AGE SIX
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1947
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As The Kansan Sees It
ASC Power Unused
The story is told of a wise farmer who had an unusual method for training his sons in responsibility. As each son reached the age of six, he would be given a knife. If he handled this well and did not ose it, he was given a dog.
Next he was given a horse, and if in caring for these he had shown his worth, on becoming a man he was given a farm. The lad never progressed any faster than has capability for meeting responsibility.
s The All Student Council never uses to be able to get out of the l "knife" stage. After slowness year after year in publishing the student directory, and after allowing the Bitter Bird magazine fiasco last spring, once again the Council has failed to meet its responsibilities. This failure concerns the lack of a rstudent court last week at a time sit was seriously needed.
1 ASC Bill No. 4 provides for a joint faculty-student committee on parking. It also states the regulations for granting parking licenses. It specifically states that "any person who falsely impersonates another, or secures his license by fraud under the provisions set down . . . shall be punished at the discretion of the Student court, which may impose a penalty not to exceed suspension from school for one semester."
Last week one student was dismissed from school for one semester and another denied the use of his car in Douglas county. These two students were tried by a faculty committee.
Why?
Because no student court had been set up as yet. The All Student Council by the fifth week of school had not yet "got around" to appointing one. (This was finally done Tuesday night.)
Dr. L. C. Woodruff, dean of student affairs, said, "Certainly, this case would have been handled by the student court had one been set up."
Because student government had failed to take advantage of a power delegated to it, the administrator
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Both the peace of Westphalia, signed on Oct. 24, 1648, and the Thirty Years War which it ended, have effects and influences on Germany and the world to this day.
went ahead with the case. They felt the matter could not wait until the middle of November (or whenever the ASC got around to appointing a student court.)
Westphalia's shadow still falls across Europe today in the post-war bickering over boundary lines, and in the vestiges of the balance of power system which it did so much to bring into being.
We feel that the administration acted perhaps a bit hastily. The fact remains, however, that they overstepped the bounds because student government had not lived up to its side of the bargain.
We believe also that had the student court taken the action, the students would not have received such drastic punishment. Student government failed those it was supposed to serve.
The fault, other than administration hastiness, goes back to student government. Student government, in now living up to its delegated responsibilities probably threw two students into worse trouble than would have been the case otherwise
From the faculty viewpoint, the punishment of the first man was just. He had violated traffic rules during the spring semester to the extent of more than $50 in fines. He had obtained a parking license while living at Sunflower, and continued to use it after moving to Oread hall.
The unification of Germany under Bismarck supposedly earsed Westphalia's influence. But Hitler used it as an excuse for his expansion by proclaiming Germany's rights to territories (such as Alsace) taken away from her by the Peace.
Because of this record, and his action this fall in switching zone numbers of his tag, the faculty committee felt that further fines would do no good. Expelling him from school seemed the only course left
The Council, undoubtedly aware that the need for a student court would arise early this fall, did not prepare for providing it. Appointments could have been done last spring or at the latest early this fall.
Because the war laid waste vast areas of Germany, that area was economically backward for more than a hundred years. The Peace itself caused economic chaos by recognizing each little municipality and province as a sovereign state. Each tiny state set up trade barriers and hindrances to communication. The Peace consolidated the gains of the Protestant Reformation by allowing each ruler to determine the religion of his people. This stopped forever the chance of a unified Europe under the Roman Catholic church.
When is student government at the University going to grow past the "knife" stage?
How Not To Relax
A row of bathing beauties flashed across the screen and is followed by pictures of starvation in Europe. Excerpts from a famous statesman's speech are soberly impressed upon a movie-goer. A few seconds later there is a slap-happy comedy short.
No wonder women cry when they go to the movies. The 15 or 20 minutes of varied "shorts," news-reels, and features before the main show put anyone's emotions to strain.
The only saving thing about the whole business is the animated cartoon which comes just before the main feature. Bring on Bugs Bunny!
A travelogue extolling the beauties of America is followed by pictures of a disastrous flood or hurricane. The previews of movies to come later whet the interest without satisfying the appetite created.
Such is the swift pace of changing scenes on the screen. No wonder shifting tides of emotion are created in the audience.
A bartender in Florida has concocted a new drink which he calls the Vyshinsky special. Probably after one drink you'd be ready to veto anything — especially another drink.
I hope I am not being overly critical of your style of news reporting. I fully realize your time and space requirements, and also appreciate the unique difficulties of operating a University newspaper.
Dear Editor
De-Snided Comment Dear Editor,
However, I should like to point out a rather obvious fact—a snide comment may rather easily be deprived of its snideness by being only slightly paraphrased. If said snide comment is so paraphrased, it is hardly fair to represent it as a direct quotation.
I speak of this in reference to the motion you credit me with saying in a recent story of a meeting of the Independent men's party. While it seems, I grant, a rather minor point to a cursory glance, I feel the motion as "quoted" has been nefariously de-spided.
It should have been, "Acceptance or rejection is to be considered on a basis of good or bad blood,-blood being arbitrarily divided into the two racial categories: Greek and barbarian."
I shouldn't bother to bring this trifling point to your consideration, but I feel that here in Lawrence, where racism is the keynote of democracy, and blood the only insuperable barrier, we purists ("Some of my best friends are Greeks, but of course I wouldn't want my sister to marry one!") must all make our stand for 100 per cent Americanism.
Duane Postlethwaite College senior.
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Jim Lowther and Paul Skolaut were appointed to the membership committee of the Freshman Pep club for men recently. Men appointed to the uniform and name committee were Bob Drewelow, chairman; Bob Edmunds, Gair Sloan, and Bob McEvers.
The club decided that the organization would be open to both Independent and Greek students. Eleven organized houses were represented.
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