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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 4,1947
—From the St. Louis Star-Times
Kansan Comments
Georgia Fraud
"Democratic" elections in Georgia now appear to extend the franchise to dead men.
At least such evidence may be presented to that state's Supreme court in the final contest between Gov. Herman Talmadge and Lieut. Gov. M. E. Thompson. The showdown may indicate future political trends not only in Georgia but in other sates.
Last-minute discovery of additional votes in Telfair county, the home of the Talmadges, elected the father, Eugene, whose death left the contested vacancy. The Atlanta Journal claims to have found voting records for two dead persons, five who had moved away, five who had not gone to the polls, and a dozen more who could not be found.
The Journal published a list of those voting in the 1946 general election, supposedly in the order of casting ballots. The last 34 names were in alphabetical order, A through K.
Herman Talmadge was credited with 675 write-in votes, six more than those received by James Carmichael, his father's principal primary opponent. The Republican, D. Talmadge Bowers, who lacked 38 votes of that number, is demanding that the votes be recounted.
The man who brazenly advocates a "democratic white primary" seems to have gained the most. Because Herman Talmadge talks the language of the rural white people who need much, according to author Lillian Smith, public opinion will believe in him. If a voting majority cares to ignore the constitutionally guaranteed rights of equality, it may choose also to dispense with legality in its elections.
What does this mean to Kansas? Only that a chain is as strong as its weakest link, and our nation can't bind its future security in rotten democracy. If we believe in ideals
of our basic documents, we'll have to push them, and practice them as well.
A bureau to supply lectures to students who cut class has been set up on one state university campus. The organization hires persons to take shorthand notes in all major classes, and transcribes and sells the lectures.
Cutting Classes
Another college, in criticism, suggests that students just buy all the lectures and not waste their time going to class.
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Carried that far, of course, the plan is ridiculous; but if a person were to lose by cutting all his classes, would he not lose also by cutting once in a while? Not many professors expect that all their words will go down in history, but the admitted trivia may be a valuable
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Learning to know the teacher's attitudes, character, and individuality may give a warmer, more personal feeling toward the subject. And certainly the two-way discussion carried on in most classes can clarify questions which textbook authors could not possibly answer for all readers.
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part of education.
If students get nothing from a regular meeting with the professor, why not make all courses like Western Civilization, with the reader required to analyze and assemble the material for himself? Better still, why spend all the money and time going to school? Why not get your education at the city library?
The answer is obvious: Book education doesn't teach you all there is to know about living with your fellow men. You have to practice living with them while you're reading about it. Getting lectures firsthand is part of the human system of profiting from another's experience. If you want to learn the hard way, go ahead and cut class.
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Dear Editor---think we have not done so as thoroughly as we might. Most of the available motion pictures in this field, at least those that deal with the larger facts of history, are adapted for elementary and secondary school students rather than for the college level. And in this area even these are fewer than one might think.
To Mr. Sandelius
May I ask if a proposal has ever been put forth to supplement the readings in the Western Civilization course with motion pictures?
The merits of such relative pictures that will enable the student to grasp a great deal more than some of the readings, will, I am sure, be realized by you.
I feel that this is a question to which many Western Civilization students deserve a reply.
There have been made, I would venture to say, hundreds of full-length features and "shorts" that would aid all of us immeasurably. Should the University fail to take advantage of the benefits that this media alone can provide?
Will you tell us if an inquiry into the possibilities of offering such pictures has been made, and if not, will this matter be investigated?
Leonard Snyder College Sophomore
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Our faculty committee in charge of the requirement in Western Civilization will appreciate the suggestion made in your letter, and the spirit in which it is made. One of the main objects of this requirement is that students, as true members of the University community, should realize their share of the responsibility for devising ways and means of preparation to meet the standards of the University, though not for establishment of the standards themselves.
TWO. Supplied lists of basic documents and reading materials to which the examinations make considerable reference; and
ONE. Set the examinations with which to test the student's comprehension once or twice in the course of the average college career;
By very old tradition, universities have done three things:
THIRD. Provided free lectures of which the student may avail himself. Other methods have been added in college level, the tendency to elevate, others to depress, the college level. It is to be agreed, in any case, that the visual aids which you advocate have their contribution to make to modern education.
Our committee has already given some consideration to the use of such aids. Yet I am inclined to
THEREE. Provided free lectures of which the student may enroll himself
Texas U. May Lower Council Requirement
The University of Texas, Austin is considering a bill lowering requirements for president and vice-president of the Student assembly. The bill would permit a sophomore who would be a junior, or a veteran who would be a sophomore at the time of taking office, to run for these offices.
If two-thirds of the assembly favors the bill, it will be submitted to the student body for majority approval in the spring elections.
(The University of Kansas ASC presidency has no requirements other than previous service on the council, and regular activity eligibility).
Iowa Parties Merge
The Independent political party at Iowa State College, Ames, voted Wednesday to dissolve its organization.
A similar move had been made in the Representative party the night before. The Representative organization was a fraternity-sorority group.
Presidents of the two parties, working with committees from the party councils, will discuss plans for forming a new organization to represent student opinion more adequately.
Exhibit O.T. Supplies
Art education and occupational therapy supplies will be exhibited all day in 332 Frank Strong hall. Occupational therapy and art education classes are attending. Any interested student is invited.
We should want to be sure that we have pictures that would really attract the voluntary attendance and interest of college students. But I shall certainly be interested to explore the suggestion further and to bring it to the attention of the faculty committee in charge.
Believe me, we are glad to have the evidence which you indicate of the cooperative initiative of students.
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