The KANSAN Comments ...
AGE SIX
What About the Working Students
SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1941
There has been some complaint that there is no justification in attacking the present student councils because of their lack of action in solving student problems—that there are no student problems which student government has not already taken action upon.
However, among other problems facing the University body, there is one which has received absolutely no recognition by the student governing bodies. That is the problem of the working student who is exploited by unscrupulous employers and is forced to work hours that are too long for a student at wages below those paid to other adult employees.
The working student is evidently the forgotten man of student government, for his case has not even warranted the setting up of an investigatory committee.
Other universities have successfully worked out solutions to problem of the over-working student. Notably the University of Wisconsin, whose all-student council has a functioning student labor board. This Wisconsin labor board is empowered by the student council to set up minimum wage standards and maximum working hours for university students. The board has the power of calling working students out on strike to enforce its decisions upon recalcitrant employers.
Booze Is Debunked
The heyday of "wine, women and song" has disappeared, according to a recent news story in the Des Moines Register.
An example of the changed attitude of American young people toward liquor is the "deglamorizing liquor" movement which was started recently in Des Moines, Ia.
Believing that the Women's Christian Temperance Unions are for the most part too far from the pulse of youth to work efficiently with them, these young people have planned organizations of youth temperance councils in the state to strip liquor of its attractive trappings.
It is the belief of this small organization that the majority of American young people want something constructive done about the liquor problem and that if a few start the ball rolling, others will join in.
Lawrence Hogan, state Youth Temperance council president, spoke to both houses of the Iowa legislature Friday expressing the group's support of the bill on the legislative calendar which would legalize the chemical tests to determine intoxication, and the bill in Congress to control radio advertising of liquor.
This small beginning by one group of thinking young people would seem to indicate that the youth of America no longer wear rose-colored glasses in regard to the problems which confront our country. For years youthful Americans have been accused of almost every subversive action on the docket; yet in an era of free-thinking and liberality it is the America's youth who has the courage to express the conservative view-point.
What Where You're Going
The beauty of the University's campus, if you've ever noticed, is not marred by warning signs, "KEEP OFF THE GRASS." However, although the signs are lacking—and we hope the campus never will be cluttered up with them—students can in a large part help insure
the campus' future beauty for this summer.
With old man winter about ready to make his exit, warm weather will make the earth spongy underfoot. Short cuts across corners, etc., where no path was before, is a sure way of killing the grass before its had a chance to start growing. So with an eye to eliminating unsightly patches of bare earth that's sure to appear if students take short cuts across the campus, let's stay on the concrete walks and cindered paths until the robins have hatched their first younguns.—Indiana Daily Student.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Sunday, March 9, 1041 No.102
Notices, due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: Christian Science Organization will hold a regular meeting Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine Room of the Union Building. All students, graduates, and faculty members are welcome.-Betty Charles, secretary.
FRESHMAN MEMBER—STUDENT INTRAMURAL BOARD: Men wishing to be considered as candidates for the tenure of a freshman member of the Intramural Board of Managers must state qualifications in a written application addressed to Senior Intramural Manager. Applications will not be accepted after Wednesday.—Lee Huddleston, Sr. Manager. 107 Robinson Gym.
JAY JANES: Jay Janes will meet in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building, Wednesday at 4:30. Ruth Spencer Ashcraft, president.
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson will be available for personal conferences at Watkins Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 5. Appointments should be made at the Watkins Memorial Hospital—Dr. R. I. Catesuten.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB: The Psychology Club will meet tomorrow in room 9, Frank Strong Hall at 4:30. The films of the experiments on animal behavior will be shown and discussed by Garth Thomas. Everyone is welcome.-Lois Schreiber, secretary.
W. S.G.A. COUNCIL: W.S.G.A. Council will meet at 7:00 in the Pine Room on Tuesday—Doris Twente, secretary.
Y. M.-Y.W. MEETING: The regular meeting of the study group will be held in Henley House at 4:30 on Wednesday. The meeting is open to all students. Mary Helen Wilson.
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Y. M.-Y.W. MEMBERS: Don't miss a chance to hear first hand news about Estes Park Conferences, past and future. Students who have been to Estes Park will tell of their experiences there, and movies of Estes, in color, will be shown. You will have this opportunity at the Y.M.-Y.W. assembly this Tuesday at 4:30 in the Union Building Kansas Room—Alice Ann Jones.
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Educational Lag Despite Progressivism Educators Conservative
By J. F. BROWN
Cultural lag refers to the failure to apply the fruits of scientific discovery to the production of human happiness until sometime after these discoveries have been made available by scientists. Our culture suffers from this lag and there is probably no place where it is more lagging than in formal education.
Despite all the talk about progressivism in education with few exceptions educators are ultra-conservative. Physicians have known for generations the importance of adequate physical development for general adjustment, but the admittance of physical education to regular curricular status has unfortunately not yet occurred. Psychologists have known for nearly fifty years now that both straight thinking and good acting depend on adjusted emotions, but emotional education can not be said to have properly started at all.
The great universities offer courses in everything from algebra to zymoscopy for any amount of credit, and a smattering of courses from archery to xylophone-playing for limited credit, but until recently practically no courses on the problems of every honest student's most basic interest, his emotions.
Some educators in the name of progressivism are actually reactionary. President Hutchins of Chicago believes that the aim of deeducation is training in "straight - thinking" and that this can be taught through the study of around one hundred great classics. From the discoveries of modern psychology this is so much nonsense The Hutchins philosophy of education belonged to the scrap heap of cultural lag at least fifty years before he and Professor Adler enunciated it afresh. Psychologically, that just so
Psychologists know that just as
abnormal thinking is caused by emotional maladjustment, so normal or straight thinking is impossible without emotional adjustment. The old saying that the wish is father to the thought is sound, and if the wish is the obvious father to the thought of the insane individual, it can be discovered not far back in the ancestry of the thought of the great philosophers. If the wishes are not adjusted to social reality—and it is certainly difficult to make them so ir the modern world. It is impossible that straight thinking will ensue, and in a world of social chaos straight thinking alone will accomplish but little.
Only the first beginnings have been made in emotional education. There are great difficulties because emotional education must start in the family and of all the school years the early grades are of most importance. In our society, too, there is the tendency to give over the training of little children to emotionally uneducated domestic helpers. And the financial rewards of grade school teaching are so slim and some o the prerequisites for teaching, spinisterhood for the female teacher and required courses on "when to ventilate the school room", are so insane that grade school teaching is probably much less efficient than it could be. Thus it is parents and teachers themselves who must be educated. The "mental hygiene movement" is attempting to do something for the first group and not a few educators like our own Prof. A. H. Turney are alive to the necessity of educating the second group.
In order to fulfill the promises of modern physics and biology the discoveries of modern psychology should be applied to the educative process as soon as possible. The most precise knowledge of even 1000 classics of the past won't help an individual ridden by deep-seated hostilities, guilt and resentment to think straight.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
At the Inter-Fraternity dance Friday night the ballroom was brightly lighted with the emblems of nine fraternities. But to those who cried for soft lights and shadows, a word of consolation. It was not as glaring as it might have been. When the A. T. O's first tried to hoist up their big Maltese cross, it came down with a crash, breaking 25 light bulbs. They couldn't find any more.
Last week a dirty little dog, specified by the boys as "mongrel collie," wandered to the Sigma Nu house. Dean Ostrum and Bill Pepperell took him in and gave him a bath. He came out white with brown spots, and cute. The whole house took a fancy to him, and he was named "Tau Tau," (from Sigma Nu Epsilon Tau Tau, full name of the fraternity but usually kept under a bushel.)
However, Tau Tau did not seem grateful for this kind treatment. The little dog wandered away again this week, perhaps to go and be hotboxed by another chapter.
Keith Criswell was not at all taken in when fellow roomers at 1121 Ohio left a note on his desk telling him to call 1671R. After a bit of pondering he concluded that it was his own number.
Once when Sig Ep boys got baseball pitcher Knute Kresie a date for Thursday night, he went to the hospital for three days. Last Thursday night he appeared at the buffet and hour dance with a date a man would walk a mile for, but with a foot infection so that he couldn't dance. Knute is black on Thursdays.
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Luther Buchele is becoming the most unpopular man in the Jayhawk Co-op. He is the self-appointed call boy of the house and won't take "no" for an answer. He will even give a "dutch rub" if shouting is not effective.