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University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 2, 1959
Editorials
Grads Should Aim For Objectives, Not $ $
With Senior Day coming up and commencement planned, it should remind all graduating seniors that their undergraduate stay at the University is almost completed. With the walk down the Hill on June 2, they will be walking out into the world to make their real beginning.
These past four years have been great preparation, but the sheepskin is no passport—it guarantees nothing. It only means that they have completed KU requirements and their dues are paid.
If they haven't already, the new graduates will have to determine their objectives in life, and this won't be as easy as it seems. An objective or goal if properly chosen, correctly understood, and eagerly sought will exert a great influence in bringing success. If it is misunderstood or unwisely pursued, it may do great harm.
Recognizing the importance of the objective, some graduates may jump to conclusions and fall error to simple logic that the important thing is to get going, and make a quick vocational selection no matter what it may be. "Any job now is better than nothing." But this isn't always true. There is nothing gained in sticking to a road (even a smooth one) if it is taking you nowhere.
Some seniors may think that after four years matching wits with professors that they are ready to meet the world with all its challenges. But the first job will probably show them just how unprepared they really are.
No graduate will be expected to make an ideal vocational choice in his field that he will fit into perfectly without any attempts of readjustment on his part. Life will be full of adjustments as the graduate goes along.
For vocational selections, there are tests, advisers, and so forth, but graduates should remember that these are only for advice. The important decision will be left to the individual involved.
If the first lucrative job offer that comes along does not fit into their proposed pattern, or cannot advance them toward their objectives or goals, then that job should be left alone. The decision will be left to the graduate.—Charles Price.
Comments
PATER'S POCKET . . .
Keenly aware that most students are broke most of the time, the Prom committee at Holy Cross college, Mass, has published a pamphlet titled "Picking Pater's Pocket."
Some sample suggestion of what to tell the old man when you want him to shell out: "And I contributed all of last month's allowances to the Ubangi missions . . ." or, "How was I to know they were using a Canasta deck . . .?"
If these methods fail, the pamphlet suggests that you insure your roommate, with you as beniciliary, and then either push him out the window or smother him with a pile of dirty laundry.
REQUIRED COURSES? . . .
Do you believe in required courses? That's what students were asked at Northeast Missouri State Teachers college, and most of them said they did.
"We would have a lot of warped minds if there weren't," said one student. But another one said simply, "Go away, boy, ya bother me."
HONOR BONER . . .
Senior honor societies at New York university got a calling down from the dean recently. He declared:
"In the past the advisers have noticed some very deserving students left out by the honoraries. On the basis of tradition there may have been good reason. We feel, however, that tradition should be changed . . ."
Interpretive Article
New Indonesian Premier Opposes U.S. Aid
Indonesia has chosen a new premier, Dr. Wilopo, a leader of the Partai Nasional Indonesia (PNI). Dr. Wilopo replaces Dr. Sukiman Wirtiosandio as premier of Indonesia.
Dr. Sukiman's ten-month-old coalition cabinet collapsed in February when Foreign Minister Achmad Subardjo accepted non-military economic aid from the United States under the Mutual Security act. Under this agreement, Indonesia received $16,000,000 and was to get $8,000,000 more in July.
The Indonesians want to take a neutral path in the conflict. This is the reason given by the Indonesian government for not wanting to accept aid the conflict. This is the reason given by the Indonesians feel that they are aligning themselves with the West.
However, the United States did not ask for military support in giving aid, according to the State department and Subardjo, as reported by the New York Times. Ex-Foreign Minister Subardjo expressed the foreign aid conflict as a political maneuver.
The coalition cabinet was composed of four
Moslem Masjumi and four PNI. Subardjo is a Masjumi. The coalition cabinet resigned in protest to Subardjo's action without prior knowledge by the cabinet. Both parties joined in condemning Subardjo's action.
The new premier, Wilopo, is 42 and has spent much of his life in politics. He opposes American aid and favors trade with Communist countries, and wants Indonesia to remain neutral. Wilopo has only one name. He put himself through law school by teaching journalism, led underground trade unions during the Japanese occupation, was jailed as a dangerous Nationalist by the Dutch, and served as minister of economic affairs in the Sukiman cabinet.
The cabinet crisis in Indonesia ended talks being held with the Dutch. These talks will not be resumed until after the Dutch elections in June. In these talks the Dutch had received a "most favored nation status" from Indonesia instead of "national treatment," meaning that the Dutch status will be equal to that of other countries in relation to Indonesia. Nancy Anderson.
News from Other Campuses
Architecture Course . . .
Palo Alto, Calif—Architecture is now being offered as a major course at Stanford university. Courses leading to bachelor and master degrees will give professional training in architecture to students planning a career in the field.
Architecture Course . . .
Bethlehem, Pa.-Forty students have been dropped from Lehigh university for failure to meet academic standards, Dr. Wray H. Conglon, dean of students, announced were recently in issuing a report of students on scholastic probation.
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Interpretive Article
Taft Hopes for Shutout In Ohio Preference Primary
Most observers would be surprised if Harold E. Stassen, Sen Taft's only opponent, won a single delegate. A technicality kept the name of Gen. Eisenhower off the Ohio ballot. The state's election law requires the written consent of a presidential candidate.
On the Democratic side Sen. Estes Kefauver is running against Robert J. Bulkley, a former U.S. senator from Cleveland. Mr. Bulkley is the favorite son candidate and a compromise among Ohio Democratic forces.
Sen. Robert A. Taft is hoping for a shutout victory in the Ohio preference primary May 6 to regain the lead in the number of Republican convention delegates he lost to Gen. Eisenhower in the Massachusetts primary April 29.
Sen. Kefauver has filed a slate of only 33 delegates out of a possible 54. Eight of these are at-large candidates and if elected would only count a half-vote according to an agreement among Ohio Democrats. So the most he could pick up in this primary would be 29 delegates.
Sen. Taft, with his smooth-running organization, hopes to make the most of his home state primary with his strength being at one of the highest points in his career. It appears he is even stronger than in his sweeping 431,000 majority victory in the 1950 senatorial campaign. So the Ohio primary can be written off as an easy and important victory for the Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. Robert A. Taft.—Max Thompson.
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