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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1950
The Editorial Page-
All Of One Thread . . .
The recent sporadic attacks on the University's cheerleaders is more deeply ingrained than mere personality clashes would indicate. For years now universities throughout the country have been contending with this sort of trouble. "We have no school spirit. Our cheerleaders don't lead cheers. The students don't care." It's all the same; the problem is not indigenous to K.U. alone.
Although superficially K.U.'s difficulty is with the cheerleaders, the problem is more deeply rooted. We can curse and rant at the inefficiency of our cheerleaders, but we must not overlook the reasons for inefficiency, if, indeed, there is any negligence.
At present K.U., as well as most schools, is undergoing a change of life—normal times are reappearing. Normal times, in the sense that the greater proportion of students are of high school age and not older men and women. It is apparent that this will bring about greater vocal and physical support of anything connected with the University.
Veterans, possessed with a cynicism not of their own choosing, tend to minimize school spirit. This transitional period in student ages has a bearing on the local problem of cheerleaders (i.e. school spirit).
That is, in future years a younger and more easily molded student body can be made to conform with and follow changing directions. They not only will conform, but many of them will want to follow such leadership.
There are other reasons for flagging school spirit, or if you persist, inefficient cheerleaders. The touchest problem that taints school spirit and college athletics is in the American tradition—money. The rise of college athletics to the realm of "big business" has changed the complexion of "amateur games" and schools. Naturally when many schools exist to a great extent upon gate receipts from athletic contests, there is going to be greater emphasis put on the sources of these incomes.
The money angle, in most cases a natural outgrowth of the situation, dims the spirit of the games and accordingly the spirit of a student body. It's not beyond control, but the days of simonpure college athletics are gone forever.
We suggest that just possibly these changing attitudes and times play an important part in the current squabble on the Hill. Hasty condemnations of cheering and attempts to force school spirit upon the students are of no value to the real problem. —WFS
Walkin' All Over
"The shortest distance between two points is a straight line." This theory was advanced years ago by some anonymous mathematician, but K.U. students, all logical minded, are still demonstrating the proof to the dismay of Buildings and Grounds
Several years ago, Buildings and Grounds decided that, to conserve the grassy sward of the University campus, they would pave any and all paths the students wore during their treks between classes.
Suiting action to words, they proceeded to lay asphalt and some concrete sidewalks wherever a hint of a path appeared. Satisfied, they sat back with the feeling of a job well done. But, what was the result? Failure, complete failure.
A tree between Bailey chemistry lab and Frank Strong hall presented a problem. The sidewalk had to be built on one side or the other. After careful consideration, it was laid on the left side. So where did the students walk? On the right side, of course.
They thought two sidewalks leading to the journalism building were plenty. The journalists fooled them, in their customary manner. Two additional paths now lead in a general north-westerly direction.
With extreme caution, the department laid a walk from Frank Strong to the Stadium, where it connects with an east-west walk. Nothing daunted, the students gaily trampled off toward Potter lake, eventually arriving in the general vicinity of Oread hall.
Other illegitimate paths, each saving at least five or six steps, scar the face of the campus. Spring brings added beauty to the campus, making it one of which every student should be proud. If cow paths which meander around like the course of spavined Jersey mar the lawn, the effect on visitors, as well as students, is far from desirable. —Keith Leslie.
'Small Things'
Sign chalked on the door of one of K.U.'s steam tunnels:
"Joe's Bean Easy."
A flu epidemic may strike the University, and the freshman cynic doesn't know whether to get a flu shot or just take a few anti-histamine pills and forget the whole thing.
The University teaches that Stibnite occurs in orthorhombic prismatic crystals striated vertically; perfect brachypinacoidal cleavage; cleavage blades have cross parting giving ladder effect; color and streak lead gray; F 1. Yes, but what is it?
The official bulletin said there would be no Red Pepper meeting Thursday, and Rodney Nipnap, Student Union junior, said, "Aha, they're falling down on the job, too!"
All Decided
Dear Editor
Dear Editor:
I am not too conversant with the pros and cons of the socialized medicine issue, but I do read an article on it now and then in an attempt to keep abreast of our national and world social trends. In my speech class last spring I participated in a round table discussion on the "Socialized Medicine" versus "A Voluntary Health Program" problem, and at that time, as now, I could not definitely decide for myself which program seemed best suited to fit our present situation.
Now I find that since I am a loyal Kansan, born, raised, and bred, I need not have troubled myself over the matter at all. My attitude has already been publicly stated for me.
I refer, of course, to the following extract quoted from the Daily Kansan's quote of our lieutenant governor, appearing in the Feb. 13 issue: "We in Kansas are convinced that socialized medicine could never have produced such a man."
Theron L. Brewer College senior
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KU Campus Pictures Will Be Shown In New Zealand Educational Meeting
The correspondence study bureau of University Extension has sent an exhibit, showing various phases of American university life, and methods of conducting correspondence courses, to the Third International Conference on Correspondence Education to be held at Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, April 18 to Thursday, April 27.
Miss Ruth Kenney, director of the correspondence study bureau, explained that the exhibit was being sent despite the fact that no representative of the University would attend the conference. The exhibit is made up of several photographs of the campus, of the chancellor, and the 1949-50 basketball team. It also contains materials from each department of the extension division, some sample lessons from the correspondence bureau, and a catalog of the courses offered.
The first conference on correspondence education was held in Canada in 1938, and was to be held every two years. However, the war intervened, and it was 10 years before the second conference was held. This conference was held at Lincoln, Neb., in 1948, and Miss Kenney attended, representing the University. It was at this meeting that Dr. A. G. Butchers, correspondence study director in New Zealand, asked Miss Kenney to allow him to take the K.U. display back to New Zealand.
"He was very interested in the University and its work," said Miss Kenney, "and wanted to show New Zealanders how our system operated."
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