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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 23.1955
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Editorial Policy Criticized Before
The Kansan went through a period of much stronger criticism in 1952 when its editorial page supported Adlai Stevenson for President. It did so with the explanation that the stand represented the views of the staff only and was not necessarily intended to represent general student opinion.
There has been some criticism recently on the way in which the Kansan has handled the proposed honor system. Some persons seem to feel that it has been unfair in its stand against the UVO system.
The Kansan editorial board is making no bones about it. Its members are not in favor of the system, but they have published articles and letters for the honor system as well as against it.
So many repercussions occurred that the matter came up before the ASC. It became a campus political matter, with local parties upholding the Kansan's right to take a stand in national political affairs or saying it had no business to support a candidate for any national party.
Criticism is welcomed on the Kansan, but it is not trying to print a public relations paper. That comes under Tom Yoe's department.
Shortly before that, some pressure had been put on the Kansan for news stories it published about housing at the University. The complaint was that the stories were bad for public relations.
The support for Adlai Stevenson became such an issue that a proposal was put before ASC that the organization be against any form of censorship of the Daily Kansan. The proposal was defeated when the president broke an 11-11 tie. In explaining his vote, Bill Wilson said that the editorial policy of the student publication should be put under an advisory board which would read editorials and make suggestions on editorial policy.
Roger Yarrington, then Kansan editor-in-chief, answered Wilson by saying, "I am sorry the ASC is even considering censorship. It seems a violation of the democratic principles upon which our student government is based if the Council favors control of the Kansan editorial policy."
To clarify its position, the Kansan board, student governing body of the Daily Kansan, set up an editorial committee to supervise the editorial page. One of the committee's functions is to see that the Kansan has a more consistent editorial policy from one semester to the next. It also gives more of the Kansan staff a voice in the paper's policy.
The committee is comprised of the editorial editor, the two associate editors, the managing editor, the chairman of the Kansan board, the faculty adviser, and the dean of the School of Journalism. Faculty members may sit in as advisers but do not have a vote.
The amendment to the Kansan board constitution defined the policy of the editorial page in this way:
"Inasmuch as expression of opinion on controversial issues in editorial form on the editorial page is inevitably accepted as the policy of the Kansan, such expression shall not be made without the approval of the editorial committee."
The policy gives freedom to members of the Kansan staff but at the same time places more responsibility on them. It calls for planning on the editorial page and a closer unity between the editorial and news members of the staff.
The Kansan publishes all letters it receives that are signed. Any student may present his views and opinions in this way.
It's true that the views expressed on the editorial page will not always represent the opinion of the entire student body. This is a newspaper's prerogative.
Criticism is invited, but censorship is not. It is impossible to please everyone. —Lee Ann Urban
Mr. Webster defines "extra-curricular" as "activities which form part of the life of students but are not part of the regular courses of study." From this definition, some University students are misusing the term. For some persons, what is termed "extra-curricular" IS the regular course of study, with classes crammed and squeezed in between.
Take, for instance, the Committee Man, who spends all his time puffing from meeting to meeting. Ask him what he's accomplished in his years of committee-hopping. He'll have a hard time answering.
Or the Beauty Queen who "gains-poise" through interviews. While she's gaining poise talking to judges, she's not gaining poise through classwork, meeting other people on a normal person-to-person basis, or working on committees. This type of poise might provemore useful.
One Man's Opinion
The Football Player, while becoming a hero and while making his way through school, misses out on a lot of the normal situations of a college student since so much of his time is taken up by practice.
Extra-curricular time-wasters, as an overdose of many of any of the activities become, gulp up huge amounts of the student's time. Instead of rounding out his personality, they can make it warped and one-sided.
And they exclude a lot of other valuable college experiences.The Daily Texan, Austin, Texas.
Commercial airlines in the United States make about 2,155 scheduled flights a day, which is one every 40 seconds.
Keep out of trouble by keeping your distance. Following other vehicles too closely is one of the chief causes of winter accidents. So stop skidding yourself. If you must follow something closely, follow the safety principle that without fire chains it takes from 3 to 12 times more distance to stop on snowy or ice roads than it does on dry pavement.
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The President's golf game may suffer if the Democrats have their way about it. It seems that Ike isn't getting enough practice because the squirrels around the White House are scratching up his practice green. Hence, the squirrels were trapped and exiled. That did it. The Democrats jumped on the "permanent and irreparable damage to an American tradition" done by the President's order. This could be the biggest feud since Harry added a balcony to the White House.
The Japanese are known to be a polite people. This even carries down the ranks to common burglars. Two of 'em in Tokyo bathed the 6-year-old son of a restaurant owner while waiting for the boy's dad to get home so they could rob him of $420 in yen.
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