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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1932
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ROBERT WHITEMAN
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FRIDAY,OCTOBER 14,1932
WANTED: A CHAPERON
The Men's Student Council should be commended on the recommendation calling for the abolition of the chaperon system at Watkins Memorial hospital. Its adoption, without a doubt, expresses the sentiment of the majority of students.
The opinion of the students is accurately explained in the recommendation when it says, "students consider this regulation an unfair insinuation on their moral stability." It seems absurd that such a mid-Victorian rule is in existence.
The inconvenience of the present system is another factor which seems to have been forgotten. In case an epidemic of flu, or some other malady, should break out, someone could easily capitalize on the rule, as it is applied, and hire himself out as a chaperon.
K.U.S "MORON" ALUMNI
William Allen White's picturesque assault on the K.U. alumni must be taken with a grain of salt, as he probably meant it to be, and anyone familiar with his writings will take that attitude.
Mr. White believes the best way to influence his readers is to attempt to lead them a little farther than he knows they will go. He has found through years of editorial experience that it takes quite a jolt to judge most people.
With a little provocation from some other campus, he could have easily changed his editorial to describe the "rough-neck" alumni of M. U. or N. U. or O. U. or what not. Kansas is not the first university to dismiss a football coach in the hope of putting the team on a winning basis.
In this case he shows not only his delight in using bizarre and extreme phraseology, but also the fact that he has never been enamored with football. This is not the first time he has seized an opportunity to attack the game. Nevertheless, he may be right in his belief that football is becoming too commercialized for the good of the game, the players, and the school itself.
There are undoubtedly a few of them who are not human monkeys or morons.
"Committee Seeks Stunts to Please Returning Grads"—headline in the Kansan yesterday. What the committee should do is to prepare the students for some of the stunts that the returning grads will pull.
A FOUR YEAR CYCLE
These politicians and political writers certainly are unmindful of the work they cause college students. Through the radio, in the papers, at the movies, and even into the sanctity of the study rooms, their logical and illogical arguments prevail upon us.
There are very few courses in which the professor does not require his faithful understandstu to teare every bit of political "poppycock" apart and from chaos regain cosmos. Just as all good things must come to an end, so must all bad things and every student knows down deep in his heart that this is bad—some of the professors even go so far as to admit it is.
There is an election in the offing which had ought to stop this barrage of oratory and writing. But in its place will grow the usual list of accusations and "I told you so's." Merryll the political game goes on; in another four years, the process ii another four years, the process will be repeated.
Campus Opinion
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Editor's Note: All "campus opinions" must be signed. Several have been received in the past three weeks with the same case will be discarded, unless identified.
ditor Daily Kansan:
According to the campus opinion in the University Daily Kanaan, Friday, Sept. 30, the student activity ticket is not "worth the money." The worth of anything is determined by the equal amount of service received. In measuring the ticket's worth then, anyone who is familiar with the presentation of such events offered on this ticket, knows their high standards and knows the prices necessary to see and hear them. Students are greatly enough to merit their presentation.
F. C. C., as the writer has signed himself, calls the activity ticket a luxury. To a number of students who bought it, it is not considered as such, but, instead, as a very necessary course in this broadening process called education. Compared to many courses offered in the regular schedule, the fees, speaking comparatively, are exceeded by those who know all students bought these tickets in the same spirit as he has, nor draw such a heavy line between those he calls the "average person" and the "culture seeder." The average person, we hope and are optimistic enough to believe, has to some degree an inner urge for the higher, fine things of life. What is this but culture? These tickets have a wide enough variety of abilities to satisfy the cultural tastes of everyone.
Students feeling they are being "gipped," because they do not care to attend all programs offered on the ticket, should try to attend the events they desire, as they are presented in cities as public attractions.
As for F. C. C. c. feeling sorry for the students because they are making black marks for themselves by not buying, it seems that it would be more sensible (although equally as useless) to feel sorry for them because they have not trained themselves to find the employee and satisfaction which is to come from such events, as to them in the student activity ticket
Editor Daily Kansan:
Thank God it happened! At has somebody stood on his hind legs and barked. Regardless of who should read the recommendation, Mr. Student Council. The Recommendation committee or the student who presented the recommendation, the person or persons who did present it is certainly a seat of martyrdom in the hearts of students.
Possibly you understand by now that I did not approve of something. You're right—I didn't and don't. The unnecessary and aburd chapron rule at the hospital is contrary to the very basis of modern democracy. More than a century ago, independence banned such a rule, and Kansas is a democratic school!
Patients are usually committed to a hospital because of some physical disability—if they are incapacitated they can not "caper"—if they "caper" they are not sick—so why keep them at a hospital? Can be that the hospital is a modified facility? Certainly when the representative body of the majority of the students "respectively requests" that the rule be abrogated it is entitled to more than a flight consideration from the "proper authorities." Sufficient reasons for the change of the regulation are stated in the "Procedures and Rules" by the council. Come on "proper" to the stigma off the good name of tannas. LR.
THE PERFECT EXAMPLE
they fired Billy Hargas, K.U. football coach, after the defeat of the K.U. team Satin fired because he failed. Under all the rules of college football as it is played today, this is fair.
Our Contemporaries
So long as victory is the one requirement, honesty is unimportant. It's gladiatorial game. The mob demands victory. Defeat is the unpardonable sin. The mob will forgive anything in it that doesn't belong to being the roughgeek alumni; brass lured, hair-brained, human monkeys unwittingly let out of the cage and branded as humans with sheepkins under the kind of education our modern colleges give. One is as had as another. It is hard for a student to endure fundment of any college oruni-
THE PERFECT EXAMPLE
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXX Friday, Oct. 14, 1972 No
There will be a meeting of the Mathematics club Monday, Oct. 17, at 433 in room 211 Administration building. New members are especially invited.
MATHEMATICS CLUB:
Noelle died at Chambley's office on Saturday afternoon prison days and 11:30 a.m. for Sunday school, by his side.
OLETA MARKHAM. President.
versity. It helps to build these vases, expensive show places for football that hurt our colleges more than they help. Endowment and intelligent legislative support never come from the moor. This crowd is a cause to any college.
Some day the university president's union will take a big drink of gin and its nerve up. When upon it will turn its back squashily on all alumni eager to graduate, students will interest of education. Then the presidents will let football go straight to hell from whence it came. In the meantime, don't blame the proxies and profs. Society hasn't developed far enough to handle the backing they need—Emperor Gazette.
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
At the opening of a new academic session one of the vital questions that confronts almost every undergraduate, freshman or otherwise, is "How many activities outside my course shall I engage in, and which ones shall they be?" Particularly the freshman, at the beginning of this new phase of his existence, is confronted and frequently be challenged by the more critical activities, most of which have a potential value and an apparent interest from that individual's point of view. Every college has its student council or society, with its affiliated organizations; every course has its permanent club. There may be opportunities to join certain athletic teams or clubs, or to work on specialized organizations whose membership is drawn from all faculties and courses and which take the form of study groups, debating societies, or literary publications. Such a multiplicity
of activities may in many cases deprive the ambitions student with the apparent impossibility of taking advantage of the opportunities of university life.
The new student, then, is faced with the problem of making a rational choice among the many possible fields and making a practical allotment of his time between them. What organi- zation has of the greatest comparative adap-tiveness and futile? What are peculiarly opposite to the student's own personal inclinations and traits? What are most "respectable" and innocuous? The choice that the student must make is of course, entirely a personal one; the advice of others is helpful but not de- sirable. This situation has particular characteristics and conditions of the student. The decision rests with the individual, as do most of the decisions that a student must make at university. It should be based on careful consideration and comparison, and possibly experimentation, and then a rational selection with proper regard to individual's preclivities and abilities.
Yet in writing this editorial, we did not merely intend to indulge in such specious generalisations as these mentioned—that there is a problem, and that the decision rests with individual. We seek to impress upon those who read these lines that a university education requires years of religious attending lectures and reading prescribed text books, and that every new student should realize the significance of university activities outside the lecture room, and who solve the problem of selection by simply neglecting all such activities from the day of their enrolment to the day of graduation. It may be partially conceived that may be partially considered cases by an intense interest and absorption in their academic field, by the extremely heavy character of their courses, and by financial stringency which necessitates part-time employment. Yet in the case of the listless student, devoid of any interests whatsoever, it cannot be too severe embitterance or advantage of the generosity of his family and of his government.
The outstanding features of a university education, in our opinion, are two in number. The liberalizing influence that it may have on the student mind is one i.e. the awakening in the student mind of the realization that institutionally ordained, that we must not remain forever hidebound by age-old doctrines and systems, that we must subject all our institutions to cool, rational criticism with a view to reconciling them to changing conditions. The second feature that may be outstanding in our experience is that it may foster in student mentality, i.e., the lifting of his eyes beyond the narrow confines of his own family, his own friends, his own country, to the broad field of art, mankind, and society, as a whole. We have in each case that these features may make it easier for me to meer; probably the best medium through which these hidden values may
be secured in that of extra-curriculum activities. Certainly they can be secured better through this medium than by way of lectures, the two main characteristics of which are directly opposed to the two values which we seek. Those two characteristics (which of course are not universally applicable) include the fact that most matter of most courses of lectures, and the method of dogmatic assertion too frequently employed by lectures—The Varsity, University of Toronto.
ACTIVITIES FOR
UNAFFILIATED MEN
Perhaps the full significance of the announcement made yesterday that the unaffiliated students on the campus are to hold a meeting Wednesday was not appreciated by new students in the in-principal classes and the campus, who incidentally constitute a large majority of men students, will at this time attempt to organize themselves into an effective body to promote three purposes: namely, to secure political recognition, to provide for intramural sports participation, and to encourage unengaged students in participation in other extra-curricular activities.
A full realization of the importance of this movement depends upon an understanding of just how small a part gronffilated students have had in the student life of the institution in the past few years. In spite of the fact that these students constitute such a large proportion of the student body, they have gradually been crowded out, or have withdrawn from student activities, because of competition with members of the faculty and because of their organization, have proved more aggressive in promoting themselves.
Perhaps it may seem an unwarranted assumption that the predominance of Greeks in activities is a result of their organization, but it seems to be the only explanation, unless one wishes to assume that hard students are inferior to hard students. It seems scarcely logical to believe that insignia of a Greek letter lodge necessarily indicates superior ability, particularly when it is known that membership in such groups is not actually exclusive, however much the groups may desire to give that impression. Financial stringency and other necessities, as well as voluntary choice, operate in favor of student institutions from joiner-fraternities.
But even though it be conceded that large numbers of the unaffiliated students may have no interest in activities, they have such interests, but who actually are handicapped by lack of organization. And once such organization is effected, it will be a natural outcome for them to choose those who at present have no interest.
It is on the basis of this organization and pushing of members of the organization that Greeks have attained dominance in the field of activities. There is no reason why burbs should not have the same advantages of organization, the burbs, accustomed to their lethargy, refuse to support the movement.
We recognize the difficulties of starting such a movement from scratch, but we firmly believe in its value. The biggest obstacle to the success of this program is that students from already established groups. It will rather tend to be the difficulty of arounding the barbs themselves. The Daily Nebraska joins with Willard Young, the president and promoter of an approaching to the barbs to get behind the project and push. Its possibilities are unlimited. Daily Nebraska.
Included on the Homecoming program for this year are provisions for awarding three cups to organized houses which are judged the most appropriate for the event, or are the most beautiful, or are the most something-
It appears to the Student that in a year such as this one organized houses might be glad to get along without the frills during Homecoming.
We Might Do Away With House Decorations Homecoming
During past years they cost cffaternities and se锈ortes from $25 to $75 each to decorate their houses in order to win the prize. In a distance of the prize. Some houses were blessed with more dollars than others. The result was that all of the houses had to decorate or be called se锈ortes. Their expense dug deeply into financial reserves.
The same will be true this year except that more fraternities and sororites will need those extra dollars for more substantial investments.
which wins a cup will appear more attractive in the eyes of freshmen who are being rushed. There always is a little more glamor about anything which is connected with winning a recent contest.
There is this minor angle too. Sororities which can afford it will decorate as lavishly as possible. The sorority
It wouldn't seem so bad, would it, to have Homecoming without feastiness? We've only had few organized houses which would squabble about it - Iowa State Student
Sez the Editors
--our ears. Our carpets come from a love of the animal specimens to be used for the hunt undoubtedly will be of the much-esteem mil-dew variety that ask nothing more than a warm cage and regular buns of raw meat. Looed, they will do nothing but shink to the nearest barn and ignominiously hide. As a sporting animal, our wounds would compare with popping jack rabbits. And it's so tough on the lions.
May we view with alarm the lien hunt that is scheduled for the near future in southeastern Missouri? The plan of the promoters of the event is to hold the auction in join the chase at so much a head. Our complaint is not based on the possible danger to life and property. There isn't any property in that section worth anything and a few southwest Missourians or less wouldn't make
Jack Harris mentions, in the Chanute Tribune, the poet Browning, as his favorite poet, and E. K. Eiley, in the Touro asks, "Who in this guy Browning?"
Browning was the New York fellow whose adopted daughter and quondam wife, Peaches, that charming little ditty, most famous, perhaps, of all Browning's work, "Poppa Passes." -Arkansas City Daily Traveler.
She says: "This man should be given a good lesson, because his books have ruined many boys with their fantastic tales of adventure." Should adventure be taught to children, however, you would lose the heart of literature. Indiana Dual Student.
The Italian police are stumped. A widow, whose 15-year-old son ran away from home, has demanded the arrest of her husband, an author who has been dead many years.
There have been all sorts of puns
adrift since the Inault brothers began
figuring in the news in a big way, but
the sweeptakes prize to date is held by
the intripre exchange which observes
that putting the brothers in jail is "adding injury to Insull."—Kansas City Kansan.
Bill Hargis has resigned as coach at the University of Kansas, and now the alumni can go back to work again—Garden City Telegraph.
Bever may be all right to drink, but mother would rather see dad bring home the bacon—Noreaur Dipnach.
A Texas farmer lost his pocketbank containing $700, same having been eaten by a cow. That sum invested in a hard might prove profitable, but experts report it as too much to put into a single cow—Coffeyville Daily Journ-
If, by the way, the southeast Missourians want something really sporting, we suggest turning any ten of them loose in a back yard with Rover and we'll bet them even money they can't catch him—Chanute Tribune.
A farm home near St. Marys burned the other day and the owner plans to rebuild, according to the Star. Which suggests that practical farm relief might make it possible for a business which would make it possible to burn the roof and so- Topic Journal.
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K. U. Students Are Very Cordially Invited to Attend a Free Lecture on Christian Science
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