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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FEBRUARY 13,1947
Kansan Comments
Speak, Students!
The Daily Kansan is your newspaper. Not just to read--you can help write it, if you want.
The Kansan Board constitution which governs the publication specifies that any student in the University is eligible to work on the Daily Kansan. So if you want a regular job, don't hesitate to tell us just because you are not enrolled in journalism.
Whenever you feel the urge to express an opinion, write a letter to the editor. Please sign it; we'll withhold your name if you wish, but if a comment is justified, you should not be afraid to back it in private at least. And get it to us at least one day before it should be printed, if the time is important.
The job of the Daily Kansan staff is to represent campus opinion and report news events in as nearly their proper relationship as possible. If you have suggestions for improving the paper, please tell the staff instead of your friends in the cafeteria. If we can't make the change, we'll try to explain the reason.
An inarticulate or babbling voice of the people is about as useless as no voice at all. Your participation will benefit you as well as everyone else concerned.
Good Advice?
"Now they tell me!" is the indignant cry of a student who has just learned, after flunking algebra, that his mathematics score in the entrance examinations was low. Why take aptitude examinations, he wonders, if they are not to guide one in his selection of courses?
Actually this reasoning is oversimplified. A low score in one type of test means less in itself than in its relationship to other tests, according to the director of the Bureau of Vocational Guidance which has charge of entrance testing. This is true regarding some particular aptitude as well as in determining whether or not a student is able to do college work.
Because the guidance bureau is understaffed, it has difficulty serving those who ask for special help, and could not hope to utilize the comparatively general entrance examinations to advise every student. But we agree with the disappointed student that the tests could be more valuable than they are under the present system.
Since the tests are specialized, only trained persons can understand the full significance of their results. A sprinkling of professors in various departments working in their spare time, can give at best only superficial advice. If individual abilities are worth discovering, they are worth utilizing by qualified counselors. Proper direction in the beginning might save time and effort for both students and teachers.
Matter Art Exhibit
Stresses Farm and Country
An interest in the country side and farm animals is evident in the annual exhibition of works by Prof. Karl Mattern of the department of painting which is being shown in the north picture gallery of Thayer Museum during February.
The exhibition includes four watercolors and 11 oil paintings. Scenes of the small country town, grazing cattle, and horses are depicted in a number of the pictures. A watercolor, "Late Afternoon," and the religious work, "Crucifixion," are included.
Dear Editor--must be armed if he is to apprehend lawbreakers. Whether persons molesting property have a mischievous or a malicious intent, don't they risk the consequences of a possible error in judgment?)
Shots Unwarranted
Is anything going to be done about the homicide tendencies of our campus night watchman? Twice during the past semester he fired upon groups of pranksters attempting to paint the statue of Jimmy Green. Should he be allowed to continue to attempt to kill students for a prank that at most could cost the University only a few dollars for labor to have the statute cleaned one more time?
Maybe the next time his aim will be better and someone will be shot for the heinous crime of repeating one of the traditional pranks of our fathers.
Robert T. Gray College Junior
K-State Comment
K. U. won two victories, one by tromping K-State in basketball while the second mark was achieved by catching K-Staters in the painting act. Your penalty was worthy—both the night in jail and the teaching of the best remover methods. But is the taking of a life worth all of the fun in the world between two colleges?
I congratulate you for catching the morale damages, Mr. Gerard. We will be alert for K.U. students at our home games; but let's hope that no guns will be drawn to break this feud.
We are informed that two of the campus policeman's bullets came very close to their target—the life of a K-State student. The car which was hit in the trunk and near the back window was loaded with students.
Lewis Bacon Manhattan, Kansas
Local Lives Risked
Mr. Gerard should be commended for apprehending the wielder of the paint brush. After this is said, Mr. Gerard and I are on opposite sides of the fence.
Providing the quotation in the Kansas is exact, it is my opinion that Mr. Gerard was overzealous in performance of duty and should be limited to carrying a nightstick. Five stray shots down 14th street can endanger some good Jayhawkers or Lawrence citizens just as easily as they can kill a mischievous Manhattanite.
John J. Campbell,
Intercollegiate vandalism is a despicable, juvenile stunt at best, but need it be fatal?
Engineering Senior.
(Editor's note—Mr. Gerard is a policeman, not a watchman, and
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Scout Visitation day, with a program planned to include the Kansas relays, will be held this spring for Scouts who would like to become acquainted with the University.
In honor of Boy Scout week, which ends today, Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Omega sponsored a preaniversary basketball tournament between teams of local troops. The service fraternity, composed of former Scouts, carries out the ideals of the organization in sponsoring various kinds of projects both on and off the campus.
The first of a possible series of card parties for persons who want recreation other than dancing will be given soon. A recent campaign sponsored on the campus by the fraternity was the March of Dimes.
One hundred Jayhawkers have just finished celebrating 37 years of good deeds.
Scout Fraternity Marks Birthday With Good Turns
The international membership of Boy Scouts includes four and a half million members, from 51 countries. Nearly two million are Americans. For this birthday week a World Friendship fund of more than $110,000 has been given by members to help rebuild units in 32 countries.
'Happy Endings' Misload Couples About Marriage
Los Angeles, (UP)—A noted psychiatrist said today that movies and romantic fiction stressing the "lived happily ever after" theme have done more to cause unhappy marriages than anything else.
"Movies and stories that end with a closeup of a happy just-married couple give false education." Dr. Frieldra Fromm-Reichman of Rockville, Md., explained.
"Such stories keep up the pretense that everything will be wonderful about a marriage from the first minute, when actually there are many adjustments to be made. Like everything else, being a good marriage partner takes training and adaptation."
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PARKING NOTICE
It is known that many parking permits were issued to persons who at the time were living outside the one-mile limit, but who have subsequently moved to points within that limit. In such cases the permit is automatically cancelled seven days after the holder's arrival at his new place of residence. If the holder considers that he has a valid claim for a continuation of the parking privilege he may apply at the Business Office, within the seven-day period, for an extension of the permit. Those holders who arrive at their new place of residence before this notice is published in the University Daily Kansan will be allowed a grace period of seven days from the date of publication. The holder of a permit which has been cancelled may apply at the Business Office for a proportionate refund from the fee originally paid. Violation tags will be placed on any vehicle whose owner or driver attempts to make use of a cancelled permit.
Until further notice those holders of Zone No. 1 permits based on physical disability will continue to park in Zone 1, with due regard for all areas in which emergency "no parking" signs have been placed. Such owners will be required to obtain a special new sticker at the Business Office. The new stickers will be available February 10. Parking in Zone 1 without this special sticker will be prohibited on and after February 17. No extra charge will be made for the new sticker.
Holders of Zone 1 permits that are not based on physical disability will park in the space directly behind Marvin Hall. The entrance to this space is on Jayhawk Drive immediately west of Marvin Hall. This change will take effect on February 17. Any such holders who may not desire to use this new space and who may prefer to relinquish their permits will be given a proportionate refund of the original fee, at the Business Office.
FRANK L. BROWN, Chairman University Parking Committee.
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