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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1951
Thought for the Day
The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. —Wendell Willkie.
The Editorial Page-
Too Bright To Fight?
The heat's on, boys. Harry Truman, using selective service director Hershey's aptitude tests, just lit a fire guaranteed to bring out sweat on the heads of collegiate Joes.
This latest kick in the pants is the new ruling issued last Saturday by the President. It states that beginning during the school year 1951-52 college students who pass aptitude tests with a high enough score and who make "good enough" grades will be deferred from the draft for military service until their schooling is completed.
Under the plan, a freshman this year who is in the upper half scholastically among the men members of his class can get deferment on that ground. Or; he can be deferred if he passes the aptitude test with a grade of 70. A sophomore student can get postponement of service if he is in the upper two-thirds of his class. A junior must place in the upper three-fourths of his class. Or sophomores and juniors can also rate a deferment by scoring 70 on their aptitude tests.
Seniors, like other students, already have deferment until the end of the school year, if their work is satisfactory. After graduation, a senior may be deferred to continue his studies if he is accepted for graduate work leading to a degree and if he was graduated in the upper half of his senior class, or if he gets a score of 75 on the test.
There had to be some way of deciding which college students would be deferred and which would be drafted. The demands of the armed forces have to be met and some of the student will have to do the meeting. In a like manner, the needs for homefront technical skills also have to be met.
No plan of this nature can hope to please everyone. And everyone but the students themselves has sounded off about it pro and con. Perhaps the students just figure "ours but to take the test and General Hershey can do the rest."
Personally, we can't see much future for the aptitude tests, men students, or Harry Truman. If the aptitude tests don't pan out after a year, they can be changed. And if Harry Truman doesn't pan out in the next year, he too can be changed. But the men students? They've hurting any way you look at them.
It's a dark future staring them in the face. The latest plan calls for the deferment of students taking courses leading to degrees in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, osteopathy and optometry, provided they do satisfactory work. All other students must get in line for sob sessions with their draft boards. Draft boards are not required to observe the rules and defer students automatically. But in most cases they are expected to comply with the rules. Each student must take the matter up with his board, presenting his grounds for deferment.
Draft officials expect some 700,000 full-time students to seek deferments under the new plan. Part-time students are not eligible under the plan. The majority of those applying will probably be granted a postponement of service. But they must keep up satisfactory school work to continue their deferments. Those who goof off may be called for induction at any time.
The first aptitude test will be held May 26. Better brush up, boys. The heat's on for sure. The draft board is pointing a rigid digit in your direction, and it won't pay to flunk this test. Uncle Sammy don't hardly care how dumb his soldiers is.-F.J.K.
Francis Kelley
galley-west
Students, forced to "pad out" exams when their knowledge runs short, provide numerous chuckles for their instructors. Nino LoBello, instructor in sociology, sent over the following "boners" culled by members of the department of sociology and anthropology from the recent mid-term examinations;
"A caucasian is a politician who attends a caucus meeting."
"The sex drive in the Id is the Libido. The Libido is the looking twice at a blonde; the Libido causes the second look."
"A young person who steals for fun is a jubilant delinquent." "Rural life is found mostly in the country."
"Males usually receive the paycheck so money for alcohol is available to them. The financial care of the family is left up to the man. For this reason they have more worries. Sometimes men's wives just drive them to drink."
"An Open Shop is beneficial to the working man because he gets more fresh air that way."
A Scottish exchange student, while searching for a lost nickel, discovered that there are 864 cracks in the sidewalk between Fraser and Lindley halls.
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A friend of mine still can't figure out why K.U. had to replace one of K-State's football goalposts. The way he sees it, they only need one goalpost at K-State anyway.
Campus Politics,'09-'51 Bull Durham And Football
By LEE SHEPPEARD
By LEE SHEPPEARD (University Daily Kansan City Editor)
(This is the second in a series of articles on campus politics through the years.)
In 1922 a student named Chet Shore, tiring of empty political platforms, organized the "Dollars and Cents" party and issued this statement to the waiting press:
"My understanding is that the other two parties promise reforms in student government and the like. My idea is that regardless of who is elected classes will not be made any shorter, and that we will all come to school the rest of the year, the same as formerly.
"Thus, it is my plan if elected to conduct a price-slashing campaign. I will start a campaign to establish a rest and smoking room for men; to raise the price of Bull Durham and lower the price of Camels."
Enthusiasm for the new party was furthered when a three-piece jazz band campaigned in the student district, passing out Whistle salted peanuts and Eskimo pies.
Pachacamac raised an eyebrow but continued to function as usual, winning the election.
In 1926 Black Mask, which had opposed Pachaeamac for nine years, dissolved the party and reformed it into the "Independent coalition." Similar schemes have since been devised by several parties when the Pachaeamac mechanism proved too much for them. Pachaeamac has lost only five spring elections since that year, each time to a newly-organized party.
In September the fall election was approaching, and both tickets contained several football players. The political contest had almost reached a climax when K.U. lost to Kansas State in football.
The next Monday Chancellor Lindley announced in convocation that campus politics had been responsible for the football defeat, whereupon all athletes withdrew from the two tickets.
Muttering under their collective breath that it was all just an alibi, the politicians postponed the election. The days dwindled down; came October, and a new election. But at 11:30 election morning it was discovered that 800 names had been left off the voting lists. By accident, unlikely as it seems.
So the elections were postponed again, until December. By that time Pachacamac had apparently decided it just wasn't worth the trouble. The Independent coalition won.
In 1929 one of the students apparently decided some practical training was missing from the Law school curriculum. He was caught stealing ballots from the Law school election, and was docked three hours credit.
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