FRIDAY,SEPT.24,1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KΛNSAŃ. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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KU Students Are Liberal Toward Jews, Survey Shows
That the majority of University students are liberal in their attitude toward Jewish people was shown in a survey of 200 Gentile students taken recently.
The survey was made by Louise Haase, College senior, for her senior seminar in sociology. The questionnaire was not designed to test antisemitism but attitudes.
The 200 students questioned were equally divided between men and women from sororities, fraternities, independents living in private homes, organized independent men and women, and men and women from scholarship halls. There were very few married students included.
The most emphatic "No" on the questionnaire was in answer to "Do you think of Jews as being Christ-killers?" "No's made up 91.8 percent of the answers with 2.1 per cent saying "yes" and 6.1 per cent "undecided."
In testing traditional attitudes towards Jewish people, Miss Haase found that 85.3 per cent of the students do not tend to change their attitude toward a person if their name sounds Jewish. Although 73.1 per cent believed that Jews do not tend to be alien and aloof and 65.3 per cent that they are not obsequious or fawning, 53 per cent believed them to be aggressive.
In economic matters 66.1 per cent felt that Jews would stick together financially but 56 per cent did not believe the Jews were seeking a financial hold on the nation. Most students, 71.2 per cent, said it made no difference whether a store they patronized was managed by Jews or Gentiles, but 57.9 per cent would rather work under a non-Jewish boss.
There would be no objection to dating a Jewish man or woman for 58.2 per cent of the students but 51.9 per cent would not marry a Jewish person. A Gentile roommate would be preferred by 50.2 per cent of the students.
There was little or no difference between attitudes of men and women or between independents and Greeks. More sorority women than independent women preferred membership in a country club with exclusively Gentile members. More fraternity men than independents believed the Jews placed a higher value on scholastics.
More students, 61.2 per cent, believed that prejudice stemmed from a sociological angle than from religious or economic viewpoints. Anti-semitic discussion should be brought before the public in the opinion of 66.9 per cent of the students. More than twice as many
men as women thought the Jews were a separate race.
Opinion was equally divided on the question, "Do you think that having Palestine as a country for the Jews would be good for Jews and Gentiles alike?"
Of the 143 students, 70 per cent, who considered themselves broad-minded 79 were women and 64 men. One woman, in answer to the question stated, "I feel there is no call for expression of our tolerance or broadmindedness. That admits we feel superior which only emphasizes that we are anti-semitic whether we want to be or not." Miss Haase states she agrees with this statement entirely.
One of the reasons students tended toward liberal attitudes in Miss Haase's opinion is because of a Jewish minority on the campus. There are approximately 60 Jewish students here, the majority coming from Kansas City. Also there are few Jewish people in Kansas since it is largely a rural area.
Miss Haase finds the results of her survey interesting in its contrast to an article published in Fortune Magazine last October stating that most anti-semitic feeling based on economic lines is found in the middle west and far west of the nation.
Negro Student Body To Hold Tea Sept. 30
Purposes of the Negro Student association were announced at the first meeting of that organization Thursday night. A committee also was selected to acquaint new Negro students with campus activities in which they might participate.
Primary aim of the Negro Student association is "to work for complete integration of Negro students into campus life at the University."
The group, which meets the second and fourth Thursdays of each month, made tentative arrangements for a tea Sept. 30 to enable the Negro students to become better acquainted.
Of the total number of traffic accident fatalities in rural highways the past year, 11,500 took place at night.
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Newburgh, N. Y.—(UP)—Three notes, which tell the story of how a freed Negro worked for years to buy the freedom of his wife and daughter from a slave-worked Virginia plantation nearly 100 years ago are on display at Washington's Headquarters Museum here. The notes, for a total of $350, were donated to the museum by the grandson of the freed slave.
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In a program following the installation, Mrs. Dan More played two piano selections, "Flight of the Bumble Bee" and "Clair de Lune." Mrs. Marjorie Rix, Liberty Memorial High school speech teacher, read the play "Medea."
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Other officers installed are Mrs. Mary Alice Amelung, vice-president; Mrs. Dixie Peterson, secretary; Mrs. Wilda Kracht, treasurer, and Mrs. Bette Yapple, club hostess.
K. U. Dames installed Mrs. Lee Sears as president at a meeting Wednesday.
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KU Dames Install Five New Officers
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Religious Book Week Set For Oct. 24 to 31
The National Conference of Christians and Jews will sponsor a Religious Book week Oct. 24 to 31, to further education in religion and democracy in order to bring about understanding and good will among Protestants, Catholics, and Jews.
The Wichita office, which serves Kansas for the Conference, has selected religious book lists, book markers, posters, and other materials to assist local communities, John T. Kenna, national conference director, said today.
Read the Daily Kansan daily.
Salem, Mass.—(UP) — From the Essex Register of March 13, 1811: "The selectmen having received very many complaints against this growing mischief, be it ruled that no person shall smoke any pipe or segar in any street, highway, lane or public building, within the town, by day or by night, under penalty of forfeiting for every offense, the sum of THREE DOLLARS."
Cash prizes are to be awarded this year to the best kept stations and flower gardens of British railways, with over 1,000 contestants. Special allowance will be made for handicaps in "blitzed" areas.
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