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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1951
Lee Sheppeard
straws in the wind
Asking Too Much?
Are the students, the faculty, or maintenance department, most important to a University? The question is often debated without successfully reaching a conclusion. Possibly this is just as well.
To inform this unobservant student, the Daily Kansan planned to run a story detailing what had been done in the past few months. Buildings and grounds was approached and asked for a story. The reporter was told that the story was published in another newspaper a week before and if a story was still desired, it could be obtained by reading that aged edition and rewriting it. The reporter was impolitely dismissed.
Too many factors are involved to settle the disputes conclusively, but when one of these groups refuses to allow its activities to be made known to the others, then relations have certainly reached a new low.
A large portion of the taxpayers' money is devoted to this institution and its maintenance. Surrounded by these ideal conditions we the "citizens of tomorrow" are supposed to absorb learning and improve our minds. Still, is it asking too much that we be informed of these ideal conditions?
Apparently the department of buildings and grounds is the group responsible for changes made on the campus, but few students will have time to note all the improvements.
We see that the senate has received a suggestion to do away with the free barber service its members now enjoy. Presumably the vote on this matter will be decided by a "have" or "have not" alignment.
Is it not a pity that one department is so important that it does not have time to let its activities be made known to those who are responsible for that monthly paycheck?
Jacqueline Jones.
Joe Taylor-
taylor made
The story on the Missouri legislature's lobby investigation is headlined "MUM ON PERJURY." This looks like another attempt to cover up some odious dealing.
Does anyone remember just how that Franchot Tone-Tom Neal affair ended?
The Iroquois Indians are complaining about the rewards of a peace treaty they signed with the white men back in the 1700's. They say that the annual payment of $4,500 promised them is meaningless in view of present day inflation. Gosh, do you suppose that there will be an uprising if their demands aren't met?
Bandleader Artie Shaw, married at various times to five beautiful women, announced: "I'm in love for the first time."
Ex-Boston political Boss James Curley proclaimed to a crowd of supporters after being nominated once again for mayor but being far behind the incumbent: "This primary shows that the people are still with me."
Little Man On Campus
by Bibler
"Les see, 1948-yea, that was th' year we lost th' conference by a fumble of 'Butter-Fingers' Malone,"
An Empty Pack
In a letter to the editor (UDK, September 20) Miss Bernice Dacks stated, "The joy of youthful discovery is beautiful enough without having to classify it or use it for practical purposes."
Every student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences spends 62 hours, one half the number required for graduation, in filling distribution requirements; the purpose of our university would be defeated if each student spent this time in this "joy of youthful discovery" without planning a use for his knowledge which will make him a more useful member of society.
Such compulsory courses as English and speech should provide the student with necessary knowledge he will use all his life. Many other courses may be as useless as an empty pack of cigarettes because he gains facts for which he has no application or use and which are easily forgotten. Knowledge must be used and applied if it is to be worthwhile.
Biological and physical sciences can be taught without requiring the student to learn vast numbers of technical words and phrases. Science majors need to be accurate in their terminology in order to proceed to more advanced courses, but the non-major would be better off learning fewer isolated facts and terms and more about the broad area of science and its applications to himself, his career, his family, his world.
I do not mean that he should be spoon-fed; instead, the time which would be spent on technicalities and facts necessary for the next course in the field could be spent in learning more about the field in general and discussion of the applications of the knowledge acquired.
Some graduates have found that the ten hours of foreign language required have been functional, but the majority have either taken the wrong language, or have lost their linguistic ability in the downpour of English we hear and use constantly. A student planning to enter a career requiring foreign language can study it with the knowledge that it will be valuable to him in his job; others have no such assurance.
A five-hour course in the civilizations of other nations would give him a much better knowledge of world conditions which would aid the student as a voting American—certainly it would be much more practical than ten hours of language which he cannot apply.
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The distribution requirement should prepare the student for a better life as a beneficial and tolerant citizen by helping him to know the world in which he lives. By learning incoherent and unapplied facts in small parts of many fields he only becomes confused. Yes, he does need facts—those he can use.
Jody Johnson College sophomore
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