e 2 University Daily Kansan Friday, February 4,1955
And So to Work Again
Welcome back to a new semester from the University Daily Kansan staff! There's one thing to be grateful for as the new classes begin—one more grueling final week is over with good results for all of you, we hope.
It was a good semester in most everything except sports, but the spring semester is always more promising. We have the Rock Chalk Revue coming up in March, ASC elections (let's hope we can do it in one this year), the Kansas Relays, the opening of the fieldhouse the first of March, the Kansan Board dinner, and graduation—something which is foremost in every senior's mind.
We sound like we're playing Pollyanna, but you must admit it is good to shed the old and put on the new. And the Kansan will do its part to spur things along.
The social whirl is always more whirlish during the spring with its siege of dinners, formal dances, picnics, boatriding, swimming—the list is endless—something else to be thankful for as the new semester begins.
One more thing—please be tolerant of the seniors—this is usually their semester to have much too good a time.
-Karen Hilmer
Shakespeare on Exams
(Editor's note: The following renditions of Shakespeare were taken from The Daily Tar Heel, campus newspaper from Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Studying in the library: "More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up, and quench the fire, the room is grown too hot."
Cramming at 3 a.m.: "How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of the world."
Cramming at 7 a.m.: "It is not for your health thus to commit your weak condition to the raw, cold morning."
Teacher handing out tests: "O most pernicious woman! O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!"
Composition exam: "Why, I will fight with him upon this theme until my eyelids will no longer way."
Leaky fountain pen: "Out, damned spot! Out, I say."
An Open Letter to Marilyn Monroe—Dear Chick;
One Man's Opinion
I read in your latest announcement that you're tired of "sex roles" and want to do "serious parts."
Sure, go ahead and form your own outfit if that's your desire. After all you might make a go of it. Ida Lupino may not be in competition with Warner Brothers but she isn't exactly going broke with her own company.
parts.
Excuse me for laughing in your face, but—just between you and me—who you trying to kid?
But Miss Monroe, let's face it: With your ideas about how to form a studio you're not exactly going to startle Wall Street. I hate to be blunt about this whole thing, but the word has leaked out that you're no Garbo (despite what you may think of Garbo) when it comes to plain hard acting.
Uh- It wasn't exactly an Academy Award performance.
I seem to remember a thing called "Niagara." In that one—besides swinging your hips and wearing a dress cut down to here—you tried to do some acting.
But let's look at it from the other angle—Yes, by all means, let's. No one has ever denied that you have quite a bit of "talent" when it comes to bathing suits and calendars.
With those talents you're hauling down $1,500 a week.
You're great shakes.
But you're no great shakes as an actress.
Don't go bankrupt, gal; just keep walking.
Sincerelv.
John Herrington
From Campus to Campus Daily hansan
Iowa State—A survey by the Iowa Agricultural experiment station revealed that 275,000 women in Iowa 30 years old and older are carrying more than 3.000 tons of body weight that "they would be better off without."
Said the researchers, "Oversize girls constitute a nutritional puzzle. Further study is needed of their metabolism, nutrient needs, habits of living and food practices. In the light of our present knowledge, they would seem to be a group with exceedingly poor nutritional habits."
Minnesota university—An unofficial poll conducted on the campus showed that eight out of 12 students, or 66.7 per cent, didn't like subzero weather. One student who liked the cold commented, "Like sex, it's invigorating."
Louisiana State university—A janitor has confessed to burglarizing six men's dormitories. The man said he merely walked into rooms that had been left open and helped himself.
University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room, KU 251. Ad Room, KU 374 Member of the Inland Daily Press association, Associated Collegiate Press association. Represented by the National Advertising Association. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a year (add $1 a semester if in Lawrence). Published at Lawrence University. Senioriversity year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays and examination periods. Entered as second class matter. Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence, Kan.,
University of Texas-Students are up in arms about a proposed legislative plan to raise the school's fees. The new fees amount to $50.
NEWS STAFF
Executive Editor Letty Lemon
Man. Editors: Amy DeYong, Ron Gon-
don, Karen Hilmer, Jack Lindberg
Editorial Editor Gene Shank
Ed. Assistant Elizabeth Wohlgenull.
John Herrington
News Editor Nancy Neville
Asst. News Editor Lee Ann Urban
Sports Editor Stan Hamilton
Fire Editor Tom Lyons
Soil Editor Mary Bess
Asst. Society Ed. Irene Coonter
Feature Editor Dot Taylor
News Advisor C. M. Pickett
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Mgr  Audrey Holmes
Advertising Mgr  Martha Chumbers
Nat. Adv. Mgr  Leonard Jurden
Cir. Mgr  Georgia Wallace
Classified Mgr  James Cazier
Business Adviser  Gene Bratten
"The Clemson college board of trustees recently wrote a new page in the history books in approving a plan to turn Clemson college coeducational . . .
Some Schools Don't Have Ratio
If you think the over-balanced men-women ratio at KU is too much for the normal male to bear, consider the following news-release from Clemson, S.C.:
"This act follows up talk and plans of many years. In the past there have been numerous requests that the institution be opened to women. With the rapid industrialization of South Carolina and the entire South, requests have become more and more plentiful for women wishing to take technical courses which would enable them to tackle many jobs which have opened up for them.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"Officials approved this admittance on the belief that it was the logical thing to do . . . Eventually courses will have to be added to all college curricula in order to satisfy women wishing to attend Clemson . . "
"Naww-Th' candles aren't to impress you guests—they make th' food easier to eat."
Freedom in Education Hindered by Oaths
Let us hope that what happened at the University of California a few years ago never happens here.
James P. Baxter's article in the book, "Civil Liberties Under Attack," points out that freedom in education is "the central liberty of civilization without which no other liberty could long survive or would be worth keeping."
At one time California was ranked among the top five universities in America. But in 1949 the board of regents at California adopted a loyalty oath and required all employees to take it.
The oath included the words, "I am not a member of the Communist party, or under any oath, or party to any agreement or under any commitment that is in conflict with my obligations under this oath."
In defense of this statement the author cites what happened to the once proud and highly respected University of California.
The new oath included the words, "I am not a member of the Communist party or any other organization which advocates the overthrow of the government by force or violence, and . . . I have no commitments in conflict with my responsibilities with respect to impartial scholarship and free pursuit of truth."
The action by the University aroused controversy and angry criticism all over the country—so much so, in fact, that the board of regents got together and wrote a new oath—an oath which it believed might be a compromise.
But the faculty members were not fooled by this "compromise move by the board of regents. They realized that this oath embodied everything the first oath contained—the wording had just been changed.
The faculty opponents to the oath stated flatly that they believed in the traditional right of teachers to be judged by their peers as to ability and integrity.
The compromise also said nonsigners might petition through the hearings by the committee on privilege and tenure of the Academic Senate, after which the regents would consider the findings and recommendations of the committee and the President before making a decision.
Thirty-nine non-signers of the oath were cleared by the committee of any possible taint of communism. The regents then voted to reinstate the non-signers by a slim majority—but the damage had been done.
They declared that once their privilege to teach became dependent on signing "superimposed" statements, their capacity to teach, freely and honestly, was imperiled.
It is true that few of the non-signers resigned, who had been embarrassed by the regent's actions.
Most of them could not afford to. But gradually the valuable men on the California faculty will accept calls elsewhere.
When a professor at the University of Kansas has to qualify a remark or statement he makes in class by adding, "now don't spread it around that I am a Communist just because I dwelled 10 minutes on the qualities of socialism," then freedom of speech is being squelched.
It is possible that what happened at California and Texas could happen here, but it is everyone's job to see that this purge of expression never rears its ugly head. The University of Kansas can remain a great resource.
The University of Kansas can remain a great center of education only as long as its employees are able to voice their opinions and beliefs and impart knowledge freely without fear of ridicule or embarrassment. —Tom Lyons