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University Daily Kansav Tuesday. Jan. 20,1953
Jayhawker Board Ignores Students
Last Monday the Kansan printed a letter received from the Jayhawker board in which that group attempted to support its administration of yearbook affairs.
The signers of the letter were six faculty or staff persons from the University and one student.
The Jayhawker board includes two other students whose names were not on the letter. They are Kay Conrad and Ron Kull, members of the ASC and representatives of that council to the Jayhawker board.
In talking to these two students we learned that they are never notified of the meetings which are not held at any regularly scheduled hour.
"I was told about the letter after Mr. Klooz had written it," Kay Conrad said, "I was asked to come read the letter and sign it. I read it but did not agree with it and did not sign it."
Ron Kull, the other student representative who did not sign the letter said he was not even told of the letter.
"All I knew about it is what I read in the newspaper," he said "I was never notified of the meeting or knew of the letter. I don't agree with it altogether nor would I have presented it in that way."
Dean Glasco, the only student whose name did appear on the letter, is confined in Watkins and not available for a statement. We understand, however, that he was not present at the board meeting but signed the statement later.
In the letter, the Jayhawker board promised another letter to discuss other comments and criticisms of the Jayhawker. We hope that the next letter will prove of more concrete value than the last and that the three students of the board will be asked to take part.
As it is, we should be inclined to agree with Ron Kull when he said, "Student representation on the board is a farce."
It seems the Jayhawker board now is strictly faculty controlled.
Short Ones
All is a love feast now in the GOP camp. The AP reports that Bob Taft was 35 minutes early for his meeting with Eisenhower last week. Or maybe it's just a new rash of good-will get-togethers. Meany and Reuther are merging for a "long winded" discussion about their unions, and Winnie is calling on Ike—to discuss their paintings, no doubt.
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Tch, tch. Seems we recall the Giant state lost claim to war hero recently. And now Kansas has to worry about leading Ike's inaugural parade.
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Headline problems and headache powders are predicted in even greater quantities for '53. But the Christmas and January sales bills will be the first crises for us. After that we can sit back and worry about the scientists' finding a "practical way" to explode hydrogen—or lose sleep over the congressional investigations of "lurid" comic books.
POGO
In The Editor's Eye
Rv ROGER VARRINGTON
BY ROGER YARINGTON
Today marks the last time this college will appear under his writer's name but the articles will continue to appear, authored by the editor for the next quarter, Don Moser.
At the beginning of the last quarter a statement was printed setting out the things that were to be worked for by the writers on this page. We feel fortunate that many of those things have been realized.
THE FIRST OBJECTIVE was stated as the right to exercise a freedom of editorial thought. It was our hope that this privilege would not be invaded, for both our own benefit and the benefit of our readers as students of democratic living.
Throughout the past eight weeks we have enjoyed an unlimited freedom. Not once have we had to ask anyone if we wanted an article for approval by anyone.
We have been taught that this is as it should be, but, nevertheless, we were grateful for the privilege.
INDIGNATION AT EDITORIAL expression was aroused both on the campus and throughout the state only when the writers on this page failed to agree with the majority in political opinion.
The indignation aroused, however, did not compare to that which was later expressed when it appeared that the editors might lose their right to state such opinions.
This again, considering the democratic ideals we have been taught, is as it should be.
THE TEMPERS HAVE COOLED but not because the issue has been settled.
There is still no clear definition of editorial limitations in the Kansan board constitution and until there is, editors will be haunted by critics who interpret the present wording of that document to mean that politics may not be discussed on the Daily Kansan editorial page.
Such an interpretation seems almost out of the question but it is nevertheless present. The editorial page is to discuss and draw conclusions on current affairs. This newspaper and every other newspaper should be vitally concerned with politics.
When that time comes, we hope the Daily Kansan editors will be free to discuss the issues and candidates.
THE NATIONAL POLITICAL scene seems to be in for a quiet spell but it won't be long before campus politics will be blossoming into the main interest of most of the students here.
If students here are to take part in anything but a farce, they should be permitted a newspaper that is allowed to be a leader in presenting the issues and stimulating interest and thought.
THESE ARE THE THOUGHTS with which we leave the editorship. We have gained a goal but only temporarily and it may crumble beneath future editorial writers if the UDK audience is not interested enough to guard the freedom of their newspaper.
Editorial writers will always be working for the right to say what they please. Only the support or lack of support by their readers will determine their success.
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Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibler
Commie Organ Defends Recent Jewish Purges
The workings of the communist mind is a wondrous thing to behold. No matter how much filth they pour upon themselves, they always come out shining clean.
The Daily Worker, the official communist East coast organ, is doing everything possible to save the lives of the convicted communist spies. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Their favorite piece of propaganda to aid in this fight is the cry of anti-Semitism. To their readers, they say the Rosenbergs are being sacrificed on an altar of anti-Semitism that is preached by Hearst, Sen. McCarthy and most anyone who condemns the two spies.
Their campaign was coming along just fine, everyday 75 per cent of their front page was devoted to the latest developments in case; then what happens, Russia begins a Jewish purge.
A minor thing like this does not stop the Communist press. Obviously they can't overlook this latest step by the Soviet government, their only course is to gild the action.
The paper came out with a front-page editorial Thursday announcing that the purges in Russia were not anti-Semitic. In fact, they say that anti-Semitism is against the law in Russia.
The Daily Worker does not begin to explain what is going on in Russia probably for three reasons: either they don't know, the Russian propagandists haven't told them what to say, or the obvious truth, there is a Jewish purge going on.
As they can't refute the charge, their only out is to meet hard fact with the hysterical lie.
In order to show, just how wonderful the Russian life actually is, they compare their leader's country with the anti-Semitic America. According to them, the only reason the "Fascist McCarthy-Hearst press" is playing up the Russian purge trials is because another crime is being committed against the Jewish people of this country. The crime is being perpetrated by—well to go into the list of people they call anti-Semitic would take half of this page, but they range from McCarthy to John Foster Dulles and include most of Washington and Wall Street.
The crime, the only one they could think of in a pinch, is the rearming of Western Europe. Someplace I got lost in their complex thought, but by re-arming Europe, we are arming the Arab work From there they go to the premise that when the Arab world overruns Israel this country will have reached its goal. They don't bother to explain why we will be happy at this time, but we will.
By this analysis, America hates the Jews, the Arabs hate the Jews, Russia hates America and the Arabs and therefore love the Jews.
We are anxious to see what the Daily Worker, which has up to now ignored Russian overtures to the Arab world, will say when Russia drops all pretenses and moves into the Arab nations.
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—Don Moser
Po yeste the 1933. visit
Flashbacks
Students from 29 foreign countries are enrolled in the University for the second semester.
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JANUARY 20
5 Years Ago
The 115-piece University concert band directed by Russell A. Wiley will give its annual mid-winter concert tonight in Hoch auditorium.
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The annual Jayhawker magazine
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beauty queen contest was opened yesterday by the Jayhawk editor who announced that all college women were eligible to submit their photographs in the contest.
The University has been selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a center for administering the Graduate Record examination in this area, Chancellor Malat announced today.
25 Years Ago
The sixth annual Kansas Day radio program will be broadcast Jan. 30 over radio station KFKU and WDAF it was announced today.