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New Blood
Today the Daily Kansan editorial desk will be vacated for about five minutes. During that time, a team of janitors will empty drawers, sweep away all accumulated paper and junk, and scrub away a semester's coffee stains.
When the desk is clean and the janitors have left the newsroom, two coffee mugs will clump down on the desk's sparkling finish. They will belong to Jack Harrison and Doug Yocom.
As co-editorial editors, Jack and Doug will take over exactly where George and John left off. They will have their own ideas, to be sure, but will practice the general Daily Kansan principles of truth and justice. They will be concerned with budget problems, loyalty oaths, disciplinary matters, student, state and national government, and many other things.
In their editorials they will send out feelers to every Kansan reader. They will hope desperately that the public will think about the issues which they consider important. They will be
greeted with apathy (already a trite word) in most cases and vigorous arguments in some. Like George and John, they will prefer the latter to apathy.
As co-editorial editors on a daily newspaper they will become passionately wrapped up in the big and little things which make a day, a week, a month, a year, an epoch. They will try to see the significance in every item and will turn their impressions over to the public mind for further review. They will not be able to cover everything, but what they do cover will be covered well.
They will need suggestions and help. Their biggest help will be the reader's reaction, in his own writing, to public issues.
So one era ends and another begins. The machinery's only pause is filled with the five-minute labor of some janitors. And maybe five minutes is too long to pause.
—John Husar
The People and Education
The relationship between education and the people is a strange one.
No one denies the value of education to our society. No right-thinking person would say that it should be abolished; or that it serves an unimportant role in keeping America in a position of world leadership.
And yet, when it comes to paying the bill for educating their children, Americans rebel. Taxes are too high, they say. They argue that we have enough schools, or at least we can get along with what we have. Pay teachers more? They only work nine months a year. Who needs modern buildings anyway? They cost too much.
This is the feeling wherever you go. It is the feeling in Kansas.
The country is faced with a problem that will be with it for many years. It is one of increased enrollments, crowded schools and inadequate staffs.
A few concerned persons have been sounding the alarm since the first projected figures on anticipated enrollments were released after World War II. State administrators and legislatures have been slow to respond. The people have been equally slow. In Kansas the situation is grave. Education is the main topic of this year's legislative session.
The governor's recommendations, as expected offered no solution to education's problems. Even if wholesale changes in the governor's recommendations are made to provide for more buildings and teachers, it is unlikely that enough support can be mustered in the Legislature override the governor's veto that will be certain to follow unless the people rally behind education's needs.
In all probability, the governor's tax cuts will be rejected by the Legislature, but then he doubtless will not have to give in on education either. And Kansas will have to struggle along with the "minimal" allowances for education that have kept it behind times for the past four years.
We only hope that it will not take some unforeseen disaster to wake the people up to the inadequacies of their institutions. The whole nation woke up to the problem of crowded schools in 1958 after a disastrous school fire in Chicago which claimed nearly a hundred children.
Educators, parents' groups, and taxpayers in every major city went on a fire prevention crusade. But only after a disaster had done what preventive action — adequate facilities — could have avoided. Unfortunately, some such catastrophe usually must befall us before the voters get mad.
Then, and only then, when it is too late, will they cry out for action. They will blame the state. They will denounce their elected officials. But they will never look to themselves.
There is an old saying in politics that the people get only what they ask for.
The voters should take a good look at present conditions. What is barely adequate today will not be sufficient tomorrow. They've got to get mad in advance for a change. They've got to tell the Legislature to get something done for education ahead of time.
—George DeBord
Social Security Rebate?
Editor:
It seems strange to us that the administration has remained suspiciously silent concerning money deducted for Social Security from student employees' pay checks. There just happens to be a federal law which says that "service performed in the employ of a school, college, or university is exempt (from social security withholding taxes) if performed by a student who is enrolled regularly attending classes at the institution." (See. 321.b-10-B; 31,3121-b-10-2 Federal Income Tax Regulations). The law also includes those working as student nurses and internes and students employed by fraternities, sororites, and student clubs.
However, the new policy of the University (business office) in 1960 shows that it has ceased to violate this federal regulation. We are curious to know what restitution, if any, will be made to those students employed by the University who have been underpaid because this money was deducted without cause.
Students who depend upon the University for near full time employment for the purpose of financing their education have suffered greatly from this injustice.
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What justification, legal or otherwise, can the University give for their irresponsible treatment of student employees? Will this money be refunded? If not, why not?
(Regarding the editor's note in answer to a letter from Charles Neuringer, Lawrence graduate student, which appeared in the Jan. 14 Daily Kansan:)
Privacy of Suicides
Don E. Logan, Prairie Village junior
John E. Steuri, Great Bend junior
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Why don't people give all the "news" to the Daily Kansan? You have answered the question yourself Mr. Husar. Anyone who could think the immature, asinine, callous, dangerous thoughts expressed in your article on news suppression should be barred from ever being on a newspaper staff.
Suicide is a crime and so is having children out of wedlock, Mr. Husar. I haven't noticed any articles about illegitimate births on campus in the Kansan. I can only suppose there haven't been any such criminal activities lately. Obviously, you would have written an article giving all the newsworthy details if there had been.
Editor:
In reply to Mr. Neuringer's letter you made a futile attempt to cover over the repugnant inferences made in your editorial. Try again Mr. Husar. Your opinions on those "menaces to society," those "criminals," those "pitiful creatures," came through in bold yellow journalistic type.
If the University had "told you truthfully," that there had been an "incident," any future attempts to rehabilitate that individual would have been impossible and even pointless. Why rehabilitate someone who would only be considered a "maniac" by society?
Feel certain Mr. Husar — you have struck a blow for news suppression.
-Donald Mason Prairie Village junior
West Virginia Listening
With John Morrissey
As a public service to our readers, we would like to point out that statistically speaking, Kansas City has one of the most favorable unmarried women to married men ratios in the country.
Finals Talk
A new brand of conversation develops on campus at finals.
Comments such as the following will be heard frequently this weekend and next week as the dreaded time approaches.
"I need 108 on the final for an F."
"You stay up all night, I said did you . . .?"
"Ah, he won't flunk me, I'm a senior."
"Keep swimming, dad, you're above 'C' level."
"Pssst, hey bud, need a dexi?"
"I always wait till the night before. I study best under pressure."
"Ya' don't happen to have an extra term paper for entomology aroun', do you, huh?"
"I don't care if it is 'Maverick.' Turn it down." "But I thought it was due Monday." "Well, I have to study also. Let's make it a study date." "Don't sweat it. I know a guy that has the test." "Wata' ya' mean he's giving true and false." "Good luck, Sam. Goodby, John." "Uncle Sam needs me."
"You either know it or you don't. And I don't."
"Don't get mad, Joe, but you know those notes I borrowed?"
"Remember...play it cool, John. John? Get up, John."
"Ah, come on baby, one last fling."
"Pardon me, sir, are you sure this is the right test?"
"The way we're seated, you'd think this was a leper colony."
"I'm so confused, I can't cheat right."
"But I am sick, professor. Look at my tongue."
"But I am sick, professor. Look at my tongue."
"First, I'll have a couple of beers. Then I'll come back and really hit it."
"The next person who shows me that 'Playboy' gets a punch in the nose."
"I don't care. I quit. I quit. I . . ."
K
"Yes, Sarge, I did go to college, but I've decided to serve..." —West Virginia U. Daily Athenaeum
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University of Kansas student newspaper
Founded 1889, became biweekly 1904, triweekly 1908, daily Jan. 16, 1912.
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Member Inland Daily Press Association. Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Ave., New York N.Y. News service: United Press International. Mall subscription rates: $3 a semester or $5 a year. Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second-class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence, Kan., post office under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS DEPARTMENT
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Jack Harrison ... Managing Editor
Carol Allen, Dick Crocker, Jack Morton and Doug Yocom, Assistant
Managing Editors; Rael Amos, City Editor; Jim Trotter, Sports Editor;
Carolyn Frailey, Society Editor.
George DeBord and John Husar ... Co-Editorial Editors
Saudra Hayn. Associate Editorial Editor.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Bill Kane Business Manager Ted Tidwell, Advertising Manager; Martha Crosier, Promotion Manager; Ruth Rieder, National Advertising Manager; Tom Schmitz, Circulation Manager; John Massa, Classified Advertising Manager.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"NO YOUR STUDY HABITS DON'T SEEM TO BE THE CAUSE OF
YOUR LOW GRADES, THESE TESTS INDICATE YOU'RE JUST STUPIED"