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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 5, 194
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper 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.
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A Line on Enrollment
Every semester students object to filing slowly into Robinson gymnasium where they are confronted with a labyrinth of desks, chairs, guides, professors, and uncompromising "checkers."
And every semester students take a solemn oath to see that enrollment is changed; many have even made investigations.
Why then do we use the same system year after year? Apparently, there is no perfect system just waiting to be adopted. Students picture pre-enrollment as a panacea, but even pre-enrollment presents its problems.
Last spring at a Hill student-faculty conference, Iowa State was cited as an example proving that large universities are successful in completing enrollment for one semester before the previous semester is over.
However, on the very day of the conference an Iowa State dean asked at a regional dean's meeting for enrollment suggestions. The large number of students who got started in the wrong classes made their pre-enrollment scheme highly ineffective, he said. Moreover, hiring clerical help to do the enrolling done in other systems by faculty, added a great deal to the expense.
Pre-enrollment is hampered anywhere by the fact that the student's enrollment for the following semester often depends upon the outcome of his work during the current semester. The courses he will take are awkwardly dependent upon the number of grade points he ends up with and the hours of flunk he has.
There is also the problem of probation. If an individual on probation has not met the requirements to stay in the University, it is awkward to tell him so after he has spent some time working out his schedule for the next semester. Also, his unnecessary pre-enrollment may have thrown some other student off; a class may have been needlessly filled.
And classes do close even with pre-enrollment, because the fundamental problem, that of limited faculty and equipment, is still there.
This is not to say that pre-enrollment is definitely unsatisfactory at large universities. The University of Colorado has a relatively new pre-enrollment system and it reports that "the number of changes in enrollment is substantially below the number of changes made under the former system."
At Georgia Tech and the University of Chicago pre-enrollment appears to be working successfully. At Georgia class schedules are made out and book stores instructed to order books on the basis of pre-enrollment cards, thereby relieving to some extent both closed-class and no-text worries.
The point we are making is simply that K.U. is not ridiculously stodgy in its enrollment policy. Most other large universities use relatively the same system, although a few more progressive schools have tried pre-enrollment, some successfully, some not.
Certainly it is splendid for students to take an interest in improving enrollment technique on the Hill. The administration works constantly for such improvement and perhaps pre-enrollment will be the answer.
But the student should shy away from thinking that pre-enrollment in itself guarantees relief from all of his present enrollment difficulties.
Economy, Clothing Shortage Make Battle Dress Appropriate in Classroom, Ex-officers Argue
Letters to the Editor
*Corporal's Plaint Masks
Repressed Ego*—Five Officers
To the Daily Kansan: Five ex-officers who rose from the ranks to commissioned status feel compelled to answer the disgusting doolings of "ex-corporal" who it seems cannot regain his feeling of self respect so long as university students continue to wear "either partial or complete officers' uniforms."
For the corporal's edification, as civilians we will continue to wear any part of our uniform that we do well please. As far as we are concerned, we must perform the corporal exercising the same prerogative. He may wear his OD's, white tie and tails, yea even a barrel, with our benign blessing.
After experiencing the loyalty and camaraderie of association with thousands of American GFs, whom General Patton termed "the best damned fighting man in the world," both in American training camps and in Europe, we have become thoroughly sick of the sniggering belyaching of a distinct minority of braying GFs who thinly mask a colossal inferiority complex and a repressed ego by whining about former "lords and masters" and an army system that failed to recognize their talents by keeping them hidden in the ranks of the underprivileged
FIVE EX-OFFICERS.
As officers, our uniforms represented an investment of approximately $500 each. As civilians and citizens, without the indictia of rank and branch, the uniform becomes clothing which serves the purposes of modesty and bodily comfort the same as any other pair of britches.
E. S. Connell Regrets Hard Feelings Still Exist To the Daily Kansas
I have read a letter in the Daily Kansan written by an ex-enlisted man of the United States army, complaining that officers of the army and navy wear their "battle dress" to classes.
The war that divided us socially has ceased, and once more we are on equal terms. It is to be regretted that hard feelings still exist in the hearts and minds of so many men who served in the capacity of noncommissioned officers.
Corporal, when you see a man wearing the clothes that served him
during the period that taxed his every resource, know that he is proud of them—as you should be of yours.
To any officer his "battle dress" as you phrase it, means much. It is to him, the end of a long tough road, pitted with traps. He worked longer and harder than you did to win the right to wear his uniforms. Why then, should he push them back in the closet?
Why should he hide these souvenirs because you cannot wear them? Did you hide your medals, whatever they might be, because some other man could not wear them?
EVANS S. CONNELL College junior
Expediency, Not Show, Is Reason For Uniforms—May
To the Daily Kansas: . . . Enlisted men, unlike officers, did not have to purchase their own wardrobes and were not allowed upon discharge only one class "A" uniform, one class "C" and a wool shirt and shoes. Most ex-service men desire to save at least one complete uniform, so naturally not many enlisted men wear partial uniforms around the campus. But it seems rather useless to discard five or six pair of usable pinks or forest greens because a corporal has only two pair of GI trousers, and he doesn't want to wear them out.
Officers and enlisted men alike realize that rank is a poor indication of a man's worth. The reason for the "battle dress" is not to impress anyone of a former rank, but merely a matter of expediency.
Those "colossal hoaxes" that were officers may be taking a last shot at being a heel, but for the most part officers and enlisted men alike wear this mottled array because nudism is frowned upon (even at K.U.), and not everyone has the ready cash to blow on a whole new wardrobe.
JOHN W.MAY. Engineering sophomore.
Trousers Aren't Trophies, Says Maurice Kellogg
To the Daily Kansan:
I am genuinely sympathetic if this man is suffering from a military-engendered sense of inferiority, but I do feel that only a grown-up child could believe that a pair of officer's
trousers is any more a militar
trophy than an honorable dischar
button. Would this "ex-corpo
go sedately to his classes with a b
bottom and no discharge button
wil wager he would wear the
ton at least. There is somet
about a "trophy" you know,
if it doesn't keep your legs.
There is another thing to come when one worries about former of ficeers wearing their old trousers . six or seven pairs at $15 each represent at least two good civilian suits It is just remotely possible that a friend could have the tempt to receive the glory due dead is a motivating factor.
MAURICE D. KELLOGG College Sophomore
'We Shouldn't Have Cut Those Reins, Mr. President!'
And at both games, but particularly at Oklahoma because the Kansas rooting section was smaller there, University backers had a taste of how the small group of visiting students on the other side of Hoch feels when overwhelming boos accompany an opposing player's attempts to make a free throw.
Nothing Is Thrown Away
That's Usable—L. B. Corliss
To the Daily Kansan:
Students who have attended out-of-town games this season realize that crowd sportsmanship is more than a lecture subject for campus reformists.
Let's hope they remember in the future that at any athletic event, a school's rooting section is on display as well as its team; it should turn in at least as good as performance.
In Columbia and Norman both, they were cognizant of the dull thud which resounds when a student body hasn't learned the yells cheerleaders are trying to lead, or when the student body doesn't unite to give them.
In Columbia, Jayhawkers got a candid view of home rooters who leave five minutes before the end of the game or put on their coats during the alma mater.
—From the St. Louis Star-Times
My officer's wardrobe cost $250 and can still be worn a great deal without showing much wear. I can see no logic in "respectfully storing it away in mothballs". Rather than do that, I believe I should give it to the cold Europeans.
We Mind Our Manners
with automobiles again a part of campus life, for the first time in four years more than a handful of students have had an opportunity to see how unruly student enthusiasm looks from the visiting side of a basketball court.
The basis, I believe, for the ex-corporal's dislike of officer's uniforms on the campus is his intense dislike of most officers, which is understandable. I was an EM myself once. We all know the enlisted man had many injustices heaped upon him in this war, as in all wars.
My only point is this—I'm not bragging when I wear some of my old officers clothes. It's just that . . . at our house we never throw away (or pack in mothballs) anything that's usable at the present.
LOREN B. CORLISS College freshman
Officers Garb Was Available To Ambitious, Veteran Says
To the Daily Kansan: . . . I too, was a corporal until I found that nearly any GI could be an officer; he so desired. Physical and mental requirements were rather low; with a high school education one could become a combat officer, and even those of limited service physical classification could become medical administration officers.
The public likes to read about the discrimination against the GI, but imagine the corporal's predicament if, following the same logic he here-to-fore used, he wrote a new letter crying for sympathy because some classmate of his earned an "A," while he drew a "C" for the same course.
AN EX-OFFICER.
Dublin. (UP)—George Bernard Shaw said today that he has shrunk so much that his absence from a Dublin ceremony in his honor would not be missed.
In a letter to Dublin's city manager accepting freedom of the city, the 89-year-old author and play-wright said:
"I have hitherto evaded credentials from foreign sources. Dublin alone has the right to affirm that in spite of my incessantly controversial past and present I have not disgraced her.
"I am too old to be present but there is so little of me left that it will hardly be missed. Better leave my ancient vigor to the imagination of young Ireland and photographers of 50 years ago."
It was expected that a delegation from Dublin would travel to London to confer the freedom of the city on Shaw.
GBS Finally Admits He Feels a Little Old
Tojo To Be Tried By Allied Tribunal
Tokyo. (UP)—The United Nations will present a single, co-ordinated case against former prime minister Hideki Tojo and more than 20 other top Japanese war criminal suspects slated for trial before an international tribunal, it was learned here today.
The procedure will differ from that at Nuernberg where the Allied powers made their prosecutions separately.