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University Daily Kansan Friday, Dec. 7, 1951
Kansan Editorials
by Bibler
Ten Years Ago Today---Pearl Harbor
Ten years ago today the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Out of that attack came many things both in the United States and in the whole Pacific area.
The immediate result was to crystallize opinion and sentiment in this country to make possible a concerted effort whose end was victory.
The long-range result was to change the map of Asia, to curb some forces and unleash others, to create a new Pacific world with new and bewildering problems.
Before Pearl Harbor there was much indecision and dispute in this country. We went back to the pre-Pearl Harbor mentality following the end of World War II. Korea and its armed conflict was needed to awaken us.
Now, as in 1941, we do not seem to clearly know wherein lie our lines of obligation and interest. There is much cleavage in this country on the question of right and advantageous cases of action. We are not a united people in respect to the problems of Korea, China, and Japan.
It would be well for all of us to remember Pearl Harbor today.
In fairness to the living, we must do all we can do honorably to prevent a recurrence of the terrible tragedy that struck Dec. 7,1941.
But in fairness to the dead, we should not compromise our principles, disavow our commitments and purchase a worthless peace at the cost of honor. For a peace without that priceless ingredient is in the long run no peace at all.
A man who borrowed a copy of the Lawrence Outlook called and told Editor Ed Abels how to run the paper. "If he should happen to impose on his neighbor again, thereby getting a chance to read this paragraph," Abels writes, "we cordially invite him to get in position to speak with $2 worth of authority.
We can hope that the good counsels of peace rather than the awful fact of war can bring us to wise and honorable decisions.
—Joe Lastelic.
Instructor Evaluation
The instructor evaluation program at the University is one of definite merit, we feel. It was with complete approval that we received the news that the student affairs committee is again backing the project.
The idea is rather unique. No doubt many foreign students will be amazed at such a plan in which the student is actually allowed to rate his teachers. Such friendly relations between student and teacher seem to exist only here in America.
The plan is this. Each instructor is given a number of rating sheets which cover such points as the material covered, method of instruction, and amount of outside work. Each student is given one to fill out as he sees fit. Anonymity is a requirement for the sheets. And they are not available to the instructor until final grades have been sent out.
To be really effective, true and unbiased opinions by all students are necessary. A sarcastic or bitter approach to the rating serves no purpose except for letting off steam. It certainly does not enable the teacher to improve his courses. Thus a student who does not answer the questions honestly is defeating his own purpose.
We hope that the sheets will again be as successful as they must have been last spring. But both sides will have to cooperate if such is to be the case.
—A.G.M.
Letters To The Editor
Phog Hints Of Another New York Scandal
The editor of a large national magazine published in New York wrote me this year as follows:
Dear Editor:
"You say that the first dump you heard about happened in 1943 in Philadelphia and that games probably have been dumped even prior to that time. You're 100% right."
Strictly off the record, I know of at least two games that were dumped in 1935 and 1936 in the Garden. I found out about them years later. Everybody closely connected with the basketball scene around here has definitely known that dumping has been going on for years—ever since the Garden opened. I've seen practically every Garden game since N. Y. U. opened the door against Notre Dame back in 1934. (I was going to college at that time.) . .
"I am positive that games have been dumped elsewhere, where the police haven't been as shrewd and as vigilant as in N. Y. . .
"To understand why New York has been the focal point of the dumping pestilence, you have to understand both the city and the kids in it. The New York kid is far more sophisticated and worldly than the average kid. He grows up in an atmosphere of "angles," "big money," etc. This is triply intensified in the poorer sections, where a lot of the basketball players come from. These poor kids, from their earliest days, rub elbows with all sorts of riff-raff. As a result they grow up without any clear-cut principles about right and wrong.
These are the kinds of kids much more disposed to look upon bribery
without too much moral Indignation. This is an exceedingly flimsy picture of the sociological structure underlying the New York cespool of basketball dumping, but it is one of the principle reasons for the epidemic that hit New York. Examine the backgrounds of most of the exposed dumpers and you discover that these kids all came from similar environments.
Daily Hansan
"You may also be interested to know that the situation is going to get worse before it gets any better. Right now, as I write this, the district attorney has two more dumps on the carpet. Their names haven't been revealed as yet (I know who they are, however), but when they start "singing" the stench is going to deepen and spread.
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".. The only answer, as unsatisfactory and nebulous as it may seem, is through intensifying the teaching of basic moral principles. . The man upon whom most of the responsibility rests is the coach."
Personally, I am prone to accept the word of the New York editor rather than that of sophomore Lawrence C. Kravitz. This editor must know his New York.
And in this proposition, I do practice what I preach. Again, there is no "attempt to white-wash KU and keep investigators from poking their noses around here."
It appears that there have already been some big noses poked around here.
Forrest C. Allen
Little Man On Campus
Mail subscription: $ a semester, $4.50 a year, (in Lawrence add $1.00 a semester postage), Published in Lawrence, Kans. every afternoon during the University of Kansas holidays and examination periods Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kans., under act of March 3, 1879.
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Europe Needs Ike
Recent reports of growing strength in the German SRP party, coupled with failure of the 12 Atlantic Pact nations to agree on methods of creating a large continental army, raise some questions as to the advisability of General Eisenhower relinquishing his post in the NATO to run for the presidency.
The SRP was founded a year and a half ago by Fritz Dorls, a disgruntled rightist in the West German parliament. Before long, uniformed guards, who looked and acted like Nazi storm troopers, took charge at party meetings.
The SRP, or Young Socialist Reichs party, is an organization suspiciously like the late National Socialist party. Members are working to recruit young Germans, and in May and October elections the party showed a distinct gain.
No one can say exactly what effect Eisenhower's departure from Europe would have on the situation but indications are that it would deal an extremely severe blow to West German morale.
Despite political upsurges like the SRP, and squabbles among leaders of the Atlantic Pact nations, the general military and political outlook in Western Europe is much brighter now than it was a year ago. The arrival of American and British divisions has given morale a big boost, particularly in West Germany. But the spark-plug of the entire affair has been the personality of General Eisenhower.
West Germans, and other Europeans, have a deep faith in General Eisenhower. They feel he is the one man who is sincerely dedicated to the job of rebuilding and protecting Western Europe. He probably is the only man who could have achieved the cooperation evident during the past year.
Responsible observers agree that the tremendous appeal of Eisenhower is perhaps the most important factor in preserving good morale in a precarious situation. They feel that if it were withdrawn the people of Western Europe might not have the faith and hope needed to resist hostile movements at home, and at the same time cooperate to make the NATO successful.
His presence has convinced Europeans that NATO is something more than an idle dream of the Western powers. They know now that if war should break out on the continent they will not be fighting alone.
—Jack Zimmerman.
News From Other Campuses
Nothing Like Keeping Warm Dances Ruin Gym Floor
Nothing Like Keeping Warm There were 121 violations of liquor laws and 110 confiscations at home football games at the University of Minnesota this year. This was a decrease of 6 per cent over violations last year.
Oregon Encourages Talent
A series of entertainment programs in which various surrounding colleges exchange talent has been arranged at. Oregon state college. The purpose of the programs is said to be "to provide larger audiences for Oregon college talent."
Dances in the University of Arkansas fieldhouse were ruled out, during the basketball season. Reason for the ban—dances are too hard on the floor and they hinder basketball practice.
An Unusual Combination
Five dormitories at Brown university in Rhode Island, where fraternity and non-fraternity students are housed in separate sections under the same roof, have been opened this fall for occupancy by 500 students.