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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 12, 1955.
Courtesy Lacking Among Students
Why must college students consistently engage in the practice of making asses of themselves? The average student has no respect for the people in his community who are engaged in serving the public. The treatment many college students give waitresses, taxi cab drivers, bus drivers, and clerks is extremely shoddy.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
James Cagney in the picture "Mister Roberts" gives an accurate demonstration of the animosity which these thoughtless "big money" boys can arouse in the working public. In an emotional outbreak Cagney describes the humiliation a waiter undergoes at the hands of college students.
If the $64,000 question program has done nothing else, it has served to awaken people to the fact that social standing and wealth are not necessarily a mark of intelligence. People such as Marine Capt. Richard S. McCutchen, cobbler Gino Prato, and grandmother Myrtle Power flabbergasted the nation with the immense amount of knowledge they have in their respective fields.
If a person would stop to talk to the average man on the street, the laborer, shopkeeper, waitress, or what have you, he would find, surprisingly enough, that a great many exceptionally intelligent people are on the face of the earth who aren't in the so-called upper crust.
Too many college students think that just because they have had the opportunity to attend a university this puts them on a plane above their fellow men. A common complaint from service-men about officers coming into the various branches of the service out of the ROTC programs is that they feel they know it all and look upon the enlisted man as an idiot.
A good solution for the whole problem would be to somehow include as a requirement for a college degree a course that would call for every student to serve one summer as a waiter or waitress. A couple of months on the other side of the fence would make a great deal of difference in the outlook some people have as to just how much guff a waiter or waitress has to take.
Students at KU or at any other college or university should stop to remember that the person waiting on them is doing them a service. These people are in no way inferior to any of the rest of us and in many instances probably would surprise us with their knowledge.
The next time you go out remember that the waiter or waitress is a human being equal to you. A little common courtesy and patience would go a long way toward smoothing relations between the townspeople and students in Lawrence.
—John McMillion
'SneakingUp'OnCars May Be Justified
The American Automobile Association at its annual meeting this week adopted a resolution criticizing "fright campaigns" in connection with traffic law enforcement. The A.A.A. opposes using unmarked patrol cars, officers not in uniform and "ambush tactics". It thinks motorists should be warned when radar and other speed detection devices are used.
We'd agree that "speed traps" are indefensible. Motorists are picked up for driving just a mile or two over speed limits or are arrested in areas where traffic signs are so placed that most people don't see them. Then these motorists are hauled before the J. P. or mayor for quickie justice. Such speed traps are revenue raising devices, not law enforcement measures.
However, there are times when law enforcement officials are justified, we believe, in a bit of "sneaking up" on motorists. The traditional example of this is the motor cop hiding behind a billboard. The more frequent modern application is using radar or parking a patrol car on a side street while the officers watches for traffic violations. —Des Moines Register
Heard over CBS: "Don't let fire destroy your home. Protect your wife and children. Have a fire inspector check them every three months." Civic duties of our public servants never cease to expand.
"I SEE THEYVE PATCHED THINGS UP."
'Its Taking Me' Students Cry
Why I have to take it
I really cannot see.
After looking at the reading list I think it's taking me.
This poem typifies the dismayed statements of underclassmen and transfer students who are shaking hands for the first time with Kansas University's Western Civilization course.
There seems to be a general feeling among many that it was placed on the required curriculum for the same reason a prize fighter rabbit-punches his opponent.
Not until the course is well underway do many students begin to see its significance or intent, but it really isn't meant to make a tough schedule tougher, even if it does.
It was designed to prepare students majoring in many fields for life in a complicated society. It shows that our present society is a good one but can be made better by peaceful settlement of differences. It calls the student's attention to the fact that there are grave problems in merely existing.
Let's isolate one phase of the course and see what kind of answers we might get by having a make-believe interview with the man on the street on "cultural lag," which is something that was discussed by all Western Civilization groups last week.
Ask the man on the street and it might turn out something like this:
Ike: "Yes sir, thank you. And you madam, what do you think of 'cultural lag'?"
Interview Ike; "Excuse me, sir. I'm a Kansas University student making a survey and I'd like to ask you a question—what are your feelings on 'cultural lag'?"
Harrassed Housewife. "Is that a new television show? Well, my tube is broken and..."
I. M. Hypothetical, pig raises:
"Oh, so KU is thinking about an Ag section, eh? Well, it's about time somebody gave Kansas State a little competition in agriculture. Ag and culture. Fine combination.
Can't miss."
Ike: "Yes, madam, so is mine,
Sir, what do you think of 'cultural lag'?"
Al L. Businessman: "It will never sell. Markets flooded now. What this country needs is a good 50-cent cigar."
If every campus had a course in Western Civilization, the problems it considers would be faced intelligently ten years from now by many rather than by few.
.. Letters ..
Jerry Thomas
Editor:
I was very much interested by the Kansan's editors in the issue of Monday. Oct. 10, regarding the Western Civilization program.
As Mr. McMillion says, perhaps these new changes will iron out the deficiencies in the Western Civ course. However, as he also says, these still will have to prove themselves before the course will be really successful.
Mr. Grandon, in his editorial defending the course, says "European students—and indeed students in most of the rest of the world, study by a system similar to the Western City program here at KU."
Yes indeed Mr. Grandon, but do these students study all their classes under this system, or do they have a series of daily classes which require written reports and other daily work in addition to this Western Civ-type of reading course? I agree heartily that if students had all their classes under the Western Civ plan, it would make things much easier but the combination of the two plans seems to result only in chaos.
I agree with Mr. Grandon that the material presented in Western Civ is fascinating and worth-while. And as Mr. McMillion says, perhaps the new proctorial system will help make the students keep up on the assignments.
If not, the students will continue to neglect the Western Civ readings—as in the past—to keep up on daily assignments in other courses.
As Mr. McMillion says, "This semester should be a test."
Dick Walt
Journalism junior
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ColumbusWasn't Perfect Either
Columbus Day, a holiday which is celebrated in many states, is being celebrated today.
It is revealing that this holiday was first celebrated by the Society of St. Tammany in 1792. This organization, of course, is much better known as Tammany Hall.
Tammany Hall realized that it would be advantageous to have some day they could celebrate before the elections. This would give them a chance to show their candidate immediately before the voting time.
The day commemorates the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. Columbus, believing that the earth is round, conceived an idea of reaching Asia by sailing due west and submitted proposals to the king of Portugal suggesting that he equip the expedition.
Meeting with no success, he went to Spain and submitted proposals to Ferdinand and Isabella. After first being refused, they finally agreed to let him command three vessels.
Although his discovery forever made his name famous, Columbus ended his life in tragedy and poverty.
This developed after his voyages when it was discovered that he made special deals with the natives.
Columbus accomplished an amazing feat, but his life was like the lives of many people that we hold as idols, it had faults.
The Weather's Fine But Oh, That Exam
It's time for hayrack rides again, time for parties on the sandbar, time for picnics at Lone Star Lake. It's time for long country rides in the afternoon and long walks in the evening, time to hunt on Saturday morning.
You can have spring, it's greatly overrated. I'll take the long Indian summer and autumn.
It's time to start the pledges raking in the yard, time to get downtown for some shot-gun shells, to start spotting the pheasant and quail.
It's time to break out the suede jacket and the winter suit, to borrow a beer cooler for the river bank and a blanket for the lake, time to roast wieners and lie by the water looking up at the harvest moon.
The summer bugs are gone, and the summer heat, and the sultry summer smell. The autumn smell is here now, the fresh, crisp, smoky smell, the cool smell.
Go ahead, take spring. Fall is my time.
—Larry Heil
Wish I didn't have an hour exam tomorrow.
Things must be looking up for "our feathered friends" and other allegedly dumb animals—and thereby for the human kind. It says in the news that one great sovereign nation has sent another great sovereign nation an official note asking that it change its plans for a huge bombing range lest it disturb a nesting range of cranes. Also that a New York man is buying a Virginia farm so he can have a place to put a Tennessee heifer.
There's Still Hope
The two nations are Canada and the United States. The proud heifer owner is Ludwig Bemelmans, painter and writer. And the cranes are not ordinary cranes, nor is the heifer an ordinary bovine lass. The cranes are of the rare whooping variety, of which only 26 are known to remain extant. And the heifer is a blooded Black Angus, reared by a United States senator and valued at $1,250. And, says Mr. Bemelmans, "She had such a kind face I could not keep from buying her."
Christian Science Monitor
So long as things like these can happen birds will survive, cows will multiply, and men will some day cease killing each other off.
The dean of students at the University of Tampa has announced that a man has been hired to police the University parking area, which proves there is at least one institution of higher learning that has a parking area.
An Iowa State fraternity has rushed an ISC co-ed. The fraternity says it is all a big mistake. When will these Greek organizations stop trying to lure away the independents?