Page 2 University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 10, 1952
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College Degrees Today Can Mean Anything
College degrees today can mean almost anything.
A college degree today can have specialized in Latin or aeronautical engineering, study Shakespeare or oil drilling, learn about Aristotle or bait casting, sewage treatment, cosmetic manufacturing, tea room service, fundamentals of camping, and radio gag writing.
Also there are students from all types of backgrounds. There are those who came to school in shiny, new convertibles and others who got there with nothing more than a few cents of change in their pockets. There are Greasy Grinds, All-round Students, Big Men On Campus, and Students-Who-Just-Sit-There. Thus the college graduates form a bewildering array of persons.
Recognizing this, Time magazine and Columbia university conducted and analyzed a survey on college educated people. They have just published this information in a book titled "They Went To College."
This book reaffirms statistically some convictions about college students that have been held generally. But it also debunks a considerable amount of collegiate folklore.
For example, although grades made some difference in a student's future success, it was hardly enough to make one stay up all night hitting the books. About half of the students who made "A's" while in college were found to be in the "over $5,000" bracket. However, more than 40 per cent of those who made "C's" and "D's" were in it too.
Perhaps the greatest surprise was in the figures regarding the incomes earned by the college graduates who had to work while in school. The survey found that they have lower incomes than do those who were supported during college. Although the self-help students earn considerably more than the national average, their average earnings are substantially below those of graduates whose way was paid. Joe Taylor.
Jewish graduates find and hold good jobs more consistently than do Protestants according to the survey. They earn better salaries on the average. Catholics on the other hand have not been "rewarded" as richly in terms of jobs and incomes as either the Jews or the Protestants.
Short Ones
An Arizona State college student committed suicide because he saw "no reason for living any longer." He probably sneaked a took at his professor's record book.
Easter hats in the past have carried everything from flower pots to oven-baked beans. The beans were a Boston innovation, of course.
A French fashion designer says that women's dress indicate a political standpoint. Never knew we had so many radicals in this country.
The men sit back and chuckle at women's styles. When the bill comes in, the joke's on different person.
We keep hearing about KU's terrible parking problem. The workers at the Union who keep putting things in the street ruining several of that building's best parking spots ought to hear about it
POGO and his friends
considered the present an opportune time for the unification of Germany.
Germany's unification is desired, but on Moscow's terms. Thus far, the Soviet Union wants no UN investigation of East Germany's political methods to see if free and fair all-German elections could be held.
Statements by Joseph Stalin probably attract more attention in this country than the marital entanglements of Tommy Manville.
The Russian autocrat is a newsman's dream. Because of his central position as supreme coordinator and regulator of "Operation Red," his pronouncements automatically fall in the category of "good copy."
Recent Stalin Interview Gets Wide Play
As far as a Big Four meeting is concerned, Stalin and Mr. Truman are both insistent on having it in his home ball park. The likelihood of such a meeting is remote at present.
So it is with the recent series of questions posed to him by James L. Wick, Niles (Ohio) publisher, who took a fact-finding trip to Yugoslavia and other points of Europe. It's not known what else Mr. Wick learned on his trip, but the facts extracted from Premier Stalin were neither startling nor particular interesting. Yet they made page one in almost every paper in America.
Premier Stalin's conjecture that war is no closer now than three years ago may be timed to convince western businessmen at the International Economic conference in Moscow of the desirability of an increasing trade with the East. In minimizing the threat of war, Stalin was speaking as president of the Muscovy chamber of commerce. Whether his statement has any real political significance is doubtful. —Chuck Zuegner.
Stalin was asked whether a third world war is more imminent now than before the Korean war and he answered no. He said a meeting of the heads of the great powers might be useful and
Letters:
Wants All Of Team To Go To Helsinki
Dear Editor:
I noticed in the paper that the Topeka Rotary club had instituted a drive to get sufficient funds to send all members of the basketball team to Helsinki.
It seems to me that the student body and faculty should get behind this movement and put it across. There is little doubt that such a drive would receive a good reception.
J. D. Morgan
Associate Professor of Business
(Editor's Note: The Daily Kansan is in complete agreement with Mr. Morgan. As a matter of fact we would like to go so far as to send the entire student body! However, the first suggestion is a much more reasonable goal so we heartily endorse it.
Wonders How KU Got Steel For Union
Dear Editor:
When I was at the University of Kansas last week end for the debate tournament, I noticed the construction of the addition on your student union.
Because we have been having so much difficulty here in getting a priority for steel needed, I was interested in knowing the circumstances about your union. We have had plans for several years now for an addition, but every time we inquire about the date, we are met with the answer that the delay is due to the failure to get a priority.
I'd also like to congratulate your student body as a whole for the terrific display of school spirit and enthusiasm at the rally welcoming home your basketball team. We were completely fascinated from afternoon until 2 a.m. the day all of you were waiting to welcome them. It was quite a rally and we were lucky to be there to watch it.
Joan Krueger
Daily Nebraskan Editor.
(Editor's Note: Your question on the method used to obtain a priority has been referred to the proper authorities. On your congalulations, I can only reply that it was quite easy to get that "terrific display of school spirit." All that was necessary was for KU's basketball team to win a national championship.)
Recent Riots Point Up Need For New Action In Trieste
Italy wants the Free Territory of Trieste back as a part of her nation. She's been after it for some time, and recent riots in the city of Trieste point up the fact that something needs to be done immediately.
In those riots, lasting four days, 160 civilians and 20 policemen were injured as pro-Italians attacked U.S. and British cars and buildings to protest the continued Allied occupation. (The U.S. and Britain occupy Trieste city and the northern half of the territory, and Yugoslavia the southern half.) Other riots occurred in Rome and Naples.
The Italian government announced on March 20 that it had protested to the U.S., Great Britain, and France that Yugoslavia was violating its Italian peace treaty by arresting Italians and outlawing Italian currency in its zone of Trieste territory.
The U.S. and Britain agreed on March 27 to negotiate with Italy for the addition of Italians to the Anglo-U.S. Trieste administration.
The city of Trieste is a commercial seaport at the head of the Adriatic sea between northeast Italy and northwest Yugoslavia on the Istrian peninsula. The Free Territory of Trieste came into being in September, 1947, as a result of the peace treaty with Italy. The UN Security council's efforts to choose a governor for the territory began as early as 1947, but the Big Five failed to arrive at a decision with regard to the choice of a nominee.
On March 20, 1948, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States proposed the transfer of the territory to Italy.
It seems that its return to Italy is the sensible thing to do to restore the territory to order. Tito should not object. With the threat of the ending of U.S. aid he wouldn't have much choice.
Besides restoring order to the territory, its return to Italy should remove it just one step further from Communist hands. If Yugoslavia gets control of Trieste, it might revert to Russia if Yugoslavia ever should.
It has been said that perhaps Stalin hopes that after Yugoslavia has been built up economically through Western help it may be returned to its proper place in the Soviet Balkans.
Tito might be taking the West for an economic joyride and may contemplate returning to the Russian fold. In which case Trieste would go along with the rest of Yugoslavia if it were in Yugoslav hands.
If you think you've seen everything, wait for the outburst of Easter hats on Sunday. Some of the hats this year will have built-in heads.
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