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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1951
Thought for the Day
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer
The Editorial Page-
Does This Sound Familiar?
Higher learning is placed on trial by the war.
Educated men must serve in the army and navy. Educated men and women must use their talents in technical lines to add to the fighting efficiency of the country. They must sacrifice gladly.
From the ranks of educated men and women must come the sound judgment that refuses to be swayed by popular hysteria.
The most effective service for the nation will not be achieved by bombast and excitement. The University can serve best by quiet, earnest effort, based on the realization that the United States is engaged in a critical struggle to uphold democracy and Christian ideals.
University of Kansas students and faculty promise to live up to these requirements.
There is no reason why the University should go into "sack cloth and ashes."
Authorities at the helm of the University already are facing war problems. An opening decision was made by the University Senate to allow students entering military service before the semester's close full credit for their work. Students and many faculty members alike face the question of enlisting.
Executive officers of the school are uncertain as to the effect of the war on University enrollment next year. The answer to this will come, along with the answers to other questions, when the exact details of national policy in pushing the war are made known.
If winning the war is important now, the creation and maintenance of a successful peace will be vastly more important later. In that peace the objects for which we are fighting will be won or lost. It is then that democratic concepts will meet their final judgment.
In recent weeks, students have heard much talk of their responsibilities as college students during wartime. Emphasis has been placed upon duty to their country in training themselves as future officers, and that emphasis is justified.
A further responsibility, however, does exist. Students of American universities must train themselves not only as leaders on the battlefield, but also as leaders in society.
No one can guage the demands that tomorrow will put upon tomorrow's college student. It is certain, however, that he must know what is being fought for and the true implications of his nation's position in the world. He must train himself now to be a competent, constructive critic of the war effort and the peace to follow.
The first editorial above is from the U.D.K., April 10, 1917. The second is from the Oct. 9, 1942, issue.
The Public's Pulse-
Cutting Edge Of Prejudice
Dear Editor:
In refusing to support the bill for an F.E.P.C., the A.S.C. stuck a dagger of prejudice into the backs of the minority groups of our campus. To be sure, this act was contrary to the concepts of democracy.
At a time in our country's history when she is striving so desperately to bring about a better understanding among non-white nations of the world, it is indeed shocking to find organizations like the A.S.C. promulgating, by their failure to act, the very undesirable elements and arrogances that we fought to eradicate.
Being a Negro. I have often felt the sharp cutting edge of prejudice, but no previous experience has cut more deeply than has this act on the part of the A.S.C. to uphold discriminatory practices in employment! No doubt my strong feeling regarding this issue stems from the fact that I had placed so much faith in the ability of the college man to find a solution to this problem of race, for surely, I thought, if at all we were to rid our land of the psychological pestilence—color prejudice, we should have to look to the men-of-higher-learning, who have been given certain tools of knowledge to enable them to make intelligent approaches to the subject of race and religion, could better point the way to the land of "Brotherhood and Unity." I was wrong, for it seems that we still have among us those narrow-minded creatures who would vote to deny a man, solely on the basis of his color, a right to work at any job whatsoever.
Today we need men of great vision and sound convictions, and, most of all, we need men of goodwill and noble aims.
Otis D. Simmons
Education Senior
P. S. When does the A.S.C. meet again? I should like to be there.
Watson library is getting to be quite a rendezvous for campus two-somes. Last night we counted 14 guys taking gals home from there. It seems that the only thing students can't take home from there is textbooks used in required reading.
A representative of the Women's Medical Specialist corps told members of the Occupational and Physical Therapy clubs Tuesday of the opportunities of this organization.
Army Has Corps For Therapists
Miss Catherine Girard, Fifth army, Chicago, said the corps has been a branch of the regular army since 1947.
She said it provides good advanced training and is accredited by the National Occupational Therapy and National Physical Therapy associations.
Miss Girard said there was a bill in congress which would make it possible for men to enter the corps. At present the women must be between the ages of 21 and 45, in good physical condition, and have either or both a college degree and professional experience.
They may enter the regular army or enlist in the reserves. Regular enlistment is on a permanent basis, while the reserves are called only in emergencies.
Should Have Dates
Yesteryears
(From the UDK, May 3, 1921)
Mike is an elongated high school boy who "ushers" at one of the local moving picture theaters. Mike believes that the University's dean of women has it all wrong when she refuses to allow students from the Hill to "date" on week nights.
"It would make it a lot easier for me if the fellows could bring dates," sighed Mike. "When a fellow's with a girl he're pretty generally quiet and as polite as you make 'em; but when a whole gang of the men come in, they raise a regular roughhouse. You can't keep 'em down."
Correction
The letter from James K. Logan, business junior, which appeared on the editorial page of Monday's Kansas, should have read, "Our state, which has never built a single dormitory for men students here at KU..."
"Men students somehow became "new students" in the process of getting into print. The mistake was ours.
TV Keeps Kids Out of Bed
Gary, Ind—(U.P)—Steel mill worker Andrew Wargo appealed to Rep. Ray J. Madden, (D. Ind.), to do something to force television stations to shut down at midnight.
Wargo complained that he can't get his eight children to bed at night until the last TV show blacks out. Then they "have nightmares about cowboys and gangsters," awaken "bleary-eyed," and "fall asleep at breakfast," he said.
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