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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MAY 21, 1957
Marvin Arth
the editorial page
--in view of the vital role played by the Campus Chest, it is of the utmost importance that the individuals chosen to head it be the best qualified persons for the post.
Ten-Year-Old Pendergasts—
Student government is a farce. There aren't any real issues to decide because the All Student Council doesn't have any power.
Most discussions of student government or campus politics at K.U. usually come down to this complaint and stop there. But how final is this statement? Has anyone bothered to go further, to wonder why the student government has little power? Is, perhaps, the power which the Council does have being constantly misused?
A new party took over campus government this spring, a party "conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal," if one believed their campaign statements. But since coming to power, the leaders of this party have done little but "pay off" their party workers with political appointments. At least one member of F.A.C.T.S. is beginning to look like a Willie Stark in knee pants.
On the other side, however, Pachacamac-N.O.W, could hardly be called clean-living. They are not so open but they have for years carefully passed nominations and appointments around between organized houses on a "point system." F.A.C.T.S. party was hailed as a savior from crafty Pachacamac maneuverings, but it looks to us as if F.A.C.T.S. is using the same objectionable system of running their party. Except, of course, they are passing the favors around among a group of party workers even smaller and less representative of the student body than Pachacamac's "inner circle."
"Campus politics, what the hell," says the confused student and shrugs off the whole mess. But it is in little ways that we learn big things. If we can't use the little power we do have sensibly, if we can't run a university of 7,000 students without such trappings as a spoils system or the intimidation of fraternity pledges, then how can we go out as university-educated persons and help run a government of 150 million people intelligently?
The administration could be made to realize this, and to allow "practical training" in government such as a student government advised by political science faculty members or some other considered plan, if they felt it would be constructive training. But to let the two parties now on the campus teach politics would be like Huey Long teaching new-born babes.
Student government is a farce, but the reason is not that the Council does not have enough power, or that there are no "issues" in campus politics. The trouble very clearly is that both parties are trying to run K.U. like 10-year-old Pendergasts. When students at K.U. are ready for powers," they will get it.
Anne Snyder, A.S.C. Reporter.
Francis Kelley
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The general consensus of student opinion is that University professors are a bunch of old fogies who are expert in the art of confusion. And like all such general opinions this one is somewhat fallacious. I personally know a couple of professorial exceptions to this one.
Fumpy thing is that one of these exceptions, after having first gained my immediate dislike, has now proven to be somewhat human. He is one of the type of instructors who believe in the forced-leeding of education to students. He seemed too cold and impersonal for my tastes. That is, until I went in and talked with him one day.
The upshot of our conversation was that he had problems of his own and that the problems of his students made his cross too heavy to bear. We cried on each other's shoulders for a while, I blew my nose on his handkerchief, and we parted friends. And he really is a pretty good feller.
The other professor's educational methods remind me of the doctor that hides castor oil in orange juice. He beat around the educational bush until he almost had me convinced that he didn't know any more than I did. But once again I was wrong. The old boy was just pretty shredw. Naturally, I didn't find this out until some time later. Quite a while, to be exact. As a matter of fact, it wasn't until the next year that he was telling me all about it... And I fell for it . . .
Why that old so and so...
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Whenever you're convinced that you're a comer, you're a goner.
Minds are like parachutes—they only function when open.
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There is only one thing more important than knowing—doing
A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.
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What a man owns is in inverse ratio to the number of keys he lugs around.
(Because of space limitations, the editor reserves the right to condense letters of more than 100 words. Anonymous letters will not be published, but names will withhold on request. Letters should be addressed to the editor of the Kansan.)
Letters—
Campus Chest
To the editor:
The Campus Chest has no relationship to campus politics; according, therefore, the process of selecting its leadership should not be bogged down by political considerations.
Let it be hoped that in future Council sessions qualifications of individuals for this post will be the only consideration.
The successful drive for funds for this strictly non - partisan and worthy cause demands a thoroughly non-partisan approach.
Loy Kirkpatrick
College Sophomore
Socialist Study-
To the editor:
Lee Sheppeard need not be unduly frustrated (editorial, Kansan, May 17). His journalistic gyrations may cause a bit of confusion in his mind, but very little arises otherwise.
I am aware, as Lee writes, that there is a theoretical difference between Socialist and their Communist counterparts. What he does not mention is that there also exists a serious rift within the Socialist party itself.
The right-wingers stress the word "democratic" and are prone to ally themselves with the cause of the West in its fight against Soviet aggression. The Americans for Democratic Action, Attlee, and Auriol are representatives of this camp.
The left-wing Socialist make much of the "state interference" phase of their movement. They are drawn to the Communists by a common Marxist heritage. This group of willful men has been noteworthy for collaboration with the Stalinists (i.e., "Popular Front")
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I disagree violently with the objectives of both wings; however, I am forced to admit that the former is to be admired for its belief that the people should decide of their own free will whether or not Marxism is to be imposed upon them. The latter, on the other hand, are merely Communists under a different name.
The declaration of the K.U. Socialist Study club, which Lee mentioned, was a simple restatement of
the intent of the Kremlin-inspired, sonpiratorial "Stockholm Peace Petition." It placed that little organization squarely on the side of the radical left. They have thus succeeded in a clever ruse, for they utilize the nomenclature of a reformistic "study" club, but practice the mechanics of a revolutionary propagandizing agency.
Kent Shearer College senior
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