THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
of Kansas
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EDITORIAL STAFF
The Daily Kannan aims, to picnic the University of Kannan, to go for a university standing for the ideals the writers to be clean; to be cheerful to owe more serious problems to have more serious problems to serve to the best of ability the students.
Editor-in-Chief...Marian Collins
Associate Editor...Jacqueline Gilmore
Elmer Stuart...Campus Editor
Joe Turnes
Sports...Margaret Schulta
Graphic Editor...Margaret Schulta
Plain Tales Editor...Jaqueline Gilmore
Alumni Editor...Diane Dreese
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager----Jloyd Rupenthal
Ast. Business Manager----Carson Common
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BOARD MEMBERS
George McVoy Phyllis Wingett
Wilfred Husband Stella Dutton Hall
Trevor Forgussen Chester Sizaw
Armsm Rumberger Ted Hudson
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1922
A COURSE IN CURRENT EVENTS
Year after year faculty members at the University make the same time-worn, but questionably just, complain about one characteristic, or rather the lack of it among students. They tell us that the great majority of the undergraduates do not keep in touch with the affairs of the world they fail to keep themselves acquainted with current-events.
Theoretically, University students are preparing themselves to be leaders, and , as a matter of fact, it has been demonstrated that the university graduate does often attain a somewhat higher level in life. Then why should not the student inform himself concerning the doings of this world in which he intends to become a more or less potent being? Many students, who have cultivated the habit of reading the newspapers in other surroundings, allow it to lapse after entering the University. The reasons are legion; the press for time, the difficulty often experienced in obtaining the daily paper, a surfeit of reading without glancing at the news, and many others are the excuses offered. But is it not hard to conceive of an adequate excuse for a university man or woman not knowing that the pope was dead a week after his demise?
The average student's carelessness about his knowledge of the affairs of the moment is a subject that has been worn巾 by a great deal of talk, but still nothing is definitely done to remedy the trouble. It has been observed that when the University authorities come to believe emphatically that something is essential for the student, that thing soon becomes a universal requirement. It is so with rhetoric, exercise, and hygiene. Why should it not be so with current events?
Why not have a one-hour required course in current events at the university of Kansas? Such a class should peruse not only the daily papers, but also should study the various standard current-events magazines.
It will be argued that such a course is native to the high school, and that it has no place in the University curriculum. But it is the plain undeniable fact that the average university student does not know current-events. Are the happens in this world of ours not important enough that a study of them would merit a place in the curriculum? It seems only too evident that the suggested course would not only aid the individual, but would also prove salutary to the university as an institution.
TRADITIONS
Why can not this University have some of the old traditions which obtain and hold a permanent place in the hearts of students attending eastern colleges?
Some eastern schools have their "sing nights," others have barbecues.
circumses, carnivals and similar annual affairs which have been held for so many years that these events may be said to have become traditions. Now it would be safe to wager that kansas is the only educational institution in this part of the country that does not have a "Lovers" Lane, a fact which should single it out for distinction. Never-the-less it can not be denied that a school and other traditions ad much to the spirit of a school and the loyalty of a graduate
K. u. is still fighting for ready-made traditions. We are still demanding more and more, customs which can grow into traditions. Years ago the students on the Hill were asking the same thing we ask today. The first part of this editorial was taken almost bodily from the Semi-Weekly Kanan of November 12, 1904.
So it seems that eighteen years ago K. U. was troubled at the lack of traditions on the campus. But they had their class scraps then–forbidden now. They could correct the unruly freshmen at any time—again forbidden. Now the first rule for the development of a tradition is that it must never be changed. See how many traditions we have stopped that by 1922 would have become invaluable. Yet we complain of our lack of traditions.
While it is true that traditions can not be quickly grown, yet every day the students are laying the foundations for traditions which will become venerable if they are only allowed to continue.
Take for example, the Administration building and the board walk in front. Are these not good traditions? Let them alone for ten more years and perhaps only seniors, will be permitted the honor of walking on the decaying hoards in front of Ad. Then there is "Pi." He is a live tradition but he is a good one. The student body was making a tradition about the old clock in Blake—and the University authorities repaired the clock thus killing the tradition.
Many more traditions could be listed which have grown up here and overlooked in our longing for a traditions of other schools and overlooking our own traditions simply because it is much better, in our opinion, to borrow some other school's traditions than to notice those which have grown up here.
POOR SPORTS
Monte Carlo says, "Despite the pressure of American and British public opinion, voiced by hundreds of human visitors, the shooting of live and dame pigeons for sport continues this year on the terrace of the Casino." Shootinglive and tame pigeons for sport when there are ten million people starving in Russia, when there are people in our own country, and every other country for that matter, who would be thankful to God to have a pigeon pie once a week. Yet they shoot live and tame pigeons from the steps of the Casino for sport.
These kind of Sports lack the ambition to walk into the country and give their game in man fashion. They would rather stand on the steps of the Casino and shoot at tame pigeons at a distance of less than forty yards. They are the kind, no doubt, who would sneak up on a bunch of decks unawares, and shoot them while they sat calmly on a pond or river. They do not know the meaning of the word "fighting chance." From the imections it could be implied that they were believers in Kaiserism. In the days of the Emperors it was the custom for the nobility to sit on a raised platform and wait for the peasants to drive the game by. The one having the highest rank was entitled to the first shot; if the wild bird escaped there would probably be an execution the next morning, a peasant visited the victim.
However, it is pleasant to stand on the steps of the Casino and do one's hunting. One is not annoyed by the inconvenience of being fatigued by a long walk or ride; one does not suffer for the pangs of hunger; one can remain dressed in one's finest clothes
But one who enjoys such sport is not human. It is sport only for dignified, cold-hearted, highbrows.
Student Opinion
An example of sportmanship occurred in the Oklahoma-Kansas basketball game the other night, the significance of which seemed to have been over-looked by the fans, otherwise Oklahoma would have received the "hand" that it deserved. I refer to the time when Rody was knocked out for a few moments. He was soon up, but was accompanied by a time out. It certainly would have been to the Sooners' advantage to continue playing, but instead, their captain called time, allowing Rody to recover.
This sportmanship in the act of Captain Waite but adds to the great respect that we already have for our neighbors to the south.
Plain Tales from the Hill
FAN.
"Why is it?" reiterated the profes
ser as he pounded his desk, "Why is
it that economic distress is harras
sing the world?"
"I'll bite," spoke up a jaded voice from the rear of the class room, "Why is it?"
"Ah, ha," triumphed the student as the chalk slipped from his fingers onto the hard cement floor. "Here's what happened two grow, share one new before."
A word of warning to the head writers on the copy desk. Because of the non-existence of rubber type you are reminded to hold your hands over the desk. Remember the awful predilection of the man who wrote his wife's epitaph thundly, "Oh Lord, she is thine" but the tombstone engraver did not have room for the words.
FOUND: An ideal professor. At the beginning of a class this semester he announced, "We will use this text because it contains so little."
More women than usual are enrol-
ing in geometry. "Can it be that they seek instruction in the method of
harmonic analysis, that type 41 kilometer apartments?"
Jayhawks Flown
Establishment of a school of applied criminology, said to be the first on the American continent, has been decided on at a meeting of the Northwest Association of Sheriffs and Police, in annual convention in Carson City, where it was stated in Seattle and a generous endowment is understood to be forthcoming.
Cassandra Ritter, A. B.21, is assisting in the Missouri state bacteriology laboratory located at the University of Missouri.
Ivan Snyder, A. B. 21, superintendent of schools at Potter, Kana, visited friends in Lawrence during the week end. Mr. Snyder was accompanied by his husband, Paul, who is its return from Topeka after playing the Boye' Industrial School.
Hazel Cary, c'25, spent Saturday and Sunday at her home in Kansas City, Mo.
Lucie O'Rear, c25, spent Saturday and Sunday at her home in Kansas City, Mo.
Mr. M, R. Larkin, of Las Vegas
N. Mr. is visiting his daughters, Mar-
garet Larkin, c'23, and Katherine
Larkin, fa'23
On Other Hills
Geo. T. Badger, Purdue University reshman, presented as his claim to ane the fact that he ate eighten rawgings in a row. He wagered he could be caught in which the poultry shortory class had been examining it won his bet.
The University of Denver has recently established a regulation providing that after the student has been absent from class a certain number of times, readmission to class shall be only allowed for those students who dollars and a special examination by the instructor. No excuses are allowed, regardless of plausibility.
A chess tournament to decide the championship of the Missouri Valley states will be staged at Sloux City, Iowa, February 16, 17, and 18. The best chess players from Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Missouri and Kansas are expected to compete.
Ten thousand dollars has been set as the coal for the University of California in the drive for the Student Felldalben Fund. J. R. Matt general international chairman of the institution has just opened the drive there.
Statistics recently gathered at the University of California showed that 10 per cent of the women and 25 per cent of the men are wholly self-suppl-
The Daily Californian notes something new in the way of comestibles. Wilkins and ice cream have long been - underlined the height of gastronomic paradox. But how about chocolate covered pieks? They're a fact, and have been 'featured' this holiday season. "They're a New York Airbnb confectioner." He calls them 'something distinctly different!"—N. Y. *post*.
porting, while only 26 per cent of the men contribute nothing to their support. Over 2,500 of the students in the institution desire to live in dormitories.
Teens are being given by the Associated Women Students at the University of California and the silver obelisk will loan the bank fund for undergraduates.
For the past fifteen years the profits from the Associate Students store at the University of California have been applied to a Student Union fund and now amount to $83,000. The department at handling fountain pens has been most profitable, doing an $18,000 business during the past year.
A new 15-watt telephone set has been added to the equipment of the wireless laboratory at Oregon Agricultural University, and permanently installed it will be valuable to the college for experimental purposes and according to th instructor will give the institution one of the most modern stations on the campus.
WANT ADS
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