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TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1934
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1934
POLITICS AND PRISON
Politics somehow seems to get into everything in our modern life, and the American people are slow in learning that this is about the greatest fault in modern civilization. Prison control is just one small phase of the civilization that politics has entered, but because it has so dramatically come to the front in the last few days, it is one of the major problems of the hour.
Why should a new warden be appointed for each prison with every new governor? There was a time when a warden was allowed to stay in office, and was not appointed unless he was an expert in the field. But with the present system a warden is picked because he is a hard working politician who helped to elect the governor.
He may know little about prison rule or criminology. He may not even care. In many cases he is interested chiefly in his pay and not in the prisoners. He may hire guards because they are his friends and not because they have had experience; in many such cases prison guards know less about law than the criminals themselves. Prison rule of this type more often than not carries with it a graffit for the prison officials. Prison rule under such circumstances hardens criminals who make escapes and continue
o'r crimes
L O U R A L
At last, out of a bedlam of hill-
phonograph records,
Andies, has
engaged the crow's glory of
over ten years of radio broadcast
A cigarret company, the same which a couple of years ago attained the depths of ridiculousness with "Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet!" has gone out after new fields, and is "exploiting
re in a big way.
who pays for it grand operas in their entirety are
grand operas in their entirety are
e Metropolitan Opera house weekly, providing millions of music-lovers the opportunity to hear the finest music in its finest presentation.
Inhabitants of Kensas, Montana, and Georgia are now on a par with New York urbanite, so far as opera is concerned. Many people who never were allowed the opportunity to hear opera have come within the last month to know the glory of gorgeous music beautifully sung.
It may be the confusion of the mismanaged American capitalistic system of advertising that makes this broadcast possible, but it is a praiseworthy commentary on a growing American culture that big business thinks that opera will pay.
ACTIVITIES AND THE CURRICULUM
"Shall I go to the lecture—or shall I study? Shall I try for a position on the Jayhawker staff—or do I need the time to study?"
Here are questions which students have to decide upon quite frequently during their college careers.
It all goes back to the old dispute of which is the more important aspect of a college education, class-room or extra-curricular activity.
Class-room activity, it is argued, is the more important because the students are taught to think under the expert guidance of a trained mind. One comes to college to learn to think, argue the studyites, and a classroom is certainly a good place to stimulate lazy minds.
Those who believe in the superiority of extra-curricular activities counter that students are also stimulated to think in extra-curricular activities, and add that students who go in for each work are meeting situations as they occur in life after college, and not simply one phase of a great problem as they do in classes.
Doubtless extra-curricular activity does harm to some students; doubtless it does just as much good for others. The same can be said of class-room activity, although this fact is not quite so immediately recognizable because the class-room type of education has long been approved and is therefore unnoticed, while extra curricular activity has always been a controversial subject.
The only sane conclusion, it would seem, is that both kinds of activity are important and desirable, hat they are complementary. Professorial guidance is desirable, especially during the first few semesters in college. After these beginnings, students might well be expected to carry on extra-curricular activities with some intelligence and a great deal of profit. It is difficult to conceive of a student body without both kinds of activity.
Most students will put into their schedules those things which are best calculated to do them the most good, according to their conception of what the most good is. The relative importance of classroom activity and extra-curricular activity, therefore, is a personal problem, and it is well that it is so, since most persons know what their needs are better than outsiders.
MASS-PRODUCTION DOES NOT TRAIN THINKERS
"But, professor, you said we wouldn't have to do that." How very many students, anxious to exert only a minimum amount of energy, wait for explicit commands before they venture the expenditure of any time or work in their quest for learning. So man, pages in the library, such and such chapters from the text, so many papers on certain topics to be written, and the student emerges, supposedly an educated person, without any necessity, incentive, or possibility for individual enterprise and with it the de-
Students wishing to begin or to continue Reading for Honors in English will please consult Miss Burnham in 2011 Fraser on the days of enrollment, Feb 6 and 7, between 10 and 12 a. m. or between 2 and 4 p.m. Please bring transcript without fail. J. M. BURHAM, Chairman of Committee.
READING FOR HONORS IN ENGLISH:
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
READING FOR HONORS IN ENGLISH
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 1984
Our Contemporaries
As credit is now available for band members, there will be a partial reorganization of the band department. All former band members are eligible, as well as the present band members, to participate in band activities.
Individual responsibility is not developed by education to formula.
WANTED: Graduate of Harvard, Yale,
and Princeton, to learn restaurant busi-
ness and management in famous
Times Square restaurant, weekly cal-
lary to begin at $15; splendid opportu-
nity.
All are invited to join and make the band the biggest and best ever. The university has shown faith and is giving aplidid co-operation toward the band. Let us see how we can work together!
WANTED: GRADUATES
Compulsory attendance, required readings, and daily assignments are not conducive to original, constructive thought. Even a conscientious student is led to the conclusion that the professors are doing his thinking for him; that he needs only to follow.
J. C. McCANLES, Director.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS;
Le Cercle Francais se reunira mercredi a quatre heures et demie dans la salle 309 Fraser hall. Tous ceux qui parlent français sont invites.
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days.
and at the Office of the Secretary of State.
More than 1,000 applicants answered this advertisement inserted in a New York paper by the Paramount hotel. Among them graduates of colleges all over America and even some European universities, were 12 doctors of philosophy and half a dozen Phi Beta Kap-
development of personal responsibility.
Other nations do not share America's mania for mass-production college degrees. A student at Oxford is given a topic for study, library facilities, and the opportunity to attend lectures if he so desires. Then it is up to him. He learns or not, according to his efforts.
Something is wrong with an educational system which permits this. Perhaps it is the American mass idea—that everybody is entitled to be, and capable of being, educated. A state institution supported by taxpayers who believe that every fair son and daughter who has the time and money to waste four years should have a fancy sheepskin could scarcely do otherwise.
This is a concrete example of a condition that thinking students have subscribed for some time. College trained men and women are "a drug on the market." The time has passed when a college graduate was respected because if his degree and as an educated man was assured an above average position n life. Students are realizing that competition in the world today demands something besides a string of letters after their names and a row of fraternity pins on their vests.
RUTH BARNARD, Secretaire.
They are asking themselves the ques-
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