PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY MARCH 23.1934 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE KANSAS Editor-in-Chief JAMES PATTERSON - 3.1.1.1 Introduction to Predictive Analytics Let's re-examine the first paragraph. It says "predictive analytics". Actually, it might be "predictive analytics". I'll just transcribe what I see. Yes, it's "predictive analytics". Wait, let me look at the image again. It's a block of text. It's: Predictive analytics is the use of statistical models and machine learning techniques to forecast future outcomes based on historical data. Campus Editor Start Mercer Heyde Short Editor K. B. Hayes Short Editor K. B. Hayes Society Editor Carolyn Harper Wife Editor Charles Rankin Alumni Editor Charles Rankin Marquette Gregg Chiles Coleman Dorsey Jill Rae Moore Koeppert Kessman Jimmy Jensen Grethen Grelup Larry Sterling Paul Woodmanneen Marker Robert Smith Robert Smith Advertising Manager ... Cleaerone E. Mundi Circulation Manager ... Wilbur Leatherman Telecommunications Business Office Buffalo, NY KD-1, 6 Westchester, NY BK-1, 6 Night Connection, Buffalo, NY 700K Night Connection, New York City 850K Subscription price, per year, $3.00 cash in advance, $2.25 on payments, single copies, $18.00 on delivery. Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and on Sunday, Saturday and Monday at the respective departments in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press of the University of Kansas. Entered as the second class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas. FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1934 ALL-AMERICAN CO-ED "We are going to find the most beautiful college girl in America," says a recent communication to the Daily Kansan from a company organized for the purpose of seeking out and glorifying this young woman. But the beauty detective company does not depend entirely upon the undergraduate's appreciation of aesthetics to spur on the contest here. Their letter also contains another kind of lure not connected with beauty. "We suggest that you stage the contest in a local theater or auditorium. You should get a nice cut (40 to 50 per cent) on the theater box office," reads the letter. Then the company reveals the fact that it is not entirely altruistic in its search for beauty. "We do not care how you operate your contest, how much money you realize, or what awards you give your queen. Just send us your prettiest girl and $100 to help pay her expenses and transportation to and from the national contest." So another brilliant idea is evolved for making a little easy money at the expense of a few gullible college men. It is to be hoped that no university supports such a contest as this, which obviously has nothing better in mind than the making of money at the expense and consequent cheapening of American young womanhood. COURTESY Webster defines it as an act of civility or respect, or as an act of kindness or favor performed with politeness. Those who have it are said to be mentally polished. Those who practice it are smooth and refined in behavior or manners. The art of being courteous is supposed to be acquired by students who seek an education. Many individuals are placed in positions where this quality becomes their most important asset. While in school some University men and women have the opportunity to practice this art, and it behooves them to create a favorable impression. They are the group who set an example for the rest of the student body. SUCH SWEET ATHLETES! The receipt of a five-pound box of candy by a University athlete leads us to view with alarm the devastating effects of present day civilization on the rough and tumble athletics of another era. Pleasing though the idea may have been to the husky basketball players who, according to the story, disposed of the token sent as a recognition of excellent playing throughout the season, it is to be hoped that the idea is not the contagious variety. Football season will be here again soon, and visions of the current hero being presented with a box of rice handkerchiefs or a bouquet of roses make us tremble for the future of the game. However, it is satisfying to be appreciated, and perhaps, with a little persuasion, ardent athletic fans of the next season might be induced to offer serviceable gifts like shirts or neckties. PASSING OF THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE A recent trend has been noticed toward banishing the "little red schoolhouse" from the country districts throughout the United States and the placing of large consolidated houses of education in their stead. Two plans are being considered and inaugurated in many states, some on a county-wide basis and others on a state-wide centralization, thus making administrative and financial responsibility shift from the local district to the county or state. Regardless of the method, there are many advantages both to pupils and the taxpayers. A few of these are the standardization of classes, employment of more efficient administrators and supervisors, enrichment of the school program, economy in handling supplies and equipment, securing better teachers, and the spending of tax funds where the children live. Such a reorganization would result in a greater equalization of educational opportunities and a better education at lower costs. The present system is wasteful, as is shown by a bulletin from the School of Education office. There are 100,000 rural schools in the United States, each being governed by separate school boards and taught by local teachers. Equipment and supplies, when bought independently, cost from 10 to 100 per cent more than when bought either through co-operation with other districts or by some central purchasing agent. Thousands of dollars could be saved throughout the state with the testing of the quality of each item purchased in securing competitive bids. Concerning high schools for which consolidation is also being considered, this plan would eliminate the smaller classes and reduce the cost per capita. A richer education means higher returns for the money expended and money economy for the tax payer. A consolidation of the "little red schoolhouse" would allow for the guidance and adjustment of young people's problems both in and out of school. THE SPORT TAX Representatives of the National Collegiate Athletic association, meeting before the Senate Finance Committee in Washington, D. C., recently made a loud protests against the ten per cent admission tax on college athletic events. The principal objectors to the collection of the governmental fee, the athletic directors of the Universities of Minnesota and Pittsburgh and Virginia Polytechnic Institute, claimed that the tax is driving away spectators and crippling self-sustaining college sports. They averred that the athletic associations of Southern California, the Army, the Navy, and Notre Dame are the only ones in the nation now making money Such a contention by the representatives of some of the larger colleges seems hardly justified in the light of the existing upward trend in gate receipts for college sports. Football games last fall drew heavier attendances than at any time since the prosperous post-war period. The tax was first collected in 1930 and brought in only about one-third of the anticipated amount, the N.C.A.A. man report, but it is hard to determine whether the decrease was due to the rebellion of cash customers or to a miscalculation on the part of the governmental officials, who proposed the tax originally, as to how much the tax would bring in. Since athletic events, such as are taxed under the federal statute, constitute amusements from the standpoint of the spectators who support the ventures, their taxation seems a fair one. The removal or lessening of the amusement tax would mean an additional burden on some other form of business enterprise, perhaps, less able to bear it. The persons who attend athletic events are usually able and willing to pay. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXXI The Freshman Commission will meet Monday at 4:30 at Henley house. MARY LOUISE ANDRESON. Notices due at Cancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues. FRESHMAN COMMISSION: No.117 GIRL RESERVE TRAINING COURSE: The annual training course in Girl Reserve work will be held on April 6, 7, and 8 at Henley house under the direction of Miss Florence Stone, state executive secretary. The course is open to all senior women preparing to teach and it is urged that those who are interested in attending the course register at Henley house this week. FRANCES BALLARD, Chairman. MATHEMATICS CLUB; ATHLETICS There will be a meeting Monday, March 26, at 4:30 in room 211 Administration building. Mr. William Edson will speak on "Empirical Equations." Visitors are welcome. ELIZABETH HINSHAW, Vice President. / RED CROSS EXAMINERS SCHOOL: All persons who have passed Senior Red Cross life saving test and wish to qualify as examiners, see Mr. Allipson, 105 Robinson insomnia. *LIPHIN*, 324-789-6300. SIGMA ETA CHI: Sigma Eta Chi will have a regular meeting Sunday, March 25, at 5 o'clock at the Plymouth Congregational Church. Important business. All members are asked to be present. ELIZABETH HINSHAW, President. STEEL KEY: There will be an important meeting of Steel Key on Tuesday night, March 27, in room 102 Marvin hall. election of officers and new members. DICK WULF, President. UNIVERSITY YOUNG PEOPLE OF CHRISTIAN CHURCH: If we were to have the same dull monotonous weather day in and day out, then folks could put in a big complaint and have some reason for doing so. But with the ever-changing weather like a gigantic revolving stage of nature, there is not any reason to make a fuss when it doesn't just exactly suit everyone's personal whims and desires. There will be an Easter party at Myers hall at 8 o'clock tonight. All mem bers and friends are cordially invited. D. SAVAGE, President. Y. W. C. A. Y, W, C, A; There will be a meeting of the Industrial Discussion Group on Tuesda at 4:30 at Henley house. Miss Jameson, the County Social Worker, will speak on the economic aspects of her work. DORIS WESTFALL, Chairman WHAT TO READ? "A Boy Scout Manual," the "White House Cook Book," and "Robinson Crusoe" were some of the books chosen as suitable companions for a stay on a fabled desert isle, in a recent survey conducted among the professors at the University of Chicago. These selections indicate, according to the Chicago University paper, a faculty desire to visit the White House, to travel dangerously with Defeo, (in a dressing gown and slippers, before the fire), and to eat out of doors with a Boy Scout knife. Such diversity of opinion about what one book would make the best reading on a desert island prompted a minor bit of research on the Kansas campus, and the answers were equally startling. A Montgomery Ward catalogue headed the list, with "Robinson Crusoe" and a cook book running a close second. The Bible and "The Meaning of Prayer" were each chosen by one person. Several suggestions for books by Tiffany Thayer and Thorne Smith were received. The most ambitious person questioned admitted that she could be quite contented on the loneliest desert island if someone would only provide her with a book of crossword puzzles and a pencil. Probably such an experience will never be the fate of the individuals who volunteered answers, but at least the subject might provide interesting controversial material for a long and tedious evening with a date. People are never satisfied. They always have something to complain about. When summer is here and the days are long and lazy they complain about the heat. When winter is here and the nights are sharp and brisk with crunchy snow underfoot, they complain about the cold. When spring is on its way with budding trees and red birds on wing, they complain about the March winds and the April showers. Samuel Insull has become somewhat slippery since he has been in Greece. True, such changes in weather are disagreeable at times, but they make life interesting. People who live in such a climate as ours have always a new change in weather to look forward to; in fact these changes are sometimes the main topics of discussion for many of us. SOME FUN, THIS WEATHER Our Contemporaries WHY NOT EXAMS FOR THE FACULTY WHY NOT EXAMS FOR THE The Daily Illini. What's new in education? About this time of the year we are forced to look over schedules for the coming semester. We do so without much enthusiasm for the most part, for we realize there is nothing new in the table table. Of course, some well-meaning adviser will inform us that if we haven't taken geodetics, we should because it will give us new fields to conquer. Or if there has been no economics course on our program, we should take one to make us realize better what is going on in the world these days. All of which is true if we apply the definition of new as anything of which we have previously had no knowledge. But what is the geodetics instructor going to give his class that he didn't give last year? What will the economics or psychology professor tell his students that the one last semester could not have learned? What new variants or methods will be made use of that were not available before? In other words, are we sure that our instructors are not stagnating, are they merely doing search in dusty bookshelves without giving a thought to the things of today which are affecting them and which they in turn may also be changing? Unfortunately, many do not feel impelled to present new material because they know their course is "required." Since the student must take it, why make any special attempts to make it more interesting? If it was good enough last year, why change it now? At present we have no idea as to how this would be taken care of—who would give the quizzes or who would do the grading. And we do know that the suggestion is not being made in a fauxcissus, and that it is not based on intent and purpose, for the protection of the student and the stimulation of the faculty members. Perhaps a solution could be had in a system of examinations for instructors at the end of each school year. In all fairness to the student, he should be certain that the man who teaches him is also able to "get a passing grade." Saturday Nite 11 p.m Send the Daily Kansan home. — The Time — ? — The Girl — ? You Get the Girl! — The Place — Varsity Theatre It Is Time to Plan Now on Joining the MEAL CLUB After Easter 17 MEALS for $2.25 at the CAFETERIA --kills germs even when diluted half strength. This means that you can get the equivalent of two pints of antiseptic for less than one-third of inferior mouth wash. 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