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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 6, 1960
HOPE Award
A senior class committee has begun the process of selecting the recipient of the only faculty award given by students — the HOPE award initiated by last year's graduating class.
THE COMMITTEE has asked for additional nominations. Members of the senior class now have the opportunity, and responsibility, to present to the committee names of possible recipients of the award.
The HOPE — Honors for Outstanding Progressive Educators — award includes a $100 honorarium, which is interest from $2,500 given by the class of 1959.
The award is made on the basis of willingness to help students, success in stimulating students or challenging the students toward thinking, devotion to profession and contribution to the general cultural life of the university.
Publication, creative work, etc., will be considered, but not to the extent as will be the instructor's contribution to students.
NOMINEES MUST be full-time faculty members. A nomination letter should include information about the nominee's qualifications and the specific reasons why the student making the nomination believes he should receive the award.
Students are wont to criticize the performances of the faculty members. And they should let it be known what they like or don't like about the educational system.
Through the HOPE award program, students can give recognition to a faculty member who is doing a first-rate job as the students see it.
Jack Harrison
'U.N.' Eye-Opener
KU's first Model United Nations last weekend dramatically and successfully served its purpose. Participants are now able to sit back and favorably reflect on the experience.
More than a few students left the final session of the two-day affair amazed at the complexities of the world's problems. These were graphically pointed out by the different views and sides nations presented. Each nation was represented by a group of students at the mock general assembly. Much of the success of the meetings must be accredited to the hours of research and preparation spent by each delegation.
ALL DISCUSSION and debate during the eight hours the Model U.N. was in session was well prepared, informative and seldom repetitive.
One of the major points the sessions revealed to the participants was the interaction between nations and national feelings which exist today in the United Nations. National interest blocs were organized adequately and nearly followed the lines the actual delegations in New York would have followed.
Only once did students get out of hand.
After the General Assembly tabled the resolution to seat Communist China as a full member of the organization, the entire Soviet Bloc, India, Burma, Cambodia and Indonesia walked out of the session. India's sole reason was the narrow-mindedness and prejudice of the members of the session. It was conceivable that the Soviet Bloc might walk out, but never neutral, middle-of-the-road India.
BUT PERHAPS the greatest good to come out of the hours of debate and preparation was the chance students gained to compare personal views in the final session. Only on a few points was there a wide separation of feeling.
Most of the participants felt a resolution was necessary to stop nuclear testing and stockpiling. Debate came on whether controls were necessary, and if so, when. There was nearly unanimous feeling that Algerians should gain their independence and more than two-thirds of the individuals felt that Red China should be seated in the United Nations.
The two sessions Friday were colorful and enjoyable. Former President Harry S. Truman added his prestige to the afternoon meeting. Feeling after the final session was adjourned was full of enthusiasm and support for a similar event next year. If preparation in future years matches this one's, KU's Model U.N. will be permanently established..
- John Peterson
Editor:
Nixon Defended
NIXON'S political ability cannot be doubted. He has come up through the Republican Party.
I read with a great deal of interest Jack Harrison's editorial of March 31 entitled "The Nixon Story." You have made accusations against Mr. Nixon which are most interesting and, I might add, largely unsubstantiated. In reviewing Mr. Nixon's political career, I fail to find any politically unscrupulous dealings or any habitual repetition of "half-cocked," irresponsible statements. You have accused Mr. Nixon without citing specific examples and I can find none.
ranks to the point that now he is the top Republican and slated to be the next President of the United States. He has the backing of the party pros and the very fact that he has no party opposition shows his true ability as a politician.
How you can say that Mr. Nixon has had no executive experience is also beyond my understanding. Do you realize that he has served as Vice President for the past seven years and has been the most active and the most influential Vice President the United States has had for this office? He has shouldered the Presidential duties many times during Mr. Eisenhower's illness and during the President's extensive good will trips abroad. NO, Mr.
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Nixon cannot be criticized as to his executive experience and ability. He knows the ins and outs of the Presidency better than any of his Democratic opponents.
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YOU HAVE questioned Mr. Nixon's principles or lack thereof, which you think are illustrated by his changing attitudes and campaign methods. In case you don't know it, Mr. Harrison, politics is a game of compromise — not of unwavering principles. Mr. Nixon's ability to change and to compromise wisely is one of his best political attributes. Every successful politician from Jackson to Lincoln to Roosevelt to Eisenhower has had to compromise. This is an inevitable result of our American two party system. Mr. Nixon understands politics and is a successful practitioner of this art. I am sure he has no intention to use the Presidency for his own glorification by forsaking the duty and the honor of the office. On the contrary, by fulfilling the Presidential duties to the best of his ability, Mr. Nixon should receive well deserved praise from the American people.
Douglas Yocom and Jack Harrison ...
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Mr. Nixon's qualifications for the Presidency should be compared with those of the Democratic Presidential hopefuls. By so doing you will discover that a similar list of grievances can be made against each of the candidates — Kennedy, Humphrey and Symington — with more justification and that none of these Democratic candidates has the political experience and qualifications of our next President, Richard M. Nixon.
Evelyn Komarek Ellinwood Junior
By Bill Charles Oak Park, Ill., junior
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Monday night chose "Ben-Hur" as the best picture of 1959. It was an obvious choice, and a legitimate one, but it was not my choice. "The Diary of Anne Frank" was a much better story and the quality of acting far outshine that of "Ben-Hur." But two things — the technical aspects of the picture and the staggering sum of money spent in producing it — brought the coveted Oscar to producer Sam Zimbalist and "Ben-Hur."
FOR HIS portrayal of Judah Ben-Hur, Charlton Heston won an undeserved Oscar. How a performance such as his can win when matched against Laurence Harvey's in "Room at the Top" I do not understand. I think he was carried in by the picture.
Passing over fine performances by George C. Scott in "Anatomy of a Murder" and Ed Wynn in "Anne Frank," the Academy honored Hugh Griffith, the Arab horse-breeder of "Ben-Hur," in another display of poor judgment.
I do agree, however, with the rest of the awards. Although Elizabeth Taylor was favored by many, I felt it was a toss-up between Katharine Hepburn and Simone Signoret for best performance by an actress. Miss Signoret won, much to the amazement of most of the people in the Pantages Theater. Shelley Winters was an excellent choice for the supporting actress award as was William Wyler for his direction of "Ben-Hur."
AN INTERESTING sidelight is the unusual attention given to British-made "Room at the Top." Only rarely do the men in Hollywood consider foreign-made films for Academy Awards. Each year these films become more popular with the movie-going public. Perhaps this will be the shot in the arm Hollywood needs to get the businessmen out of the controlling position and enable the artists — men such as George Stevens, Fred Zinnemann, and Elia Kazan — to create their movies as they wish. Ingmar Bergman is the best director in films today because he is not hampered by some unimaginative producer telling him what he can and cannot do.
The movies this year have squared themselves for the horrible error they committed last year in presenting "Gigi" with nine Oscars and renaming it the best picture of the year. "Ben-Hur" is far from being the best film ever, but it is an excellent one. There can be no quarrel with its winning this year's Oscar.
Worth Repeating
"In many colleges students protect themselves against the threat of heterogeneity through joining the 'suburb' of the sorority and fraternity, and conversely in some of the better suburban high schools there is more pressure for mixing, for tolerance, than there is in many fraternity-dominated colleges. Beyond that, activities, of course, mix people; that is, the students who go out for the campus paper or the student council are likely to have wider horizons than the average student and as a result they may be quite alienated and considered eccentric or unrepresentative . . ."—David Riesman
"... To repeat, students are the ones who decide how much any one student can be allowed to produce without being thought a 'square.' But colleges differ very much in the degree to which they are dominated by a monolithic student culture or broken up into heterogeneous subcultures, and in the latter situation obviously there is not one group which is influential but a greater number and a greater chance for differentiated performance. . .
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