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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 7, 1960
A Needed Proposal
The All Student Council introduced a much-needed proposal Tuesday night when it decided to investigate the adequateness of the existing disciplinary system.
A resolution was introduced to investigate the need to clarify disciplinary rules, and to determine if KU's disciplinary system is adequate.
While we consider it commendable for the ASC to investigate a problem that the personnel deans say does not exist, it also should be pointed out that it is the ASC's responsibility to see that an adequate system is established.
The deans have derived their authority to deal with discipline through a bill in the ASC's Constitution. Therefore, if there are any discrepancies found, the ASC has the right to pass corrective measures.
There is one specific area that needs clarification.
Dean of Men Donald K. Alderson has said that, under the present system, the administration determines where the disciplinary cases should be handled.
could be handed. On the other hand, the ASC Constitution
sets down specific jurisdiction for the Student Court and the Disciplinary Committee. While the jurisdiction of the groups is overlapping in a few cases, the Student Court can be described as a court of original jurisdiction in most cases. The Disciplinary Committee, although being designated as having original jurisdiction in cases involving infractions of scholastic honesty and the constitutionality of legislation passed by the ASC, can generally be considered an appellate body.
Presently, the Student Court handles only traffic cases. This body will have to be given its full constitutional measure of authority before the present system will function as it should.
All disciplinary cases should go directly to the Student Court.
However, this is not the only remedy needed to improve the disciplinary situation. There are also the problems of having (1) the accused student represented by a qualified legal counsel, (2) the Chancellor as the final appeal, and (3) the Disciplinary Committee, students who are generally untrained in law, as the overriding appellate body.
Doug Yocom
A Novel Approach
Editor:
A novel approach to world peace was recently developed in South Africa by Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd and his peace club.
In the Kansas City Star of April 4, it was stated that: "Negroes who fail to join native back-to-work movements in the Cape Town area are beaten by soldiers and peace officers. One was killed...and ... Cape Town's hospitals reported a steady flow of Negroes, most suffering head injuries from police elbus."
Here is an analysis of this approach to world peace:
ADVANTAGES:
1. It costs less, as no atomic research is involved.
3. It can be run on a family basis well as on a large scale.
2. There is no need of disarmament talks or a nuclear test ban.
5. There will be no more nationalistic movements.
as well as on a large scale.
4 It seems to be better than Company.
6. It will cost less, as only one side uses arms.
DISADVANTAGES
1. It may not appeal to sensible
DISADVANTAGES:
people, as it costs the lives of unarmed, suppressed and helpless millions.
2. It may not work so effectively after a few years, even in South Africa.
3. It is a golden opportunity for international Communism.
Thanks to Prime Minister Verwoerd for his contribution to the efforts for world peace.
Dilbagh Singh Bariana
Dubagh Singh Barana
Punjab, India, graduate student
Unfairness in U.N.?
Editor:
Speaking for myself and for several other students who represented the Soviet bloc at the Model U.N. I would like to express dissatisfaction with the arbitrary manner in which our proposed supplementary resolution was tossed aside by Messrs. Austin, Nebrig, Archer and company at Friday's General Assembly. This resolution called for a censure of the Union of South Africa for its inhuman and murderous policy of racial segregation.
Austin stated that the resolution would be ignored because the Soviet bloc had just walked out over the tabling of the proposal to admit Red China; and he went on to
the next supplementary item as the meeting proceeded to deteriorate into chaos. Yet before he announced this decision, a representative of the USSR had already returned and was sitting in his regular place. Furthermore, appeals to reconsider the resolution were bluntly denied, on the grounds that the Soviets could not re-enter the Assembly.
Nothing in the real U. N. rules or in those for the Model U. N. prevents a delegation from coming and going as it pleases. The walk-out was staged in order to make a good show, it was planned well in advance, and it had to be made at the end of the regular business because every previous vote of any importance had gone in favor of the Soviets.
The confusion that reigned during the last half hour would much better have been replaced by serious attention to the South African race problem, a vital and timely issue which was not available for consideration during the personal preference voting on Saturday. It would have given a welcome opportunity to many students, especially those of us in the Soviet bloc, to express our own consciences along with the viewpoints of the countries we represented, after a day of play-acting on behalf of policies with which we did not necessarily agree.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"THIS REPORT SHOWS OUR OVERALL GRade AVERAGE TO BE UP 52% THIS MONTH-AN' I MIGHT REMIND YOU THAT 8.32 MORE IN T.H.V. FUND AN' WE CAN REPLACE THAT BURNED OUT PICTURE TUBE."
Edwin Munger, our visiting African specialist, considers U. S. criticism of South Africa immediately after the Sharpeville massacre to be ill-timed. I strongly disagree. When an evil act has been committed, we should waste no time in condemning it as such. Here at K U, we were unfairly denied that opportunity in the Model U. N.
John Chappell, Jr.
Topeka graduate student
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It Looks This Way ...
Consumers beware! The Madison Avenue wolffpack, with beady eyes glittering behind their hornrims, are poised to pounce upon you armed with a new merchandising weapon - aroma.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Bruce Lewelyn ... Business Manager
By Bill Blundell
THAT'S WHAT we said. Aroma. The creators of the public's needs have left off belaboring our eyes and ears and are plotting to lead us around by the national nose, as it were.
We first discovered this plot the other day when we spotted a trade ad on a campus bulletin board. "Smell These Grapes!" urged the ad, indicating a livid purple bunch on one side of the page.
We sniffed. The page smelled like a hot day at the winery. Gallo or Manischewitz would pay anything for this.
But that wasn't all. The advertiser, the Fragrance Process Company, boasted that it had hundreds of smells to peddle, including sporting goods, new car smell (what does a new car smell like, any way?), and smoked ham. All these odors are supposed to drift up from
But rosy as the outlook may be now, we can foresee trouble ahead for this bold venture. There are just too many angles to this proposition that the ad boys apparently have overlooked.
For example, can you imagine what the periodicals room of a public library, or even the magazine rack in an average home, would smell like? A compost heap, that's what.
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are supposed to drift up from newspaper and magazine ads, titillating the consumer's sensitive nostrils and evoking all sorts of sensory impressions.
We can see it now. Salivating uncontrollably, John Q. Public streaks to his nearest car dealer to pick up that keen-smelling Belchfire 8 he caught a whiff of in the paper; or his wife, driven beyond the budget brink, fills her shopping basket to overflowing while the store manager rubs his hands with glee.
But perhaps the greatest danger lies in the mixup of odors through some ghastly accident. The first time a Channel no. 5 ad smells like an old catcher's mitt, or a shredded wheat ad reeks of new-mown hay, agency heads all over the country will hurriedly begin packing for that long-delayed vacation in Mexico.
After the aromatic bubble bursts, perhaps we can return to the relative sanity of Men Who Think for Themselves and coffee brewed Hot as Fire, Black as Night. We hope so. Listening to today's ads is bad enough; but being forced to smell them as well would be intolerable.
THE AD INDUSTRY must have struck off a gold medal for the genius who first pulled this one off the top of his head. Perhaps he was even accorded the ultimate honor - a key to the executive washroom and an office with three windows. Gad.
AND WHAT HAPPENS when a wave of flu or respiratory ailments strikes the buying community? The scent exuded by the ads is subtle, almost subliminal; millions of consumers suffering from head colds would be immune to The Message.
Nixon Portraits
"This business of objectivity has dogged the biographers of Richard Nixon. After two earlier books, sickeningly saccharine, Earl Mazo's semi-authorized version last summer was widely hailed as the 'most objective' study ever made of the Vice President. It was a worthy effort, though its objectivity was not particularly deserving of such acclaim. Mazo, who denies any other calling than reporter, diligently assembled a good many of the relevant details of Nixon's life. He wrote from the perspective of one who was impressed by his subject and who grew the more impressed the more he wrote. His concluding chapter, which measured Nixon for the Presidency, found him a well-nigh perfect fit.
"William Costello's 'The Facts About Nixon: An Unauthorized Biography' (Viking) draws a different conclusion. With a good reporter's passion for detail, he also has a sense of style. Employing many of the same facts used by Mazo, he comes up with the portrait of a man he plainly doesn't like. Costello makes certain that the episodes of the past are not lightly brushed over in considering this man's future."
"Stewart Alsop's comparative study, 'Nixon and Rockefeller: A Double Portrait' (Doubleday), was conceived and executed before the New York governor threw in the towel. Alsop combines a veteran reporter's tough cynicism with a conviction that 'somebody' has got to be President. He proclaims his impartiality with these words: 'I admire both Nixon and Rockefeller in some ways, but I do not admire them in all ways, and I am not even sure that I shall vote for one or the other of them when given the opportunity.' His portraiture of 'the Black Irishman' is in a way the most unpleasant description that has been made of Nixon. Yet Alsop cannot help but admire Nixon for his 'guts.' He is particularly impressed, in retrospect, by the gutty way the youthful Nixon met and mastered Eisenhower during the Nixon Fund crisis of the 1952 campaign."
(From "Measuring the Man for the Job," by Douglass Cater in the March 3 issue of The Reporter.)