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University Daily Kansan Friday. Sept. 23,1955.
Must Teachers Specialize?
How is Kansas going to get more teachers?
It certainly needs them, and the need promises to become more acute. Last summer the State's newspaper headlines heralded the fact that Kansas had all the teachers it needed. But on reading the stories it was found that finding the 650 more teachers that were needed for this school year had been anything but easy.
Wichita and Sedgwick County met the need by lowering requirements—eliminating a requirement for college degrees in elementary posts.
Consolidation of schools has been another way. But this can only go so far.
There must be a better way than lowering requirements and crowding more students into fewer classrooms.
Of course, educators and others are hard at work trying to find the solution, and the number of teachers is actually on the increase. Despite the low pay.
The solution will probably be found by combining many partial solutions.
One of these partial solutions was suggested recently by Dr. Rosemary Park, president of Connecticut College, New London, Conn. The plan has been put in practice at Connecticut College, and is expected to provide more teachers.
Preparation for teaching has been put into the framework of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In other words, men and women may now pursue a liberal arts course taking a carefully planned pattern of education courses, and graduate with a liberal arts education and with a preparation for teaching.
The specialization of education is probably the reason more college students do not go into the field. Many refuse to enter the field because they want to know what is going on in the world, not only how to read books designed for the third grader.
Granted, educators must think the present separation of the education department is worthwhile, or it would not be done that way. But is the broad education neglected for too much emphasis on specialization?
Connecticut College seems to think the broad education is more valuable than the specialization and the experiment may pay dividends in more teachers. If so, the idea could help in Kansas.
Ron Grandon
UN Challenged By Disarmament
Representatives to the United Nations met in New York to begin the tenth, and possibly the most important session of that organization's General Assembly. The atmosphere at U. M. headquarters will be different from that of any session in the past; there is, at last, a real hope for peace
Most of the actual work on a treaty for the limitation of arms will be done at the October Big Four foreign ministers conference in Geneva. Consequently, it is not expected that the Assembly will be able to consider concrete disarmment proposals until some time in November. But the attitude of disarmament—and that there may be genuine feeling in world capitals for a solution of international tensions—will influence and direct all other deliberations.
More than 70 items make up the Assembly's agenda. The topics for discussion range from a convention on the nationality of married women to a report on the unification of Korea. But the key word of the meeting is disarmament.
The number of more or less "minor" questions of the Assembly avenda in many ways present more serious problems than disarmament and the East-West conflict. Cases such as racial suppression in South Africa, the Cyprus question, the North African colonies and the Israeli-Arab border incidents show that the United Nations has much to do before there is order in world politics.
You see, Doc, I'm afraid of mice.
Cornell Daily Sun
First assignment in Photography I was to take pictures to be mounted showing rights and wrongs. A series of three including two pictures each was to be made. The idea was to take two pictures of the same subject, one right and one wrong. Trouble was the instructor couldn't tell which was which—students forgot to label them.
.. Letters ..
editor:
You must be the man that all of America's larger stores are seeking. The stylist that never makes a mistake. You could command a salary that would be in six figures. (If you were right).
If you say that Ivy League clothing is nauseous, then Sir, it is only because you are either misinformed or ignorant of the true advantages of the "Ivy Look." The "Ivy Look" is the natural look. In this day of functional design the Ivy League suit is in perfect step. Apparently your shoulders don't fill the bill or your hips should be encased in a "4-way stretch girdle."
Editor, we the readers of the UDK call on you to tell us what the college man should wear. The double-breasted suit? It makes a terrific sport coat and always looks well unbuttoned! The three button-single-breasted suit with heavily padded shoulders? They're great. 'Ugh!' Or, how about a two button, three patch pocket suit in Electric Blue or a high shade of Lavender. For your information two and three button, single-breasted suits have been accepted all over America for the past five years and I think you would welcome something that is just a little different and comfortable, too.
I suggest that next week you write an editorial on the Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, because you are obviously as well informed on those subjects as you are on men's fashions.
You say the college caballero has found a uniform and I say great. The college man is a man set apart from the "man on the street" who cares nothing for his appearance and buys a suit only when he needs it, making no attempt to be well dressed. I say the college man in any "Ivy League" suit is well dressed.
MILWAUKEE (U.P.) The department store elevator passed a floor displaying a Davy Crockett figure and a line of boy's clothing.
John Maddux
College Junior
Crockett Plot Nipped In Bud
Mrs. Margaret Riordan overheard this exchange between two men on the lift;
"Let's shoot that fellow and put an end to this noncense," the first one said.
"It wouldn't help," the other replied. "It would be like Santa Claus. Another would pop up at the next corner."
Adolescents Not Confused
LOS ANGELES (U.R.)—Our "hot rod" adolescents may not be the bundles of anxiety many persons have thought them to be, according to Dr. Warren R. Baller of the University of Nebraska.
Dr. Baller, who was on the summer faculty of the University of California here, said recent research has shown adolescence "to be a period of confidence and high optimism."
"You might say today's young people are keyed up but not afraid," he said, adding that today's youth is preoccupied with much the same problems as yesteryear. His goals, according to the doctor, can be summarized:
Satisfactory dependence-independence relationships with parity
2. Satisfactory concept of civic responsibility.
3. Satisfactory religious philosophy.
4. Satisfactory adjustment to persons of the opposite sex, including preparation for marriage.
5. Better understanding of physical growth.
6. Winning and holding of friends.
    a lot of what we used to label as
    teens; the doctor said, "is just plain noise."
NEW HAVEN, Conn. —(U.P.) Jesse James, 24, appeared in court here-changed with violating a traffic rule.
NOT LIKE OLD DAYS
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Daily Transan
John Herington
Managing Editor; Marian Breitey
Gulmin, Irene C.
Six, Lelia Urban, Alison
Editors; Louis L. Hell, City Editor
Rob Lee, Assistant City Editor; Dick Mc Kail, Telegraph Editor; Marion Mc Wall, Society Editor; Jane Pecovnik, Assistant Sports Editor; John McMillon, Sports Editor; Sam L. Jones,
Assistant Sports Editor.
post oer 3,1879
NEWS DEPARTMENT
John Herrington  Manageing
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Ron Grandon Editorial Editor
Ted Blankenship Associate Editor
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Pau Bunge Business Manager Robert Welte Advertising Manager; Steed National Advertising Manager; Jack Fischer, Circulation Manager.
Parents Aroused, Rightfully So
A death and a "close shave" this month have prompted several Lawrence mothers to ask about speed laws and placement of stop signs on state highways.
The death at Big Springs of seven-year-old Arliss Melvin Walter as he was on his way home from school has aroused parents in this area. There are five schools located on state highways in Douglas County.
A group of parents whose children attend India School have considered sending a petition to Gov. Fred Hall asking that something be done about the speed limits.
At India School, located on Kansas Highway 10, two children get across the highway by crawling through a culvert. Sheriff's deputies patrol the areas near the schools when they can. But often they are called away and the crossings are left unguarded.
Until something concrete can be done, it would help if motorists would be especially careful when driving near schools. Observe speed limits where they are marked, and slow down near schools even when there aren't any signs directing you.
Ted Blankenship
If we can save the life of one child, the lost time will be worth while.
We tend to get used to hearing about speed laws and slowing down at school crossings. But there simply is no other way to say it—slow down.
Caution Is Good But Does Nothing
It is encouraging when an adult recognizes that students of this generation are not to be stereotyped along with students of his own.
Dr. Glen T. Nygreen, dean of men of Kent State University, has done so. He calls the present generation "the most responsible" he has known.
There are a lot of good ideas in the world, but they need trying. The United Nations is one of these. There are many others.
And this generation will need to experiment.
The quiet and stable student of today is challenged by his own unwillingness to experiment. Caution is a good thing, but accomplishes nothing.
But is this a good thing for the present generation and the world?
Responsibility is a very proper thing. But responsibility is sometimes said to be incompatible with experimentation.
The enrollment figures are out again, and indicate the same old discouraging ratio—three boys for every girl. This means that two-thirds of our male students are going to have to go dateless, no matter how you slice it. For these lonely males, we offer a few suggestions for passing away those idle hours.
1. Join the Book-of-the-Month club or similar organization. Besides taking up all those extra hours, you can show up these dandies who are catting it up with the women. Imagine their consternation when you ask loftily, "Have you read Robert Ruark's 'Something of Value'."
Here's How Males Can Beat The Ratio
2. Take up stamp collecting. This is bully fun and if you get good enough, you can make a profitable career of it. And when some romEO is telling of his adventures of the night before, you can bust up the whole conversation by asking, "Has anybody seen my perforation gauge?"
Daily O'Collegian
Peon is out. Well, it's nice to have a change of dictators once in awhile.
So, now the Boy Scouts are encouraging smoking.