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University Daily Kansan Friday. April 1. 1960
What's an Education?
Former governor Alf Landon favors emphasis on Kansas municipal universities and junior colleges.
He said he "realizes the advantage" of a student being able to live at home — in Wichita, Topeka or a junior college town — thus saving "about $1,000 a year."
NO DOUBT a student who lives with his parents while attending college can save money, and saving money is of primary concern in the state of Kansas.
But the negative aspects of college-at-home outweigh the saving of $1,000 a year.
Students should not live at home while going to college. Those who do are denying themselves
a vital part of that "education" which so concerns the former governor.
EDUCATION IS MORE than reading books, writing papers and storing up facts. It includes breaking the ties with home, learning to live with other people and becoming a mature, self-reliant, self-responsible individual.
Money is not the all-important factor in a student's desire to get an education - despite what Mr. Landon may believe. It is possible for any student to pay for his own college education by working in the summers and part-time during school months. This may mean no car, few parties and stretching the clothes budget. But it can be done.
Jack Harrison
Primary Elections
We had a primary election this week. But nothing was decided by the votes and nobody was elected to anything. It was a rather worthless affair.
A Primary election may serve two purposes, and our present farce did neither.
FIRST, the primary may be used to narrow the field of ASC candidates for the general election. But our only political party, Vox Populi, uses a closed primary and selects candidates in party conferences.
Second, the primary may be used to narrow the field of candidates for class officers. But this year there was no narrowing to be done, as no position had more than three candidates — the minimum allowed in the general election.
It is apparent that we could have gotten along without the primary election this year. We spent over $100 for nothing. However, the ASC constitution states that a primary election must be held.
IF THERE WERE two campus political parties,
and both used the Vox system of selecting candidates, it would be entirely reasonable for them to reach a gentleman's agreement to forego the expense and trouble of having a primary election.
In previous years Vox has gone through the motions of a primary in order to get publicity for their candidates. And it would be unfair for only one party's candidates to get their names in the news.
But if neither party were using the primary as the actual method of selection of candidates, the primary could be tossed out.
THE OTHER aspect of primary elections class officer eliminations could be done away with if the political parties sponsored the candidates. Vox in effect does this now, although class officer candidates are theoretically nonpartisan. With one candidate from each party for each office, only a general election would be needed.
Any time that the primary serves no purpose in the election process as it did this year it might as well be eliminated.
Africans Demand Freedom
By Ray Miller
In these days of increasing nationalism the eyes of free men have turned toward Africa.
There, in what used to be termed the "dark continent," men less than a generation removed from sevagery are wrestling with the chains of benevolent "protectorates" and are demanding what they have been taught is rightfully theirs — freedom.
What are the handicaps that these people are working to overcome on the sociological-economie front?
Near the heart of Africa lies Lake Victoria, in which merge the borders of two great African countries — Kenya to the east, and Tanganyika to the south. Including Ethiopia, Sudan and Somaliland, this eastern chunk of Africa is about the size of two-thirds the United States, with one-eighth the population.
Yet, within the borders of these countries are three distinct races (whites, Negroes, and Arabs) who speak a total of 100 different dialects and languages.
Dailu Hansan
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In the struggle for independence Tanganyika and Kenya are the leaders of this bloc of nations, Kenya, a British protectorate, is the smaller of the two nations. Its borders encompass 224,000 square miles and six million people, of which all but 100,000 are Africans.
In this age of strange contrasts, Kenya is possibly the land of the strangest.
Edwin S. Munger, American Universities Field Staff representative and geographer, said in describing an elderly Kenya citizen:
Kenya's terrain is even a mixture of contrasts. Within its borders tropical, sub-tropical and temperate crops are grown. The lushest portion of Kenya is the highlands (above 8,000 feet) which are similar to the forest areas of Europe.
"The world of his fathers did not know the wheel; the world of his son no longer bothers to look up at jet aircraft."
"There is no fatter land in Africa than this area with its deep, red soil and generous rainfall. The rolling hills with patches of forests are at least first cousins to an English country-side, and so are the name boards (of farms) listing Bambridge, King, Miller, . . . sharp and Shaw," Mr. Munger says.
Most of the Africans at these meetings are illiterate (Kenya has 3,506 African primary schools with 442,873 attending) farm laborers. They are a simple people who are keny interested in politics. Why?
In this land of poor roads (only 22,000 miles of public roads) transportation is still partly dependent on the human back. Old women wear marks in their flesh where the breadbands of packs have bitten into the flesh over the years.
On the other hand, African tribesmen will meet at town halls to hear political debates, when they are not scared away by tax collectors.
Most of the farmers raise maize.
coffee, cotton, sisal and wheat. They need land but much of it is owned by Europeans.
What the Africans of Kenya want is progressive reductions in land-title-barriers with ownership based on the ability to farm competently.
At times the desire for more land has caused open rebellion, but their leaders caution them to cooperate. But cooperation is hard for people who must abide by treaties signed with foreigners by their illiterate forefathers.
The problem in Tanganyika is altogether different. Here the chief means of productivity already is owned by the African.
"It is hard to cooperate when I have 10 acres and he (European) has 10,000," one farmer told Mr. Munger.
Tanganyika covers 362,688 square miles and is populated by 8,700,000 Africans, Europeans, Indians, Coans, Arabs. Of these 8,655,333 are Africans. Illiteracy is still a large problem — only 193 students were graduated from the two African colleges in 1957.
Led by Julius Nyerere, Tanganyika has attained social, racial and tribal harmony. Now Tanganyika has one main task; to raise the standard of living.
While the country seems to have a thriving economy, it is not rich. The annual national income (per person) is $45 against $2,100 here in the U.S.
While most of the economy is African-owned, the crucial sisal industry is the source of one-third of all exports.
while Tanganyika is free in all but name, it still needs millions of dollars in foreign investments. For this reason, it is believed that Mr. Nyerere is content to let Tanganyika lie under the umbrella of a British governor, a fact which helps to maintain an economic stability.
In Kenya, the African wants the right to own a part of his native soil. In Tanganyika, he wants a better standard of living.
Poetry Corner
Recollections of San Estaban Beach By Ernesto M. Vergara Philippine graduate student
I. SUNSET
I watched the benign traveler
Depart slowly, slowly
Bevond the edge of the ocean
While shadows fell
And the world flickered like a dying ember.
Oh! For that brief ecstatic moment
When he bade the purple horizon
A farewell kiss —
Ever so pure, ever so chaste!
Would I arrest this heavenly bliss
Equalled by none
Of earth's sweetest pleasures;
But helpless I to hinder him
From his peregrinations in answer
To the call of a greater power.
Then — he's no more.
The engulfing darkness dims the sight
But hones the deafening din of waves
Beating upon the sand,
Beating upon the rocks.
II. THE SEASHELL
A seashell whispered to me the latest News and gossips of the universe:
Of dauntless probes into the skies unknown, Rockets 'round the sun, trips to the moon;
Of copper capsules stuffed with heads,
Of ephemeral flesh with a will of lead.
I heard humanity's unabating rage In the tempest in her spiralled caves.
But the seashell couldn't satisfy My desire to know: Oh, why!
Oh, why!
Oh, why!
Since first the battle with the elements was won,
The insensible heart, the bleeding stone?
Worth Repeating
In calling the 20th century the "era of the common man," we tend to forget that it took the genius of very uncommon men to make this modern world possible. For example, an ordinary citizen can today buy at a corner drugstore, for a relatively small sum, a wonder drug for which Louis XIV would have given half of France. By any standard, Edison, Marshall, Marconi, Pasteur and Salk were more gifted than us ordinary mortals, and certainly we all enjoy the fruits of their genius. What man could weave his own suit or construct his own electric light? These conveniences, these unearned rewards are so much a part of our daily lives that it seems to me each citizen's daily prayer should be, "Forgive me, O Lord, for taking so much for granted."—James A. Farley
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