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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 21, 1960
Work to Be Done
We have entered a critical period for education in Kansas.
The chancellor of the state's largest university is leaving. This is one problem. And the Board of Regents met today to begin the task of making the administrative change a smooth transition within our continuous progress.
Another problem facing the people of Kansas is that of accepting or rejecting the recommendations of an impartial survey of the state's educational system.
The survey noted two immediate needs—an accelerated building program and a 20 per cent increase in faculty salaries.
The 17-month survey was made by personnel of the University of Minnesota. The report stated that Kansas is losing college faculty members at a more rapid rate than is true for the nation as a whole.
We need an upgrading of the faculties, the report stated. This will come through higher salaries and not so much reliance on "less wellqualified part-time faculty members."
The problem seems to be one of money, always a touchy subject for Kansans. Right now we have some extra cash—from the sales tax surplus—and this could be used to strengthen the school system.
But this is only a temporary surplus. And we
don't believe the sales tax should remain at 21/2 per cent. This tax cuts into the budget of the little man, who can scarcely afford to shoulder an increased portion of the state's tax load.
The schools need money, and there are other taxes to provide it. What about a severance tax? The mineral wealth of the state is being carried away, to the benefit of the oil producers. The people of the state should receive some compensation for this depletion of their natural resources.
Whatever the form of taxation, Kansas can afford to give its educational program a needed boost. In fact, we cannot afford to neglect it.
The students of the state are hungry for the opportunity to develop their God-given talents to the limits, as Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy has stated.
The voters of the state are beginning to realize that an uneducated person is lost in the high-speed society of today. They know that their children will be denied the chance for an education if they do not prepare now for the doubling of college enrollments expected in the next 10 to 15 years.
The recent survey pointed out what needs to be done. Now the students and voters of Kansas must see that it is done.
Jack Harrison
Young GOP Writes Letter
(Editor's Note: This letter was given to the University Daily Kansan for publication by Charles McIlwaine, Wichita junior, and first vice chairman of the Kansas Federation of Collegiate Young Republicans.)
Editor:
With the resignation of Franklin D. Murphy, Kansas has lost one of its truly great native sons. The constant struggle of the former Chancellor to further education against what has often been called "great odds" has been monumental in the history of our state. He has impressed upon the people of the nation the high standards which the University of Kansas symbolizes and has brought national recognition both to himself and the university.
Chancellor Murphy has accepted the challenge to build UCLA into "one of the great universities of the nation." This was his dream for the University of Kansas; yet the "unreasonable and unprecedented handicaps" posed by the Democratic governor, George Docking, have stifled these hopes. The governor has refused to allocate the necessary funds for the continuation and expansion of not only our university, but also all institutions of higher education in the state of
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Kansas. He has repeatedly blasted the administration as incompetent and inefficient; and he has, in the name of the people of our state, caused the resignation of Chancellor Murphy, whose courageous and dedicated leadership has been responsible for the physical, financial, and intellectual growth of the University of Kansas. Through these actions Governor Docking has undermined the basic foundation of democratic life — education. How can a man who supposedly represents the people, through his irresponsible and bigoted attitude and actions, try to curtail the advancement of education of the youth of Kansas.
Governor Docking has caused the loss of a leader and a symbol of the advancement of higher education. It is a certainty that the citizens of Kansas will not tolerate the malicious, slanderous, and unstable conduct of the present governor of our state.
Sincerely.
Univercity The Kansas Federation of
Collegiate Young Republicans The University of Kansas
Students Criticized for Rally Editors:
Collegiate Young Republicans
I feel that no member of the student body of the University of Kansas, which is subsidized by the State Legislature of the same state should take part in any rallies, riots, or disturbances of an unsanctioned nature as was evident by the recent rally on the premises of the Chancellor of our University on the evening of March 18.
I question the sanctionability of this rally due to the scandalous hanging of the Governor of Kansas. This is a criminal offense. If I might quote from the General Statutes of Kansas 1949, 21-2401, "A libel is a malicious defamation of a person made public by any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation or effigy, tending to provoke him to wreath or expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, or to deprive him of benefits of public confidence and social intercourse, or any malicious defamation made public as aforesaid, designed to blacken and vilify the memory of one who is dead and tending to scandalize or provoke his surviving relatives." The penalty for the perpetration of these acts consists of imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
I am a registered voter of the State of Kansas and am subject to the jurisdiction of the laws of the same state and their administration by the sovereign head of this state, the Governor. The University is a state supported institution also subject to the laws and administrative jurisdiction of the sovereign head. Now I am not concerned with the political questions, arguments, or misunderstandings of the Governor and the Chancellor, what I am concerned about is the so called "rally" and the subsequent "hanging." Is hanging sanctioned by the administrative authorities of the University? Is hanging in effigy legal for the University student? During final week Coach Harp was hung in effigy and the local papers said that the Campus Police were investigating the incident. In recording the incident the other evening the papers said that the Campus Police stood in the background and observed the rally. Now is effigy hanging legal or is there an area, a holy land where no one can sin. Is such effrontery legal on the Chancellor's lawn. This rally leaves a few questions in my mind. Was this rally recorded in the Dean's office as required or did four hundred students rise up simultaneously and with printed posters march up to the Chancellor's home and hang the Governor? If the rally was registered then it would seem that the University sanctions such criminal actions. If this was not recorded, is action being taken against the responsible students. Are the local law enforcement officials unaware of the General Statutes of Kansas.
Now much has been said about the Governor and his squabble with the Chancellor and its effects on higher education. Now is hanging in effigy a responsible action taken by a student from an institution of higher education.
Editor:
Adult Behavior
Larry Blickhan Prairie Village senior
Prairie Village senior
...
I very much appreciated Carolyn Frailey's editorial "Adult Behavior" in the U.D.K. Might I add to it the following observation? Courtesy might be easier for us all if we would keep in mind the following prayer by a Sioux Indian: "Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked two weeks in his moccasins."
For the purpose of reminding ourselves to be courteous, the Sioux's prayer might be modified to read: "Great Spirit, help me to behave toward others as if I were walking in his moascas."
W. Douglas Halsted, III
Looks This Way . . .
Assistant instructor in Romance Languages
By Carol Heller
At last the long-awaited Day is here.
But the day would have gone unnoticed if it were not for the calendar. Not a single blossom brightens a tree. There isn't even a sign of a little green bud.
Spring officially arrived yesterday.
Instead great gray mounds of aged snow cover the campus and the trees are stark naked.
Although we hate winter, we realize that a prolonged heat wave is more dangerous.
more dangerous than a prolonged cold wave. A heat wave saps the energy from man and society becomes sticky and sluggish, but a cold wave keeps man alive and stomping.
But we're tired of stomping in the snow. We want to see green treetops blowing in the never-ceasing Kansas wind and we want to sit on a grassy hill and watch the Big Blue Sky roll by overhead.
We want Spring
However, the transition period from snow-bound winter to spring is going to be more obnoxious than letting short hair grow into long hair.
We have discovered it is
more inconvenient to fall down in a river of melting slush than it is to fall on a neat sheet of ice. We would almost rather bandage our battered knees than walk all the way home to change sopping wet clothes.
And although we dearly love to ride in a car, we almost wish the cars were still stuck and buried under their burdens of snow. We were standing innocently on the corner by Bailey recently when a car roared past and splashed slush all over our coat. We expect it will happen again.
Moreover, we can't outguess the slush. We put on our galoshes in the morning to walk to school. There isn't a sign of moisture; The campus is a slick, treacherous slide of ice. So at 11 o'clock we don't put on our galoshes to hike down to Summerfield. There is water everywhere.
And now March has begun acting like March. It is time to sew fish sinkers on our hemlines again. The handle on our black winter purse is broken and it is too soon to bring out the beige summer purse.
Hence we reasoned that slush exists only during the day, and that it was therefore safe to wear our good high heeled shoes to the Rock Chalk Revue. We had to park the car four blocks away and were surprised to find that we had to trip through slush all the way to Hoch.
But we do not mean to sound discouraged . . . we haven't been hit by a falling icicle yet.
And we encourage KU students to be encouraged. There's grass under the glaciers.
The rich who are unhappy are worse off than the poor who are unhappy; for the poor, at least, cling to the hopeful delusion that more money would solve their problem—but the rich know better. Sydney J. Harris
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"WHEN YOU TWIRL OVER TH' RIGHT FLANK - WATCH CUT FOR THAT WISE-GUY TROMBONE PLAYER."