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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 21, 1955
A Word of Praise Is Sure Out of Order
The elections are over. At the time this editorial is being written, the outcome is not known.
This is irrelevant to what we have to say here.
If you were one of the nine students out of—what is it?—some 7500 students who were interested enough to listen in on the 6-man panel on the system last Tuesday evening in the Student Union ballroom, you no doubt understand why you voted the way you did.
It's better not to vote at all than to be an ignorant voter—a voter who didn't try to check into the matter and establish an opinion of his own instead of being a 'well-if-you-say-so' guy.
It is very seldom that an issue is put to a vote—as this one was—and be of interest to so many people.
Of course, we realize, that many people could not be there due to many personal unfortunate circumstances, but this editorial is directed to those persons who sat and read a book, or listened to records, or went out to the Dairy Queen or the Root Beer stand.
If those persons ever bother to read the UDK, Tuesday in particular, they would have known the time, place and purpose of the panel discussion held.
Enough of the "mama scolding the naughty children" but we think by now you have the idea we're trying to put across.
But we're wondering why these people who vehemently and adamantly yelled 'no' to the proposal, didn't come to the discussion and have their feelings heard. Our guess is they yelled for effect.
That's it. —Karen Hilmer
—Karen Hilmer Editorial Editor
'Where Men Are Men—'
Money Prime Factor In Cowboy' Fame
Dodge City's claim for the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Museum was jumped by Oklahoma City in Denver last week. Four staunch Kansans—including Gov. Fred Hall and Sen. Andrew Schoeppel—spoke in behalf of Dodge City, but to no avail.
The final choice was made by a board of trustees on the basis of past history, present and future rodeos, and state faith and interest, but what swung the votes to Oklahoma City was the half-million dollars pledged to build the museum there. For that matter, with 3750.000 Eudora could have had it.
This is a blow not only to the civic pride of Dodge City but to the civic pride of Kansas.
From the standpoint of state faith and interest, no one can deny that Kansas is first. There were 1,000 Kansans present to cheer the two official delegates in Denver, far more than were present from Oklahoma or Colorado. The Kansans contingent, which easily outnumbered all others combined, put on a mile-long parade through the streets of downtown Denver. Twelve Kansas business, professional, and veterans' organizations with a membership of over 19,000 pledged their support for Dodge City.
Is there one person in all of the western United States who has not heard of the legend of Dodge City? Men like Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Billy the Kid, and other gunfighters were making Dodge City's history when Oklahoma City was nothing. The people of Dodge City were proud enough of their historical background to preserve its original atmosphere and restore famous Boot Hill. No monument of equal stature exists in all of Oklahoma.
It's too bad that financial inducement was deemed so important. It still must be true that you can buy almost anything.
—Gordon Hudelson
One Woman's Opinion
Miss Margaret. Habein., former dean of women at KU, suggested that the reason some campuses are dominated by administration officials is that the students have failed to show that they can accept responsibility in an adult manner when they are given the opportunity.
At the recent Intercollegiate Associated Women Students convention here, we heard a lot about college administrative power in connection with student responsibility.
Last spring the ASC elections showed a lack of student responsibility. Some students voted more than once and stuffed ballot boxes. Ballots were "misplaced" and mysteriously disappeared.
In comparison with some other schools, KU students are pretty fortunate when it comes to the influence they have in campus administration. At some schools almost all campus rules are made by college officials.
Rushing rules for men and women are controlled by Panhellenic and the Interfraterity council. Student organizations have few, if any restrictions placed on them by the administration.
KU women have a part in almost all the rules pertainting to them through the voice of AWS. They determine closing hours, men's calling hours, and similar regulations.
Because the students have accepted and carried out these responsibilities, they have an administration that is friendly and cooperative.
But the elections last year were of a different nature. If the manner in which they were carried out is an example of what students are going to do when they get out of college, the world is going to be in a heck of a mess. It's bad enough not to vote at all, but it isn't surprising that some students don't when they think that ballot boxes are going to be stuffed.
Yesterday KU students had a chance to prove that they have grown up. The responsibility and privilege of holding and voting in an election was and will be in the future ours. Why abuse it?
Maybe some persons felt their actions last year were "smart politics". Actually, the affair turned out to be pretty stupid, showing nothin' except that a number of students could learn a skill ability to carry out a fair and square game. It wasn't "smart politics". In fact, very little intelligence was shown.
Our thanks to the six men who took their time and effort to give objective information about the defeated UVO honor system. It was also very nice of the nine people who came to listen—what happened to the rest of youse guys?
Lee Ann Urban
We wonder if the law queen candidates know what Res Ipsa Loquitor means? Well, we might just divulge this little secret to you since we don't imagine the lawyers ever bothered to tell you—"The thing speaks for itself."
... Letters
To the Editor:
There were a number of we students who were highly appalled by the content of the latest issue of the Jayhawker. In our estimation it displays a decided lack of taste. It does not seem fitting and proper to us for the University yearbook to sport several pages devoted exclusively to that popular Friday afternoon pastime, drinking beer.
Surely, everyone can see that nine pages crowded with photographs of bottles and bottles of beer with a great many students casually draped around them is too much.
Certainly, it is not the best advertising for a university whose good name has already been dragged through a great deal of journalistic mud this year by stories of (alleged) drug addicts and attacks on women.
The Jayhawker is sent to a great many high schools throughout the state and is read by innumerable parents. Surely, we do not want those institutions and those people to receive an impression of our University as an alcoholic institution and of its students as lazy, liquor-loving no goods.
For this reason, we want to go on record as believing that the Jayhawker has committed a grevious blunder in placing undue emphasis on the part which beer plays in the life of KU students. We feel that this is not a true picture of University life and should be tempered by a voice of protest from University students.
We know beer is good, but it is not a god. And should not be represented as our god in our yearbook.
Robert Ramsey
Education junior
William Hoffman
Pharmacy senior
Lee Franz
College senior
To the editor.
I am extremely disappointed at the amount of coverage given the Engineers' Hob Nail Hop by the University Daily Kansan. On two occasions stories were turned in to the Kansan staff, the first resulting in a few lines, very well concealed on the sixth page with no headline. The second story resulted in exactly nothing, although the staff member to whom it was given gave full assurance that it would be printed.
This, in my opinion, is a rather frustrating situation. In a university as large as this the only means of informing all the students of a coming event is through its newspaper, and when that newspaper does not give proper coverage, the event, whatever it may be, will suffer from lack of patronage.
Perhaps it is not realized by those of the Kansan staff that approximately one-fourth of the students on this campus are engineers. With this in mind, does it not seem reasonable that we should receive a fair amount of publicity for our annual dance?
Here's hoping that something will be done to correct this situation in the future.
Derrell A. Sweem
Gopn, Rep., Engineering Council Chairman, Hob Nail Hop
Oh happy days—the worrying is over for the seniors now that the honor system is kaput. Graduation seems a little more realistic—Ifn't ya know what we mean.
Rumor has it that one of the candidates for the law queen is in the engineering school--nice goin fella! We're not laughing but . . .
UNIVERSITY Daily Hansan
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