UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SIX
FEBRUARY 24,1947
Kansan Comments...
Faith To Live
What do you think a business administration expert would suggest is the fault of American colleges? The answer is a lack of religion.
A lack of purpose is really the way Dr. Wallace B. Donham, Harvard, expressed it. This appears to go hand in hand, however, with the failure of a college to include a religious program throughout its curriculum, he says.
Religious Emphasis week, beginning today as part of the University schedule, should be a sample of what all of mankind needs - practical faith. That international viewpoints are expressed makes the idea even more significant for our time.
Obviously government must be divorced from the church in a country which respects all creeds; but humane ideals are basically the same and are essential to the successful state. That is why Religious Emphasis week is a part of your education.
The visiting churchmen, in addition to discussing various types of subjects before students, will talk to faculty members on public affairs. Since the sacred is inevitably tied to the secular because participants in the former cannot escape the latter, it should be very important to both that a workable relationship be established between the two.
Doubtless a number of new resolutions for more idealistic living will be made on our campus this week. But like most decisions grounded in a moment of inspiration, many of them will be forgotten under the pressure of the materialistic demands of modern society.
A better way might be to take time to analyze the connection between intangible ideals and scientific facts, and work them into a realistic pattern for your future. Religion can be positive and practical; this week should show how to make it so.
Equal Rights
It will be interesting to learn what the Kansas Legislature does with the fair employment practices bill now in the judiciary committee. Similar bills have been killed by the committee in three previous sessions.
Gov. Frank Carlson definitely promised a Negro delegation of 50, including K.U. students, who visited him Wednesday, that would sign the bill if it were passed. He commented that the group had made a godo case when it was given a hearing before the judicial committee.
Whatever your feelings are on the race question, you can scarcely object to abolishing discrimination in the opportunity of earning a living. You can't if you believe in the philosophy that gives you freedom to speak, pray, or vote.
The same is true in other economic situations. If a person pays income and property taxes at the same rate as others, he should be entitled to the same police protection, educational opportunity, and use of public grounds. If he pays the same admission as another, he should be entitled to the same choice of seats.
We don't have to marry persons of another race, nationality, or religion; but we can be fair.
One student accused of a smoking violation last semester beat the case by not returning to school. This might be the hard way or the easy way, depending on your point of view.
Dear Editor---
Get Better Instructors
In these crowded times I fully realize the need for under-graduate instructors. However, we can learn little from men (1) who are only vaguely aware of the basic fundamentals of teaching (2) whose only qualification for instructing is an A previously made in the course; (3) who can be stumped by many technical questions they should be able to answer; (4) who often have to be guided by members of the class; (5) who are continuously unsure of themselves, creating doubt and distrust among their students.
As people paying good money and valuable time for an education, we students are entitled to proficient instruction. Teaching is a science requiring men of talent and ability. A poor instructor is a waste of time for all concerned.
It is the duty of the Chancellor to create a set of standards by which all instructors must be measured, and to take out the "dead wood"—not at the end of the semester, but now before we waste any more time.
Junior, Engineering
(Name withheld by request)
(Editor's note: Prospective teachers are considered carefully by department members and deans with whom they will work; and certainly have some qualifications other than a previous A. Some of the older and best-informed professors on the campus meet questions they cannot answer, and may even lack the best technique for transmitting their knowledge to the student.)
The Vice Versa dance Saturday night advertised prices as "$1 per couple, 75c stag or drag." That's a big help—if your finances are getting low, go drag instead of as a couple.
"Belated Anniversaries" will be discussed by Dr. Merrell Clubb, chairman of the English department, Tuesday night. At last here seems to be someone who will tell us how to remember friends' birthdays sooner than the following week.
Want Educated Blah-Blah
Salem—(UP)—State Rep. William Niskanen suggested to the state legislature that Oregon require that its barbers be college-educated "so they'll know what they're talking about."
An essay contest in Greek history is to be sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta, the University history club.
The University Daily Kansan
K.U. History Club To Sponsor Contest
Member of the Kansas Press Assn., National Editorial Assn., Inland District College Press, Represented by the National Advertising Services Department Jackson Ave. New York City
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Any regularly enrolled student at K.U. is eligible to compete for the $10 prize to be given the authors of the five best manuscripts. These essays will be printed in June in the first Historical Essay Annual to be published by the newly organized K. U. chapter.
**Managing Editor**...Billie M. Hamilton
**Editor in Chief**...Alamada Boiler
**Assist. Man. Editor**...Marcela Stawart
**Assist. Man. Editor**...Marcia Stawart
**City Editor**...William T. Smith Jr.
**Assistant City Editor**...John Fishin
**Assist. Man. Jeweler**...Marian Jeweler
**Assist. Telegraph Editor**...Wendon Cook
**Assist. Telegraph Editor**...Marian Minor
**Art Editor**...Eloise West
**Advertising Manager**...Bobbie White
**Advertising Manager**...Alma Wubnwong
**Circulation Manager**...John Beach
**Associate Adm. Man**...LaVerne Keevan
**Associate Adm. Man**...Kenny Keevan
**Promotion Manager**...Mel Adams
Subjects acceptable for the contest are Hecateaeus and the beginnings of Greek Historiography; Herodotus, the Father of History; Thucydides, Historian of the Peloponnesian War; Xenophon and Journalistic History; and Polybius and the Expansion of Rome.
Completed manuscripts are due on or before May 1. For further information see David Teener, 103 Frank Strong hall.
Fire Loss Totals $25,000
Russell.—(UP)—Loss in a fire which swept a household appliance store here was estimated today at $25,000. The high winds carried embers away from a hotel and apartment building nearby.
Margaret Boast Morris, '36, has been employed as a fashion writer on the Kansas City staff of Women's Wear Daily, New York. Now assistant woman's editor of the Kansas City Star, she will take her new position Monday.
Margaret Morris Takes Fashion Publication Job
A graduate from the department of journalism, Mrs. Morris has been employed by Child Life Magazine, Capper Publications, Topeka, and as publicity director of Missouri Valley college, Marshall, Mo.
She was married June 30, 1946,
to James C. Morris, Kansas City
attorney.
K-State To Build Plant
Manhattan—(UP)—Kansas State college radio station KSAC official today announced that construction of a new 5,000 watt transmission plant would begin soon.
The potential listening audience plant would begin soon. The new plant will increase the potential listening audience from some 1,300,000 to more than 5,000,000 persons.
Research Bulletin Gives Kansas Budget
The first of this semester's bulletins on the Kansas State Budget was released Wednesday from the bureau of government research. It discusses methods of preparation and appropriation.
Published once a month during the school year, the bulletin is sent without cost to those who apply to the director of the bureau, Prof. Ethan P. Allen, head of the political science department.
This month's issue also contains an article on legislation to prevent a gubernatorial controversy such as has been going on in Georgia. Material was prepared by Tom Page, instructor in political science, and Rhoten A. Smith, research assistant.
Von Papen Sentenced
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Nuernberg—(UP)—Franz Von Papon, whose diplomatic wiles furthered the German case in two wars and helped Adolf Hitler to power, was sentenced today to eight years' imprisonment in a German labor camp as a major Nazi.
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