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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Mar. 1, 1960
Misplaced Questionnaires
Twenty-seven packets of evaluation sheets seem like a big bundle to misplace. But this is what happened last week.
The envelopes of questionnaires were to be delivered by an ASC committee to faculty members in the physics, pharmacy and engineering departments.
Instead, they were found in an office for chemistry graduate students. They were then temporarily misplaced again when a chemistry professor took them to his office for safekeeping.
Three of the packets had been opened at some time during their tour around the campus.
Prior to this, the evaluation sheets had been left in the activities lounge of the Kansas Union for almost a week.
There are six items listed on the back of the packets containing the questionnaires under "procedure to be followed." One of these states:
"Forms will be stored in the Business Office in complete confidence."
While this statement does not specifically say what will become of the evaluation sheets after they are removed from the Business Office, it implies the questionmaires will still be kept in confidence.
This implied trust has been broken. It seems the evaluation sheets have been pitched in any available corner and delivered at the convenience of the members of the ASC's committee.
The six procedures to be followed should apply to the committee as well as to the faculty member who distributes the questionnaires. If the committee does not plan to adhere to the listed terms, the ASC should appoint another committee to buy some five-cent pencils to cross out the contradictory statements.
— Doug Yocom
Givesburg Address
"One score and 17 years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this nation a new tax, conceived in desperation and dedicated to the proposition that all men are fair game.
"Now we are engaged in a great mass of calculations, testing whether that taxpayer or any taxpaper so confused and so impoverished can long endure. We are met in Form 1040. We have come to dedicate a large portion of our income to a final resting place with those who will spend their lives forever so that they may continue to spend our money forever."
"It is altogether anguish and torture that we should do this. But in the legal sense we cannot evade—we cannot cheat—we cannot understand this tax. The collectors clever and sly, who
computed here, have gone far beyond our power to add or subtract.
"Our creditors will little note nor long remember what we pay here, but the Bureau of Internal Revenue will never forget what we report here. It is for us taxpayers rather to be devoted here to the tax return which our government has thus far so nobly spent — from these vanished dollars we take increased devotion to the few remaining—we highly resolve that next year will not find us in a higher tax bracket.
"That all taxpayers, underpaid shall figure out more deductions; and that taxation of the people, by the people in Congress, for the people in Government Bureaus shall not perish on this earth."—Thorp (Wis.) Courier
Cuba Is Changing
Editor:
In regard to Mr. Vincent Hoover's letter published in the UDK of February 24, we would like to say that we have viewed objectively the Revolutionary Government of Castro and found that: This is the first honest government of our history. It is working very hard to end the corruption of our society and to solve our economic problems.
To better illustrate our opinion, we refer to the words of Dr. Jorge Manach, graduate of Harvard University, and professor of Philosophy at the University of Havana: "A profound change is taking place in Cuba which no one can deny. The
degeneration which existed in Cuba had reached such a low point that only an insensible person could ignore its presence. For example: 1) The country controlled by the army, 2) Graft and corruption in all levels of the government. 3) Neglect of the rights of the Cuban farmer. 4) Government protection of prostitution and gambling. 5) Absence of the most basic rights of human beings.
"Little by little we were losing sight of our principles—some passively through apathy and hopelessness; others actively yielding to corruption. The worst part of this degeneration was not the people in themselves, but the system which had taken root. The greatest
A concrete example will give an idea of the change we referred to; during the last year 5,000 rural schools were built in Cuba. This amount equals that of the rural schools built from 1902-1958.
accomplishment of the revolution has been the destruction of this degenerate system and the substitution of an honest system based on the legitimate needs of the people."
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
We appreciate Mr. Hoover's interest in the Cuban problems; in return, we will offer the answers to his other questions in additional letters.
Felina Ferragut, Havana, Cuba,
THAT'S ALL MALAKEY I SLEPT THRU THREE SEMESTERS OF FRENCH AND I STILL FLUNKED OUT."
assistant instructor of Romance languages
Mirylis Morelan, Cuba
Mirylis Morelan, Cuba Roberto Diaz, Saneti Spiritus,
Ramon Mayor, Placetas, Cuba, junior
Luis Mayor, Placetas, Cuba
Just for Eggheads
After four years on the Hill, I'm finally annoyed enough about something to sound off.
What's all the noise about taking the loyalty oath? It seems to me that any half-way loyal American shouldn't mind standing up and making a statement to that effect; unless of course he is ashed of it, which then casts a different light on this person's loyalty.
The student who is definitely disloyal, and perhaps takes part in pink-tinted organizations won't mind taking the oath, because the whole system of government which allows him this freedom to belong is a farce anyhow.
The only group left as I see it is the would-be intellectuals, who just plain want to squawk about something high-sounding.
Charles J. Lux Lawrence senior
With John Morrissey
We hope the paint isn't worn off those signs before the centennial year arrives.
By Jon Muller
Xenophon's ANABASIS (THE MARCH UP COUNTRY), translated by W. H. D. Rouse, Mentor, 50 cents.
This is the story of a group of Greek mercenaries who were stranded in Asia Minor about 400 B.C. and had to fight their way 1500 miles back home. This new translation by Dr. Rouse appears to be an excellent one. Dr. Reuse has been able to preserve the excitement of one of the world's most dangerous military expeditions.
The book shows the Greek attitude toward non-Greeks — the barbarians. The Greeks left a path of ruined villages and impoverished peasants on their long march. One wonders how the peasants whose grain was taken managed to live through the winter. But it seems the lot of the common man to suffer while thieves and criminals become heroes.
In any case the book is worth far more in enjoyment and education than one has to pay for it and I would recommend it to anyone who likes a good book. Furthermore, ANABASIS is necessary reading for anyone interested in history, since, together with Thucydides' PELOPONNESIAN WAR, it is one of the first histories ever written.
From the Newsstand
The Image of the Negro
"Two causes of guilt lie heavily on American history. One concerns the Indian, the other the Negro. Neither has, as yet, been fully redeemed...
"Nothing distinguishes the modern American, for all his optimism and material success, more from the European than that he lives in a land with this double image of guilt upon it. Vast recompense has already been made. There are Indian tribes to-day richer than whole counties of England. Negroes in the United States have a greater chance of raising their standard of living and achieving a higher education than anywhere else in the world. But below the surface the old sores still run to erupt, spilling violence and confusion. The present school trouble in the Southern states is one of them.
"Of the two races it is the Negro who has made a longer impact on white consciousness and white imagination. . . .
"Since his arrival in the New World the Negro has passed through many roles: he has been slave and cotton-picker, house servant, funnyman minstrel (Mr. Tambo and Mr. Bones), city slicker in Harlem, student, writer, glamorous jazzman, and a dozen more. To-day the dominant image of the Negro is two-faced: he is the peasant, in a land without peasants, but he is also the city rebel, living a life of the emotions in a complex, puritan civilization. It is a dual image of a race which is gay, uninhibited, natural, easy. lazy, passionate, feeling life straight from the heart, whose songs (though often written by white men like Stephen Collins Foster) are folk-songs, whose music is jazz, whose world is the world of folk-opera, of 'Orgyy and Bess' (book and music by white men)—a race which is, in some indefinable way, free.
"Such is the final irony that the white man's idea of a Negro, often operating below the level of consciousness, stands for freedom. This is what drew the flappers of the 1920s to the world of Harlem, Negroes and jazz. This is what draws the Beats to-day. This is what draws the young, and not so young, all over the industrialized world not only to the excitement of Negro music but to the rebellious jargon of city streets that goes with it, to be "hip" and not "square," to be "cool" or "gone" or "way out," or whatever the cult word of the moment is..."
(Excerpted from The Times Literary Supplement, Nov. 6, 1959,
"Red and Black.")
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget," is only another way of saying. "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note—torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.—Henry Ward Beecher
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