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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1940.
Kansan Comment
Don't Blame The Faculty
An editorial published recently in the Daily Nebraskan, University of Nebraska student paper, unjustifably denounced its own school of journalism and the faculty members therein, demanding a revision of the faculty and a complete reorganization of the school.
The Nebraskan complained that journalism graduates "leave school with little preparation for the practical—only a distorted concept of high idealism, and a knowledge of background with dubious value."
The Nebraska paper recognizes the fact that there are two schools of opinion on the matter of teaching journalism; the one lauds academic preparation, while the other insists that only practical experience in the field is of any use. Noting that although Nebraska educators saw fit to establish a school of journalism at the University, the paper decries the quality of instruction and the courses now offered in that school at present as inviting improvement.
"Nebraska's school of journalism needs . . . faculty members who are decisive, who have stamina, or who have self-discipline—the requisites of any professional man. It is in need of men who know their field and are able to lisseminate that knowledge to others. It needs an attitude that will make students seek advice and interests."
The Nebraskan is mistaken in assuming that the low status which may be held by the school of journalism is primarily a result of poor instruction. When the paper which is published by students of the University of Nebraska complains that, of its staff, only one person is enrolled in the school of journalism, it unjustly lays the blame for this on the faculty members of the school.
Perhaps the Nebraska journalism faculty has failed, in some measure, to motivate students to their best effort and interest. But what of the students themselves? If they have not enough interest in the profession of journalism to prepare themselves for it, to enter into its study wholeheartedly, and to accept instruction in it for its value to them, then not even the best faculty can help them. Education, learning, development, are not dependent only on the tutor. The student must be willing and cooperative.
Classroom teaching, which the Nebraskan represents as having dropped to so low a level, can not fit the student for a journalistic career. It can only aid him in fitting himself for the complex and exacting vocation which journalism has become through the development of its function as chronicler, interpreter, and public leader.
We feel that this war belongs to the big financiers and industrialists. It's their private property and we're not going to trespass on it. It would be interfering with private industry, which, the newspapers say, is illegal.
--dance.
But cokes and the like
Make it easy to spike.
So refreshments got kicked in the
A students enrolled in a course in Marriage Problems at the University of Pennsylvania cut his class the other day in order to get married. Evidently he realized the value of practical application of the principles he had learned in class.
--dance.
But cokes and the like
Make it easy to spike.
So refreshments got kicked in the
Even with final exam week once more over, and the second semester getting under way tomorrow, there will still be a great deal of midnight oil burned-motor oil.
TVA Project Makes Anglers Happy
When TVA engineers made plans to convert the Tennessee river into large lakes for purposes of developing electrical power, they figured in terms of horsepower, cubic feet, water depth, and the like.
But perhaps most interesting of all statistics regarding the government water project are those reciting the facts that last year more than one million fish were caught in the man made lakes, and that a total of nearly one half million separate trips were made by anglers, thus averaging two fish for each visit.
The figures show the popularity of the newly completed region and its value as a fishing spot. Waltons are flocking to the lakeshores in droves.
"Recreation Development of the Tennessee River System", an official report of the TVA, provides these figures as basis for a plea to Congress that it be allowed to continue its development of outdoor sports. It was pointed out that fishing and other outdoor recreations have "assumed a place beside navigation, flood control, and power as one of the public purposes legitimately served..."
Mr. Roosevelt made good use of the statistics included in the Authority's report when he cited it in discrediting the widespread belief that the TVA's only interest in the project was for electric power.
Mr. Roosevelt, hearty fisherman that he is, is hardly likely to pass up such a good fishing opportunity as this one.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Wednesday, Feb. 7, 1940 No. 85
FIRESIDE FORUM: There will be a penny carnival at the Congregational Church at 8 o'clock Friday evening, Feb. 9. Refreshments and dancing will follow the carnival. Everyone is invited to come and join the fun.—Lorraine Polson, publicity chairman.
FRESHMAN COMMISSION: Eda Paddock will review "The Grapes of Wrath" at a joint meeting of the Freshman Commission of the Y.M. and Y.W. at 4:30 on Thursday, Feb. 8, in the Pine room—Helen Martin, publicity chairman.
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: Dr. E.T. Gibson is at the Watkins Memorial Hospital each Tuesday afternoon for discussion with students on problems of mental hygiene. Appointments may be made through the Watkins Memorial Hospital.-Dr.R. I. Canuteson.
W. A.A.: There will be a cabinet meeting at 4:30 tomorrow in Robinson gymnasium.Irene McAdoo, president.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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ROCK CHALK TALK
Although she was an "A" student in high school physics, one coed—enrolling late yesterday afternoon—only then discovered that you can't take two courses in different places at the same time.
Final week hangover: A Theta walked into her last class, glanced at the exam questions and mumbled: "Only God can help me now and he's busy making trees."
The Harvard medical expert who says broken hearts are hooey probably never spent two hours working up in an enrollment line only to find he owed the library 15 cents.
They planned to give students a chance
To drink cokes at the varsity dance
pants.
Flint Hills Peggy says the coed pictures in Life did for the University what a football team couldn't. She means hasn't.
o refreshments got kicked in the nants.
"The modern girl's clothes are like a barbed wired fence. They protect the property without obstructing the view."—Baylor Daily Lariat.
And most of them look like they'd been stung on a post.
Now that so much has been made of the discovery that most marriage proposals are made in an automobile, we can reasonably expect to be heralded:
"Love Finds a Way . . . . with
CHEVROLET."
"PACKARD, the Proposal Paradise."
"Get a lassie with a PLYMOUTH chassis."
"... in the opinion of independent probate judges and preachers, men who know marriage best, it's CHRY-LER, two to one."
"Bachelors' Best Bet's BUICK."
Rock Chalklets: The difficulty Director Calderwood has had casting "Fanny" in "Quality Street" places the forthcoming Dramatics Club play at least on a public peer with "Gone with the Wind". . . It was nice of the Board of Regents to exempt exchange scholars from payment of fees at a time when such foreign students probably are taking final exams in military science lab. .. Since Jim Bell moved in, and in keeping with the probable results of three students doing their own cooking, someone suggests that Ken Postlethwait name his "country" home "Bell-y Acres."
--spare time, or how long she takes to do it. Because whatever she may do to injure the reputation of her alma mater, she can do it just as well with closing hours as without.
"Don't let him dodge you, DODGE him."
The Chinese tried to make bread wheat in 1983 B.C. and succeeded. In 1940 A.D., the Kansas farmer is trying to make taxes from wheat and isn't succeeding.
YOU SAID IT
EDITOR'S NOTE: The editors are not responsible for opinions or facts given in the letters published in this column. Letters more than 300 words are subject to cutting, and all letters must be signed, although the name will be withheld if the writer desires.
In Pittsburgh, four persons held on charges of operating an illicit still were accused of violating a law requiring a sign over their brewery saying they were making moonshine. At last we have proof that it pays to advertise.
AWAY WITH CURFEW
To the Editor:
After all, by the time a girl gets to the University, she certainly is old enough to have a little sense about governing her own life. She knows whether she should take a date, or study. She knows whether she can stay out till 2 in the morning and still make that 8:30 class. She knows whether being out with this man till 10:00 is going to be more of a threat to her reputation than being out with that one till "all hours."
In support of the letter written you by Disgusted Dora in yesterday's Kansan, I wish to add my feelings to the matter of having 10:30 closing hours.
There is absolutely no sensible reason why University women should be required to be in their rooms earlier than men. As pointed out, if we are going to do anything immoral, we can get the job done and have time to spare before 10:30.
And if a girl doesn't know these things by the time she gets to college, then she certainly will learn her very quickly. Sheltering her after the fashion of the University—making her come home at 10:30—is hardly an intelligent, modern method of teaching her anything about the hard world outside.
It is no concern of the University authorities what a girl does in her
What a bunch of prudish women we will all be if we keep on coming in at 10:30. History (and love) is made at night. Everything goes on at night. It's the only time one has for any relaxation. So why should our recreation time be curtailed just because someone wants to make a good impression on mama and papa and the rest of the voters who pay taxes to support the school?
REPRESSEP
FINLAND DESERVES AID To the Editor;
President Roosevelt's plea to Congress for a loan to Finland for the purpose of purchasing supplies other than actual munitions received the warm sympathy of the people of this country. If for no other reason than that this tiny country has regularly paid its debt to our government when other countries deliberately defaulted, the case of Finland merits warm sympathetic action. She stands out alone as an exceptional case because of this one factor.
But for stilii another reason Finland deserves this monetary aid, which will make possible the purchase of food, clothing and medical
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