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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN; LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY. NOVEMBER
Texas Students Continue Fight For Dr. Rainey
Largely as a result of agitation by University of Texas students the "White light of publicity" is being turned on the controversy over the firing of their beloved ex-president Dr. Homer P. Rainey in an investigation by the senate education committee of Texas.
The students flared into walk-outs and mass meetings the minute the board of regents fired Dr. Rainey and have kept the controversy on the front pages by setting up committees to send literature throughout the state and by keeping their Daily Texan full of complete up-to-the-minute reports of the latest developments.
Dr. Rainey seems to have stood up well under Senate committee accusation of communism and questions on his attitude toward race equality. Heartily denying he was a communist or was even acquainted with one, Dr. Rainey explained his principles as those of Christianity and democracy. He considers himself a friend of the Negro and advocates equal opportunities for Negroes in their own schools in Texas which the constitution obligates the state to offer. Texas students call their fight a battle for academic freedom, and in supporting them Dr. Rainey made the points that "Academic freedom is not academic freedom if it can't question every decision, if it can't question laws, can't ever change laws," and that the University is the meeting ground for conflicting ideas—to weigh them and test them and evaluate them. "If a man's got an idea, the University is the place to test it out."
The idea sounds like a good one and makes us wonder how much chance students at this University have to question and change laws and test out any ideas they might have. The University faculty meets and decides about changes in the curriculum, but are students ever asked what changes they might like to see made?
We admire the students of the University of Texas and wish them luck in their struggle for academic freedom. J.S.
Letter to the Editor
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Dear Editor:
During the seven semesters which I have spent on Mt. Oread, I have been intensely interested in and have contributed in a small way to the movement toward better and more responsible student self-government. It has been my sincere belief, confirmed by records of student governing bodies at other universities, that, given the opportunity, the student body will show its ability to exercise a high degree of self-government.
I have, therefore, viewed with concern the activities of the present student council. Though it is admittedly true that the opportunities for student self-government here are limited, the council has failed to take advantage of the opportunities which it has. Certainly, the best hope for an extension and an expansion of the power and authority of student government lies in a clear demonstration by the student council of its ability to exert its present authority wisely and with a mature sense of responsibility.
Rock Chalk Talk
By JOAN HARRIS
Wouldn't Bugs be jealous? — it seems that the Gamma Phis aren't the only lucky girls to receive bunies from those funny Phi Psi fellows. Friday when the Psi pledges trekked over to serve chow for hungrey Thedas, they left one of our four-footed friends as a token of their regard.
The Thetas being a crafty crew, bided their time 'til sundown Saturation day night. They then packed the carrot-eater plus several little jumping juniors tinto the rumble seat and transported the happy family home to the Psi house where they rightfully belonged. Before leaving, however, the Thetas passed out a few cigars and dubbed the Psi house the "home of bigger and better bunnies."
It's a good thing V-12s don't carry firearms—When sitting in the Hawk one smoky night, Dick Hartzell watched a most "unusual" fur coat walk by.
"Jeeper!—A bear!" yelled the lad.
"I wish I had my hunting license."
Wise guy—At the mizzable Mizoo game Thursday last, Jim Mordy, Delt, served as chaperon for several of his "happier" and thirstie brethren. Said one "happy" boy to another, "Brother—gesh me a coke." The brother graciously complied, staggering back with a complete carton in tow. Not being quite so dumb as he seemed, however, "brother" made a handsome profit on the deal, selling his customer cokes at 50 cents per.
They get around—Ruth Payne and Barbara Kile, DG's, hurried homeward after class Wednesday, hopped a train for Oskaloosa and a big turkey dinner. Hardly had they finished the first course, however, when they were obliged to tear themselves away to catch a Lawrence bound choo-choo to make it back for a touch test.
After burning the midnight oil, the "anchor" girls rose with the rosy dawn to cram still more, and at 10:20 they trudged mournfully classward, they felt fairly confident of success. If they hadn't been waylaid by a well-meaning classmate, they might have had it at that, but said fellow dropped the small but significant statement that no double-cuts would be counted and our intelligentsia marched back to "anchor" headquarters, packed their bags once more, hopped that train for Oskalosa, and finished their turkey dinner.
Jo Ellen Hall, Alpha Chi pledge,
has been wondering if she can send
her mail by simply writing "Free"
on the envelope. She is a newly
promoted Pfc. in the CVC (Coed
Volunteer Corps to you) and she
says all her other private friends
do. Jo Ellen, curiously enough, is
the girl with the navy blue eyes.
There is still opportunity for the present council to demonstrate the capacities for student leadership which we are all sure that it has. Now is the time to begin. Nothing will better aid the movement toward broader and more responsible student self-government than constructive action on the part of the student council—Now!
A recent example of the failure of the council to show proper student leadership is the publication of the offensive current issue of the Sour Owl under its sponsorship. True, the "magazine" was not edited by the council as a whole, and even the severest critics of the council would admit that in its current form it would not even have been approved by a majority of the members of the student governing body.
The fact remains, however, that by permitting such an outrage to have been perpetrated under its name, the council exhibited a singular degree of unresponsibility. Critics of student government are laughing loud and long over the preoccupation of the present council with affairs that are trivial and insignificant.
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Elizabeth Russel
LOST: Brown billfold containing small amount of money and identification papers on campus Monday morning. Please call Josephine Byerley, phone 581.
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Minnesota University's date bureau, set up on the campus this fall, is a success, according to the Minnesota Daily. So far 42 dates have been "fixed up by the bureau. Eighty-nine more girls are still registered by the new organization.
STUDENT Help Wanter: Civilian engineers preferred; any class or branch of engineers for general maintenance and upkeep work in mechanical engineering laboratory. Valuable experience available at reasnable hourly rate for anyone interested; regular free hours in morning or afternoon. See Prof. E. S. Gray, 117 Marvin Hall. -49
Date Bureau Successful
WANT ADS
LOST: Gold-barreled life-time Sheafer afton pen. If found, call Frankie Mullenbruch, phone 267.
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OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, Nov. 27, 1944
Notices due at News Room, Journalism Building, at 10 a.m. on day of publication.
There will be a regular meeting of the All-Student Council at 7 in the Pine Room, Tuesday, Nov. 28.—Jack Button, Secy. -47
El Ateneo, campus Spanish club,
will hold its election meeting at 4:30
Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 29, in
room 107 Frank Strong hall—Louise
Hatch, vice-president.
IN THE Alum-Lite
Graduate Is Script Writer
★★★
Graduate is Script Writer Mary Louise Dillenbeck, a graduate of the College in 1944, is a script writer for a broadcasting company in Kansas City, Prof. H. E. Chandler reported today.
Johnson Is Music Teacher
Acting Dean Vernon X. Miller of Loyola University, New Orleans, is pointing with pride to the 300 per cent increase in enrollment of his Law school day classes. It took exactly six students to provide this percentage miracle.
Mildred Johnson, who received her B.M.E. from the School of Fine Arts in 1942, is teaching music at Medicine Lodge.
Grads Have Reunion in Louisiana Sgt. Robert J. Busby, student at the University in 1939, now in the U.S. Army at Baton Rouge, La., recently attended the annual meeting of the Louisiana Press Association at Louisiana State University, and there he was pleasantly surprised to meet several other K.U. alumni.
One of the guests introduced at the meeting was Doyle Buckles, graduate of 1918, now of the University of Alabama and chairman of the Alabama Press Association. Sgt. Busby and Mr. Buckles were talking and Floyd Hockenhull, graduate of 1920,publisher of Circulation Management in Chicago, joined them. Still another graduate at this "reunion" was Nathan Bolton, 26, who "received a string of awards from the Louisiana State University journalism school for excellence in various fields."Mr. Bolton is editor and publisher of the Morehouse Enterprise, a weekly newspaper.
Sgt. Busby, who wrote the Alumni Association about this meeting, used to have a column in the Lawrence Daily Journal World which was widely read.
Curtis J. McCoy, Jr., former student at the University from Emporia, was a member of the 29th class of aviation cadets to graduate from the Columbus Army Air field near Columbus, Miss. He received a commission as a second lieutenant in the army air forces.
Contributed by the American Society of Magazine Cartoonists.
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