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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, May 3, 1955 Letters
Used Books Can Be A Cold War Weapon
Suppose you had the equivalent of $2 in American money to spend for textbooks. Would you take the free handouts of the Red Chinese and Soviet, or would you still try to get hold of an objective book?
But what if you didn't know that the literature of the Communist countries, available to all aspiring Asians at absolutely no cost, was not objective. You'd grab the Communist literature in a hurry. Thousands of Asians are doing so.
The Soviet Union and Red China are absolutely masters in the propaganda battle for the mind of the modern Asian. Both of these governments make available on the demand of any Asian student literature about any subject under the sun. It takes a lot of convincing to make a man forget the ideas which he picks up in school
And unless the U.S. can do something about it, the Asian will learn in school that "decadent capitalism has corrupted the world, that the precepts of Communism are the only way for a revolutionary Asia."
A group of American contributors are trying to do something about this. They call themselves the Asian foundation. They are collecting used textbooks, published at least since the end of World War II, to be furnished to Asian students in the classrooms of those countries that sometimes can't afford even classrooms, let alone objective literature for those classrooms.
Kansas is justly proud of its objective course of study. It's doubtful if these objective textbooks will teach Asians "the American way." Good. This is exactly what Asians do not want.
Yesterday the drive started on this campus. Students are urged, nay, begged, to bring their discarded texts to either Strong rotunda, the Student Union lobby, or to the undergraduate reading room of the library—and to do it before Friday.
But if enough objective literature is thrown towards Asia,if Asians can see that truth is not found in the cost-free propaganda of the Communist nations, if Americans can work hard enough at the business of truth, then Asians can find the way for Asians.
—Ron Grandon
It won't be communism.
Good for John Ise!
Good for John Ise!
It's kind of tough to sit around and watch a good man go down We wondered if Dr. Ise would take it.
Praise be he isn't.
We think it's tough on John Ise to quit KU, but the State deserves it.
Until Kansas provides a flexible retirement law, allowing those who wish to continue work to do so, the State deserves to lose every good man who ever worked here.
It's a downright shame, but at least those girls back East will benefit.
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we all know that confession is good for the soul, and now that Mr. McMillion has made his confession. I would like to take exception to his reference to the "average veteran."
Writers Protest Kansan Feature
I know many of the 1,000 plus veterans at KU and do not know one veteran who falls into the category depicted by Mr. Million in the story, "Wine, Women, and Song, or 110 Bucks a Month", on page 5. April 28th. It would be a minor miracle for any person to "wine and dine" in such a manner on $110.00 per month, even if he had no tuition, books, room, board, laundry, insurance, etc., to pay for.
Dead Editor:
Many "average veterans" are married, Mr. McMillion. If married veterans could live as you say the "average veteran" lives, I, for one, would like to know the secret. I assure you that I would not spend my check as you say the "average veteran" does. I do not drink liquor in any form, and have not had a juicy, T-bone steak since starting to school on the G.I. Bill. I refrain from the former through choice, and the latter because I cannot afford it.
Tuition $25.00
Books 10.00
Room 25.00
Laundry 5.00
Food ($1.25 per day) 37.50
$110.00
Total expenditures $102.50
Balance $ 7.50
Some Berate, Others Praise
A single veteran receives $110.00 per month and he probably spends it in the following manner:
Bill Lyons College sophomore
The above figures assume, of course, that the student is a Kansas citizen and does not have to pay out-of-state fees.
It is evident that the author of "Wine, Women, and Song on 110 Buck's a Month," is the "average veteran" that he writes about. It is too bad that the responsibility of newspaper writing is sometimes placed in the hands of this individual. One consolation is that if he continues to live as he apparently does, he will not be with us much longer. The Veterans Administration, the University, nor his own personal health could long endure such conduct.
Dear Editor:
I read, with the utmost disgust, the article, "Wine, Women, and Song on 100 Bucks a Month," by Mr. McMillion, in the April 28 edition of the University Daily Kansan, and I would like to declare myself as an exception to Mr. McMillion's concept of the "average GI attending school." As a member of the University Veterans Organization, and in my various classes, I have had occasion to meet a large number of the veterans studying here under the GI Bill, and I do not believe that any of them follows Mr. McMillon's cyle of Wine, Women, and Song.
Unfortunately, my curriculum does not permit attendance at the various night spots in the Lawrence and Kansas City area; therefore, I
cannot attest to the habits of Mr. McMillion and his friends; however, I would hesitate to call them average ex-servicemen students, or students in any sense, for that matter.
I frankly don't see how anyone could afford such wholesome "recreation" on 110 bucks a month, after books, tuition, and rent.
The only conclusion that I can draw from the article, "Wine, Women, and Song on 110 Bucks a gory depicted by McMillion in the understand is also a veteran, is that Mr. McMillion is projecting his personality. I regret that such a personality must be represented in a publication which is also representative of our University.
Al Trowbridge
Engineering freshman
Al Trowbridge
NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
'Phooey' to the Annual
Dear Editor:
In re latest proposal to subsidize the sagging, financial fortunes of the Jayhawker; Either shape up or ship out.
Charles G. Stewart Second year law
6Weeks Is Not Half a Semester
Professors that take it easy on students during the wintry months before spring vacation and try to make up for the late start by pouring the work on in the final six weeks are a blight to education.
The system is all too prevalent at Kansas University.
This editorial boils down to what is a common gripe among students —overwork. But when the overwork is obvious and gripping prevalent, there is justification for editorial support for this gripe.
It is only professors who can do anything about the problem. Professors have the responsibility to schedule their classes so that assignments, papers, tests, and other forms of dreaded work are spread over the semester, not concentrated into the last six weeks.
Granted, final-stretch overwork is not entirely the professor's fault. Students may be as much to blame.
But when the professor assigns half of the course reading before spring vacation, leaving half of the work to go, there is flagrant irresponsibility. It's worse when the professor actually expects to cover the entire text.
Students and professors alike must learn that the final six weeks of school is not half a semester.
Ron Grandon
Student Aid Cut Found in Fault
Dead Editor:
I want to congratulate you on the support you have been giving in your pages to the campaign that proposed reduction of the State Department budget for foreign student exchange. I feel very strongly that the intended cut would be a very serious mistake, harmful to the best interests of our country. I would rather think that the present appropriation is already highly inadequate.
As I understand, many nations—some of them not the most friendly toward the United States and our democratic ideals—are doing just the opposite by going to great lengths in order to attract foreign students to their universities. For instance, it just came to my attention and I think it is worth considering, that while in 1946 there were 25 Latin-American students in the twelve Spanish State Universities, by 1953 their number had increased to 3,100. In about ten years a very significant proportion of the elite of Latin America, which for the last fifty years had traditionally to the United States for their training, will have been educated in a country whose political interests in the Western Hemisphere, general outlook, and sympathies are not at all close to our democratic ideals.
Domingo Ricart
Assistant professor of
Romance languages
American private investment in Canada is now $8,000,000,000, an increase of 72 per cent in the past 10 years, reports the 1955 Book of Knowledge Annual.
"No, No, Parker . . . I said you could wear BERMUDA shorts to class."