated enrollment of 5,000 students. The school colors are Crimson and Grey and the nickname of its athletic teams is the Cougars. The Cougars meet KU in Lawrence on Sept. 24.
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Basic Grammar Isn't Taught
Nearly 1,000 University of Oklahoma freshmen are studying grammar and fundamentals they should have learned in high school, according to Dean Glenn Couch of the University College.
But Dean Couch qualified his statements, in apparent defense of the Oklahoma secondary system, by saying that the high schools are not necessarily to blame.
He goes further in defending the secondary schools when he says, "By the time a boy is 18, an awful lot of factors affect his life. I am inclined to think the home situation and the situation in the community where he lives have a lot to do with his abilities.
"I know schools are a factor," he added, "but I can't believe they are the whole thing. When you think of the fact that the public schools have to take everybody's children and work with a limited budget they really do a magnificent job."
The dean says there are "other" factors which enter into the lack of English preparation prior to college. It seems to be a common belief, however, that high schools, a majority at least, have never prepared a boy or girl for college study.
The routine of college life is completely different. Preparation for studies is much more rigid. Lecturing and notetaking are generally not utilized. There seems to be a tendency to let a student "ride" through in high school just to get rid of him, or because he is too old to be in high school.
There does seem to be an attempt by state-operated colleges, universities and public schools to improve the educational standings of entering freshmen by requiring "regent's" credits. New York, for example, has a requirement that none of the state's high schools may recommend a student to a New York college without the student's having attained specific regent's credits.
But the mere requirement of regent's credits does not help a high school student attain a reasonable mastery of the English language.
It is too bad that even a semester has to be spent in instructing college students on basic English usage. If they can't learn it in high school, where else may they do it, if they don't attend college?
—Sam Jones
To the majority of the students at the University, the name Guy Pennock means nothing. But to the staff and former staffs of the Daily Kansan, to faculty members of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, and to Guy's co-workers, he was looked upon with great respect.
In Tribute To Guy Pennock
In terms of service, Guy was one of the University's oldest employees prior to his death Saturday. Since 1911, he had been working in "the back shop" of the journalism department.
In those 44 years, Guy did his best to show students especially what was waiting for them when they actively entered their chosen vocation. It wasn't always easy to get Guy to make those last minute changes we wanted.
With a gruff exterior that seemed to be calloused to infringements on the rules of putting out a newspaper, Guy had a big heart.
"You think you're going to get away with that outside?" That was a question he used more than once. And more than once former Kansan staff members have left the school and come to realize that no, they couldn't get away with that change on the outside.
More than that, Guy was a genuine friend to all who knew him.
—John Herrington
Texas A & M is investigating reports of excessive hazing according to the Battalion. Several reports have been received, one stating that a freshman was required to do 40 pushups and collapsed. Now at KU, the freshmen tend to run bigger than the upperclassmen. We'd never get away with anything like that.
At Brigham Young University Marion C. Pfund, dean of the College of Family Living, tells students to "eat a better breakfast" to become better students. Of course, a little bit added to nothing is still only a little bit.