UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
GE SIX
FEBRUARY 19, 1947
Kansan Comments.
Your Memorial
K. U. students who complain that they had no voice in planning the World War II memorial will have another opportunity to express their opinions at the meeting tonight in the Union building. Justice Hugo Wedell, president of the Memorial association, and the student committee in charge of coordinating plans, will outline the campaign to be begun soon; and anyone interested may participate in the discussion.
In the spring of 1945, the Daily Kansan printed at least three stories announcing that student suggestions for a memorial would be received by the association. Faculty members were requested by letter to suggest what kind of memorial they preferred. The campanile and scenic drive were suggested as a project which could be of equal value to everyone.
Since $120,000 has been given specifically for this project, the question is no longer whether or not you wish to contribute to a campanile and drive, but whether or not you wish to contribute to a memorial to the men who fought World War II.
That students who are too lethargic to attend policy-making meetings are the loudest objectors to what is done, is not limited to this campaign. But this should be fair warning that now, not tomorrow, is the time to make yourself heard.
Honor For What?
"What would be the good of an honor system in this school?" asks one student who prefers the status quo.
"Let's be practical and recognize that the only reason we learn a lot of these details is so we can fill a requirement," he argues. "Why should we try to remember them after the final examination, when we're never going to use them?"
Of course, it is still unfair that some persons in a class can earn the same grade by dishonesty that others feel obliged to earn by working. But isn't there a chance that he might be right about the requirements?
Enrollment regulations state that a person with 50 credit hours and 60 grade points may be classified as a junior. At least 42 hours of these will be spent in filling requirements; and if the underclassman elects to take 10 hours' language requirement for graduation, he must wait even longer to advance appreciably in his major field.
A radiogram from Richard E. Bird says that he has found his old cabin, buried under snow, with copies of some 1933 magazines which he had left there. Apparently the Antarctic is one place where there is no housing shortage.
Many persons go no farther in college than the first or second year. They are very little better equipped vocationally at the end of that time than when they entered; yet earning a living is probably the most important thing they will have to do all the rest of their lives. If they can save time to reach a few more of the essentials by cheating on what they feel is useless to their interests, aren't they justified?
If their lives are dedicated to making impressions on others, yes. (And in that case they risk their whole future every time they cheat.) If they want to have the satisfaction of an real knowledge, or the pleasure of doing a job right, cheating is the best way not to achieve it.
Dear Editor---
Back Atomic Control
If ever any socially-conscious persons on this campus have contemplated writing their senators, the next two or three days is the time for them to get busy.
The Senate is very close to rejecting David Lilienthal's appointment as chairman of the Atomic Energy commission. For what reason? To get instead a man who will not stand up so stauchnly for civilian and public control of U.S. atomic energy (it is reported that a retired military man may get the job.)
The result? The imperatively necessary plan proposed by Baruch for international control of the atom might well be wrecked. Military control here would sound the gong to start the world galloping along in an atom bomb race.
The charges that Lilienthal is a Communist or anything like one are absolutely ridiculous. Two conservative papers, the New York Times and the Herald-Tribune, have just come out with strong support for Lilienthal. These papers Communist? Hmh!
Letters from the people count. They turned the tide last spring and defeated the dangerous Vanderburg amendment to put atomic energy under military control. The same issue faces us now.
Three thousand atomic scientists, the boys who should know, have thrown their weight into the fight for Lilienthal.
If K.U. students care to live long enough to raise a family or grow a few grey hairs, the way to begin assuring themselves any longevity at all is to write or write President Truman and Senators Capper and Reed immediately, to make certain that Lilienital gets the job.
George Caldwell College Junior
Let's Keep Prohibition
How many of us would release all the prisoners and tell them to go back to their crimes? We are doing worse when we give alcohol its freedom.
We have laws for protection of public health. Are we going to say that they should be scrapped? Alcoholism is a disease which can be controlled by law enforcement.
Kansas saves more with prohibition than other states make from the sale of alcohol, by the reduction of traffic accidents, sickness, and juvenile delinquency. As a comparison, I was stationed at a camp which was the same distance from two towns. One had prohibition of hard liquor, and a good police force, and was considered a decent place. The other was wide open, and full of rowdyness and fights.
No one wants to drink to excess but many do because after he takes his first one he sees no harm in it. It hurts him twice: once when it makes him sick and once when it makes room for the next one, whether 10 years or 10 seconds later.
The testing and guidance service at the University of Oklahoma has a new kind of marital problem to deal with—nagging wives who demand more A's from their husbands.
Alcoholism is a crime against non-users as well. Why should those who don't drink, suffer?
David Butler, Freshman, Engineering
The state department plans to include American folk songs in its unencensed broadcast over the Soviet radio. We wonder how "Open the Door, Richard" will sound in Russian.
That German "burp gun", your Japanese sawed-off shotgun, that Italian sub-machine gun, or your prized shooting cane; they must all be registered with the U.S. Treasury Department.
Lay That Pistol Down,Joe--Gotta Be Registered
The powers-that-be don't object to ex-G.I.'s owning these deadly shootin' iron souvenirs. They know that the war veteran is proud of his loot and he enjoys showing his trophies to admiring friends and neighborhood kids, but the government doesn't want the weapons to fall into the hands of criminals.
The national firearms act, although not a widely known law, has been passed to require registration of all dangerous firearms, and a prohibitive transfer tax of $200 has been designed to keep the guns in the hands of the veterans who brought them back as trophies of war.
The arms affected by the order are machine guns and machine pistols, shotguns and rifles with less than 18 inch barrels, except rifles of .22 caliber or smaller; any concealed weapon from which a shot can be fired, except pistols and revolvers, and pistols with accompanying shoulder stocks.
Any K.U. veteran owning such a weapon should contact the alcohol tax unit, office 329, general post office building, Kansas City 8, Mo. Failure to register such souvenirs leaves the veteran open to prosecution and severe penalties.
Y.W.-Y.M. Stress Need For Religion
It is up to youth to see that it gets Christian heritage in higher education by seeking it through religious organizations and from faculty members in classes, as well as in regular religious courses, according to the joint Y. W. C. A.-Y. M. C. A. religious seminar group in a Monday afternoon meeting.
Mary Breed, Y. W. C. A. president spoke on the objectives, criticisms, and changes in higher education. The lack of religious teaching was discussed by the students.
"We should come to college to learn how to live as well as how to make a living," Miss Breed emphasized. "The skill we learn should be satisfaction for ourselves and not just for money and recognition."
Mexican Professor Leaves K.U. After 2 Years Study
Prof. Bernardo Villa-Ramirez has returned to the faculty of the Institute of Biology at the University of Mexico, Mexico City, after completing requirements for a master's degree in zoology at K.U.
While a student here for two years he assisted in the classification of Mexican and Central American vertebrate specimens received by the Museum of Natural History.
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Student Back To Classes After Automobile Accident
George McCarthy, business senior, injured in an automobile accident north of Emporia, Feb. 10, was expected to return to classes today.
Ruse McCarthy, also a business senior, will not be released from the hospital until next week. Doctors set his right arm, broken in the wreck, Monday.
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The students were returning to Lawrence when their car turned over. They were taken to St. Mary's hospital, Emporia, after the accident.
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