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University Dairy Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 24. 1952
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"d* don't see how any of you can expect good marks in this course—the very fact you enrolled for it shows you don't have a very high I.Q."
Onions to Williams--
KS Gals Judo Joiners We'll Take Lemonade
(The following article appeared in a recent issue of the Hutchinson News-Herald and in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Curves. It was written by Glenn Williams, a graduate of the school up the Kaw.)
Some persons at Kansas State College are wasting their time, and I'm not referring to the playbys who hope to parlay a fraternity pin and an IQ of 85 into a degree in veterinary medicine.
I have reference to the folks who are advertising in the college newspaper, offering to teach K-State girls the fundamentals of judo for only $12.
At first glance that would seem to be a bargain price, but I doubt if there are many takers.
The unvarnished truth is that the average Kansas State girl can whip her weight in wildcats or Jayhawks, can slap on a half-Nelson with the best of them, can hold her own in the manly art of self defense, and is more than a match for the average grizzly bear.
I don't mean to imply K-State girls aren't slim, pretty and curvy. A surprising number of them are.
But most of them are farmer's daughters and are accustomed to doing their share of the farm work.
By the time they grow up and go to college, they've got muscles and know how to use them.
They, I am told, compare very favorably with their sorority sisters at KU farther down the Kaw. The Flaw on the Kaw girls, I am informed, have never known exercise more strenuous than lifting a Coke bottle and are known to swoon in droves each afternoon at 4 if tea isn't ready. . . .
(Editor's note: Mr. Williams seems to have violated one of the first rules of a newspaper—accuracy. We challenge him—not to a wrestling match, such as he must have experienced at K-State to write such purple prose—but to one of our famed 4 o'clock tea parties. And we'll promise to ask a few of our coed friends who, after clambering up Mount Oread each day for several years, undoubtedly are as brawny as their country cousins up the Kaw).
Short Ones
"Silent Spiders Incite Interest," the UDK headline read. Puzzling, until the last paragraph, when we read that the spiders "aren't talking" about their age. We once knew a loquacious spider in Kansas City that . . .
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Then there is the journalism prof who was not gratified to hear his students telling people he had just returned from "doing Time." But he admitted he was happy he hadn't toured Life magazine. A "Life-er" probably wouldn't haven't returned.
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UDK staffers are wondering if a recent and novel letter to the editor, postmarked Oskaloosa, might have come from a deposed national figure and former public relations man who used to call Oskaloosa home.
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Latest item on the campus grapevine: Building and Grounds, always short on skilled labor, has offered a job to out-of-work plumber Martin Durkin.
Iran Fights Off World Students Unite Red. Black'Aid' For Better Education
Recent trouble spot of the Middle East, Iran long has been fighting both British and Russian attempts at control of its rich natural resources.
Iran's people are extremely nationalistic and suspicious of foreigners. Proud of their long history and culture, they are practically all of the Moslem faith.
Despite the wealth of the oil fields, the living standard of the Iranians is among the lowest in the world. The people are undernourished, disease-ridden and illiterate. About one per cent of the population owns 90 per cent of Iran's wealth. While four out of five Iranians are farmers, 90 per cent of these are share croppers and may keep only about one-fifth of their produce.
The urgent needs in Iran today are for land reforms, industrial development, a modern health program, and greater educational facilities. The country is rich enough to provide an adequate living for the people-given proper guidance and leadership.
But because of the feudal system of farming, the wide-spread misery and debt, the country's economic and social conditions are fertile soil for communist propaganda.
Indeed, Iran may be the most profitable area left in the world for a communist move to divide the Western democracies. An active fifth column is already at work there
Communists in Iran pose as patriots. Their party is the Tudeh (the masses), but Iran's masses are not communist. There is only one way that the Soviets could acquire Iran and that would be through such disorganization—economic and political—that a coup d'etat would be relatively simple.
Despite their miserable economic condition, however, most Iranians are not pro-communist. The Tudeh, relatively small, is illegal and operates underground. It is effective only because it is well organized and has a clear objective. The people are Mohammedans and are against communism because it is atheistic.
Iranians are also repelled because of their individualistic natures, and because they simply do not like the Russians; they've lived next door to them for too long. Thus, all the presumptions are in favor of Iran's staying with the Western world—if we will just let her!
Nevertheless, the danger is imminent. Iran is fighting a stubborn battle against both Red and Black (British) imperialism. Internal unrest and oil dispute with Britain are both expressions of her nationalistic struggle and both may cause her fall to the Reds.
Authorities in the U.S. and Britain recognize the threat, and also agree that distasteful though it may be, the only alternative left to the West is to give firm support to Iran.
Dot Taylor.
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"Students together with all young people are perhaps the quickest to demand and to welcome every improvement in the international atmosphere, for it is they who have the most to lose from war, the most to gain from peace. . . ." said a speaker at the Third World Congress of Students held in Warsaw earlier this month.
More than a thousand delegates from 202 student organizations in 106 countries attended the congress, sponsored by the International Students Union.
The speaker noted that in many places "there is a deep contradiction between the desire for truth and honesty among young people and the violation of academic freedom, the desire for research and the perversion of science, between the determination to use acquired knowledge in the service of society and a social organization which rules out this use.
"All these contradictions help to create dissatisfaction, skepticism, pessimism; and the false mentors accuse the young people of being a 'lost generation' . . .."
Student representatives from the Soviet Union, the Chinese People's Republic and the People's Democracies spoke on the increasingly larger appropriations made by their countries to fulfill student needs and to expand higher educational facilities. They told how they no longer need to pay tuition and how their living expenses, including medical care and vacations, were included in their free university training.
The ISU and local and national student groups expressed solidarity "with the struggle of the students of colonial, semi-colonial and dependent countries for freedom and independence, for full social, economic and educational development."
Sons and daughters of workers and farmers have complete access to higher education in contrast to the past when this was almost impossible, they said. And they were confident in the future because they would have useful work after graduation.
1. To provide students with scholarships, student dormitories and educational facilities, for the reduction of fees in universities and higher schools.
The group called on all delegates to join in a 5-point program for the coming year:
2. To provide education on the basis of national language, to struggle against racial and any other kind of discrimination.
3. To provide work for students graduating from universities and higher schools.
4. For the freedom of student organizations.
5. For the democratization of education, against the militarization of higher schools and universities, against the inculcation of race and national hatred.
Wonder if the pile of sand by Fraser hall has a purpose. Seems there might be a course in Sandpile II for would-be recreation directors.
The term "Spanish Main" originally referred to the Spanish colonies on the northeast coast of South America to distinguish them from island possessions. In later usage it the Caribbean sea and nearby waters made hazardous by pirates and buccaneers.
The Amazon river system is the world's largest.
The Panamai Canal was completed in 1914 under the direction of Major General (then Chelonl) George Washington Goethals.
Straftford-on-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace, did not always revere its most famous son. Once it considered young Willa a neer-do-well, "fallen into the bad company of actors." In 1585, scarcely turned 21, this glove-maker's son left home under suspicion of poaching deer.
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