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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 5, 1952
Editorials
Where Seating Fails Television Carries On
A lot of us are strutting around here because we're going to see the KU-Kansas State game Friday night. Now we don't have tickets, but we've got a place reserved in the big living room chair.
Thanks to TV we don't have to carry a ticket punched number 2. Nor will we have to stand in line for a few hours. But we're still disappointed that we missed a lot of games this season and in past seasons. Television has been in this area for more than two years, but just one game—the KU-Rockhurst contest—has been televised.
It seems to us that no harm could come to the University if all games were televised. As long as games are played in Hoch auditorium many students and faculty members will not be able to see all the games. TV could solve this problem. The team would get a great deal of publicity and more fans. Eventually more tickets would be sold to those who wanted to see the team right in Hoch rather than on a screen. The thousands who travel hundreds of miles to see a football bowl game or a regional basketball tourney are examples.
examples. When radio began broadcasting news, newspapers did all in their power to keep news from the radio in the fear that they would lose their subscribers to radio. Editors soon learned contrary to their beliefs that radio built newspaper circulation.
Even the KU-Kansas State game earlier this year in the mammouth fieldhouse in Manhattan might have been televised and have not hurt anyone for all the seats were sold. K-State could have even made additional money for allowing the telecast.
Let us hope that Friday's telecast is just the first of many
Joe Lastelic.
Students Praise Campus Movies
Letters:
Dear Editor:
We have attended the film program of the University regularly and are impressed and pleased by its high quality, its variety, and its value for entertainment and education both.
Not only are the films presented by the University by far superior to the films usually shown in town, but even superior to most films shown in Kansas City, which were the nearest thing to good entertainment shown around here. It is not often that one has a chance to see such outstanding films as The Blue Angel, Beauty and the Beast or City Lights, and we feel that the University has provided a real service by showing these films on the hill free of charge.
We think that the great success of this program is fully justified, and that it warrants an extension to at least one film weekly, or even more often.
Dan Gallin.
Delmar L. Boyer
Robert J. Kennedy
Stanislav Rejsek
Welli Elliot
Dan Gallin.
News From Other Campuses
Texas A&M Students Get Rocky Lesson
Sixteen Texas A&M geology students recently were given a rocky lesson after being implicated in defaming Sul Ross college by rearranging campus rock formations.
Caught in the act, the students were made to replace the rocks as the Sul Ross band serenaded them with "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You." The group later was given a full pardon by Gov. Allan Shivers.
The high cost of living is being combatted at Bucknell university where university plans are to interest 10 philanthropists in contributing $15,000 apiece to start a $300,000 funds for endowed scholarships to help outstanding students who are unable to pay the costs of college education.
Bucknell's president explained, "The cost of a college education has gone up about 300 per cent in the last 20 years."
Four Kansas State college architecture instructors recently were fired for criticizing campus architecture as being "less advanced than that taught in classrooms." The dismissals arose out of a December controversy resulting from a student blast against proposed student union plans. The teachers must have learned that expressed opinion can be a dangerous thing.
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Complete disregard for the law was displayed recently by a group of University of Washington students accused of traffic rule infractions when no defendants appeared at a student court session. Perhaps the students had no fine money.
Brotherly feeling through books was recently initiated between usually rivalrous Oklahoma A&M and Oklahoma university when a joint library service was begun. It will enable faculty members and graduate students of each school to utilize the library facilities of the other.
Considerable faith in college students' honesty was expressed by a Boston university professor recently after the theft of jewelry from a manikin placed on the campus to publicize a coming dance. The professor commented, "I never thought anyone or group at the University would stoop so low as to steal property belonging to a University organization." Phil Newman.
"Ever notice how his lectures always seem to have a touch of the dramatic?"
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Interpretive Articles
Financial Crisis May Force France To Leave Indo-China
The French government is in desperate financial straits. Another French cabinet has fallen. The major concern facing any new French cabinet is the overcoming of this crucial problem.
It appears that if France is to maintain its two-front defense program it must have foreign aid. It cannot support a large European army and adequately maintain its forces in Indo-China without this foreign aid. If this aid is not given in the near future, France may be forced to move its troops out of Indo-China.
Under the able leadership of the late General De Lattre, the French made considerable gains against the Communist forces. In a daring parachute drop the French were able to drive the Viet Minh forces out of Hoa Binh, capital of the pro-French Mung tribesmen. Since the death of De Lattre the French have lost most of their drive.
Viet Minh's army of 45,000 regulars are constantly helped by "advisers" from Communist China. Not only is Viet Minh helped by these "advisers," but he also is receiving considerable material aid from China. Many of the supplies used by the Viet Minh forces are transported in Russian built trucks, and most of the arms and munitions are of Chinese and Russian manufacture. As yet, Viet Minh has offered no air force to oppose the shoestring French airforce.
For five years the French have been fighting a hot war in IndoChina. They have been fighting without the aid of the United Nations. It has been a costly war for the French both financially and in manpower lost.
Should conditions of the French government become so grave that France finds it necessary to withdraw its troops from Indo-China, the United States will be faced with a serious situation. In the ever growing sphere of Communist control in Asia, Indo-China would only be a way station in the plan to control all of Asia.
Viet Minh's forces, with ever increasing Chinese help, have succeeded in regaining Hoa Binh. Fighting in the hot, sticky jungle land of Indo-China, the French have paid a heavy price to maintain their position in Southeast Asia. They must not lose this position.
With the aid from the United States, the French should be able to hold Indo-China and beat down the Viet Minh forces. By doing this, southeast Asia can be saved from the ravages of Communism, and the position of the free world can be greatly strengthened in Asia.
—Maurice Prather.
Sees Bright Future For June Graduates
Evanston. III. — (U.P.) A bright June unveils the 1952 college graduate, accounted for by Frank S. Schwarz, director of plament at Northwestern university.
Endicott reported on results of his sixth annual nation-wide survey of trends in employment of college graduates.
Endicott said salaries are up, more jobs are available, engineers are a premium and the demand for sales personnel is increasing.
His findings were based on reports from 142 of the nation's leading business and industrial firms.