Page 2 University Daily Kansan New Housing Plan Does Not End Job At a small meeting in the chancellor's office last Friday a program was initiated to guide student support of improved University housing. About a dozen students representing various campus-wide organizations were called there to consult with the chancellor and the president of the All Student Council. Following the chancellor's original suggestion at his talk on housing last Thursday, he spoke again of a representative student committee to lead student support. The chancellor recommended that the president of ASC set up the committee and choose a chairman. He suggested that the committee be small but representative of as many organizations as possible. Because of recent developments in the state legislature, he expressed hope that the housing program may soon be shifted from a five or 10-year basis to a program with almost immediate results. To implement this hope he has asked that a strong student program of concentrated effort be made to bring the feelings of the students to the attention of the legislature. The Daily Kansan was mentioned several times in the discussion. We did not start the housing issue. The University officials were aware of the need long before our efforts were made. We realize this. We did not begin our campaign with the intention of acting as rabble-rousers. A need was seen which we felt should be called to the attention of the Kansan's readers. The chancellor has condemned the expose technique. An expose is a formal exposition of facts. It is our responsibility to print facts. The expose has an additional implied meaning of sensationalism. This was not our intent. But, if the facts are not good public relations we do not see that as a reason for withholding them. It was suggested, now that an active student program is to be initiated, the Daily Kansan's job is over. The Kansan editors will be very pleased if the students accept this responsibility and carry it through. Evidently there is now a very good opportunity for such a committee to accomplish a great deal very quickly. European Tears Fall As Korea Steals Spotlight The overwhelming election of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to the presidency of the United States brought cries of dismay from many corners of Europe as well as from disgruntled Democrats of America. The greatest European worry ove election arises from the fact that Gen. Eisenhower has been showing such concern for the issue of Korea and Far Eastern foreign affairs, that he may neglect the problems of Europe. This is not so. The people of France, Germany, and England are loath to admit their dependency upon the United States, but are only too ready to worry at the first threat of abandonment by American policy makers. Gen. Eisenhower used the issue of Korea as a weapon of political expediency. The people of America were much more concerned with the omnipresent war in Korea than they were with the perplexing problems of European spending and financial wrangling on a super scale One growing voice in the foreign policy picture, however, is the average European citizen. Americans are furnishing millions for defense; he sees armies being built around him for the third time in about as many decades. But what the average Burgher, or Frenchman, or Italian wants and needs is more economic support and less armsracing. The Germans, for example, cannot have security if the long range economic ideals are overlooked in favor of shorter range militaristic ones. The new president undoubtedly will adopt methods of economic building from the ground up as opposed to trying by strength alone to contain a growing tide of discontent. He will endorse Marshall plan aid to a greater extent than will be approved by some of the members of his party, for the general is essentially a liberal. The people of the world are "at a crossroad," and a few incautious moves can lose the freedom of the world. The Russians offer communism—food, shelter, and a few other necessities at the price of personal freedoms. The United States advocates democracy—an *ideal* which seems unattainable to the poverty stricken peoples of the world. At present, we are fighting the spread of communism by main force alone. The economic proposals which have been made to rehabilitate the globe have been too timid and too paltry to have any great effect. Rather we should offer a tremendous amount in the way of materialistic support while enlisting military support. Only ideals which are supported by immediate materialistic gains are given enthusiastic support. The general will not neglect armed support, but he will supplement the military aid with aid to agriculture and anemic economies. He will not beat the swords into plowshares, but he will, probably, realize that while swords rust, nature perpetuates itself. —Don Nielsen Buses will leave early Saturday morning to take KuKu's and Jay Janes to the game. The KuKu's completed plans last night for the migration to Missouri, Saturday, Nov. 22. Pep Clubs Plan Migration; Missouri Trip Set for Nov. 22 Red Peppers and Froshawks also may go on the bus if there is room, Jim Perry president, said. One Man's Opinion Tell me, my son, what did you learn in four years of college? Oh I learned lots. Father Tell me what you consider the most important thing you learned in college, my son. Bv DON SARTEN Oh, I learned lots, Father. It isn't easy to say, my Father. Say it, my son. I learned that one must not question a professor. He carries a club in the form of a grade. With this threat he can become God. Yes, my father. Oh. my son? Since when has a grade from a professor become more important than self respect. my son? Since modern advances in all fields have made a college degree important for success in the cold, outside world, my Father. I see. But I'm not so certain you do see, my Father. Not all faculty members are under this classification. Fortunately, they are but few. And they are tired. They are discouraged. They are too deprived to seem to possess the traits they admire and have strived to attain for themselves. There are times when these members of the upper society in universities seem to resent questioning of knowledge they have gained through years of study and perseverance. In what way, my son? Continue, my son. They recognize but one school of thought, my Father. Some of them I fear, are narrow-minded. In one session they invite questions, only to become irritated at obedience of their desire—and vent their wrath upon the head of the venturesome student. I fear, my Father, that students do not have the intelligence of the professor and cannot ask the best questions. This seems reasonable, my soh. To me, too, my Father. But then, I am your son. I have been taught your philosophy. Perhaps we are wrong. I do not think so, my son. You must learn to live with the eccentricities of mankind. As you yourself have said, for everyone that finds delight in installing knowledge with a needle, there are 10 more who would use less painful ways. Do not allow their needling to bother you. I try not to, my Father. But at times I fear they become unreasonable. Why there are times when I leave a classroom just spoiling for a fight to relieve an antagonism an instructor has built up within me—but which cannot be taken out upon him. This seems reasonable. mv son. It goes back to the degree, my Father. What would you do? Why not, my son? As you are doing, my son. As long as possible. I would try to keep track of all the injustices from day to day. When I found I could stand a situation no longer, as you no doubt realize is a possibility with any human. I would explode with a wrath that might leave an impression upon even the most set of minds. X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, a German physicist, in 1895. It is nothing, my son. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or less (subject to the institution's enrance). Published in Lawrence, Kan. every afternoon during the University year except midweek, on university holidays and examination days. Classmaster Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence Kan. Post Office under act of March 3. Thank you, my Father To the Editor of the Daily Kansan: Letters: Has the lack of emphasis on individual thought allowed us to degrade to such a point that a student of education has no more sense than to insult thinking people by saying that the political and educational hierarchy are the only ones capable of thinking and guiding the actions and beliefs of those under them? I hope that this is not an example of the majority of persons preparing themselves to become educators. Students Write In On Press Censors The human race has come a long way from the days of political and ecclesiastical despotism. Some men have gained the right to think and express their views; others have learned to think because this right was not denied. The political and religious dogmas are in their peril due to the relatively new idea of the basic freedoms. Witness the death threes of political autocracy in the world today. Witness the death threes of the automatic Catholic church and other more or less dogmatic religious groups. "Keep the people ignorant!" is their motto. If seems to me that La Vonne Godwin has offered to throw away the very things which make this nation great—freedom of thought and expression. If the people in the colleges are not to be permitted to think out issues for themselves, how can they be expected to think them out for someone else in the future which is what such a situation entails? Must we throw in the towel now and revert to crassness? Better we go completely back to instinct and animal survival than to be thus trammeled. If the Four Freedoms is a myth, we are fighting communism and fascism for naught. If the Four Freedoms is a myth our United States is a fake. If the Four Freedoms is a myth, please accept my resignation from the Human Race. F. D. Goodman college sophomore To the Editor of the Daily Kansam "We have just turned over in our graves! To what point hath our posterity arrived? Doth God condone such as this? Hath we lived in vain? Must the pillars of our reverend beliefs be shaken unto destruction? Hath the shadow of corruption blinded the minds of ye citizens of the nation we held so dear to our hearts and devoted our efforts and lives to found in order that ye might enjoy freedom of expression forever?"-Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson. Wallace McKinney college sophomore To the Editor of the Daily Kansan: There has been considerable discussion the past few weeks as to the amount of journalistic freedom which should be afforded to the editorial writers on the UDK staff. Judging from some of the opinions I have heard, it seems to me that many people have the mistaken idea that the UDK is the same type of newspaper as, for example, the Kan-ku. You believe that it should have the same editorial freedom that exists in commercial newspapers. I should like to point out that this is a misconception. The UDK is not a free, independent, self-supporting newspaper. It was established as the organ of the University and its students. The students of the Univer- ity of Kansas are forced to support this paper. Likewise, the people of Kansas are forced to support this newspaper through taxes. In view of these facts, does it seem fair or proper or reasonable that the UDK should present a policy in the direct opposition to the views of these people who support it? If each student was given the option of supporting the newspaper and if no tax funds were used in its production, then and only then, would I uphold the policy of complete editorial freedom. It is my sincere hope that the editors will recognize their obligation to the student body and the people of Kansas and begin their duty of fulfilling this obligation. The UDK, when read by outsiders, is considered the voice of KU. As a matter of fact, its purpose is to represent the voice of KU and therefore I see no reason why it should be read as an insane desire on some individual's part to express their own narrow minded views. Dana Anderson ASC Representative To the Editor of the Daily Kansan: Freedom is the absence of restraint or repression, and liberty of the press is the free right to publish without censorship. Are these concepts, freedom and liberty of the press to be forgotten on the editorial page of the Daily Kansan? The right of freedom of the written word is at stake if censorship is considered for our campus paper. The claim is made that there has been bad publicity given the University due to the policy of the editors this year, but no publicity could be as bad as that which would say: "The Daily Kansan is under editorial censorship." That is one headline I do not want to read in my campus paper. college junior UNIVERSITY DAILY Hansan University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room KU 251 Ad Room KU 373 Member of the Kansas Press Assn, Nato Asn, Associated Collegiate Press Assn, Associated College Press Assn Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Avenue, N.Y. City, EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Roger Yarrington Editorial Assistants Charles Burch NEWS STAFF Managing Editor ----- Diane Stonebraker Asst. Mgr. 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