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SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1935
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
University Daily Kansan
University Billy Hanson
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SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1935
SCHOLARSHIP AND GRADES
In the academic world every so often, reformers demand the abolition of grades. They cite cases of college classes in which from 50 to 75 percent of the students receive "A's or 'B's"—obviously too high a percentage. These reformers say that students should receive either a failing or merely a passing mark. Such a graded argue, would cause lazy students to work harder, and the ambitious ones would swing their attention from grades to scholarship.
Such a system does not work out well in actual practice; human beings just must have material record of their accomplishments. Aside from the lazy or dull, there are two classes of students. One class expect to make a decent academic record in school; these students have a normal interest in their school work. The other class measure the success of their education in terms of the lessons they have learned of this class often chart their schedule to make Phi Beta Kappa instead of really striving to broaden themselves intellectually.
The best way to promote scholarship and intellectual honesty among students is to translate grades into terms of scholastic achievement. Instructors should clarify the question definitely and tell the students how much knowledge each grade will require of the student. The instructor would, for instance, clearly indicate the complete mastery of his subject by the necessary to attain an "A". By emphasis of the real raison d'etre for marks, many students might be led to evaluate them more correctly; and less intelligent or less ambitious ones would have a more definite mark to shoot at.
"HI-DE-HO AND HA-CHA."
Who doesn't like to go to a good party? Of course we all do. This desire for companionship and a good time is universal. Naturally enough college students are "among those present." No one in the world likes a good time better than the typical American youth, who is a fair representative of present day college student.
We hear a lot of criticism of the "modern age," "modern youth," and the parties and dances that they give, but "the person who is not criticized is not doing anything." It certainly cannot be said that this generation is not doing things.
The parties given by college students are gay with colored lights, alive with laughter, music, and fun. It is true that there are a few indiscretious ones, but there are always those few in any society. Surely their mistakes cannot be checked to the parties or the music or the fact that they are college students. The trouble lies with the youths themselves. It has been said that music is intoxi-
eating, especially fast tempos or so called “hot” music. But even if this can be proven to a certain extent, the will to do wrong still lies within the person and not in the music he hears. There is nothing about the atmosphere of colony dance and dances to you any one harm.
There is a popular fallacy that college students give "ha-cha" parties which are a bad influence on young people. There may be such parties, but they are not exclusively the habit of college students, nor have they part in the life of the average student. For the most part such fantastic parties are created in the dull minds of cheap magazine writers and "yellow-press" reporters.
We suppose the Phi Beta Kappa Banquet was food for thought.
Who wants to be queen of the May now?
We remember sitting at Sing on Friday in the midst of laughter and excitement, while outside of the theatre with others, we listened with signs asking for reinstatement. We think of the recent Peace Council meeting when police were called into the College to help break up the peace discussion. We remember that during our first visit, the stunted and heard the details of a Faculty attempt to "reorganize" Council by virtually abolishing it. We recall the attempt to censor BUILLETIN, and later the other debate about whether other students for support of the Anti-War Strike.
In the past year we have seen an un precedent degree of conflict and unfriend in student affairs. From it we have learned that abstract editorial discussions are unacceptable. In the case of the championing of causes, the college paper must not begin at home—must not touch upon incidents occurring within the College of Law. Students abuse power and freedom of speech, but hands off when home territory is involved. Let them harp on anti-war activity, but any discussion of the disciplining of students who use the term malianism is poor taste. If you must talk about desalud of academic freedom at LSU, UCLA, and Commonwealth, but forget the cases of seven girls at Hunter. That's our business — not
The attitude is not confined to BULLETIN alone. It is characteristic of the entire concept—defended by the present administration—that a college exists only for the purpose of administering education in order to attend classes, and that mental equipment, sharpened and expanded through education, may dwell upon the problems of modern life in general, and of college life in particular. The students must good six feet off—to be in accordance with police regulations. This fundamental idea of the function of a college possesses the expected corollaries. Students who work for power, for peace, for justice, for recreation, for government become the forces subversive of constituted authority in the institution. They are the ones who are suspended, theirs are the meetings which are broken up by police. They are the ones for whom the traps of technicality and regulations are continually laid.
Let us make no mistake about this
point. The administration of this college holds that the campus must be free from "agitation" of any sort—that "political propaganda" has no place in academic halls. This belief is set up as a consequence of its own nature, "in lolo parents," and actually is no law, has produced the tradition of "college" only as a factory for academic degrees, and is veiled not by it. It is just like it but by reaction of an advanced type.
Consider now, for a moment, the other concept of the function of a college: An institution where "agitation" against war is a fundamental and a critical element in the life of the institution; where "political propaganda" is freely subjected to student analysis and discussion; where political action in behalf of sincere and deep conviction is viewed as a tribute to the university community; people motivated by strength of purpose to build justice and peace where it has fallen to ruin.
Here are the two concepts of the function of a college. Under the regime of the first, we have seen the paradox of the state in which people are coupled with the suspension of the idealistic. We have witnessed the spectacle of those who work for the "sacred cause of peace" refused administrative force against war which the nation had ever seen. We have even viewed the necessary addition of the police force to the category of "the plane of good manners and the realm of good morals."
Through the pressure of public opinion students can bring about a change in the attitude of college authorities. The building of this new attitude rests entirely upon the courage and the unity of body in their approach to the problem.
on Friday several thousand students honored, for the 19th year, the tradition of Sing. Outside, in the min. five suspended students who were shot at Hunter College. Let us look ahead now and determine that through our unceasing and undiluging efforts, one day both traditions will be honored as Hunter College.
WHAT A PUBLISHER THINKS OF
THE NEWS RELEASES OF
GOVERNMENT BUREAUS
By John Stewart Bryan Publisher, The Richmond (Va.) News-Leader and President of
Jean Ford-Hunter Bulletin. Courtesy N.S.F.A.
Regardless of whether we like what is going on in Washington, it is the biggest news source in the world. Capitalism is our newspaper—but I wonder whether we are carrying it in a way that does us credit and that fulfills our desires.
Congress understood the risk of this thing. Twenty-two years ago it passed a law providing that "no money appropriated by any act of Congress shall be issued to individuals with publicity expert unless specifically appropriated for that purpose."
William and Mary College. (In an address before the annual convention of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association recently.)
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Elaisa Hanson in a speech the other day said they had a golf ballfish on the National Press Club into which she was dumped, and men who had dropped out of straight reporting and gone to doing publicity work. Walter Lippman estimated that
We are up against a new and puparalleled situation in this country in the matter of what is going on around us.
Flood of Propaganda
Notice due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., precluding regular public days
11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday for Sunday issues.
The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Tuesday, May 21, at 4:30 in the auditorium for the symposium. E. H. LINDLEY, President,
Sunday. May 19. 1935
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COLLEGE FACULTY MEETING:
There will be a Ku Ku meeting tonight at 10 p.m. in room 209 Fraser. All active members must be present. There will be a nine if you are absent.
SPECIAL SENATE MEETING:
The farewell meeting of Phi Chi Delta will be held at Westminster hall Tuesday, May 21, at 5:30. Everyone is up to come.
MENS' GLEE CLUB:
VERLE WARD, President, EDDIE RICE, secretary.
The Men's Glee Club will meet Monday afternoon at 4:30 in room 32 Ad-
ministration building. ROSS BOBERTSON.
Pai Chi will hold its annual picnic Monday, May 20, at 4 p.m. at Brown's Grove. Members will meet at room 21 Administration building. If you are going to attend, please sign the list in the psychology office. Twenty-five cents per person will be charged for refreshments.
KU KU MEETING:
There will be a special meeting of the Senate Bureau Monday afternoon at 4:30 in central administration audition. E. H. LINDELY, Chancellor.
There will be a meeting of Tau Nu Tu Wednesday, May 22, in room 210 Marvin hall at 8:15 p.m. Capt. Lewis C. Gordon will speak concerning "The Economic and Political Socialism in the Panama Canal Zone." Fledging services will be held. LEWIS W. BENZ, Secretary.
BYRON SARVIS, President.
PHI CHI DELTA:
PSI CHI:
MARYBETH McMANIS, President.
WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB:
WORLDWIDE SCHOOL CHOICE May 20 at the Fire-Bank behind Corbin hall. Please remember all Glo Music club at this time. If it is running to the women's test, contact your instructor.
"College men may be great football players, great runners, or even batters, but when they attempt to buy cosmetics for their girl friends they are childish and uncooperative." Spinning is, who formerly worked at a cosmetic counter in a Lawrence store.
Physical Brute or Phi Beta Kappa- Man Knows Nothing About Cosmetics
By Arch Oliver, Sp.
"These college boys know no more about cosmetics than they do about some of their courses, to judge from their own statements on that score, but the answer is likely to be that. That is where I have a big kick out of working at the cosmetic counter.
of coaches. The more resilient its size, the prettier its color, the more resilible its appeal. They pass up a box of the finest quality for one size. But can you tell them how?
"They have no idea of color schemes. They think that a shade of rouge or lipstick can apply to all girls alike whether they be best friends, siblings, or just not sure that some cosmetics look well with certain dresses and others do not and that all blonds
their salaries totaled $1,050,000.
or taking another example, Miss Perkins, the Secretary of Labor, thinks the Labor Board ought to be under the watchfulness of Mr. Biddle, who says so. But Mr. Biddle, chairman of the NLRB, thinks he has been anointed to settle labor questions for all time,
In the first year of its existence, the AAA issued 5,000 news releases. In the latter part of 1933 there was no paper big enough—even if it had discarded all its news and all its advertisements to publish the daily Washington handout.
Both of them seek to impress the public with their respective contentions, through their publicity agents. Who is right?
For example, the Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Roper, believes that it is essential for us to maintain a merchant marine, and his publicity man says so. But the Secretary of Agriculture also wants us to let nations which have more ships than we have carry our goods so they can get money to buy American products, and Mr. Wallace's press man has his chief's point of view. Who is right?
We sit outside, asking for an explanation of policies. And of course, with every department and bureau having its own publicity man, we are bound to note how policies of the different departments work as cross-partners.
The Department of Agriculture used to issue purely factual bulletins. Now they are propaganda bulletins aimed and intended to create a special state
Oninians vs. Facts
Just Who Is Right?
Whether in this differ one hit whether it is done by Stalin, or by Muslolius, or by Hitter or Von Goering, as long as it is done?
It will not suffice for us to say merely that propaganda must be stopped. The way to meet demagogue is by reason. The way to meet madness is by manhood. The way to beat down false propaganda is not more false propaganda but better reasoning, better intelligence, a better logic, more intelligence. C.E.
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"There isn't a boy that comes in here looking for such a package but that we have to ply them with questions to find out whether or not a girl falls into scene classification. They don't know women are rather excited about that. If a knew what brand his girl used we could help him and make his gift that much more appreciated." "Some boys, and that takes in many of them, think they know how the ladies use their phones so they may inform their girl friends. Our advice to the ladies on such matters is: Don't follow the advice of your boy friend on the application of cosmetics, no matter how much you like him, or you will give rise to that old slang saying. She isn't a vision.
'It's the same way with perfumes. Ladies have their own preferences and their own brands. They may but not a perfume which she dislikes. A perfume suitable for a man is not always suitable for a lady, but it hard to have a man see her.
"Unless a boy knows what his girl likes in these lines and unless he is very sure she also likes them, the best way to make him make compliments on her own choice.
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