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University Daily Kansan Thursday, May 8. 1952
Editorials
So Campus Politics Are Confusing?
(Editor's Note: Campus politics are often quite confusing. Parties, candidates, and issues are thrown around in a jumbled mess. However, it is doubtful that KU can match the fantastic doings described in the following article from the Oregon Daily Emerald.)
So you think campus politics are a nonsensical mess here . . . ?
Try the University of Washington.
Up there they have a new student body president—an "unknown journalist" by the name of F. M. "Spud" Bunker.
Seems only one fellow from the 12,000-strong student body indicated an official desire to become ASUW president. Application deadline drew near. Some students (rumored to be journalists) thought the sole contender needed some opposition. So shortly before deadline time, Spud, a member of the Washington Daily staff, was in the running.
His opposition had held many student offices. He was a Greek, too. Spud had neither of these qualifications, apparently.
But the Daily gave him front page news and picture space. One of the more intriguing of the photos was of Bunker, lantern in hand, searching like Diogenes to find an honest man in the HUB, the UW student union.
Bunker's platform was one for the "common man." They must have lots of "common men" at
the UW because he won in one of the largest election turnouts they've had for years.
And the Associated Press story afterward was was a bit reminiscent of spring term 1950 here on campus. It told of the 400-student "riot" along Greek row, with boards and nails in the street and six students in the Seattle jail.
(Incidentally, we notice that Bunker, who appeared as "copy editor" on the Daily's masthead before the election, has now advanced to "managing editor.")
Try our closer neighbors, Oregon State.
Over there a fellow who didn't even exist gained 113 votes in the presidential primary.
And who was one of the two perpetrators of this plot? The student body president, Donn Black. He and another well-known student dreamed up "Dick Hastings" as candidate a week and a half before the election when it looked as though there would be only one candidate for president. (There were two, besides "Hastings", incidentally.)
Black explained to the OSC senate that "Hastings" was simply a method to get more interest in student elections which were showing signs of definite apathy, according to the OSC Barometer.
The Barometer was quite indignant at the whole situation, running an edit entitled "Dirty Politics Ruin Election." We'd hardly call this "dirty"; seems "screwy" would be a more appropriate term.
Interpretive Article
U.S. Teaching European Labor Leaders
United States universities, labor unions and industries have joined forces to show Europe's future labor leaders American democracy in action and teach them the secrets of U.S. production knowhow.
Under the special "workshop" program sponsored by the three groups, the Mutual Security agency will bring 2,000 European workers, foremen and technicians here from 17 Marshall plan countries. They will work and train in factories and go to school part-time for one year.
The announced objectives are to give potential leaders a year to increase their technical skills, gain the American concept of industrial productivity and labor relations and show them American democracy in action.
After arrival in this country, the workers, 20 to 33 years old, will go to cities in the east and middle-west in which both industry and a university is located.
The new co-operative plan was proposed to all European Marshall plan countries last year and met with an enthusiastic reception. Each country promptly set up its own selection committee to nominate their candidates. Ability to use English, education, qualities of leadership and professional skills were considered as primary qualifications.
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will participate—and placed in jobs, they will pay their own fees, living expenses and even American taxes from their earnings. The schools will provide room and board facilities.
The MSA estimates its share of the costs at 20 per cent of the total. The European countries will pay 10 per cent and the worker-students the remaining 70 per cent.
Of the 17 countries participating, 11 already have sent their "pilot" groups. Some 300 workers have been settled in different sections of the country with the remainder due soon.
In each community a special committee composed of representatives from the CIO, the AFL, management, and the colleges will coordinate and advise on all "workshop" arrangements. For the committee, known as the "joint management labor school committee," this will include review of the program's operation, approval of college instructors, and agreement on courses and policies for the trainees.
A stiff schedule will confront the Europeans, most of whom will work in full-time jobs similar to jobs they held in their own countries. They can work during the day, attend classes at night or vice versa. Courses will include English, the growth of industry and unions, industrial management and union organization and administration.
They will receive jobs in local unionized factories secured for them by either MSA staff members or local employment advisers under contract to MSA. Jobs will not be created nor little preference shown toward the men and women. They will work under regular seniority and other placement rules, receive the regular union wage rate, and are expected to join the union and attend meetings.
The unions will show some consideration in occasional job shifts, by encouraging enrollment in "inplant training" courses, by taking them into local union training courses, and by taking a certain interest in the participant's work and activity. —Compton S. Jones UP Staff Correspondent.
Those strong gusts sweeping across the campus last Friday were sighs of relief by some of the 253 students listed in the UDK as having passed their English proficiency exams.
Happiest face to be seen at the engineering exposition last weekend was the fellow operating the toy train in the civil engineering exhibit.
Dagwood is always having trouble with "little pygmies running everywhere." He should have seen the campus last Friday when 73 high schools sent more than 3,000 of their little ones to KU for a music festival.
Feature
Kefauver's Total in Florida Claimed as Moral Victory
A see-saw vote in the Florida primary yesterday resulted in a win for Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia but the score piled up by his opponent, Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, will keep the Georgian from winning the support of non-Southern delegates at the Democratic national convention.
The lead in the popularity vote changed hands eight times during the day before Sen. Russell finally came through with his win. Although Sen. Russell won the most of the 600,000 or more votes cast, his 30,000 odd lead was far from the two-to-one victory which his supporters had promised.
The primary was Sen. Kefauver's first loss but it may be claimed as a moral victory by his supporters in view of the heavy opposition which he faced in the race. The votes which the lanky Tennesseeean received came in opposition to the support for Sen. Russell of Governor Fuller Warren and the state's two U.S. senators.
Sen. Kefauver refuses to yield in his campaigns to Southern sentiments on civil rights and issues such as the Fair Employment Practises commission but yet has proved in Florida his ability to win Southern votes. He staged a nip and tuck battle with the South's own candidate, Sen. Russell.
Having already proven his strength in the North, it looks like Sen. Kefauver is going to have to be taken more seriously from now on by the Democratic party leaders.
POGO and his friends
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