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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 15, 1952
Editorials
Formula for Education Based on One's Effort
On Thursday, that long-awaited, mudh-deplored first day of school, it would be a pleasant experience to sleep until noon, spend the afternoon lolling in the sun, and wind up the day at some favorite entertainment spot, or perhaps watching the latest 1931 movie on television.
It is indeed a vicious thing to require some 5,000 or more people, in quiet pursuit of their normal lives, to give up their vacationing and resume careers as college students.
It must be still more difficult and still more vicious to impose this career upon eager but slightly confused individuals who are treading the walks of Mt. Oread for the first time.
Mean and ugly as this imposition may be, it is necessary for the individuals involved, for the fate of the nation, and for the continuation of our noble institution.
The old-timers, sophomores, juniors, seniors, and graduate students, are encouraged to view the return-to-school movement with calm and refrain from any such disheartening action such as collective suicide.
To the freshmen, we issue a warm word of welcome, wishing them a placid and successful venture through the halls of higher education. The path is often bumpy, flecked with erudite, uncompromising textbooks, undernourished bank accounts, and dyspeptic professors.
But on the whole, a college education is a pleasant experience for the student who applies himself to the work set before him. The acquisition of this education is based on a simple formula: The return is equal to the effort. By tuning his energy to this formula from the beginning, the student will find his college career a rich and rewarding one.
This applies not only to intellectual life, but also to the spiritual, social and physical aspects of the phenomenon in question, the student. Each student should engage in activities which develop and coordinate these facets of his personality and finally serve to fulfill the objectives of his education.
This education thing must be all right. Look at all the old-
timers who come back!
—Chuck Zuegner.
Bibler, Little Sport, Pogo Brighten Daily Kansan Pages
The new school year brings a new staff University Daily Kansan pledged to reproduce the news and reflect opinions as completely and accurately as our poor talens will allow.
After careful consideration, we shall write what we believe is right.
The Kansan will cover national news, through the United Press wire service as well as local news. Its chief editor will well both on the national and local scene.
We are here to stimulate; not to dictate.
We do not believe that the editorial page of a college newspaper is a privileged pulpit from which to preach isolated viewpoints of a few journalism students. On the contrary, we consider it a forum for its readers, members of the faculty and student body.
Therefore, we encourage readers to develop their own viewpoints in as brief a space as possible and send them in. Provided they are in good taste and signed by the writer, they
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Editorial Assistants
Chuck Zuegen
Bob Stewart,
Pam
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Asst. Mgr Editors
Loren Barbay,
Diana Burrell, Diann
Charles Burch
City Editor...Phil Newman
Society Editor...Mary Copper
Sports Editor...Bob Lungerst
Post Editor Editors...Don Nielson
C. Iarke Keys
Telegraph Editor.Mike Thompson
Picture Editor.Maurice Thrallon
News Advisor.Victor J. Danilov
Jacqueline Jones
will be published. Names, of course,
will be withheld upon request.
The big news as far as this year's Kansan is concerned is the return of Dick Bibler's "Little Man on the Campus" to Mt. Oread. Old readers will well remember the sorry looking, saw-toothed Worthal, who poked fun at co-eds, professors, and fraternity life.
Bibler, who was graduated from the University in 1950, conceived Worthal in 1946 in a cartoon contest sponsored by the Daily Kansan. While still in college, Bibler had his cartoon syndicated by the Associated Collegiate press to 89 dailies and weeklies throughout the country.
Another cartoon addition to the Kansas is "Little Sport", which will appear daily on the sport page. A creation of John Henry Rouson, "Little Sport" promises to lend a humorous touch to the sports scene.
Back with us also is the inevitable Pogo.
Chuck Zuegner
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Advertising Manager ... Frank Lasee
National Adv. Mgr. ... David Arthurts
Circulation Mgr. ... Vivian Martin
Mgr. Advertiser ... Patricia Vancuzzo
Business Advisor ... Dale Novatty
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The Glenville Mercury, Glenville State college, W. Va., takes nothing for granted on the part of its readers. "Total full-time enrollment," it said, "has increased from 322, last year's total, to 332. This represents a net gain of 10 students over last year."
Comment?
PROF URGES CHANG
A change in opinion
made to take confusion," accords to Dr. Robert A. Love of City College of New York. To meet modern needs, he says, colleges must reorient their methods, approaches and objectives.
A change in emphs
educational
Specifically, he advocates college recognition of the hundreds of new professions, such as business management, personnel management, purchasing, market analysis, and the like, each of which has the breadth and complications of medicine, engineering or law.
He proposes a general education which focuses on the individual and his needs, and turns out a person who can adjust and grow with his times.
"We must provide the ability to detect, point up and solve problems, rather than mere answers to a limited number of questions; understanding as against possession of fact; skill in acquiring skills, rather than the more possession of a skill; possession of an integrated personality, instead of scholarly knowledge; the ability to live successfully among and along with associates, at home, in office, and in social group."
HITLER FOR PRESIDENT
The Miami Hurricane at the University of Miami rounded up enough signatures to make Ilse Koch, better known as the "Witch of Buchenwald," eligible to run for secretary of the student association at Miami.
More than 300 students signed their name to an official petition circulated to get her name on the ballot. Ise Koch is the notorious Nazi concentration camp demon who delighted in making lamp-shades out of men's skins.
Unaware students affixing their names to the petition had some choice comments. "What sorority is she in?" asked one girl student.
One boy solemnly signed himself "Adolph Hitler," and added, "If Ise can run, so can I."
WOMEN TAKE OVER . . .
The board of regents at Georgia Tech voted 7 to 5 to make the school co-educational. The vote followed a bitter debate in which one regent declared, "Here's where the women get their noses under the tent."
Another regent snorted, "We'll have home economics and dress-making at Tech." The regent chairman; also part of the minority, said "I'm afraid the moment we get women on the campus they'll be coming in and saying we got future mothers on our hands and we ought to prepare them for it."
Here's one that slipped by Pravda. The first hard winter wheat to be planted in Kansas was brought from Russia by German Mennonites.
The buildings and grounds department at the University of Wyoming has asked students to kindly refrain from sending sailboats down the irrigation ditches.
Students with cars take heed. A photographer for the Detroit university Varsity News toured the campus snapping pictures of articles he might have stolen from parked cars. He used a lot of film.
Charges by the Chicago Tribune that the AFROTC is giving cadets in 188 colleges a favorable impression of Russia have been vigorously denied by air force brass.
The Tribute claimed the textbook, "World Political Geography," is biased in favor of the Soviet Union.
"I thought you told Jane I'd had my last blind date with a Phys. Ed. major."
Collier's Campus Cues for Clothing' Frightens Freshies
Henry Smulch, a June graduate of the Podunk, Kan., high school, today wallows in a foxhole as a private in basic training with the U.S. Army. The grimy appearance of his dungarees bespeaks his own unwashed condition. But to the Army, business is business—dirt or no dirt.
The Smulches had planned a college education for Henry since he was old enough to browse through the cookie jars on the pantry shelf. They had saved money, deprived themselves of luxuries so that Henry could have an opportunity to gain a college education.
It's all over now. Henry showed Mama Smulch a copy of Collier's 'Campus Cues for Clothing.'
A month ago Henry and his widowed mother had visions of him cavorting on the campus at the University of Kansas this very day. That was before either of them had been advised of a typical college man's wardrobe by the August 30 issue of Collier's magazine.
"This is what I'll need to be a success at school, Mama," Henry blurted.
Four suits, a tuxedo, two sport coats, eight pairs of slacks, two sweaters, 12 dress shirts and 10 sport shirts, 16 neckties, four pairs of shoes, 22 pairs of socks, 13 pairs of shorts, and . . . . "
"Fine, son," Mama replied. "Just what does the Collier's expert advise for a typical college student?"
Just then, Mama cut him short. "You'll have to work for years to get a wardrobe like that. I'm sorry, son, but I'm afraid your college career will have to wait until we can afford to buy you more clothes. My position as a Podunk society leader depends upon the impression you make at school."
"What'll I do, Mama?" Henry asked, holding back a sigh of regret.
Smulch ioined the Armv.
A Collier's representative is invited to inspect the closets at KU for a reappraisal of his sartorial guesswork.
"Son, I have the answer. I'll enroll you in an institution where you will look just as good as the next man, and receive an education besides."
The coordinator of military units at Northwestern termed the charges "ridiculous," and accused the Tribune of quoting from the book out of context.
The 10 largest American universities in terms of enrollment are California, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Columbia, Michigan State and Indiana.
call that can be heard 30 feet away.
Although most turtles can sound off with nothing more than a slight squeak, the wood turtle whistles a
HES GOTTA WEAR A
GOLDY WIG LIKE THE
FUNNY PAPERS SHOW
ALL GAL ORPHANS DO.
ALSO I GITS TO BE
THE FAITHFUL DOG.
NO, IT WAS THE OLADY--SHE CRAYED 43,000 MILES ON HER ELBOWS TO ASK 'EM TO TAKE BACK THE DOG 'CAUSE HE WAS EATEN HER OUTEN HOUSE AND HOME.