University Daily Kansan Thursday. Jan. 14, 195
Across the Campus
Hoodlums Attack Aggie Students
Two Texas A&M students were beaten by four hoodlums who wanted to steal their girls, the Aggie student newspaper reported this week.
In other college and university news a Cornell girl wanted to buy all the copies of the freshman directory and the student newspaper at the Atlanta Division of the University of Georgia supported segregation in schools.
A dog attended classes at the University of Washington, Iowa State looked for a new football coach, and a Kansas State college girl was killed in a car accident.
Two A&M students were attacked and beaten by four ruffians who said they wanted to take the Aggies' girls. Driving along the highway with their dates, the men were stopped by a '53 convertible which cut in front of them.
The gentleman taking the picture was an efficient chap and was not wasting any time with composition, quality, or any other unnecessary details," the girl wrote. When he took the picture, "I was trying to remove a piece of stringy substance from between my teeth which had been left there from our delicious dinner (which I believe was peanut butter soup with prunewhip delight)."
"We want your girls," the A&M students were told when they got out of the car. Armed with a knife and a club, the rufians began to beat them up, but one of the students picked up a piece of wood measuring 4x4 and held off the attackers until they could get to their car and drive away.
Texas A&M—Having dating problems? You haven't heard anything yet.
Cornell—A letter to the editor of the Cornell Daily Sun informed the world that the social life of a freshman woman had been jeopardized by a picture taken for the freshman directory.
Georgia—The University Signal at Georgia's Atlanta Division came out in favor of segregation in public schools.
The girl, believing she was doomed socially, offered to buy all the copies of the directory to keep them out of the hands of Cornell men.
"We favor equal facilities for all races, but we believe that these equal facilities should be set apart, or segregated," a Signal editorial said.
The editorial went on to say that Adlai Stevenson, Democratic candidate for president in 1952, said during a visit to Atlanta that the South has made more progress in race relations during the last few years than the North.
"This progress is not apt to continue in Georgia if so rash a move as abolishing segregation in public schools is made," the Editorial emphasized.
Washington—Lightning has struck the University Law school at Washington. It was not, however, the sort of lightning that accompanies rain and thunder.
In this case Lightning was a dog, a 70-lb Boxer, to be precise. Lonesome at home by himself, Lightning began to attend classes with his owner, but not for long. Someone complained about the dog, and the Washington Daily said, "It looks like a cold, empty apartment for Lightning for the rest of the quarter, "in short . . . a dog's life."
Kansas State—A Kansas State sophomore girl was killed in a car accident Monday afternoon. Driving alone east of Manhattan, Beverly Amick apparently lost control of her car and it crashed into a bridge over the Blue river.
The Iowa State Daily said that more than 50 applications had been filed for the job as head coach. Deadline for filling the position was set for the end of January.
Iowa-State—Like the University of Kansas, Iowa State was searching for a new football coach following the resignation of Emmett "Abe" Stuber, who had been with the Cyclones since 1947.
A "sifting committee," consisting of the head of the engineering department, a speech professor, a Des Moines contractor, and a student, had the job of picking the new coach.
A graduate of Cunningham High school, Miss Amick was twenty years old and a resident of Van Zile hall.
One Man's Opinion
President Eisenhower's proposal to lower the voting age to 18 should get the cheers of thousands of army-bound but disfranchised American youths.
It's almost impossible for anybody able to breathe or walk to escape military service anymore. But as long as one has to go, he should at least have the satisfaction of being able to participate in more than one aspect of national life.
It didn't take much time for opponents to take their dust-covered elites out of mothballs. Immediately they charged that males under 21 were either "too immature" or "unqualified" to exercise the voting right.
If the brass in the Pentagon feel that a 19-year-old has enough intelligence and maturity to man a Korean foxhole, then there's no reason why he shouldn't be allowed to choose the men who send him. Conversely, if a man is too young to vote he's too young to fight.
Nineteen and twenty-year old squad leaders weren't rare items in World War II and Korea. A man didn't have to be a West Point graduate to be thrust into the job of leading men into battle. But even though an under-21 soldier had the tremendous mental strain of safeguarding the lives of his men as well as his own, he still was "wet behind the ears" as far as many back home were concerned.
Ike's proposal should be considered in another light. Anybody with a high school diploma usually has been exposed to courses in civics, government, or economics. The average high school graduate might not be another John Locke, but he knows enough about politics to warrant the use of the voting privilege.
He hasn't had time enough to become set in his political ways and wouldn't vote for party X simply because he always had before, as is the case with many "mature" middle age voters.
The biggest weapon that the let-the-teenagers-vote advocates can use, of course, is the "If they're old enough to fight they're old enough to vote" slogan. This phrase apparently went over in a big way down in Georgia, the only state permitting 18-year-olds to vote. Merely out of a sense of fair play and justice, the other 47 should jump on the bandwagon. The men who haven't come of age but who have defended their country have had a raw deal for too long.
-Chuck Morelock
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LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"Run down town and get 100 pounds of hamburger, some buns, and make 50 gallons of coffee—and hurry—they're having a convoitation next hour."
Burning Here
Red Publications Available at KU
Far from advocating the recent condemnation and singling out of Red books or pink writers, our University makes available a dozen current pro-Soviet dailies and periodicals, both in English and Russian.
In addition, the Communist Daily Worker is available at the William A. White Memorial reading room. The All Student Council regularly receives a bundle of each issue of the tri-monthly World Student News, published in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and printed in Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish.
For students who read Russian there are the Moscow dailies Izvestia and Pravda, the weekly Ogoniok, and the monthly Znamia, printed in Moscow.
This magazine is the top world Communist student publication. Its news about Bolshevist countries gives a charming picture of love, peace, and progress; the news about universities or students' groups that keep in touch with Soviet student
These publications contain laudatory and detailed articles about Communist countries. The Vols Bulletin has a standard chronicle with plenty of pictures entitled: "The Soviet Union is Advancing with Giantic Strides to the Shining Summits of Happiness for Its People."
In the periodicals' section of Watson library may be found: Vokes Bulletin, bi-monthly printed in English by the Moscow Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Nations; the New World Review, and Masses and New Stream, both printed in New York.
like those in Britain, Italy, India, or Venezuela, plays up the relations with the Reds or the deficiencies of the local institutions. The news it gives to the United States is definitely depressing.
Here are some of its characteristic topics: Communist books, movies, or world congresses; trespassing of freedom in Spain and U.S. bases there; needy universities and desi- tate students in Australia, Iran, Italy, West Germany, or Peru; students charged by policemen in Cuba;
French Catholic priests attending Communist conventions; investigations and discrimination in American colleges and reports of an "International Scientific Commission" about "American bacterial warfare in Korea."
It is easy to understand how this news may give to Red students the impression that in Democratic nations there is not much of a "paradise." (Those Americans advocating college investigations could very usefully read the lengthy reports about protests of student councils and statements of American senators—even though somebody might think that Reds would stack cards even about unusually perfect achievements in democratic countries.)
The magazine calls "repugnant obscurantism" t the Generalissimo Franco's regime. Editorializing about the purpose of the magazine, Soviet coed Raisa Ablova writes: "Our aim is to unite our efforts . . . for solving the problems that are common to all the students of different countries."
There is nothing wrong with that. Neither is there something wrong with KU students getting all these items of Soviet propaganda on the campus—this is a privilege of freedom. However, it would be amusing to see how World Student News explains why Soviet "obscurantism" is better than Franco's. Or to see how Miss Ablova explains why in her university she cannot read the New York Times, the Readers Digest or even the Sour Owl. Don't we have "common problems," as she writes? Al Traildi.