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University Daily Kansas Thursday. March 10, 1960
Our Own Bureaucracy
A recent Newsweek article titled "Shh—Don't Tell the Right Hand!" hits at the crippling division of our armed forces.
The article points out the expenses involved in such a division and the inefficiency which also is involved.
Such crippling, expensive, inefficient division can be found at a more local level in this great bureaucracy called the United States of America.
Kansas, with its area of 80.000 square miles is divided into 105 counties. The average area of these counties is 761 square miles.
Each county has its own officials — county clerk, sheriff, engineer and the rest. Each county has its own equipment — road grader, trucks, plows. Each county has its separate paperwork. And each county has its own taxes.
Now we are at the crux of the problem, the cost of a bureaucracy (which should not be used as a synonym for democracy). If a dozen or so counties were grouped together, facilities and officials, quality as well as quantity could be obtained at less expense.
For example, the costs of having a county engineer could be cut. One or two men could be
added to one office to facilitate the added area and the cost would go down.
This cutting-down could be done in all departments. Cutting in the machinery needed would especially help to alleviate costs.
Many counties have all the machinery necessary to keep their roads in good repair, but quite often the machinery sits idle and the maintenance costs remain the same.
The state would have only one chancellor to pay, one dean of men, one dean of women and one department head for each department or one dean for each school.
Consider this problem of the costs of a bureaucracy a little closer to home. Think how much costs could be cut if KU and K-State were operated as one University.
Granted, all these people would need extra assistants, but assistants come cheaper than the high officials.
Who knows, if Lewis and Templin Hall were included in one, Lewis Hall might not be lacking 250 residents.
Neither school could be torn down now and moved, but the counties of Kansas could reorganize their administration and save the taxpayers a great deal of money. — Jane Boyd
Just a Little Incident
West Virginia Says-
Russian government officials could learn a lesson in good sportsmanship from the captain of their Olympic hockey team.
The Soviet athlete was not too proud to come to the rescue of the American team which earlier had defeated his squad.
In its game with Czechoslovakia, the U.S. team was not playing up to the ability it previously had displayed. The Russian captain spotted the trouble and suggested that the altitude was hampering his former foes. He recommended that they use oxygen.
The advice was welcomed, the men's playing
improved and the Americans went on to win a gold medal.
The little incident did much to show the thinking public that everyone in Russia has not closed his mind to friendship with people of the West.
Admittedly, the situation did not compare to major issues between the governments of Russia and the United States.
But, if even a small degree of this same sportsmanship and good will was expressed in negotiations between the two countries, the world would be much closer to peace.
— West Virginia Daily Athenaeum
Surveys Correlated to Weather
By Pat Sheley
Susie and I breathed a sigh of relief the other day. We couldn't see a surveying student anywhere.
We became very concerned when the campus was suddenly invaded a few weeks ago by these surveying students. We couldn't turn in any direction without being stared at through what resembled a telescope.
On the campus buses, in the Hawk's Nest, during "bull sessions" and any time we had the opportunity we discussed why these men were busying themselves with the anatomy of the campus.
We finally reached an agreement—they were members of a secret society. Their purpose, we surmised, was to find the most advantageous spot on campus to erect a tower. On this tower would be placed, for the convenience of all University men, a high-power telescope. All women's residences would be in perfect range of the telescope.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"ON THI' CONTRARY I TINK HES A WONDERFUL LECTURER
IS THIS IH' ONLY CLASS WHERE I CAN GET ANY DECENT SLEEP."
We were discouraged. We couldn't break through the net of concentration. It was even beginning to bother our studies because we didn't know the answer to our question.
Needless to say, our little minds conjured up many things that could come out of a situation like this. We even contemplated organizing a counter-society. We would draft the University women and practice the art of sabotage. No males were going to spy on us without a fight.
Susie, an established flirt, began trying to have conversations with the students as they peered through their equipment. But the curves of the hillside by Potter's Lake took precedence over those of Susie.
We then decided that they may not be doing this after all. To be fair, we started a private investigation of their activities.
Susie and I began digging through the drifts. We had to find one of those engineers before curiosity got the best of us. But, alas, we couldn't find one buried beneath the snow.
Through some old twist of fate, we met an engineering student. We told him our problem. After minutes of laughter, he managed to explain what the students were doing.
Then $i_{\mathrm{t}}$ the snow came. With the snow the engineers disappeared.
It was simple. The students were members of the surveying class in the civil engineering department. They would go out into the field twice a week to practice using surveying instruments.
The reason behind their sudden disappearance was the snow. The bad weather forced them to leave the campus scene and take refuge in the warm classrooms of Marvin Hall, where they are presently working problems.
We were relieved to find this out but our desire for adventure and intrigue caused us to be a little disappointed.
Looks This Way ...
We received quite a surprise at the local cinema last weekend. We were casually munching our popcorn and watching the preview of the latest Brigitte Bardot film, "A Woman Like Satan," when the French actress turned her posterior to the audience and, lo and behold, she was nude from head to foot.
By Doug Yocom
A spontaneous murmur of awe swept through the crowd. One small boy was heard to exclaim to his mother: "Gosh Mommy, she doesn't have any clothes on does she?"
We were as surprised as junior at seeing Miss Bardot in her birthday suit. Kansas is one of only five states having a censor board which reviews, cuts and bans films classified as obscene.
By Monday the story of Miss Bardot's Lawrence debut in a bare torso had reached United Artists, the distributor of the film, who soon had the uncensored preview safe in their office in Kansas City.
We called Dorothy Frankovich, chairman of the Kansas State Board of Review, in Kansas City to find out the story behind the censoring.
Mrs. Frankovich explained
that there must have been a mix-up in shipping. She said the board had cut parts from the film and the shipping company was supposed to do the same with the preview.
This gets us back to the old problem of the pros and cons of movie censorship. Should a censorship board be able to suppress films that it judges to be "obscene?" Obscenity is the only legal grounds now for film censorship.
We believe the state should not attempt to control our morality. College students should be old enough to select the movies they want to see. Miss Bardot's films are recognized as being concerned with one thing—sex. They make no pretenses at being aesthetic. Students are old enough to know the type of movie they are going to see. If they want to view Miss Bardot, let them go. Besides it keeps them off the streets.
But what about the babes just out of arms who can hardly see over the seat in front of them. Mrs. Frankovich told us of another film about sex in the jungle that was to be shown in its censored version in a city in Kansas. The shipping company pulled another bonehead and sent the uncut preview to the theater that happened to be showing a Walt Disney movie. The place was packed with kids. The next day the board received a pile of protesting letters from indignant mothers.
The mothers should have been indignant. They didn't know the Walt Disney film was to be accompanied by the preview of another movie that would make the Kinsey Report look like a first grade primer.
The movie industry has a Production Code of the Motion Picture Association of America which gives its OK to most films. The code has a long list of taboos which include mercy killings, white slavery, cruelty to animals, vulgar phrases, blasphemous talk, obscene dances and complete nudity as well as indecent overexposure.
Most films receive the production code's seal of approval. Those that don't generally suffer at the box office because many theaters won't play them. Some films gain notoriety because they are released without the seal. Sometimes these are the financial successes of the season.
The present situation could be improved if the production code would devise a rating system for all movies that come out of Hollywood. Each film would wear its stamp on all its advertisements—a "K" would mean it was all right for those in prep school, an "A" would mean it was approved for adults and youngsters under 18 would not be allowed inside the theater, and an "S" might mean the film had sex as a central theme.
The production code or the theaters themselves would have the responsibility to censor the previews, even if it concerned a movie that "they said we would never film," so they would be tame enough to fall under the "K" classification. Any obscenity shown in the previews at a picture approved for the kiddies would be punishable as a criminal offense.
Then we wouldn't need censor boards.
Dailu Hansan
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