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Dangerous Students
You've read it in the papers dozens of times—"Angry students demonstrated today . . . " "Students hanged so-and-so in effigy . . . " "A mob of enraged students hurled stones through the embassy window."
It seems that Chinese students, Italian students, in fact, students everywhere are always surging up streets, protesting, throwing stones and yelling "Down with the Yanquil!"
The news stories imply that the action of these foreign students should not be taken seriously—that after all, they are young and do not represent the "respectable" portion of that nation's population.
Now we wonder if every mob demonstration in every foreign country is comprised solely of students as the news stories would have us believe. If not, then why are these people always called "students?"
Perhaps if we had paid some attention in the past to protesting Chinese "students," that country wouldn't be experiencing a Communist revolution now. Perhaps it isn't too late to push some of the reforms which "students" are asking for in other countries.
We can see it now in the Shanghai Times:
Is it because there is an American stereotype of a student as a rather excitable young person who is not quite trustworthy and who will probably "get some sense when he grows up?"
And just as a matter of conjecture: do Chinese and European papers label every demonstration, strike or pep rally in America as a "student mob?"
"Mobs of angry students at the University of Kansas demonstrated today, demanding war on the neighboring principality of Missouri. Leaders whipped the mobs into a frenzied yelling of 'Beat Missouri!' and placards held high read: 'Massacre Mizzou' and 'Kansas Fight!'"
We also wonder if the ferocity of foreign students isn't sometimes exaggerated.
To throw a man in Potter lake for "walking with, looking at, or talking to any coed" is like asking a man to stop eating for a week—and just as silly.
It's not only ridiculous, but a sad mistake. We're referring, of course, to this "stag week" thing.
'Stag Week'
The students who engineered this idea "in protest against present dating conditions" must really be hard up for companionship. Besides, what exactly are the existing conditions? These publicity seekers surely can't expect their childish idea to be effective. We suspect they are hoping for some feminine sympathy (and heaven knows what).
And what about the coeds? No man we know has succeeded in trying to "get even" with a woman with a keep-off-the-grass attitude.
Coeds at the University of Michigan have recently tried to adopt a no-kissing policy at closing hours. The women at K.U. can easily retaliate in like manner. Is that what you want? It's like cutting your own neck. —Leonard Snyder,
Due to appear in the next Kansas legislature is the proposal for a severance tax on taking exhaustible natural resources from the earth (chiefly oil and natural gas, in Kansas).
Twenty-six severance tax bills have been presented to the legislature since 1915, but only in 1947 did such a bill reach the floor for discussion. An effort is now being made by the Kansas State Teachers association for a hearing on the new severance tax proposal, for such a levy would provide needed funds for educational purposes.
Maybe Next Time
Powerful oil concerns have used the ad valorem tax to help defeat proposed severance tax legislation. Their argument is that the gas and oil industry is already overburdened with taxes.
How many people know that the industry is automatically tax exempt on $27\frac{1}{2}$ per cent of its production sales before it even starts paying income tax? The strange reasoning behind this discriminatory exemption is that every barrel of oil or gas taken from the ground decreases the value of the well.
Last year, Kansas paid severance tax on 103 billion cubic feet of gas imported from Oklahoma and Texas, while the industry in this state was exporting 105 billion cubic feet of severance-tax-free gas to non-gas producing states. We pay, but the state doesn't collect
The State Teachers association is one of the strongest groups now supporting the tax. The gas and oil companies are standing against it. This issue will probably become a lively one in the near future, and the gentlemen at the next session of the legislature may be forced to act upon a proposal which they have been dodging for years.
Opponents of the tax say that the imposition of the levy will drive the industry from the state. Where the logic lies in such an argument is hard to determine. Every other state which produces gas and oil in commercial quantities has the tax, so where will the oil companies go if they leave Kansas?
Many Kansans oppose the tax because they believe it would be passed on to them. If any of the tax is passed on to the customer, it will amount to only $ \frac{1}{2} $ of a cent per gallon.
Adjoining states do not hold with this theory of exemption.
And yet, they have severance taxes.
Anna Albright Merle Crum
Rachel Hempstead Arthur Matelli
Ralph Hemenway Arthur McIntire
Dear Editor
Phooey! Dear Editor.
Phooey! What "frat" man was responsible for the asinine decision to have a "stag week"? Such antics may very well be the mode for "freckles and his Friends", but for supposedly mature college students, the idea stinks.
As Mussolini once screamed, man is a biological being. To deny any red-blooded American boy his association with the opposite sex could be likened to the atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima. We feel any student would be perfectly justified in "totin' the ol' 44" for the protection of his natural rights
Phillip Oren,
Philip Oren,
Clyde Detter,
College freshmen
J. E. Holdeman
Engineering sophomore
4 US Geologists Inspect Survey Here
Four members of the U.S. Geological survey, Washington, D.C., inspected the state and federal geological survey offices at the University recently. These local geological organizations are one of the six progressive geological laboratory centers in the country being visited for ideas for the tentative building of a similar geological building near Washington.
Those making the tour are K. E. Lohman and P. T. Thayer, geologists, Lewis B. Pussey in charge of car repair, D. J. Mank, assistant chief of trace elements,
Dr. R. C. Moore, research director, and Dr. John C. Frye, executive director, of the state geological survey, conducted the representatives of the Geological survey through all laboratories of the two University geological surveys and the geology department.
24-Year-Old Glass Eye Has Spontaneous Rupture
Boston —(U.P.)— Herbert E. True's eve literally poned.
It was a hollow glass affair and the accident was caused, doctors said, by the "spontaneous rupture of the glass implant." The implant is the hollow shell which is fitted into the eve socket.
A minor operation was needed to extract the particles, then specialists at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary fitted the 53-year-old Salisbury man with a new eye. He had worn the old one 24 years.
The pirate Bartholomew Roberts captured more than 400 ships according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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