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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Jan. 9, 1952
by Bibler
Daily Kansan Editorials
We Want It From The Horse's Mouth
He also made it clear that he won't come back and campaign for the Republican nomination. He won't run unless drafted.
The general is "as much a candidate as he can be under army regulations," Senator Lodge, head of the "Ike for President" move, has said. "He probably will not take an active part in the campaign, or speak out personally, until he has finished his job over there." Ike himself said that "in the absence of a clear-cut call" to political duty he would continue his job in Europe.
The question of the year was answered Monday: General Eisenhower, by his own words, is a Republican.
The American people are left to hope that Ike will make it back from Europe in time to be inaugurated, if he should be elected. The New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Life magazine, and a myriad of other publications have come out unqualifiedly for the general. A host of political figures are backing the Ike movement with no questions asked.
Frankly, it looks like they are all buying a pig in a poke. What does Ike stand for? Life magazine calls the fact that his moral, political, national, and international convictions are unknown, a "myth." The editors cite his personal qualifications for the presidency—he is a leader, he is a man of peace who thoroughly understands war, and he has great administrative ability, diplomatic talent, and righteous political principles.
They take the trouble to cull statements from various of his speeches to illuminate his political views, and his course "between the unfettered power of concentrated wealth . . . and the unbridled power of statism or partisan interests."
A call for blood donors has been issued at KU. The Red Cross needs at least 200 volunteers for their visit to the campus which ends Friday. All the blood is earmarked for immediate delivery overseas.
Let's Give Our Blood Today!
It goes without saying that there is an urgent need for the blood. Men are still shooting in Korea, and there are many who have needed transfusions for months on end. The Korean truce talks are no reason to stop the supply of blood and plasma.
Other campuses have staged gigantic parades to make the campaign a success. The University of Texas was given a large spread in the last issue of Life magazine for their efforts to persuade students to donate their blood. They answered a challenge from Oregon State college.
We hope such an effort isn't needed at KU. We hope students will donate, not because of any demonstration, but because they want to and because they feel it is their duty.
The ROTC started the ball rolling and had hoped to be able to fill the campus quota from their ranks alone. When parents refused to fill out necessary blanks, the ROTC was forced to request assistance from the student body. Let's not let them, or our men in Korea, down.
The load must fall upon upperclassmen, since donors must be at least 21 years of age. A few lower classmen are eligible, but the bulk will come from juniors and seniors.
In order to register for the bloodmobile, all you need to do is call Watkins hospital, 890, or the Red Cross,405. A.G.M.
Ike, says Life, is clear and strong for the profit system and is deeply disturbed about levels of taxation. He thinks cradle-to-grave security is an illusory goal. As president of Columbia he would not hire a known Communist but opposed loyalty oaths for teachers.
He believes that the danger to liberty is not only from Communism but from our own "shift-less reliance on bureaucracy and the federal treasury." He can also fight the fast-spending Pentagon, says Life, since he has been chief of staff and knows where the sources of the "militarist infection" lie.
All of this about Eisenhower sounds good. In fact, nothing bad about Eisenhower has ever been said loud enough to be heard. But it also sounds nebulous in the extreme. What this country needs for '52 is not hazy generalities about "middle courses," but a practical plan for government. Could Ike propose such a plan?
If he doesn't come back from Europe, if he really has "no intention of campaigning or in any way attempting to influence the election" in New Hampshire, or of campaigning for the Republican candidacy, should the voters also buy a pig in a poke?
Ike, with all his splendid qualifications for leadership, administration, and diplomacy, owes it to us to come back and say what he stands for now. The guessing game has gone on long enough. His job in Europe is important, but it cannot compare with the job of guiding the United States through the coming perilous years. Ike should come back and pitch in. —A.L.S.
Short Ones
Mrs. George Bernard Shaw's will sets up a trust to teach the Irish "the social graces," giving rise to the thought that from now on Paddy must remove an opponent's hat before cracking his head with a shillelagh.
Someone dynamites a pecan tree in Dallas, and it probably is a good way to crack pecans, but hardly acceptable in the living room.
Churchill says he will not ask for financial aid during his January visit to the United States, and the man who enters a hospital with a broken arm rarely has to say much, either.
A government official reports that the U.S. faces a shortage of brass, to which we reply that the danger can't become severe with General Willoughby still around.
A Topeka business man reports the theft of several suits from his cleaning establishment. He doesn't know whether the theft occurred during the night or day, and isn't sure how many were taken. Otherwise the case is practically solved.
The new 1,100-foot Kaw river bridge connecting Fort Riley and Marshall field was opened recently. Colonel McCormick, not to be outdone, plans to build a bridge spanning the 31 miles from Fort Sheridan to the front door of the Chicago Tribune.
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Little Man On Campus
"We're pretty well stocked with 'Phi Urp' pins, Louise. Why don't you start dating boys out of th' 'Sigma Nothin' fraternity from now on?"
Why Do Students Cheat?
The dismissal of five students from Washington university, St. Louis, for breaking into a professor's office and stealing examinations has not brought to any end discussion of the problem.
On the contrary, Student Life, the campus newspaper, is still filled with news, editorials and letters concerned with cheating.
"While cheating has been on the increase here and in other universities," said a Student Life editorial, "... by the looks of things it will no doubt remain with us for some time longer."
"In dismissing these men, the University was, in part, attempting to set an example. It felt justified in perhaps disrupting five lives if such action would deter others from cheating.
"Legally, the expulsion was justified. . Morally, we are not so sure there is justification. . The administration must ask itself two questions:
"Had it created an atmosphere that would cause students not to cheat? . . . Did a situation exist on this campus so that students would not want or need to cheat?"
The newspaper recommended eight "cheating checks." They included, an adequate number of proctors; avoidance of "leaks" before exams are passed out; roomy classrooms, so students can sit in alternate seats; and the student's "own sense of values."
Students writing in letters to the paper have somewhat different views of the problem. Said one student: "As long as competition is said to remain the essence of a student's existence, as long as a student's worth must find its expression in quizzes, monthly tests, quarterly exams, semi-finals and what-have-you—so long will cheating be a temptation on this campus."
Said another student: "A course of study must be made meaningful to the student. . . Students who feel benefits derived from a course will wish to evaluate these benefits accurately. And the desire for accurate evaluation will eliminate the desire to cheat."
Faculty members interviewed seemed to feel that the blame for cheating should be placed on students desiring good grades rather than a good education. An assistant dean, according to Student Life, blamed the "student desire to get away with as much as possible."
But a professor of botany believed dishonesty could be traced in part to the commercial attitude of universities—"the selling of grade points for dollars," much as a marketable commodity is sold.
News From Other Campuses
A student at the Baylor university wonders how a couple of coeds made it home after he offered them a ride downtown in his car during bad weather recently. He later found one of their shoes in the back seat of the car.
Baylor Coed Loses Shoe
Loses Biology Final Exam
A copy of the biology department's final examination was among the main articles adrift as being the authors to aid a found bureau at Texas A&M college.
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Elected By A Landslide?
The president and vice president of the sophomore class at Sacramento Junior college in California were elected recently from a total of only 11 votes cast. Two of the votes were cast by the candidates themselves.
An old tradition at the University of Washington was revived recently as students declared Campus day. It is held on Saturdays and students turn out in a body to go to work on parking lots and intramural fields with shovels, rakes, and hoes.
Tradition is Revived
Play Ping Pong In Street
Four University of Colorado students were discovered playing ping pong on a traffic island in a downtown Boulder intersection.