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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. January 19, 1955
Editors Bow Out With Annotations
All things come to an end, and editorial editing is no exception. With reticence, we bow to our incoming staff and, with some timidity, approach the jobs awaiting us.
Amy DeYong, Dot Taylor, and myself, the first all-girl trio to manage the page in a few years, expect great things of incoming editorial editor Gene Shank and his assistants, Elizabeth Wohlgemuth and John Herrington. Some of their works have appeared on the page from time to time. All do excellent jobs, as you know as well as we.
We hope that our aims, stated at the beginning of our regime, have been accomplished. Our readers are the ultimate test of that.
We hope, also, that our readers are, if not pleased with, then tolerant of, our campaigns to increase student responsibility, point out campus abuses, recognize persons who have made significant contribution to one aspect or the other of student life, and bring our readers into contact with life on other campuses, cultural opportunities at KU, and significant happenings in the world we inhabit.
Thanks must be extended to Ron Grandon, Nancy Neville, Karet Hilmer, Mary Bess Stephens, Herrington, Tom Lyons, Jack Lindberg, Georgia Wallace, Ted Blankenship, Judy Ferrell, Shank, Dana Leibengood, Joyce Neil, and Rolfe Davis, who have sent us much printable material.
Thanks go, too, to the many persons concerned enough about our page or other campus happenings to express their views via letters.
—Letty Lemon
This Is Why Seniors Will Not Enroll Early
It's just another case of students not taking responsibility and therefore losing a privilege they will miss.
James K. Hitt, registrar, recently announced a ruling that graduating seniors no longer will be able to enroll early in the second semester. KU seniors now will have to fight for classes along with the rest of the students.
But why did the University change a rule which on the surface seemed so logical?
The registration and enrollment committee, comprised of faculty members from all the University's academic divisions, met and agreed that nothing like a closed course could keep a senior from graduating.
The committee cited that when this opportunity was offered to the seniors in the past only about half of them even bothered to show up for the first day. The others extended their vacations or took advantage of the fact that they were seniors and just stayed in bed the first morning of enrollment.
And guess what happened? The last day of enrollment all of the graduating seniors who had not taken advantage of the early enrollment showed up and caused a near panic.
It just seems that seniors feel that they have to have that one last fling before graduation.
The committee also stated that any graduating seniors can get the classes they need without enrolling early. All the deans of the various schools have promised that no senior will be kept from graduating just because a class is full.
The committee believes that with the deans' assurance—and if the graduating seniors will fall into line—this semester's enrollment can be a much simpler procedure.
But despite these compensations, there is no getting around it the seniors have lost a privilege they have enjoyed for years. And it is their own fault.
The University can't afford to hand out privileges to those who won't take advantage of them. —Tom Lyons
"It is far too ambitious for our budget this year," Gov. Fred Hall said in his explanation of why he rejected the television education program for Kansas.
One Woman's Opinion
One million dollars annually for eight years, is a lot of money, but we wonder if the new Kansas Republican administration took into consideration the benefits that would be derived from such an innovation.
Anything worthwhile is subject to some kind of sacrifice, whether it be money or something less tangible.
The University has made immense strides in the radio sequence in journalism, Radio station KDGU, located in the William Allen White School of Journalism, started operation a little over a year ago. Before that time, students wishing to study the university would well for practical experience in the field—experience which cannot be replaced by studying it in books.
Students wishing to study television are out in the cold as far as practical experience at this University or any other institution of higher learning in Kansas is concerned.
Today, the radio sequence has not as yet been accredited, but soon is likely to be in lieu of the advance made in this field since KDGU started operation.
The television program provided that within eight years education television would be brought to every section of Kansas. Gov. Hall said he could give no consideration to the matter of educational television at this time.
When is there going to be a better time to catch up with the rest of the United States? Surely some consideration could be given to this new kind of education. Surely some plans could be made for the near future.
Television is here to stay and before we know it it will be a regularly accredited sequence in a great majority of journalism schools. The state of Kansas has a good educational system, but it soon will be behind if the budget is tightened any more. —Karen Hilmer
The average worker in the United States loses seven-and-a-half work days a year because of temporary illness, reports a Twentieth Century Fund study.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"Well, well, if it ain't our coach!"
Submarine's Launching Recalls Earlier Nautilus
Monday, the Nautilus, first of a proposed fleet of seven atom-powered submarines, pulled out into Long Island sound. Thus began an era.
An earlier submarine, also called the Nautilus, was the last subject to which one of America's greatest men directed his energies before his death in 1815. He was Robert Fulton.
Only the hull of the craft had been completed when Fulton died of an illness caused by exposure in crossing the Hudson after having testified in a steamboat case.
Fulton, who had done experimental work on submarines for the French government, had built diving craft that were unsuccessful. No one knows if his Nautilus would have worked.
The sailing yesterday of the atom-powered Nautilus can be compared with that of Fulton's steam-powered Clermont in 1807.
While the sailing of the Nautilus marked the first time any vehicle had moved by atomic power, the Clermont, Aug. 11, 1807, brought the steamboat into practical use as a freight and passenger conveyance when it steamed up the Hudson from New York to Albany.
That voyage took 32 hours. Today, the Nautilus is reported able to circle the globe at full speed, submerged, without refueling.
Had Robert Fulton, painter, mechanic, architect, and friend of Benjamin Franklin, been born 150 years later, he might conceivably have had a hand in building the world's first atom-powered vehicle, the submarine Nautilus. —Ted Blankenship
Letters
To the editor:
In answer to the letter in Wednesday's Kansan concerning the Chi Omega fountain, I say "nuts" to Mr. Thorn and Mr. Cook.
Chi Omega is pleased with the fountain to make false your remark. Doesn't everything look a little barren in the winter-time—let's wait until the warm air pushes away the cold, the green grass pushes up through the soil, and water swirls forth from the fountain. Then we can judge its true beauty. I understand that colored lights may be added. Oh, well, it may be hard for you fellows to distinguish one color from another
since you have a difficult time seeing around a fountain.
Maybe one of you could have designed something better—I believe it was a free contest—no strings attached—no concrete to haul.
David Baker. College senior
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