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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
NOVEMBER 22,1946
Kansan Comments.
Talk It Over
Earlier this year, cheerleaders were subjected to criticism, partly deserved and partly undeserved. After a period of wrangling, the cheerleaders answered their critics either by changing their methods or by showing there was no solution to the criticism.
There has been nothing but praise for cheerleaders since the Saturday of the Oklahoma A. and M. game. The American system of "talking things over" proved a sensible and effective way of ironing out difficulties.
Now there is another problem, and this time it's the cheerleaders who are doing the criticizing.
All during the football season, the cheerleaders paid their own way to out-of-state games. At the Kansas State game, particularly, the cheerleaders showed how effective a cheering section can be if it is properly led.
The cheerleaders are to be commended for finding a way to attend out-of-town games, but someone should be criticized for failing to provide transportation for the leaders of organized K.U. school spirit.
Who that someone is, is a good question. It seems that either the athletic department or the All Student Council should be responsible for providing funds to send the cheerleaders to out-of-town games. No matter which group has the responsibility of providing funds for cheerleaders, the problem should be solved quickly. The first basketball game away from Lawrence is at Emporia Dec. 11, only three weeks from now. The cheerleaders should go to that game.
Now, talk it over—who's going to send them?
Need Money?
Two days make a big difference when you're on your last dollar, don't they? Now another group has joined the veterans in worrying about late checks.
Student employees who used to get their irregular payroll checks on the 15th of each month, now have to wait until the 17th. It is not less riking to know that regular payroll payments are made on the usual date. It seems unjust that persons on the most rigid hand-to-mouth budgets must wait longest for their money.
The problem isn't that the business office wants students to improve
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their character through hardship, but that the doubled payroll has presented a clerical problem. The University still is able to submit its expense accounts on time, but the increase involves much more calculation and recording in the state disbursing office.
It isn't "pull" or underhand methods that get professors their checks first. It is the routine nature of their salary calculation, and the earlier date of mailing their time sheets.
The situation is inconvenient, but hardly the fault of anyone in particular. If your budget is straining at the seams, just smile a little more sweetly at the landlady, eat more macaroni, and hope another large-enrollment problem will be straightened out soon.-A.B.
Be Constructive
Midsemester grades will be available in a few days.
Unless the present crop of students is entirely different, there will be complaints about the grading system.
The complaints probably will ask for changes so that students are graded for "comprehension" or for "improvement." These are worthy suggestions, but most of the suggesters will fail to show how a professor can judge the individual "comprehension" or "improvement" of each of a hundred or two hundred students.
In the old and supposedly-better days of teaching, half a dozen students sat in rapt silence around the teacher's feet and drank in his words of wisdom. Times have changed, though, and so has the size of the class.
So please don't gripe about the grading system unless you have a concrete, workable substitute system. Make your criticism constructive, not destructive.
Jaytalking---
The national trend to divorce and separation doesn't seem to be followed here. Not yet has the Daily Kansas want ads column had one of those "I will not be responsible for the debts of . . ."
Despite the high price of beef, federal agencies still are putting out plenty of bull.
Kansas City has decided to use cinders instead of salt on icy streets this winter. This may prevent police from being peppered with accident reports, but it will help drivers make ashes of themselves.
Members of Greek and independent women's organized houses now promise to bury the hatchet except during election periods. Then, it may be supposed, scalping will be permitted without fear of violating federal excise tax regulations.
A K. U. fan, delighted with the victory over Oklahoma, is sending each football player and coach a turkey. Now everyone is hoping the Jayhawkers can bring home the bacon Thanksgiving day.
Dear Editor--the angle of the speaker's observation, each person must have appeared to him as a pair of feet topped by a head.
Blaming the delay on a shortage of envelopes, the army finally is mailing out terminal leave bonds to former G. I.'s. Most of the veterans we know would have been glad to enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope along with their applications.
The veterans of K.U. are certainly not trying to obtain a lifetime handout financed by the government. If the "vets" were, why would they even enter college? Surely each veteran anticipates a financial income greater than $65 or $90 a month in later life.
Many veterans here are working extra hours to meet financial standards. Others are unable to work because of difficulties in scholastic studies derived from two to five years' absence. The latter do encounter financial hardships.
Perhaps the attitude dominates that $65 and $90 a month present sufficient funds for the "life of Riley." This attitude is drastically erroneous. To the veterans the subsistence checks do seem small, but that is due to their own financial difficulties. In reality it is a nice sum when appreciated graciously.
Insofar as the veteran's growing up and standing on his own two feet is concerned, whose feet did he stand on in France, Italy, Africa, Guam, Okinawa, Tarawa, Guadalcanal, and many other places? The veteran has learned repeatedly through military service to stand on his own feet.
The non-veterans are having a "tough time," but so are the veterans. Each man has his own battle to attain success, and I have full confidence in the veteran.
Robert N. Carper College Freshman
How can the Athletic department be so hypocritical as to prosecute student scalpers, Gestapo-style, and then turn around and themselves sculp the student body right down to the shoulders? We used to get eight tickets for a dollar and now we get four for $1.75 plus tax and pay a higher activity fee. It is a clear case of sacrificing the students so the athletic department can make more money by selling non-student tickets. Is this really paying for the stadium or has the price of athletes gone up?
Bob Campbell College Sophomore
In the letter by the non-veteran in Tuesday's Kansan, I think he is being a little over-critical by accusing all veterans of being "gimme boys" and "whiners." There are many of us who financed our way in college before the war and who are working part-time now to augment the government aid.
However, I think he has accomplished a good point by warning how easily public opinion can turn against us if we misuse our "special" position.
Personally, I think we veterans should remember that Uncle Sam isn't forcing us to go to college and that we should be darned glad for the help he is giving us instead of complaining that it isn't enough.
H. G. Kolsky Graduate Student
A suggestion strongly urged: FKUKI is woefully neglected by students and faculty, though there are some interesting programs, especially a book review hour on Thursdays; 2:45 p.m., the preparation for which is a careful and arduous process, no doubt, by some members of our department. Should instructors urge "listening in" to this or that book review hour or talk, students usually interpret it as a call to "culture," and, I have no doubt, take it as a soft-naleded homework assignment
Isn't it possible to have a Dial column or some such newspaper contrivance that will publicize, list, review, fanfare, or merely mention the programs and hours of KFKU programs? In fact, a radio log in the lounge of the Union, a sign in the Music room as addenda, would do the job nicely. At most universities, the college channels are utilized to better advantage. Couldn't we compete?
Doris Bauman Instructor of English
Chiapusso Will Give Piano Recital Monday
Had our distinguished speaker at last Monday's convocation observed the front row of the first balcony, he could have counted 24 men and 4 women seated there. He could further have observed that apparently 18 of them consisted chiefly of heads and feet, for these students had their feet up on the balcony rail; and at
Jan Chiapasso, professor of piano,
who returned to K.U. this fall from
a summer concert in the Hawaiian
islands, will present a piano recital
at 8 pm. Monday in Hoch auditorium.
Included in the numbers to be played are Professor Chiapusso's own arrangement of the Bach Dorian Toccata, and four of the Bach-Busoni choral preludes.
At least two pairs of shoes projected clear over the balcony rail. Had they not been securely tied on, they would have dropped off on the heads of those below.
It is true that Mr. Hambro was talking to a large audience, but he was also talking to every individual there. These 17 men and one lady (?) were not polite in assuming the sprawled-out position which they occupied most of the convocation. Politeness is still one of the greatest of virtues.
No one cares what position a person assumes in the privacy of his room, but to lie on the back of your neck in a public meeting and poke your feet toward the face of the speaker is below the standard of conduct of K.U. ladies and gentlemen.
Paul B. Lawson Dean of the College
Students May Enter National Essay Contest
All undergraduate University students in the United States are eligible to compete for $3,000 in cash prizes in an essay contest sponsored by the Tamiment Social and Economic Institute of New York.
First prize of $1,500, second prize $750, and three third prizes of $250 each will be awarded to five students submitting the best essays on the subject, "Roads to Industrial Peace."
Each contestant may submit one typed manuscript between 5,000 and 8,000 words before the deadline date, April 26, 1947. Prizes winning essays will be announced at the 1947 June conference of the institute at Camp Tamiment. Pa.
Under State Control
Essays should be submitted to the Tamiment Institute Contest, 7 East 15th St., New York, 3, N.Y.
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