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SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1933
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1931
MOHAMET'S COFFIN
Conditions as they ought to be—students driving safely and sensibly, avoiding accidents, and taking full responsibility for the protection of the property and lives which their carelessness would endanger; conditions as they are—accidents taking the toll of seven students living in one year, students driving carelessly and endangering lives by their thoughtfulness.
Somewhere between the two-like Mohammā's coffin suspended between the heaven and the earth, are the conditions as the council wants them to be. The proposed measures, splendid as they seem to be theoretically, are failings of modern identification and the factors of how well they ought to be.
Most students drive cars with the knowledge and full content of parents and guardians. Most of them have been driving since they were old enough to learn, freely use the family car at home, and will probably spend much of their time after graduation in driving for either pleasure or business. Considering these facts it is a little ridiculous to make rules on the assumption that students are incapable of driving, and that their driving is any more of a menace to public safety than that of other drivers on the highway.
Generalizations are always dangerous, but it is fairly safe to assume that students as a class are not more careless or incapable than more mature drivers. But such a comparison would not action as a sound basis for any action. There is danger enough on the campus to warrant traffic regulation.
The council resolution is definite on just two points: sending letters to parents pointing out the stand of the administration and governing bodies, and enforcing the city ordinance concerning more than three passengers riding in the front seat of a car. Neither of these suggested remedies will do either much good or much harm, and so it will be all right for the council to expend its excess energy in attempting to carry them out, although the latter one will meet with considerable student antagonism.
The most effective way to deal with the situation would be to punish leekless drivers by depriving them of the use of their cars. Any student driver who is known to endanger the lives of fellow students by driving carelessly sacrifices any right he may have had to the privilege of driving. Then and only then is there justification in saying, "Thou shalt not." It is not fair, and it is not practical to restrict student cars by saying only a certain number can drive on the road. It would be hard to curtail the driving of negligent or reckless students who lack the sanity to see that they are endangering the lives of others. The student council has disciplinary powers, and in the case of careless driving it would be justified and upheld by most students in exercising that power.
Simners used to have their souls before a priest. Now the tabloids save them the trouble.
A NOTE OF LIBERALISM
An encouraging note of liberalism was sounded in Pope Plus's broadcast encyclical which was heard by millions.
While disclaiming any leaning toward
socialism or communism, he said that a reconstruction of the world's entire economic system should be made to bring about a more equitable distribution of wealth between capital and labor. In his relation to the lives of individuals the pope is probably the most influential person living. Many of his listeners probably were devoted supporters of the status quo, and the statement coming from him is a step leading to constructive solution of problems which undoubtedly are sadly in need of serious consideration.
A SAINT SLIPS
The Empire State building weighs 000,000 pounds, and weight on any given square inch is equal to that borne by an average French heel. Just try telling a woman that she presses the earth like a skyscraper?
Ailine Simple McPherson, erstwhile仆役er of the Four-Square gospel, is slipping. The other night while she was passing through Kansas City on her return from a trip around the world a mere handful of her lambs turned out to give her the glad hand, where in similar instances whole squirrels of police have been necessary to control the crowds in the past. Instead of greeting them with the cheer "hello suckers", which would have seemed very appropriate, she confined her salutations to a few feeble halluilles and "Praise the Lord." The entire celebration which was carried on from the rear platform of her Pollman didn't have the interest of a second rate vaudeville act, and the only roes that were thrown were tossed by Ailine herself. And to make things more humiliating for the id of evangelism, the halo that seemed to play about her face, much to the awe of her fancies, turned out to be the tears on a swirling灯外.
Perhaps Aimee doesn't get the old fashioned jib and tang into her mob psychology as she used to do in the good old days when she was packing them in three times a day. Maybe her publicity directors have ceased to function. But no matter what the cause, the fact remains that Aimee has lost her strangle hold on the credibility of the business and has threaded saint now, with the shine worn completely off her halo and her wings in tatters.
SPAIN'S REPUBLIC
The two palaces and the estate of King Alphonax III, valued at $10,000-.00, were seized by the republican government as a part of its program to seize all properties belonging to the exiled monarch.
Spain doesn't seem to realize what a true republic would be like. It seems to feel that someone must be a dictator! When the king is ousted, the new head of the so-called republic proclaims his power by allowing mobs to burn churches and by seizing what property is left.
KNOWLEDGE OR GRADES?
A young person graduating from a college or a university today is judged largely on the grades he received while in school. At any rate, when he applies for a position he is more likely to be accepted if he has been a B student while in school than if he has been a C student.
This method of classifying college grades might be very useful to the student and beneficial to the employer if grading systems could be standardized and grades were an actual measure of a graduate's potential knowledge. Neither is true, however. Just as no two students are alike, no two instructors can be expected to think and act alike. One person who graduates from college as a B student may be no raided because his knowledge of the subjects justifies such a grade. Another person thinks slowly and does not learn easily, but at the end of each semester he is given B's because of the effort put forth. Still another takes his work seriously, makes an honest effort to improve, and does good work. He also is rated as a B student.
The only suitable solution for this problem, and many others that arise in connection with grading systems, is a complete doing away with grades. This would be very impractical and almost impossible with the system of higher education now in use, but would apply to many other schools. When a boy or girl graduates from
When a boy or girl graduates from
high school and expects to attend a college he could be required to take a two-year course similar to that of the junior colleges today. This two-year school would have two main purposes: Broadening the student and helping him to select his subject for specialization, and a weeding-out process to eliminate those from the higher institutions who will not make the most of their opportunities.
With this preliminary work, the la-
two years spent in college could be
carried on without a grading system and
with the focus on education and not on
AN OHIO DECISION
a decision which might establish a precedent was handed down in an Ohio court recently. The court decided that a state-supported university did not have the right to expel students who fail to attain specified scholastic qualifications, and ruled that the institution could force one to remain in the same grade until he mastered the work, but could not dismiss one from school. It is perfectly true that the people of a state support the state schools, and that as public institutions they should be open to any citizen's son or daughter. It is equally true, too, that public money is practically wasted on a student who can not or will not keep abreast of his classmates, and do satisfactory work. The state spends money on each individual student it attempts to educate, and it would be a short-sighted policy for taxpayers to insist that all students who could pay fees must be allowed to remain in school.
The Campus Muse
BETWEEN US
came to your shores with ideas of the
Orden still lived in my mind,
found the West a reality; I recall the
East a dream.
upon my landing I examined a handful of your soil and I compared it to that from whence I came;
but I also saw your trees differ from our trees at home when autumn comes and winter reigns.
was surprised, for I found the grains in it much the same as that of my country—in fact they were the same. behold your trees and your flowers—
stripped of their proud green garments they look like our naked mangrove by the brinks of shallow lakes.
I am of the East.
This made me wonder, and I wondered.
When an answer came, it was an im-
immutable NO.
Our trees are alike, our soils are the same, therefore can we be brothers and twin?
met you in the corridor of my eyes where I found some facts I still hesitate to call as truths.
You and I are the same insofar as craving for life is concerned.
Do we not clamor for food at morn, at noon, and at sundown?
But to me, ember, ebony, ivory, carmine, or copper is naught,
True, we differ from each other in the hue of skin, for yours is ivory-white and mine is copper-brown.
For beneath its flimy surface all flesh is pinkish, all veins are blue.
And yes, we differ more.
indeed 'tis true you feel even as I feel,
you cry as I cry, you laugh as I laugh.
I am of the East
insult; I feel meditated, and satisfy the senses.
I feel it to glorify the emotion.
I feel it to glorify the emotion.
I weep not with crys against my neighbors but with anger against my misled being.
I weep not with pity for the dead but with hope for the living.
Yes, East is East and never is West.
When you dream of palaces and power:
When you imagine banks note and gold, I imagine ashes and dust;
When you look for diamonds and pearls, I look at stars and moons;
When you imagine warriors and warriors, I wish for saints and martyrs;
When you fancy parties or dances, a fancy of work and prayers;
When you fancy jazzzes, I want haunting fantasies;
Where you act with sophistication, I act with soul philosophy;
When you dream of platoonry, I thirst for sacred democracy;
When you dream of civilization, I dream of spiritualization.
Such are the things between you and me.
And yet, I know you as god and you know me not.
and you dream even as I dream.
But I am of the East and you are of the West.
P. C. Morantte, Philippine Islands
When you feel vengeance to right an insult, I feel meditation to redress it; When you feel love to satisfy the senses, I feel it to clarify the emotion.
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THE BOOK NOOK
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XVIII  Sun., May 17, 1921 No. 161
BUSINESS CENTER
The big sister captains will please meet at Henley house on Monday at 4:30 p.m.
JOSEPHINE MAXWELL, Chairman.
COLLEGE FACULTY MEETING:
BIG SISTER CAPTAINS:
The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Tuesday May 14, at 6:30 a.m. in the auditorium on the third floor of the Administration Building.
PI LAMLDA THETA:
The Fi Lamba Theta annual strawberry festival will be held Tuesday evening, May 19 at 7:30 at 2161 Massachusetts street. This is the final meeting of the year. All members are urged to be present.
BETTY M. CORBY, Secretary.
SACHEM INITIATION:
The entire University is invited to attend the Sachen institution at the Rock Chalk Cairn tonight at 7 o'clock. VAUGHN DOWNNS, Chief Sachem
EXPERIMENTS SHOW AMOUNT OF WALKING DONE EACH DAY
The average American takes 18.088 steps per day, the equivalent of 77% miles.
At least this is the estimate of Dr. Joseph Lelyveld of Boston, director of research for the National Association of Physicians, based on a series of experiments.
The average housewife, in doing her daily household tasks, walks for as many miles as the average person. Other mileages recorded in studies of pedestrians of all walks of life in England are shown.
Woman shopper, 8-1-3 miles per day;
schoolboy, 13 miles; schoolgirl, 11%
snowboarder, 20 miles; skateboarder,
25% miles; saloogir, 8 miles; steamer
in grill room, 12% miles; railroad
cardrutor, 7 miles; policeman, 14 miles;
biker, 22 miles; store manager,
6% miles.
Inimicutions Against Theaters
Financials Against The剧院
F. R. Lloyd, county attorney, Judge Karen Kennett granted two temporary injunction against the Majestic theater owner at Elite theater at Greenleaf, restraining them from operating on Sunday. The County attorney took this action as a result of the county ministerial association.
Well Dressed Students
go to
R. E. Protsch, the Tailor
833 Mass.
Well Dressed Students
Spring Days call for Spring Meals
Tasty Sandwiches or a Drink at Our Fountain Will Put You in Tune With the Weather.
The Chef welcomes you with the best of food.
George's Lunch 1011 Mass.
Try our pie and you will come back for more.
Dine at
for eating
JAYHAWK CAFE
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Nothing is good enough but the best
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--for eatin at
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Best Fountain and Sandwich Service in Town
Three Reasons
WARNING TO SENIORS
This is your last chance to get a picture of your friends on the campus. When you leave school, keep memory fresh with an Eastman Kodak.
We have all sizes of films. The new verichrome film takes better and clear pictures than the old one.
Rankin's Drug Store
"Handy for Students"
11th & Mass "Handy for Students" Phone 673
--now ready for men and women.
Jantzen The suit that changed bathing to swimming
$5 $5.50 $6
SWIMMING SUITS
4.
Select your Jantzen now before the rush.
Annual
Spring Concert
Combined Glee Clubs University of Kansas
University Auditorium
May 19
8 p. m.
Student Enterprise Tickets Admit 50c to Others