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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1943
Japanese-American Students Are Welcome at Nebraska U.
The Kansas Board of Regents apparently still refuses to allow Japanese-American students to attend the University. The members of the board have given no logical reasons; they simply have refused to consider it. If they looked at the case of neighboring Nebraska University, which has admitted 59 Japanese-American students, and considered the letter sent to Fred Harris, chairman of the Board of Regents, by C. W. Rosenlof, registrar at N. U., their attitude should take on another complexion.
During the first semester, Nebraska admitted 59 Japanese-American students who transferred from the West Coast states. "These young people," wrote Mr. Rosenlof, who is in a position to know, "are proving themselves to be in every sense of the word excellent students and citizens. We have not had a single occasion to regret our action in admitting them. They have been accepted by our students 100 per cent. They have become a part of the University family, but are conscious of their privileges and exercise every care not to give offense or to arouse suspicion. The consequence is that the students regularly enrolled and these Japanese-American students are getting along with each other very splendidly."
Certainly the acceptance of the Japanese-American students by the student body would constitute no problem, for a majority of students seems to believe that they should be admitted to the University. Why do they believe it? Because, in the first place, they realize that the Japanese-American students are American citizens and as such are entitled to the benefits of our educational system. In the second place the search for knowledge is an international bond that does not recognize race nor creed. A student instinctively reaches out a hand to another student, the world over. And third, the enlightened Japanese-American student, having lived the American way of life, or having sought it of his own free will, is not likely to return to the superstitious beliefs of ancestral worship. The typical Japanese-American student is as interested in the democratic way as any other American, and primarily, he is interested in the educational system that our democracy offers. Disloyalty to the United States has no place in the discussion, because the conditions under which the students would be allowed to enter the University would not permit pro-Nipponese leanings. The students admitted here, as at Nebraska University, should have to submit letters from University faculty, local residents, give evidence of their loyalty to the United States, be in the upper percentile of their classes, and have sufficient funds to carry them through a year at the University. The students thus admitted would realize that their stay at the University depended upon their good conduct and therefore, would be completely open and above board in their activities. The Japanese - American students would try their best to please and the American students would reciprocate. There would be no financial, scholarship, or patriotic worries heaped upon the administration with the admission of these students. What objection does the Board of Regents have?
—J.M.
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Big land deal: Stalin gets back Stalingrad and gives Hitler some more of Hell.—Emporia Gazette.
Two men had a row at the Atchison courthouse. But they weren't office holders, the Daily Globe carefully explains.
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Just Wondering
If the steel that's gone into bread knives shouldn't have been used for weapons for fighting Americans in the Solomons who want to slice Japs?
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Too Many Geographical Barriers Block Allied Reconquest of Burma
"Why don't the Allies send more aid to China, so that the embattled Chinese can break the Japanese strangle-hold on the life-giving Burma road?" is a question that occasionally pops into the head of the casual, armchair war follower. The answer is, simply, that there are involved too many natural elements which make any such plan impractical.
The principal desire of the Chinese is for the Allies to help them promote a giant pincer squeeze on the Japanese in Burma, pushing from India and China. The Chinese have promised to supply half of the 200,000 men needed to begin such a campaign to open the Burma road.
The proposal of the Allies helping China retake Burma would not be militarily strategic because Burma is a huge, almost completely roadless land, heavily garrisoned by the Japanese and populated by natives who are openly hostile to the Chinese, British, and Indians. Burma could not be retaken, even with immense Chinese and Allied forces, in a single skirmish.
In another four months, Burma will be in the middle of its rainy season. Burma will become blanketed with mud, making it impossible to carry on any major military campaign. The time remaining is insufficient for the Allies to begin a flow of troops and equipment to aid the Chinese in their campaign, even were the venture to be profitable to the Allies.
Consequently, the probable Allied offensive in China will be somewhat limited air action. This, of course, cannot defeat the Japanese, nor drive them out of Burma.
China's greatest enemy in the reconquest of her desperately needed Burma road is, oddly enough, her geography—D.S.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Rock Chalk Talk By JIMMY GUNN
By Mary Morrill Sunday Columnist
The Prince Charming in Luli: After hours of strenuous sales talk, "Toto" Lulli (newest super salesman at the Royal Shoe shop) finally sold Maureen Meschke, Gamma Phi, a pair of slippers to wear to the Gamma Phi formal that night. Maureen was well on her way—with the shoes—when Toto realized he had given her, not mates, but a gold slipper and a silver one. Lulli made a quick trip to the Gamma Phi house, several dashes up and down Massachusetts, thrashed through women's dress departments, and looked under 17 hair dryers before he finally caught up with his customer in Wiedemann's.
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Get Rich Quick Department: Somehow the other night Charles Bliss, Theta Tau, who has been a constant source of amusement to his fellow engineers since he gave up smoking (He throws—or has“nic” fits), got started with set ups (exercises—this is Kansas, you know). His original goal was 100 but increasing numbers of speculating engineers made it so worth his while that he went on to 200, then 300. At which point the young Atlas collapsed $5 to the good, while $15 in side bets changed hands through the audience.
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Found: death's sting or a reasonable facsimile: Max Webster went to the hospital with an acute case of laryngitis. Thirty minutes later he staggered from the clinic room. "My God!", he croused to John Anderson, room mate, "I'm ruined. The doc says I'm not supposed to talk for 48 hours. Why, I'd rather be dead." Anderson immediately contracted the same ailment, and so, although he felt for his roommate, he could not be audibly sympathetic. The boys domain in the ATO house is known as the Room of Whispers. Crepe hangs on the door.
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Dedicated to those who are always late: Hope Crittenden, renowned for her punctuality, has carried things just a little to far in the opinion of her Watkins hall friends. The other afternoon she rushed down from the Hill, put on her Sunday best, and raced to town where she was to accompany Miss Irene Peabody on the program for a meeting. She arrived simultaneously with the vocalist and the two sat down to await their audience. It was some time before they realized they were a week early for the meeting.
Spinach—the wonder food: There have been many inquiries as to whether Bill Conboy, 1301 Kentucky, who, according to his own description, is the original Mr. Five by Five, ever found his lost watch. Bill advertised for the lost article recently in the Kansas with the following item: Lost: Square man's Bulova wristwatch with red leather wrist band. Rewind:
Shawnee Mission for Indians Founded By White Man
By Virginia Gunsolly
The century old buildings of the Methodist mission are now operated by the state. Included among them now is a museum which is open to the public. Some of the rooms of the mission proper have been re-tored with period furniture and this is also open to the public. In the Indian cemetery on the area surrounding the mission are buried Johnson and his family.
The Methodist mission was originally established in Wyandotte county, but it is now located at 52nd and Mission Road in Kansas City, Kan. Indian students lived at the missions where they received elementary schooling, religious instruction, and training in agriculture and domestic arts. The enrollment was considered to be quite good in that era. At no time, however, did the enrollment in any of these missions exceed 76. In the latter years of the mission's active service as a school, it was attended mainly by Indian orphans.
One of the most famous of all Indian missions is the Methodist mission, one of the Shawnee Missions, in Kansas City, Ks.
About a century ago, a white man named Thomas Johnson, braved the wilds of the Middle West and established this mission and began schooling the Indians. Besides this Methodist mission two others were located in this area, the Baptist and the Friends missions. Three large buildings mark the most famous of these three and only monuments Of distinct historical importance to Kansas is the fact that the first printing press in the stat was set up in the mission in 1908 Kansas.
Kansas has been endowed with numerous sites of historical and geographical importance. These should not be overlooked when the writer and artist elaborate on their waving corn fields, exquisite sunsets, drab plains, and other geographical features.
Music Room Features Classical Recordings
Sibelius's "Symphony No. 2 in D Major" and Mendelssohn's Incidental Music to the "Midsummer Night's Dream" will be presented as recordings in the Music room on the east side of the main lounge in the Memorial Union building at 2:30 this afternoon.
Music room attendants will also play requests.
Named for Service
Dr. Walter C. Coffey, president of the University of Minnesota, has been named to receive the American Farm Bureau federations annual award for distinguished service to agriculture.