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University Daily Kansan Friday. Sept. 30. 1955
Sen.WileyShows His Politics
This past week Sen. Alexander Wiley (R-Wis) accused the Defense Department of playing politics by giving basic combat training under the new reserve program in southern camps where the trainees will receive no combat instruction under cold weather conditions.
"The Department of Defense has apparently learned very little from its recent battle experience in Korea, when troops had to be retained for the bitter cold temperatures of that land." was the reason Sen. Wiley gave for having the bases located in the North.
Sen. Wiley seems to forget the biological factor that making the body cold and the person miserable will do little in helping the soldier become more acclimated to the weather.
Just because you pound your head against a wall doesn't mean you can withstand a blow to the head.
Soldiers returning from Korea to be discharged at Camp Chaffee, Ark., were asked if cold weather training helped them withstand the miseries of bitter climate. They replied that the cold weather training at northern bases did not make it easier to fight the climate.
A more reasonable answer would be a quick refresher course just before a soldier entered the cold combat zone which would include accustoming him to the sleeping bag, how to fuel an open oil burner, pitching an air-tight tent, and other tricks by well-trained cadre who had been fighting in the cold.
It would be foolish, however, to move camps to the North from the South, where the costs are much lower in maintaining bases.
Perhaps, one reason Sen. Wiley wants more training in the North is that Camp McCoy, Wis., is set up primarily for cold weather basic training.
Possibly, Sen. Wiley is playing a little politics also.
—David Webb
Women take notice. Your University is a virtual storehouse of opportunities. Are you taking advantage of them?
Women Offered Job Opportunities
Courses are offered for every plausible occupation, ranging from music education to nursing. Able instructors and professors devote time and ability every day to give you every possible advantage in the field of your choice—are you profiting from their knowledge and experience?
The speech and hearing program of the University offers professional opportunities for trained persons in this field, especially in Kansas. Opportunities are found for speech correctionists, audiologists, and teachers of the deaf.
A B. S. degree in nursing is offered for a combined 48-month program of general college and basic nursing education. During the nine quarters on the Medical Center campus, the woman student learns theory and practice in general medicine and surgery, nursing of children, maternity nursing, psychiatry, and the out-patient department.
Six different degree courses in music education are offered by the department of music education. Music libraries, a record listening library, a large general library, and a psychology of music laboratory are among the many facilities the University offers in this field.
Opportunities for women in the home economic-journalism sequence are numerous. They lie in women's departments of newspapers, women's magazines, industrial publications and house organs, radio, television, and public relations.
Such opportunities for women should not be ignored. These and many more in a variety of different fields are open and available to every woman student on the campus.
Marion McCov
Senator Frank Carlson (R-Kansas) says that President Eisenhower will soon "Recover Completely," from his recent illness. Carlson who spoke last night to KU's Young Republican Club said the president should "bounce back very soon," and begin preparations to return to full duty as the head of the United States government.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
.. Letters ..
Editor:
Underlying John McMillion's criticism of the Western Civilization course lies one of the most obnoxious, prevalent operational principles of the University community today: the transcript is a valid instrument of measurement of a student's worth.
Operationally this means that the ability to pass a designated series of courses is tantamount to a college education. And the corollary: the higher the grade point average, the more able and learned the student.
Applied to Western Civilization this means that learning in the field of the social sciences doesn't constitute the importance of the course. Following this principle, the importance lies in the development of the skill of grademaking in Western Civilization.
I think that a few criticisms of Mr. McMillion's point of view are in order. After stating that Western Civilization is a problem and implying that the administration has not "reached the roots" of the problem, he does not tell us what or where the "roots" are. "A good lecture series" is the solution, though.
It would be interesting to know on what basis Mr. McMillion makes his assumptions. Has he conducted a scientific study of Western Civilization students?
If there is nothing more to be gained from the time spent in college than a transcript with passing marks for courses, if there is no higher mark of a superior student than membership in the cult of the almighty A, if a student doesn't
On the subject of acquiring a background for the course, most students probably enter college with inadequate preparation for college work in the social sciences (which probably accounts for much of the antagonism toward the course). This increases the importance of studying Western Civilization early in college.
There are many methods of teaching, most of which are valuable for particular subjects. The reading-discussion method is invaluable for a basic course in the social sciences. A student can't think in a vacuum, and reading becomes necessary. And a student must use the tools of the material (in the social sciences these are words and phrases, in the physical sciences laboratory instruments).
I agree with Mr. McMillion that something is drastically wrong at a university when a number of students become customers of a "pass or your money back" racket. But the defect is not in the Western Civilization program, but in the misplaced emphasis of the university world.
O' Boy! More Hogs For Everyone
CHICAGO-(U.P.)-The National Live Stock Producer anticipates that 101,000,000 hogs will be marketed in 1955, the third-largest volume in history, and that pork will be one of the best "meat buys" this fall.
Pork is a better buy now than it was 26 years ago, according to the magazine. It said today's worker earns the price of a pound of pork chops in 30 minutes, whereas in 1929 he had to put in 49 minutes.
The magazine recommends pork tenderloin supreme as a tempting pork dish. For six servings you need:
Six tenderloin pork patties, 6 slices of tomato $ _{1/2} $ inch thick, 6 slices of onion $ _{1/4} $ inch thick, and 12 slices of bacon. Cross two strips of bacon. Place one of the pork patties, a tomato slice and an onion slice on top, then secure the ends of the bacon slices at the top with a tophick. Bake in a covered dish at 350 degrees for 30 minutes, then remove cover and bake another 30 minutes
Jury Puzzled
BOSTON — (UP) — A federal judge was started when, after four hours' deliberation, a jury asked him, "Who's the defendant?" The jury said it couldn't decide whether Guy Pezznola or the firm that employed him as treasurer was guilty in an income tax evasion case. The judge suggested the jury read the indictment. Soon afterward Pezznola was convicted.
learn to read, think, and analyze,
then it is not worth the effort.
Martha Warner
Graduate Student
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Crowded Schools Encouraging Sign
A record number of new students, freshmen and transfer, have enrolled in the college this year and it seems as though all predictions that were made earlier have been surpassed. This means that dormitory and classroom conditions will be crowded. The college is taking steps to overcome this with the announced construction of a new dormitory which will begin soon, but these efforts will never entirely catch up with the number of students that will enroll.
This, we believe, is encouraging. Its significance means that American society, being the highest in the world, demands that an education is not only a right, but a necessity to be able to live in the modern atomic age. As more and more children pass on into high school, many more will go on to college. In a recent statement by Dr. Joseph Judge, a prominent Air Force educator, he said that the average grade level of the recruits at Denver's Lowry AFB is the eleventh grade. Forty years ago it was not anywhere near that high, barely out of the elementary school if our vacationed minds remember correctly. Ten years ago it was still not that high.
With the sharp rise of enrollment in higher education continuing in an ever increasing climb, it seems inevitable that the average grade level achieved will be at least in the college level. Indeed this is highly encouraging because through education it will be possible for America to remain the stalunch supporter of democracy and the individual. That the defense department of the government has decided that education is extremely important to the soldier or sailor in order that he remain loyal and understanding of the causes for which the U. S. stands, is of belated importance to us. We have realized that fact for several years in accord with many others.
But as the trend toward better education continues, it will be necessary to crowd more and more until the walls bulge more than at present. Recent criticisms of the public schools in many of the nation's leading magazines also reflect the recognition of the importance of education. People care what the schools teach their children. No longer are schools considered as a place to learn simply to read and write. That is not enough in 1955. Children must be able to do more, know more, and understand more. That parents and others are criticizing the schools, whether justly or not, does indicate that citizens do care what happens to education and to America.
The crowding is only an example of the trend and we hope it continues.
—Colorado State Mirror
Then will come the time for the last year, when like us who have preceded you, you too can give advice to the up-and-comers. The whole collegiate cycle will be done, some of the best times in your life over, and you will face the world.
Big dances, dorm parties and lots of new friends are all part of it. Next spring, after one of the quickest winters of your life, you become a sophomore. From there on it will be easy; by the middle of that sophomore year you are over the hump. You'll have learned to study, had your share of extracurricular activities, and highly collegiate recreation.
You'll find the rush and frolic of homecoming this fall just at the time four-week tests are due. There'll be torch parades, all-nighters getting the house sign ready, and, probably, an English theme or big test due at the same time.
There is an art to getting along in a busy life like this; it's called budgeting your time. Though most people won't admit it, if they have lasted through a couple of years of college, they are almost unconscious masters at planning what to do and when. Start early with it . . . and don't stop or you'll be out the door by the time snow flies.
Sit down Rook. Just stop for awhile and look at what you are going to go through in the next four or five years.
But don't rock the boat. Remember why you're here.
Oregon State Barometer
Don't Rock The Boat
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Prosperity is really here-Playboy magazine is sold out within two days.
Anyone know of a room for rent?