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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY MARCH 9,1948
The Editorial Page
Blueprint For Women Leaders
The Associated Women Students in sponsoring a series of leadership conferences for women is undoubtedly doing the University a good service. Such conferences will give women with potentialities for becoming campus leaders an insight to the qualities, responsibilities, and administrative procedure of a good leader.
The A. W. S. is to be congratulated in looking so far ahead to provide itself and other organizations with well-equipped personnel. Many women come to the University with an urge to take part in activities and no idea how to get started. These conferences not only give these women encouragement to become active in campus organizations but also give them advice on ways to make themselves participating members. These women will leave the University with greater confidence to take the lead in whatever business or community they find themselves.
The conferences will also give more women chances to become leaders in the activities which interest them. Too often only a few women are qualified for positions of leadership. Consequently, these few are found to be heading all organizations. They are overworked, while others are left out.
The A. W. S. is also providing that organizations will not be left without management when present leaders are graduated. Sometimes leaders ignore this question and begin to feel that they are indispensable. Then, about two or three months before graduation, organizations wake up to the fact that they are left without guidance of the properort. Leadership should be taught just as other subjects are taught. Perhaps the A. W. S. will make such conferences one of their yearly activities.—Rosemary Rospaw.
Faculty Obligations
There is only one conclusion that can be drawn from the suggestion of the state attorney general that the University fire one of its instructors, Russell Barrett, for statements made at a Wallace-for-president meeting in Topeka. If Barrett should lose his job, the University faculty could never again feel free to analyze, discuss, or investigate any political or economic philosophy not in complete sympathy with the administration in power in the state's capitol building.
Although Mr. Barrett took pains to point out that he was not speaking as a member of the University faculty, he was criticized because it might appear that he was speaking as such. Faculty members do not agree to give up their private identities when they come to the University. That they have some obligation to the students and institution where they are employed is not questioned. But as men who are naturally inquisitive and given to weighing the intellectual values of social and economic forces, they cannot be expected to be always in complete agreement with the status quo. They cannot be expected to remain silent, as private citizens, when they have ideas to present and new views to examine about current problems. That seems to be the way Mr. Barrett intended his speech.
The fellow who thought up the term "cold war" probably never dreamed how accurately it would describe the present squabble over Antarctica.
Dr. John Ise has been famous in the field of economics for so long that the study is now known as Ise-onomics.
Dear Editor
How Deep?
Dear Editor,
Here all along I'd been hoping that war with Russia might not be inevitable. And then I read that Chancellor Malott said that it may be inevitable because freedom is dearer to us than peace. When the chancellor of our University expresses such doubt, I am tempted to give up hope and wonder what is the use of going to school to prepare for a normal peaceful life. I might be better off learning how far down to dig to escape an atom bomb blast. I wonder if Chancellor Malott knows how far down?
Hugh E. Morrison College sophomore
Let's hope Jules Verne Sikes, Kansas' new football coach, can live up to his name. With the imagination of a Jules Verne, he could keep Big Seven opponents "20,000 Leagues Under." Couple this with plenty of "Sikes" appeal to handle old grads and you have an unbeatable combination.
The justice department has decided to speed up proceedings to oust Communists from this country. As a parting touch they might have a band at the docks playing that old tune, "Red Sails in the Sunset."
A couple of oil wells in Oklahoma are reported to be more than two and a half miles deep. With such facility for digging holes, we Americans may have some hope in the next war.
On one thing the Republicans and Harry Truman agree. Everytime Henry Wallace is mentioned, they see Red.
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Sudlow Painting Wins First Prize
Robert N. Sudlow, instructor of painting, received first prize in oil painting at the Topeka Art Guild's annual exhibition Sunday. The winning painting is titled "Flight into Egypt."
Mr. Sudlow has five oils and one water color on exhibition in Spooner- Thayer museum.
The state of Connecticut, a great manufacturing center, boasts, also, of its agricultural interests, and points especially to a superior brand of tobacco it produces.
Talks To Extension Class
Miss Edna A. Hill, professor of home economics, spoke on "Nutrition and Physical Fitness" recently to an extension class in charm and personality in Kansas City, Mo.
One hundred and twenty-two secretaries are enrolled in the five-week course which emphasizes self-improvement. ___
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