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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 18, 195
Across the Campuses
Tuesday Tea Motion Passed by OU Senate
Coming in for criticism at Iowa State college are professors who insist in keeping classes overtime while at Oklahoma a "Tea Tuesday" is advocated to combat high coffee prices. Georgia students think now they know the origin of the custom of pinning and at Highlands university in New Mexico a writer yearns for the "good old days" when weekend jaunts were common.
IOWA STATE—An editorial in the Iowa State Daily blasted professors who keep their classes overtime. "Since the instructors expects the students to be on time, it is only fair to reverse the practice."
OKLAHOMA—The OU student senate joined in the battle against soaring coffee prices by passing a "Tea for Tuesday" motion. The senate there is backing a campaign that students drink only tea or soft drinks on Tuesday until "Java" prices return to normal.
"The idea got started about 40 years ago in a small eastern coeducational college. It seems that one evening a winsome lass . . . loaded herself quite heavily with cotton padding. Later, when she was out on a date, this undue strain caused one of her shoulder straps to break, whereupon she began to cry. Her date, not knowing she was putting on a big front, offered his fraternity pin as a possible means of repairing the broken strap. She accepted it, pinned the strap to her sweater, and a new custom was born."
GEORGIA—The University of Georgia Signal tells the true (Ed. note—They say) story of the origin of pinning:
The story recalls trips to Starvation Peak, the Upper Guallinas, Hermits Peak, and others, and sadly says "personally I liked it better back then."
HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY, Las Vegas, N.M.—An editorial in The Highlands Candle queries "whatever happened to the weekend jaunts we used to take?"
BRIGHAM YOUNG—The Brigham Young Universe recently carried a story of a new service being offered students at that institution. Two thousand copies (including corrections and additions) of a spring supplement to the student directory have been issued to students.
BAKER—A Baker Orange editorial writer, who says he has done research into interfernity councils at other schools, advocated that such an organization be instituted at the Baldwin school "to secure a more favorable attitude from the college administration and the general public."
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
NEBRASKA—The Nebraskan got into a squabble with a Lincoln, Neb., newspaper because the college paper said a request fromNU officials that privacy be held in the matter of selecting a new chancellor was ignored in that paper.
Admitting that "it is entirely possible that information was obtained from other sources" (about an interview by NU officials of Dr. Arthur Weber, dean and director of the agriculture school at Kansas State), the Nebraskan said the confidence was "violated in the interests of practical journalism, but even the practicality of the move is questionable."
MINNESOTA-Phi Mu sorority members stayed in their house the night after their boiler blew up but decided the next day to quit roughing it in the 18-below zero weather. They moved into private homes.
LOYOLA OF NEW ORLEANS—The Loyola Maroon has been receiving many letters to the editor since it started an editorial campaign earlier in the year for student cut-rate tickets to downtown theaters. Nothing definite has transpired, but the student council is ironing out a possible plan.
WEST VIRGINIA—The reliance of students upon the faculty to supervise the selection of student body officers is the only "big, black splotch" on the record of student elections at West Virginia, the Daily Athenaeum said. The paper condemned students "who are not morally or mentally capable of conducting their own elections."
OKLAHOMA A&M—The Daily O'Collegian of Oklahoma A&M devoted almost two columns on its editorial page to methods of forcing bids made by the opening bridge bidder. Possibly reprints would be available on request for the KU Union card hounds.
A professor at the University of New Mexico states that "I feel very sorry for any being from another planet who would deliberately expose himself to our society." Who knows, perhaps the being would be able to straighten out this troubled third planet of Sol. It is apparent that earthmen aren't having any luck at it.
May I congratulate Sam Teaford for his intelligent editorial on the journalistic treatment of the twenty-one Americans who chose Communism?
Letters
To the editor of the Daily Kansan:
So many foolish words are daily said and printed about this tragic problem that the response is. I think, more appalling than the behavior of these men. Surely these men are the victims of more things than their families. They have been subjected to the confusions of modern life, the agonies of war, pressures in their immediate circumstances and terrors we can only guess about.
By such terror I mean chiefly the fear of facing up to things, the worst terror there is. And which of us is not in some way a victim of all of these?
I agree with Mr. Teaford that their backgrounds can't explain away the situation; but we may guess that a combination of the effects of their background, their characters, and the experiences I have mentioned, lead to their decision.
Much more could be written on this subject. I will, however, mention only three more aspects that seem important to me. First, our treatment of the problem suggests that we believe that there are no aspects of American life and society which can lead a young man into confusion about the actualities and value around him.
There is in all of this a residue we can only struggle to analyze: The reason why similar human circumstances often bring different results. This is material for thought and understanding, not for vindictive outbursts.
Secondly, much of our lamentation is superficial. The anguished cry, "I brought my boy up right; why has he done this?" is lacking something. Perhaps some mothers who say this, like the rest of us, haven't always tried to teach their children to actively search out the truth. And lastly, we have missed an opportunity for compassion for these young men and for self-examination.
Perhaps, in the end, our tragedy will prove to be not unlike theirs, and we too will fail to concern ourselves with perceiving clearly the actualities and values around us.
Sincerely.
Mordecai Marcus instructor of English
Sincerely,
Mordecai Marcus
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"He threw our fraternity pin away—he says the picture of his convertible is doing more for him."
Fire-Eating Syngman Rhee An Elderly Problem Child
Patriotism and the desire for unification are noble virtues but some people take them too far. Take South Korea's fire-eating Syngman Rhee for instance.
Last week the 74-year-old problem child vowed he would march ROK troops into North Korea without aid from "selfish" American forces who slugged their way up and down the barren Korean countryside for three frustrating years.
Rhee screamed this country is selling South Korea down the proverbial river since we apparently are foolish enough to believe that some problems can be settled around the conference table instead of the battlefield. Only disaster will result, the ROK commander in chief inferred, if the "pipe dream" of a peaceful settlement is attempted by diplomatic and military officials.
After three years of fighting, they stopped the Communist threat of further Asiatic expansion even though they got no more than a
Rhee must be so "gang ho" that he is blind to facts or a man of extreme ingratitude. He seems to have forgotten that the United States carried the lion's share of the UN fighting burden during those bloody years from 1950 to 1953.
United Nations officials were still debating whether or not to brand North Korea an aggressor when the first division of American troops arrived in Korea to stop the Communist tide. In the following months, we provided thousands of combat men, jet fighters, and equipment at a staggering financial cost. Few of our fighting men really knew why they were defending Rhee's homeland. They knew it had something to do with containing Communism. And they realized at the same time that the "folks back home" were enjoying the greatest prosperity era in American history. Yet they fought, and fought well.
draw in Korea. Naturally, they were overjoyed when a truce came.
Several months have gone by since then and no concrete plan for Korean unification has been formulated. Everybody knows it takes time to settle the hundreds of problems that arise after a war. Rhee doesn't seem to realize this.
Therefore, he seems to conclude, the only way to assure a lasting peace is to let our ground troops battle some more until the Reds give in. That's nice of him; really nice. — Chuck Morelock.
College students are making better records than their fathers ever did, according to surveys made at Yale University. The over-all scholastic averages of Yale students since the end of World War II are from three to 10 points higher than the averages made by Yale students during the 1920s.
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Petroleum is used in many ways to aid the U.S. motorist. In Ohio, unique methods were used to clear a highway after a blizzard. A petroleum fueled crop-dusting plane became an "aerial snow plow." It spread crystallized salt on a highway and caused snow and ice to thaw.
The submarine has been generally recognized as a legitimate instrument of naval warfare since the Civil War. Previously they were regarded as something akin to piracy.