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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1943
Official Publication of the Summer Session
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
Editor ... Dale Robinson
Business Mgr. ... Betty Lou Perkins
News Staff
R. T. Kingman Bill Koehler
Betty Lou Perkins Bob Schulteis
Frances Abts Bob Bock
Danger Looming In Federal Schooling?
Yale, which has leased half its living facilities and one-third of its educational plant for the use of 2,600 army air force students; Harvard, which is training 3,500 men in service schools; Columbia, where 2,000 candidate navy officers are studying; Princeton, which accommodates more than 1,000 army and navy officer candidates—these institutions are among the pioneers in a majestic educational experiment,
The hugest scholarship fund in history is being offered—even urged upon—the male youth of America. According to an estimate made by R.B. Stewart, comptroller of Purdue University, it will amount to more than half a billion dollars. This sum is to be spent at about 300 colleges and universities to train young men for war, or for services connected with the war.
The relationship of the service student to the university varies. Some students, regularly enrolled and paying their own way, are enlisted in the reserves and subject to call. Still others, physically disqualified for the fighting services, may pursue general college courses but will not share in the federal "scholarships." Yale rents only physical facilities, but at the same time, according to President Seymour, is ready to "provide college courses under our own faculty to such students as the army and navy are prepared to send to us for training."
The post-war aspects of this situation are worth thinking about. If it is worth while in time of war to spend the equivalent of the total peacetime cost of college teaching—and we are about to do this—to train leaders for war, what is it worth to train leaders for peace? The danger is that whoever pays the bills, be it the federal government, state or municipal governments or private donors, will exercise too much control over the kind of education given.
Yet the problem isn't insoluble, given goodwill and a faith in educational freedom. And the war has certainly brought nearer the day when higher education will be made freely available to all who can demonstrate that they will use it capably for the general welfare. No argument can be brought against this suggestion that was not used long ago against the free common school and free high school.The New York Times.
"Furniture Mover Roy Harris
Few composers have relied so on words to plug their own music as has Roy Ellsworth Harris, composer who was a guest of faculty members on the campus last week. His Fifth Symphony was recently previewed and broadcast, dedicated to the people of the Soviet Union and played in honor of the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the Red Army. Harris, 45 year-old Oklahoma, has the distinction of being the first American to write five symphonies.
He himself says that "the bases for artistic creation in music are the subjective processes of perception and conception as well as the objective process of technical notation as practiced by modern musicians. Music is a violent tonal architecture, not concrete but abstract, a time-space language, which like Time itself, cannot be frozen into a static condition. A composer must accept the symbols and traditions, intensifying, clarifying, and controlling them." Harris has two types of listeners; those who see in his music a reflexion of the energy and spaciousness of American life, and those who think his music too rugged and individualistic and sounds like "furniture moving around."
Oscar Thompson says in his commentary, "Harris' style is one of the best examples of romanticism in music since it deals with his own emotions." His three types of music are: that with emotional appeal, that with technical or craftsmanship appeal, and that which is a combination of both. The typical expression in music fundamentally rests on heredity and every step, including the furniture moving so deplored by other musicians, is merely an amplification of tradition.
In 1940 Harris received first honors for the most important score, the Folk Song Symphony, by the Committee for the Appreciation of American Music; and the Certificate of Honor for outstanding contributions to American music by the National Association of Composers and Conductors. Until 1941 he was Director of Music at Rutgers university when he accepted his present position as composer-inresidence at Cornell university.
A.S.C. Constitution--satisfactorily to the following questions: First, are you at the present time, registered, enrolled, and in good standing at the University of Kansas? Second, to what class standing do the credits which you have earned in the University of Kansas, or which you have transferred to this institution from another school, and which have been duly accredited by the committee on advanced standing, entitle you? If you have not withdrawn from the person offering to vote shall have answered these questions he shall be required to state them in writing and subscribe his name thereto, which affidavit shall be filed by the judges of the election and transmitted with the ballots to the board of canvassers.
Election procedure
Sec. 1. The full name of all properly nominated candidates for office of this association shall be printed on the general ballot. All official callots shall be printed in black ink on clear white paper, through which the printing and writing cannot be read. All ballots in all elections shall be bound and securely stapled in tablet form. Each ballot shall be perforated so that it may easily be torn from the stapled portion of the ballot while the stub remains staplied. Both the stub and the body of the ballot shall be numbered, either in printing or by a judge. The number on the body of the ballot shall be carried off when the ballot is cast. Tablets shall be as few and as thick possible in consideration of the number of tablets needed and the technical considerations of printing and binding. The names of the candidates for each district on the ballot shall be rotated so precisely that the name on the top of the list of one ballot shall be placed at the bottom of the list on the ballot following while each of the other names moves up one position in the list. So far as practical the president of the ballot shall be printed on the same ballot as the ballot for district representatives. After the name of each candidate on the ballot shall appear his party designation or if independent nomination, that designation shall appear. Blank spaces shall be provided at the end of the printed list of candidates for each office or for representatives equal in number to the number of positions to be filled, in which the voter may insert the name of any person not on the ballot for whom he may wish to vote for such position. The ballots shall be marked according to the following instructions, which shall be printed at the top of each ballot under the heading of "Directions to the Voter", the first sentence to be printed in bold-face type.
Use Figures Not Crosses "Mark the figure 1 in the square opposite the name of your first choice for each office on the general ballot, and for representative. Mark the figure 2 in the square opposite your second choice, the figure 3 in the square opposite your third choice or so. You may mark as many choices as you please, without regard to the number to be elected. Do not put the same figure opposite more than one name. If you spoil this ballot, return it for cancellation to the officer in charge of ballots and get another."
Use Figures Not Crosses
Sec. 2 Whenever any proposition or question is to be submitted to the voters at any general election, it shall be printed on a separate ballot. Such ballot shall conform to the requirements for ballots for candidates for office so far as they are applicable thereto. Upon such ballot shall be printed in 8-point type the proposition or question to be voted upon. If there be more than one such question or proposition to be voted upon, they shall be printed on the same ballot and separated by a broad solid line one-eighth of an inch wide. To the right of and at the end of such proposition shall appear the words "For the proposition" and "Against the position", printed with latter below the former and each followed by a square in which the voter shall indicate his vote by a cross (X) mark. Across the full width of such ballot and at the top thereof shall be printed the following instructions:
"To vote in favor of a proposition, place a cross mark in the square at the right of the words "For the proposition"; to vote against it, place a cross mark in the square at the right of the words "Against the proposition." Sec. 3. The Elections Committee of the All-Student Council shall cause to be posted on the day of election in every polling place instructions regarding the procuring and marking of ballots and their disposition as well as the sections below relative to penalties imposed for certain illegal practices.
Sec. 4. Election boards shall be composed of three judges and two clerks. No more than two judges or one clerk may be members of the same political party or political organization.
Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Elections Committee to provide suitable polling places in number sufficient to accommodate conveniently the voters and provide all supplies necessary for marking and casting the ballots.
Sec. 6. Any person desiring to vote shall display his identification card and give his name to one of the judges, who shall thereupon announce the name, and if the name appears on the list of qualified voters which is in charge of a second judge it shall be checked off and the first judge shall deliver to the voter a ballot, on the upper right hand corner of which he shall have inscribed a number corresponding to the voter's number on the poll list, which number shall be clipped from the ballot before it is deposited in the ballot box, unless he shall have been challenged, as provided below.
See 7. If any person offering to vote is challenged as unqualified, by one of the judges of the election, or by any elector, he shall not be allowed to vote until he has replied
Sec. 8. Any person who shall falsely impersonate any voter and vote under the name of such voter, shall upon conviction before the All-Student Court, be punished according to its discretion, the maximum penalty being a loss of five hours University credit.
Chapter V
Sec. 9. Polls shall be open for voting from seven-thirty a.m. until six p.m. of the day of the election.
Counting the Ballots Sec.1
A. Preparations. Before each election the elections committee of the All-Student Council shall designate a central place for counting the ballots, appoint a competent person to act as director of the count, appoint and provide for the training of a sufficient staff of assistants and make other suitable arrangements for counting the ballots subject to the provisions of this section.
B. Assembling the Ballots. As soon as the polls have closed, the election officials at each polling place shall seal the ballot box used for the election without opening it and shall send it at once, as the elections committee may direct, to the central counting place. They shall send with record of the number of ballots which have been voted in the voting place committed to their together with the poll list and the list of qualified voters from which the names of those voting have been checked.
C. Checking the Returns — Valid and Invalid Ballots. All ballots found in the ballot box which bear no evidence of having been improperly cast shall be accepted. A ballot shall be held invalid if it does not clearly show which candidate the voter prefers above all others for each office or for representative, or if it contains any word, mark, or other sign apparently intended to identify the voter. Every ballot not thus invalid shall be counted according to the intent of the voter so far as that can be clearly ascertained, whether marked according to the directions printed on it or not. No ballot shall be held invalid because it is marked because the pencil different from the one supply at the voting place, or because the marker or the candidates for whom the voter is not mark a choice have been stuck. A single cross on the ballot for any office or for representation shall be considered equivalent to the figure 1. If a ballot contains both crosses and figures the order of choice shown by the figures shall be taken as the voter's intention insofar as the order is clearly indicated. If the consecutive numerical order of the figures on a ballot is broken by the omission of one or more figures, the smallest number marked shall
8-Graduates in Texas Glee Smith and Charles Elliott, former students at the University, are stationed at Camp Ellington, Texas, near Houston. They are taking navigation training in preparation for commissions in the army air corps. They were formerly stationed at Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Both men are former managing editors of the University Daily KKu san and members of Sigma Delta Chi, journalism fraternity. Smith was a member of Delta Tau Delta and Elliott of Phi Delta Theta.
UNION PARTY -be taken to indicate the voter's first choice, the next smallest his second choice and so on without regard to the figure or figures omitted.
(continued from page one) the first of a series of mixers which was held last Saturday night. Johnny Pope's orchestra played for dancing.
Music tomorrow night will be recorded, stated Hodgson, but efforts will be made to secure orchestras for some of the future parties.
"Students don't need to have a date to enjoy these parties. The activities committee would like especially to see more women attend," said Hodgson.
D. Quota Necessary to Elect. The quota of votes sufficient for the election of a candidate to any office or as representative shall be determined by dividing the total number of valid ballots cast for the position concerned by one more than the total number of positions to be filled in each case and adding one to the result, disregarding fractions.
E. Rules for Counting Ballots. The results of the election to each office and of representatives in each college shall be determined according to the following rules:
(1) The ballots shall first be sorted according to the first choice marked on them. Each candidate shall be credited with one vote for every ballot that is sorted to him as first choice, but no ballot shall ever be credited to more than one candidate for any one office or for representative at the same time. All invalid ballots and void ballots shall be separated from the valid ballots and placed in separate stacks.
(2) When all ballots have been sorted for first choice the total shall be computed and the quota necessary for election shall be determined according to the provisions of section D.
The remainder of Bill. No. 2 will be published in following issues of the Summer Kansan.
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