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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1950
The Editorial Page-
Not In Vain?
The story of Laverne Roach is one that he professional boxing people cannot shrug off. Roach died of brain injuries suffered in a fight last week in New York. Now that he is dead, it is recalled that many experts in the game thought he should not have been fighting.
Roach was attempting a comeback after having been out of boxing for nearly two years. He had retired after taking some terrible beatings and showing obvious signs of slowing reflexes and inability to protect himself in the ring.
His death brings to mind that 19 men died of boxing injuries in 1949. It causes Oscar Fraley, United Press sports writer, to remind that a lot of unfit boxers have been matched against men of obvious superiority in physical condition as well as ability.
This leads Fraley to observe: "Boxing is going to have to clean house of the crooks and sharpsters. Also it might tighten its system of physical examinations to prove that it wants to save the lives of kids like Laverne Roach—or else it should be outlawed."
There is both advice and warning in that. It is something the boxing promoters and state regulatory bodies had better pin up on their walls. If the sport continues its heavy toll, it is only a matter of time until an outraged public will be demanding its elimination by law.
-St. Louis Star-Times.
This is an Underwood typewriter . . it's getting pretty old, too. Typewriters are sometimes known as "mills" in professional circles, but this isn't one. . . a professional circle we mean.
It's The Weather
There's no window here. . . it's probably a good thing though
. . . wouldn't get anything done. . . but who cares (now wait,
that's not the proper attitude). Got to write something . . .
something world shaking. Maybe a report on Hollywood. . .
that's important. . . (you know; Pregory Geck and Gva Aardner
were seen together, and we wonder how Pregory's ex-wife who
was seen with Doe Joaks will take all this, although Doe says
he's through with his ex-wife although she is still being seen
with Gva Aardner's ex-dream. . .)
Notice where K.U. won the Big Seven track title. . . that's good. . . see what cheering will do? Or was there any cheering there? Nobody cheers at track meets. . . it unnerves the runners, who are easily innerved. No window here. . . wonder how it is outside. Girls walking around. . . boys, too.
Can't seem to think. . . getting drowsy. This is worse than a class. No maybe we had better not say anything like that. . . might offend someone. Too warm out to get offended, though. They have a new exhibit at the art museum. . . better go see it soon. . . sometime, uh, year. . . maybe. Probably won't get around to it.
Wish there was a window here. Sweaters. . . wonder why we think of something silly like that. . . can't write an editorial on sweaters. Maybe we could. . . say something about the important place in history that sweaters occupy. Have to do some research on anything as complicated as that. . . oh, well, who cares?
Don't need any coal now. . . too warm. First thing in the morning call up Building and Grounds and have them put a window in here. Could go outside. . . —W.F.S.
Amen To This
Why not let eligible graduating seniors skip final examinations? This does not mean that all seniors should be exempt from finals, but only those who would meet specific qualifications.
These qualifications could be (1) that all requirements of the school were met, (2) that the student had a "B" or "C" average and 124 grade points, and (3) that the student was maintaining a passing grade in his courses up to the final. In other words, if the student's record indicates that he would pass the courses involved, regardless of the outcome of the final, why make him go through the ordeal of an examination?
A student's last month in school is probably the toughest of his entire academic life. It is a time when he begins serious thinking as to where he will go to work, where he will live, and the myriad of things involved in making the transition from school to a career. It is a time full of duties and responsibilities—a period crammed with hour quizzes, interviews, term papers, senior activities, finals and graduation.
The real value of a college education does not lie in establishing a storehouse of abstract terms and formulae, but, rather, in creating an insatiable curiosity for truth and the knowledge to know where to find the answer.
If a graduating senior does not possess these attributes of education, how will the last final examination correct the situation? So, why waste time on the final? Why not let the student who is about to graduate have all the time possible to wind up his affairs? Why not dispense with final examinations for eligible graduating seniors? —Lew Sciortino.
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Dear Editor-
Dear Editor:
Have just read your editorial: "The Master Plan." This is an excellent critical analysis of the effects of a possible future war.
But, what specific alternative are you referring to in the last sentence?
—L. M. Weltmer
Editor's Note: The alternative is not, unhappily, one to be overjoyed about. It consists merely of preparedness. That is, we can face war with or without being ready. We would rather face it in a state of readiness. Of course, war may not come, and our preparedness can merely be assigned to the cost of the peace.
Parent's Didn't Know School Teaches Sex
Doylestown, Pa. — (U.P.) Many parents have learned for the first time that sex education was begun in the Doylestown High School 20 years ago.
Dr. J. Edward Smith told a local Parent-Teachers association meeting that the community was one of the first to include sex education in its course of study. He said two parents complained the first year the course was introduced; one the second year. No complaints have been received since.
The procedure of the course is to include sex as a natural part of social hygiene, first covering the many systems of the body such as the circulatory, respiratory and digestive. The reproductive system also is included, and the moral issue is stressed.
The Memorial campanile will be faced with Oread limestone.
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Blind Man Runs Own Shop,
Says He's As Good and Ever
Bay Settlement, Wis. — (U.P.) — Francis Grohusky really knows his way around an automobile.
He's been running his own moon repair business since 1940, the year he lost his sight.
Grohusky says he can do just as good a repair job now as when he could see. He insists on working alone, since he must know where each part he has handled is.
Lesson For Small Son Cost This Pilot $2,000
The Bus- (Adv.)
Richmond. Va.- (U-P)- Dewey M.
Chester, 39, has decided to let his son Bruce, 5, learn about flying on his own. Chester flipped the propel-wing in a light plane here to show Bruce just how it worked. The plane started off down the runway, and stopped only after it had hit a fence, a car, another plane and a brick wall. Cost of the lesson, $2,000.
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