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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1948
The Editorial Page
Round Three:
Pre-enrollment Impractical
Pre-enrollment was the first topic on the agenda after the break for lunch at the Student-Faculty conference Saturday.
The process of such a plan works something like this: The student consults his adviser or department chairman after mid-semester. His schedule for the new semester is made out and sent to a central registrar
where the cards are sorted and the proper entries made in regard to class enrollment. If everything is all right, the student is able to pick up his schedule and list of books for his courses at the time normally assigned for enrollment, or he could be given this information sooner.
The conference found a great many loopholes in such a plan. Such a task would keep the faculty adviser or department head busy for two solid months with work outside of his normal duties. The possibility that a class might be closed out would necessitate another complete schedule, all of which consumes time and extra work on the part of everyone involved. By planning so far in advance, a student is not to allow for flunks or changes in curriculum. Here again, the student would cause extra work by changing his schedule at the last minute.
During the discussion, it was pointed out that some of the faculty advisers are not telling students about their required courses and are failing in some cases properly to instruct the student. Block enrollments were mentioned as a possible way of alleviating much of the crowded condition. Under this plan, schedules would be made up from studies of schedules used in the past. This type of enrollment could be used for specialized courses such as pre-business and pre-medicine. The "normal" schedules would be printed on enrollment cards.
The recommendation was made that more exact direction should be given to freshmen to help avoid confusion among beginning students. This would also be applicable to many upper classmen. Such steps which will probably be taken at future enrollments include larger signs with more complete directions. It is also probable that some arrangement will be made to have a least two Senior chairman tables to speed enrollment as long as the class remains as large as it is at present.
Some time was spent in discussing the advantages of placing the responsibility of completing requirements in the hands of the student. This would make the student use his own initiative in scheduling these requirements before his graduation.
The recommendation that graduating seniors be allowed to enroll first was commented on by Dean Gilbert Ulmer. He stated that such a plan was under advisement and that it may be adopted in the near future. It is a plan which was in effect before the war.
Most of the talk centered around the fact that present facilities are not large enough in Robinson gym to handle efficiently the present enrollment—just another reason for the great need of a fieldhouse here at K.U.
With the Relays, Engineering exposition, basketball clinic, and Boy Scouts, the campus had the appearance of Ringling Bros. three-ring circus over the week-end.
The Kansas Relays offered cokes, ice cream, candy, and hot dogs plus the athletic events. But, the spectators really wanted pillows.
UWF Needs You
Every student is urged to attend the organizational meeting of the K.U. chapter of the United World Federalists which will be held at 4 p.m. today in the Pine room of the Union.
Here is an opportunity for every student to take part in a movement which is rapidly gaining strength. The present shaky condition of world affairs has given this group reason to believe that a world government could avoid another war. It needs support and plenty of it.
The United World Federalists' task is to obtain a charter revision conference from the United Nations. Such a conference is comparable to the Constitutional convention called under the Articles of Confederation in 1787. Every country on the globe would be invited to join at any time without the right to secede. All powers not specifically delegated to the world federal government would be reserved to the nations and their peoples to guarantee to each nation its right to maintain its own domestic, political, economic, social, and religious institutions. World law would be directly enforceable upon individuals.
The power of such a world federation would be to prohibit the possession by any nation of armaments and forces beyond that approved for adequate policing activity. It would have complete control of atomic energy development and would be furnished to enforce world law and provide world security.
For further reading on this subject, we suggest the lead article in the January issue of Reader's Digest entitled "Our Final Choice," written by W. T. Holliday, president of the Standard Oil company of Ohio. Mr. Holliday serves as a vice-president of United World Federalists, Inc. and gives a striking picture of a federal system which can change the attitude of the world while there is still time. In his opening remarks, Mr. Holliday says, "The next war will not be a fine thing for my business—nor for any business. It will simply be the dead end of all our business—and for a good many other things as well."
The small group which is carrying this movement forward on the campus needs your help. Attend this meeting and put your effort behind a force which can prevent a world catastrophe.
After the Hollywood Communist investigations, many expected that the new movie, "Ride the Pink Horse," would become a horse of another color.
The Bureau of Standards has announced that it has developed a fool-proof clutch for cars. Now, if someone could just invent a way to take the fool from behind the wheel everything would be fine.
Bettors are speculating on whether Lana Turner's coming marriage will last as long as her $30,000 trousseau.
Read the Daily Kansan daily.
CORE Philosophy
Critics of C.O.R.E. usually argue along two lines:
Dear Editor:
1. We are creating a problem (or disturbance) where none existed.
2. We are going about this in the wrong way.
The first of these can easily be dismissed by any observer of the conditions as myopic rationalization. Prejudice is already here; it won't be eased by ignoring it. The second, however, requires an explanation of C.O.R.E.'s motivating philosophy, which can only inadequately be presented here.
There are several schemes that might be advanced to solve the problem of racism-segregation, education, and social action.
Segregation is a reactionary approach and contrary to the basic principles of Christianity and American democracy. A. Phillip Randolph pointed out, "Since two-thirds of all the peoples of the world are colored, if racial democracy is not realized, there is not much hope for creating any other kind of democracy in the world."
Education is the panacea offered by both the well-meaning persons as well as the apologists for the status quo. But one immediately becomes suspect of the efficacy of our present educational methods when he is confronted by the schizophrenic products of this same education blandly professing democratic ideals and at the same time indulging in fascistic practices.
Certainly, C.O.R.E. uses education—new ways as well as old. But for education to become meaningful, it must be directed to a purpose; its logical corollary is social action in this case.
If you become convinced that something should be done—that action is the solution—there remains the question of the kind of action. Here C.O.R.E. believes, and with good authority other than cracker-barrel philosophers or from rash conviction, that the diabolical pattern of segregation is the most convenient method of approach.
This method of non-violent direct action is based on the assumption that the following principles are valid and workable; First, the organic unity of the human family without regard to race, color, religion, or ancestry. Second, no human being is the natural enemy of another, but that all human antagonisms are the products of ignorance, fear, or anti-social selfishness, and that all hostile attitudes between persons or groups are subject to some kind of non-violent direct action for goodwill. Third, human prejudices are not inherent but are acquired through an injust, segregated environment. Fourth, violence begets violence and never permanently settles any basic social problem.
It is from these fundamental truths that the varied techniques arise that C.O.R.E. and other effective agencies use.
Of course you might try to remain neutral, but what true democrat can afford this?
I. W. Elliott Graduate student
Souvenir Fiends Steal Boot Hill Grave Markers
Dodge City—(UP)—The grave marker of Toothless Nell has disappeared from Boot Hill in Dodge City.
Also among the missing are the markers of Spider Bane and two other long-time occupants of the famous hilltop.
Visitors, says Roy Hardin, custodian of the Boot Hill museum, are to blame. They can't help picking up souvenirs.
C. O.R.E. tactics will not work.
Dear Editor:
Poor Tactics
COREL tactics win no1.
The current campaign by the Congress of Racial Equality to prevent discrimination against Negro students in campus restaurants is nothing new on Mt. Oread. The movement goes back as far as I935, when Lee Mason, a Negro student, filed a suit in district court asking an order restraining the Granada theater from discriminating against him and others because of race or color. Mason also swore out a misdemeanor complaint against S. E. Schwain, Granada manager, who refused admittance to Mason. The restraining order was refused, and Judge Hugh Means gave judgment in favor of Mr. Schwain on the complaint.
When it became known that Wesley Elliott, K.U. Negro track man, could not be in the 1946 Kansas Relays, petitions began to circulate. The movement was halted when E.C. Quigley, athletics director, explained that every relays participant must be eligible in his own conference. Elliott, as an athlete in the Big Six, which barred Negro participation, was ineligible. Student Council attempts to ban the "gentleman's agreement" on Negro participation in Big Six athletics did not get to first base.
Last summer, seven days after C.O.R.E. announced its intention to force the race issue among theaters, cafes, churches, and the local skating rink, Negroes were refused service in the Cottage cafe. On July 15, C.O.R.E. members objected to Registrar James K. Hitt that Negro student registration cards were marked "Negro." Mr. Hitt explained that this was for purposes of University statistics.
Six days later, Mr. Schwahn, put C.O.R.E. demands up to an audience in the Jayhawker theater, after 40 C.O.R.E. members entered, ignoring the protests. The group refused to leave their seats when reminded of theater policy. Mr. Schwahn stoppd the movie and gave his views from the stage. He stated that the majority of his customers' did not want to attend movies with Negroes. He added that he was willing to change as soon as he had indications that his customers were. His talk was punctuated by heckling from the C.O.R.E. members, and 35 white customers left the theater during the episode. C.O.R.E. and Mr. Schwahn were unable to reach an agreement after several meetings. Mr. Schwahns' offer to open the Patee theater to mixed groups was not accepted.
Little more than a week ago, 25 members of C.O.R.E. staged a sit-down strike in Brick's cafe, and were carried out by 30 objecting University students when they refused to leave. W.E. Murphy, owner of Brick's, said that he would not serve Negroes because it would terminate his white patronage.
C. O.R.E. is not a recognized student organization. The majority of C.O.R.E. members are white and are gaining a great deal of publicity at the expense of the Negro students. There is probably less racial discrimination on our nation's campuses than anywhere else. Education, not force, brought this about. Granted that many campuses are much less discriminatory than K.U., tolerance did not arise from stubbornness, resistance, and unpleasantness. Such tactics as are now being employed by C.O.R.E. to better race relations are only making them worse and may lead to more serious incidents.
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