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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief. Walter G. Heron
News Editor. Grace Olsen
Telegraph Editor. Michael R. Brenner
Telegraph Editor. Lucile Cleveland
Sport Editor. A. E. Garvain
Alumni Editor. Joe Bucy
Telegraph Editor. G.C. Barnett
Exchange Editor. James Austr
BUSINESS STAFF
BOARD MEMBERS
Henry B. McCurdy...Business Mgr,
Lloyd Ruppenthal..Asn't Business Mgr,
Deane W. Malott...Circulation Mgr
Herbert Little
Catherine Oder
Gilbert Swenson
Media Smith
Paul White
Ruth Armstrongn
Burt E. Cochran
Ferd Gottlieb
Alfred Graves
Geneva Hunter
J. K. Kistler
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
published in the afternoon, five times a week by students in the Department of History of the Emirates of Kuwait, the press of the Department of Journalism.
Address all communications to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones. K, U, 25 and 66.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the class, by printing the news and then more printing the news by standing for the ideals the students wish to see in their essays; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to learn to listen to wiser heads; in all to understand the students of the University.
FRIDAY,OCT.15,1920.
ATHLETES AS CANDIDATES
When Dr. Allen issued his condemnation of the participation of athletes in Hill politics, he furnished not a small amount of material for thought on the part of the students and organizations closely connected with the control of the political situation on the campus. Deal with properly, and considered thoroughly, Dr. Allen's statement should lead to a political reform.
It has long been held by Hill politicalicians that an athlete makes a good candidate for office, and that a ticket comprising a poorly number of well known athletes is almost sure to be "put across." This is true, as it should be. If there are any men in the University who are worthy of the honors coincident with the election to a class office, they are the athletes. The man who fights his way to a place on the football squad, the man who runs miles every evening to put himself in condition for track, and the man who works out faithfully on the basket ball court in order to make the squad, are certainly deserving of all the honor the student body can record them. Their elections to class offices constitute an excellent means of expressing the appreciation of their work. Nobody can deny that.
But now Dr. Allen comes forward with a statement of his views that causes us to look at the manner in a slightly different light. The participation of athletes in political competition lends itself to dangerous possibilities. Strong men on the football squad might be pitted against each other. Team work, the essential of all athletic success, might unfortunately be replaced by political antagonism. With a ticket including a number of athletes waging a campaign in the middle of the athletic season, athletes are bound to suffer. Successful political activity requires work and campaigning, just as successful athletics require hard work and uninterrupted diligence. One cannot flourish except to the detritum or the other.
If the political organizations of the University do not consider a campaign plausible without the participation of its quota of athletes, it is possible that a system can be worked out by which the names of the candidates are to be presented. Bor example, in the class elections of the fall, the athletic candidates to those who participate in basketball, track and baseball, and give the football players berths on the tickets in the spring elections. This would enable the students to honor their athletic favorite without interfering with their participation in athletics to any extensive degree.
But regardless of the opinions, ideas and suggestions that arise in connection with the subject, Dr. Allen
sad something that should start some serious thinking. And the University knows from its experience with Dr. Allen that it is usually right.
By this time most of last year's high school graduates who have enrolled in K. U., have gotten accustomed to the odor of brilliance.
While the heavy artillery duel on the political battle front between Senator Harding and Governor Cox has been in progress, President Wilson and Senator Spencer of Missouri have engaged themselves in a subsidiary skirmish over on the left flank of the sector. Senator Spencer began a harassing attack on the White House several weeks ago, when in a campaign speech, he made the statement that President Wilson told certain delegates at the peace conference that the United States would sends its army and navy to Europe if such a step were necessary for the preservation of world peace.
Following this, Secretary Tumult, at the instance of President Wilson, issued a statement in which there was a firm denial that the President had ever made any such promise. The Missouri senator followed with a reaffirmation of his charges, and the other day the full text of the records relative to the alleged promise was made public at the White House. The issuance of the text, the President's friends hold, is conclusive proof that his denial was justified. It did not, however, satisfy the President's political enemies, who claim that the publication of the proceedings was simply an admission of Senator Spencer's accuracy. The case is apparently one of different interpretations of the presidential rhetoric.
And so the big battle goes on, with all its ins-battles, side skirmishes, attacks and counter attacks. The patient public is eagerly awaiting the
ecisive day in November, when the alliant general from Ohio will lead is political troops to victory.
The band is being forced to make as many decisions as a student who has three ties.
SHOW YOUR COLORS
There are very few women who know the "plank" of the platforms of either ticket. The student political organizations are interpreting their policies and are also explaining the workings of the political machinery which is necessary to run any election. Complex questions when are trivial in a sense to the older and more experienced voter but which are a source of annoyance to the young voter, are cleared up.
There are chances for political education in either of the political organizations, which are not found in many places, and it is doubtless if there will be at any time a better political school than is organized on the Hill at the present time.
The University of Utah with 1501 students enrolled for 1920-21, now ranks among the ten largest state universities in America, according to the announcement of Elbert D. Thomas, secretary-treasurer.
How hard it is for most of us to keep in mind the right viewpoint regarding the lessons and assignments which are given us in the various courses which we take while at the University. It is so easy for us to forget that we, and not the instructors, are the primary gainers when a hard assignment is filled, and filed on time.
INSTRUCTORS AND ASSIGNMENTS.
In grammar and high schools we look upon our teachers as bug-bears whose sole object in life was to torment us with long, hard lessons. We were not old enough then to realize that these lessons were for our sole benefit, and that the teachers
were but a means of enabling us to get the most out of them.
Strange to say, many of us carry the same narrow-minded attitude with us when we enter a college or university. An instructor is "hard" or "easy," we say; he has it in for us, gives us long, unreasonable lessons, and will not accept late assignments. Getting our lessons becomes more a matter of satisfying the instructor than deriving anything out of of it ourselves.
The student who really gets something out of the scholastic side of his university or college life is the one who realizes and always boars in mind, the fact that lessons and assignments are for his own individual benefit, and not merely a requirement for pleasing the instructor and "getting by" in the course.
Campus Opinions
Why not start the practice of putting the names of the professors who hold their classes over-time, in the Kansan? Never before has the practice of holding classes been so noticeable as it is this year, and there is no excuse because the whistle very seldom blows on time.
Editor of the Daily Kansan;
A Student
Yours for the above-mentioned column.
If the professor would remember that some of the student's next hour classes are on the other end of the hall, they would be more prompt in closing his class.
On Other Hills
First Freshman: Is she as sour as she books?
Second Freshman: Sour? Why, Why,
that woman gazed aloft on a starry
night she'd curle the milky way.—Wilichan Messenger.
Two young fellows in Denver University have made the boast that they will take twenty different girls out during the coming school year without detection. The Clarion, the university newspaper, has taken the challenge to visit a campus where they call "Coke" and "Cherry," from such a fickle undertaking.
SMOKING COMMON PAD WITH MIS-
SOUR'S FAIR SEX
"I don't know what is becoming of the young women," said spoke a Columbia druggist today. "Five years ago, we had immorality and immorality for a woman to have been guilty of buying cigarettes, especially for her own use. Now I sell lots of them to the young women—and they are mostly of the entirely respectable classes, too. Unintended young women; young raised here in town."
The druggist said that the milder brands of cigarettes were preferred: Tartrets, Molachinos, and Milos. According to the druggist, a great number of young women' s smokes are bought by men- Columbia Evening Missourian.
The Ohio State Lantern tells us that the worst thing in the rules laid down for the Oxley Hall Freshmen is he punishment the upperclassman isave inflicted upon themselves byorcing the yearling girls to sing forhem.
We see by the Emporia College Life that several members of the Freshman class breakfasted from the mantel Sunday morning.
An ad club is to be organized at Missouri University. The first purpose of the club is to advertise the university, by bringing the aims and purposes of the school before the students. So this the club will be divided into groups with each group including a student speaker or faculty member, a quartet and a prominent Tiger athlete. The groups will be sent all over Missouri and adjacent states, where they will visit the high schools.
The School of Mines at Rolla has been selected as the location for the U. S. Bureau of Mines, Lead and Zinc Experiment Station. It is planned to coordinate the actual laboratory investigating work with the school. The headquarters will be in St. Louis. The school will have large deposits of oxidized lead ores in certain districts of Missouri and to consider their mining possibilities.
They want to find out how far the women of D. U. will let them go. One said, "There is no limit. I can walk all the way." And each one will believe me when I tell her a lot of bunk about how much I care for her."
When they are discovered a complete list will be printed of places attended and girls that are taken.
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