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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1935
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1935
"ANOTHER SHUFFLE"
The Kansan does not know whether the women of the Campus are satisfied with the new methods of choosing candidates to the W.S.G.A. The paper does feel that all of the women students on Mount Oread should participate in their self government, whether they believe that it will function or not.
The women of the Campus should attend the meeting that is called at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning and find out whether the new scheme will work. The meeting may be a dull and uninteresting affair. It may be that you will be frightfully bored. Perhaps you will go home contending that the new method is worse than the old. Perhaps you will find improvement, and a more representative system.
We are apparently living in the age of experiments in government. The W.S.G.A. is trying one of the New Deal ventures that have proven so very popular in National politics. W. S. G. A.'s change is a trial, and if you do not like the experiment, it can be scrapped, changed or killed as dead as the general's dodo bird—that is the privilege of New Deal politics. Attend the meeting and find out whether a further change is necessary.
The New Deal, some say, is figuratively in the third rubber. End of the game comes when the dollar rips instead of stretching.
WHY THE DEATH PENALTY?
Although there has been very little agitation over the state for the establishment of the death penalty in Kansas, the legislature has broken down a 60 - year - old tradition of the state.
Kansas does not have a serious crime problem. In fact, the figures for 1933 show the rate or murder in Kansas to be only eight for 100,000 population. It would appear that the legislature has risen to meet a situation that does not exist.
The death penalty does not necessarily decrease the rate of murder. Persons who commit murder seem to think very little of the consequences. Missouri, situated at Kansas' doorstep, has the death penalty, and the rate of murder per 100,000 population for the year 1933 was 13.1 compared to Kansas'eight. So it would seem that even though Kansas had a murder problem, (which it does not have), the method devised for its solution is not a happy or a useful one.
The reason Huey Long gets over so big is that he speaks in terms of the material and not the immaterial. In these times anyone can understand what "a home or a car or food" means, but it is rather difficult to comprehend what $5-000 is.
GAINS FROM THE CARNIVAL
Commendation should go to Ed Elibel and Delmar Curry for their part in organizing the first Intramural Carnival. Aside from the work involved, they should be recognized for other gains that will grow out of the co-operative feeling that comes from mutual effort.
The greatest gain, the Kansas feels, will come in the joking and friddle that passes back and forth at these carnivals. The tendency ought to be away from the composity and pettiness that often creep into relations between the social Greek letter groups. As long as the fraternities and sororites can get together in what is planned to be a yearly event, much will have been done in the matter of reducing the sillier differences between them.
THE TIGER SNARLS!
"They come from Missouri, and they've got to be shown." What's more, the shows must be better ones than before, and the admitance price must be twenty-five cents, not thirty-five cents.
One thing to be admired about the students of our good rival—the University of Missouri — is that they know what they want and they go after it in a determined manner. Anyway fifty or seventy-five of them did that when they invaded the Hall theater at Columbia the other evening in an effort to bring the manager around to their collegiate viewpoint of pictures and prices.
We Polish Apples
Editor's note: The Kanans will present in this column thumb-nail sketches of the members of the faculty.
Kenneth A. Siler
Kenneth A. Siler, instructor in physiology, finds lots of time to spend in the Animal House doing a little research work, as he calls it.
Professor Siler received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati where he taught zoology for two years, and from the University of Wisconsin he received his Master's degree. He also taught zoology three for three years. This is his first year at Hill, so he has confirmation of his students. Unlike most young professors, he obtains the desired results from students without the use of the Simon Legree method.
Mr. Siler's pet hobby, although he protests that he has no time to do anything about it, is tinkering around with woodworking. He can name nothing he has made, but he still thinks it would be a lot of fun if he had time. Just before class his teacher asks him to describe about everything under the sun, and whether he enjoys it or not, it is obvious that the students do.
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kanata. Articles over 200 words in length may be deemed too long for submission on any occasion are invited.
CAMPUS OPINION
What right have we to declare our system of law and justice to be the greatest on earth, when we indifferently stand by and watch that law fail to function, and in many cases, watch that law and its officers hand over its charges to the cannalibatic, sadistic, group of brutes that is the mob?
May I make a plea to the University faculty and the students through these columns for an interest in justice? What good is our talk of justice, our boast of freedom, our insistence on liberty of every human being, as long as we allow mobs ruthlessly to control he lives of innocent and guilty alike?
May I quote from an article from the Kansas City Call concerning a survey recently made by the National Advisory Advancement of Colored People?
"Lynching is another seasonal industry, with most mob murders occurring in August, according to a statistical analysis of 777 lynchings for the twenty-year period 1915-34, made by he N.A.A.C.
ditor Daily Kansan:
"There has been a lynching in each 1-3 days during the twenty-year period . . . The report considers significant the fact that a campaign for an anti-lynching bill has always brought about a decline in the number of lynchings. When the Dyer anti-lynchmen were fired, the House of Representatives in 1920, there had been 83 lynchings the year before. In 1920 lynchings declined to 65."
Hold That Line
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vol. XXXII Sunday, March 10, 1935 No. 110
OSMOPOLITAN CLUB:
OPPOSITIVE CURVE
The meeting planned for March 15 will be postponed until Friday, March 22
JOHN BEKKER.
K BOOK STAFF, 1935-36:
B K BOOK, STARHILL, MN 55910 being on the advertising staff of the 1935-36 K Book, send applications to room 10, Memorial Union Building. State classification
PEACE ACTION COMMITTEE:
FRANK HEADLEY, Business Manager.
The University of Kansas Force Action Committee will meet Monday afternoon at 4:30 in the Book Exchange room, Memorial Union building. Every
Phi Chi Delta will meet Tuesday, March 12, at 5:30 at Westminster hall.
FLOREANCE DILL.
ELIZABETH CASWELL, ALFRED C. AMES, Executive Secretaries.
PHI CHI DELTA:
Bharti Maharaja will be a meeting of Rishantham in the Green room at 4 o'clock today.
NOUMAN JACOBSHAGEN, President.
RHADAMANTHI:
SCABBARD AND BLADE:
The company will meet Monday, March 11, at 8:30 p.m. in room 5 of the Memorial Union building, Judge Means will speak. The meeting will be formal. H. E. MILLER, Captain.
There will be Sigma Eta Chi pledging at 5:15 this afternoon in the chapter room of the Congregational Church, Jean Fink is in charge of the new activet program. Please he present.
CATHERINE PENNER, President.
SNOW ZOLOGY CLUB:
SIGMA ETA CHI:
Snow Zoology club will meet for regular dinner meeting Tuesday, March 12 at 6 p.m. Miss Mary Larson will speak. HARRY PETERKA, President.
STEEL KEY
STEEL KEY:
A very important meeting of Steel Key will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in room 162 Marvin hall. Election of officers, DICKIE, President.
WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB:
Women receive the mass meeting of women students to be held Monday afternoon at 4:30, the Women's Glee club will hold its rehearsal Wednesday at 4:30. Every member should arrange to be present. AGNES HUSBAND, Director. MEN'S PANHELLENE COUNCIL;
The picture of the Men's Pan Hellenic Council will be taken Monday evening, March 11, at 8 o'clock at the Lawrence Studio. All fraternities which are members of the council please see that their delegate and their alternate are there.
BOB WILLIAMS, President.
This same occurrence was true when the Costigan-Wagner bill was introduced last year—the decline from 28 in 1933 to 16 in 1934.
And it must be known that lynching
has no color or creed. Many of those
lynchers had no blood.
Are there not some of you who feel, as I do, that justice should be made more than just a dream? If so, will you not spend a few cents and write a letter of recommendation for passage of the Wagner-Costigan bill to our Kansas Senators and district Representatives?
Regardless of our beliefs as to the status of Negroes or poor-whiten, the very Constitution we desire most to uphold has declared that all men shall have the right to trial by jury...
Shall we uphold that and show our sincerity and our desire for real freedom? Or shall we forget and let "nature take its course"—?
L. W.C.
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"The administration of a great University must endeavor to find methods of counteracting the centrifugal forces which tend to separate our faculties into an ever-increasing number of sub-divisions."
So spoke Harvard's President Conant recently, as he pointed out one of the major defects of modern education. Other institutions of higher learning have been conscious of the same need for a greater unity, but none to date, with the exception of Bryan Mawr which last week joined together all the men under one main department, have understood and well-conceived a plan as that now being pushed by Dr. Conant.
As the initial step to eliminate the artificial barriers created by the current system of numerous departments, Dr. Conant advocates a corps of "rowing" professors unrestricted by departmental limits and petty duties. "Such professors without portfolio," he says, "would have to be recruited from scholars who had already proven their worth not only as productive thinkers but as stimulating personalities." Though Harvard by no means intends to de-emphasize the research which it pursues, the duty of every higher institution must be clear that this seems to be edging away from the professor who delves into research to the disadvantage of the student. "Stimulating personalities" will be stressed for this group, and inspiring teaching, it is expected, will be the result.
Just how far this plan can be advanced, it is not easy to predict. There are few people in any college who could do justice to the requirements needed for such a position, and yet the suggestion is pointed toward a most desirable ideal. It is truly refreshing to see an objective attempt to engage professors with inspiring personalities who would not hibernate in research and who tend to break down the sharp lines between departments.
Harvards new plan, when put into action, deserves close watch by all universities who wish to move ahead 'into new and more productive fields.
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