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University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 25, 1955
A New Staff Takes Over
Just a little note to the new editorial staff: May the toes it steps on be small ones.
With that thought in mind, the old staff retires to make way for a new staff, lots of new energy, and an inspiring editorial page.
The new editorial editor appointed to carry out the editorial task until the end of the school year is Karen Hilmer. She'll take care of Page 2 with the help of two assistant editors—Ron Grandon and a carry-over from the old staff. John Herrington.
Our job these past eight weeks has been an attempt to arouse public opinion. We can only hope that we have succeeded to put across a few of the ideas and philosophies of students whose opinions otherwise might not have been heard. We have tried to maintain a straight-forward, outspoken attitude about campus problems, and we have enjoyed the letters and comments that have come to us from students who obviously were aroused.
And there is much more to come. Miss Hilmer is ready with lots of space and lots of words. She, too, is given the opportunity to make the best of public opinion, to develop an editorial page from campus life itself.
But so much for closing remarks from the old editorial staff as it leans back to watch a new one grow and a new editorial page take form.
We had much to say about many things in these eight weeks: in a Cadillac for Phog, campus dormitories, retirement at 70, butter forced on dormitories, fieldhouse dedication—and of course, the proposed UVO honor system.
Gene Shank
Gene Shank
Elizabeth Wohlgemuth
John Herrington
Other Campus News
At the University of Virginia recently, police handed out so many parking tickets that the wheels of justice were clogged. About a dozen students holding parking tickets were sent home without paying fines when the cash register at police headquarters broke down.
The University of Cincinnati has developed a system of helping deserving undergraduates through college. Each time a student parks his car wrong, he must pay a $2 fine. From these fines, a fund is developed for the payment of free scholarships for undergraduates. The dean of the university administration reports that seven $150 scholarships have been awarded for the academic year 1954-55.
A student government ruling forbidding students with less than an all-college 2-point to participate in certain extra-curricular activities was upheld recently at Michigan State.
The world's largest bass drum belongs to the University of Texas, according to the Daily Texan. The drum is eight feet high and forty-four inches wide. "Big Bertha" was purchased for the university band by a prominent Dallas oilman. The drum requires four men to transport it, besides the one carrying it.
No new fraternities whose national charters restrict membership because of race or religion will be allowed to organize on the Michigan State campus.
Cornell university has prohibited heavy traffic from using campus streets. The campus may no longer be used as a route for all commercial vehicles except those authorized to make deliveries in the University area.
Les Brown and his "band of renown" will play for the Junior-Senior prom May 10 at Oklahoma A&M.
"Look, Prof . . . crib notes."
One Man's Opinion
We have never seen a world war fought on United States soil, through our cities and across our farms. We have no battle-scarred countryside, burned out cities, nor rusting tanks and wrecked airplanes in the fields. We don't turn white momentarily when an airplane happens to fly low over our houses. We don't have houses patched up with cardboard, or see little children begging for food wherever they can, with no clothing and no parents to care for them.
We have only the sons' or husbands' pictures taken off the piano because it was unbearable to have the picture, and nothing more. We have had our war losses and casualties, which were indeed horrible enough. But we have not seen the worst part. We have seen it in newsreels, but that is not enough to give us nightmares for years after.
But we should be scared, some say. With cobalt bombs that can send radio-active fallout around the world, hydrogen bombs, that can be expanded in size without limit, and atom bombs that can destroy whole cities in a split second, and leave the area radioactive for years afterward, and an enemy as large as Russia, why isn't there reason to be scared?
-Jack Fisher
Yes, be scared, a little. Know what you are up against and be scared enough to prepare for whatever may happen. But don't be so overwhelmed and blushed by Russia to the extent that you become fatalistic and are just willing to sit and wait until the "end." From approximately 42,000 letters mailed out in one large city by defense officials concerning setting up defense measures in case of attack, only five answers to the letters were received. We can't expect our nation to be prepared for any kind of attack when such a small percentage of the population is willing to believe that we can be defended.
As a dog can smell the fear in a person, Russia can tell whether or not we are a seared nation. We have the armed forces and weapons and bombs to deal Russia a lethal blow, and they know all of this, which is probably the factor keeping the Communists under control at present. Russia is the nation to be scared, and it might well be, if it makes a wrong move.
--was an undergraduate at McGill university in Montreal, play reviews were given a two-column spread on the front page, and what is more, the reviews were ruddy good ones. Of course, at present, University plays here have to compete in popularity, as "news" items, with the latest Basketball Team score or a Sorority "pinning." When I first heard of the latter I thought perhaps some unfortunate female had been attached to some public noticeboard for display by means of a large safety-pin.
Brazil possesses Latin America's largest steel mill, booming Volta Redonda, located 60 miles from Rio de Janeiro. Built by United States and Brazilian capital, the steel center can turn out 600,000 tons of rolled steel products a year, enough for a third of Brazil's needs.
Only the United States and New Zealand have a generally established 40-hour work week; a 48-hour work week prevails in most other industrial nations.
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Editorial Editor Gene Shank
Ed. Assistants; Elizabeth Wohlgemuth
Letty Lemon
Man. Editors: Amy DeYon
don. Karen Hillier, Jack Lindburd
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Horts Editor
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... Letters ...
Editor, Daily Kansan:
Now that the proposed Honor System has provided the poets, comedians, pollsters, various faculty members, and the editorial staff a chance to display their "talents," why was the idea proposed in the first place?
Because the dishonest student is a THIEF and should be dealt with as such. He steals from the entire student body. Dishonesty makes grade point averages meaningless, lowers the student body in the eyes of the faculty and the public, and allows persons of sub-college capabilities to become college graduates. I doubt that any student will disagree with me that dishonesty, in almost every conceivable form, is widespread on the KU campus. At present, there is little or no organized effort by the students or the faculty to cone with the problem.
I believe that the majority of KU students are honest and do not favor cheating. This majority is being rendered ineffectual by the age-old lie that to squail, snitch, or inform on a dishonest student is just not proper. The attitude is that college is just a game between the students and their faculty and the student must remain loyal to his cause come what may. Since when is it improper or disloyal to catch a thief?
I sincerely hope this letter will cause the honest students of KU to stand up for their rights. Surely some of them have more intestinal fortitude than the gutless array of do-nothings that has been paraded across the pages of the Kansan.
If this letter is not altered in any way other than for grammatical errors, I will accept full responsibility for the contents.
So you don't like all the parts of the proposed System! Neither do I I am in favor of trying cases before juries called up from the student body. No one has ever said the University of Virginia plan must be followed to the letter. There are plenty of other schools with functioning Honor Systems which can easily be adapted for KU. Regardless of the plan used, any Honor System must possess two features: (1) it must be completely a student function with absolutely no political ties, and (2) the System must have the complete backing and the agreement of no interference by the faculty.
William Ives Jr. Graduate student
I want it to be clearly understood that, in what follows, the opinions expressed are entirely my own, and Edith Stirling might say "Purely as a private person."
An open letter to the Daily Kansas concerning the reporting of University Theatre plays:
I am amused but also disturbed that any review of a University Theatre play like that of "Richard III," should be relegated to the back page of the Daily Kansan. When I
Now what really disturbs me is the caliber of the reviews of the theatre Theatre plays. To be quite specific they are infantile and stupid.
I therefore make a plea that in future the University Theatre plays be criticized by some student who is reasonably intelligent in regard to drama. I also suggest that the reviews be given a prominent coverage. After all, students at this university are getting good plays and opera for practically nothing, financially speaking. A lot of people have put in much time and effort, most of them for no remuneration whatsoever, to produce something worthwhile which students technicians, and directors, consuming and exhausting, and I, for one, think it's about time they were given their due reward in the Daily Kansan in the manner which I have indicated.
Clearly, if one is going to report on, and, more important, criticize a play, presumably one should have a rudimentary knowledge of the stage, and in particular, acting. If the reporter has no such ability he or she has no business pretending to be a drama critic. To say that an undergraduate does not have the ability is nonsense. Once again to cite the McGill Daily newspaper, drama critics were written by undergraduates and furthermore the criticism were thorough and if need be adverse. It is also interesting to note that at McGill University there was no School of Journalism—the McGill Daily was run entirely by undergraduate volunteers.
Yours, etc.
Rupert Murrill
alias "Laudiski" or the
"Duke of Buckingham"
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The highest pay for workers in any major American industrial division goes to transportation workers, notes a forthcoming Twentieth Century Fund report.