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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1935
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1935
THE COUNCILS WOULD WELCOME SUGGESTIONS
We print with pleasure today a letter revealing the attitude with which campus legislators approach their task of governing. It throws a great deal of light on the question of how the governing bodies got into their present condition. The author of the letter, who was last year a member of the W.S.G.A., asks in effect, What is there to do in the way of government at the University of Kansas?
The definition of "government" is probably available in many places in the library of the University, and can be as readily applied to students as to anyone else. But, to be specific, there are, among many possible activities, a few outstanding ones that go unheeded as the councils doze through the years.
If the councils are earnest seeking something to do, it is strange that they have not heard the students' clamor for good seats at football games, and their protest of being eliminated by the athletic council as a part of the University's football. (The letter writer might note that the "unconstructive" Kansai has attempted to bring about action on this matter, but has received no co-operation from either council).
There are several societies on the campus which could well bear a little investigation and improvement. The first that comes to mind, in view of the recent discussion, is the W.S.G.A., which assumed its present form back in 1926, when the women of the Hill tired of their political struggle with the men and went back to the kitchen. An unreasonable division of governmental activities along sex lines was brought about, denying to the women a fair share of the power.
The councils might look into the conditions existing in the campus honorary societies, Sachem, Owl Society, and Mortar Board. Comment is frequent on the campus to the effect that none of these groups is representative of the real leadership among the students, that political and fraternity or sorority affiliations are the main considerations in the choice of members.
There are other possibilities right under the W.S.G.A.'s impotent nose. Members must busy themselves thinking up reasons for electing class officers every year, or failing in that, discontinuing those now useless offices. Or more obvious still, if they think the Kansan is employing "Hearst tactics in attempting to create news," why don't they investigate that and pass a few resolutions?
Above all, however, we would urge that if the councils do start looking for something to do, they should start at home: improve their election system, co-ordinate their activities and put themselves in a position to govern.
FOLLOWING THROUGH
Dillinger is dead and most of his ganster comrades are jailed or under the sod, but the search for and
prosecution of their "silent partners" are following through.
A grim reminder of this fact came from Duluth when United States Judge Bell of the Duluth district sentenced four persons convicted of conspiracy to harbor the late Homer van Meter, one time "machine gunner of the Dillinger mob." Two of the defendants were women and they drew "a year and a day" in prisons to be designated by the department of justice. The male conspirators drew severer punishments, one getting 18 months and a $5,000 fine and the other two years plus a $10,000 fine.
This persevering round-up of the secret aides and accomplices of the gangsters probably causes more consternation in the organized underworld than the occasional shooting down of these public enemies. Replacements can be found for the "trigger-men," but the racket needs "undercover" agents to arrange hideaways, maintain communications, and arrange for supplies and for the disposition of gansters' take. The federal drive against these secret agents hits the crime organization in a vital spot.
Heretofore the silent partners of organizations dealing in crime have had little to fear in the way of exposure, and less to fear in the way of punishment save, perhaps, in extreme cases.
Now with penitentiary sentences fixed as the price of their complicity, with prosecution certain to follow discovery and with knowledge that the federal agents are following the trails of confederates as relentlessly as they are pursuing the identified and branded gangsters, the risks of this secret partnership are growing greater, in all likelihood, than its rewards, and the temptation to go in for it must be weakened by the growing fear, amounting almost to certainty, of punishment
WANTED: A THREE-HOUR COURSE
"Somebody tell me a three-hour course. I've got to have one more three-hour course to fill out my enrollment schedule, and I have looked through this darn book from cover to cover and can't take a thing I want."
History, English, geology, business—hundreds of students are flipping the pages trying to find that last course to meet the required hours. One may stop when he comes to American Government, but it is an undergraduate subject and his hours from now on must give junior-senior credit. His eye falls on economics which he may take at only one hour—and that hour he has already filled
As a senior, he finds that after he has spent three years filling his group and major requirements, the courses which he would like to take are not available. He usually ends by selecting a course recommended as "not so bad" by his fellows, although he has no desire to take it. He will learn something, of course, but would it not be better if he could have taken the course in which he had an interest and which he believed would be helpful in his fine of work?
The fault may lie in the lengthy requirements for graduation, or in the stipulation as to junior-senior credits. Until it is corrected, the student will continue to flip the pages, and take the next best thing to fill his schedule.
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kansasian. Articles over 200 words in length are invited, and all contributions on any subject are invitees.
CAMPUS OPINION
at the Kansan's recent attempt at a "hot campaign" on the W.S.G.A. several references to the women's inability to "gvernor" themselves have been made. If it isn't too much trouble, I wish the Kansan would take time off from its unconstructive criticism and to some of us who are "governed." and to some of us just exactly what it wants the council to in the way of self-government. Stop trying to tell them what is wrong with them and offer a few aug-
Editor Daily Kansan:
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
ZOOLOGY CLUB:
Vol. XXXII
Dr. E. H. Tayler will speak at the meeting Tuesday night. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. All members sign on bulletin board in Student Center. PETERKA.
Friday, Jan. 18, 1935
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gestions as to how they can better "govern" us. Why don't you tell them how you think they could be of more value to the university? I'm sure they will welcome any helpful, worthwhile 'deas.
It has been quite obvious the person or persons who have been writing these articles know little or nothing about W.S.G.A. If the Kansan is trying to get out of its "ruc" by using Hearst tactics in attempting to create sensation, the organization better adapted to produce a little tasty scandal? Your campaign has been a complete flop as far as the majority of us are concerned.
Just what is "Self-Government"?
Just an Idea
Editor Daily Kansan:
I have been tremendously satisfied the way the Kansas Players have been presenting their plays. There is no doubt that there are many students who display histronic ability of promise. But I do feel that their productions are limited by the narrow range of plays they choose to give.
Not many students ever get through the University without some time or other being exposed to the study of Greek and Shakespeare drama. It is conjectured that these are dry someone's homework, but that only after seeing one of them staged can one appreciate their true beauty.
Lately they have been running to modern plays of little or no dignity, all of them being light and requiring much of effort on the part of the actors.
J. D.
M. J
select such a play, preferably a comedy, from either Greek, Shakespeare, or even Rostand, and stage it to the best of their ability. None of them require elaborate scenery, and as entertainment they are superb.
Greek plays would call for choruses, where upon objections arise that such a number of people would not be available. But Tau Sigma would probably welcome this chance to interpret classic dancing before the public.
I suggest these following plays as range of the Kansas Player's facilities: Trial of Euripides; Shakespeare, Murray Wives of Windsor; Winston, Cyrano de Bergerais. These, however, are not to limit the productions. Over a period of years, at the rate of one classic play a semester, an ample supply of suitable plays can be found. And think of the saving in royalties.
Katharine Cornell recently made a statement to the effect that some of her most difficult parts have been merely practice exercises to fit her to the play "Romeo and Juliet" in her campus play-goers may have grave doubts about the quality of Shakespeare played by undergraduate amateurs which performences would be entertaining. But she is improbable. A few opinions pro and con would be interesting—Ed.
Suggestions for the most inappropriate names: Octavia Krantz, Bruce Droole, Joy Trollope—R.F.
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In accordance with a time honored practice, the Kansan opens his vites contributions. It is an exam-week institution presented in the hope that distracted cramers, in addition to students, welcome a chance to produce a few lines of sineless poetry from the rest of the campus.
By eating at the
CAFETERIA
Opera No. 76554
Act I
Rachel (Singing mournfully to herself!) Rouben, Ruben, I've been thinking What a grand world this would be — a place beyond Earth — Far beyond the Western Sea.
Act II
Reuben: (Singing dolefully to himself)
Rachel, Rachel, Ive been thinking
What a swell world this would be
Its so beautifully transported
Fat, beyond the Western.
(Use your own imagination. Do you expect us to do all your thinking for you?)
Act III
Rachel and Reuben:
GENERALITIES
Kismet, Kismet, we've been thinking What a grand world this would be— If we were now both transported Far beyond the Western Sea.
By the Cynic
Here are some glittering generalization
gleamed from one issue of a popular
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"It is the gospel truth to say that common colds fill the hospitals." (Explaining perhaps, why all the appen-
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"Our great national need is for a proper diet containing all the essential food elements." (Dearie me, is that what we do?)
We have the answer to our prayers.)
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