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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 26, 1955
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'Flophouse' Item GetsSeriousLook
So the University of Kansas is a combination marriage bureau-social club? It is according to Mr. Flanagan in the UDK last week.
For two weeks he counted two engagements, 11 pinnings, and 44 various parties, dinners, and dances in the paper, and because of this extensive research into the social life of the KU student, Mr. Flanagan assumes that the student lives from one party to the next and has lost sight of the fact that the purpose of the University is educational.
Now really, I wonder if Mr. Flannagan limits his reading exclusively to the society page?
If he had noticed the other pages of his two weeks of research work, he might have found that aside from parties, dinners, and dances, the UDK also carried three notices of humanities lectures, stories on three English conferences, seven music concerts and recitals, four notices of theater productions, schedules for 37 intramural football games, 15 notices of meetings of the graduate, education, Spanish, and French clubs, six notices of religious meetings, along with various workshops, art exhibits, student council meetings, and many other activities that the impartial observer might conclude occupy a relatively minor part of the KU student's time.
Another item Mr. Flanagan seemed to overlook was the definition of the word "party." I think he would find that "parties," as such, are held only two or three times a year by sororities, fraternities, and groups on the Hill. The dinners to which he refers are usually exchange dinners held by the houses, not for the purpose of socializing, but more for bettering relations and giving students a chance to become acquainted.
Mr. Flanagan said that when 8,000 students are brought together there has to be some social life or we would all be raving maniacs in no time. Basing facts purely on this statement, we find that if approximately 100 students attended one of the 44 parties, dinners, or dances held in the last two weeks, that would make 4,400 students attending different functions.
This leaves 3,600 of the 8,000 students, only a little less than half, who did not attend even one party. They must, poor things, all be raving manias by now for their lack of social life.
It is very true that an increasing number of students leave school before graduation, but surely the announcement of two engagements and 11 pinnings, and the holding of 44 various parties, dinners, and dances for a student body of 8,000 could hardly be the reason for such a fact.
We hardly feel this extensive social life has caused the majority of students to lose sight of the purpose of the University.
—Marion McCoy
Courtesy Note Didn't Help This Driver
With Iowa driver's licenses good for 2 years, it is a little hard to remember when to renew them, even though the date is your birthday. So the first year the birthday system was adopted, the state mailed out courtesy cards to remind people a month or so ahead of time.
That's unusual, though. The intention is to mail a courtesy card from 45 to 30 days before the license is due to expire. Cards are mailed out twice a month, and in some counties, examiners are on hand only twice a month, so 30 days give reasonable warning.
How wrong they were. So many people forgot whether their license ran out in the odd year or the even year that they got to be a nuisance. It was a waste of the examiners' time to give repeat examinations to citizens who had been driving for years, even if they did pay the fees. So for the last couple years the state has been sending out courtesy cards again.
Then no cards were sent for several years, as an economy measure. A person ought to be able to remember his own birthday, the authorities thought.
-Des Moines Register
One driver got a card postmarked Sept. 29 telling him his license "will expire" Sept. 3.
We asked if a person who got his reminder too list to do anything about it would have to take the examination all over. The director said there was no policy on that; it would be up to the examiner.
MATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
-And A Gay One
An Education major and close friend of ours, Mr. Windit Frustratemnot, agrees wholeheartedly with the Topeka junior's stalwart denial (UDK, Oct. 24) of an editorial which she accurately describes as an "injustice to all phases of university life." (1.)
Editor:
Mr. Wimdit says that if John Dewey thinks "the school is primarily a social institution." that's good enough for his money too. When you come to college you get (even though you may choose to reject the other things) a fine course in human relations. All you have to do is open your eyes, and you will see human relations going on all over the campus. Where else—we ask—can you have such an opportunity?
The Topeka junior shows that she is sensitive to the higher things in life when she concedes (possibly only to win over the intellectual fuddy-duddies still found on a number of the nation's campi) that "College is certainly an institution of learning." We are nevertheless convinced she is also aware of the fact that such thoughts are dangerous when carried to extremes, as is anything else which might interfere with the happy acquisition of social values.
(Asst. Instructor at Large)
Mrs. Hallelujah Wispy
Miss Schoolmarmalade W.
Sickmund DeepSole
(Consulting psychologist)
Peter Earle
Graduate student
Mr. Wispy
(1.) Mr. Frustratemnot is now in the fourth year of his most advanced socio-educational experience. He is preparing his doctoral dissertation, which has to do with the adaptation of late 19th and early 20th century nursery rhymes to modern high-school-level English. He is said to be a pioneer in this field.
La Prensa Unchained
The Argentine press is breaking the chains of censorship. The ouster of Juan Peron last month cleared the way for the restoration of La Prensa, Argentina's leading newspaper, to its rightful owners. Censorship, the Inter-American Press Association reports, already has been lifted.
La Prensa became a cause celebré for press freedom when it was confiscated in 1951. The paper was subsequently sold to the General Confederation of Labor and entangled in all manner of legal trappings by Peron.
Champions of the free press have kept sharp eyes on the fate of La Prensa. When President Lonardi was sworn in, the IAPA cabled a request for lifting censorship.
The restoration of La Prensa is the restoration of freedom of expression.
Daily Athenaeum
'Quacks' Prey On Blindness
A/ warning against dangerous, short-cut "cures" and useless eye exercises for vision defects was issued today by Dr. Franklin M. Foote, executive director of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness.
"Modern nostrum-peddlers are especially active among eye patients," Dr. Foote cautioned, calling on all Americans to be on guard against "the quacks who profit from the fears of men, women and children suffering from eye disease."
People with impaired vision are understandably anxious to correct their eye defeces, he pointed out, but many persons ignore essential treatment in favor of useless eye exercise or other methods "based largely on wishful thinking."
The prevention of blindness executive explained that the most common impairments of vision—such as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism—are all related to structural conditions, including the size and shape of the eye itself. "These structural defects cannot be corrected by so-called eye training," he emphasized.
The "eye trainers," Dr. Foote said, actually train the patient's mind rather than his vision, teaching him to interpret blurred images on a chart more accurately; vision, however, remains blurred, and this may have serious consequences.
"The man who 'didn't see the car coming' will find small comfort in the fact that he was taught to read an eye chart in spite of poor vision."
Eye exercises are especially dangerous, Dr. Foote emphasized, when used to "treat" such major sight-robbing diseases as glaucoma or cataract. "Misplaced hope on useless eye exercises," he pointed out, "often results in disastrous delay."
Although exercises do often help in the case of crossed eyes or strabismus, Dr. Foote stressed the fact that the only way to learn about correct treatment for impaired vision is by thorough, professional eye examination.
Research psychologists say their ideal type of prospective Air Force or Navy pilot is a youngster from a large family who enjoys bodily contact sports, builds and drives "hot rods," likes all kinds of people, believes in some religion, and is daring but not foolhardy.
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific roalroads completed the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 when they joined at Promontory Point, Utah.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler A Breathing Space Is On The Way
"I USTA HAVE SO MUCH TROUBLE GETTING THEM IN AT CLOSING
HOURS - WILL YOU TURN ON THE WATER, MAKE?"
It won't be too long before the start of Thanksgiving vacation. Already the thoughts of Mom's cooking and our own bed sneak in between thoughts of German nouns and history exams.
Persons we had never seen no; heard about the last of August are now among our best friends, and we are finding that the course which looked so easy in the catalog is requiring a little more study than we had planned.
It has been seven weeks since classes started. Seven weeks ago suitcases and trunks came out of attics and off closet shelves. Winter clothing was unpacked from storage and peaked and unpacked.
Already it is time for mid-semes-
ter exams and Halloween and
Homecoming. Months on the calen-
dar seem to pass almost as quickly
as we can tear the pages off. One
week runs into another, with only
a moment or two of breathing
space over the week-end. Never
have days seemed so short nor
assignments so long.
Just a few more days and October can be torn from the calendar. Then Thanksgiving will be in sight. For University students an and faculty members, Thanksgiving is more than just a day of turkey and pie. It is a
five-day period for resting and catching up.
For many foreign students on the campus, Thanksgiving will mean a few days when they will get their first real look at family life in the United States. Because Thanksgiving is a holiday that is all our own in origin, the story of the Pilgrims may be completely new to students from other countries.
This is the time of year when students, who aren't really home-sick at all, begin to glance at the calendar and roughly calculate how long it will take them to get from their last Tuesday class to the train or bus station. Before long parents will begin receiving letters with subtle hints about what nights the family car will be needed or what kinds of cake to have for dinner.
University life is fun. Even the work is not too bad most of the time. And on Nov. 27 when we catch a train or bus or get into the car to come back we will do so without too much reluctance. We will be anxious to get back to the Hill to see the gang and to tackle lessons.
Vacations are fun, too, but we won't mind coming back. Besides, there are only 28 days between Nov. 27 and Dec. 25.
—Darline Montgomery
No blood test is required for wedding licenses in Arizona. Arkansas, District of Columbia, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, South Carolina, ap Washington.
Daily Hansan
University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room, KU 251, Ad Room, KU 376 Member of the Inland Daily Press association. Associated Collegiate Press association Represented by the national newspaper N.Y., Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a year (add $1 a semester if in Lawrence). Published at Lawrence University versity year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays and examination periods. Entered as second class matter. Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence, Kan.
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