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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1947
As The Kansan Sees It
Guest Editorial
Educate All Who Want To Be
Colleges and universities today are forced to rethink the problem of higher education for the many rather than for the few. As a result of the G. I. Bill and the current wave of prosperity, mass education on the college level has become a fait accompli.
President Sproul told his students at the University of California, perhaps humorously, that he wishes 10,000 of them were not there. But they are there, more than 40,000 strong, just as they are here at Kansas University 10,000 strong. This presents administrators and teachers with an unprecedented challenge and opportunity.
I do not think the swollen enrollment of the colleges all over the nation will necessarily dilute the quality of higher education. It does pose stern problems of readjustment.
We are compelled to shift from the traditional aristocratic pattern of higher education to a pattern more realistic. This pattern is based on the exigent need of a democratic society for versatile and competent
Big Guy Distrust
Meanwhile, we must face up to the responsibility of taking care of every student on the campus who shows us that he belongs here. And we must do this in the best way that we can.
leadership.
The problem of selection raised by President Sproul is a real one. It will never profit those unqualified by aptitudes and interests to seek education on the higher levels. I agree with his proposals to enlarge the terminal facilities of the junior colleges. His idea of increasing and improving facilities for vocational education all along the line are good. More effective vocational guidance is important.
Similarly, the United States as one of the big nations in the United Nations, was afraid to let the "say-so" be spread out among all the little nations. Just to make sure, it backed the veto idea in the Security council, the body directly responsible for keeping the peace. By this method, nothing could be done by the council unless all of the big powers agreed.
In both cases, the United States was hurt by this distrust of the little
I believe the colleges are meeting this challenge fairly successfully. They are making essential adaptations. Much remains to be done, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, before the new pattern is effectively established.
Dr. Carroll D. Clark Professor of Sociology
The electoral college and the United Nations veto are two birds of a feather. The founding fathers and those who represented America at the writing of the United Nations charter both made the same mistake.
Distrust of the common people and a desire to make sure that the power of government was kept in the hands of the few motivated both these checks. The electoral college remains like buttons on the back of a coat, but is unused for its original intention by tacit consent. The security council veto is right now sticking in our craw as an obstacle to that very peace it was supposed to safeguard.
The founding fathers felt that the common people didn't have enough sense to choose a good president. Therefore, they thought up the electoral college idea. By this method the people were supposed to vote for electors who would then meet and choose the president.
fellow. In the case of the electoral college, we "got around" it. But the veto problem in the United Nations promises to be an instance of lack of faith which we will rue for years to come.
Dear Editor
Undemocratic?
In view of the conspicuous absence of practices of democratic and Christian principles on Mt. Oread, I think it is time one of the political parties on the Hill adopt some of these principles and see that they are practiced on the campus.
Dear Editor.
The specific abuses of those principles on this campus have been the stands concerning the C. O. R. E problem. I personally feel the stand the University took by not recognizing C. O. R. E as "serving student purposes" was a disgrace and a black mark on the character of the authority behind the statement.
I would like to ask Prof. Woodruff, dean of student affairs, just what he considers "in line with Kansas University policy and serving student purposes" to mean. Does he consider taking a stand for legal and
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Christian rights honorably "serving student purposes?"
University Daily Kansan.
By non-recognition of the democratic principles involved in this situation I can understand why racial discrimination gets its impetus. I believe that anyone taking part in such undemocratic practices is laying the foundations for the establishment of the Communistic principles which we condemn up one side and down the other every day of the year. Yet we tolerate such administrative decisions as the one herein mentioned.
The school administration is not the only guilty party. The Pachacamac party, representing the Greek men on the campus, made an undemocratic and class-prejudiced move in siding in with the administration on the C. O. R. E. problem. Such a decision must have been computed on a slide rule—it certainly could not have been a result of rationality.
(In referring to democratic principles I refer to the definition in Webster's Collegiate dictionary. "Democracy is a belief in or practice of social equality; an absence of snobbery.")
Frank Lawler College junior
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Pharmacy School Receives $400 For Scholarships
A committee of three was appointed to plan the next meeting, Oct. 23. They are Marie Shoemaker, Jean Hatfield, and Ruth Richardson.
Scholarships amounting to $400 have been received by the School of Pharmacy, Dean J. Allen Reese announced today.
The Pharmacy Foundation scholarships, as they will be known, were contributed by the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education. They are for juniors and seniors, who must be in the upper one-fourth of their class or have a "B" average to be eligible.
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