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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1951
Thought for the Day
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. —Isaac Goldberg.
Allen For 'Czar'
This odious business of the basketball "fix" is something that must be dealt with. And in so doing, we must recognize the fact that college players have accepted bribes and "lost" games.
But the blame should not fall entirely on the players. While basketball coaches clucked their tongues across the country, the real villain has escaped with little publicity. And that is the less sensational and better known institution of organized gambling that has almost become an accepted part of our society. Gambling is the main issue in this case.
As long as the police allow these nation-wide syndicates of crime to exist, we can expect to hear more and more about bribes, fixed games, and young lives ruined. The gamblers are the filthy-fingered parasites that disease our country with their insidious devices to prey on human weaknesses.
If we find the cause of something that is wrong, then the next most sensible step is to find a cure. Then we must set up a preventative force to make sure the wrong doesn't re-occur.
The wrong is organized gambling. It exists. Why? Because the police are either incapable of dealing with it or they are ignoring it. There are adequate laws to control gambling already in the books. The police have sufficient weapons to apprehend the violators. There is simply no excuse for its existence.
Making examples of the players who accepted the bribes is not an effective way to deal with the problem. The same frailty that responded to "easy money" will respond again until the cause is removed.
Basketball needs to straighten out its own house. The sport has grown tremendously in recent years. It needs uniform regulations governing the eligibility of players, and in the scheduling of games and opponents.
Periodic checks are needed to search out violations of these rules. An agency, with a high commissioner, should be vested with necessary power to enforce uniformity and fairness in the sport.
Such an agency will need a man of high ability and integrity, Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen is such a man. He has been associated with basketball as a player, coach, and administrator for almost half a century. Coach Allen has long been known as the dean of American basketball. Although K.U. would hate to lose him, Coach Allen is the man to put basketball back in its former position as one of the great American sports—E. J. C.
Yesteryears
Breezy Band Blues
(Frooom the UDK of Sept. 18, 1913)
Two years have passed since the University band wore through the last sound pair of breeches it had and was left threadbare and ashamed, as well as unprotected from the cold nips of the Kansas wind. Now Director McCanles passes the word along that the band's most recent uniforms are "unpresentable."
The old uniforms were given away to a certain benevolent organization. It begins to look as if the band will have to recall them.
The South African diamond industry was born when a Boer farm lad in 1866 picked up one of the glittering gems on the veld near Kimberley.
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College Adds Four Courses
Four new courses will be added to the curriculum of the College, Pau B. Lawson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has announced. The courses were approved at a College faculty meeting Tuesday.
The courses to be added are Cultural History of Europe from 1815-1914, Cases in Human Relations II, Directed Readings, Education, Science, and Philosophy.
Cultural History of Europe from 1815-1914 will be in the history department and is the study of significant cultural and intellectual trends during that period.
Cases in Human Relations II is two-hour continuation of the present course. Greater emphasis will be placed on inter-group relationships. The cases and factors involved will be more complex.
Directed Readings will be two to six hours credit for seniors and graduates. Selected topics will be read under the direction of staff members. It will be in the human relations department.
Education, Science, and Philosophy, a three-hour course, will be an examination of selected readings from the philosophies of education. It will study the growth of educational philosophy as affected by other philosophies.
Women Sleepier Than Men
Chicago (U.P.)-The National Association of Bedding Manufacturers reports that a recent survey showed that American women average 53 minutes more sleep nightly than men.
In addition to the acceptance of the new courses, actions were taken modifying a large number of courses in several departments, Dean Lawson said.
James E. Seaver, assistant professor of history, gave a report on the recent World in Crisis lectures.
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