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Challenge Handed To Campus Politics
Campus politics has been handed a challenge.
In a letter to the Daily Kansan, Chancellor Franklin D. Murryphy outlined what he calls the "10-year building program" of the University. Plans for housing for 200 men and 150 women are on now the architect's drawing boards, he explains, with a minimum of 2,000 nits of housing anticipated by the end of the 10-year period.
Ten years is a long time. Most of us will not be around to enjoy the benefits of this program as the decade draws to a close. In the meantime, something should be done that will have more or less prompt results.
Chancellor Murphy suggests at least one thing that can be done, so doing, he hands the All Student Council a challenge, on a silver latter, if the reader will indulge us in a cliche.
tatter, if the reader "The active support by the student body and their parents for these needed facilities could be an important factor in bringing them to reality sooner than can presently be contemplated," he says.
There is the challenge: "active support by the student body."
There is the challenge: active support by the student Agitation by student organizations could be a key factor in accelerating the dormitory building program. Student support for my organization which would undertake such a project should be tremendous.
FACTS, which trumpets long and loud that it is a party with the interests of the student at heart, is in an excellent position to prove that statement by taking up the challenge. Although its membership includes a number of Greeks, it is by and large a party of independents. It is, moreover, the independent student who is most concerned with this state of affairs. FACTS leaders need only come out with a definite program, coordinated with the overall University effort, to start the ball rolling for better student housing.
However, both parties have established a record, if one is to judge from events of last year and this, of quibbling over trifles. The principal issue in campus politics has degenerated from "how can our party do the most for the University and for the students we represent?" to "how can we get the most publicity for what we do accomplish, and how can we best make the other side look cheap?"
Now, for once, campus politics has a real, honest-to-goodness issue. Just what the results of Chancellor Murphy's letter will be, remains to be seen.
Jim Baird
Short Ones
The Capital reports Rita was met by an unidentified man when he got off the train in Madrid yesterday. Now that's about as unusual is the sun coming up in the morning.
A scientist at Kansas State has just revealed he has discovered hickens really do have hen parties. A milestone in the march of science has been reached.
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
I have just finished reading Mr. Bennett's letter in Tuesday's edition of the Daily Kansan. For someone who makes so many claims of "one-sidedness" and "biasness" his letter shows, as does his title of office that he is more than slightly partisan himself.
The Young Republican club was notified over a month ago that the editorial staff was pro Stevenson and would express their opinions. The Young Republicans were asked to submit editorials so an equal presentation of the issues might be made. Since none were submitted, some of the staff took it upon themselves to write articles of Republican interest to give both sides of the campaign.
Why blame the Kansan for your own club's inaction? If you want more articles along Mr. Opie's vein, all you have to do is submit them. Calling a newspaper, particularly a student newspaper, a "mouthpiece" of either party needs more than mere words to make the accusation stick. Being in law Mr. Bennet should realize this.
Letters
The Young Republicans have received good coverage on all their meetings and any news concerning Eisenhower has been given good placement. This, to me, would offset any claim of "mouthpiece" or "completely, without exception, pro Democratic."
There are many large newspapers today who maintain editorial pages that are in opposition to the "majority" on many issues. These newspapers seem to feel that a true expression of the news is much better than a "puppet's mouthings." I am glad and proud that we here at the University still allow students to write what they think.
I see in the last paragraph that even the faculty received a salutation from Mr. Bennet. Anymore, it seems, if the faculty isn't accused of being Communist it will be accused of being something else.
Bob Walker,
President of KU
Young Democrats
Dear Editor:
I was amazed at Mr. Bennett's letter to the editor in Tuesday's Kansan. His theme is that the Kansas wrongly continues to print "one-sided political editorsor." He
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says that the "time-worn theory of editorial freedom" does not justify this. Why? Because, according to Mr. Bennett, a "straw poll" on the campus showed an overwhelming Republican majority.
Webster's dictionary defines the adjective straw as follows: "Of the worth of straw; hence, of little or no value." I submit that Mr. Bennett's whole article is, like the poll he referred to, a "straw article." Even more importantly, his article, if taken seriously, could be extremely dangerous to our way of life itself.
Admittedly, the Eisenhower-McCarthy-Jenner-Taft party needs many adroitly written newspaper articles to build confidence in its strange coalescence. Mr. Bennett would do this by suppressing any articles not "suitable for publication" as determined, probably, by
"some members of the Republican party."
The whole idea would almost be humorous if we were not engaged in a world-wide struggle to preserve just those freedoms that Mr. Bennett would inadvertently take away.
I want to compliment the Kansan staff for interpreting controversial issues as they honestly see them; while, at the same time, allowing the other sides to be represented.
I only hope that the Kansan staff and the journalism faculty will be spared further intimidation—especially from those who would change the Kansan's policy of viewing the news as it sees it, to viewing the news as the vice-chairman of the KU GOP and a "straw poll" see it.
Don Dirks
1st year law student
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