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University Daily Kansan Monday. Oct. 24. 1955
College Degree Now Pays Off
The college graduate of a few years ago had to be content that he had received a well-rounded education, if not the best paying job in the world. It was accepted that practically any laborer or non-graduae could make as much money as a college graduate.
Today the college graduate has a much more promising future. Industry is turning to well-trained graduates to fill essential positions.
While the average laborer gets $1.88 an hour for a yearly income of approximately $3,900 (based on the 40 hour week), the average, beginning college graduate will receive $350 a month for a yearly income of $4,200.
According to a recent survey by the U. S. News and World Report, graduating seniors can expect to earn $235-$525 a month, depending on their majors. Scientific and technical students, of course, are offered most: namely $357-$525 monthly. Other representative occupations and beginning monthly wages include: medical technicians, $350-$500; lawyers, $300-$400; liberal arts majors, $300-$360; journalists, $290-$325; accountants, $270-$450; business specialists, $250-$400; and teachers, $235-$265.
The figures by themselves are misleading, however. One fourth of all college graduates receive less than does the average laborer or non-college graduate.
Moreover, students cannot merely hold down a desk in college for four years and then expect a lucrative job. The company representative who comes to the campus in search of recruits is highly selective. He seeks a student who is bright, shows ambition, has a good personality, and looks presentable. And grades do count, many students learn to their dismay and surprise.
The student is not going to "fall" into a good position once he graduates. He must prepare for it. He must know what he wants long before he makes his interviews. And when that all-important offer is made, he must be ready to prove he is worth what he is earning.
Daily Athenaeum
Closed-circuit television will be used for teaching chemistry to freshman students at Iowa State College this fall. The experiment, the Iowa State Daily says, will help to determine whether closed-circuit TV is practical when used in teaching chemistry as compared with present methods. At least they won't have to turn it off for the commercials.
"Supplicant Persephone" is back to stay on the Syracuse University campus. The statue, a nude, was removed from its pedestal in May because its owner was leaving for a new position at Notre Dame. The class of 1955 bought it as a class gift. We bet Syracuse has less trouble with green paint than KU does with its "Uncle Jimmy" Green.
Archeologists are bolstering the ruins of Machu Piechu, remote citadel of Peru's ancient Inca culture.
Inca Fortress Gets Repairs
No geologic faults are apparent in the ridge that shoulders the city's impressive remnants, tucked away in the Ardes. Localized settings, however, endanger the stability of some buildings.
The "sky-top" stronghold, 50 miles northwest of Cuzco, was found in 1912 by a National Geographic Society-Yale University expedition led by Dr. Hiram Bingham of Connetcet.
The scene startled the discoverers. Dr. Binham later wrote:
"I could see granite ashlars (hewn stones) still fitting together as perfectly as though they had been laid the daw before."
Was Haven To Incas
The natural fortress offered a haven to Incas, who fled Spanish persecution elsewhere in Peru. Signal stations on near-by twin peaks stood ready to sound a warning. But the conquistadors never found the city.
Machu Picchu is on a mountain saddle 8,000 feet above sea level. A hundred or more stairways link its levels. "Everything is up and down," a visitor wrote. "People think in vertical rather than horizontal distances."
More Women Than Men
One small building's mortarless granite ashlarls were so closely fitted they seemed to have grown together—"held by friction, not unlike the glass stopper in a bottle," Dr. Bingham said.
More than 50 tombs and cemetery caves attest the solitude of the place. The caverns once revealed 173 skeltons—female ten to one. Thus scholars deduce that Machu Picchu sheltered the Incas' Virgins of the Sun, the chosen women who wove exquisite textiles and brewed chicha beer.
Once near-inaccessible, the ruins today intrigue visitors who find one explorer's description of Machu Picchu apt.
"The western hemisphere holds nothing comparable."
The Indonesian Republic is made up of 79 million persons speaking some 40 languages and clustered on 3,000 islands sprawled across the Equator, says the National Geographic Society. Superimposed on the United States, Indonesia would reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Springfield, Ohio, has become a printing giant. It sends out an average 16 to 17 million magazines a month, says the National Geographic Society.
Blindness Study Badly Needed
The National Society for the Prevention of Blindness has released a startling report. According to the Society, one million men and women in this country are losing their sight because of an eye disease known as glaucoma. Thousands of others are going blind from uvetis, cataracts and retinitis pigmentosa, to mention but a few sight-robbing diseases.
Science—which has made many brilliant gains against blindness—has not yet been able to come up with the answer to the threat of all these ruthless eye diseases. All told, it is estimated that more han 750,000 Americans now alive will lose their vision before they die.
There seems only one answer: intensified eye research. Yet the eye research programs now being carried on in America are seriously inadequate. The Prevention of Blindness Society estimates that little more than one penny per person is being spent in this country to discover new scientific weapons against eye disease, despite the enormous cost exacted by blindness in human tragedy and staggering economic waste.
It seems clear that additional research is essential, and that funds must be made available to back it up. The research program of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, a nonprofit organization active in sight conservation since 1908, merits thoughtful, philanthropic consideration.
Meanwhile, we can do much to protect our own eyes by knowing the facts of good eye care. The National Society has offered to send a free folder on eye care to any reader of this newspaper.
Write to Prevention of Blindness. 1790 Broadway, New York 19.
We Like Pretty Girls
As homecoming rolls around, we'll have another queen. Oh Goody!
There's a queen for Homecoming, a calendar queen, a Jayhawker queen, a Student Union Carnival queen, a KU Relays queen, ISA queen, a Greek Week Queen, and for goodness sake—for a nation that doesn't believe in royalty we sure go out for this sort of thing.
But that's all right. It's not the principle that counts, it's the pretty girl. And the UDK here pronounces that we're for pretty girls.
But let's not put crowns on the heads of all of 'em.
The Dodgers are thinking of building a new stadium with an all-weather roof. If they do, the roar of the Flock's faithful rococoting off that roof will make the annual Times Square-on-New Year's Eve broadcast sound like it's coming from a morgue.
.. Letters
Editor:
While there seems to be such a controversy over the Western Civilization program, may I add my two cents worth.
I would like to say I read all the required material, and took notes for the Western Civilization test. I did not find myself "buried in a wilderness of fcts" and I made a B on the exam. Since I was taking sixteen hours, I could not enroll for two hours of proctoring as eighteen hours was beyond limits.
It would be a dull world if there were nothing to gripe about. I did my share, as I had transferred with six hours credit in Western Civilization (somewhat different material) from another college. I am reminded of a poem I once learned.
Somebody said that it couldn't be done.
be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That maybe it couldn't, but he
would be one
be one
That wouldn't say so 'till he'd
tried
He started to sing as he tackled the thing.
That couldn't be done, and he did it!'
Marilyn J. Hafer Mayetta junior
Good news for ROTC's-According to Dolph Simons, Lawrence Journal-World publisher, we won't have to fight the Russians. He quotes experts as saying that now we'll team up with the Soviet and fight China.
If crowded schools indicate a trend of the times, how about a few new parking lots to give a boost to Henry Ford's prediction of prosperity for 1956?
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LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler 'Regal Flophouse' Charge Denied
Allow me to quote a part of a famous passage from John Dewey:
Mr. Flanagan's article "A University or Regal Flophouse" printed in the Oct. 19 issue of the University Daily Kansan was a complete injustice to all phases of university life both educational and social. His statements concerning the recent announcements, pinnings and parties were very true. Also, I admit that at least three out of every four students entering college do not graduate. However, these figures should not let the value of college social-educational life be thrown out of perspective.
"I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the individual to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends."
Editor:
I disagree with Mr. Flanagan's statement that college is just a continuation of high school and is a second half of an eight year vacuum between elementary school and work. Each student that enters college no matter whether he stays a semester, a year, or four years, receives a valuable course in human relations. After school, the individual will not be in a deep well applying all he
has learned of his profession, but he will be among people. He must be able to work with these people and live with them. Where in college does the individual have an opportunity to live and get along with such a variety of people—certainly not in high school where we have cliques. College is a continuation of the development of the individual both educationally and socially.
As for college being a marriage bureau, I say so what! If a man or woman meets a person whom he wishes to marry, chances are that person will be on the same intellectual and social level as he. They have a lot in common and the marriage can more than likely succeed. Marriage and a family is just as important an institution in our society as a school. Personally, I admire the people's judgment at having waited long enough to get a college education or a part of one before marrying
College is certainly an institution of learning. Along with all of the pinnings, etc., I have noticed reports of scholarships awarded, honor roll students, those receiving Phi Beta Kappa keys and so forth. Is this or is it not an indication of the education received here? Mr. Flanagan, I say that if you object to this college as being a social-educational institution, why are you here? What value have you received from college?
Zoanne Mariner Topeka junior