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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. Feb. 23. 1960
More Trouble?
More anti-American demonstrations are likely to occur in Panama and the Canal Zone in the next few weeks.
The Panama presidential elections are May 10. Political enthusiasts will probably spice the campaign with demonstrations against the "Yankee imperialists."
Several disturbances occurred in November along the Canal Zone border.
Newsmen in Panama have reported that certain unidentified groups have planned a parade into the Canal Zone on that day, for the purpose of protesting the alleged "continuous attacks by U.S. officials and American authorities on the dignity of the Panamanians."
A likely day for a parade and demonstration is March 1. Panama's Constitution Day, and also Shrove Tuesday, the last day of the annual carnival.
One of the demands of the demonstrators in November was that the Panamanian flag fly over the Canal Zone, along with the U.S. flag. This controversy has not been settled.
During the demonstrations Nov. 3, windows of the U.S. Information Service library were smashed. Repairs have been made, the library re-opened, and business is nearly back to normal. Many Americans report that relations with the Panamanians have been cordial in recent weeks.
Ricardo Arias is the presidential candidate of the governing National Patriotic Coalition. The nominee of the Liberal Party is Roberto Chiari, who is also endorsed by three new parties.
Neither of the presidential candidates is notably anti-U.S. But they might encourage demonstrations in hopes of gaining political support from the anti-U.S. issue.
But there is still unrest remaining as a result of the November riots. Some Americans hesitate to leave the Canal Zone.
Anti-American demonstrations always raise the question of possible communist influence. There may be such influence in Panama. Gen. C. P. Cabell, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, warned recently that communist action is becoming "more intense" in Latin America. — Jack Harrison
The Madison Avenue Approach
Advertising Recognition Week (Feb. 14-20) has passed without KU administrators making the expected announcement. That is, at least we expected it.
And why not? Most fields of endeavor are using advertising to sell their product: businessmen use ads to sell toothpaste, churches advertise to get more people to "attend church next Sunday," politicians advertise their attributes.
In the same way, professors could utilize full-page ads in the Kansan to tell the student how a course could help him.
Think of it! No longer would the student be confused at enrollment. The KU coed might sub-consciously think of her schedule this way: This semester I am going to take "engagement and marriage" (so I can capture the charms of that handsome hunk of man in the letter sweater); "animal psychology" (so I will know how he thinks); Shakespeare (to improve my intellectual status); "algebra" (the instructor looked "so" young in the ad); "physics" (the ad makes it sound like an easy course), and so on.
Soon the educators would be so proficient in the hard sell that they could easily determine the right appeal for their courses. The business school could use a testimonial by a General Motors executive pictured juggling a column of figures saying: "Where would I be today if I hadn't taken accounting I?" or Jonas Salk might be shown holding a syringe and stating casually: "I never could have done it without 'biology.'"
How about "try philosophy: the thinking man's course," or "those who know, study journalism," or "you get a lot to like in geology."
When KU's enrollment swells to 15,000 or 20,000 in a few years, the professors may have to change their appeal. Classes might be so overcrowded they would have to discourage students from taking their courses. Then the ads might say "spend your spare time studying 'quantitative analysis' — only 18 hours of laboratory a week" or "major in history — the course designed for your benefit. Learn by doing — 15 term papers each semester." — Doug Yocom
Editor:
More Awareness
Perhaps the recent dialogue of pro-Castro vs. anti-Castro on the campus would be more useful if it focused more awareness to the problems of all Latin America. Miss Felina Farragut's letter in the Feb. 17 Kansan mentions "the almost tragic intensity of our problems."
A recent magazine article by a native of Latin America states that: "There is a notable and rigid stratification of social classes. . . There is already a revolution in progress throughout Latin America. Cultural ferment and instability are widespread. It is a situation akin to eighteenth-century France, which culminated in the French Revolution, or in Russia before the
...Letters ...
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
---YES ED. I WISH I HAD BEEN ABLE TO GET A COLLEGE EDUCATION. IT GIVES A MAN THAT CERTAIN SOMETHING THAT SETS HIM ABOVE AND APART FROM THE AVERAGE ---"
Bolshevik Revolution. The ideological conflicts and tensions that culminated in the Spanish Civil War are to be found in Latin America today."
I believe that the Colleges and Universities of the United States have the scholarship and facilities to be potentially very helpful to Latin America at this time.
2. As much as you admire Castro as a revolutionary, do you feel that some other Cuban could be better at the tedious and more routine job of government?
1. Have you viewed Castro's government objectively? That is, do you feel the question is: 'Castro vs. the horrors of Batista?'
Do you think Castro may use a type of class conflict appeal to remain as a dictator indefinitely in a manner similar to the way Peron was maintained in power for years by the labor unions in Argentina?
To return to the Fidel Castro topic, I would like to ask his supporters these questions:
I do not mean these questions to be impertinent or satirical. I am curious to know what Cubans think the major problems of Cuba are.
Do you feel alarmed that Castro has failed to hold elections, or permit political opposition?
Vincent Hoover Eroughton graduate student
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Editor:
Foundling?
In 1759 George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, and became the father of his country.
How, then, can you allow him to be called a "foundling" father (in the editorial by Jane Boyd in Monday's Kansan)? There is a contradiction here, nicht wahr?
Letter to Fred
Kenneth C. King
Junction City junior
From George DeBord
Freddie Babe:
Sorry I haven't written but I've become involved in the old education debate again.
You might as well pull up a cloud and make yourself comfortable because it's pretty involved.
A friend of mine in the engineering school started it when he tried to teach his daughter how to subtract. He taught her the relationship between addition and subtraction and at the end of an hour she was doing problems like an old pro.
The trouble began when she went to school the next day. It seems her teacher uses the "borrowing and take-away" method. The kid got so involved in tv-
He kid got so involved in trying to learn what take-away means that she forgot how to count.
That made my friend mad. He went up to school and told the teacher she was all wet. Then he explained his simplified method of teaching arithmetic. But the progressive educator didn't buy it.
"We don't do things that way!" she screamed.
When my friend asked why they didn't, she hit him over the head with a copy of John Dewey. As he ran out of the door she hurled a barrage of child guidance books at him.
After nursing his wounds he sent me to the school to investigate teaching methods. Here's what I found:
Kids learn the difference between numbers by putting marbles into one of three boxes. The marbles belong to different "number families."
For example, if a kid wants to add 5 and 10, he gets five marbles from one box and ten from another box.
The teacher hasn't taught much arithmetic with this method, but she's developed three state marble champions.
But it's this "number family" stuff that really confounds the small fry. In subtraction all the numbers are assigned to a family. If a child wants to subtract ("take-away") 8 from 23, he is taught to "borrow" 10 from Mr. Two.
Then the kid (who is a mental wreck by this time) takes the 10 over to Mrs. Three's house and has enough so that Mr. Eight can be subtracted from the total.
The entire method probably was originated by some money lender who wished to promote installment buying. I imagine his objective was to get the word "borrow" instilled in kid's minds before they realized the consequences.
When a teacher wants to show how Hitler stamped out the German empire she will say:
Next thing you know they'll be using this method to teach other subjects. Take history for example.
"Hitler thought his country was too small. So he went next door and 'borrowed' Poland. When this wasn't enough he went to Mr. France and 'borrowed' most of his land.
"But America and England didn't like this. So they went over to Mr.Hitter's house and 'took-away' all his land."
Well, Fred, as you can see things are in a sorry state here on earth. Somebody even lost a rocket last week. It's zipping around the world out of control now. So if you float over the North Pole watch out for it.
Keep your tail up,
George
Dailu Hansan
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