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University Daily Kansan Monday. April 4.1960
Disciplinary Panel
The Kansan periodically prints news articles and editorials concerning the procedure of handling disciplinary cases at KU.
It may seem we dwell too much on a problem that affects so few students. After all, only a small minority of students are brought to one of the dean's offices for violating a University regulation. Most students spend four years at the University without ever facing disciplinary action.
UNFORTUNATELY. THIS is a type of problem that few worry about until it involves them personally. It is difficult to become concerned with any problem until a person can see how it is going to pertain to him today or in the near future.
This is the reason this specific topic keeps reappearing in the Kansan. We frequently receive information on what happens behind the closed doors of disciplinary meetings. In this way we become more familiar with the procedure than most students.
WE HAVE BECOME critical of how these cases are being handled.
However, we do not feel our single function is to criticize. If constructive action does not result from our criticism, the only thing we will
have done is make the student aware that we believe a problem exists.
So here is what we propose. Why not set up a panel to discuss existing disciplinary procedure? It could be composed of faculty members or students or a combination of both. One or two deans, a law professor, a journalism professor and a sociologist should be qualified to present various views on our disciplinary system.
A DEAN WOULD have had experience in dealing with students under the present system. The law professor could present the reasons for having a set procedure and how courts of law handle similar cases in a different type of community. The journalism professor might explain the role of newspapers in insuring a fair and lawful trial. A sociologist could discuss the importance of rehabilitation, especially in a small, educational community.
We believe it is time for a few authoritative voices to express themselves on this issue. They should arrive at some definite evaluations of the operation of the existing procedure. At most, they might reach some conclusions that would result in specific improvements.
- Doug Yocom
Truman's Speeches
Approximately 5,000 students and faculty members crowded into Hoch Auditorium Friday to hear Harry Truman speak at a convocation which opened KU's Model United Nations.
His speech was neither brilliant nor especially disappointing. A discussion of the role of the United Nations today was pertinent to the occasion.
FRIDAY NIGHT we had an opportunity to hear Mr. Truman speak again. This time it was at Whiting Field House on the Washburn University campus in Topeka.
This time his speech was disappointing. His comments were more specific and more relevant to national politics than they had been at the morning convocation at KU. But we had never heard a prominent politician make such an obvious attempt at talking down to his audience.
DURING HIS MORNING TALK he at least spoke as if he might have been a former president
of the United States. At Washburn he gave the appearance he had never been beyond 100 miles of a farm south of Independence, Mo.
The "plain folks" appeal is a strong propaganda device. People like to associate an influential person with the regular guy next door. Peliticians use the "plain folks" technique by kissing babies, making jokes about themselves, with everyone they meet and calling on people in their homes.
MR. TRUMAN OVERDID IT Friday night. Dignity as well as evidence of superior intelligence is required of a popular leader. He displayed neither.
We wonder if there were any foreign students in his Friday night audience. If so, what would they think when a former president tries to sound like a farmer with a vocabulary of one and two syllable words. They might conclude that, to be elected president in America, one needs only to be a skillful propagandist. Doug Yocom
Sen. John Kennedy
By Rael Amos
(This is the first in a series of articles on the presidential candidates.)
A top contender for the Democratic presidential nomination—one who many think is THE contender—is a 42-year-old senator from Massachusetts, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
SEN. KENNEDY, called the "most travelingest" senator by the Kansas City Times, has packed more living into 42 years than many persons do in twice as long. The bushy haired young senator has spent 14 years in Congress. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his book, "Profiles in Courage."
But the sledding has not been—and will not be—easy. He is fighting a religious problem. Being a Roman Catholic, he is involved in a religious controversy not equalled since the days of Alfred E. Smith.
IN THE SENATE. he was the sponsor of the Kennedy-McCarthy bill providing federal standards of unemployment compensation. In last year's Congressional session, he voted for a permanent price support freeze on farm products. This is one area in which he has been in disagreement with his Democratic contenders for the presidential nomination. Since 1953 all four men (Kennedy, Symington, Humphrey and Johnson) have voted for a permanent freeze in price supports. But prior to then, Sen. Kennedy split frequently with the others in backing flexible price supports and opposing increases in conservation and rural electrification funds.
Last year he voted to expand the unemployment compensation program and to increase the social security coverage. He also voted for a continuance of the National Defense Education bill to continue to give United States oil revenue to schools.
HE HAS VOTED AGAINST a bill to limit strike picketing, a bill to tighten the secondary boycotts ban, a bill allowing a member to sue a union officer, the non-Communist affidavits, a bill killing the college loan fund, a bill cutting the public works funds, a bill boosting aid to airports, a bill giving 18-year-olds the right to vote, and a bill to eliminate the loyalty oath in the student aid program.
HE VOTED TO bar a boost in the GI loan rate, to continue the Civil Rights Committee, to restrict access to the FBI files, to outlaw the Communist party, to extend the draft to four years, to boost the Army and Air Force funds, to increase the gas tax, to deny "expense account" deductions and to cut the small businesses tax.
Sen. Kennedy was the originator of the Kennedy-Hill Medical Library, the largest medical research institute in the world, and a sponsor of a comprehensive program of medical benefits for older citizens, and author of a bill reducing the retirement age under the Social Security Act for women and disabled persons.
He also has an enviable war record. When his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer in the Pacific, he helped save the weak swimmers in his crew and led them in a long swim to safety.
chances of having this balance struck were not helped by the recent surge of public attention to the world population problem and what should be done about it.
BUT SEN. KENEDY has some political liabilities, too. He thinks his Catholicism will "balance out" among the voters. However, his
"As a New Englander, Sen. Kennedy used to vote against the subsidies and other legislation aimed at aiding the midwestern and southern farmers. Now he has changed his tune."
The Catholic church is opposed to birth control through the use of artificial means, the remedy usually proposed to hold down population.
A STRIKE AGAINST Sen. Kennedy is Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's displeasure with him because he took no stand on the Senate's censure resolution against the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis). Sen. Kennedy was ill and away at the time the Senate vote was taken.
The Senator's youthful appearance may or may not be an asset politically. He doesn't talk about how women are obviously attracted toward him, except to note with a smile that there are 2 million more women voters than men.
This is apparent in a look at his 1959 voting record.
Cornelius F. Hurley, Associated Press staff writer, saws;
By and large, Sen. Kennedy's record in the Senate is a controversial one, capped by his sponsorship of a compromise labor reform bill this year. As the third-ranking Democrat on the Senate's labor and public welfare committee, Sen. Kennedy is in the thick of legislation that affects a wide range of voters. He has lost few opportunities to attempt to impress voters that he is mindful of their well-being.
It Looks This Way...
We slipped into the Hawklet for a quick cup of coffee before economics class the other day.
By Jack Harrison
The bright-eyed and gregarious organization men edged closer together to let us slip through the crowd to a small table in the corner. Nearby was a flock of jabbering female students.
The young women were in the process of killing some time, coffee and cigarettes while deep in discussion of the issues of the current presidential campaign.
One of the delicate creatures purred softly:
"I don't see how Jack Kennedy can miss. He's just the most divine man ever."
"But Hubey Humphrey has the sweetest smile you ever saw," a second replied.
"You-all cann't forget about Lyndon," another sweet young thing ventured. "He's a real Southern gentleman, and he's just got the nicest eyes."
"I JUST NEVER saw a
"I JUST NEVER saw a handsomer man than Stuart Symington," another member of the group cosed, as she lightly flipped the ash from her cigarette.
"Oh, but Dick Nixon is the cutest one of all," said another.
The young ladier continued their discussion of the various candidates, and then shifted the conversation to a more philosophical note.
"Isn't it a shame what these public relations men and TV people do to the candidates?" asked one of the creatures.
do to the candidate.
"Oh, yes, it's terrible! With all that crazy image business, and using makeup on TV and even getting dramatic coaches to help them, you can't hardly tell what a man is really like."
"It's just not fair!" cried an indignant young lady. "They ignore the important things."
THE 10:50 WHISTLE interrupted the spirited discourse, and the ladies jumped up and grabbed their books, sweaters and cigarettes. As they pushed their way toward the exit, one of them said:
As they pleaded. "But it's really pretty wonderful, that the people get to decide who's going to be president. We can study all the men and make the decision on their merits."
"Isn't democracy nice?" her companion replied.
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