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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN; LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newsaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Ave., New York City.
Mail subscription: $2 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the six year except September 17, 1916, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan under act of March 3, 1879.
The University has just concluded a noteworthy project for the people of Kausas, the sponsoring of atomic energy conferences throughout the state.
That program, given in eight Kansas towns, should prove effective in making the people of Kansas more aware of the momentous implications of the atomic bomb.
The A-Bomb And Kansas
The brain-child of Hilden Gibson, associate professor of political science, this project was the first state-wide project of this nature in the country.
Four scientists closely connected with the development of atomic energy and 14 University faculty members took part in the program. It was so organized that the subjects were comprehensively covered and reduced to simple terms, understandable by all.
reduced to simple terms.
Much has been said and written of atomic bombs since the devastation of Hiroshima on August 6. But the real value of this program was its intensive treatment of the subject.
Being an all-day meeting, with sessions that totalled six hours in length, it was a contrast to the fleeting connection most laymen have had with atomic energy information. Atomic bomb news may occupy a few minutes of a radio news broadcast; it may take a few moments of our time before we turn to the sports section of our newspaper; or we may spend slightly longer reading a magazine article on the subject, but in any event, our attention is quickly diverted. In these sessions the urgency of coping quickly with this scientific Frankenstein was hammered home in sessions long enough to have a real effect.
At the close of the Topeka meeting 260 persons unanimously approved a resolution embodying the following recommendations:
1. Support of the state department's recent Acheson Report recom- ment of the control of atomic energy under the U.N.
2. Support of the McMahon bill, for national control of atomic energy.
3. Rejection of the May-Johnson atomic energy control bill.
4. Complete support of the U.N.
5. That each person present inform the congressmen of Kansas of these opinions.
6. Organization of community groups to stimulate interest and study of atomic energy and its implications.
Similar resalutions were adopted at the other seven conferences.
The mid-west has often been described as complacent. But sitting through the conference at Topeka with a cross-section group of housewives, businessmen, teachers, and farmers, one was aware of their keen interest.
It remains to be seen if the people of Kansas will utilize this worthy project for further enlightenment. If they do, it will have been time and effort well spent.
If the federal justice department has its way, the phrase "Hey bud, how about a light?" may drop from existence. It is trying to break up the international match cartel that has controlled the match industry for years, preventing such improvements as a patented match that can be lit as many as a thousand times.
Hawks and Sparrows
"The educational system of America is failing the youth of America. . . It is fashioning sparrows and pushing them out to compete with hawks. . . Why on earth should we be taught . . . this foolishness about honesty, truth and fair play?
"If a student is majoring in law, he should be taught not only the laws but the most approved methods of finding loopholes. . . If he is to be a doctor, he should not only learn medicine but how to milk the largest fees. . . If an engineer, how to construct with the cheapest of materials. . . If a journalist, how to slant, alter, and lie. . . In the securities field, the different methods of watering stocks and duping the suckers.
"Let us get up petitions to remove these professors stumbling on their White Horse Truth, and get some good hardheaded businessmen in our colleges to teach us what we have to know to become a success."
The above quotation is from the Daily Bruin, student newspaper of the University of California. The opinions are those of Jay Douglas Haley, a veteran on that campus, as reprinted in Time magazine.
Our first reaction to the above is a cynical agreement. There is ample evidence to support that opinion. But the important question is whether the type of society he has depicted is either necessary or desirable. Few will argue that it is either.
Therefore the issue becomes whether we are to succumb to the anti-social practices of the unserrupulous or whether we are to remain faithful to higher ideals and thereby make those principles the rule rather than the exception.
There is today an unparalleled opportunity to do the latter. The nation's colleges and universities are bulging with record enrollments. Those millions, soon to take their places in society, can inject into our social structure new life devoted to truth, honesty, and respect for their fellow men.
The ancient Confucius phrased it this way about 24 hundred years ago and the principles still apply: "The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property."
Make your choice.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch comments that a cost of living index is a list of numbers proving that high prices are not expensive.
★ Letters to the Editor
No Quiz File
On First Job—Yost
To the Daily Kansan: Again the perennial question of a communal quiz file has arisen. This is the proper time for it; the suggestion is usually made in the somewhat panicky period of orientation to new courses, just after the first quizzes. Especially is one apt to have a feeling of loss after being out of school for several years. I know.
It is my opinion that the good students (I'm keeping this impersonal, you notice) use quiz files very little.
The use of files seems to be in inverse proportion to the ability of the student. The student whose grades are low probably does not need a quiz file so much as he needs to learn to study.
Why are we attending K.U.? Fundamental to most of us is the desire for an "education." We are not seeking to acquire a huge mass of facts so much as we are seeking certain mental attitudes and habits.
Since most classes at K.U. are large, individual help from instructors is usually out of the question. What we learn must be obtained mostly from our own reading and thinking. It is mainly by a process of intelligent reading that we acquire the ability to think. By intelligent reading I mean arguing with the book, asking questions, reciting silently.
These cannot be obtained from a quiz file, but only by hard work in conjunction with a full realization of what we are striving to obtain. I am sure that there is no shortage to the true goal of education—learning to think.
Quiz files tend to discourage a questioning attitude and self-reliance.
The fact does remain that there are courses in which a good quiz file would simplify obtaining grades. It seems quite likely, however, that the professor who can be successfully "quiz-filed" is not doing a good job of teaching. He has become stereotyped to the extent that he is predictable.
As to grades, I feel that the use of a quiz file will influence the grade-point average very little. The actual derived is more fancied than real.
It is entirely conceivable that over a period of four years continued
reliance on a quiz file would be detrimental to the grade-point average. Certainly it would be detrimental to the acquisition of the mental habits we will need greatly after graduation. There will be no quiz file on our first job.
BYRON A. YOST Freshman medic
Campus U.N. Conference Open To All Students—Tribble
To the Daily Kansan: The editorial in your issue of Thursday, March 28 (Studies v. Education) was excellent. The writer is right when he out points that it's important to get an "education" at the same time one is doing his studies.
in that connection there is to be an all-day, all-student conference on the U.N. Saturday, May 18. The United Nations urgently needs the support of intelligent people.
One of the chief hurdles for that embryo organization is the Russian enigma. The basic cause of difficulties in dealing with Russia is skepticism born of ignorance. The primary fact is that we must find a way of cooperating with the Russians.
The skepticism that hampers us has a long history. Since 1917, when the Allies took an expeditionary force into Russia and fought with the Whites against the Reds, Russia has been suspicious of other nations and other nations have had little to do with Russia. Russia felt that whatever she was to accomplish she must do herself. This long habit of living in forced isolation apparently carries over to the present day.
And there is skepticism on our part too, due to the tremendous accumulation of ignorance between us and our lack of understanding of what Russia really wants. Ignorance breeds fear and fear breeds hate.
To help allay this skepticism, at least among University students, basic facts will be presented at the campus U.N. conference. It is the purpose of this conference to make those facts easy to understand and easily available. Every effort will be made to present the fundamental facts of recent history which explain clearly, simply, and forcefully the actions of the nations in the U.N. No effort will be spared to get authoritative information.
This is to be an all-student conference and any student may help
Suppressed Dosires. Most people have a dislike for rain but not Warren Culp and Leon Sherwood. During Tuesday's rain, Warren and Leon amused themselves and spectators by donning bathing suits and building dams and floating bottles down the gutter. When questioned about their actions, Warren slyly answered "Mother never let me play in the rain when I was a little boy."
By TINA FOTOPOULOS
Small Imitation of the Real Thing
Irislee Shull, Chi O, is wearing Dean Johnsen's Phi Delt pledge pin. Sunday night the Phi Delt's mother was presented with a corsage and Dean's pledge brothers passed out cigarettes and sang several songs. We regret to report that Irislee was unable to attend the party.
Fuzzy Psychology. The psychology department is at it again. This time all the male members of the department are growing mustaches. The movement was started by Evan Stevens, lab instructor, and was quickly taken up by George Yeckel, Edward Swain, and Dr. R. H. Wheeler. In defense of his courageous but not very successful attempt, Swain remarked, "It's a typical cold rat reaction." Dr. Wheeler just laughed and said, "That's a joke — Swain growing a mustache, that is."
Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain,
Friday night with all its mist and fog
was a beautiful night for walking, according to Jean Murray, Kappa Gamma, and Jack Kennedy, Pi KA.
They walked ten blocks home after the Pi KA spring formal.
plan it or participate in it by simply making his interest known to any member of the International Relations club or Forensic league or by signing a list at the student activities window at the University business office.
Let's put the University in the national spotlight by holding the first successful U.N. campus conference. Peace will come to stay only when the people of the world demonstrate a determination to maintain it. University students should be the enlightened leaders of that movement. We need everyone's help.
BUFORD TRIBBLE College Special Student
Why Not Concentrate On The Other Tube?
—From the St. Louis Star-Times
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