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Page 2 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 5. 1952
This is rather hard to understand. Miss Shagnasty is generally
quite strict with her classes"
Will Big Business Rescue Education?
Ex-Chancellor Deane W. Malott, president of Cornell university, recently told a group of California businessmen that big business will have to come to the rescue of education.
Educational institutions always have been supported by philanthropic individuals through college endowment, but now high taxes and inflation are making difficult the amassing of private fortunes, and education must be supported either by the federal government or by endowments from business, according to Mr. Malott.
The dangers of federal aid leave the problem up to the corporations, Mr. Malott said.
Certainly education is fast becoming needful of new sources of income, and federal aid is not a perfect answer, but big businesses did not get big by being open-handed. They tend to be hard-headed and practical about where their dollars go.
Most big businesses will contribute to research projects which will benefit them, or shell out for training programs which will supply their need for competent personnel.
But will they shell out for an intangible called "the education of American youth" out of which they may not directly profit?
Not to the extent Mr. Malott was talking about. Stockholders get very upset about someone giving away their dividends. It's a nice thought, Mr. Malott, but you will have to find some other source of income too.
—Dean Evans.
POGO
Editor of the many There have been some complaints that they won't represent the students in your editorials. These are made invalid by your active and vigorous support of better student housing.
Letters
Objective News Reporting Lauded
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
tumults. His staff has done a wonderful job of keeping opinions out of the news stories. Nothing can be more irritating than to have to sift out someone's opinions to see what's happening in the world.
I thought it amusing when I read your ad for a Republican editorial—even more so when apparently there were few answers. You announced clearly whom you supported and asked for editorials representing the opposite opinion. What more could you do, and how can anyone complain after passing up the opportunities you offered?
housing.
In the issues that are for the benefit of the University, you represent every student in that you desire improvement as all of us do. Where individual opinion is concerned, it is your right and duty to present arguments supporting those whom you favor.
Joe Lynn Nixon college sophomore
Green Hornet Gave Excellent Service
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Though I knew him well, until I read the Daily Kansan's article on Wednesday, Oct. 29, I had never heard the "Green Hornet" called so, partly because that Model A became green only in extreme old age. In the days of our association, 1944-1946, the "dog wagon" was a hornet, though. His sting was a broken spring in the driver's seat cushion where I perched—very hard on pants.
As University building supervisor of the Navy V-12 program, a polite name for head janitor, I had to trudge daily from the Sigma Nu (PT 1) to the ATO house (PT 10). For transport of supplies, the physiology department occasionally lent the real dog wagon, which greatly offended the nose, but for about a year after V-12 made Strong hall into "The Ship" and the fraternities into "PTs", I usually navigated the seas between PT 1 and PT 10 by leg power.
At length, under powerful stimulation from Dean Axe, who then directed V-12 for the University, the administration carried on successful negotiations with the entomology department, still master of the old A that had retired with a broken block.
Its block still cracked, it was given me for the consumption of gasoline ration coupons. It navigated very well among the PT's except during the coldest weather when it had to be left parked on the edge of the Hill to have a chance of starting.
With gas rationing on, there was no parking problem on the campus, and celebrities frequently legged it about. They were grateful for a lift, and while no visiting admiral nor Chancelor Malott ever folded himself into the space next the driver, many other notables did.
The dog wagon's most dramatic moment was doubtless when it pulled up in front of Strong hall while classes were changing at 10 am, and disgusted Mrs. Moncrief, professor of voice, from amidst dust mops and toilet paper. She had flagged down the A as it puffed up Edgehill road on the way to PT 8 (the Phi Delt house). No taxi would come for her as there were snow flurries.
J. Neale Carman professor of Romance languages
People Should Watch Words
Anna, Ill. (U.P.)—Ruel Keller, visiting a friend here, complained to a stranger from St. Louis, visiting the same friend, about the general wretchedness of the St. Louis police force. The stranger turned out to be a St. Louis policeman.
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College Audience Rates Free Press
A news story by the United Press a few days ago reported a row at the University of Minnesota because it concluded an editorial with a statement that Adlai Stevenson would make the best President.
The student editor who wrote that editorial was reprimanded by the school's editorial committee of the board of publications and was told he should not have endorsed any candidate for president. The incident ended with the editor agreeing to publish an editorial favoring Eisenhower.
Despite the phone calls and letters recently received by the editorial writers of the Daily Kansan saying its recent endorsement of Gov. Stevenson for president was out of order, we were generally encouraged in taking our stand, not for political reasons but because most people believed we had the right, if not the duty, to express our honest opinion.
We believe it is the newspaper's duty to publish fair editorials as well as objective news. Our columns were declared open to both sides of the election although the editorial writers' preference for Gov. Stevenson was also announced. That the editor of the Minnesota paper may have neglected to do this does not forgive the reprimand he got for publishing an endorsement.
It is not necessary to restrain from publishing one's personal preference in order to be fair to both sides of an issue. We believe we were justified in our endorsement as long as we also published the criticisms of the writers and of the candidates that were received.
A student newspaper is a learning process. The writers are training for a job and the readers are training to be citizens. It is too bad when a University cannot see its student newspaper as a responsible publication or its student body as mature enough people to read a newspaper and form their own opinions of it. To take away such freedom at the college level is a cramp on both academic and intellectual freedom.
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