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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1950
The Editorial Page-
Muddled Maze
What a discouraging dilemma! Two weeks have passed since that nightmare known as enrollment, but students are waiting with heavy hearts for their next trip through the jungle of registration cards, photographers, advisors, scribes, and all the other red tape necessary for becoming a University student.
Student opinions on the subject seem to vary only in the degree of disapproval. Mildest of the opinions are from students who consider enrollment a mass of confusion. Others called the experience humiliating, and said they felt like white mice running a psychological maze. A few said they would rather not talk about it, and walked away with much the same expression as a veteran recalling the horrors of Iwo Jima.
Most harrassed of all students are undoubtedly the freshmen. Their tale of woe goes something like this: "I skipped up 14th street whistling a chorus of the Alma Mater and telling myself that soon I, too, would be a student in this wonderful institution of higher learning. After spending a couple hours filling out cards and standing in lines, I finally reached the end of registration, where dozens of students stood waving slips of paper at me and stuffing things into my pockets. After I subscribed to half a dozen magazines and joined organizations whose name I had never heard, the outlet to the first maze was reached.
"Enrollment was next. After spending the first hour looking for my advisor and waiting my turn, I finally offered my schedule for his approval. By this time my schedule couldn't have been more obsolete if it were written on parchment. All the classes I had chosen were closed. By now, I was willing to take anything just to end the ordeal. So, instead of the English, biology, and other courses I had planned to take, I found myself enrolled in stokiometry conversational Arabic and rapid reading Shakespeare. (I thought a course in how to read faster would help me in other courses).
"At last I had become a full fledged University student. But somehow my enthusiasm for higher learning had been replaced by disillusionment and envy for the placid life of a ditch digger."
Even weathered seniors feel there must be an easier way. Many schools use a system similar to that practiced by the University of Missouri. Students simply call at the registrar's office during the previous semester and fill out enrollment cards for the courses they wish to take. Then the University makes out a class schedule according to demand for individual courses.
It seems that K.U. could avoid a maximum of confusion by revising its enrollment system. If there is a reason for maintaining the present set-up, just knowing that reason would make us feel a lot better when we begin running the muddled maze again. — Bill Graves.
Distorted Duties
It isn't fair.
Knowing that wars cannot be guided by a rule book like a hand of bridge or officiated by a referee like a football game, it still seems rational to expect opponents to observe a few unwritten laws. North Korea Communists are repeating their atrocity crimes so frequently that one begins to wonder whether a human life seems worthless to Oriental peoples.
Most recent of the unethical treatment of war prisoners in Korea was discovered in the sheltered city of Taejon. Three trenches were filled with the remains of between 30 and 40 American prisoners of war and more than 300 South Korean civilians who were brutally murdered before the Communists moved north. Two American survivors gasped a few words of explanation as they were lifted into an army ambulance;
"They tied our hands together and shot us."
Obviously, fleeing forces of any nationality cannot waste precious time preparing for the transfer of war prisoners. But adeptness at the game of warfare does not include inhumane atrocities.
Kansan Comments
Political competition in Kansas may not be tough this November if draft boards continue to be so conscientious. Several candidates are expecting orders from headquarters, while several others are already playing soldier. Among them is K.U.'s Bob Bock, who was "baby" of the political race when he won a seat in the state legislature at the age of 20.
The white-wash job which freshmen at William Jewell gave to choice members of the senior class seemed drastic until we heard about clipper-happy members of the senior football squad at K-State giving a trimming to five members of the freshman team. Hmm, there's more than one way to convince new students freshman caps are fun to wear.
Newest among sad tales told of late is the one about a University student who wrote his girl to invite her to K.U.'s homecoming game, never dreaming she would accept. When her affirmative reply came, the senior cynic had to join the R.O.T.C. in order to finance the trip. He should have let her hitchhike. . . must be true love.
Uncle Sam's Summons To Keep Collins From Continuing Active Campaign
Richard "Rip" Collins, first year law student, has his hands full. He is one of five University students running for office in the November elections.
Other students up for office are Robert Brock, third year law; Robert Green and Leon Mahoney, second year law; Lance Shogrin first year law.
In addition to being the Democratic candidate for state treasurer, Collins is having army troubles, too. He has received his orders to report for induction Tuesday, Oct. 3. Collins, now 23, served with an electronics laboratory unit at Pearl Harbor and in the Pacific during World War II. He did civilian radar work for more than a year with the navy.
"My primary reason for entering politics was the people's great unconcern for politics in a one-party state," Collins said. "Ninety-nine of every 100 persons to whom I've talked didn't know the name of the incumbent treasurer r u n n i n g against me."
Collins said he believes people think only in terms of the community in which they live. He said that a time will come in this world
His political career began in 1946 when he joined the K.U. Young Democrats' club. Later he became treasurer of the club and then state treasurer for the Young Democrats. In 1949 Collins was elected president of the local club. He was selected in April as the Democratic candidate for state treasurer at a state meeting in Wichita. He accepted and filed for office on June 15.
made smaller by faster transportation, when they will have to think in terms of the world. To prepare them for this, they must begin now to train themselves intelligently to
RICHARD "RIP" COLLINS
choose the public officers they wish to have in their state government.
"Citizens pay no attention to any of the minor offices, nor to the men who fill these positions," Collins said. "Few persons realize that there are at least 15 separate state agencies which handle the state's revenue."
"Rip" said the Kansas treasury department is in need of centralization. He pointed out that there are about 200 units in the Kansas dedicated-fund system.
This system includes the highway fund, retail patch fund, and the unemployment compensation fund. With about 200 dedicated funds functioning in this system he feels there is little coordination in the treasury department. Collins maintains that such a system is conducive to loose control of state funds.
His principal objection to the one party state is the automatic election of majority party candidates with little thought given to a man's qualifications for the job.
To correct this, Collins believes that these minor officers should be appointed by the governor, thereby making one man responsible for the way they function. The gubernatorial candidate of the opposing party who has financial backing could make a campaign issue of the delinquent minor officer. Under the present system, the opposing minor candidate doesn't have the finances to bring the issue before the public.
'Citizen Of World' Wants To Return Home
New York - (U.P.)-Garry Davis, a World War II bomber pilot who renounced his American citizenship two years ago to become a "citizen of the world," has asked Uncle Sam to take him back again.
Davis toured Europe and America as a stateless person preaching his "one world" philosophy only to decide he could better realize his dream of world unity if his U.S. rights are restored.
The red-haired, 29-year-old Davis announced yesterday that he had petitioned for citizenship in a letter written on Sept. 22 to U.S. Attorney Gen. J. Howard McGrath.
"I am requesting immediate reinstatement of my former status," he wrote, "because along with the inalienable human rights which will accrue to me as an American citizen, I wish to assume with a minimum of delay my full share of responsibility in safeguarding these rights. This I feel will give my belief in world citizenship the solid foundation necessary to its eventual realization." Davis, son of society bandleader Meyer Davis, is anxious to "assume responsibility as the head of his own little family," his mother said.
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She said he intended to go back into show business to support his wife, Audrey Feters, Hollywood dance instructor, whom he wooded by mail from Paris, long his headquarters for his "one world" movement. The couple married in a "one world ceremony" on the city hall at Ellsworth, Maine, last spring.
Davis, a former bit player and understudy in broadway plays, renounced his American citizenship in Paris shortly after he was discharged from the air force. Thousands of persons joined his world citizen movement, and he caused head-
Sergeant Discovers Last Baby Is Grand-daughter
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Joplin, Mo.—(U.P.)—Pete Wilson, police radio sergeant, was caring for an eight-months-old lost baby when he heard the voice of an excited woman.
"Have you found my baby?"
He went to the door and discovered the woman was his daughter, Mrs. Lela Jennings, just arrived from her San Diego, Calif., home for a vacation in Joplin.
The "lost" baby he had been bouncing was a grand-daughter he never had seen.
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