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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1943
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Unicameral Student Council Near Realization On Campus
In separate votes last night, the Men's Student Council and the Women's Self-Governing Association expressed almost unanimous approval of plans to combine their two organizations into a unicameral student council, a step that should save the student self-governing system before it topples over the brink it has been heading for in the last two years.
An attempt at formulating a unicameral student council on the campus has been made before but has failed adoption. Thirty years ago the idea was brought up, but the idea of women's suffrage was still not fully accepted by the men at that time, and the plan fell by the wayside. Two years ago, the idea was killed by the efforts of political parties on the Hill. Finally the system seems almost ready to be adopted.
A one-house legislature certainly does deserve a fair trial on the campus. The past two years have witnessed an almost complete lull in student government. The only noteworthy accomplishment was council members' efforts in obtaining a longer Christmas vacation. They did a praiseworthy job in this, but it was done with the two houses meeting in joint action as a unicameral body. This is evidence enough that the plan deserves a trial.
Chancellor Malott has expressed favor of the idea, saying that "the idea of a unicameral council intrigues me." He believes that the two working as one would certainly be more powerful and more effective. As the council improved in efficiency it would become entrusted with more of the student affairs in the future, and student government on the Hill would regain its reputation.
The details of how the council will be set up have yet to be worked out, but action is being taken. The current idea is to elect one councilwoman for every 200 women on the Hill, and one councilman for every 300 men. This plan seems the most favorable considering the normal make-up of the student body. At present the women would be in control, but after the war an approximate balance would be maintained.
The MSC and the WSGA showed that they are really interested in student government by their action last night—it is up to the students to give them support.
Freedom of the Press Essential If Another War is to be Avoided
"The most important force in international affairs today is the foreign service of the American Press associations and newspapers under the leadership and direction of men who are interested in and concerned with the free flow of information rather than with any form of propaganda by, for, and of governments, or political systems or peace societies."
So said Carl W. Ackerman, dean of the graduate school of journalism at Columbia University in a recent article concerning the necessity of a free press if the world is to avoid a third world war catastrophe. A World War I correspondent, and a world traveler, Dean Ackerman is qualified to speak on his subject.
Dean Ackerman first warns that if the present wartime censorship and restrictions continue throughout the next peace conference, "the treaties will be made by propaganda If that happens, global peace will have to be maintained by propaganda. In that case there will be no national or international freedom of news; psychological warfare will continue and lead inevitably to another war."
Just Wondering
If housewives aren't distressed by the high point value of certain foods formerly a standby, and now virtually impossible to buy.
Because news today has become the chief factor in determining international relationships, Dean Ackerman maintains that freedom of speech as provided in the Atlantic charter must mean freedom of international communications, otherwise it cannot be universal.
Dean Ackerman gives Kent Cooper, general manager of the Associated Press, credit for his fight for a peace-time free press. Mr. Cooper has pioneered this fight, and he blames the lack of freedom of the press in Europe for the present war.
Mr. Cooper presents a 5-point plan for international education under global peace: "First, guarantee freedom of the press throughout the world as we know it. Second, guarantee that at least one news agency in each country be owned and controlled mutually by the newspapers it serves. Third, guarantee that each agency may make such international news exchange arrangements as it chooses. Fourth, guarantee equality to all in the matter of availability of all official news and transmission facilities, and fifth, prohibit the international covert inclusion in any news service of biased international propaganda . . . International intercourse would rise to heights of perfection with the barriers down as to news exchange."
Dean Ackerman and Kent Cooper have made serious studies of this problem and know whereof they speak. We hope United Nations leaders will not fail to profit from their studies when the post-war world policy is unfolded.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... Maurice Barker
Editorial Associates ... Don Keown, Joy Miller,
Matt Heuertz, Jimm Gunn, Florence Brown
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... Virginia Tieman
Sunday Editor ... Joy Miller
Campus editors ... Alan Houghton, Jane Miner, Clara Lee Oxley
Sports editor ... J. Donald Keown
A Likely Story: John Conard, Jayhawker editor, was in Topeka recently, working on the new Jayhawker magazine when he happened to remember that he had a date in Lawrence that night. John called up, said he couldn't make it.
Said John, "There's a landslide between Lawrence and Topeka."
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A case of mistaken identity: A young man from Battenfeld hall called a girl at Corbin he has been dating, Marjorie Doctor. By confusing the last names, they gave him Margery Johnson instead. He talked with her about school, studies, and so forth (as boys will talk about and so forth). Finally he told her what time he would be over.
Margery was a little uncertain about the whole thing by this time. "Is this John?" she asked.
"Who? This is Dewey—Dewey Nemec."
Later Dewey called again and carefully checked both first and last names.
Accents and dialects: With sailors and marines here from all over the nation, some of the speech is a little hard to understand. Especially hard is the lot of Hill waiters when they're called upon to translate the order into something edible. The other evening one approached a booth, unsuspectingly, and asked for the order.
Said one sailor: "I want a grrrrr cbbbbb stkkkkk."
Said the waiter: "I want ggttt."
"A gurrr bbbbb skkkkkk" repeated the waiter.
"Yes, a grrrr cbbbbb stkkkkk," said the sailor.
"He means a grilled club steak," volunteered the bluejacket that was with him.
"I'm sorry, sir," said the waiter, "we're all out of club steaks."
Now Is The Time For---
Such Is Life
The scene is any fraternity or organized house. The mail carrier has just arrived. Men are rushing down the stairs. The men on the telephone watch leave their posts and race madly for the mail. The boys with 4-F classifications use their 210 pounds to trample unsuspecting Reservists.
By PAUL BROWNLEE
At last all is calm. The mail has disappeared. Suddenly a shrick rents the air.
"Ye Gods! I've got a quiz tomorrow. These are not my orders. Anybody got an accounting book? Joe! Can you withdraw if you haven't got your orders?"
This gentleman is pushed aside by the seething group as it winds itself away from the mail box and the man at the phone frantically grabs the instrument and scarcely breaths, "Is this the Registrar's office? This is the Iwanta Draw house. Oh. You say this is Nell. Who do you want? Sam. He ain't here. He went home. I'll tell him you called. Yeah, Yeah. He got his orders. Maybe he can see you Saturday night. Good bye."
All is quiet. The only sound is the even breathing of the men. There is drone to the breathing—something like "I want go, Igottagtmyorders, That quiz Monday, Iwantgo." The watch at the telephone changes again. The tension is too high for an extended length of sitting and hearing from no one but the laundry is particularly nerve-wracking.
Ah. Peace!
The door burst open and a student of the college with his hair flying into the wind, his eyes glassy, his breath coming in great pants, falls across the threshold. The group surrounds him. He is carried to the bathtub, revived, and a scribe with pencil twitching violently leans over him.
"I'll talk. I'll talk. Give me a far."
"What did you hear, Pete? Now take it easy, you—What in the — did you hear?"
They're Off
His breathing returns to normal as the weed burns to his finger tips and he says, "Men, the guy that sits next to me in Speech said that one of the boys at his house heard somebody say that the registrar heard that the Naval Reserve would be called within six weeks. Quick give me another fag."
The group explodes. Some rush for the business office to withdraw. Others are at the phone telling someone goodbye. A few are sending telegrams home stating that they will arrive as soon as necessary steps are taken here on the hill. One member with a 4-F classification moves the piano in order to give the men more packing room. Another warped physical specimen carries in the afternoon mail. He glances through it.
"Say here's a letter from Charlie. Yeah, he's at Jefferson Barracks. He says he never ate so much in all his life. They've wired our barracks; turned on the hot water; and we've got plenty of blankets. But I believe I'd rather take that quiz in Stat that I missed than that 10-mile cross country hike at five tomorrow morning."
Then the door opens and a calm individual announces that the call of the Naval Reserve must have been a rumor, because Woody doesn't know anything about it.
And the watch returns to the phone and the other boys lean back in their chairs while the 4-F boys speculate on their probable date of re-classification.
New V-7 Enlistments Announced
New V-7 Enlistments Announced Junior and senior mathematics, engineering, and physics majors may enlist in V-7 according to an announcement from the Navy department received yesterday morning by Laurence Woodruff, co-ordinator of military information.
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