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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1949
As The Kansan Sees It . . .
If We Polish The Apple Too Much, We'll Rub The Profs The Wrong Way
Since the good professors (and there are such things) take it so well when we lambaste their short-comings,we feel it is only fair to air one of their pet peeves against the students.
Like so many of us these days, they have to make every minute count. They are only too glad to keep office hours so that students may have a chance to bring in their questions and problems and talk them over. But the guy they hate to see walk in the door is "Apple-polishing Pete."
He has no specific reason for coming in, he just figures that he can spare a little of his valuable time to "get in good with the old man." So, no matter how many students are waiting with legitimate reasons for wanting to speak with the instructor, he sits there, leaning precariously back in his chair, and "shoots the bull." He doesn't know it but it is a 3 grade point bull he's riddling.
Since we all probably have been guilty of this misguided practice at one time or another, let's wise up and consider the professor's time as valuable as our own.
From what we hear, some of the professors have drawn up the following table:
2 minutes—Swell.
3 minutes—Still fine.
4 minutes—Is it worth it?
5 minutes—This better be good.
5 minutes—This better be good
8 minutes—It's wearing thin.
10 minutes—Drop dead!
Hoover's Recommendations Make Sense
The Hoover Board seems to have come up with some good ideas in its first report which covered the executive branch of the government.
This board which is studying the machinery of the federal government and recommending ways in which it can be streamlined and made more efficient, goes all out in favoring the replacement of councils, boards, and other multi-head departments, with the single-head system.
Another recommendation which should serve a good end is the provision of adequate funds to enable the president to use advisory commissions and to employ consultants
The board feels that not only would this cut down on the payroll and speed up administrative processes, but it would put the responsibility squarely in one place and avoid the favorite pastime of "buckpassing."
or personal advisers" of eminence and prestige."
The president would, under the advice of this report, be allowed to have a staff secretary in the White House office. This secretary would fill a recognized lack; at the present there is no one place in the president's office to which the president can look for a current summary of the principal issues with which he may have to deal in the near future. Nor is a current summary available on problems that have been assigned to his advisers, his staff agencies or heads of departments or agencies.
The federal government has needed this thorough going over and evaluation for some time. Mr. Hoover is certainly the ideal person to head the project. If the government will take advantage of this research, everyone should benefit.
It Can Happen Here
What could the defeat of France, and the reasons therefore, possibly have to do with the students at the University of Kansas?
It is still a mystery to many persons why France fell so quickly in World War II. In a 17,000 word memorandum to Marshal Petain, the French general Giraud gave his reasons for the defeat. Giraud had just escaped from a German prison camp and the tortures he suffered while there were still fresh in his mind. His purpose was to try to keep his people from making the same mistake again.
Giraud claimed that universities in pre-wer France taught "egotism, personal interest, and envy; after that, negation of everything spiritual, everything divine, and everything ideal. Atheism, if not proclaimed, was at least encouraged."
He believes these were the reasons France fell when the time came for the test. And whether we agree that these were the whole cause, we will have to admit they were major contributing factors.
The military leader insinuated that alcoholism, venereal disease, and immorality, undermined the health of the people.
We must not be so smug as to think the same thing could not happen in the United States—and on university campuses. It probably
will not; but we should be aware of the danger.
Robert L. Simonton
If you ever wish you were young again, just take a look at some of the teen agers around you and reconsider.
The fact that many think the world is going to the dogs must be encouraging to the dog food manufacturers.
An 87-year-old bachelor says he ias never spent a night away from his farm home. He might just as well have been married.
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While the provision was dropped from President Truman's bill, the administration has displayed no signs of making a last-ditch fight to kill it. Some administration sources in congress concede there is little chance of mustering a majority vote against it.
University Hospital Begins New Course
Anne, Murphy
Maryle, Burger
Marjorie Burtner
Richard D. Barton
Nora Temple
Hirsty
Gerald Fetterolov
James Morris
Marvyn Rousell
Darry Norris
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Ira Gissen
A new course in radiology for doctors and post graduate students in the School of Medicine will be taught by Dr. Frank E. Hoecker, associate professor of physics, at the University hospital in Kansas City.
The class will begin Sunday from 10 a.m. to noon, and will meet each Sunday for eight weeks.
The course consists of a study of radioactive substances and x-rays in connection with the diagnosis and cure of the disease. Dr. Hoecker worked on the atomic bomb project during the war.
How would you like to spend the summer, vacation on "Operation Coldnose" at Point Barrow, Alaska? This is the opportunity given navy reserve personnel of the Ninth Naval district, of which Kansas is a part.
Navy Offers Trip To Point Barrow
Officially known as the Point Barrow expedition, it is only one or several special cruises offered as summer training for the reserves. Regular credit will be given for the trip. Comdr. W. A. Mann, assistant professor of naval science, said.
The cruise will leave from San Diego on June 1 and return around Aug. 20. It may be possible for those who cannot make the June 1 date to catch the ship a little later in Seattle; however, this must be arranged with headquarters, Commander Mann said.
All officers and navy personnel interested in making the cruise should write headquarters Ninth Naval district, Great Lakes, Ill., attention director of training.
Med Frat To Hear Montreal Professor
The Kansas chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha, medical fraternity, will hear a talk concerning general adaptation syndrome to be given by Dr. Hans Selye, professor of experimental medicine at the University of Montreal.
The lecture will be held in Kansas City, Kan. at the William Roote Memorial Outpatient clinic at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26.
Preceeding the address there will be an initiation dinner for newly-elected student members.
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